The Michael Knowles Show - August 01, 2025


Ep. 1784 - Did Israel Blow Up Trumpā€™s Trade Deal With Canadaļ¼Ÿ


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In the wake of the mass shooting in New York City, the mayor of New York is being asked if he regrets his calls to defund the NYPD. We ll get to that in today s episode of The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:02:55.860 Wow, Canada has just announced that it is backing statehood for Palestine.
00:03:00.860 That will make it very hard for us to make a trade deal with them. 0.69
00:03:04.920 Oh, Canada.
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00:03:27.940 So, has Israel really killed our trade deal with America's evil top hat? 0.84
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00:05:41.840 Trump says that Canada's decision to recognize the state of Palestine is going to make it 0.98
00:05:50.060 very hard for us in America, halfway across the world, to do a trade deal with them, the 1.00
00:05:54.140 country right to our north.
00:05:56.120 Does this mean that this Mideast conflict that most of us don't even want to be involved
00:06:01.020 in, that that's screwing up all of America's even trade policy?
00:06:05.440 Does that mean that the state of Israel is dictating U.S. policy on every front?
00:06:12.900 No.
00:06:13.940 No, it doesn't.
00:06:16.040 Here's why.
00:06:16.720 What happened?
00:06:18.200 Trump had this massive tariff deadline.
00:06:21.780 You know, he had blanket tariffs of 10% on the entire world, but then he's cut certain
00:06:25.260 deals in recent weeks.
00:06:27.340 So on the EU, he was threatening 30% tariffs.
00:06:29.700 He brought that down to 15%.
00:06:31.240 He also insisted on massive European investment in the United States.
00:06:35.980 In return, Europe gets basically nothing.
00:06:38.460 He's got a trade deal with the UK.
00:06:40.840 He had tariffs on Canada already 25%.
00:06:45.140 He announced last minute he's going to increase them to 35%.
00:06:48.440 What does the White House say in response to Canada's continued inaction and retaliation?
00:06:54.760 President Trump has found it necessary to increase the tariff on Canada from 25% to 35%
00:06:59.520 to effectively address the existing emergency.
00:07:03.200 Okay, so hold on.
00:07:04.200 Wait, I thought the reason that we can't have a trade deal is because of Palestine.
00:07:07.620 Here, the White House is saying, well, no, it's because they're not doing what Trump has
00:07:12.060 asked them to do now for six months.
00:07:14.380 What is this really about?
00:07:16.280 Because you have Trump's critics on the left who are all pro-Palestine, where the keffiyeh, 1.00
00:07:22.700 go out from the river to the sea, protest at Columbia University, blue hair, queers for 1.00
00:07:28.760 Palestine, whatever.
00:07:30.280 You got those guys on the left.
00:07:31.640 You have some people on the right who are attacking Trump for this issue.
00:07:36.240 Some people on the right who hate the state of Israel, who say Trump is being led around
00:07:40.340 by Netanyahu and see this is even screwing up our trading relationship with the country
00:07:44.260 to the north.
00:07:44.980 It's all about Israel. 0.92
00:07:45.640 And I just think the people for whom that is the most compelling analysis, they're not
00:07:51.100 going to make it.
00:07:51.700 They're not paying attention.
00:07:53.620 I think they have IDS.
00:07:55.740 I think they have Israel derangement syndrome.
00:07:58.880 I have been fairly critical of Israel, especially in recent weeks, because of the attack on the
00:08:04.640 church that killed three Christians and injured 10 people, including the priest, the only Catholic
00:08:08.320 church in Gaza, because of reports of persecution of Christians in the West Bank, because of all
00:08:14.780 sorts of things, because the war has gone on too long, because of famine in Gaza, because
00:08:22.780 I think there's a strong argument that the conduct of the war at this point is no longer
00:08:28.260 justified, even if going to war was justified and the early conduct of the war was justified,
00:08:31.680 this is not.
00:08:32.140 I've been, in recent weeks, fairly critical of Israel.
00:08:36.940 This criticism is ridiculous.
00:08:39.820 And if you're making this argument that Trump is just being dog walked by Israel or something,
00:08:43.440 you have IDS, you have Israel derangement syndrome, because the only evidence you need to prove
00:08:52.340 that your analysis is incorrect is to look at the UK and France, two countries that have
00:08:59.720 done the exact same thing that Canada is doing, two countries, the UK on its own and France through
00:09:06.860 the European Union, with which President Trump just got trade deals.
00:09:11.380 Trump was asked on Air Force One just recently, his opinion of Keir Starmer, Prime Minister
00:09:17.080 of the UK, his reaction to Keir Starmer's recognizing a Palestinian state.
00:09:22.220 Trump has just announced the UK will recognize Palestinian sovereignty in September if Israel
00:09:29.340 does not commit to a ceasefire, ease the suffering in Gaza, and commit to a long-term solution that
00:09:34.720 would deliver the two-state solution to release.
00:09:36.740 Did you know that was coming?
00:09:38.300 No, we never, we never discussed it, surprisingly.
00:09:40.920 It was never really discussed, maybe a little bit at the news conference, but he was sort of
00:09:45.500 discussing it with you. We never did discuss it, and we have no view on that.
00:09:51.200 We have no view on that. So the UK says we will recognize a Palestinian state if Israel doesn't
00:10:00.120 stop the war. Trump says we have no view on that, we've got a great trade deal, it's great,
00:10:05.620 it's wonderful, we have no view on that. Macron, the president of France, says that he will
00:10:13.060 recognize a Palestinian state. What's Trump's reaction?
00:10:16.540 It's not productive for France to say that they would recognize a Palestinian state. Macron
00:10:21.920 said that yet.
00:10:23.320 Look, he's a different kind of a guy. He's okay, he's a team player pretty much. But here's the
00:10:31.040 good news, what he says doesn't matter. It's not going to change it.
00:10:39.100 Well, he made a statement, France, Macron. His statement doesn't carry any weight. He's
00:10:45.900 a very good guy, I like him, but that statement doesn't carry weight.
00:10:51.140 France says we're going to recognize a Palestinian state. Doesn't matter, don't care, doesn't care 0.52
00:10:57.760 anyway. Don't worry about it. Macron's a good guy. We're going to have a nice big trade deal with EU
00:11:03.220 that was announced in recent days. So what's the difference here? What's going on? The UK,
00:11:10.220 France, and Canada all announce the exact same thing, the exact same threat to recognize a
00:11:18.040 Palestinian state because of Israel's continued conduct in the war. Why does Trump react one way
00:11:25.160 to two of them and a completely different way to the other one? Because I think the inescapable
00:11:31.300 conclusion is this has nothing to do with Israel-Palestine. This has everything to do with
00:11:37.740 trade. Trump is trying to get leverage to get a better trade deal with Canada as he's been trying
00:11:43.480 to do for six months. I'm not saying that nothing in US policy has to do with the Israel-Palestine
00:11:50.020 conflict. Plenty of things do. But if you are looking at this news and you're just taking it
00:11:54.700 at face value and you're like, see, this is evidence that Israel is controlling all of American 0.93
00:11:59.940 policy and Trump works for Netanyahu and who, you would just, you're not going to make it.
00:12:05.360 You're not going to make it. You have allowed your mind to be melted, to be turned to pea soup
00:12:11.720 by your fanatical and pathological hatred of this one Middle Eastern country. Okay, plenty of reasons
00:12:20.020 to criticize that country. Plenty of policies that one could advocate for. But that's just obviously
00:12:27.580 not what's going on here. If that were the case, there would be no way to explain Trump's reaction
00:12:35.620 to the UK and France. It's about trade, guys. Not every single thing on earth relates to the
00:12:43.560 state of Israel. When you stub your toe in the morning, believe it or not, that does not relate
00:12:48.240 to the state of Israel. There are, focus on the legitimate criticisms. Don't focus on the stupid
00:12:53.600 criticisms. Okay, turning to murkier topics. CBS News has a report out on the ongoing, never seems
00:13:01.760 to go away, Jeffrey Epstein scandal. Just to catch you up for now. We were told, mostly by Democrats
00:13:08.880 for years and years, Jeffrey Epstein, no big deal. He's fine. He's no, he has nothing to do. Forget
00:13:14.000 about his friendship with the Clintons. Forget about his friendship with Prince Andrew. Forget
00:13:17.040 about his friendship with Bill Gates. Forget about, no, no, no. There's nothing to see here. Then
00:13:20.900 he gets this conviction on weird child sex stuff and he gets off the hook. He gets this really light
00:13:29.280 sentence in Palm Beach jail. And we were told, don't worry about it. Forget about it. No big deal.
00:13:33.320 It's fine. Then he's arrested again. And then he dies in prison. We were told, oh, it's no big deal.
00:13:40.960 He killed himself. Nothing happened. Move along, move along. Then we were told there was no video
00:13:46.140 that night. Then we were told there is video. We're going to release it. Then we were told all sorts
00:13:50.620 of stuff. Okay. Finally, the government, government under Biden and government under Trump, government
00:13:59.180 under everybody releases a report. Says he killed himself. There is no client list. The case is closed.
00:14:08.000 Move along. That was supposed to be the end of the story. CBS News is finding some holes in the story.
00:14:13.280 So for one, there was a claim that no one entered the area that Epstein was being held in during the
00:14:21.340 hours in which he would have killed himself. CBS News has found that the 11 hours of video almost
00:14:29.560 that were released of Epstein's supposed entryway, that those hours of video do not in fact show the
00:14:39.520 entrance to his cell block. So the claim that we can know definitively that no one entered the area
00:14:44.280 that he was staying in during those hours in which he would have killed himself, not supported by the
00:14:48.460 evidence. That claim appears to be false. There was another claim made by the government that the video
00:14:54.600 that we saw is raw footage. The CBS analysis saw a cursor on the screen, like the clumsiest way possible
00:15:04.140 to cover your tracks and prove this was not raw footage. If it were raw footage, there wouldn't be a
00:15:08.820 cursor on the screen. This would appear to be some kind of a screen recording. And then if you look
00:15:12.380 into the metadata, you find out from the metadata, this is not raw footage. Okay. That's another
00:15:16.480 inconsistency. Here's another one. We were told this guy, he was just in his cell on suicide watch.
00:15:22.640 He had been given a cellmate so that he wouldn't kill himself. But then for some reason, the cellmate
00:15:26.800 was moved out that day. And so anyway, he was in his cell though. He was on suicide watch.
00:15:30.480 Couldn't have come and gone. We now find out from the CBS analysis, actually, he was escorted at one
00:15:35.420 point to make an unmonitored cell phone call shortly before he supposedly killed himself.
00:15:41.900 That's new information. We then see in the video, really strange fact, there's this little blip of
00:15:49.180 orange that shows up. Oh, hold on. I thought no one was coming and going. Where's that little blip
00:15:53.700 of orange from? We were told that a corrections officer was briefly caught on camera carrying linen.
00:15:58.900 The CBS analysis shows, no, that actually it doesn't look like someone's carrying a prison uniform.
00:16:03.100 It looks much more like a guy in a prison uniform. That's another inconsistency. Finally, we were told
00:16:09.800 by the government, this is the biggest whopper, that the reason that the tape, and you can see in
00:16:14.140 the footage here, the footage starts, you know, it's 11, 11 p.m. 11.58, 48, 49, 50. It counts all the
00:16:23.680 way up. When it gets to 11.59 in zero seconds, it skips to midnight. So you have a missing minute in
00:16:29.060 there. Now, some analyses have showed that it's actually more than a minute, but you can tell the
00:16:33.560 missing minute because the frame actually changes on the video. We were initially told by the attorney
00:16:39.620 general that the reason that it skipped a minute is just because of a reset that happens on all the
00:16:46.080 cameras all night, as if we still live in 1993 or something. Somehow in the last 32 years, we've never
00:16:51.460 had an update to our camera systems. Look, it's a government. It's a prison. Maybe that's possible.
00:16:55.260 No. According to CBS, a high-level government source familiar with the investigation told CBS
00:17:00.820 News that the FBI, the Bureau of Prisons, and the DOJ's office of the inspector general are in
00:17:05.680 possession of full, unedited copies of the video, and those copies do not have a missing minute.
00:17:12.960 And to all of this, I say, come on. Come on, man. Come on. That's my Joe Biden impression.
00:17:21.700 Come on, man. To all of that, I say, we are obviously not getting the full story on Epstein.
00:17:31.300 As I've said from the beginning of this, there were two reactions that we were getting from the
00:17:37.560 latest episode of the Epstein saga. The one was, okay, well, everything the government's telling me 0.73
00:17:43.080 is totally true. Case closed. He definitely killed himself. The video is totally legit. No one was there.
00:17:48.100 Nothing to see here. Move along. Move along. And the other thing we were told by the people who did
00:17:53.760 not accept that answer was, no, we need full transparency. We need the full grand jury
00:17:58.840 testimony. We need the client list, such as it is. We need all of the transparent information.
00:18:04.020 Anything less is a threat to democracy. And my reaction was, that's not how governments work.
00:18:10.600 My reaction was, there was no surprise here, because I never thought we were going to get the
00:18:15.300 whole Epstein story. Because either Epstein is who the government says he is, in which case we have
00:18:20.120 the full story, or Epstein was something else. Epstein is what you probably think he is. Epstein
00:18:25.520 was, as it was reported that Alex Acosta said, mobbed up with intelligence. Epstein was working
00:18:30.380 for either our government or foreign governments, or in any case, if that were true, we were never going
00:18:35.920 to get the whole story. And furthermore, governments are not fully transparent. Governments
00:18:41.760 cannot be fully transparent. Governments should not be fully transparent. That's not what we have
00:18:45.980 governments for. What we're interested in is not full transparency that would, practically speaking,
00:18:52.420 eliminate the government and our representative form of government. What we want to make sure is
00:18:58.100 that there is justice to be done. And so, for those of us in that position, for those of us in that
00:19:05.220 come on position, for those of us in looking at this and saying, we're obviously not getting the full
00:19:09.920 story. This thing is riddled with inconsistencies. The story seems to change by the week. Come on.
00:19:16.180 My advice to the government is not that you need to be fully transparent. That's not how governments
00:19:20.280 work. It's not that you need to release random accusations, even from the grand jury, against
00:19:26.240 people who have not been prosecuted. What you have to do is show to the people in some way that
00:19:33.840 justice is being done. That's what the people want. I've said from the beginning, this issue poses a
00:19:42.720 greater threat to the MAGA coalition than any of the other scandals and non-traversies that have come
00:19:47.740 up over the last 10 years. Because Epstein is understood to be a symbol of deep government
00:19:52.680 corruption at the national and international level, transcending political parties. So you just need
00:19:58.180 to show us, you need to come up with a better explanation of why we're not getting the full
00:20:03.740 story. I accept that we're not getting the full story. There are probably perfectly good reasons
00:20:07.860 and even virtuous reasons as to why we're not getting the full story. But you have to explain
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00:22:50.980 the method, the results. I'm not going to read the whole thing, but here's just a little taste
00:22:53.940 of this, the scientific survey. The high grief trajectory, HGT, consisted of 107, 6% relatives
00:23:00.700 with persistent high grief symptom levels. We investigated association between grief trajectories
00:23:04.520 and one, contacts to general practitioner GP, including out of hours using negative binomial
00:23:08.560 regression analysis. Two, contacts to mental health services, GP talk therapy, private practice
00:23:12.980 psychologist or psychiatrist. Three, use of psychotropic. Sorry, hold on. I'm going to fall
00:23:16.660 asleep if I keep reading this. Let me skip down to the results. Relatives in the HGT had a significantly
00:23:21.940 higher yearly incidence of GP contacts until seven years after bereavement compared to LGT. LGT,
00:23:26.840 HGT, LGBT, HGTV. Okay, go on. Conclusion. This study shows that patients with high and sustained
00:23:33.800 grief symptoms have an increased healthcare use up to 10 years after loss. Let me translate
00:23:38.160 that for you. It means that sometimes people die of a broken heart. Breaking, groundbreaking
00:23:45.560 new study. I'm not interested in this for the actual results of the study because I know that
00:23:52.860 people die of a broken heart. We all know that people die of a broken heart. Not only do we know
00:23:58.280 that people can die of a broken heart, every human being for all of history going back not
00:24:04.920 just to classical antiquity, but back to the cavemen in rural France, the ones who drew on
00:24:12.680 the walls. Every person who could plausibly be called human for all of human history knows
00:24:19.720 that people can die of a broken heart. So what is this study? What's interesting to me about
00:24:24.960 this is what it says, not about people dying and broken hearts, but what it says about
00:24:28.560 science. What this is, is not some new discovery. This is a translation of common sense that we've
00:24:37.020 always known into jargon. And that is so much of what science is. Sometimes there are real
00:24:43.540 scientific discoveries that tell us more in an abstract way about our universe, our physical
00:24:48.360 universe. Sometimes there are discoveries that help in the advancement of technology that
00:24:53.400 can really benefit human life, sometimes damage human life. But a lot of science, maybe the bulk
00:24:59.020 of science, is just a translation of things that we have always known intuitively through our
00:25:05.740 prejudice and through our tradition and through inherited wisdom. A translation of that from clear
00:25:12.220 language into scientific gobbledygook, into jargon. That's all it is. So it's fine. I mean,
00:25:18.960 if this in any way can help treat a broken heart, that's fine. But it won't.
00:25:24.880 It doesn't, even the healthcare services that it describes and maybe by inference prescribes,
00:25:33.800 they're just things that we know. Yeah, when someone loses a loved one, you need to talk to
00:25:36.940 them. You need to spend time with them. Maybe there are certain drugs that they can take that
00:25:42.640 can help in the short term, but you need to cook them dinner and take them out to a baseball game or
00:25:46.560 something. Yeah, we know that. This is it. This is why the modern science worship is so silly,
00:25:53.820 is that so much of modern science is just making the stuff that we've always known forever less
00:25:59.720 comprehensible, making us feel less confident about the things that we've always known intuitively.
00:26:05.200 It's silly. It's very, very silly. It's like the emperor has no clothes. Okay, speaking of people
00:26:10.380 not having clothes on, it has now been determined by the World Athletic Championships that every woman 1.00
00:26:18.260 who is to compete must first take a sex test. There must be a scientific test down to the genetic level,
00:26:27.020 actually, to determine that the women are really women in order to compete. 1.00
00:26:32.280 Right. The World Athletic Championships has announced, this is the governing body of track
00:26:38.460 and field, that they must pass this gene test in order to compete in the women's sports. 1.00
00:26:45.160 And conservatives who are so happy with scraps from the table of liberalism, they're going to
00:26:52.500 celebrate this. They're going to say, yeah, this is a win for women and women's sports and for reality
00:26:59.880 and for the right. This is a win. I don't consider this a win. I consider this a slight, tiny sliver
00:27:07.720 of a win. Okay, guys in principle now can't compete in women's sports. Tiny little sliver of a win. 0.93
00:27:15.300 At what cost? At the cost that we have to accept the transgender premise, that it's really hard to tell. 0.98
00:27:23.520 No. This is, to me, this is the farce continuing. And if I were running the World Athletic Championships,
00:27:36.580 I've never been offered that job for some reason, but if I were running the World Athletic Championships,
00:27:40.280 I would not require that every woman who wants to compete take a genetic test. 0.99
00:27:45.220 I would require that some of them take a genetic test. You see what I'm saying?
00:27:52.240 The ones who look like chicks and who are obviously chicks, I would say you don't have to take a genetic test. 1.00
00:27:58.220 And the ones who look like men and who obviously are men, or at the very least, obviously have a clear genetic anomaly, 0.52
00:28:06.000 they're the ones who have to take the test. Because it's not hard to tell.
00:28:09.440 Because transgenderism is false. And we can all tell. We all know which one's a man and which one's a woman. 1.00
00:28:17.360 And we don't need to go through this farce, this joke, of pretending that some 90-pound girl who's, you know, 1.00
00:28:26.400 blonde hair, blue-eyed, has child-bearing hips, bubbly as can be, all-American princess,
00:28:30.720 might secretly be some hulking dude. We don't need to pretend. It's the same thing at TSA.
00:28:34.400 It's the same thing at TSA. I go through TSA, and my three-year-old, my three-year-old,
00:28:40.840 all-American-looking kid needs to take a finger swab in case he's a terrorist. 0.68
00:28:46.260 Granny, my elderly Italian grandmother or Irish grandmothers, if they go through TSA,
00:28:55.960 they might need to be patted down. They might have to go through secondary screening and take a finger swab.
00:29:00.040 Because what, they're going to bring a bomb on to advance the jihad? Give me a, no.
00:29:06.940 It doesn't mean nobody has to go through secondary screening.
00:29:10.100 But the real answer that's politically incorrect is only some people have to.
00:29:17.080 Because you can tell.
00:29:18.240 The guy with the giant beard and the turban and that guy, most guys who look like that 1.00
00:29:26.360 are perfectly fine. But all the guys who are going to blow up the plane look at least somewhat like
00:29:33.620 that. And none of the guys who are going to blow up the plane look like my grandmother.
00:29:37.460 So there is no reason beyond a liberal political farce to put my grandmother through secondary 0.98
00:29:45.140 screening. There is good reason, even though it's inconvenient and unpleasant for the innocent
00:29:50.340 guys who get caught up in it. There is good reason to put the guys who like Anwar al-Awlaki. 0.67
00:29:56.240 We're going to have to put them through the secondary screening.
00:30:00.000 But Michael, there has to be a standard for all of them.
00:30:02.120 Not really. What's the, what's the point of the, of the genetic testing in the athletic
00:30:08.120 competition to make sure that women are safe and that they have a fair competition and that 0.90
00:30:13.420 there still exists women's sports leagues. You don't need to test Sidney Sweeney to do that. 1.00
00:30:20.260 Okay. We know, we know we can, can we be honest? Can we be honest in a way that is fair and polite
00:30:28.140 and not cruel and not, but come on, come on. This is my, this is the through line of my show. Come
00:30:34.780 on. Common sense is okay. Common sense is not evil. So much of liberalism is, is just about
00:30:44.680 marginalizing common sense and making common sense appear unacceptable. It is about prejudicing you
00:30:51.500 against common sense. No, no bueno. Okay. Speaking of places women thrive, there is a great update to 0.69
00:30:58.720 the East wing of the white house. And this is a major story as far as I'm concerned coming out of
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00:31:44.460 My favorite comment yesterday is from the Freshest Slice 4105 who says,
00:31:49.500 I see no reason to pay Congress more to continue to do less and less work.
00:31:54.960 Oh, that is where you and I differ, my friend. I see a lot of reason. Actually, if I can get
00:32:01.860 Congress to do less of the work that it's currently doing, there's almost no amount of money I would
00:32:07.180 not pay them. That is where you and I differ. But the real reason to pay Congressman more,
00:32:12.780 I know this is an unpopular take, is because in the old days, you didn't have to pay them very much
00:32:19.160 because they were all wealthy landowners. They were aristocrats. And there are benefits to having
00:32:23.700 aristocrats run your legislature. But we decided over the course of American history, we don't want 0.92
00:32:28.700 it to be aristocrats. We want it to be AOC. And to be fair, also regular Joe on the street.
00:32:36.300 And we don't like AOC. We do like regular Joe on the street. But regular Joe on the street doesn't
00:32:41.400 have the resources of a Thomas Jefferson. Okay, regular Joe on the street does not have the
00:32:46.780 resources of a landed gentry 19th century legislator. And so either you can pay him more money or he's
00:32:55.480 going to find ways to make money because it's expensive to be a congressman. And some of those
00:32:59.780 ways are going to be maybe he's going to outperform all the big hedge funds in the country by insider
00:33:03.960 trading. So everyone's looking for this solution to punish Congress. It's all stick. But the way
00:33:11.340 that you get good behavior is not just with the stick. You also need the carrot. I know. It's not
00:33:16.120 popular, but it's correct. And it's just. I'm sorry. Sorry. I have to give you. You asked me for my
00:33:24.080 judgment. I have to give you my judgment. I'm not here to flatter you. Okay. Now, speaking of judgment,
00:33:28.500 something wonderful is about to take place at the White House. I'm so, so excited about this.
00:33:36.820 And you're going to laugh at me when I tell you what it is. Trump is building a new ballroom.
00:33:40.920 I know. And you're going to say, Michael, you dandy, you fop. There are important issues like 0.97
00:33:46.100 trade and immigration and war and peace. And you're talking about a ballroom at the White House. I love
00:33:50.380 it. I love this. Trump has announced he's going to build a new ballroom. Now, first step. I
00:33:58.380 mentioned this to Elisa last night. She goes, but Mac, you hate renovations. You hate remodeling
00:34:03.160 homes. That's why you won't remodel our home, Mac. And I said, no, I generally do hate renovations
00:34:07.300 and remodeling because they're done poorly. So what happens in America these days is you get
00:34:12.000 some beautiful home from the 1950s or 60s, maybe from the 1920s, or maybe even older, some 19th
00:34:18.560 century home. And then these new money, tasteless monsters move in and they turn it all into some
00:34:26.180 sterile Costco pantry kitchen island having monstrosity that totally clashes with the
00:34:32.420 beautiful, more classical architecture. And I hate it. I do. I do. I hate that. I watched,
00:34:37.220 I was sitting in the wisdom tooth surgery waiting room. The other day I was sitting there with
00:34:41.860 sweet little Lisa and they had HGTV on. And it was one of these remodel shows. And I wanted
00:34:47.660 to vomit. I was becoming sick because they would take some nice, beautiful home and then they'd
00:34:52.680 pour a bunch of money into it and make it hideous. So yes, I generally hate renovation,
00:34:57.620 but here's the difference. Trump has good taste. This is one of the biggest misconceptions about
00:35:04.660 Trump. People think because Trump is a brash billionaire who loves his name in gold, that
00:35:08.120 he's just gaudy and garish and has horrible taste. That is not true. If you've ever visited a Trump
00:35:13.660 property, especially Mar-a-Lago, you go there expecting it to be garish and over the top and you
00:35:20.100 go and you find out it's actually very tasteful. The man has good taste, which is why he's made a
00:35:24.360 career in luxury architecture in part. Also, the second reason I'm confident about this,
00:35:29.260 the White House is working with a very, very good architect. The architect is, what is his name?
00:35:36.900 James McCreary, DC-based architect. He actually built the Nashville Cathedral. He's done a great job.
00:35:41.720 The mock-ups they've released for this ballroom, really, really great. Now, the other downside people
00:35:47.240 are going to say is, well, it's too much money. Why are we spending money? We're so far in debt.
00:35:50.620 Why are we spending public money? We're not spending money. Trump is paying for it himself and raising
00:35:54.400 the rest of the private funds that he will not personally contribute. So it's going to cost
00:35:57.600 200 million bucks. He says it's going to be his gift to the country. This is one of the other
00:36:01.260 advantages of having a rich guy be president. Not going to cost taxpayers a single penny.
00:36:06.440 What is the renovation going to look like? They're not going to rebuild. They're not going to build a
00:36:10.640 new building or anything. They're going to take what is the East Wing and just make it better and make it
00:36:14.700 more usable. So the East Wing of the White House was built in 1902 by Teddy Roosevelt. That was the
00:36:20.300 rudimentary version of it. Then Franklin Roosevelt expanded it in 1942, but he really only expanded
00:36:27.040 it to cover a bomb shelter. And then Rosalind Carter, so Jimmy Carter's wife, made it her office 0.92
00:36:33.640 in 1977. First Lady doesn't really need all those offices. And so what they're going to do, what Trump 1.00
00:36:38.100 is going to do, and hopefully this happens by the end of his term, is going to turn into a big ballroom
00:36:41.880 because right now when the White House hosts state functions, it's just too small. And so they have to
00:36:46.520 build a big tent on the South Lawn and it's unseemly for the global empire to try to ship people out,
00:36:53.280 especially if it's raining or whatever. Now, why does this matter? You say, well, who cares? They can
00:36:57.700 have, they can suffer through slightly less opulent parties. No. Why does this matter? It matters
00:37:04.000 because beauty matters. It matters because beauty matters. And the modern world tells us beauty doesn't
00:37:09.480 matter. And the modern world, in fact, goes further and says that ugly things are beautiful
00:37:12.540 and beautiful things are ugly. And that was actually part of the Sidney Sweeney debate all week.
00:37:18.540 Beauty matters. The physical world matters. Modernity paradoxically tells us the physical
00:37:24.480 world doesn't matter. Modernity, which is so deeply materialistic, paradoxically tells us
00:37:28.620 physical world doesn't matter. Your body doesn't matter. You can even be the opposite sex. 0.98
00:37:31.920 But the physical world does matter. We're incarnate creatures. The other reason it matters is
00:37:38.800 we often see laws pitted against executive orders. Say, you know, look, the executive orders are good,
00:37:46.600 but laws are much more durable than executive orders. It's harder to repeal them, harder to overturn them.
00:37:51.480 That's true.
00:37:51.900 You know what's more durable even than laws a lot of the time? Buildings. Architecture.
00:38:01.360 The physical space of your country tells you about the country. A country is not just an idea like the
00:38:06.120 liberals tell us. A country is not even just a people. It's geography. It's building. It's culture.
00:38:12.280 This is it. All the people who tell us of the importance of winning back the culture, this is
00:38:17.000 winning back the culture. In a relatively small way, but a significant way. The White House is a
00:38:21.720 significant building. And making it bigger and more beautiful and grander, show that we can build
00:38:29.340 things again, that's good. One of my favorite executive orders from Trump in the first term
00:38:33.500 was that Make Federal Buildings Beautiful Again Act. It's amazing how bad architecture can bring down
00:38:39.680 the tone of a place. It can bring down even our sense of self. You go to D.C. right on the National
00:38:46.100 Mall, there's the African American History Museum. It is a grotesque building. It is one 1.00
00:38:51.700 of the greatest injustices ever committed against black people in America, that that is the building 0.94
00:38:55.220 for their history. It's horrible. The other buildings, some of the other buildings, are
00:39:00.480 very beautiful. The brutalist buildings are ugly. All this stuff matters. All of this stuff really
00:39:05.760 matters. I was with a Hungarian politician recently. I was with a member of parliament in Hungary.
00:39:10.480 And we're looking around, and they've done a great job of taking all the ugly, brutalist,
00:39:14.940 communist architecture, and just building up, rebuilding it. Just putting on new facades and
00:39:19.320 rebuilding it, making it beautiful and classical and how it once looked. And I talked to that
00:39:22.880 politician. I said, of all the things that you've done in the last 15 years of government,
00:39:27.320 what is the biggest legacy? He goes, that. The buildings. More than the family policy, more than
00:39:33.080 the economic policy, more than that. Because that's going to last. The other laws might go away. That
00:39:38.240 will last. Brilliant stuff from Trump. I absolutely love this. And I trust him to do that much more
00:39:44.540 than, certainly than the Democrats, who would put up some Barack Obama presidential library
00:39:48.360 brutalist monstrosity, probably, on the White House. But even more than the other Republicans.
00:39:53.360 I trust Trump to do this more than I trust W. All things being equal. Okay. Before we get to my
00:39:59.060 favorite time of the week, the mailbag, one last little glimpse into the future.
00:40:04.780 Mamdani. Zoran Mamdani is the Muslim socialist who's running for mayor of New York and likely will be
00:40:09.620 the next mayor of New York. He's called for queer liberation and blah, blah, blah. He's also 0.78
00:40:14.880 called to defund the police. After that mass shooting in New York that took the life of a
00:40:18.080 police officer, he was asked if he regrets that call.
00:40:22.620 ...LGBTQ or that they should be defunded or dismantled. So this is a little bit of what
00:40:27.040 Marsha asked. But as you've grown and reflected, and I feel, in fairness to you, you've been good
00:40:31.520 about talking about growing and reflecting and always having conversations. Do you wish you hadn't
00:40:36.600 said some of those things a few years back?
00:40:42.360 My statements in 2020 were ones made amidst a frustration that many New Yorkers held
00:40:50.600 at the murder of George Floyd and the inability to deliver on what Eric Adams, of all people,
00:40:59.400 described as the right for all of us to be able to enjoy safety and justice, that we need not choose
00:41:11.420 between the two.
00:41:13.040 So, in other words, no. He doesn't regret calling to defund the police. New York. I love New York. I
00:41:18.860 was born in New York, raised in New York. You are in for a mess of trouble. There's also more evidence,
00:41:24.040 by the way, that Mamdani, some people have said he is a radical Muslim. I don't think he's a radical
00:41:28.460 Muslim. I don't think radical Muslims call for queer liberation. I think he's a typical 1.00
00:41:31.780 leftist. A typical, millennial, insufferable leftist. That's what he is. And radical Muslims, 1.00
00:41:42.880 I don't know if you know this, radical Muslims like the police. They sometimes send the police 1.00
00:41:45.740 to your home to make sure you're wearing the right clothing. Okay, say what you will about
00:41:49.960 the radical Muslims. They're not anti-police. This is worse. This is worse. It'd be a better 0.99
00:41:56.420 situation if you're a radical Muslim. This is bad. Bad for New York. Okay. My favorite 1.00
00:42:00.640 time of the week, when I get to hear from you in the mailbag. Our mailbag is sponsored
00:42:04.340 by puretalk at puretalk.com slash Knowles to get your free phone today. Take it away.
00:42:08.700 Hey, Michael. Big fan of the show. I'm reaching out because I've been thinking about the Sidney
00:42:12.820 Sweeney thing lately. Now, I get that the left hates pretty things and wants everything to
00:42:17.720 be ugly and then wants us all to believe that ugly is pretty and pretty is ugly, yada yada.
00:42:23.080 However, there have been pretty things that the left has tolerated in the past. Pretty people,
00:42:29.280 et cetera. I think the greater issue is the play on the phrase has good genes because for a party
00:42:35.660 and a mindset that believes that everything can be Frankensteined into being exactly the same and
00:42:41.500 genetics don't really matter. The reinforcement of the claim that some things are just genetically
00:42:47.520 genetically different, genetically beautiful, genetically have a good figure, look feminine,
00:42:53.580 that would be a tough bill to swallow. They wouldn't like that. Anyways, thoughts?
00:42:57.900 I think that's a good point.
00:43:02.100 There is, I don't know that that's the chief issue. I think the chief issue is
00:43:05.780 that the left prefers the grotesque Jaguar commercials to the pretty American Eagle commercials
00:43:11.820 and the left prefers non-white people to white people and is pretty explicit about that. And
00:43:17.480 the left prefers outspoken left-wing activists to bubbly Hollywood starlets who keep their mouth
00:43:22.740 shut about politics like Sidney Sweeney. So I think that's still the chief issue, but I think you make
00:43:26.880 a very, very good point that underlying that in an almost unconscious way is the fact that liberalism
00:43:34.560 necessarily denies natural difference. Liberalism has to deny natural difference. Conservatism
00:43:43.900 recognizes that there are natural differences. Conservatism recognizes, therefore, that there
00:43:48.860 is hierarchy. And there are all number, all manner of hierarchies in the world. There are hierarchies
00:43:53.100 within the home. There are hierarchies within a business. There are hierarchies within a government
00:43:58.300 and within civil society. And not everyone gets to be everything. And part of life is we have
00:44:06.220 certain ambitions and we strive to be the very best version of ourselves possible. But not everyone
00:44:11.720 gets to be an astronaut. Not everyone gets to be president. And we need to, on the one hand, aspire to
00:44:17.660 be the best version of ourselves possible, but also be content with our place in life. Not everyone's
00:44:22.560 going to have the same place in life. We have wonderful diversity in life. And liberalism hates that.
00:44:27.520 Liberalism says, no, we're all tabla rasa when we're born. We're all exactly the same. We can all be,
00:44:33.060 anyone can be an astronaut. Anyone can be the president. Anyone can do anything. Anyone can be
00:44:37.120 any sex they want, for goodness sakes. There's no natural, everyone, the shortest guy in the world
00:44:41.360 can be a basketball player. And the skinniest guy in the world can be a linebacker. And it's just not
00:44:47.240 true. So I agree. That's one of the errors about human nature that's in liberalism. And I agree.
00:44:53.480 That is something that's in the Sidney Sweeney commercial. Because the Sidney Sweeney
00:44:57.220 commercial says, some people are just born prettier than others. And that's just true.
00:45:02.840 Next one.
00:45:04.260 Hey, Michael. My name's Kate. I have two questions for you today. My first one's about SLA
00:45:08.320 and her routine. So I assume that you have to get to DW pretty early to do your show.
00:45:14.360 But SLA is up before that in order to make breakfast. I don't currently make breakfast
00:45:20.000 for my husband. And I thought that having a new baby was a great excuse for why I don't do that.
00:45:24.580 However, SLA has a new baby. And she still does it all. She seems pretty incredible. But I'm just
00:45:30.520 curious about what time she wakes up. And when she goes to sleep at night, do you guys sleep at the
00:45:35.780 same time? I'm just so curious. My second question is, how can you live with yourself?
00:45:41.080 It was only a few weeks ago that you told us wearing braces and suspenders is fine as long
00:45:46.340 as they remain under your jacket. And then you released your trailer for your new series,
00:45:52.560 which sounds great. However, visible suspenders. What's with that? You said that's a no-go.
00:45:58.260 I can't believe this. Explain yourself.
00:46:02.400 Okay, fair, fair. I'll take them in order. To SLA, yeah, some people are the total package.
00:46:07.860 What can I say? Some people, hotter than a $2 pistol. Some people wake up early, make them.
00:46:17.120 I had a delicious egg salad today because my gum still hurts. She made me egg salad and made
00:46:20.560 different breakfasts for the boys, pancakes and fruit and everything. Yeah, and then wonderful
00:46:25.800 dinners and races. Some people are the whole, that's a total package, you know. My wife's even 0.96
00:46:31.520 a doctor, as we sometimes talk about around the Daily Wire. And so, yeah, that's true. She gets up
00:46:36.540 earlier than me. She probably gets up an hour earlier than me. At least half an hour, probably an hour
00:46:42.060 earlier than me. Though she does go to bed significantly earlier than I do. So we do, you know, we recognize
00:46:48.820 different roles in a household. And they're intersecting roles, and they're sometimes overlapping roles,
00:46:54.740 but they're distinct. So sweet little Lisa wakes up a little earlier, does it all. She does it all.
00:47:00.660 Dr. Donna Reed, you know. And then I stay up later because I have to do work. I have to write the show.
00:47:05.700 I have to own the libs. I have to send the tweets, you know. Very arduous work. And then occasionally we
00:47:13.400 see each other every so often. As to the racist thing, you're right, you're right. I knew this was
00:47:17.700 going to come up for the really perceptive people. I have this new show, The Pope and the Fuhrer,
00:47:22.840 coming out. And in it, my wardrobe is that I'm wearing trousers with braces and a shirt.
00:47:31.400 And when you're in public, you should never have your braces exposed. You might say, Michael,
00:47:35.760 a show is pretty public, isn't it? Yes. But I suppose the conceit of the narration of the show
00:47:41.660 is that I am in my office. And in my home office, I would wear braces exposed.
00:47:48.100 So that's part of the conceit, okay? That is not, that is a kind of exception based on the artifice
00:47:55.300 of show business. That is not real life. I don't want to see your braces when you're at a wedding.
00:48:00.920 They want me to move on to the member of segmentum. I want at least one more voicemail bag. I want at
00:48:04.840 least one more. Give it to me. Hey, Michael. I used to be an atheist and I started going to church
00:48:10.320 because of you. So thank you for that. But the issue at hand here is that I've started dating
00:48:15.940 a girl who's really fantastic. She's got the kindest heart. She would do anything for you.
00:48:23.200 But she is, she's Indian and I'm white. And like, I've always pictured my wife being,
00:48:33.960 you know, the same race as me, like looking like me and my kids looking like me.
00:48:38.340 Um, and so I'm in a dilemma here where I can't, I keep trying to get past it, but I keep getting
00:48:46.720 caught up on that issue. Um, and my friends like her, uh, they've judged me heavily for even being
00:48:52.440 caught up on this. Uh, and I know they'd be upset if I broke things off. So I'm just trying to get
00:48:58.640 your two cents and see if it's reasonable for me to be feeling this way or not. Thank you.
00:49:02.140 Now, now I'm really glad I took one more question. That's definitely going to get me in trouble for
00:49:06.700 my answer. Uh, no, it's fine to feel that way. It's fine. It's totally fine to feel that way.
00:49:12.100 Nobody, nobody would blame a Japanese guy if he said, I want to marry a Japanese girl. I don't want 1.00
00:49:19.640 to marry a, I don't know, Guatemalan girl. Nobody would blame that guy. It's okay. Or if you say, 0.99
00:49:26.060 look, I, I'm just, I, I'm more attracted to people who look a certain way than look a different way
00:49:31.060 or, or even to say, oh, look, I want my kids to look a certain way. I don't know. That's true.
00:49:35.100 You don't want to make an idol out of these things. So if you came in the opposite direction and said,
00:49:39.860 all my friends and family want me to marry a white girl, but I really like this Indian girl. Do I have 0.51
00:49:43.580 to break up with her? I'd say, no, marry the Indian girl if you want to marry the Indian girl, 1.00
00:49:46.220 but you don't need to feel a shame for having physical preferences in a wife. You don't need to feel 0.99
00:49:54.220 shame or even cultural preferences. I don't know if she's Indian from India or what that means,
00:49:57.580 but that's, it's okay. That's, that's fine. There's nothing hateful about it. It's not like
00:50:01.920 you're saying I hate Indian people. It's just saying I, I would prefer for my family to look 1.00
00:50:07.740 a certain way. You're not making, if, as long as you're not making an idol out of race and it's 0.59
00:50:12.040 just, you know, you're just saying, look, I'm more physically attracted to this kind of person,
00:50:15.720 or I just have this, you know, this idea of what my family's going to look like. It's okay.
00:50:21.980 It's all right. I know liberalism insists otherwise, but a good rule of thumb, I guess,
00:50:26.700 is if, if no one, if none of those people who are castigating you for even having this concern
00:50:31.480 would hold any other race to that standard, then you don't need to hold yourself as a member of a
00:50:39.500 different race to that standard. If you, if you want to marry the girl, I don't, I think it's, 1.00
00:50:45.440 that's perfectly fine. If you like your girlfriend and you say, you know, this wasn't exactly what I
00:50:50.800 pictured, but I love this girl and we're going to get married. I think that's fine. You could have
00:50:54.320 a great life that way. But if you say, I'm just really like her, but I, I, I don't want to marry
00:51:01.960 an Indian girl. Okay. It's okay. You're that you're entitled to do that. It's, it's okay. There is no law
00:51:08.660 saying you have to marry someone of, of a different race. It's okay. Don't calm down. Just recollect 1.00
00:51:15.580 yourself. Think about the girl. Think about your family. Think about your, the relationship itself,
00:51:22.740 which you, and, but if you're going to break up with her, break up with her. Don't leave the girl 1.00
00:51:25.700 on. Okay. How's that for an answer? It's going to get everybody in trouble. Today's fake headline
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