On this episode of The Michael Knowles Show: ICE locks me out of the studio, and the governor of Minnesota calls ICE a Nazi collaborator, and President Trump backs him up. Plus, a new movie based on the life of the First Lady, Melania Trump.
00:03:54.820And that guy that I debated on Piers Morgan the other day, the one with the bleach blonde tips and the big sunglasses and his grandpa's shiny suit on,
00:04:20.360So, what the libs are going to claim, or what they were trying to claim previously is, well, look, Walz and Trump, they came to some kind of agreement, and the Democrats got a scalp.
00:04:31.720They got a scalp because the Border Patrol commander at large, Greg Bovino, has been reassigned, so he's no longer running the operations in Minneapolis.
00:04:39.620You're going to hear this from the left, and you're going to hear this from the doomers on the right, who take no, they miss no opportunity to attack the administration and to whine and complain from the comfort of their own desk chairs.
00:04:53.360So, what you're going to hear is, well, see, Trump is backing off because he's removing the commander-at-large of Border Patrol, Greg Bovino.
00:05:00.380Now, first of all, most people have never heard of Greg Bovino.
00:05:02.820By all accounts, he's a terrific law enforcement professional.
00:05:05.180Commander-at-large is not even an official position in Border Patrol, and Border Patrol is usually on the border.
00:05:10.200Though, because of the nature of a first-in-a-generation mass deportation campaign, which most Americans voted for in November, they've needed to bring in a little bit more help, some more reinforcements on these raids.
00:05:25.060That's the scalp Trump is backing out?
00:05:26.520I don't think so, because in his place, we're getting Tom Holman.
00:05:31.340Tom Holman, who is the face of mass deportations.
00:05:35.840So, I don't think if you're a lib or you're an illegal alien, violent criminal, or any of these people, I don't think you're relieved to see Tom Holman show up.
00:05:44.540Tom Holman is the guy who is more famous, or from your perspective, infamous, for deporting people.
00:05:50.560But there is a little political play here.
00:05:52.800And this finally explains why Caroline Levitt, White House Press Secretary, was playing up the fact the other day in the briefing that Tom Holman received a presidential medal from Barack Obama.
00:06:50.720They want me to get rid of the guy who's in charge of it.
00:06:53.720And Trump says, okay, so they reassigned him to wherever he was before or some new place, whatever.
00:06:58.260And then in their place, they put in Tom Holman.
00:07:00.540So now it's much harder to attack Tom Holman because you just, hold on, Barack Obama said this guy was great for deportations.
00:07:07.040And the question becomes, are they going to keep up the deportations or are they going to pull back?
00:07:12.100And you had initially the Libs celebrating and the Doomers celebrating, and they're sort of pathetic, cynical, they just have to be right that things are terrible way.
00:07:23.720They're saying, oh, we'll see, here you go, Trump's going to pull back.
00:07:25.980And I thought, I don't know, I think he's smarter than that.
00:07:27.700And I think he learned the lesson of 2020, which is you cannot give these people, these people in particular in Minneapolis, an inch.
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00:09:23.100Governor Tim Walz called me with the request to work together with respect to Minnesota.
00:09:28.260It was a very good call, and we actually seem to be on a similar wavelength.
00:09:32.620I told Governor Walz that I would have Tom Holman call him and that what we are looking for are any and all criminals that they have in their possession.
00:10:05.540Trump is much better at politics than a lot of his career politician adversaries.
00:10:10.360This was certainly the biggest misstep of Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi in the first administration is they were so awful to Trump right off the bat,
00:10:18.280there was no opportunity to try to ingratiate themselves.
00:10:20.680Maybe ingratiating themselves wouldn't have worked, but it would have worked a lot better than pushing him away.
00:10:25.940Trump, he does like to turn on the charm, and he's very charming.
00:10:29.080He did this to Mamdani in the Oval Office.
00:10:30.920He doesn't give Mamdani an inch on anything, and in fact, almost certainly threatened Mamdani,
00:10:36.560because the city of New York relies on the federal government for like $100 billion a year of funding when all is said and done.
00:12:24.080Tim Walls is clearly in violation of the Insurrection Act.
00:12:26.120He literally invoked the Civil War, 1863, and then he threatened to call up Minnesota troops to fight the federal troops.
00:12:34.340He could be arrested for that and put away for a long time.
00:12:38.180Beyond that, though, a lot of evidence that Tim Walls is involved in some financial propriety, allegedly, reportedly, whatever, in the Somali fraud scandal and the broader Minnesota fraud scandal.
00:12:50.900That's what the Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, was flying to the Minnesota state capitol to investigate when Tim Walls wouldn't even give him a security detail.
00:12:58.400Now it looks like, hold on, this guy might not just be a knucklehead.
00:13:01.780Maybe this guy actually was involved in some real corruption.
00:13:04.960Maybe this guy, like his subjects in Minnesota, maybe he's also trying to obstruct law enforcement.
00:13:11.420He's going to let a major cabinet secretary walk around in a very hostile environment, very violent environment, with political violence encouraged, in some cases reportedly even conspired according to the directions of state officials.
00:13:52.180It's one of these protesters, not really protesters, it's one of the people who's actively obstructing federal law enforcement, grabbing a flashbang, you know, a non-lethal type of grenade.
00:14:03.640Grabs it, you know, the cops throw it, and then she grabs it, and then blows off a finger, and then goes down screaming on the pavement.
00:14:45.040The only stories they've ever read are these facile little comic book stories, and not even the good older ones, like the new ones, that are completely derivative and unoriginal and all the rest.
00:14:57.360That's how they see the world divided, and they really think that physical impossibilities can become possible if they just think highly enough of themselves.
00:15:10.740So they really think the thing to do when the cops throw a grenade at you is to just go pick it up.
00:15:16.420And then, like, I don't know, like you're Bugs Bunny, like you're the Roadrunner, like you're whatever one of these Marvel movies.
00:15:22.500You're going to pick it up and throw it away, and it's going to explode in the clouds.
00:15:26.880And then, you know, the evil ice villain, his hair is just going to go up on end, and steam is going to come out of his ears.
00:15:38.860They think that if you're a middle-aged white lady, irate political activist, lesbian, all the rest, that you can just get in your car, and you can be real sassy to the cops, to federal law enforcement.
00:15:50.980You can block law enforcement, block traffic, create a very dangerous situation, protect foreign criminals, and then when the cops come up, you can be really sassy.
00:15:58.860You can give a line, I'm not even mad at you.
00:16:13.740What's going to happen then is Superwoman, my girlfriend, is going to fly in, I'm going to jump on her back, and we're going to soar off to Tahiti.
00:16:20.160That's what they think is going to happen.
00:17:01.980When one side told us for years that boys can become girls, and when they castrated the little boys and they lopped off the breasts of the girls, that's, I think, when we ceased to have parody on our respective partisan delusions.
00:17:18.560That's, I think, when one side really took the fantasy, which the left was always more bought into the fantasy.
00:17:26.680The left was born out of the French Revolution as a rejection of a given society and of the God that created the society.
00:19:25.080If you tolerate that at all anywhere, you can't have a hospital system.
00:19:29.220If the teachers threaten to kill some of the students, you just can't have schools because no parent is going to send any kid to those kind of schools.
00:19:37.940The most disturbing part of this to me is the Marvel movie morality of it.
00:19:43.920Because the line that stuck with me from her diatribe is get them sick, not enough to make them die, just enough to incapacitate them and get them off the street the next day.
00:19:58.540Like this is a, it's a James Bond movie or something.
00:20:01.920Like this, no, that's not, James Bond is too highbrow for what these people watch.
00:20:04.980Like it's some stupid comic book movie.
00:20:08.000Like, like not, frankly, this is like 1960s Batman TV show.
00:20:13.220Like, well, well, Robin, I know what we'll do.
00:20:16.440We'll give them some of the magic bat potion, which will completely incapacitate them for exactly the amount of time that I need without any long-term health effects.
00:20:49.420Sad, this is the extreme version of why didn't he just shoot him in the leg, which is the gun control version of getting your morality and your anthropology and your politics from cartoons.
00:21:00.920Why didn't you just shoot him in the leg?
00:21:02.740Why didn't you, hey, I know, when the guy had the gun and he was pointing it at everybody and his finger was almost about to pull the trigger, why didn't you take your gun and shoot his gun out of his hand?
00:21:13.380You know, like they did on Bugs Bunny.
00:21:33.240I've been calling for this since Charlie Kirk was assassinated.
00:21:35.780The people who openly call for the murder of conservatives, be they students, be they patients, who openly call for this, who openly even joke about this, but it doesn't seem like a total joke.
00:21:45.940They need to be ostracized from society.
00:21:48.160I know some people on the right, especially the libertarians, are going to have trouble calling for that because they've been digging their heels in as free speech absolutists for years and years.
00:23:10.880So, the Williams sisters, and this is in the 90s, they were very good at tennis, and they said, you know, we want to play against a man.
00:23:20.860So, we're going to say any man who's ranked out of the top 200, we're going to play against him.
00:23:28.200And this guy was ranked 204 or something, 208, and he took them up on it.
00:23:34.180He took up the sisters on a doubleheader, so he's going to play both of them in the same day.
00:23:41.760To prepare for his matches against the Williams sisters, he went out, played a round of golf, had a couple of beers, and smoked half a pack of cigarettes.
00:23:51.220He then shows up, and he completely trounces the first one.
00:23:55.100It was like 6-1 or something, and then trounces the second one.
00:24:09.880They're not as physically strong as men.
00:24:12.740And these ladies out there in the anti-ice agitator networks, they think they can because they watched that new stupid Star Wars where the Jedi girl just, like, beats everybody.
00:24:25.880And at least there, it's Star Wars, or they have the Force or whatever.
00:24:29.180They have, like, Live Long and Prosper.
00:25:58.080I don't, it's a little, quite decadent.
00:25:59.800I don't, but everyone is perfectly polite.
00:26:01.360I had a nice time in Lebanon, actually.
00:26:03.680It's sad what Hezbollah has done to the place.
00:26:05.940But there are plenty of nice Muslims there.
00:26:08.540In a lot of Muslim countries, this kind of thing happens.
00:26:12.240The Muslim persecution of Christians, especially if you go into Africa, but throughout the Middle East and elsewhere, is really, really bad.
00:26:19.560And it's been really, really bad for 1,400 years.