The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1909 - The Supposedly ＂Racist＂ Trump Post Explained in 5 Minutes

00:00:00.000 More American Olympians criticize America. Vice President J.D. Vance becomes the highest ranking

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00:00:13.340 of faux outrage over President Trump's posting a supposedly racist meme

00:00:19.280 about Barack Obama. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:02:21.060 the most important news story according to the libs and the centrists and even the squish

00:02:28.060 Republicans. And that of course is President Trump's, see if you can follow me, President

00:02:34.760 Trump's posting a video to Truth Social about election fraud that at the very end for like a

00:02:43.120 second or two, auto scrolls to another video, which is a meme that had Barack and Michelle Obama

00:02:50.860 had their heads placed on gorillas. Did you follow that? Did you follow where you're supposed to be 0.78

00:03:00.100 outraged? I know it's a little distant. I know, and also by the way, President Trump took down the

00:03:05.300 video and said a staffer posted it, which is pretty likely. That you're supposed to be outraged

00:03:11.240 of that. We're on day four of the outrage, not just from the libs, which would be one thing,

00:03:15.300 but from multiple US senators, all these squishy types. So just want to put all the cards on the

00:03:22.400 table here. Let's examine it. We have to examine it. It's four days of this. We got to examine it.

00:03:27.700 What exactly did President Trump post? Initiated by a court order, the Michigan investigation team

00:03:37.060 obtained forensic access to a DS200 tabulator, the machine that counts of votes. A Tellit 4G wireless

00:03:44.540 chip manufactured in Taiwan was discovered embedded into the motherboard. The voting machine tapes

00:03:51.060 clearly indicate modem engagement and transmission of election data.

00:03:57.340 Some of the anomalies that we noticed in the 2020 general elections, that five key states all stopped

00:04:04.360 counting at a certain time in these key battleground states. These were all where the software,

00:04:09.900 the mini machines, the SNS machines were used, the Smartmatic, the GEMS software. So when the vote

00:04:16.000 stopped counting, and this has been noted in other countries as well, President Trump was significantly

00:04:22.000 ahead. When reporting and counting resumed, there was a massive spike occurred that favored Joe Biden.

00:04:29.740 Okay, okay. So I know if you're only listening, you could maybe hear it there at the very end where

00:04:38.800 you get that Lion King, right? That for that one and a half seconds, there was this image of Barack and

00:04:48.500 Michelle Obama with their heads on monkeys. And this was very, very racist. Of course, this is proof that

00:04:55.120 Trump hates black people. This is the only thing that anyone knows about this post. 99.9% of the

00:05:04.020 post was about voting machines and the potential of rigging in the 2020 election. But then there was

00:05:10.620 this thing at the end, which I think very clearly was just an auto scroll, like you get on Instagram

00:05:14.860 or Twitter or anywhere else. You play the video and then a new video pops up. Anyway, in any case,

00:05:20.140 that's the one that everyone's focused on. Said this is proof that Trump is really racist. So I said,

00:05:23.840 okay, it's not really tasteful to put black people's faces on monkeys. I certainly agree with 1.00

00:05:29.760 that. So I don't think he did this intentionally. I don't think he posted this. He obviously thought

00:05:33.940 it was distasteful because he took the video down when he even got to the very end, if he got to the

00:05:38.000 end the first time he saw it. But I said, let me go back to the original video, not the voting

00:05:42.980 machine one. I'm talking about that one that autoplayed there at the end. I'm even skeptical that that

00:05:48.900 video is racist. Not because of putting black people's faces on monkeys, but I'm skeptical of

00:05:54.740 it because the libs have been lying about everything when it comes to Trump. So you know what? Let me

00:06:00.860 just go back. I found the original video. Here's the original video. I'll describe it to you if you're

00:06:04.740 only listening. So we've got Brock and Michelle and their heads are on monkeys. Okay. Okay. That's a

00:06:13.140 little distasteful, I think we would say. And then there's Hillary's like a warthog. And then Hakeem is

00:06:18.540 there. AOC's a donkey as his noose. Some Pritzker's an elephant. Zoron is a leopard. Hold on. Pause it.

00:06:27.960 Pause it. There's the key. Joe Biden is a monkey. So if this video, which is just all the Democrats

00:06:38.860 looking like animals, and then the punchline is Trump comes in as the lion and they say,

00:06:43.380 you know, the lion sleeps to nine. He's the lion and they're all a bunch of animals.

00:06:46.920 But if it were only black people as monkeys, I might be able to understand the outrage a little 1.00

00:06:52.580 bit. So, you know, it's kind of distasteful, isn't it? But that's not what happened.

00:06:56.180 Because here you have Joe Biden, vice president to Barack Obama, and then the Democrat president

00:07:01.620 that followed him as a monkey. Furthermore, in that very image, you got Joe Biden as a monkey

00:07:07.840 eating a banana, and then you've got Kamala as a turtle. Now, Kamala, I'm reliably informed,

00:07:14.500 is a black woman of color. So if this were a racist thing, Kamala would be the monkey, 1.00

00:07:22.040 and I guess Biden would be the turtle. And it would actually make more sense for Biden to be the

00:07:25.380 turtle because Joe Biden's really slow and he's like 200 years old. So the craziest part about

00:07:31.780 this, and I haven't really seen people talking about this, is, yeah, okay, it's, yes, it's

00:07:36.840 distasteful to put black people's faces on monkeys. Sure, fair enough. Trump clearly didn't intend to do

00:07:42.820 that. He almost certainly didn't even see that. He might not have posted the video himself,

00:07:48.100 very likely did not. He's got other things on his plate. And, you know, posting a video is a

00:07:53.540 little more complicated than just sending out a tweet with a, you know, a few lines that you type

00:07:58.240 yourself. But beyond that, what everyone seems to agree on, including the conservatives is,

00:08:03.580 but the original video in context is racist. And the fact is, it's not. In context, the original video

00:08:12.680 itself is actually not even racist. In order for the original video to be racist, it would have to be

00:08:19.900 the black people as monkeys and the non-black people as not monkeys. But that's not what

00:08:25.300 happened. You get Biden as the monkey. And then to prove it, you get Biden and a black person in the 0.98

00:08:31.240 very same frame. And the white person is the monkey. And the non-white person is the turtle. 0.86

00:08:36.160 A hoax through and through. And I don't, it's crazy. I haven't even seen anyone defend that.

00:08:42.060 Look, it's obviously Trump regretted posting it because he took the video down.

00:08:45.440 But I don't, I don't want to hear, I've been seeing some conservatives saying, well,

00:08:49.520 obviously the original video is racist. It's actually not in its original context.

00:08:54.660 You could say that making black people look like monkeys is a, is racial and cruel or whatever.

00:08:58.940 But in the context of the video, it's actually not. You don't even need to give lives that much.

00:09:03.980 It is thoroughly, entirely, 100% grade A USDA certified a hoax. Okay. Speaking of criticizing Trump,

00:09:13.480 which everyone loves to do. We have another Olympian throwing shade at Trump.

00:09:19.280 This after, what was that guy's name? Rudolph Hess? Is that his, no, not Rudolph Hess. It was

00:09:24.000 something Hess. Whatever, whatever Hess is, the skier. He comes out and he starts attacking Trump.

00:09:31.160 And he says, you know, you know, man, there's a lot of bad stuff in the country right now. I don't,

00:09:35.420 just because I wear the America flag doesn't mean I represent America.

00:09:39.520 Like, well, that's literally what it means. And that's all that it means.

00:09:42.320 And then this figure skater chick comes out and she attacks Trump. And now we have the perfect

00:09:49.140 exemplar of American Olympians criticizing Trump. And we have the perfect example of what is wrong

00:09:55.740 with the Olympics. And that is this skier, Eileen Gu. Do you know Eileen Gu? I don't really follow the

00:10:02.040 Olympics. I don't care for the Olympics. I don't watch it. I don't, it doesn't interest me. I think

00:10:05.860 it's pagan and super lib and it just doesn't interest me. But some people like it. That's fine.

00:10:11.840 Eileen Gu has just come out. She was asked about President Trump attacking the skier Hess.

00:10:23.140 And Gu says, quote, she's sorry that the headline that is eclipsing the Olympics has to be something

00:10:31.100 so unrelated to the spirit of the games. She says, as someone who's been caught in the crossfire before,

00:10:37.360 I feel sorry for the athletes. I hope they can ski to their very best. She's really upset.

00:10:44.220 Trump. Oh, this Trump. He's just, you know, why does this headline have to take away from the

00:10:48.580 spirit of the games? What is the spirit of the games? Is the spirit of the games American athletes

00:10:55.620 dissing America? You know, I was trying to read her comments as an esoteric defense of Trump.

00:11:01.960 You know, I'm sorry that this headline is so, is eclipsing the Olympics and so unrelated to the

00:11:06.580 spirit of the games. I was wondering if in a way she was thrown shade at Hess here. Hess should have

00:11:10.960 kept his mouth shut and not undermine America kind of thing. Actually weird, maybe kind of weirdly

00:11:15.740 defending the administration and the United States. But then you look at Eileen Gu and who she is and

00:11:21.720 you say, probably not. Eileen Gu is American. She was born in America. She's an American citizen.

00:11:27.500 Her mother was an immigrant, but her father's American. She was raised in America. She was

00:11:32.800 educated in America. She trained in America. She's lived basically her whole life in America.

00:11:39.300 And she competes for China. She competes for China. Not only a different country, but America's chief 0.95

00:11:48.720 geopolitical rival. She's competing for them. I thought this is just perfect. This is the perfect

00:11:55.320 example of what's wrong with the Olympics. First of all, a lot of athletes are like this.

00:12:01.720 A lot of athletes live here. Maybe they're born here. They train here. They get all the benefits

00:12:06.900 of being in America. And then they go back to their country and they compete for their actual country,

00:12:10.960 not for America. And you say, all right, if it's a tiny little country somewhere in Africa or the

00:12:17.760 Far East, if it's like Mauritius or something, you say, okay, why not? Okay, that's fine.

00:12:23.080 When it's America's geopolitical rival, chief rival, China, you say, well, that's a little

00:12:29.320 distasteful, isn't it? I mean, that's the word to describe all these stories today on the show.

00:12:33.660 It's a little distasteful. But what are the Olympics? The Olympics are a modern invention.

00:12:40.060 They don't go back to antiquity. There was an Olympics in antiquity, but the modern Olympics is a

00:12:46.200 creation that's roughly 100 years old. And it's to promote liberalism, internationalism,

00:12:52.640 globalism, we would say today. And this is it. This is the kind of thing that the election of

00:12:59.940 Trump was a rebellion against. This idea that people are going to come here, they're going to

00:13:06.000 get all the benefits out of this country. They're going to sap this country dry. They're going to get

00:13:10.760 welfare benefits when they move to Minnesota. They're going to train at the best facilities.

00:13:15.100 They're going to go to the top schools. They're going to get the greatest legal and political

00:13:20.220 protections. They're going to benefit from this great economy. They're going to benefit in every

00:13:24.300 single way. And they're just going to take, take, take, take, take. They're not going to consider

00:13:29.940 themselves American. They're not going to assimilate. They're not going to adopt an American 0.99

00:13:33.740 identity, which includes getting rid of your old identity in large part. No, they're going to take,

00:13:39.560 take, take. And then they're still going to identify with their country of origin.

00:13:42.620 And they're even going to help their country of origin to compete against the United States 0.93

00:13:46.360 economically, politically, maybe militarily. And in this case, in skiing, in athletic games.

00:13:54.880 This is it. She says, I'm sorry that these headlines are contradicting and eclipsing the

00:14:01.420 spirit of the Olympics. I'm not. I'm thrilled that these headlines are eclipsing the spirit of the

00:14:07.060 Olympics because the spirit of the modern Olympics is terrible. It's, it's a horrible spirit. And it

00:14:12.540 is actually that spirit, which was the cause of the election of Donald Trump. It wasn't literally

00:14:18.840 the, it wasn't practically the Olympics, but it was that spirit that animates the Olympics.

00:14:24.300 That is what galvanized people to vote for Trump in 16 and 2020 and 2024 and to win the popular vote in

00:14:31.600 2024. A rebellion against this globalism, this liberalism that diminishes the United States,

00:14:38.720 that does not really benefit, that doesn't, it does not constitute our strength, that does not

00:14:43.580 create a beautiful, delicious stew in a melting pot that's greater than the sum of its parts.

00:14:50.040 That's the, that's the spirit of it. Okay. Speaking of attacks on Trump, there's a really weird one.

00:14:53.680 I teased it yesterday. I think I teased it. In Illinois high school, had a walkout to protest

00:15:00.480 ICE. And as part of the protest, they crucified Trump in effigy. And they actually completely

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00:16:37.920 here. An amazing story, an amazing story, because it doesn't just pertain to a high school in Illinois.

00:16:43.900 This is a symbol of the Libs' derangement and the ways in which the people who think they're the good

00:16:50.200 guys very often are the bad guys. This is from Waukegan High School in Illinois. They had an anti-ice

00:16:58.880 protest with hoisting Mexican flags, of course. They almost never hoist the American flag. It's the

00:17:07.920 they erected. This is pretty, pretty disturbing. They erected a cross and they, they crucified an

00:17:14.740 effigy of Trump and they made him look kind of fat, you know, mostly naked, wearing, wearing a MAGA hat.

00:17:23.740 I love, I actually, I don't love this display because it's so vile and sacrilegious,

00:17:29.860 but I, I love the point they accidentally made. The Libs thought they were really going to,

00:17:37.460 at this, first of all, students at high schools should not be doing this. From whatever teachers

00:17:41.300 encourage this, there are people with gray hair over there. Those people need to be fired, 1.00

00:17:45.100 obviously. These students need to be severely punished and they should be grounded by their

00:17:51.580 parents. They should be suspended from school. Maybe they should be expelled. I mean, this is

00:17:56.280 pretty outrageous stuff and, and has no place in a high school. However, notice the imagery here.

00:18:04.300 These Libs have become so deranged or there's just so ignorant, you know, their intellects are 1.00

00:18:09.220 darkened by sin and ignorance that they, they think the way to get Trump is by comparing him to

00:18:18.660 God. They think the way that they're going to really stick it to Trump, that guy that they hate so much

00:18:26.940 is by comparing him to, uh, what is that? Oh yes. Christ crucified.

00:18:32.980 This mob of students here

00:18:35.000 is reenacting the passion, except they're on the side of the mob calling for Barabbas,

00:18:43.060 calling for Christ to be crucified. I don't know if you've ever read the story. I hope you have.

00:18:48.060 If you haven't the mob, it's not the good guys. You know who the good guy is?

00:18:54.920 God Christ, the one that they're crucifying and they're comparing him to Trump and they don't

00:19:00.220 even realize that they're doing it. This reminds me of something that it wasn't just ignorant high

00:19:05.400 school students. It was ignorant members of Congress and governors and politicians did some

00:19:09.580 years ago. Do you remember after the 2020 election about which president Trump is still

00:19:15.280 posting videos, potential rigging? Do you remember what the Libs said?

00:19:19.380 They said that Republicans had perpetrated the big lie. They said, you Republicans who are denying the

00:19:26.380 results of the election. Libs have denied the results of basically every single election they've

00:19:30.420 lost in my lifetime, going back to Bush v. Gore at least, but nevermind that. They said, you Republicans

00:19:36.460 who are denying the results of the election by pointing out that the rules were all changed at the

00:19:40.100 last minute, in some cases illegally and unconstitutionally. They said, you all are perpetrating

00:19:44.480 the big lie. That was the phrase you heard on CNN and MSNBC and the Washington Post and the New York

00:19:50.100 Times and all over the place. And they used that phrase specifically because they associated this

00:19:56.240 phrase with Hitler. It's the big lie, like the Nazis, like Hitler. And what was so amazing about them

00:20:04.440 using that phrase is that that phrase was coined by Hitler, by the Nazis. The phrase appears in

00:20:16.120 Mein Kampf. The phrase is not an accusation from the allies or from the Jews or from the innocent

00:20:24.460 German people against the Nazis. Au contraire, my frere, that was a phrase used by the Nazis

00:20:31.500 against the Jews. And they didn't know it because they don't know anything about history. 0.86

00:20:36.780 So they're using this phrase. You're saying, you Republicans, you Republicans are pushing the big lie.

00:20:43.760 In so doing, they were putting themselves in the place of Hitler and they were putting Trump and the

00:20:49.400 Republicans in the place of the persecuted Jews. You couldn't make it up. If you were writing a

00:20:54.420 Hollywood screenplay about this, you could not make it up. It was so on the nose.

00:20:59.080 And now you have these liberal high school students being pushed by their parents and

00:21:03.520 by Democrat politicians all around the country. You have them putting themselves in the place of

00:21:09.700 the crowd calling for the crucifixion of Christ in whose place they put Donald Trump.

00:21:13.880 Couldn't make it up. Really makes you think. Maybe sometimes when you think you're the good guy,

00:21:19.980 maybe you're actually the baddie. Maybe you should have some introspection and you should examine your

00:21:24.100 conscience and have a touch of humility to ask yourself, is what I am doing actually right?

00:21:32.000 This is the whole point. This is the central debated point of that stupid halftime show with

00:21:38.780 what's his face, Bad Bunny. Have you seen this going around? There's this picture from the Bad

00:21:43.860 Bunny halftime show, Levi's Stadium. And then up there on the big billboard next to Bud Light,

00:21:49.480 very fitting. It says, white background, black text, all caps. The only thing more powerful than hate

00:21:58.540 is love. And then some guy, it's gone totally viral, almost 4 million views, tweets us out and says,

00:22:07.260 imagine getting mad about this and still thinking you're a good person. Why would you get mad at

00:22:15.680 the transvestite, anti-American, vulgar, degenerate rap singer babbling in a foreign tongue that the 0.98

00:22:23.940 vast majority of Americans don't speak while featuring two men grinding on each other in front

00:22:30.100 of a sports game that is supposed to be viewed by children? Why would you get mad about that? A guy who

00:22:35.340 disses America, even in the phrase, God bless America. How could you get mad about that when

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00:23:56.340 Investing involves risk. Imagine getting mad about this. This is a meme. This is a meme that the

00:24:03.300 right uses to make fun of the left. And the left is now just doing it sincerely, unironically.

00:24:09.940 And the meme is, you know, the left comes out as they're like killing people, slaughtering babies,

00:24:14.680 you know, mutilating little children, flooding the country with rapists and poison peddlers and

00:24:21.380 murderers. And they say, yeah, but we stand for love. We define everything we do as love and

00:24:28.740 everything you do as hate. So we're actually the good guys. Did you know that? Did you know that?

00:24:33.200 When the Libs redefined marriage for basically the first time in human history anywhere,

00:24:40.140 and they did so in such a way that excludes mothers from their children, from families,

00:24:47.840 or alternately excludes fathers from families, leads to all sorts of horrible things up to and

00:24:54.120 including creating children for the purpose of denying them their natural mother and father.

00:24:57.900 You know, really heinous stuff. But what did they say? They said, love is love. Love is love. Love wins.

00:25:02.720 How could you oppose love? Why are you? We have defined the disordered things that we're doing

00:25:10.040 that are contrary to reality and to the common good in human flourishing. We've defined them as love.

00:25:14.740 And if you oppose us, you hate love. Huh? Checkmate. Checkmate, conservatives.

00:25:20.940 This is like when Anthony Kennedy decided to abdicate his responsibility to interpret the law

00:25:27.320 as a Supreme Court justice. And he instead decided to write cheap romantic poetry

00:25:31.540 that is fitting for an eighth grade English class. And he decided that his interpretation

00:25:37.380 of the Constitution was going to find a right to privacy. Just as he earlier in an abortion case

00:25:44.160 had found a right to define the sweet mystery of life somewhere in the Constitution. I don't know

00:25:52.780 where it is. And they say, look, we support mystery. We support love. We support life. Well, life,

00:25:59.340 that's the key here is when you're, when you're lib friends, send that meme around.

00:26:06.180 Hate is worse than love. Love beats hate. How could you get mad at that?

00:26:11.900 Bad bunny had a sign. How could you get mad at that? The point you should tell them is that you are

00:26:19.020 pro-life and they are angry at people who are pro-life. How imagine being against life and thinking

00:26:27.600 you're the good guy. And what would they say? They would say, no, no, no, but you're not really

00:26:31.060 pro-life. You're anti-choice. You're, you want to control one's bodies. You want to, and they'd use

00:26:36.600 all their own silly euphemisms. You say, okay, okay, okay. Before we get into the abortion issue,

00:26:41.560 I just want to point out, you have granted me the premise. You have accepted the premise

00:26:45.740 that sometimes people use words in ways that can be misleading or tell a partial truth,

00:26:53.940 or at the very least can be euphemistic. You've granted that point, right? Okay, great. So you

00:26:59.400 don't like my phrase pro-life. I think pro-life is an honest phrase that accurately depicts what

00:27:03.820 we're talking about, but you, you dispute that. Okay, fine. Then let's dig into the real substance

00:27:08.440 of it. I support the law coming in and restricting women from going to a medical professional to kill

00:27:18.620 her baby. That's what we're talking. You want to get past the euphemisms and the slogans? That's what

00:27:22.420 we're talking about. And what you support is women being able to kill their babies in defense of 0.99

00:27:28.940 their own disordered autonomy, right? That's what we're talking about. With marriage, you support

00:27:35.320 excluding mothers or alternately fathers from marriage and denying babies their natural mothers

00:27:40.500 or fathers. Okay, that's what you support along with other acts that we don't even need to get into

00:27:45.920 when it comes to gay marriage. I support not that. I think that babies have a right to their mothers and

00:27:51.820 their fathers. So let's get down, let's get down to the brass tacks. But I think what you will find

00:27:57.080 as the libs promote all their slogans, love beats hate, love is love, love wins, whatever.

00:28:02.720 I think you will find the conservatives are more than happy to put the slogans aside and talk about

00:28:07.300 the real issue. The libs will focus on more and more hyperbolic and preposterous slogans.

00:28:16.680 They will do whatever they can to avoid looking at the real issue. They will only speak in

00:28:22.220 euphemisms. And that very fact tells you everything you need to know about the issues.

00:28:27.780 All politics uses slogans, but that fact tells you everything you need to know about the issues.

00:28:32.820 The conservatives are using slogans and euphemisms to try to convey the truth.

00:28:37.900 The left is using slogans and euphemisms to deny the truth.

00:28:40.980 If that isn't the case, then let's get down to brass tacks. Let's talk about the details.

00:28:46.920 Now, turning from the party of love to the religion of peace, Zoran Mamdani, peace be upon him,

00:28:53.260 the mayor of New York, has defended the city's sanctuary city policies,

00:28:58.420 said this is a reversal from his predecessor, albeit a Democrat, Eric Adams.

00:29:03.260 Eric Adams said illegal immigration is going to destroy New York City.

00:29:07.200 Zoran comes in, he says, no, no, no, we need more illegal aliens.

00:29:09.980 Bring them here, all the rapists from MS-13, all the murderers from Trendy, Aragua.

00:29:14.300 We want them. Come on in. The water's warm in the Kiwanis or whatever, in the East River.

00:29:20.760 So that's not surprising. We knew he was going to run on that. He's a communist. So there's no

00:29:27.200 surprise there. But listen to how he is defending the sanctuary city policies.

00:29:32.400 The story of the hijra reminds us that Prophet Muhammad, S.A.W., was a stranger too, who fled 1.00

00:29:41.600 Mecca and was welcomed in Medina. Surah Al-Nahl, 1642, tells us, as for those who immigrated in the

00:29:48.560 cause of Allah after being persecuted, we will surely bless them with a good home in this world.

00:29:53.520 Or as the Prophet Muhammad, S.A.W., said, Islam began as something strange and will go back to 0.99

00:30:01.340 being strange. So glad tidings to the strangers.

00:30:06.800 Okay. I'm out. I mean, I'm literally out of New York because I was born in New York, raised in New

00:30:13.720 York, and I've since left New York. But what I mean is I'm out of this. I don't want this. I don't want

00:30:18.640 my mayor's quoting Muhammad or the Hadith or the Quran or any of it. I don't want it. It's wrong.

00:30:25.680 And you can tell me that we don't have a religious test for political office in America. Sure. And you

00:30:30.700 can tell me we don't have an official established religion in America. Okay. Kind of. Sure. Whatever.

00:30:36.460 I don't want it. I don't like it. I'm even somewhat open-minded when it comes to Muslims. I've 1.00

00:30:42.240 said on this show many times, I have a reasonable degree of respect for Islam, and I find it in many

00:30:47.600 ways easier to talk to a Muslim than to talk to some decadent lib atheist. Okay. So it's not even, 1.00

00:30:52.340 I mean, my Islamophobia is intensifying when I hear the mayor of New York talk this way, but I'm not

00:30:58.460 even like a knuckle-dragger on the issue. There are nice insights that we in Christendom have taken

00:31:05.300 from our interactions with the Muslim world. Some as warnings, but some as legitimate contributions.

00:31:11.080 I don't want it. I don't want it in New York. This reminds me of a debate that happened about 15

00:31:17.300 years ago. They were going to install a mosque, or at the very least an Islamic center, by the World

00:31:22.940 Trade Center. And this was at the time when the left was very Islamophilic. I guess it still is.

00:31:29.140 And this was at a time when the right was very libertarian. The conservative movement was very

00:31:33.880 libertarian. So they lacked the fortitude and the moral clarity and the guardrails of authority

00:31:40.740 to explain why it was wrong to put a mosque at ground zero. They couldn't quite say why,

00:31:46.580 because they were so libertarian. We all knew it was wrong. And Charles Krauthammer,

00:31:51.780 of blessed memory, Charles Krauthammer wrote a great piece in the Washington Post, I assume,

00:31:55.800 about why. He came out, we were all kind of wondering where these pundits and these thought

00:31:59.640 leaders were going to land. And he said, you can't have a mosque at ground zero.

00:32:04.440 It's just not the place for it. It's just not fitting. It's not fitting for the mayor of New

00:32:11.140 York to be quoting Muhammad as some kind of great authority. It's just not fitting. That's just not

00:32:16.460 what we do there. And especially in the wake of 9-11, it's perverse to do that. It's just wrong.

00:32:23.460 It's not the right place for that. It's not that there's no place to quote Muhammad.

00:32:27.880 Muhammad. There's certainly places around the world, maybe even in America, Muhammad can come up.

00:32:33.980 Not from the mayor of New York. It's just wrong. However, I have to give some credit here. Professor

00:32:39.160 Jacob made a great observation to me. In a way, I'm glad Momdani is quoting Muhammad in this way, 0.99

00:32:45.780 because it allows us to ask ourselves where all of this ends. Momdani comes out, he says,

00:32:53.540 you know, Muhammad was booted out of Mecca, and he was welcomed into Medina. He was welcomed there.

00:33:01.120 So anyway, that's why we need to let a bunch of illegals in. You say, well, hold on. Keep going 1.00

00:33:05.520 with the story. What happened after Muhammad was welcomed into Medina? What happened? Did he just

00:33:11.280 live peacefully, happily ever after? He just kind of got along with the locals, and they all just decided

00:33:17.640 to live their own lives, and you do you. Oh, or was he welcomed into Medina, and then raised an army,

00:33:27.020 conquered not only Medina and Mecca, the entire Arabian Peninsula, and then the entire Levant,

00:33:32.000 and then this is obviously including his followers, and then all of North Africa, and then half of

00:33:38.640 Europe going all the way up almost to Paris until he was booted out and had to remain in Iberia for 800 0.78

00:33:44.560 years. What happened? You understand, we need to let these people in, just like Medina allowed

00:33:53.220 Muhammad in. So then, Trendyiragua and MS-13 and all of these foreigners who don't speak our language 1.00

00:33:59.860 or share our culture or have any desire to assimilate, then they can conquer us just like 0.81

00:34:04.320 Muhammad did. He said, well, hold on. Wait, if that's your example, I think we need to get rid 1.00

00:34:09.680 of all of them immediately as quick as possible. Maybe not the best example if you're trying to

00:34:15.500 convince people that the mass migration will turn out well for them. How did it turn out for Arabia 1.00

00:34:21.520 and the Levant and North Africa and Europe and America increasingly? Okay. Speaking of Christianity, 0.66

00:34:29.960 a great, great turn of events happened just yesterday, and that is that the vice president,

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00:36:03.520 My favorite comment yesterday is from at O-X-X-X-G, who says, I speak Spanish and I didn't

00:36:09.980 understand anything Bad Bunny said. Yeah. I looked up some of the lyrics. Someone sent them to me.

00:36:15.800 It's probably good that we did not speak Spanish. Some of his lyrics are not great. Not great, let's 0.98

00:36:23.820 say. Okay. Vice President J.D. Vance has just made history and very, very important history because it

00:36:33.500 relates to history and it relates to the history of our civilization. J.D. Vance just flew to Armenia

00:36:39.540 to become the highest ranking U.S. official ever to visit the very first Christian country in the

00:36:47.100 world, Armenia, which became Christian in 301, the year of our Lord 301, which is a decade before the

00:36:55.300 Edict of Milan. The Edict of Milan by which Constantine legalized Christianity throughout the 0.95

00:37:01.560 Roman Empire. Here is the Vice President. This is one of the oldest Christian countries in the entire

00:37:07.960 world, a true bedrock of Christian civilization and culture. As a devout Christian myself, I know the

00:37:14.680 meaning of this country to the entire world and to the religion that the prime minister and I share.

00:37:20.720 So to the people of Armenia and the great prime minister, I want to thank you for your partnership.

00:37:25.020 President Trump is committed to this partnership and so am I and we're thrilled to be here to take

00:37:30.040 the next step. God bless you. Really, really important. In the context here, we've talked

00:37:33.980 about it on the show a little bit, but it hasn't gotten a lot of play in American media. There has

00:37:38.080 been a decades-long war between Armenia, which is the very first Christian country, Christian before

00:37:45.440 Constantine made it legal in Rome, and Azerbaijan, which is a Muslim country. And there's been this war 0.64

00:37:53.040 over a debated region called Artsakh, which is Armenian, which unfortunately the Azerbaijanis were able to

00:37:59.480 steal from them. And they're destroying every last vestige of Christianity there, which goes back 0.95

00:38:04.780 to antiquity. And it's a little complicated because Armenia was a Soviet satellite state during the Cold

00:38:13.140 War. So the U.S. didn't really have relations with Armenia. And Armenia has been squeezed by Russia and

00:38:18.000 Iran. And the United States is NATO allies with Turkey since the 1950s. The United States is allies with

00:38:23.700 the state of Israel. Israel hates Iran. So Israel cozies up to Turkey and Azerbaijan, which means 0.68

00:38:31.540 that in this war, indirectly, American money was being used to wage this war from a Muslim country

00:38:38.400 against the very first Christian country. And it's just a whole mess until President Trump comes in.

00:38:44.100 And President Trump insists upon a peace. Now, unfortunately, the peace granted the political

00:38:49.540 realities, which is that Azerbaijan really did rest this territory from Armenia. And so it's very

00:38:53.560 unfortunate the way it ended. But it is happy, at least, that there is some peace here. And the

00:38:59.300 vice president, the very fact that someone as high-ranking as J.D. Vance, who is, by the way,

00:39:05.880 given the circumstances of the second term, is the presumptive heir to MAGA, the presumptive

00:39:10.280 Republican nominee in 2028, and by my calculations, very likely the next president, that he would go there

00:39:16.520 and say, you know what, it is important that we stand with Armenia. And there are all sorts of

00:39:21.100 realpolitik aspects to this move, ways that can kind of weaken Russia, weaken Iran, other American

00:39:27.740 adversaries. But there's a civilizational aspect here. And this is the point I've been talking about

00:39:32.360 since I've been bringing up the Armenian issue. We ignore the Armenians. We focus on all sorts of 1.00

00:39:37.200 persecution and religious groups, genocides, ethnic cleansings, and somehow we forget the Armenians,

00:39:43.300 who were subjected to a genocide in the early 20th century by the Turks.

00:39:49.120 And even today are seriously being persecuted, and being persecuted as the first Christian country.

00:39:54.920 And we have a cultural relation to them. Okay? St. Paul is like writing to these people. Okay?

00:40:02.540 We have a cultural relation to them because we are a Christian country. We're one nation under God.

00:40:07.440 We're founded on the Christian morality, as John Adams tells us. The founding fathers are writing

00:40:13.840 constantly about providence. John Jay writes in the Federalist Papers about our shared religion,

00:40:18.140 Christianity. So we have a relation to them. And it's important, if America's going to have any

00:40:22.800 global leadership at all, surely we have to do our very best to bring some peace to and defend

00:40:29.360 the very first Christian country. I talk a lot about one of the arguments for supporting the state of

00:40:34.720 Israel is the protection of the holy sites. That's one, that's a very compelling argument to a lot

00:40:38.520 of people. Well, you could make similar arguments about Armenia. Okay? And especially in the wake of

00:40:43.340 the Cold War, now that the Cold War is over, now that the Soviets are out of Armenia, though they

00:40:46.660 still want it, you know, we have an opportunity for global leadership to expand our influence and

00:40:51.240 to protect Christians. This is a great way to do that. Very, very important. I'm really,

00:40:58.620 really pleased to see this from the Vice President, from the White House, from the whole Trump

00:41:02.180 administration for our national security strategy. I think it's just terrific. Very important to call

00:41:06.400 attention to it. Okay. Speaking of defending civilization, a little more of a depressing

00:41:10.860 story here, closer to home. A Louisville judge is catching some heat, going viral, for reducing

00:41:18.100 the sentence of an unrepentant rapist. Judge Davis thought the jury's recommendation was too long.

00:41:27.640 She feels he hasn't mentally matured yet, and never had a real shot at getting any help early

00:41:33.980 in life. But if you were to come in here, and instead of being hurt and angry, which is what

00:41:40.560 this court hears, right, as a 20-year-old African-American male that has been, you know, experienced this

00:41:49.240 society, et cetera, and you would show that, yes, okay, this is the situation. This is who I am.

00:41:55.840 I don't want to be this person anymore. I don't want to be in jail forever forever.

00:42:00.720 Thompson repeatedly stated he did not care, not about his sentence, the victim, or her family.

00:42:07.240 But Judge Davis emphasized she's the one that holds the pen, and regardless of what the media may think,

00:42:13.060 she applies the law. To her, 65 years was an extremely long time. As she puts it, it's his whole

00:42:20.540 life. One she doesn't believe should be spent entirely behind bars.

00:42:25.500 This court does not believe that Mr. Thompson, if giving the resources that he can get while

00:42:31.400 incarcerated, is beyond being rehabilitated.

00:42:36.820 What? You hear these cases all the time. Some judge lets these career criminals, these people

00:42:43.020 who rape and murder and, you know, have a rap sheet a mile long, they keep letting them off the

00:42:47.020 hook. And what do they do? They go out and they rape and murder some more, and then they wind up

00:42:49.640 right back in front of the judge. You hear these cases all day long. But this case seems so egregious

00:42:54.980 because she brings this guy in. What did he do? Let's just be clear about what he did.

00:42:59.640 He kidnapped a woman a couple years ago, two, three years ago, no, about two years ago.

00:43:05.340 Kidnapped a woman in her own vehicle, forced her to perform certain acts on him in a school parking

00:43:13.980 lot, drove her to an ATM, robbed her, drove back to the school parking lot, performed more

00:43:22.400 deviant, disgusting acts on her at gunpoint, and then was arrested. And they cut this out of the

00:43:31.740 media report. They go in and the judge says, before we even get appearances, Mr. Thompson,

00:43:37.200 I'm going to need you to be respectful. He responded, I am doing nothing. Eat my D-I-C-K.

00:43:43.640 Then moments later, the judge says, it's fine. Okay, it's fine. He responds, if I could spit on you,

00:43:50.760 I would. And she says, at the end of the day, I'm the one with the pen. And the rapist says,

00:43:58.120 the rapist robber says, I don't care. This is such a perverse exchange. She goes, hey,

00:44:05.960 whether you like it or not, I'm going to let you off the hook for raping that woman twice at gunpoint 0.99

00:44:10.480 and robbing her. And he says, basically, I want to rape you too. I want to assault you. I'm not

00:44:16.480 sorry at all. And she goes, well, too bad. Too bad, Buster. Okay, because I'm the one with the pen,

00:44:23.900 and I'm letting you off the hook. Because you're a black man in America, and you've experienced

00:44:28.500 this society, whatever that means. And so I'm letting you off the hook for multiple rapes.

00:44:34.700 You shouldn't. What does he say? He goes, I don't have sympathy for nobody. I don't have sympathy

00:44:38.960 for you, the victim, the victim's family. I don't care. Boo-hoo. Direct quote. She goes, yeah. Okay.

00:44:45.960 Well, you can say you're unrepentant. You could even come out and say you wanted to rape us all

00:44:50.700 tomorrow and rob us and kill us. I'm letting you off the hook. So take that. This is so,

00:44:58.080 so pathetic. And why? Because he fell through the cracks, the judge says. Unfortunately,

00:45:04.320 he fell through the cracks and ended up in this court as an 18 or 19-year-old.

00:45:09.160 This court does not believe that Mr. Thompson, if given the resources that he can get well

00:45:12.260 incarcerated, it's beyond being rehabilitated. Okay. Yeah, I don't think anyone's beyond redemption.

00:45:18.600 That's true. But first of all, just statistically, listening to this guy,

00:45:24.940 I wouldn't put my money on him becoming the, you know, president of the HOA when he gets out of

00:45:31.780 prison. Wouldn't bet money on that. But second of all, he can be rehabilitated and still serve his

00:45:39.960 sentence, which would also, by the way, protect society from the people that he's very likely to 0.72

00:45:45.900 rape and rob at gunpoint the second he gets out. This is where we're at. This is, when people talk

00:45:53.880 about the Soros DAs, you know, the Soros DAs and these liberal judges, you know, it kind of sounds

00:45:59.700 like your boomer uncle, you know, just idly complaining about the political order while he's 0.51

00:46:05.520 grilling or something. You say, okay, Uncle Bob. Yeah. All right. Whatever. No, no, no. What we're

00:46:10.720 talking about is rapists telling the judges to their face, I have no repentance. I would harm all of you

00:46:19.940 right now if I could. I hate you and I am villainous and I am a threat to everybody.

00:46:25.580 And the judge saying, yeah, la, la, la, la, la. I can't hear you. You're going to be on the street

00:46:32.700 again soon. La, la, la, la. That's what we're talking about here. Okay. That is such an escalation

00:46:40.740 of lawlessness. That is so irresponsible. That is such, in effect, anarcho-tyranny.

00:46:49.440 It requires a political solution from Republicans that's a little more severe than just,

00:46:55.200 oh, golly shucks, this George Soros, you know, isn't he awful? Oh boy, these liberal judges,

00:47:00.980 we got to do something. No, no, no. We need, I've said it before, I'll say it again. People talk about

00:47:07.260 the over-incarceration problem in America. We have a severe under-incarceration problem and we

00:47:11.960 have a serious problem of lawlessness. And if you don't enforce the law, if you can't protect people

00:47:17.740 from rapist robbers on the streets, if your judiciary is explicitly, specifically encouraging

00:47:25.920 and promoting rapists and robbers on the streets, you can't have any other of the goods or the

00:47:33.600 accoutrement of civilization. Very serious. I hope people see this for the reality that it is.

00:47:41.080 This is whatever you thought this was. It's a lot worse. Okay. On that chipper note,

00:47:46.280 it's Tee Hee Hee Tuesday. The rest of the show continues now. You do not want to miss it. Become

00:47:49.880 a member. Use code NOLS Canada WL. You have to check out for two months free on all annual plans.

00:48:03.600 What was it like, Merlin, to be alone with God? Is that who you think I was alone with?

00:48:21.260 Meridyn, I knew your father. I am yet convinced that he was not of this world.

00:48:26.100 All men know of the great Taliesin. You are my father, that the gods should war for my soul.

00:48:36.540 Princess Garrus, savior of our people.

00:48:42.060 I know what the bull god offered you. I was offered the same.

00:48:46.620 And?

00:48:48.080 There is a new power at work in the world. I've seen it.

00:48:52.220 A god who sacrifices what he loves for us.

00:48:54.420 We are each given only one life, Singer.

00:48:57.720 No.

00:48:58.860 And we're given another.

00:49:02.700 I learnt of Yezu the Christ. 0.54

00:49:05.000 And I have become his follower.

00:49:06.880 He's waiting on a miracle.

00:49:08.400 And I think you can give him one.

00:49:10.440 Trust in Yezu. He is the only hope for men like us. 0.99

00:49:14.720 Faith to Britain never rests in the hands of the great light.

00:49:17.720 Great light? Great darkness?

00:49:20.280 Such things mattered to me then.

00:49:21.760 What matters to you now, mistress of lies?

00:49:26.440 You, nephew.

00:49:31.080 The sword of a high king.

00:49:35.360 How many lives must be lost before you accept the power you were born to wield?

00:49:42.900 So clinging to the promises of a god who has abandoned you.

00:49:46.100 I cannot take up that sword again.

00:49:49.180 You know what you must do.

00:49:52.680 Great light, forgive me.

00:49:53.860 The time has come

00:50:02.580 to be reborn.

00:50:04.520 From the moment I met you at that restaurant, it was love at first sight.

00:50:13.580 But now, you're sour to me.

00:50:15.580 You've lost your touch.

00:50:17.080 But I don't want to lose you.

00:50:18.680 Don't let your steak leave you.

00:50:20.260 Ziploc brand freezer bags help prevent freezer burn.

00:50:22.580 For the love of food.

00:50:23.480 Ziploc.

00:50:24.040 SC Johnson.

00:50:24.840 Thank you for listening.

00:50:31.900 We'll see you in the chat.

00:50:46.440 AndURSE.

00:50:46.580 We'll see you in the chat.

00:50:48.140 See you in the chat.

00:50:50.400 Bye bye.

00:50:51.380 Bye bye.

00:50:51.520 Bye bye.

00:50:52.420 Bye bye.

The Michael Knowles Show - February 10, 2026

Ep. 1909 - The Supposedly ＂Racist＂ Trump Post Explained in 5 Minutes

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