The Michael Knowles Show - March 23, 2026


Ep. 1937 - Bizzare Stunt: Libs Fly To Cuba To Cry About Trump

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Hassan Piker and Code Pink fly to Cuba to gawk at poor people and assail America in the most hypocritical left-wing stunt of the year so far. Then Lindsey Graham calls on American servicemen to storm Karg Island like it s Iwo Jima in the latest escalation of the Iran war.

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00:03:18.560 Why is there a humanitarian trip to Cuba? Cubans have been suffering for 60 years because of the
00:03:23.580 communist revolution. However, after President Trump cut off the Maduro regime in Venezuela,
00:03:31.120 cut off the support that the Cuban communist regime has been getting, after Russia basically
00:03:38.700 turns its back on Cuba. Russia has other problems right now. After President Trump and Marco Rubio
00:03:45.280 start talking about the United States reacquiring Cuba, don't forget, Cuba has been in the possession
00:03:50.540 of the United States three times in the last 100, 20, 130 years. After all of that, these radical
00:03:57.000 leftists want to go down, not to buoy the spirits of the Cuban people, but to prop up the Cuban
00:04:03.200 regime against the United States. So you get this group, Code Pink, best known for its anti-war
00:04:09.140 activism. They fill up an airplane and they fly down to Cuba. Here is one of the leaders of Code
00:04:14.920 Pink explaining. So we're on the plane now getting ready to go to Havana, Cuba. We have
00:04:21.340 this entire charter flight full of people and as important, full of medicines. And we're so
00:04:29.440 excited to be with the Cuban people and show our support, show our solidarity, and to say that this
00:04:35.940 cruel, inhumane, barbaric policy of the Trump administration has to go.
00:04:43.000 It has to go. So specifically what they're flying down there for is to get oil to Cuba.
00:04:49.720 And this is very funny because left-wing activists have spent the last 25 years
00:04:53.540 telling us that we need to stop burning oil. It's very important that we stop burning oil.
00:04:58.320 We, Americans.
00:05:00.400 Cuban communists should definitely burn oil. 0.84
00:05:02.940 So they went from stop burning oil, global warming is going to kill us all,
00:05:07.480 we need to end fossil fuels, to get as much oil to Cuba as possible
00:05:11.520 to prop up the communist regime.
00:05:13.340 That's not even the silliest part of that video.
00:05:16.060 I don't know if you were paying attention while watching,
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00:05:19.800 That lady is sitting in a nice, big, comfy, first-class seat. 0.99
00:05:24.440 Says, oh, yes, we have a private flight.
00:05:26.580 We got this nice charter sitting here in my nice, cushy, cozy, first-class seat.
00:05:31.440 And we're going to go down to Cuba for the people.
00:05:36.100 So worth noting here, people are very confused.
00:05:40.500 They say, I thought Code Pink was the anti-war group.
00:05:42.720 Yeah, it was.
00:05:43.820 Now it's the more oil for Cuba group.
00:05:46.040 Okay, yeah, I thought Code Pink was focused on Middle Eastern conflicts.
00:05:49.380 Now it's focused on the Caribbean.
00:05:50.820 Yeah, right.
00:05:51.860 the apparent objectives of these left-wing organizations do not really matter.
00:05:59.500 The point is always the same. The point is just to weaken the United States,
00:06:03.540 to weaken the West, to weaken our civilization and its allies vis-a-vis our enemies. That's 0.66
00:06:12.300 what it's about. Greta Thunberg used to campaign against oil. Then she campaigned for Gaza,
00:06:18.340 which has nothing to do with the environment. And now she's campaigning for oil. That doesn't 0.80
00:06:23.640 make sense. It does make sense if you realize that the nominal issue that they talk about is
00:06:29.900 not really the issue they care about. The real issue is just weakening our civilization. So
00:06:33.740 Code Pink is a Chinese op. Code Pink is not a grassroots organization. It's not even all that
00:06:41.200 ideological. They'll switch their ideology. They'll switch their focus depending on the needs
00:06:45.380 of their backers, which is China. Code Pink gets 25% of its funding from a guy named Neville Roy
00:06:50.440 Singham. He is an associate of the Chinese Communist Party, allegedly. And who knows
00:06:56.360 how much more funding they're getting from China. And it makes sense. They're going to buoy a regime
00:07:00.200 that is more closely allied to China, certainly, than the United States, and to weaken the United
00:07:04.400 States, which is China's chief geopolitical adversary. So Code Pink goes on, and they take 0.76
00:07:08.400 their marching orders from Beijing. And they're happy to do so because they get their nice,
00:07:12.920 cushy first-class seats, and they're going to go visit a nice Caribbean island. They're not the
00:07:17.060 only group of leftists that went down. Hassan Piker, who's a left-wing streamer who's frequently
00:07:23.220 called for political violence against conservatives in America, he also went down. And here is Hassan
00:07:28.740 bragging about the glories and the charity of this trip.
00:07:37.000 Kneecaps going to Cuba? Yeah, I know. I mean, I know. I've been working hard,
00:07:41.960 boys you expect the cnn person to go with you cnn is going with us already yeah we have a boy
00:07:48.420 boys going i did a thing is going we have a major dude i uh more more people will be revealed in the
00:07:55.940 upcoming days i've been working on this for i've been no it's not doni unfortunately i forgot to
00:08:01.200 literally invite doni it was such a mistake on my part is another cnn reporter that'll be uh on
00:08:06.280 board um but i've been working for the last two months on on like organizing this this uh major
00:08:13.660 this uh major flotilla trip like shouts out to progressive international they've been doing all
00:08:19.100 the logistics obviously but i've been trying to get as many people as possible to come the goal
00:08:24.080 there is to just like show americans like what the you know regular experiences for regular
00:08:31.220 cuban folks actually look like on the island because there's obviously uh somewhat of a
00:08:36.300 communication blackout okay first thought how is this guy one of the most popular broadcasters on
00:08:43.640 the young left this guy cannot complete an english sentence in a way that is grammatically
00:08:49.040 appropriate the way he speaks it's unbearable and i don't i don't obviously watch a lot of his
00:08:54.660 content. We do progressive. I'm not usually that crude about it, but how does this guy have an
00:09:04.040 audience? I don't know. But in as much as I could interpret some meaning from that garble of sound,
00:09:10.000 that cacophony that entered into his microphone, he was working with very elite liberals,
00:09:17.440 with very elite leftists to go down and help prop up the Cuban government. So he says,
00:09:23.340 We've got CNN coming with us. We're speaking to lots of other new left broadcasters,
00:09:29.420 and we're going to go show people what it's really like in Cuba because there's a communication
00:09:33.980 blackout. Why is there a communication blackout in Cuba? Might it have something to do with the
00:09:41.840 fact that the Cuban government is extremely secretive because it's a totalitarian state?
00:09:46.660 Might that have something to do with it? Might the communication blackout have something to do
00:09:50.140 with the electrical blackouts that we have across the island? Might it have something to do
00:09:54.480 with the fact that this is an unaccountable government that has been immiserating its
00:10:00.580 people for decades? He says, so we're going to go down and tell the truth. You're going to go down
00:10:05.580 and show the truth about what it's like for ordinary Cubans in this trip that is obviously
00:10:10.640 organized with the Cuban government. You don't get to go in with a major film crew with charter
00:10:17.740 flights. You don't get to go into Cuba unless you have the permission of the government. And when
00:10:21.340 you have the permission of the government, guess what? You're probably not seeing what it's like
00:10:24.880 for the ordinary Cuban. This is a personal issue for me because I have been to Cuba and I have
00:10:29.940 spoken to ordinary Cubans and I have not collaborated with the Cuban government as
00:10:34.240 Hassan Piker did. So in any case, he starts broadcasting and it's too good to be true.
00:10:40.040 You couldn't have scripted it because as he's broadcasting from Cuba to show how great the
00:10:43.600 Island is, how wonderful everything is there for the Cuban people. He can't even get enough
00:10:48.680 internet. The government is backing this guy in this little stunt, and they can't even muster
00:10:56.460 enough internet to keep a live stream going. Just looks like TV static from the late 90s.
00:11:11.280 there's just nothing's coming out there. Okay. Well, where was that guy broadcasting from? Was
00:11:16.000 he broadcasting from the middle of the street? I don't know. Was it clearly he doesn't have
00:11:20.260 Starlink? No, no. Hassan Piker was broadcasting from a five-star hotel. Cubans can't get electricity, 1.00
00:11:28.980 can't get fuel, can't get food, can't do much of anything. Certainly don't have many political
00:11:34.880 rights. Hassan Piker flies down in his $1,300 Cartier sunglasses on his nice flight to Cuba
00:11:44.240 and stays at a five-star hotel. But guys, you don't understand. It's not hypocritical for Hassan
00:11:51.260 to go fly down to Cuba to make poverty porn on his sunny Caribbean vacation and stay at a five-star
00:11:57.300 hotel. Here's why. I was saying, tourism is the lifeline for the Cuban economy as it stands
00:12:03.400 currently the government has very limited resources and the american government makes it
00:12:10.440 illegal for americans to stay wherever they want when they're in cuba they have to stay in what
00:12:16.880 they've declared as five-star hotels right i'm telling you all this because like even the five-star
00:12:22.720 hotels are not like you know they're it's not like it's what the american government has declared
00:12:30.580 five-star hotels but regardless in comparison to the situation on the island it's it's a like it's
00:12:39.500 a prosperity pretty much and experiencing that dichotomy is like definitely me up definitely
00:12:47.040 like if i were to ever if i i mean not ever but like i i hope to come back and when i do i'll
00:12:53.860 probably not abide by the american restrictions yeah yeah as he sips his nice tiny little espresso
00:13:03.020 just guys you don't understand you don't understand am i dripping in my cartier glasses
00:13:07.640 sipping my little espresso you don't understand i had to stay in the five-star hotel the american 0.52
00:13:11.320 government made me so the thing about this is hassan piker has all sorts of ridiculous
00:13:16.680 interpretations of politics based on real facts on the ground that just become jumbled in that 0.98
00:13:21.540 soupy pudding mess of a head that he has. In this case, though, he's just wrong.
00:13:28.440 I don't know if he's ignorant. I don't know if he's lying to you. But what he's saying is not 0.50
00:13:33.400 true. It's the opposite of true. Hassan Piker says that the US government mandates that Americans
00:13:39.800 traveling to Cuba stay at one of the five-star hotels. Actually, the American government prohibits
00:13:45.540 it. What Hassan Piker is doing is illegal, and I hope he's prosecuted by the United States.
00:13:50.680 What the US government actually says, not only can you look up the law, but I have
00:13:55.440 personally visited Cuba myself, and I know this from personal experience.
00:13:58.900 What the government actually says is the one place you're not allowed to stay is at the
00:14:03.880 five-star hotels because the five-star hotels are owned by the government of Cuba, and the
00:14:08.720 United States is legally prohibited from supporting the Cuban regime.
00:14:13.560 That's the reality.
00:14:14.780 It says, guys, look, I wish I didn't have to stay at the five-star hotel, but I just
00:14:18.100 have to.
00:14:18.420 The government made me.
00:14:19.040 No, no, no. 0.98
00:14:19.340 You just, maybe you're illiterate. Maybe you're just blithely ignorant. I don't know. 1.00
00:14:23.640 But it's actually the opposite. And I hope, I hope you're prosecuted for it.
00:14:28.260 But the reality is you can go right now, if you go to Cuba for humanitarian purposes,
00:14:34.240 for journalistic purposes, for however you can get to Cuba, it's not really that hard.
00:14:38.960 You can go to Airbnb right now and you can rent a casa particular. That's what they call it.
00:14:44.840 And it's where you're renting an apartment or a room from a Cuban family.
00:14:48.580 It's much, much cheaper than the five-star hotels.
00:14:50.820 It's much better because you're actually supporting the real Cubans there. 0.62
00:14:54.200 Not only does staying at the five-star hotels not support real Cubans, 1.00
00:15:00.680 real Cubans aren't allowed to go in.
00:15:02.700 When I was in Cuba, I was in Cuba now almost 10 years ago.
00:15:06.280 I was hanging, I went down with Jeremy, and this was early days of DW.
00:15:09.740 I went down with Jeremy and our buddy Jonathan.
00:15:11.920 So we go, I'm running a mile a minute.
00:15:13.960 I'm smoking cigars.
00:15:15.000 I want to see everything.
00:15:15.820 I'm talking to people, even though my Spanish is pretty weak, to say the least.
00:15:19.260 But at one point, I'm talking to one of the Cubans that I had befriended.
00:15:24.940 And Jeremy went to take a nap.
00:15:26.300 I said, oh, I want to go into, let's go get a drink or something.
00:15:28.620 I want to hear about Cuba.
00:15:29.740 So we walk into the hotel, and this guy starts tussling with the guard at the hotel.
00:15:35.960 And I said, oh, what was that about?
00:15:37.040 He said, oh, well, the hotels, they're not for Cubans. 1.00
00:15:40.820 Cubans aren't allowed to go into the hotels.
00:15:42.680 Only tourists are allowed to go into the hotels.
00:15:45.020 So why is that?
00:15:45.820 He's like, well, the hotels, you know, they have swimming pools.
00:15:48.800 I said, what do you mean they have swimming pools?
00:15:49.780 He goes, yeah, Cubans, we're not really allowed to go into the swimming pools.
00:15:53.200 We're not really allowed to go into the nice restaurants.
00:15:54.720 We're not, that's just a way for the regime to make money from the tourists.
00:15:59.520 I said, where are you allowed to go?
00:16:01.080 He said, the beach.
00:16:02.880 The beach is free.
00:16:03.980 We're allowed to go there.
00:16:04.960 But no, there's, this stuff's not for us.
00:16:09.400 And this whole conversation started because I said, you know, man, I'll tell you, Havana's
00:16:12.760 pretty fun.
00:16:14.020 And he says to me in Spanish, he says, yeah, it's fun for some people.
00:16:19.280 It's fun for people like Hassan Piker, who go down, they stay at the hotels
00:16:24.360 that are not for the Cubans. They're only for the tourists. He talks in another clip about how it's
00:16:32.440 so nice how the Cubans don't have electricity because they don't care. They've got that island 0.99
00:16:38.220 attitude is what he called it. They've got that. I heard this when I was in Cuba from the white 1.00
00:16:42.880 liberals who went down there who can't bring themselves to acknowledge that the Cuban people
00:16:47.060 are truly oppressed. And so they have to make up these excuses. Oh, the Cubans, they're secretly 1.00
00:16:52.180 rich. Oh, they love not having air conditioning. It's really nice on those 120 degree days,
00:16:56.620 not 120 degrees, but it feels like 120 degrees down there, 100 degree days. It's really nice
00:17:01.160 not having air conditioning. No, it's really cool that they're not allowed to go use any of
00:17:05.440 the nice facilities because the government stops them. It's really nice. I'm driving around Cuba.
00:17:09.120 we got stopped by these cops who were shaking down the taxi driver multiple times because he
00:17:16.760 saw three gringos in the car that looked like money bags. And I don't even feel so bad for 1.00
00:17:20.100 the crooked cops. The crooked cops are wearing uniforms that are 30 years old because the whole
00:17:24.840 place is just this fetid cesspool of poverty and corruption. The average income in Cuba is $180 to
00:17:30.400 $200 per year, per year, not per month. That would be bad enough. $180 to $200 per year.
00:17:38.860 That is even compared to countries in the region.
00:17:42.960 I'm not comparing that to the United States or to China.
00:17:45.160 Well, it depends on where in China or to Europe or something like that.
00:17:49.600 Compared to other Latin American countries, Caribbean countries, that is a fraction of an order of magnitude compared to those other countries in the region. 0.93
00:18:02.780 and the cherry on top of this absolutely corrupt hypocritical sunday
00:18:09.160 there was a blackout throughout havana the only place that had electricity as far as i could see 0.86
00:18:16.660 was the hotel that code pink and hassan piker were staying at the cuban government cuts off the power
00:18:23.320 to the hospitals to the local residents to and they they just because there's a generator at
00:18:30.160 that hotel. The only place that you can see electricity is for Hassan Piker. He says,
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00:20:05.400 Folks, the Mayflower team in the office can't help themselves.
00:20:09.280 Hold on, wait, hold on.
00:20:11.180 I'm like Trump right now hearing about RBG.
00:20:13.700 What is this?
00:20:14.220 What are you telling me?
00:20:17.080 Wow.
00:20:19.420 That's crazy.
00:20:21.160 So I've had a number of birthday parties.
00:20:24.020 I was traveling, and there was one in DC, and there was one here, and then another one.
00:20:27.980 The Mayflower team says, folks, they're going to keep the party rolling 10% off still with code
00:20:31.960 B-Day. It's extended 72 hours. That's it. All right. If I'm allowed to get three birthday parties,
00:20:37.060 you're allowed to get three extra days. Fair enough. So you have to be 21 years old or older 0.96
00:20:42.940 to order. Some exclusions apply. Terms and conditions. Okay. Right before I move on from
00:20:48.540 Cuba, Taylor Lorenz, she's this left-wing journalist. She says, if you're traveling
00:20:53.220 to Cuba or any impoverished community, or just generally, you should be wearing a mask. We're
00:20:56.780 six years into an ongoing pandemic and airborne disease is real. No matter how many leftists
00:21:00.840 want to scream and stomp their feet and shout RFK talking points. Oh boy. Let this be the
00:21:08.000 campaign ad for the midterms. Taylor Lorenz, I guess, always wears a mask years after Cuba's 0.99
00:21:14.140 done, or sorry, after COVID's done, she wears the mask. And so you have Greta Thunberg,
00:21:21.760 now protesting for fossil fuels wants more fossil fuels you get that flipped up flop there you get
00:21:29.600 hassan piker you get code pink flying down first class to cuba stealing electricity from the cuban
00:21:35.000 people talking about how happy they are not to have electricity staying at the regime supported
00:21:41.860 hotels where the cuban people get none of the money whatsoever in violation of u.s law and then
00:21:48.760 you get Taylor Lorenz saying, no, no, no, guys, the real problem with what you're doing is you're
00:21:51.960 not even wearing a mask. It's like every left-wing neurosis, every left-wing vice in neurosis is
00:21:57.880 just being thrown into a blender in this Cuba smoothie. I love it. I have something very nice
00:22:03.340 to say about a leftist though. AOC has just said something very, very sensible. She posted it over
00:22:10.560 the weekend. She says, this is sad. I know as a politician, these companies are going to spend
00:22:16.300 a billion dollars against me for saying it, but with a little shrug emoji, what are these companies?
00:22:22.060 She says, pervasive gambling is not good for society. It turns life into a casino,
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00:22:31.840 She's talking about these companies like Polymarket or whatever, all these companies
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00:22:44.400 the conservatives from the libertarians. This is one of those. And the conservatives
00:22:49.480 are going to agree with some leftists like AOC, though AOC is really out of step with her party
00:22:56.400 on this. And the libertarians are going to agree with the left-wing liberals here.
00:23:03.680 But hear it now. I know it's hard to hear. Let all who have ears to hear, let them hear.
00:23:09.160 AOC is right. This is sad. This is sad that AOC is right, but she's right.
00:23:12.300 pervasive gambling is bad. We should not be betting on everything. The rise of sports betting,
00:23:20.180 online betting, it's not good. Turning everything into an asset to be gambled upon, it's not good.
00:23:29.660 And I know the reaction from the libertarians are going to say, well, who are you to come in here
00:23:33.920 with your nanny state religious dogmatism and say that I'm not allowed to gamble? That's downright
00:23:39.640 un-American. Hear me, hear me. Gambling has been broadly illegal for all of American history,
00:23:47.740 all of it. It's still illegal in most ways today. In most ways, in most circumstances,
00:23:53.020 gambling is still illegal in the United States today. But basically all gambling was basically
00:23:59.160 always illegal, with some exceptions. Even the lotto, the lottery, the state lotteries only
00:24:05.800 came around in the 1960s. And they only really started to spread a little bit in the 70s and
00:24:10.900 then the 80s and 90s. That's when the lottery came around. Not the 1780s, not the 1880s,
00:24:17.180 the 1980s. Before that, before the state lotteries, you know who used to run those games?
00:24:23.440 They did exist in the shadows and the corners of society. You know who used to run them?
00:24:27.300 The mob. That's who. In New York, I can show you the spot. It's now a very nice store where they
00:24:33.020 used to run the numbers game in New York in the Bronx. And then the state came in and they said,
00:24:37.300 oh, the mafia has a pretty good racket going here. You know what? We're going to take it over. 0.82
00:24:42.140 Even then though, I think it was Mississippi. I think it was Mississippi or Missouri. I think
00:24:46.920 it's Mississippi though. Only got its state lottery in 2019. I remember there was a very
00:24:52.040 active debate over a state lottery in Alabama just six, seven years ago. The norm in America
00:24:59.260 is to outlaw gambling. That's why you have Indian casinos, because the Indians have 1.00
00:25:03.820 territory that they can do what they want on. So they sell you cheap cigarettes and gambling. 0.78
00:25:07.200 But it's not good. And the real libertarians, totally disconnected from the moral order,
00:25:13.840 they're going to tell you, what are you talking about? People can do whatever
00:25:15.840 economic transactions they want. They'll run up GDP. It'll increase economic activity.
00:25:22.840 Yeah, sure. I guess this is why certain measures of economic activity are deceptive.
00:25:28.640 because if you legalize prostitution, sure, I guess you are increasing the economic activity
00:25:34.820 in an area. You're increasing commerce, but you're not actually helping the country.
00:25:40.180 With gambling, you're not really helping the country. AOC is right here. Look,
00:25:46.160 we're conservatives. We want to be prudent. We're not radical ideologues. In many ways,
00:25:52.000 my understanding of conservatism is that it is actually the anti-ideology. It's opposed
00:25:57.880 to these abstract bullet points that you put on the back of a napkin.
00:26:02.640 It's much more about prudence.
00:26:03.980 It's much more practical.
00:26:05.360 It's much more about lived traditions in real political communities.
00:26:09.060 So I'm not saying we need to outlaw gambling entirely.
00:26:12.180 But likewise, I'm not going to make some crazy abstract statement
00:26:14.560 to say that we have some natural right given to us by God
00:26:17.440 to play craps or whatever, to gamble on some sports game.
00:26:23.600 The via media here is the virtuous idea,
00:26:26.880 which is maybe some moderate forms of betting are to be permitted, but the whole thing shouldn't
00:26:33.060 be encouraged. AOC, totally right. That's probably the first time I've ever said that.
00:26:37.920 But there's some real common ground here, and I think conservatives should get with the smart
00:26:42.200 libs on this issue and rein it in. Gambling, totally pervasive, unregulated gambling is very,
00:26:48.000 very bad. Okay. Speaking of Washington, D.C., great news coming out of the White House.
00:26:52.780 president trump teased this some months ago now it's happened president trump has installed
00:27:01.640 a statue of christopher columbus at the white house this is on the front side of the eisenhower
00:27:09.280 executive office building that's where the executive office of the president works on
00:27:12.980 white house grounds on the other side of the eeob is a statue to commemorate the battle of bunker
00:27:18.900 Hill. One of the earliest battles of the Revolutionary War, a battle that my ancestor
00:27:24.040 Simon Knowles actually fought at. Let's just look at the Columbus statue for a second. Why?
00:27:31.180 Why Columbus? I'll tell you why. Because a lot of people haven't seen the reporting on this story.
00:27:36.340 You can see it on a little plaque at the bottom of it. This is not exactly an original statue.
00:27:41.260 This is a statue that was originally erected and dedicated in 1984 by President Reagan.
00:27:48.480 Then stood, not at the White House, but it stood for decades until it was destroyed in 2020 during
00:27:55.900 that wave of statue toppling where the left was trying to take down all of the supposedly evil
00:28:00.220 men in our country's history. And President Trump made a great point back then. He said,
00:28:07.200 you know, they're tearing down statues of Columbus. They're tearing down statues of
00:28:12.300 the people they say were slavers, confederates, all the bad people. He said, but where is this
00:28:18.580 going to end? It's going to end with them tearing down statues of George Washington. That's what
00:28:22.000 it's really about. Because many, if not most of the criticisms you can make of all these other
00:28:29.280 men, you could make of men like Washington and Jefferson too. He said, we're not going to do
00:28:33.640 that. We're not going to tear down our history. So they tore down the statue of Columbus
00:28:37.400 in 2020. Trump has it rebuilt and installed at the White House. I love this. It even says on
00:28:45.420 the plaque, it says, destroyed 2020, resurrected 2025. And now it's actually standing at the
00:28:51.800 White House in 2026. The chief complaint you're going to hear from the reasonable libs,
00:28:59.440 you know the ones who are the kind of moderate they're not they're not going out there with
00:29:03.200 antifa but they're just the reasonable libs they're the debunkers they're the really fashionable
00:29:07.960 types they're gonna say it's ridiculous that columbus of all people that columbus has a
00:29:13.960 statue at the white house don't you know columbus never even stepped foot in north america he was
00:29:20.680 looking for a pathway to the indies he got lost he was using dead reckoning he was using the stars
00:29:27.220 and he navigated the Atlantic Ocean and he opened the new world for the old world.
00:29:32.060 But, you know, this guy, he was kind of bumbling, got lost.
00:29:35.440 He was always terrible.
00:29:37.500 It led to the encomienda system, all of these terrible systems of colonialism in Latin America,
00:29:44.060 which is kind of true, but he actually fought against that and was affluent politically, whatever.
00:29:48.160 And, you know, the only reason we even celebrate Christopher Columbus
00:29:51.620 is because there was a lynching in the late 19th century.
00:29:55.380 and the Italian Americans wanted to feel good about themselves. So they instituted Columbus Day
00:30:01.860 and Franklin Roosevelt some decades later made it a national celebration. That's what they'll
00:30:07.160 tell you. The really sophisticated libs will tell you that. It's all kind of fake. Columbus
00:30:10.540 really has nothing to do with America. This is silly. We should just get rid of this. 0.84
00:30:14.660 Here's your response. Where is the White House? Where is the White House? The White House is in
00:30:21.300 Washington, D.C., right? What does D.C. stand for? D.C., check my notes here, stands for District of
00:30:29.820 Columbia. Why is it called Columbia? Because Columbia, from our nation's earliest days,
00:30:38.220 Columbia has been a poetic name for the country, which was discovered because of Christopher
00:30:45.920 Columbus. That's why there are all these towns, Columbus, Columbia, all throughout the country.
00:30:52.800 Because we know, and we have always known, that we owe our place here to that great hero,
00:31:02.260 that brave hero, that profoundly Christian hero. It's another reason they hate him, 1.00
00:31:08.120 Christopher Columbus. Davis Ingle, who's a White House spokesman, just said,
00:31:13.960 with regard to the statue in this white house christopher columbus is a hero and president
00:31:19.520 trump will ensure he's honored as such for generations to come even hear the wink at that 0.98
00:31:23.760 line from the sopranos very famous scene where tony soprano's kid is reading that that dumb 0.78
00:31:31.100 pseudo history of people his people's history of the united states and he says you know columbus
00:31:35.420 was terrible he was a genocide whatever and and tony says in this house christopher columbus is
00:31:39.200 a hero and a story. And the White House just even winking at that. This is the key.
00:31:46.700 We have to defend Columbus, even if all you want to do is defend the founding generation.
00:31:51.860 Just as a tactical matter, even if all you want to do is defend George Washington, 1776,
00:31:58.220 you believe like the guy in Parks and Rec, that everything before 1776 was a mistake.
00:32:03.800 You have to go back further.
00:32:07.200 Tactically, sometimes the best defense is a good offense.
00:32:11.120 You have to go back further.
00:32:12.500 Defend not only George Washington, but defend all of the statues.
00:32:17.300 Defend Thomas Jefferson, even though he owned slaves.
00:32:19.640 Defend Robert E. Lee, even though he led the Confederate troops.
00:32:23.960 Go back further in time.
00:32:25.160 Defend Jamestown and the Mayflower.
00:32:28.060 Go back even further.
00:32:28.940 You have to defend Columbus.
00:32:30.100 this is the unbroken story of America. What the left is cynically doing, but it was pretty
00:32:37.240 effective for a while, is they're going for the weakest points. The conservatives, they're not
00:32:41.520 going to defend Robert E. Lee. He fought for the Confederacy. Oh, they're not going to defend
00:32:44.720 Columbus. He was just some random Italian anyway. Who cares? They go for the weak points to chop up 1.00
00:32:50.220 the narrative of our history because their real goal is George Washington. Their real goal is
00:32:54.460 your country. They want to get rid of your country and your way of life. This stuff really matters.
00:32:58.940 A lot of the eggheads and the materialists don't get how much statues matter.
00:33:04.400 Statues tell us who we revere.
00:33:06.940 Monuments tell us who we revere.
00:33:09.040 And by telling us who and what we revere, they tell us what we are.
00:33:13.840 Cult and culture come from the same root word.
00:33:16.900 And President Trump's focus on reestablishing, resurrecting his word, the American culture, is of inestimable value.
00:33:26.560 Really good stuff, and I hope to see a lot more of it.
00:33:30.660 And in fact, I know we will see a lot more of it.
00:33:32.580 President Trump already announced that he's going to have a national statue garden of American heroes.
00:33:39.800 He recognized the important, the Libs start tearing down statues. 0.54
00:33:42.520 He says, we're going to have a garden with hundreds of statues to the great men who built our country.
00:33:46.480 Brilliant, brilliant stuff.
00:33:47.440 Okay, speaking of national policy, and also speaking of sailing across the world,
00:33:53.160 Lindsey Graham says we have to take Iran's Karg Island the same way we took Iwo Jima.
00:33:58.880 That should throw up some red flags.
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00:35:16.060 scale back, dial down, finish up. Lindsey Graham compares it to World War II.
00:35:24.240 Graham has been obliterated and they're running out of money. So here's what I tell President
00:35:28.840 Trump. Keep it up for a few more weeks. Take Carg Island, where all of the resources they have
00:35:34.480 to produce oil. Control that island. Let this regime down a vine. 0.94
00:35:38.960 Is this going to, though, take Carg Island? Is it going to involve U.S. troops on the ground?
00:35:42.740 Let me just read you something from The Atlantic. Does an assessment on that. They say,
00:35:45.820 U.S. troops may well take Cargill, and we believe their ability to do so, but only to endure ballistic missile strikes, drone attacks, petrochemical smoke, all without a reliable means of obtaining logistical support.
00:35:57.260 The result could be a grinding war of attrition.
00:35:59.740 They talk about how far away they would be from resupply.
00:36:02.340 I'm sort of tired of all this armchair quarterback, and this has been an amazing military operation.
00:36:08.100 God bless the fallen.
00:36:09.540 But it's a difference when we talk about troops on the ground.
00:36:11.980 I trust the Marines, not that guy.
00:36:14.660 I trust DOD. We got two marine expeditionary units sailing to this island. We did Iwo Jima.
00:36:22.180 We can do this. The Marines, my money is always on the Marines. I don't know if you take the
00:36:26.480 island or you blockade the island, but I know this. The day we control that island, this regime,
00:36:32.080 this terrorist regime has been weakened. It will die on a vine. And here's what I want to do. I 0.70
00:36:36.720 want to get with Chris. I want to sprint to peace. As the war winds down, I want peace to ramp up.
00:36:42.180 The reason we don't have Saudi Arabia and Israel making peace is October the 7th, 2023,
00:36:48.940 Iran through Hamas attacked Israel, stopping normalization. 0.94
00:36:53.080 I want to take up and complete what Biden started.
00:36:56.100 As soon as we get Iran defanged so they can never do another October 7th, 1.00
00:37:02.120 I want to start up peace talks between Saudi and Israel.
00:37:05.160 This year, I want a peace deal between Saudi and Israel, normalizing, ending the Arab-Israeli conflict.
00:37:11.000 It's been going on for 2,000 years this year, and you can't do it with a lethal Iran. 1.00
00:37:16.040 So we're weeks away from this Iranian regime not having the capability to stop peace. 0.91
00:37:21.240 Okay, very quickly, though, because...
00:37:22.740 I love Shannon Marie. Hold on, hold on. I know we're going to conquer Iran. 0.99
00:37:26.420 We're going to have peace in the Middle East. It's going to be like Iwo Jima. 0.99
00:37:29.460 We're going to have a new world order. I know, I know all that.
00:37:31.920 But, like, are you sure? Because these other experts are saying this is going to lead to a grinding war of attrition.
00:37:41.000 And what is Lindsey Graham's response to the grinding war of attrition?
00:37:45.840 He says, no, it's going to be just like Iwo Jima.
00:37:48.600 Iwo Jima, over 6,000 U.S. soldiers were killed at Iwo Jima.
00:37:52.420 What's the number?
00:37:53.200 The exact number is 6,200, sorry, 6,821, almost 7,000 U.S. troops were killed taking Iwo Jima.
00:38:04.020 More than 19,000 troops additionally were injured.
00:38:07.900 you had 25,000 casualties he's saying ah look we took Iwo Jima we can take this one whoa whoa
00:38:15.600 whoa that that's supposed to make me feel better that this is going to be like Iwo Jima
00:38:19.860 I am not an isolationist I am not a pacifist I am not one of these people who is making an
00:38:29.460 ideological argument against war in Iran I agree with a little bit of what Lindsey Graham is saying
00:38:36.340 there. It would be great if we could overthrow the Iranian regime. It would be great. They are 0.99
00:38:41.760 the impediment to peace in the Middle East. They would allow us to focus on other threats, be they 1.00
00:38:45.460 China or be they in the Western Hemisphere. I agree with all of that. But we have to bring our
00:38:54.160 ideological conceptions down to reality here. You're talking about a military operation that
00:39:01.720 executed brilliantly by the U.S. military, nevertheless, is the least popular war at
00:39:08.180 launch that we have ever had in American history. World War II, you want to talk Iwo Jima,
00:39:14.180 World War II had 97% support. This war has less support than Barack Obama's
00:39:21.240 bungled intervention into Libya. You believe as a practical political matter,
00:39:27.220 take the morality out of it for a second. Even take the grand strategy out of it for a second.
00:39:31.720 Just as a practical domestic matter, you're telling me that Americans are going to accept 25,000 U.S. casualties to take an island that they, until last week, had never heard of in a war that most of them did not support at launch?
00:39:48.540 Seriously?
00:39:50.160 And they point to these polls, they say, well, actually, you know, the MAGA Republican base overwhelmingly supports the strikes on Iran.
00:39:57.700 Yeah, that's true.
00:39:58.820 Though the MAGA Republican base, as defined in these polls, is a subset of the Trump voters.
00:40:05.880 So it's a relatively small number, actually, of the broader MAGA coalition.
00:40:10.120 It's one way in which the wording of these polls can be very, very misleading.
00:40:14.020 But regardless, yeah, they support airstrikes without any boots on the ground in an operation that wraps up very quickly.
00:40:22.000 Now we're talking 25,000 U.S. casualties with a ground invasion of this island.
00:40:28.820 not going to work. Domestically, that's not going to work. I'd love for the Iranian regime 1.00
00:40:35.740 to fall in a way that did not make the problem worse. I see the grand strategy, guys. You don't
00:40:42.980 need to convince me. But if the best you got is Lindsey Graham going on the Sunday shows
00:40:47.260 saying this is going to be the next Iwo Jima, ain't going to work. We need to bar Lindsey Graham 0.91
00:40:54.760 from doing these shows.
00:40:55.740 The people who sell this war
00:40:57.300 are Marco Rubio and Donald Trump, okay?
00:41:00.900 And they just weighed in, by the way,
00:41:02.200 on what the plan is.
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00:41:32.340 right now. My favorite comment on Friday is from FakeDuke7, who says,
00:41:37.800 a Waffle House worker would have caught the chair. Oh, this is from The Bachelorette,
00:41:43.460 who got The Bachelorette show canceled because, well, she's not a bachelorette, first of all,
00:41:47.760 she's a divorcee, but she was filmed throwing a chair or a stool at her ex-boyfriend in front of 0.92
00:41:55.320 her kid. And you're absolutely right. Part of the job application at Waffle House, you need to know
00:42:00.640 how to catch the chairs flying. It's one of the treats. You go to Waffle House, you get dinner
00:42:04.420 and a show. It's like UFC meets Denny's. It's very nice. Okay. What is the plan on Iran here 0.82
00:42:14.940 at the White House, the Secretary of State, and the President.
00:42:21.180 Well, you know, I may have a plan or I may not, but how would I ever say that to a reporter?
00:42:25.840 If I said that to a reporter, Marco would say, please, sir, let's bring you over to
00:42:30.120 the helicopter immediately, right?
00:42:32.400 No, I can't tell you that.
00:42:35.220 Okay, so this is being reported by Trump's enemies on the right, as well as obviously
00:42:41.020 the whole left, as proof that Trump doesn't have a plan.
00:42:44.940 You see it on Twitter. You see it in the news headlines. Trump, I may have a plan. I may not
00:42:50.520 have a plan. Well, that's not really what he says. You can see him here. He's kind of joking,
00:42:53.980 right? He says, look, I may have a plan. I may not have a plan, but I surely wouldn't tell you.
00:42:58.560 This is just an extension of the joke he told with the Japanese prime minister the other day
00:43:02.020 in the Oval Office when the Japanese reporter said, why didn't you tell us about the strike
00:43:07.580 on Iran before it happened? He said, why don't I tell you? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl
00:43:11.540 Harbor. I think you guys know a lot about surprises, don't you? He said, it would be crazy.
00:43:16.900 The deep point beyond that joke is, I'm not going to telegraph to you what I'm doing. One of the
00:43:20.860 great advantages I have is that the Iranian regime doesn't know what I'm doing. This is not new for 0.77
00:43:25.920 Trump. This has been his foreign policy tactic for 10 years now. So of course, he goes, Rubio,
00:43:32.100 Marco over here, if I started telling you my plan, he'd drag me away to the helicopter.
00:43:36.100 so there are as i've said from the beginning a billion ways this could go south there are
00:43:43.980 irresponsible reckless voices who are coming out demanding all sorts of u.s involvement that really
00:43:49.780 could lead us into a grinding war of attrition this could cause a global recession at least
00:43:57.300 there are i am so clear-eyed about how badly this could go as i told you had i been on the nsc i
00:44:03.460 would have made the arguments against it based on public information. However, guys, what are we
00:44:09.520 in? We're in week three now of this war. Trump told us it would be five weeks. I'm not panicking
00:44:16.900 yet. I know I'm looking at oil prices. I'm looking at some hits. If you have any brokerage accounts,
00:44:24.300 maybe you're seeing some hits. I'm not freaking out yet. I freak out on week six. Not even. I'll
00:44:29.360 start to be concerned on week six. But until the end of week five, I believe Trump has a plan.
00:44:38.420 Contrary to the headlines, but I think in accord with the statement he just gave to the reporters.
00:44:42.460 Okay. Now let's turn to someone who definitely does not have a plan. Oh, actually before that,
00:44:48.380 here, Trump gave a little more detail on True Social. He said, we are getting very close to
00:44:52.760 meeting our objectives as we consider winding down our great military efforts in the Middle East
00:44:56.500 with respect to the terrorist regime of Iran. So what are the objectives? Completely degrading
00:45:01.920 Iranian missile capacity. Two, destroying Iran's defense industrial base. Never allowing Iran to 0.84
00:45:09.700 get even close to a nuclear weapon. Protecting at the highest level our Middle Eastern allies,
00:45:14.440 who have taken some hits, by the way. And he lists Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Bahrain,
00:45:20.280 Kuwait, and others. The Hormuz Strait will have to be guarded and policed as necessary by the
00:45:24.800 who use it. The U.S. does not use it. He says, maybe we'll help out, but the nations who use
00:45:29.080 it need to police it. But those are our five, five and a half, if you include the straight 0.86
00:45:35.260 of Hormuz, objectives here. Notice, none of those objectives says regime change.
00:45:44.740 The real hardcore neocons say, we need regime change, install the son of the Shah,
00:45:49.320 raise a Pahlavi. This is our chance. We're going to remake the Middle East. 0.99
00:45:54.420 Trump does not say that.
00:45:56.660 I guess regime change could be great, but Trump is a politician who loves the practical, who loves the real.
00:46:04.620 He understands that politics is the art of the second best.
00:46:07.660 The fact that he's telling us here that none of his objectives includes regime change tells us he does not want this to be a transformative war.
00:46:17.280 He does not want this to be a 10-year war, and he does not think they're going to unseat the Islamic government.
00:46:23.280 Worth pointing out, the CIA intervenes and fortifies the regime of the Shah in 1953.
00:46:28.240 In 1979, the Islamic Revolution happens. 0.98
00:46:32.920 The Islamic regime, for all of its unpopularity, has maintained power almost twice as long as the CIA-backed regime from the 50s.
00:46:43.140 They have some roots in Iran.
00:46:46.040 strom says we're gonna beat them up we're gonna weaken them and we're not gonna have to deal with
00:46:53.460 them again one last point though that little extra object to be thrown at the end he says
00:46:58.020 the strait of hormuz will be opened and it'll be guarded by the people who use it this is the key
00:47:02.140 here if at the end of this conflict you got rid of ayatollah khamenei and new guy who's in charge
00:47:07.860 is named ayatollah khamenei the islamic government is still there iran still keeps its regime and
00:47:15.040 they now know that if they close the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. will back off. We will be in a
00:47:21.120 worse position than we were the first time before we even went in. You cannot allow them to succeed
00:47:27.580 at that tactic. You have to punish them for closing the Strait. You have to make it clear
00:47:33.020 that they can't close the Strait again. That's the key here. Even if you opposed war in Iran,
00:47:38.040 the die is cast. That is what needs to be achieved. I love Trump slips it in there.
00:47:42.500 Maybe not just coincidentally.
00:47:44.040 That little bit at the end about the Strait of Hormuz, in many ways, that is now the most important objective to secure.
00:47:49.820 Okay, so much more I want to get to.
00:47:52.700 We have a new Democrat candidate for president.
00:47:55.460 We have Afro Man.
00:47:57.740 You know, Colt 45, two zigzags.
00:48:00.600 Afro Man is now the man of the hour. 0.95
00:48:04.220 A major patriotic figure because of his fight against an Ohio police department.
00:48:09.680 the largest Lego set ever
00:48:11.420 is of a Catholic church.
00:48:12.220 I want to get to all of it.
00:48:13.180 We'll have to get to it tomorrow
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