The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1973 - Helen of Troy Is Black, & Achilles Is A Transvestite In Nolan’s Odyssey

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00:00:30.000 Lupita Nyong'o is the most beautiful woman in the world, and a five-foot female transvestite 0.66

00:00:35.600 is the strongest warrior ever to live. That is Christopher Nolan's story in The Odyssey.

00:00:42.040 And everyone expressing their shock and outrage seems to be missing two key facts about The

00:00:49.160 Odyssey in Hollywood, which we will delve into. Then LA Mayor Karen Bass responds to the rise of

00:00:54.040 common sense conservative candidate Spencer Pratt by promising free prosthetic teeth for 0.97

00:01:00.080 homeless meth heads. That's an interesting electoral strategy. It might actually pay off 0.98

00:01:05.880 in LA. And Gavin Newsom loses his top spot in the 2028 Democrat presidential primary

00:01:10.760 to a bartendress from Westchester. Get ready for President AOC. I'm Michael Knowles. This 0.91

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00:03:28.120 Let's start with Karen Bass.

00:03:29.680 Let's start in Los Angeles.

00:03:31.120 Spencer Pratt, the Pratt Daddy leader, rising up like a phoenix out of the ashes,

00:03:37.640 out of the literal ashes of the L.A. fires as a Republican, shaking up the L.A. mayor race.

00:03:44.040 He has come out throwing such haymakers that not only did the socialist candidate from the

00:03:50.280 city council drop out of the next debate, but so did the current mayor, Karen Bass.

00:03:56.960 So now there won't be another debate for mayor because everyone's so afraid of Spencer Pratt.

00:04:00.860 So the odds that Spencer Pratt actually becomes mayor of L.A. are still pretty slim.

00:04:05.760 He's totally destroyed the socialist candidate on the city council,

00:04:08.680 but Karen Bass maintains a commanding lead.

00:04:11.180 It is Gamora by the sea, after all.

00:04:13.100 It's pretty hard for any Republican, no matter how common sense,

00:04:15.540 to beat any Democrat, no matter how communist. 0.99

00:04:19.000 However, Karen Bass doesn't seem to be helping herself. 0.82

00:04:23.760 She doesn't really know how to respond.

00:04:25.480 Spencer Pratt comes out.

00:04:26.440 He says, all your experience has burned down this city.

00:04:29.820 He comes out and says, you call me the reality star candidate.

00:04:32.240 Yeah, I'm the only candidate living in reality.

00:04:33.820 He says, we're going to clean up the criminals and the drug addicts. 1.00

00:04:36.980 We're going to stop blowing money on a bunch of stupid nonsense. 1.00

00:04:39.180 And we're going to prevent our city from being burnt to the ground. 1.00

00:04:41.400 And in response, L.A. Mayor Karen Bass promises artificial teeth to homeless meth heads.

00:04:52.520 How many people who are unhoused that you meet have no teeth at all? 0.60

00:04:56.920 They don't have teeth.

00:04:58.140 Why? 1.00

00:04:58.460 Because meth rots your teeth.

00:05:00.320 You can't succeed without teeth.

00:05:03.820 So there needs to be comprehensive health care provided to people.

00:05:08.660 Perfect example of the left's totally wrong approach to political problems.

00:05:15.540 This is a perfect example.

00:05:19.280 Here's the problem. 0.97

00:05:20.620 The problem is that there are schizophrenic criminals terrorizing people on the streets 0.96

00:05:26.920 of Los Angeles who are addicted to drugs, killing themselves on the street, dying of exposure.

00:05:33.920 And when they're not doing that, they're committing violent crimes against ordinary

00:05:38.120 law-abiding taxpaying citizens. And what Karen Bass focuses on is the fact that the schizophrenic,

00:05:47.980 drug-addled criminals violating the law living as vagrants on the street

00:05:53.540 have some cosmetic problems. They don't have teeth. Think about how far down the line of

00:06:01.180 causation. You've got mental illness, crime, lack of discipline, failing political order,

00:06:10.760 drug addiction. Did I say drug addiction yet? Yes. Drug addiction leads to a whole host of 1.00

00:06:17.960 problems, heart problems, vascular problems, brain problems, skin problems, and also teeth

00:06:23.980 problems. Therefore, the way to fix the problem is to give them fake teeth. Not to address the

00:06:32.880 50 things that caused the superficial cosmetic issue of missing some teeth. No, no, no. We're

00:06:41.820 just gonna this is putting lipstick on a pig this is almost literally putting lipstick on a pig 0.54

00:06:48.060 and that's her solution but no one out there is saying that the the problem plaguing skid row in

00:06:57.640 la is that some of the some of the guys are missing their molars it's all of the other problems and

00:07:05.100 of course you're not going to fix the problem so even the way she uses this word unhoused even that

00:07:09.380 is such a lie. Unhoused, which is the new politically correct euphemism for homeless.

00:07:14.360 Homeless, which was the politically correct euphemism for bums, junkies, vagrants, tramps.

00:07:22.360 Those words are so misleading. They subvert any attempt to fix the problem because they make it 0.99

00:07:29.240 seem like the issue facing these people and the city is a lack of a house. But that's not the

00:07:35.720 problem. Because you can give these people a house. The government does. Liberal politicians

00:07:39.400 do give these people a house a lot. And when you give them a house, you can give them the nicest

00:07:43.100 house in the world. Within approximately four and a half seconds, that house is going to become a

00:07:48.300 very not nice house. That neighborhood is going to become a very degraded place. You're going to

00:07:54.020 have all of the problems there. There's going to be filth. There's going to be crime. There's going

00:07:57.660 to be drugs. There's going to be violence. There's going to be all of that. Because the problem for

00:08:01.120 these people is not that they don't have a house. It's all of the things that led them not to have

00:08:05.300 a house in the first place. And so Karen Bass is taking that even further. She goes, no, no,

00:08:10.400 the problem isn't even that they don't have a house. The problem is that they're missing a

00:08:13.700 tooth. Give them a tooth and that's going to fix all the problems in the back. I don't think so. 0.96

00:08:18.460 Spencer Pratt could not have wished for a better campaign ad. His opponents keep making attack ads

00:08:24.000 against him that actually help his campaign. And this one is perfect. Karen Bass, vote for me and

00:08:32.700 I'll give more of your money to get plastic surgery for meth heads who are terrorizing you 1.00

00:08:37.440 on La Brea. Okay. All right. That's fine. No wonder the debate is off. So all Karen Bass is

00:08:41.780 hoping for now is, all right, I'm not going to engage with Spencer Pratt anymore. That other

00:08:45.560 chick is gone. So I guess that's helpful to Karen Bass actually, because the other left-wing 1.00

00:08:48.760 candidates at effectively out of the race. And so it's her versus Spencer Pratt and Pratt's going

00:08:53.940 to keep campaigning, but he's only going to campaign really on social media because the TV

00:08:57.320 isn't really going to give him the time of day. And she's not going to give him the opportunity

00:09:01.840 to clobber her in a public debate. So she's just hoping that she can hold on to her whatever,

00:09:06.920 55% of the vote. As long as she's got 50% plus one by election day, she's fine. 0.52

00:09:13.580 But she has concluded there is no way for her to campaign against him.

00:09:18.200 So she's just going to hold on and hope people ignore the race.

00:09:21.700 Now, speaking of the future of the Democrat Party and future elections,

00:09:24.200 there's a new front runner for the Democrats. That would be AOC. Yes, she is the front runner

00:09:34.200 right now. New poll just came out. The Independent is reporting on it. Where is it?

00:09:40.380 Bunch of people are reporting on it. AOC right now has 26% of the Democrat primary support,

00:09:46.700 followed by Pete Buttigieg, 22.4, followed by the man that we were all told was the front

00:09:54.500 runner in the race, Gavin Newsom at 21.2, followed by Kamala at 12.9. So AOC, that's it.

00:10:02.500 It's AOC's race to lose, right? No, I don't think so. What this tells you is something that I've

00:10:08.260 pointed out for six months now, at least, which is that the Democrat party is really in disarray

00:10:12.660 because they have no clear front runner. Even, I think it was six months ago I said this,

00:10:19.060 you had never, you had not in, I think it was 20 years or more, had a situation where there was not

00:10:24.480 at that point in the election cycle, a candidate, a Democrat candidate with at least 25% of the vote.

00:10:32.420 So the support was all totally diffused and Gavin Newsom was sort of the front runner for a while,

00:10:38.540 but now I guess it's AOC. So does this mean that AOC is going to be the nominee?

00:10:42.660 I don't think so. And I'll give you an example on the Republican side. According to reporting here,

00:10:50.400 bad news for the vice president. According to the reporting, bad news for the vice president

00:10:54.200 because J.D. Vance had been the clear far and away front runner for the presidential nomination in

00:11:00.480 2028. Now, according to some new poll that came out, Atlas Intel, Marco Rubio has taken that spot

00:11:09.160 as the leading candidate for the Republicans. According to Atlas Intel, 45 plus percent of

00:11:15.560 GOP respondents would back Rubio. That's over Vance, who gets about 30 percent. Followed by

00:11:21.900 Ron DeSantis, who gets about 11 percent. Followed by Vivek, he gets about 1.5 percent. Followed by

00:11:27.760 Greg Abbott, gets 0.7 percent. So this is really bad news, right, for J.D. Vance? This is really

00:11:34.060 bad news when we look at the Democrats for Gavin Newsom, right? I don't think so. I don't think

00:11:40.660 it's that. I think that we are in silly season right now. So to explain what's going on on the

00:11:47.040 Republican side is simple enough. Rubio's getting all the attention because the issues that Rubio

00:11:51.600 is involved in are the issues that are front of news. The operation in Venezuela, obviously the

00:11:59.160 war in Iran. Geopolitics is really dominating the headlines right now. What is J.D. Vance focusing

00:12:04.920 on? The vice president's focusing on things like fraud. He's focusing on domestic issues. Indeed,

00:12:10.720 he has made domestic issues the central point of his political program. That's why he was selected

00:12:15.960 to be vice president. And crucial to remember, domestic issues are what people vote on.

00:12:22.920 people don't really vote on foreign policy. And when they do, it can often really harm the

00:12:30.900 Republicans because a lot of Republicans have war fatigue and they have Middle East fatigue.

00:12:36.160 So why is Rubio rising up right now? Well, he's rising up. He's doing very well because he's

00:12:41.240 getting a lot of good plaudits in the press and because he's doing a very good job. There's no

00:12:44.680 question that he's doing a very good job. But the problem for one, I don't even think Rubio

00:12:50.460 is necessarily going to run. I think Rubio and Vance really do seem to be quite close.

00:12:55.480 They do seem to be working together very much in lockstep in the admin. And Rubio's already

00:12:59.080 said that if Vance runs, he's not going to run. And Trump just two days ago came out and said

00:13:03.160 that he wants the ticket to be J.D. Vance president, Marco Rubio vice president.

00:13:09.600 Elsewhere, he said he hopes Rubio just sort of remains the secretary of state forever,

00:13:12.840 because he's doing such a good job at it. But if Rubio did want to run,

00:13:17.280 If AOC does want to run, as she obviously does, the problem for both of them right now is

00:13:21.300 it's just too early. This is silly season. I remember early on in the 2016 race,

00:13:29.680 Governor Scott Walker was the leading candidate, not even close. He was attracting the donors.

00:13:35.980 He had a good chunk of the base. I love Scott Walker. I think Scott Walker is great. I think

00:13:40.400 he's one of the best governors in my lifetime. I think he's truly, he's one of my favorite

00:13:44.220 Republican politicians. The problem for Governor Walker at that time was he peaked too early.

00:13:52.460 And this is much earlier even than that. We are in the middle, not even quite in the middle of

00:13:58.540 2026. We're talking about the 2028 presidential election. The candidates who are peaking now

00:14:03.120 are peaking not because people are seriously considering the presidential election,

00:14:07.680 not because of the real underlying factors that are going to decide the nominee,

00:14:10.940 me, but just because of the news cycles. Because in primaries, every candidate kind of pops and

00:14:18.060 then falls and pops and falls, and you go through five or six of them. So if I were a Republican,

00:14:23.960 I would just observe. The 2028 presidential nomination is almost certainly going to be

00:14:29.240 decided by Donald Trump. If the Trump administration remains successful, if, for instance,

00:14:35.820 the Iran war doesn't take the whole thing off the rails, then Trump is going to pick the nominee.

00:14:40.940 That's basically how it's going to work. And that's usually how it works with Republican

00:14:45.680 presidents who are coming to the end of their time in office. And it is especially how it

00:14:50.340 works with Donald Trump, who took over the Republican Party and really refashioned it

00:14:53.820 after his own image. So that's going to come down to Trump. And right now, Trump is saying,

00:14:58.020 I want it to be J.D. and Rubio as a ticket. Now, if the Trump administration does go off the rails,

00:15:05.100 the only person it's going to be is someone who's outside of the administration.

00:15:10.940 So in that case, it's much more likely to be someone like a Ron DeSantis who's polling at 11%

00:15:15.800 than it is to be someone from within the administration. So those are the underlying

00:15:18.920 structural factors for the GOP. What about for the Dems? If I'm Gavin Newsom reading this poll,

00:15:23.520 I'm happy. If I'm Gavin Newsom, I don't want to be leading in the polls right now.

00:15:29.520 I want to be leading in the polls a year from now. I want to be leading in the polls more than

00:15:34.680 a year from now. Yeah, let AOC rise to the top right now. Then she gets all of the scrutiny.

00:15:40.680 she gets all of the attacks, all of the dirt comes out. She drops down. If I'm Newsom,

00:15:45.840 then I want it to be Buttigieg. Let Buttigieg have it again for a little bit. Let him have

00:15:49.260 a three or four month run. Then it's not going to be Harris. Harris is toast.

00:15:53.980 If I'm Newsom, the person I'm afraid of is not AOC or Buttigieg who are both ahead of him in

00:15:57.640 the polls right now. The person I'm afraid of is Josh Shapiro, Whitmer, Pritzker, any of these

00:16:06.520 people who haven't really yet declared, who haven't really yet come up to the fore.

00:16:10.600 Same thing if I'm the vice president. If I'm the vice president, I do not mind right now

00:16:13.860 if Rubio is getting a lot of the attention, a lot of the presidential buzz. It doesn't

00:16:19.360 really matter. It's too early to matter. And just structurally, the way the party is set up

00:16:25.840 with the president being in office and being so powerful, that's not even going to be the

00:16:30.040 determining factor. It's kind of fun because people like politics for a horse race and we

00:16:34.440 love making jokes about AOC. And, you know, hey, look, maybe another Westchester person will make

00:16:37.980 good. You know, it's a hometown girl from the place that we grew up. I mean, that's good for 0.92

00:16:44.200 her. But really, it is just horse race betting right now. It's not real yet. Okay. Now, speaking

00:16:51.440 of casting roles, something that is much more real is this Hollywood movie, Christopher Nolan's

00:16:56.500 Odyssey, which has made some controversial casting choices. Lupita Nyong'o is Helen of

00:17:03.980 Troy, the most beautiful woman in the world, certainly in the Greek world, but in the whole

00:17:08.760 world. And then Ellen Page, who now calls herself Elliot, who's a five-foot-one female transvestite,

00:17:16.900 is apparently the strongest warrior in the world ever. We will examine the controversy because I

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00:19:01.560 Has Christopher Nolan totally lost it? Is this crazy? Someone posted to Twitter,

00:19:06.120 there are all these funny memes going around. If the Odyssey marketing were honest,

00:19:11.120 and this is the Odyssey, and the three characters at the top are Ellen Page,

00:19:15.840 Lupita Nyong'o, and Travis Scott, the rapper who apparently plays like a Roman poet or something.

00:19:21.060 let's just focus in on the most controversial choices here Ellen Page and Lupita Nyong'o

00:19:27.980 people are saying this is crazy Lupita Nyong'o is not the most beautiful woman in the world 1.00

00:19:31.700 Lupita Nyong'o very very nice looking lady very good actress she's not Helen of Troy right she's

00:19:38.720 not that's not close your eyes hey quick test close your eyes think of Helen of Troy did you 1.00

00:19:43.020 think of Lupita Nyong'o probably not uh Ellen Page even more ridiculous Ellen Page playing the 0.66

00:19:50.200 greatest warrior ever to live, Achilles, the son of a god, who is dipped in the river to make him 0.62

00:19:57.180 effectively invincible, except for the little part where he's being held at his heel. 0.99

00:20:01.100 And the greatest warrior ever to live is now this tiny transvestite lady. Hold on, 1.00

00:20:07.360 that doesn't make sense, right? There are two parts that people are missing.

00:20:11.740 The first part that people are missing is they don't seem to remember what the Odyssey is.

00:20:16.980 They hear Achilles, they hear Helen of Troy, and they rightly think of two of the most prominent

00:20:23.400 characters in the entire Western imagination. But I think they're confusing the Odyssey with

00:20:28.840 the Iliad. The Iliad, which is that first great poem from which Western art descends,

00:20:34.440 in which Achilles and Helen of Troy are major, major characters. But in the Odyssey,

00:20:38.860 they're not major characters. In the Odyssey, they're very minor characters. Helen of Troy

00:20:43.120 appears in book four when Telemachus goes to ask about where his father went. And then Achilles

00:20:49.140 appears in book 11 as a ghost, as a shade, when Odysseus is speaking to him in the underworld.

00:20:57.080 And he's the shade because he's already dead because he dies in the Iliad.

00:21:01.820 So what is Christopher Nolan thinking here? Because Christopher Nolan, he made The Dark

00:21:05.220 Knight. He made good movies and kind of conservative movies. What is he doing? Is

00:21:08.640 this all DEI? I have a little conspiracy theory, and it goes to the Academy Awards. The Academy

00:21:15.120 Awards, in 2024, implemented DEI rules for what can win best picture, and it instituted a mandatory

00:21:23.660 diversity requirement. So the mandatory diversity requirement says there are four standards.

00:21:29.920 Any movie that does not meet these standards, at least two of the four, is not eligible to be

00:21:36.600 best picture. One is on-screen representation. At least one lead or significant supporting actor

00:21:41.300 is from an underrepresented racial or ethnic group. Or at least 30% of all actors in minor

00:21:46.320 roles are from underrepresented groups. Or the main story revolves around one of these groups.

00:21:50.520 So the main story does not revolve around an underrepresented group when we're talking about

00:21:54.140 one of the two great works of Western civilization. What's interesting here is when we're talking

00:22:00.960 about the supporting roles, not only is Lupita Nyong'o playing Helen of Troy, she's also playing

00:22:06.580 Clytemnestra, the wife of Agamemnon. So there, you get two black characters for the price of one, 0.55

00:22:13.020 same actress playing both of them. Forget about these other sort of minor roles here.

00:22:17.960 So it looks like for a relatively small concession in terms of actual screen time and significance

00:22:25.580 to the story, you check off that DEI requirement. How about creative leadership and project team?

00:22:31.140 The film has diverse representation among key creative roles. I don't know that that's true.

00:22:34.360 Christopher Nolan obviously is not like a black pygmy Muslim transsexual. So industry access and 1.00

00:22:39.940 opportunities. The film's studio or production company offers paid apprenticeships, internships,

00:22:43.640 or training opportunities to underrepresented groups. Yeah, they probably could fulfill that.

00:22:47.740 And then audience development. The studio has diverse teams in marketing, publicity,

00:22:50.720 or distribution. So it does seem to me that if the Odyssey, if Christopher Nolan is making a play

00:22:57.800 for best picture, which he obviously is, then there's just no way. Maybe there is by the letter

00:23:04.580 of the rules, but by the spirit of the rules, there's no way that he's going to do it if he 0.89

00:23:08.180 has an all white cast, an all Greek cast. Or an all straight cast or an all not tranny cast or 0.90

00:23:15.100 whatever. So look, if he had Ellen Page playing Odysseus, that would be pretty shocking. But if 0.67

00:23:20.560 he's got Ellen Page playing the shade of Achilles, that's different. Also worth pointing out,

00:23:25.180 I don't want to stretch this too far, but there might be a kind of esoteric reading here of Ellen

00:23:30.200 Page's The Shade of Achilles. Because in the ancient Greek world, death is an unadulterated

00:23:34.860 bad. There's no caveat. There's no hope. There's no nothing. It just sucks to die. It's a degraded

00:23:41.960 and lamentable place to be. The Christian understanding of death is that death is either

00:23:47.580 really, really, really bad because you're being eternally tormented, or death is no problem at

00:23:54.820 all. It has no sting because we can be with God forever. We were promised eternal life, a life

00:23:59.080 even fuller and more beautiful than the life we have in this world. That is not the ancient Greek

00:24:03.520 understanding. In the ancient Greek understanding, there is Tartarus, the really, really,

00:24:09.320 really bad part of Hades. But most of Hades, where you go and you die, is just kind of bad.

00:24:16.340 And so it is interesting that having the greatest warrior ever to live be played by this person

00:24:23.740 whose body has just been so degraded by chemicals, by this living contrary to reality. This person

00:24:30.480 is really short. This person doesn't look like a man, you know, doesn't look like the sex that 0.99

00:24:36.260 she claims to be. It doesn't look physically strong at all. There actually is a reading of

00:24:40.220 that which says, yes, it would be inappropriate for Achilles to be played by the big giga chat 0.95

00:24:44.100 in hell because in Hades, everything just kind of sucks and you are degraded and you're not, 0.96

00:24:50.120 it's not really, you're not really even yourself. You're a shade of yourself. So anyway, that's my 0.99

00:24:54.720 artistic read of why they might have made that choice. But my main read is probably he's just

00:25:03.480 checking some DEI rules. Now, the big worry to me about the Odyssey is that Christopher Nolan's

00:25:08.440 movie is using a bad translation, is using a new translation of the Odyssey by Emily Wilson.

00:25:13.560 Emily Wilson, who is this feminist who published a new translation of the Odyssey in 2017. The

00:25:19.940 great translations of the Odyssey that we think of, maybe if you had a classics education,

00:25:24.080 you would have read in school, are the Fagel's translation, maybe the Lattimore translation.

00:25:28.080 But here, I texted my expert on all things classics earlier. And that would, of course,

00:25:34.860 be the great Spencer Clavin. I said, hey, before I wade into the Nolan Wars, how bad is Emily

00:25:40.920 Wilson's Odyssey? Because I haven't read her translation. I don't want to read her translation.

00:25:45.280 But Spencer did. And he wrote a good review of it. Well, it was a bad review. It was a negative

00:25:49.620 review, but it was a good review in the Claremont Review books. And he said, too long didn't read

00:25:52.860 is, her translation is bad. Not as bad as the hysterics on X, who have truly lost their minds

00:25:58.680 will tell you, but bad in all the ways and along all the lines they're screeching about.

00:26:03.840 And ultimately, she is an evil influence upon the world. So this is a concern of mine. Now,

00:26:09.400 again, maybe Nolan using that translation checks another diversity box for the Oscars here,

00:26:14.320 because it means that part of the creative leadership team comes from an underrepresented

00:26:17.840 group, you know, this kind of feminist, radical woman, lady, whatever. But in any case, I am much

00:26:23.180 more concerned about the translation on which all of this is based. Because Emily Wilson's

00:26:31.060 translation, yeah, sure, it's like kind of feminist, or she brings all her ideological priors.

00:26:36.100 But the bigger issue with her translation, as I understand it from the little bit of it I've read, 0.79

00:26:39.820 is that it just disenchants everything. It makes everything prosaic and flat.

00:26:46.140 It denies that the Greeks were really kings and princes.

00:26:52.400 They're just leaders.

00:26:53.780 It denies that they have castles.

00:26:55.880 They just have huts.

00:26:57.500 It makes everything so prosaic and yucky and small and flat and clinical and not as evocative.

00:27:05.660 It's disenchanted.

00:27:06.980 That's a real problem.

00:27:09.000 So again, I'm not saying I have high hopes for Nolan's Odyssey.

00:27:13.720 I'm just saying Nolan is a good filmmaker.

00:27:15.740 He's made films that are not only good, but actually rather conservative.

00:27:19.700 And so I'm willing to give him a little bit of the benefit of the doubt here

00:27:22.760 that this is not going to be as bad as everyone is pretending.

00:27:25.900 And maybe he's just kind of playing the game.

00:27:28.960 And if you have a problem with that, maybe the issue isn't Christopher Nolan.

00:27:32.880 Maybe the issue is the entire apparatus of Hollywood.

00:27:36.020 Okay.

00:27:37.120 Now, speaking of awards and honors, did the Vatican just give its highest honor

00:27:41.140 to a member of the Iranian government?

00:27:44.020 I'm seeing that news go all over the world today.

00:27:48.080 And whenever I see shocking news about the church,

00:27:52.420 999 times out of a thousand,

00:27:54.180 I say, this is fake news from people with an ax to grind.

00:27:57.560 And there are a lot of people with an ax to grind against it.

00:27:59.760 Virtually everyone, actually.

00:28:01.460 All of the principalities and powers

00:28:03.080 and spiritual wickedness and high places

00:28:04.320 that govern this world

00:28:05.180 have an ax to grind against the church.

00:28:08.520 So what really happened?

00:28:10.320 We'll get to that momentarily.

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00:29:31.700 Hossein Muhtari, the Iranian ambassador to the Holy See,

00:29:37.280 has just received an honor. What some people are saying is the highest pontifical honor,

00:29:43.320 which is the order of Pius IX. This was given to him by the Pope.

00:29:51.020 What is the Vatican doing here? Are they pro-Iran? Are they Islamophilic?

00:29:57.460 Are they fighting against Israel and America and the West? No, no. First of all,

00:30:07.120 they're calling this the highest honor that the Vatican can bestow. That's not even true. The

00:30:10.020 highest honor that the Vatican can bestow is the order of Christ. There are a number of papal orders.

00:30:14.080 There are chivalric orders like the Knights of Malta or the order of the Holy Sepulchre.

00:30:17.560 There are other orders, including the order of Pius IX. There are a number of these orders,

00:30:21.260 the order of Christ. There are a number of orders that the Pope can bestow.

00:30:26.180 One of them is the order of Pius IX, which is just given to all the ambassadors

00:30:31.360 after a couple years of service. That's all it is. This is a normal procedure. Iran is not being

00:30:39.620 specially singled out for any particularly special honor. This is just something that

00:30:44.300 the Pope gives to diplomats. It's a nice thing that the Pope gives to diplomats.

00:30:49.480 And why does this matter? That's kind of interesting if you care about the church

00:30:54.500 or if you care about geopolitics. But the reason that this really matters for people who pay

00:30:58.700 attention to politics broadly, is it's a reminder about the ubiquity and power of propaganda,

00:31:06.260 especially when we're talking about the Iran war. When we're talking about the Iran war,

00:31:11.380 when we're talking about the Middle East generally, issues that touch on religion,

00:31:15.720 interest, Christians, Jews, Muslims, major world powers, the American alliances, the Russian axis, 0.78

00:31:24.860 the Iranian, the Chinese axis, it's all propaganda. This is something I have noticed

00:31:29.740 personally. Whenever I weigh in on the Iran war, on an issue facing the Middle East,

00:31:37.760 Israel, the Palestinians, the war in Gaza, whenever I weigh in, in any way,

00:31:44.500 I see on all the social media platforms, a deluge of propaganda, of these accounts,

00:31:52.320 alternately calling me a slavishly pro-Israel or a neo-Nazi, alternately calling me, I don't know, 0.88

00:32:03.740 a Christian supremacist, fascist, or calling me a traitor to the church. 0.94

00:32:10.080 Alternately, all of these things. And I'll look at the accounts, especially you see this on X,

00:32:14.940 but you can see this on YouTube, you can see this throughout social media. You look at the

00:32:17.820 accounts and you realize these accounts were created three days ago. They're based in Pakistan

00:32:21.480 or something. It's a propaganda. And the propaganda is coming from everywhere. 1.00

00:32:26.640 It's coming from, in this case, it's obviously coming from Iran. Iran is trying to make a big 0.83

00:32:30.820 to-do about this rote honor that the Pope bestows upon diplomats, trying to make it seem as if the

00:32:36.380 Iranian government has Vatican sanction. But it comes from Iran. It comes from Russia. It comes

00:32:42.440 from China. It comes from Israel. It comes from the United States. It comes from the Gulf States. 0.73

00:32:45.560 it comes from everywhere. And it's just an important thing to remember when you are trying

00:32:51.880 to examine these issues. It's a little different for domestic issues because the only parties there,

00:32:56.440 there's a lot of propaganda there too, but it's the sort of domestic left and the domestic right.

00:33:01.720 And sometimes a little foreign influence trying to create divisions. But when we're talking about

00:33:05.440 geopolitics, especially a place as hot as the Middle East, especially the Iran war,

00:33:09.800 which involves every major power. 99.7% of what you're seeing is propaganda. And I'm in a very

00:33:18.440 privileged position to observe this because my views on these issues are fairly moderate

00:33:24.560 and down the middle. And I try to be as objective as possible. And so when you have that position,

00:33:31.980 it's the least popular position with the propagandists. So then you get it from both

00:33:36.360 sides, from all sides. But that's very helpful, actually, in a way, because you can see how the

00:33:41.000 information warfare works. And we know for a fact these major governments. I think Netanyahu said

00:33:46.140 this the other day on the 60 Minutes interview. He said, yes, we consider the propaganda war to be

00:33:52.080 the eighth front in this war. But it's obviously not just Israel. It's every country involved in

00:33:56.960 this. And this is the latest example of this. The Iranians are clearly making hay out of this

00:34:03.280 rote procedure that the Vatican presented. But if you seriously believe that the Pope 1.00

00:34:09.680 is a supporter of the Iranian regime or something like that, I don't know, you're not going to make

00:34:14.660 it. I got a bridge in Brooklyn to say, you got to have a little more cleverness. We need to listen

00:34:19.160 to the words of our Lord who says we need to be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

00:34:24.620 Now, speaking of the Iran war, President Trump just got in real hot water because he was asked

00:34:30.340 if the Iran war is distracting him

00:34:32.480 from Americans' financial situation,

00:34:35.160 if he was concerned about Americans' financial situation.

00:34:37.320 And the big headline you're seeing go everywhere,

00:34:40.120 President Trump says he is not concerned

00:34:42.580 about Americans' financial situation,

00:34:44.960 only concerned about the war in Iran.

00:34:46.940 Is that really what he said?

00:34:47.760 We'll get to what he said.

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00:35:20.700 I did not pick my favorite comment from yesterday.

00:35:24.480 I gave this privilege.

00:35:26.100 I gave this honor as the pope will give to diplomats. I gave this honor

00:35:29.880 To the producers to mr. Davies. Let's see what they picked

00:35:32.840 From jason allen 5760 says the sexual deviant being charged for sex crimes. Who would have thought?

00:35:40.840 Yeah, okay, that's fine. That's an observation. I make a lot which is it's always the ones you most expect

00:35:44.620 That's in reference to the first gay surrogate parent in the uk

00:35:48.360 He became a gay surrogate parent in 1999 first one ever to do it. He just got charged with sex crimes

00:35:53.780 Yeah, yeah, okay, that's fine.

00:35:54.940 I'd be curious what the other comments were,

00:35:56.340 but we'll go examine.

00:35:57.680 We'll give a score on how the producers did.

00:36:00.080 First, though, President Trump on the Iran war,

00:36:02.780 did he really just say,

00:36:04.180 did the president really just say

00:36:06.220 that he doesn't care about

00:36:07.900 Americans' financial situation?

00:36:10.360 When you're negotiating with Iran, Mr. President,

00:36:13.100 to what extent are American financial situations

00:36:15.880 motivating you to make a deal?

00:36:18.120 Not even a little bit.

00:36:19.440 The only thing that matters 1.00

00:36:20.980 when I'm talking about Iran,

00:36:22.420 they can't have a nuclear weapon. I don't think about American's financial situation. I don't

00:36:28.320 think about anybody. I think about one thing. We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. That's all.

00:36:35.420 I don't think about American's financial situation. I think about one thing. Iran

00:36:39.860 cannot have a nuclear weapon. So if you took that totally out of context, you'd say, wow,

00:36:45.300 Trump's really lost it. You know, he got elected to make this economy better, which he's done.

00:36:49.300 he got elected to focus on American domestic issues, America first. What are you talking

00:36:53.900 about? Now he's saying all he cares about is the Iran war. Listen to the context of the clip.

00:36:57.700 Play it again. Just play it again so you can hear it from the very beginning.

00:37:01.720 When you're negotiating with Iran, Mr. President, to what extent are American

00:37:05.820 financial situations motivating you to make a deal? Not even a little bit. The only thing that

00:37:11.880 matters when I'm talking about Iran, they can't have a nuclear weapon. I don't think about

00:37:16.360 American financial situation. I don't think about anybody. I think about one thing.

00:37:22.140 We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. That's all.

00:37:25.580 Did you hear the question? The question is the key here. She goes, when you are negotiating with

00:37:31.100 Iran, to what degree is the American financial situation pressuring you to make a deal?

00:37:40.440 So Trump comes out and the question is essentially, hey, how weak are you right now?

00:37:45.680 How much pressure are you feeling? How much heat do you feel? How much leverage does Iran have over

00:37:51.340 you in this negotiation? And his answer is none. Iran has no leverage over me. You want to talk 0.63

00:37:59.480 about the pressure from the American financial situation? You want to see if that's going to

00:38:02.140 pressure me into making some deal that I don't want to make? No, ain't going to happen. I'm

00:38:06.240 crazy. I'll do anything. I'm unpredictable. Iran's got no pressure on me. I'll let every single

00:38:12.820 American go broke. I'll give away my entire fortune. We will eat mud cakes before I give

00:38:17.200 those jerks that I'm presently negotiating with what they want. That's just negotiation. 1.00

00:38:23.080 The context of that comment is entirely with regard to negotiating with Iran. We know from

00:38:31.340 Trump's negotiating style and just common sense negotiating style, you never want to admit that

00:38:36.440 any adversary has any leverage over you at all. You never want to admit that you're feeling any

00:38:41.980 pressure whatsoever. You never want to let your adversary see you sweat. So of course he's going

00:38:46.520 to answer this way. What did you want him to say? Did you want him to say, yeah, I'm actually pretty

00:38:50.240 concerned? I actually think, yeah. I mean, if Iran keeps blockading the Strait of Hormuz and that

00:38:54.560 causes a global recession, then it's going to wipe Republicans out in the midterms and I'm going to

00:38:58.680 be impeached. I'm going to be removed from office. And then my successor, be it J.D. Vance or Marco

00:39:02.760 Rubio, or in my preference, President Vance with Vice President Rubio, won't be elected. And then

00:39:06.900 Democrats will rule for a thousand years. So yeah, I'm really scared. I'm really worried. I'm really

00:39:10.320 sweating. Do you like my sweat? He's not going to say that. He's going to come out and say,

00:39:14.800 oh, I don't care at all. You could put a gun to my head. You could rip the suit off my back. 1.00

00:39:20.180 I'm not giving one inch to these people. Of course, that's the position he's going to be

00:39:25.560 negotiating from. So there are plenty of criticisms of the Iran war. There are plenty of reasons to

00:39:30.820 say that we shouldn't have gone in or we should have handled it differently or this, that, or the

00:39:33.880 other. Obviously, we've talked about that for weeks and weeks and weeks. But that is not the

00:39:38.920 issue that we're talking about here. The issue we're talking about here is, given that Trump

00:39:42.800 is negotiating with the Iranians, what would you have him say? And if you're being honest with

00:39:46.480 yourself, if you are focused primarily on domestic issues, as I am, if you are skeptical of the war

00:39:52.240 in Iran, as I am, if you are concerned about America's financial situation, as I am, and as

00:39:59.440 the president obviously is too, even if you're all of those things, if you're being totally honest

00:40:04.860 with yourself, you would have given exactly the same answer to that reporter.

00:40:08.920 It's one thing to make criticisms of policies.

00:40:13.280 It's one thing to say, well, we should have done this.

00:40:15.340 We should do this now.

00:40:16.140 But let's not be disingenuous here.

00:40:19.340 The headlines that say Trump doesn't care about the American financial situation, 0.96

00:40:22.800 it's just totally ridiculous. 0.51

00:40:24.160 Nobody, no honest person really believes that. 0.89

00:40:27.380 Okay.

00:40:28.200 Now, speaking of the White House and domestic issues,

00:40:34.040 beautiful post from the White House just this morning.

00:40:36.960 It's an image of Trump.

00:40:38.880 It has the phrase replacement migration crossed out.

00:40:42.480 It says re-migration.

00:40:43.900 That's it. 0.96

00:40:44.500 That's the whole poster.

00:40:46.540 Replacement migration crossed out, re-migration, bigger font in its place.

00:40:51.320 Under President Trump, replacement migration will never be the standard.

00:40:53.700 The United States objects to the Global Compact on Migration and UN efforts to facilitate replacement migration.

00:40:59.580 Listen to that phrase.

00:41:00.340 Not illegal immigration, not mass migration. 0.67

00:41:04.360 Replacement migration.

00:41:05.980 And the State Department follows it up. Last week, the United States refused to participate

00:41:10.820 in the UN's review of the Global Compact on Migration. The United States objects to the

00:41:14.840 Global Compact on Migration and UN efforts to facilitate replacement migration to the United

00:41:18.340 States and our Western allies. Replacement, replacement, replacement. The reason this matters

00:41:24.240 is some people are going to say, well, I don't want all these tweets. I don't want all these

00:41:29.660 posts from the State Department and the president. I want deportations. First of all, you've gotten

00:41:34.180 a lot of deportations. The first year, we had over 700,000 formal deportations with well over a

00:41:38.700 million informal deportations, self-deportations, pressured deportations. So you did have a net

00:41:44.480 loss of 2 million illegal aliens last year or thereabouts, plus the 3 million who did not cross

00:41:49.300 the border illegally. So you did have a net reduction of what would have been 5 million

00:41:53.120 illegal aliens. The problem is that the Democrats and the business Republicans let the problem get

00:41:56.880 so bad for so many years that now we have something like 20 million illegals. So obviously, 0.53

00:42:00.360 there's a lot of work to do a lot more sure we want all of that this matters though and the

00:42:04.740 reason this matters is the last administration called the great replacement capital g capital

00:42:11.180 r a racist conspiracy theory a racist nazi bigoted conspiracy theory the great replacement the idea

00:42:21.540 that political actors that the democrats as the political party want to radically change the

00:42:28.400 demographics of the United States by bringing in lots and lots of new people such that they can

00:42:34.160 have an electoral advantage forever. The last admin called that a racist, evil, Nazi conspiracy

00:42:39.500 theory. Wikipedia calls that a racist, evil, Nazi conspiracy theory. The current administration

00:42:46.580 recognizes that the Great Replacement is the official policy of the United Nations,

00:42:50.820 that the Great Replacement is the official policy of the Democrat Party, that the Great

00:42:54.760 replacement is a reality. We're getting that from the State Department now. We're getting that from

00:43:00.680 the White House now. And it's obviously a fact. Michael Anton from the Claremont Institute and

00:43:05.760 from the Trump White House, by the way, Michael Anton famously described this as the celebration

00:43:10.740 parallax. That when the left comes out and they say, hey, we're going to bring in millions and

00:43:15.720 millions of foreigners to radically change the demographics of this country, and you celebrate, 0.99

00:43:20.080 right, then that's the truth. That's wonderful. That's a good thing that's happening. 0.98

00:43:24.440 But when you angrily say, hey, the Democrats are bringing in millions of foreigners to radically

00:43:28.720 change the demographics of this country, and that's a bad thing. When you lament that fact,

00:43:32.400 then it's not happening. It's not true. It's a racist, terrible Nazi conspiracy theory.

00:43:37.500 But the Democrats have copped to this. They've explicitly owned up to this for many, many years.

00:43:41.120 And they just tried to stigmatize the phrase great replacement. The Trump administration is now

00:43:46.680 not only calling out that fact, calling out that lie, they're using the word.

00:43:53.140 The Trump administration has just declared that the great replacement is no longer a racist Nazi

00:43:57.780 conspiracy theory. It's the official policy of the global left. And that's very important because

00:44:04.240 the first step in solving a problem is admitting that the problem is happening. Okay. Speaking of

00:44:09.900 this White House versus previous administrations, President Trump just also posted a really telling

00:44:15.260 juxtaposition of Vice President J.D. Vance and Michelle Obama

00:44:20.020 describing what it's like to have kids in the White House.

00:44:24.580 A lot of good things.

00:44:25.960 It's expensive to live in the White House.

00:44:28.100 What a blessing it is to be here.

00:44:29.620 There were moments when I didn't feel like I got enough attention.

00:44:33.440 We live in this beautiful, very protected mansion

00:44:36.860 that the American people have gifted us.

00:44:39.200 Many people don't know.

00:44:41.240 I mean, much is not covered.

00:44:43.040 Most of our meals are prepared for us.

00:44:44.620 Um, so we don't have to worry as much about cooking.

00:44:47.120 You're paying for every food, every bit of food that you eat.

00:44:50.420 There are a lot of things that in some ways make having a baby easier.

00:44:53.720 How do you raise kids in the White House? Um, it's dangerous.

00:44:57.920 You don't have to worry about TSA lines when you're the vice president.

00:45:00.220 Air Force Two makes transportation pretty easy.

00:45:02.220 We had to pay for their travel to be on the plane.

00:45:05.320 My attitude towards kids.

00:45:06.720 They're a hassle.

00:45:08.020 What the hell have we gotten ourselves into? No more kids.

00:45:11.320 They mess you up.

00:45:12.720 Then we had a second.

00:45:13.540 Then we had a third.

00:45:14.180 And now both of us are just like, what's one more?

00:45:16.400 Whatever.

00:45:18.560 Night and day.

00:45:20.540 Night and day.

00:45:21.500 And what I love about this is the juxtaposition of Vance and Michelle Obama describing the same thing, which is raising kids in the White House.

00:45:31.260 They're not talking about any policy or ideology or manifesto or whatever.

00:45:37.040 You're just seeing the juxtaposition of two attitudes.

00:45:39.680 And these attitudes, man, it's so important. A point I've tried to make over the years,

00:45:47.080 contrary to many of my friends on the right, is that conservatism, in my mind, is not really an

00:45:55.080 ideology. It doesn't really boil down to ideology. Conservatives disagree on basically every issue,

00:46:00.560 on tariffs versus free trade, on foreign policy intervention versus foreign policy

00:46:05.020 restrained. On migration, the degree to which we should have migration, on the role of religion

00:46:11.660 in government, on and on and on. Conservatives all disagree. So the left doesn't really disagree.

00:46:17.580 The left is all progressive. They all agree on, they basically all agree on the economy,

00:46:23.380 varying degrees of socialism, on migration. They all basically want more of it,

00:46:26.960 on the restriction of rights and so forth.

00:46:31.980 The difference is that leftism is an ideology.

00:46:37.100 Conservatism is much more an attitude.

00:46:39.780 It's a disposition.

00:46:41.260 It's an inclination.

00:46:43.380 It's a style of comportment.

00:46:47.940 J.D. Vance expresses it here

00:46:49.560 because he looks at all these things.

00:46:51.480 He's looking at the exact same thing

00:46:52.920 Michelle Obama's looking at.

00:46:54.240 And he's grateful.

00:46:56.960 He says, oh, thank you.

00:46:58.960 Hey, thanks, American taxpayer.

00:47:00.200 We get to live in this nice house.

00:47:02.260 And, you know, people prepare our meals for us.

00:47:04.800 Michelle Obama comes in. 0.94

00:47:05.480 She goes, yeah, we got to pay for those meals. 0.98

00:47:07.420 We have to live in this house.

00:47:10.100 Yeah, and, you know, it's the kids are a lot of work and everything.

00:47:12.420 We say, oh, what's one more?

00:47:13.500 What's having a fourth kid?

00:47:14.480 Love it.

00:47:14.840 Love it that the vice president is having a fourth kid.

00:47:16.280 That's awesome. 0.97

00:47:16.680 That's actually politically important because people need more kids.

00:47:19.220 Good for him personally, but it's good.

00:47:20.620 People need more kids.

00:47:21.960 Michelle Obama.

00:47:23.360 Oh, kids, it's so hard.

00:47:24.720 it's all so done all the criticism and it's so terrible and it's so it's awful it's all a burden

00:47:28.900 it's all and this is i mean you know people like this you know people i remember one time i was on

00:47:34.700 a beach i was on a beach with some some friends and i'm lying back in the i'm in the caribbean

00:47:40.680 i'm lying back in the sun someone turns to me says michael something i like about you you could

00:47:45.320 be happy anywhere it's like i'd be happy anywhere i'm in paradise i'm not like in downtown detroit

00:47:50.260 right now? How could you not be happy here? But that's the thing. If you have a spirit of

00:47:56.140 gratitude, if you have a spirit of humility, and if you, I don't know if you recognize that

00:48:03.520 our very life is a gift and we need to be happy for it and grateful for it, then even the worst

00:48:09.060 of circumstances are bearable. Even suffering itself is a sanctifying thing. But if you have

00:48:15.360 an attitude of pride, of entitlement, of contempt, then even the most glorious of circumstances, 0.59

00:48:22.440 living in the freaking White House, flying around on your own 747, wherever you want, 0.85

00:48:27.460 whenever you want, even that is a burden. That's it. To me, this is really crucial. And 0.98

00:48:34.220 it is one of the reasons, even beyond a lot of the policies, migration, whatever,

00:48:38.900 this is one of the reasons that having a left-wing government is so deleterious. It's one of the

00:48:43.100 reason it's like an acid corroding the body politic, is it just fills the society with pride,

00:48:49.720 with contempt, ultimately with a kind of self-hatred. You cannot have a happy society

00:48:54.900 in which every person who constitutes it and the people who are leading it are so deeply unhappy

00:48:59.860 all the time. Okay, so much more to get to, but we don't have time because today is Work From Home

00:49:04.760 Wednesday and I didn't even assign a work this week. The rest of the show continues now. You

00:49:07.800 do not want to miss it. Become a member. Use code Knowles, Canada, W-L-E-S at checkout for

00:49:10.400 two months free on all annual plans.

00:49:22.740 Martin Luther King Jr. is an American icon,

00:49:25.420 widely considered one of the greatest Americans who ever lived.

00:49:28.840 A man who had a vision for a colorblind society, 0.63

00:49:32.180 a post-racial America. 0.76

00:49:34.320 He had a dream. 0.76

00:49:35.800 It's just not the dream you thought it was.

00:49:37.580 Were his true aims a colorblind society or something far more radical?

00:49:42.780 Who bankrolled him?

00:49:44.380 What unfolded behind the scenes in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963?

00:49:48.700 Was civil disobedience actually peaceful?

00:49:52.820 We wanted to show you a clip of the I Have a Dream speech, but according to our lawyers, we can't.

00:49:58.280 In fact, King's family has made a lot of money suing media outlets.

00:50:01.540 They want to silence critics like us.

00:50:03.500 What they're doing makes it very difficult to judge Martin Luther King Jr. not by the

00:50:07.680 color of his skin, but by the content of his character.

00:50:11.340 Is America today stronger, more unified, and racially equal than before King's rise?

00:50:17.460 These questions demand answers, and as Americans we are entitled to a full accounting of the

00:50:21.720 Civil Rights Movement and its consequences.

00:50:23.940 King's Movement fundamentally transformed our country and our system of government.

00:50:27.820 I speak as a citizen of the world.

00:50:30.940 Each day the war goes on, the hatred increases, though the cause of evil prosper.

00:50:37.380 The first part of our two-part special on the Civil Rights Movement, a new constitution,

00:50:41.720 available now on Daily Wire Plus.

The Michael Knowles Show - May 13, 2026

Ep. 1973 - Helen of Troy Is Black, & Achilles Is A Transvestite In Nolan’s Odyssey

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