The Michael Knowles Show - June 27, 2026


Woke Libs MELTDOWN Over America 250 - Michael Knowles REACTS

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Michael Knowles
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Donald Trump George W. Bush Michelle Obama Michelle LeVon Joe Biden Harvey Mansfield Barack Hussein Kanye West Aristotle Scorebet Michael Clinton Brioni Hitler Elisa Venn
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On today's show, we have a special guest on the show, and it's not a guest who should be celebrating July 4th the way you'd expect: TikTok's own TikTok. She's got a lot of thoughts on it, and we're going to talk about it.

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00:00:45 Not everybody is happy that America is 250 years old.
00:00:49 Some people wish we had died long before.
00:00:52 And they think it is wrong of you to celebrate.
00:00:54 Right. Where do we find such excruple degeneracy?
00:00:59 We find it, of course, on TikTok.
00:01:00 I want to remind everybody because we are coming out of May.
00:01:04 Septim piercing.
00:01:05 And then there's going to be June.
00:01:06 And then there's going to be July.
00:01:08 It's always the tell. 0.82
00:01:09 I want to remind everybody that July 4th is f***ing cancelled.
00:01:18 It's cancelled. It means nothing.
00:01:20 It's trash. It's garbage. 1.00
00:01:22 It's something we vomited up, apparently. 1.00
00:01:24 If I hear a single firework, if I see a barbecue out there, motherfuckers, it is canceled. 0.99
00:01:35 Aristotle believed that one's physique had a relation to one's other virtues. 0.99
00:01:41 He was an early looks maxer.
00:01:42 He believed that you really could judge a book by its cover. 0.77
00:01:47 And ugly people can be virtuous.
00:01:50 It's not even about natural ugliness so much.
00:01:53 When you see someone with the Jolly Rancher blue hair, when you see someone who just looks like on the brink of death all the time with no underlying medical reason, when you see crucially, when you see the septum piercing, you know that you're dealing with someone whose intellect and will have been rotted to the core.
00:02:12 And that should signal to you, that should play upon your prejudice, which is good, which we rely upon a lot.
00:02:20 That should signal to you that whatever you're about to hear is probably very, very wrong, if not influenced by Satan.
00:02:30 Next one. 1.00
00:02:31 250 years of freedom, my f***ing entire ass. 0.99
00:02:34 We cannot celebrate freedom while people are actively being stripped of political power and civil rights. 1.00
00:02:41 Y'all motherfuckers were lecturing black people on how we needed to be grateful for Donald Trump because he did so much to pardon and free black people. 0.99
00:02:50 He did so much with his selective ass prison reform. 1.00
00:02:54 You have nothing to say. 0.96
00:02:55 Prison reform is like the one thing Trump did that I hated.
00:02:58 The one thing he's ever done that I hated.
00:03:00 About the continued disenfranchisement of felon. 0.86
00:03:07 I love how she just conflates black people with criminals.
00:03:10 It's just totally, casually, no explanation at all. 0.93
00:03:15 She sees the Venn diagram of black people and criminals to be a circle. 0.76
00:03:22 Like, cool it, Bull Connor. 0.99
00:03:24 Hey, cool it with the racist remarks. 0.99
00:03:27 You've got to keep the white and the black. 0.98
00:03:29 There's a great political lesson that comes out of that TikTok, though. 0.96
00:03:32 I mentioned that basically the one thing Trump has ever done that I really, really, really
00:03:38 disagreed with was the prison reform, the jailbreak bill in the first term where he sprung a bunch of
00:03:44 criminals at a prison. And it's funny when people, they say, Michael, you're too positive on Trump.
00:03:50 You never criticized Trump. I say, that's not true. I hated that jailbreak bill. I hated prison
00:03:54 reform, which is the one thing that a lot of those people usually like. But I thought it was a bad
00:03:59 idea. It's okay. People can only be right at most 99.3% of the time. In any case, it's a reminder
00:04:05 pander as to why it's not a good idea to pander to people who just fundamentally disagree with you.
00:04:11 The people who want to abolish prisons, the people who want to let the criminals out of jail,
00:04:15 you're not going to win those people over. Trump can win over a bunch of black voters. He did 0.94
00:04:19 historically, but he's not winning her. He's not going to win a bunch of criminals. He's got,
00:04:23 you know, he's going to win like, you know, normal good people. So if we could, if we could do it
00:04:28 over, you can't repeat history, but if we could do it over, we need to put more people in prison.
00:04:32 The problem is not over-incarceration.
00:04:34 The problem is under-incarceration.
00:04:36 As long as we have crime, we have an under-incarceration problem.
00:04:39 Next one. 1.00
00:04:40 I'm happy to report that America's 250th birthday party was as ghetto as we thought. 1.00
00:04:45 Here are some clips from inside the event, and it looks to be a sweaty time. 1.00
00:04:49 Just malt, liquor, and bologna.
00:04:51 And everybody's dressed like it's 2003, but not in a good way.
00:04:54 Oh, and then these two thugs got into a fist brawl just feet away from the White House.
00:05:00 Look at this.
00:05:01 usual suspects. Okay. So there's a little irony to this because usually the videos of people
00:05:09 getting into fights on the streets, it's usually black people. But in this case, 0.84
00:05:12 it's white people. So you say, yeah, look at those thugs. Yeah. They're the usual suspects. 1.00
00:05:20 It's okay. He's having, he's having fun mocking white working class aesthetics. 0.94
00:05:26 And this is a criticism that you usually don't see coming from black people. This is more a 0.91
00:05:31 criticism you get from white liberals. Because it's the safest group to beat up on. You're 0.92
00:05:37 allowed to beat up on them. And you won't be called racist, and you won't even be called
00:05:41 classist. It's just fun. The white working class and the white working class aesthetic,
00:05:45 you know, WWE, UFC, you know, dirt bikes and bald eagles and explosions, that's mocked by the
00:05:55 self-styled cultural elite and just about everybody else. And Trump really leans into
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00:07:18 And so this has been the knock on Trump for 10 years. 1.00
00:07:20 He seems like white trash. 1.00
00:07:22 Oh, he's just leaning into the populism. 1.00
00:07:26 Even not just the white working class.
00:07:29 Trump, oh, he's named in all these rap songs. 0.92
00:07:31 He's got the style of a rapper or a gangster.
00:07:34 Yeah, that's true, and he embraces it, and it's what gives him a lot of cross-cultural appeal
00:07:38 because he is a billionaire.
00:07:41 He was born rich.
00:07:42 My father gave me a small loan of a million dollars.
00:07:44 He has steakhouses and luxury golf courses, and he wears nice Brioni suits and all the rest of it.
00:07:50 But his tastes tend to be the tastes of normal people, not of just the upper crust of the
00:07:59 upper crust of the aristocracy.
00:08:02 When Trump orders his steak, he doesn't order it like all the fancy people do,
00:08:06 rare or medium rare.
00:08:07 He orders it burnt with ketchup.
00:08:09 When he wants entertainment, he doesn't go to the opera.
00:08:11 I like the opera.
00:08:12 He doesn't go to the opera.
00:08:13 He doesn't go to the ballet.
00:08:14 He goes to UFC.
00:08:16 Trump goes to see the Knicks game because he couldn't.
00:08:18 he said, this league is so left wing, but it's great entertainment. And they mock him for it.
00:08:23 I think they mock him for it at their own peril. Normal people like that stuff. Okay. So that's
00:08:28 fun. Mock him. He's too relatable. He's not pretentious enough. He's look at this guy.
00:08:34 He's not even condescending. Yeah. Okay. I guess that's how he got elected at least twice and won
00:08:38 the popular vote. Today on America. Septim on a man. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. The Obama's reminded us
00:08:43 who we are, bitch. 1.00
00:08:47 I know that 1.00
00:08:48 orange motherfucker is 1.00
00:08:50 mad. 1.00
00:08:53 I'm Batman. 1.00
00:08:54 Bitch, you had 1.00
00:08:55 Biden, 1.00
00:08:59 Bush, Clinton,
00:09:02 Obama, 1.00
00:09:02 bitch. It was giving 1.00
00:09:03 presidential avengers, bitch. 1.00
00:09:07 Okay? 1.00
00:09:08 This is what America 250 1.00
00:09:10 is supposed to look like, bitch. 1.00
00:09:13 Okay? 1.00
00:09:13 This was America 250. 1.00
00:09:15 I don't know what that shit on the White House lawn was. 1.00
00:09:18 Michelle Obama, you know, America doesn't deserve her. 1.00
00:09:24 They don't deserve a Michelle Obama presidential run. 1.00
00:09:27 You don't deserve Michelle LeVon, bitch. 1.00
00:09:31 You don't deserve Michelle LeVon. 1.00
00:09:33 He's just repeating himself seven times for every quasi point he makes.
00:09:38 intelligence
00:09:40 graceful
00:09:41 class
00:09:42 intelligence 1.00
00:09:44 qualifications bitch 1.00
00:09:47 even through 1.00
00:09:51 the disrespect
00:09:52 I was given hope today
00:09:55 it was a hug that was
00:09:56 it was like a hug to the country
00:09:58 it really was
00:09:59 and I don't care what they say
00:10:03 you can never
00:10:04 make me hate Barack Hussein 1.00
00:10:07 and Michelle LeVon, bitch. 1.00
00:10:10 Play with your mother. 1.00
00:10:11 Don't play with me.
00:10:15 Why does he use their middle names
00:10:17 or their maiden names? 1.00
00:10:18 Yeah, the black homosexual men 1.00
00:10:21 are one of the stranger groups 1.00
00:10:23 because black men 0.99
00:10:25 are one of the last groups in America
00:10:28 who have retained a real pride
00:10:31 in masculine behavior.
00:10:33 This is a point that the Harvard professor 0.95
00:10:35 harvey mansfield made in his book manliness 20 years ago black men still retain a they've they 0.98
00:10:44 valorize masculinity whereas other demographics don't really do that anymore and so the the black 0.75
00:10:51 effeminate man that's a that's a weird one i think so my sexuality is weird and then it gets 0.99
00:10:59 even weirder well one i mean you knew you were in for it the minute you saw that not just a septum
00:11:04 ring, but a scepter ring on a man. That's really confounding. That's a red flag. But when he says
00:11:10 how much he loves George Bush, I say, hold on, wait a second. I remember when Kanye West was
00:11:15 saying George Bush hates black people and Bush was Hitler and all this. But because you get 0.98
00:11:19 all of the presidents and the first ladies other than Trump at the Barack Obama giant garbage can
00:11:24 in the middle of Chicago, he says this was the presidential Avengers. And it just feels so
00:11:29 contrived. It feels so corporate. And that's what he leans into at the end. He's like, oh yeah,
00:11:33 the Avengers. We just love, we just want to go back to George Bush and Joe Biden. That's what
00:11:37 the people really want. Do you? I don't think you do. He says, that's, it's not a corporate event
00:11:42 without those guys. And that's the real truth of it. Yeah, you're right. It's not, you're right.
00:11:46 Yeah. It's all the big corporate events. They drag those kinds of people out. It feels the Bush's
00:11:51 and the Biden's and Obama's to some degree. Yeah. They feel very corporate. I was possessed.
00:11:57 And Trump's not that he's not, he doesn't appeal to the corporate boardrooms and he doesn't really
00:12:02 appeal to, I don't know, to the old establishment. He kind of broke that, which is why he's the real
00:12:08 rock star and the actual rock stars have become, I don't know, have become like politicians. Next
00:12:15 one. What's up, y'all, man? Happy 4th of July, man. I don't know who needed to hear this,
00:12:19 but I'm at that age now where if you're popping fireworks after 12 o'clock, I'm calling the 0.99
00:12:23 police on your ass. There's too much going on with Trump, Iran. You got to worry about the 1.00
00:12:28 Lions are ready.
00:12:29 You can't even walk outside no more. 1.00
00:12:31 So wrap that shit up at 1130 1.00
00:12:33 because when 12 a.m. hit, 1.00
00:12:34 I don't need to hear shit. 1.00
00:12:36 That shit sound like gunshots 1.00
00:12:37 when 12 hit the last night. 1.00
00:12:39 You feel me?
00:12:39 And I'm not playing. 1.00
00:12:41 But shit, happy 4th of July, man. 1.00
00:12:42 Y'all go eat something good today, man. 1.00
00:12:44 I just had to get my little spit up.
00:12:45 That was fine.
00:12:46 I don't really have a problem with that.
00:12:48 I agree.
00:12:48 I have little kids.
00:12:49 I don't want people setting off fireworks
00:12:50 and waking my kids up,
00:12:51 dragging me out the next day.
00:12:52 That's fine.
00:12:53 I don't know why he would blame,
00:12:54 you know, Trump or anything for that.
00:12:57 he vaguely references
00:12:59 the war in Iran
00:13:00 but you know
00:13:01 all the gunshots
00:13:01 in these cities 0.54
00:13:02 those are all run by Democrats 0.99
00:13:03 but I agree with him
00:13:04 yeah I agree
00:13:06 I wouldn't have agreed
00:13:06 10 years ago
00:13:07 but I'm a father of four
00:13:09 I agree
00:13:10 I don't want them
00:13:11 waking my kids up at night
00:13:12 alright there's one
00:13:12 there's some bipartisan
00:13:13 agreement at the end
00:13:14 the rest of them
00:13:15 pretty crazy
00:13:15 happy 4th of July
00:13:17 that was great content
00:13:27 We'll be right back.