Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - The Left is Taking one L After Another, Live with Michael Knowles | Triggered Ep. 217

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:05:25.000 Happy President's Day, especially with your guy's favorite president in charge again.

00:05:30.000 We had yet another weekend of non-stop breaking news, and my father isn't slowing down one bit, including on the racetrack.

00:05:41.000 Also, J.D. Vance went to Germany and delivered a reality check that had the globalists.

00:05:48.000 The people who hate us, the people who've given up all of their freedoms and rights other than those in charge, perhaps.

00:05:54.000 He had them in tears, quite literally.

00:05:57.000 And later, Daily Wire host Michael Knowles will be here, and he recently went into the left-wing's lion den and absolutely obliterated the entire Democrat Party platform.

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00:07:08.000 And joining me now from the Birch Gold Group is Philip Patrick.

00:07:12.000 How are you, Philip?

00:07:13.000 Doing very well.

00:07:14.000 Thank you for having me.

00:07:15.000 All right.

00:07:16.000 So gold has been in the news quite a bit lately, Philip, with its recent all-time highs.

00:07:21.000 What's driving the gold price right now?

00:07:24.000 Look, it is.

00:07:26.000 We saw 40 record new highs throughout 2024 and several record highs already this year.

00:07:33.000 Short answer in terms of what's causing it.

00:07:35.000 Demand, right?

00:07:36.000 And demand is at all-time highs.

00:07:39.000 Total gold demand set a quarterly record of almost 5,000 tons of gold by the end of 2024. Central banks bought more than 1,000 tons for the third consecutive year.

00:07:51.000 We've just seen the three biggest years in human history of gold buying by central banks.

00:07:58.000 Overall, I think the most Powerful dynamic driving gold's price is currency, right?

00:08:04.000 And I think we have to remember that over the last number of years, the Fed has printed more dollars than the rest of American history all combined together.

00:08:13.000 On top of that, as we've discussed before, Biden's 2022 weaponization of the dollar against Russia directly resulted in a five-fold growth.

00:08:23.000 Of central bank gold buying.

00:08:25.000 So we're seeing demand from central banks.

00:08:27.000 We're seeing investment demand and technology demand all growing for precious metals throughout 2024. So there's been a lot of talk recently about disruptions in the physical gold market.

00:08:38.000 What exactly is going on there?

00:08:40.000 I'm hearing Elon wants to video to see if there's actual proof of the US reserves at Fort Knox, if it's actually there.

00:08:47.000 I guess that's 4,500 tons.

00:08:50.000 What do you think is going on there?

00:08:53.000 By the way, Elon's absolutely right.

00:08:55.000 Ron Paul's been calling for a public audit of Fort Knox for 30 years, and they won't do it, citing national security, right?

00:09:04.000 But in my mind...

00:09:05.000 Why would somebody resist an audit, right?

00:09:08.000 It's simply for clarity.

00:09:10.000 So it's concerning.

00:09:11.000 And I think Elon's heading down the right path.

00:09:14.000 We need more transparency.

00:09:16.000 The London market's very similar.

00:09:18.000 It's getting crazy.

00:09:20.000 Demand for gold is at an all-time high in New York.

00:09:23.000 So they are shipping and almost emptying out the Bank of England vault.

00:09:28.000 To meet demand here in the United States in anticipation of tariffs and a continuing surge in demand.

00:09:35.000 And it's looking like they may have technically defaulted.

00:09:39.000 London are not getting the metals out in time.

00:09:42.000 So it's an interesting time in the precious metals market.

00:09:45.000 Demand is creating some uncertainty given that only 4% of all the gold being traded is physical.

00:09:52.000 Now people are requesting physical delivery.

00:09:54.000 So it's an interesting time, but it's being driven by demand.

00:09:58.000 I know there's a lot of confidence right now that the Trump administration is going to turn the American economy around.

00:10:04.000 Obviously, that takes some time.

00:10:06.000 People say, why haven't egg prices gone down yet?

00:10:07.000 I'm like, guys, we took over a disaster.

00:10:11.000 That doesn't just turn around overnight.

00:10:12.000 We can start opening doors, shedding light on things, but it doesn't happen right away.

00:10:18.000 What's the case for diversifying with gold?

00:10:20.000 I mean, it's as strong as ever, and you're absolutely correct.

00:10:24.000 We are finally now heading down the right path, but the administration are telling us to expect a bumpy road, and they're right, right?

00:10:33.000 How do you deal with a $36 trillion debt problem without some shorter-term hardships?

00:10:38.000 Now, it is encouraging, right?

00:10:41.000 Doge is very encouraging, looking at government efficiency.

00:10:45.000 President Trump is...

00:10:47.000 Pushing to rebuild a manufacturing base, but they're going to need time, right?

00:10:53.000 In the meantime...

00:10:54.000 We've got spending issues.

00:10:56.000 We have de-dollarization.

00:10:57.000 We have inflation, which, as you know, was caused by the last administration.

00:11:01.000 And it's difficult to iron out.

00:11:03.000 So we've still got a bumpy road in front of us.

00:11:06.000 Precious metals are about the most conducive asset for climates like this, right?

00:11:12.000 You know, we hit many records last year.

00:11:15.000 We continue to hit new records and all-time highs this year.

00:11:18.000 I expect it to continue as President Trump and the team try and iron out.

00:11:23.000 But the argument for precious metals today, still very, very strong.

00:11:28.000 Well, Philip, thank you very much.

00:11:30.000 Great having you on.

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00:11:36.000 Text Don Jr., D-O-N-J-R, to the number 989898. And now, with all of that, let's get into some of the top headlines of the week.

00:11:48.000 Over the weekend, Team USA showed what America will stand for under my father.

00:11:54.000 And we will not be pushed around anymore, folks.

00:11:57.000 And we won't tolerate having our national anthem booed by other countries.

00:12:02.000 And if you do, here's exactly what will happen to you.

00:12:07.000 We're going to drop the gloves right away.

00:12:14.000 Yep.

00:12:19.000 Sam Bennett.

00:12:20.000 Brady Kachuk.

00:12:22.000 What a tilt.

00:12:25.000 What a winner.

00:12:26.000 Miller.

00:12:27.000 Miller dropped the gloves.

00:12:29.000 Perico is going to answer.

00:12:30.000 Perico.

00:12:31.000 The way speeds Eichel into the zone.

00:12:34.000 Flipping it through.

00:12:35.000 Scores!

00:12:37.000 Game tied!

00:12:38.000 As Team USA has answered.

00:12:42.000 And away goes Larkin.

00:12:43.000 It's a 2-1.

00:12:43.000 Larkin scores!

00:12:45.000 Dylan Larkin and Team USA has the lead.

00:12:49.000 Down the ice, Larkin with the open net.

00:12:55.000 Across to Gensel, scores.

00:12:58.000 Jake Gensel's got his second.

00:13:03.000 And a clincher here for Team USA.

00:13:08.000 That's going to do it.

00:13:09.000 A hard-fought Team USA victory.

00:13:13.000 And meanwhile, while that was nice, you'd think the Canadians would probably be better at hockey than...

00:13:19.000 It's very cold up there.

00:13:20.000 But I guess that's what happens when you antagonize America.

00:13:25.000 But in the meantime, my father isn't slowing down one little bit.

00:13:32.000 Yesterday...

00:13:32.000 he visited the Daytona 500 and even took a lap around the track, Daytona Motor Speedway in the Beast.

00:13:41.000 And Mr. President, the radio is yours.

00:13:45.000 This is your favorite president.

00:13:53.000 I'm a big fan.

00:13:54.000 I am a really big fan of you people that you do this.

00:13:58.000 I don't know, but I just want you to be safe.

00:14:00.000 You're talented people and you're great people and great Americans.

00:14:04.000 Have a good day.

00:14:05.000 Have a lot of fun.

00:14:06.000 And I'll see you later.

00:14:07.000 Well, I imagine if you're at Daytona, if you're a racing fan, probably pretty MAGA.

00:14:15.000 I'm not sure the sound on that mic was all that awesome.

00:14:17.000 I think we could...

00:14:19.000 That sounded a little jumbled, but it was an awesome day.

00:14:22.000 I remember when I got to do that, man, a couple years ago when my father was president the first time around and just buzzing Daytona Motor Speedway in Air Force One and then seeing the entire crowd just go nuts.

00:14:37.000 It was absolutely awesome.

00:14:40.000 And while the Trump White House continues to rack up win after win by deporting illegals, rooting out waste and stopping fraud, the media is getting dizzy while they spin in circles.

00:14:54.000 Here's CBS anchor Margaret Brennan yet again showing just how dumb the mainstream media really is interviewing Secretary of State Marco Rubio, suggesting that free speech is what caused the rise of Hitler and the Holocaust. suggesting that free speech is what caused the rise of You cannot make this insanity and this level of stupidity up, folks. 1.00

00:15:18.000 Standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide. 1.00

00:15:24.000 And he met with the head of a political party that has far right views and some historic ties to extreme groups.

00:15:34.000 The context of that was Changing the tone of it.

00:15:40.000 And you know that, that the censorship was specifically about the right.

00:15:45.000 No, I have to disagree with you.

00:15:47.000 Free speech was not used to conduct a genocide.

00:15:50.000 The genocide was conducted by an authoritarian Nazi regime that happened to also be genocidal because they hated Jews and they hated minorities and they hated those.

00:15:57.000 They had a list of people they hated, but primarily the Jews.

00:16:00.000 There was no free speech in Nazi Germany.

00:16:02.000 There was none.

00:16:03.000 There was also no opposition in Nazi Germany.

00:16:05.000 They were a sole and only party that governed that country.

00:16:08.000 So that's not an accurate reflection of history.

00:16:11.000 It never seems to be an accurate reflection of history.

00:16:14.000 They just say things hoping that no one will actually call them out.

00:16:17.000 But again, in this Trump administration, those days are over.

00:16:21.000 We will speak truth to liars in the media because that is speaking truth to power.

00:16:26.000 Unfortunately, they still have a lot of power.

00:16:29.000 But as you can see, their bias knows no bounds.

00:16:33.000 Now, those remarks came in response to Vice President Vance J.D.'s speech.

00:16:37.000 In Germany last week, where he excoriated the Europeans for putting censorship, open borders, endless war, and woke madness over the simple safety and security of their very own citizens.

00:16:52.000 Check this out.

00:16:54.000 Oppressing opinions isn't election interference.

00:16:57.000 Even when people express views outside your own country, and even when those people are very influential.

00:17:04.000 And trust me, I say this with all humor, if American democracy can survive 10 years of Greta Thunberg's scolding, you guys can survive a few months of Elon Musk.

00:17:16.000 But what German democracy...

00:17:19.000 What no democracy, American, German, or European will survive is telling millions of voters that their thoughts and concerns, their aspirations, their pleas for relief are invalid or unworthy of even being considered.

00:17:35.000 Well, Vance's speech even had one European diplomat in tears, literally in tears.

00:17:43.000 You can't make this stuff up.

00:17:45.000 No wonder Europe's almost over.

00:17:47.000 I mean, it's hard to believe.

00:17:48.000 Check this out.

00:17:50.000 One did this better than President Zelensky.

00:17:54.000 Let me conclude and this becomes difficult.

00:18:22.000 And yesterday, Germany and the media proved Vance right as German officials went on the record to 60 Minutes, saying that posting an insult online is a crime.

00:18:34.000 You literally cannot make it up.

00:18:37.000 Posting an insult is a crime.

00:18:38.000 The people who've destroyed European civilization think that's a crime, but you know what? 0.99

00:18:44.000 We'll let in a bunch of rapists, and if they rape our women and children, I mean, who cares? 1.00

00:18:47.000 It's just a cultural anomaly that you just can't quite understand. 0.99

00:18:52.000 To insult somebody in public?

00:18:54.000 Yes.

00:18:55.000 Yes, it is.

00:18:55.000 And it's a crime to insult them online as well?

00:18:58.000 Yes.

00:18:59.000 The fine could be even higher if you insult someone in the internet.

00:19:04.000 Why?

00:19:05.000 Because in the internet, it stays there.

00:19:08.000 If we are talking face-to-face, you insult me, I insult you, okay, finish.

00:19:12.000 But if you're in the internet, if I insult you or a politician...

00:19:16.000 That sticks around forever.

00:19:17.000 Yeah. 0.99

00:19:18.000 There's no chance they can survive with these asinine policies on there. 0.58

00:19:22.000 Don't forget, the guy that was crying on that stage, the guy that was boohooing, that was the guy that laughed when my father called out Russia and their energy prices in Europe, that they wouldn't be dependent on them, yada, yada, yada.

00:19:37.000 And as always, like with any good conspiracy or with any leftist politician, anything they say, they were wrong.

00:19:44.000 My father was right.

00:19:45.000 And we've seen what's happened over the last few years. 0.73

00:19:48.000 So these are the incompetents that are running Europe. 0.81

00:19:52.000 And they keep electing themselves, keep destroying their civilization. 1.00

00:19:56.000 It's ridiculous. 0.90

00:19:57.000 But remember now, if you make fun of someone online, it's a crime in Europe. 0.69

00:20:02.000 So they are not a bastion of free speech.

00:20:05.000 They are not a bastion of democracy. 0.99

00:20:07.000 They are an invaded nation run by absolute lunatics. 0.99

00:20:13.000 So whether it's Germany or so many of the other countries there, hopefully they do something about it before it's too late, if it's not already too late. 0.76

00:20:21.000 Speaking of invasions, on the border, we are already seeing historic success as the era of catch and release is over, folks.

00:20:32.000 One shelter in San Diego even says they've not had one migrant walk through its doors since my father took office.

00:20:41.000 And the facilities that are filling up are the ones filled up with those who are being removed, repatriated, and deported.

00:20:51.000 Here's border czar Tom Homan laying it out right now.

00:20:57.000 Has closed an office that was opened up to receive illegals. 0.94

00:21:01.000 What's that tell us?

00:21:05.000 That tells us the border is more secure than it's ever been.

00:21:09.000 We're going to have additional facilities built to detain for removal, not to hold to release.

00:21:15.000 Detained for removal.

00:21:16.000 That is what the Trump administration is doing.

00:21:18.000 That's what the promise that President Trump made to the American people.

00:21:21.000 We're concentrating on the export program.

00:21:23.000 We're not going to be—catch and release is over.

00:21:25.000 So those facilities that were at great taxpayer expense, to welcome people flying to the city of their choice, give them a free hotel room at taxpayer expense, three meals a day, free medical attention, those days are over.

00:21:36.000 We're going to detain, we end catch and release, and we're going to hold people to remove, not to release.

00:21:42.000 And on the economy?

00:21:43.000 My father is making it clear that America isn't going to be taken advantage of any longer, and that reciprocal tariffs are coming if other countries choose to put tariffs on us.

00:21:55.000 But of course, if you make your products here in the United States, if you employ great, blue-collar, hard-working Americans, then you don't have to worry about the Trump tariffs.

00:22:08.000 So maybe you should start listening.

00:22:12.000 Maybe you should start manufacturing in America again. 1.00

00:22:15.000 And foreign companies seem to be getting the message loud and clear.

00:22:20.000 Just look at this piece from Fox Business, where even a quartz and marble company from China just announced a $250 million investment into America, writing, and I quote, with President Trump in power, we're more excited than ever to commit to the United States, adding...

00:22:44.000 Hmm.

00:22:49.000 Interesting, guys.

00:22:50.000 Are you tired of winning yet?

00:22:52.000 Uh, is it nice when the adults are actually back in charge?

00:22:57.000 Seems to be to me.

00:22:58.000 But to those on the left, many are still doubling down on the woke nonsense that lost them the election in the first place.

00:23:06.000 For example, our next guest, Michael Knowles, Had this exchange with a trans activist, and it was quite the moment.

00:23:19.000 It's allowing men to be treated for the purposes of the law as women. 1.00

00:23:23.000 It's men taking 900 sports trophies from women in recent years.

00:23:27.000 Okay, that's not it.

00:23:27.000 They didn't take 900?

00:23:28.000 They took 900. This report just came out from the United Nations, actually.

00:23:32.000 890 trophies and medals across 600 women who were competing, competitors, across 29 different sports and 400 competitions.

00:23:40.000 That came out like yesterday.

00:23:41.000 And they deserved them.

00:23:43.000 It didn't happen, and they deserve them.

00:23:45.000 Okay, that is the logic I hear from the pro trans crowd.

00:23:48.000 Thank you.

00:23:48.000 They do deserve it.

00:23:50.000 We're going to get into all of that in just a few seconds with Michael.

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00:25:15.000 And guys, joining me now, host of the Michael Knoll Show on the Daily Wire, founder of Mayflower Cigars, the one and only Michael Knolls.

00:25:26.000 Good to have you back, Michael.

00:25:29.000 I think Michael's there.

00:25:33.000 Voice coming through?

00:25:35.000 I got you now, buddy.

00:25:36.000 There we are.

00:25:37.000 We're just going to have to fire some people on this side of the mic. 0.98

00:25:42.000 It's tough, but someone's got to do it.

00:25:43.000 In the Trump economy, they'll probably be able to find other jobs.

00:25:48.000 Probably not in the federal government, though.

00:25:49.000 I understand those jobs, they're gone for good, which is fun by me.

00:25:54.000 I've seen plenty.

00:25:55.000 I've seen the incompetence.

00:25:56.000 I've seen the graft.

00:25:57.000 I've seen the fraud.

00:25:58.000 I imagine Doge has only just begun.

00:26:02.000 Given that those people allowed those things to happen, given that there wasn't whistleblowers for all of this insanity, I'm not sure that they're hireable outside of government.

00:26:11.000 I don't know that they're qualified to do anything other than be a bureaucrat.

00:26:16.000 I feel badly for them, but I sort of feel like they've also done this to themselves.

00:26:21.000 Maybe that can be part of the trade with the tariffs.

00:26:23.000 You know, as we reshore American manufacturing, maybe we can just ship all of those bureaucrats overseas to Mexico, Canada, China. 0.96

00:26:31.000 That seems like a good trade to me.

00:26:33.000 I certainly do.

00:26:35.000 But, you know, you saw the clip, you know, just now, you talking to, you know, another radical activist.

00:26:41.000 I've seen all the other clips from your show where you literally debate with a bunch of left-wing activists.

00:26:47.000 It was like...

00:26:48.000 Batting practice at, like, T-ball.

00:26:51.000 We just played a clip.

00:26:53.000 What is that like?

00:26:54.000 Because it's infuriating for me to watch it because it's like, well, that didn't happen.

00:26:58.000 And if it did, it's great.

00:26:59.000 And now that we know that it happened, it's actually wonderful and we must continue to promote it.

00:27:06.000 What's going on here?

00:27:07.000 I mean, they just keep lying and lying and lying.

00:27:09.000 But I think the good news is it exposes people and, you know, hopefully that shifts the momentum.

00:27:15.000 Well, Don, I think you know exactly what that's like.

00:27:18.000 Somebody tells me you've been surrounded by a lot of people who want to rip you to shreds in recent years, as have most conservative Americans, actually, because the mainstream culture is extremely liberal.

00:27:29.000 And over the last five to 15 years, it has pushed really, really radical stuff.

00:27:34.000 The open borders, the trans craziness, you name it. 1.00

00:27:38.000 So most people are familiar with being surrounded by people who want to rip you apart.

00:27:43.000 The Surrounded podcast just...

00:27:45.000 Distills that into its most concentrated form so that you're sitting there in the center surrounded by a couple dozen people who disagree with you on everything.

00:27:54.000 And some people seem surprised that when I went on this show, chatted with these guys for like two hours or something, that I was calm.

00:28:03.000 But I think that most conservatives can behave that way because...

00:28:08.000 The facts are on our side.

00:28:09.000 We're confident in what we believe.

00:28:12.000 Reality does not actually change despite the fantasies of the radical left.

00:28:16.000 So, yeah, why wouldn't we become, you know?

00:28:19.000 And I think actually in this particular political moment, that's all the clearer.

00:28:24.000 When you've got the establishment media, the radical left activists in the government.

00:28:30.000 Shrieking and hollering because of, as we were just discussing, Elon and Doge or because J.D. Vance is scolding Europeans at the Munich Security Conference or because your father is deporting criminal aliens with face tattoos.

00:28:42.000 When the left is screeching and screaming and crying about it.

00:28:47.000 We don't really need to have an emotional reaction because we are confident that what we are doing is right.

00:28:52.000 We know that the American people are behind us.

00:28:55.000 A landslide election with the popular vote will show you that.

00:28:58.000 And now we happen to have some political power so we can restore some sanity to things.

00:29:03.000 I mean, I think it's a mark of a debate.

00:29:05.000 Just generally, that the side that is screaming and pulling its hair out and turning red in the face versus the side that is calm and collected and just stating facts, anybody, any reasonable person who's watching that debate is going to be on the side of the sane, normal person.

00:29:21.000 And I think maybe you see that play out on YouTube, but I think we've seen that play out nationally in the last six months.

00:29:27.000 Yeah, because it's sort of amazing, right?

00:29:28.000 I mean, the left doesn't really have an equivalent where...

00:29:32.000 You know, someone who's actually versed in these things sort of gets owned, you know, by one of these activist types, right?

00:29:38.000 It's the conservatives.

00:29:39.000 They'll let anyone talk.

00:29:40.000 They'll let the thought leaders of the left.

00:29:43.000 They'll debate them.

00:29:44.000 They'll talk about them.

00:29:45.000 You know, I feel like the left equivalent, they find like someone who knows nothing about it.

00:29:48.000 They try to find, you know, probably someone who means well, but just isn't all that educated on it, even if they are disagreeing with it.

00:29:54.000 And like, that's when they're like, oh, I got you because they found, you know, the lowest IQ individual on the right to actually debate.

00:30:01.000 And then it's You know, they don't have an equivalent.

00:30:04.000 They try to own people who just, you know, wouldn't be able to do that, wouldn't be great at it.

00:30:09.000 And you don't even see that anymore because it feels like literally toddlers could go up against their narrative right now and demolish it.

00:30:17.000 I think it is pretty telling that especially with the Jubilee Surrounded show, generally speaking, it's one conservative versus a couple dozen radical leftists.

00:30:27.000 And it's usually not the other way around because if it were the other way around, the 25 conservatives would be respectful and would probably present pretty good arguments and they would be genial about it.

00:30:39.000 And that doesn't make great TV. So I think actually it's the difference between the left and the right that is kind of built in there.

00:30:47.000 In terms of practical politics, one of the first rules is that when your opponent is making a mistake, you should not interrupt.

00:30:55.000 And that's generally what happens on here.

00:30:57.000 When the radical leftists are spewing total nonsense, you can kind of guide them into their inconsistencies, but really you can just let them speak.

00:31:06.000 They're going to hang their own arguments with their own rhetorical rope.

00:31:09.000 And at the national level, I think that's exactly what's happened in the last five years.

00:31:13.000 Really, you could say that's what's happened for the last 50 years.

00:31:16.000 The left has become so extreme, but especially you think that the last five years, record numbers of illegal aliens crossing the border under Biden, Biden basically welcoming them for that.

00:31:26.000 Obviously, the trans craziness, the social policy, even the foreign policy has just spun so out of control. 1.00

00:31:32.000 The left has just made so many mistakes.

00:31:35.000 They've so exposed themselves that the American people broadly turned on them in November, and it's going to take a lot for the left to unwind that.

00:31:45.000 Now, it seems to me, they still haven't really learned any lessons.

00:31:49.000 The one kind of moderate Democrat in the Senate isn't a force anymore, Joe Manchin.

00:31:54.000 So, I don't know.

00:31:55.000 They haven't really learned their lesson at all.

00:31:57.000 And I say, great.

00:31:58.000 Let them speak.

00:32:00.000 Put them on TV. Have them say everything they believe.

00:32:02.000 Have them lose their minds when your father and Elon are exposing graft and fraud at USAID. Have them defend that.

00:32:10.000 For goodness sakes, have the left defending plastic straws. 1.00

00:32:12.000 Love it.

00:32:13.000 That's a 90-10 political issue.

00:32:15.000 You guys want to defend the indefensible?

00:32:17.000 Be my guest.

00:32:18.000 Yeah, and we saw so much of that.

00:32:20.000 You know, Margaret Brennan had a couple great ones.

00:32:22.000 You know, one, I guess it was with J.D. when it was like, well, they only took over, you know, radical Venezuelan gangs only took over a couple of buildings in Colorado, J.D., and then it was with Marco this weekend.

00:32:33.000 I mean, listen, you know, free speech led to the rise of Nazi Germany. 0.55

00:32:38.000 I mean, where are they getting these history books?

00:32:41.000 It's wild, and they keep doing it.

00:32:43.000 So it's not just the... 1.00

00:32:44.000 You know, the dumbest of their movement. 0.99

00:32:46.000 These are the people that they think of as, like, their thought leaders, and they don't get it. 0.99

00:32:51.000 I mean, I love that, to your point, like, let them keep making the mistake.

00:32:54.000 Let them keep talking about it. 0.96

00:32:55.000 But it's actually shocking that they could be that ignorant, given where the world is right now and what's going on over the last four years. 0.88

00:33:02.000 Well, this is what makes me think they're going to keep making these mistakes through the midterms, through the next presidential election. 0.86

00:33:09.000 Even, you mentioned Margaret Brennan on CBS, and she in particular keeps making these mistakes, trying to defend USAID spending that didn't work out very well.

00:33:19.000 But Michael, who wouldn't want to send $7 million for, you know...

00:33:23.000 Trans Elmo cartoons in Guatemala.

00:33:26.000 I mean, it's great use of taxpayer funds when we have crappy roads, crappy health care, crappy education.

00:33:32.000 You know, our country's falling apart.

00:33:34.000 People are getting murdered in the streets.

00:33:35.000 I mean, isn't that still great use of funds, Michael?

00:33:38.000 Come on.

00:33:38.000 Well, the framers spoke so highly of transgender Argentinian Elmo.

00:33:43.000 It's literally in the Constitution.

00:33:45.000 Of course.

00:33:46.000 Where?

00:33:47.000 It's there, I can tell you, Michael.

00:33:50.000 They keep doing it, and you alluded to it just now, but Margaret Brennan suggesting, her words not mine, that the Holocaust...

00:34:00.000 was caused by an abundance of free speech.

00:34:04.000 And you think, you know, look, I'm not the greatest scholar of the Second World War, but it seems to me in 1933 in particular, you had at least three or four major provisions out of Nazi Germany that severely limited free speech and civil liberties.

00:34:17.000 Miss Brennan, can you have any example to the contrary?

00:34:20.000 And of course, they can't offer one. 0.90

00:34:23.000 You know, Ronald Reagan famously said, the problem with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so. 0.96

00:34:30.000 They keep going back to that.

00:34:31.000 I mean, I think this is the most tedious aspect for people left, right, and center in America, that for the American left, including the mainstream...

00:34:39.000 Every moment is 1930s Germany. 0.63

00:34:43.000 Every Republican is Hitler.

00:34:45.000 Every policy is about to bring about the Holocaust. 0.93

00:34:48.000 And people know it's not true.

00:34:49.000 They're completely sick of it. 0.57

00:34:51.000 Believe it or not, other things happened in history beyond the Second World War.

00:34:55.000 And of course, the irony is the people who constantly compare every event to the Second World War.

00:35:00.000 Don't even know that much about the Second World War.

00:35:03.000 They're just exposing a lack of knowledge and political sophistication that is stunning, which is really delightful if you're on the right side of things.

00:35:12.000 Yeah, you don't have to be a World War II scholar to know that, of course, Hitler started banning guns.

00:35:20.000 He was burning books.

00:35:21.000 They limited free speech.

00:35:23.000 That was the beginning of the rise of Nazi Germany.

00:35:26.000 It's literally the opposite of what she said.

00:35:28.000 Anyone who's taken You know, sixth or seventh grade, like, world history would know that, and yet they conveniently either forget or don't know or don't care, all equally bad.

00:35:40.000 Exactly.

00:35:41.000 And there is a reason that the left has sought to censor people.

00:35:46.000 You saw this when JD was lecturing Europe.

00:35:49.000 Europe has been even more egregious about this, effectively banning right-wing political parties, prohibiting people from praying 50 meters away from abortion clinics.

00:35:59.000 I mean, really, really crazy stuff.

00:36:01.000 But you saw it here, too, in the abuses under Biden.

00:36:03.000 The DOJ going after Catholic parishes, arresting pro-lifers in front of their seven kids.

00:36:10.000 Calling parents terrorists and domestic extremists.

00:36:13.000 So we've seen it pretty substantially in America, too.

00:36:16.000 Why is it?

00:36:17.000 This is where debates like the show that I just went on that's going viral, this is where I think you see why they're censoring it.

00:36:24.000 Because if a debate is able to happen in public for everyone to see a fair fight where both sides can be heard, be that on a YouTube interview show or be that in a presidential election, if it's a fair fight, Then the right side is going to win right now, because the left has lost the common sense.

00:36:44.000 And so, thankfully, we were able to get a little foothold into social media, which so tried to destroy your father in 2016 and 2020. Once you get just a little bit of that exposure, you are not only going to win over the choir and your core base, you are going to win over, as we saw, the majority of Americans.

00:37:02.000 Yeah, I mean, it's why the left, they were such Elon fanboys until he helped level that playing field.

00:37:07.000 You know, when they had the entire weight and force of social media, I mean, and they still do, you know, across the broad spectrum of, you know, apps or whatever you want to look at it at, when you have the entire weight and force of mainstream media, and then you have a government backing it up and or subverting truth, whatever it may be, through USAID funding all sorts of other levels of journalism, like...

00:37:31.000 I was always shocked, frankly, that elections are as close as they are.

00:37:35.000 I feel like if I was running the other side with the resources that they had, with the operatives that they had that are all home team, all functioning as the marketing department of the radical left, elections would be like 99.9 to 0.1.

00:37:49.000 It wouldn't even be close.

00:37:51.000 And yet they were still close because the ideas were always absurd.

00:37:54.000 They never made any sense.

00:37:56.000 Once you had a little exposure to that, they freaked out because they realized that they're We're losing badly, and it's the first time they've lost the cultural wars, even with the handicaps that they were giving themselves for all these years, perhaps certainly in my lifetime.

00:38:11.000 Well, and think about this.

00:38:12.000 Elon Musk put his money where our mouths are, $44 billion, to purchase...

00:38:18.000 The smallest major social media platform.

00:38:21.000 We get lost in, you know, Twitter and Facebook and Instagram.

00:38:25.000 We all think it's kind of the same.

00:38:26.000 No.

00:38:27.000 Twitter is by far, or at least was before Elon really made it much better, but it was the smallest one by far compared to Facebook and Google.

00:38:35.000 Just getting that tiny foothold into the social media was enough to shift the entire dynamic of the election. 0.73

00:38:44.000 Just cleaning up One agency of the federal government, USAID. The left loves to say now it's less than one percent of the federal budget, which first of all is a lot of money when you're considering the United States federal budget.

00:38:55.000 But in any case, sure, okay, it's just one agency of the federal government.

00:38:59.000 Just one agency.

00:39:00.000 With all of that graft, all of that abuse, all of those payoffs to fund not only foreign liberalism, but domestic liberalism.

00:39:09.000 Just to use one example, when you've got the taxpayer dollars, you pay your money to the IRS. The IRS funds the federal government.

00:39:16.000 Federal government gives money to USAID. USAID gives money to the Tide Center.

00:39:21.000 The Tide Center funds BLM.

00:39:23.000 BLM goes down, burns down your neighborhood, starts extorting corporate America to further advance leftism. 1.00

00:39:30.000 And it's this hideous feedback loop.

00:39:32.000 That's like one tiny little example.

00:39:34.000 The moment you start shedding a little bit of light on this, I think the people, even those of us who were aware that there was serious corruption, are just astounded by the sheer enormity of it.

00:39:46.000 Yeah, I guess, you know, all these left-wing narratives really collapse on themselves.

00:39:51.000 Once you reduce...

00:39:52.000 The conversation down to basic truths.

00:39:55.000 There's a lot of sort of cognitive dissidence on the left.

00:40:00.000 We're seeing it all play out in very obvious ways.

00:40:04.000 What are some of the other most egregious examples that you've seen play out where you can't even believe that you're having the conversation?

00:40:12.000 Well, I can believe that the left has gotten this extreme because their ideas have consequences.

00:40:19.000 And so left unimpeded, they're going to go all the way from, you know, Gloria Steinem in the 70s saying a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle, all the way to...

00:40:28.000 A woman really can become a man. 1.00

00:40:30.000 And the reason that that particular ideology has really overtaken public discourse is because it's just so obviously ridiculous.

00:40:38.000 And on certain issues, you can negotiate and meet in the middle.

00:40:42.000 You know, the left wants to steal all of our property.

00:40:44.000 We want to keep our property.

00:40:46.000 All right, we're going to meet in the middle and have a 35% tax rate.

00:40:48.000 Not ideal, but you can...

00:40:50.000 Or on gun rights.

00:40:51.000 We want to keep our guns.

00:40:52.000 The left wants to take our guns.

00:40:53.000 They take some of our guns.

00:40:54.000 You can meet in the middle sometimes, unfortunately.

00:40:57.000 On an issue like human nature, there's no meeting in the middle.

00:41:00.000 Either a boy can become a girl or he can't. 1.00

00:41:03.000 It's not like you can suddenly become the opposite sex at age 19 and a half or something.

00:41:07.000 It's either true or it isn't.

00:41:09.000 So that's one reason that I think that issue has really taken off.

00:41:13.000 It's the same reason that the immigration issue has taken off.

00:41:16.000 It's because, as you say, Don, you don't need a PhD in philosophy or history to understand that...

00:41:23.000 Nations need borders.

00:41:25.000 You know, a border is literally the thing that delineates a nation from all of the other nations.

00:41:30.000 So when you have the left with their genius experts coming out and saying, well, actually, you know, we don't really have a border.

00:41:36.000 And actually, the law technically doesn't mean that you can distinguish. 0.98

00:41:38.000 You know, you just think, hey, shut up, man. 0.68

00:41:40.000 I'm pretty sure we can enforce basic immigration law.

00:41:44.000 And if one's political ideology runs contrary to all of our common sense...

00:41:51.000 The left thinks that means there's a problem with our common sense.

00:41:54.000 In reality, it means there's a problem with that political ideology.

00:41:58.000 And if the voters have the opportunity to vote that out, which was a little unclear because the left wanted to take your father off the ballot in this past election.

00:42:06.000 To save democracy, though, Michael.

00:42:09.000 We're going to not let you vote for people to save democracy.

00:42:12.000 And then when the person we do elect stops performing, we're just going to replace them without an election also.

00:42:22.000 Exactly.

00:42:23.000 I mean, you saw this just at the Munich Security Conference that J.D. caused this big ripple at.

00:42:28.000 He said, you know, democracies don't have firewalls.

00:42:31.000 And I think a lot of Americans are not familiar with this term.

00:42:34.000 Germany, and therefore Europe, has this so-called firewall to prevent right-wing parties and even ordinary conservatism from rising in Germany, which is the leader of Europe.

00:42:44.000 And J.D. pointed out, he said, All you guys here, you prattle on and on about democracy, but you're afraid of your voters.

00:42:51.000 You're afraid of your constituents.

00:42:52.000 You won't let them speak online.

00:42:54.000 You arrest them.

00:42:56.000 You have midnight raids because they say something you don't like online.

00:43:00.000 And then you have a political order that actually, formally...

00:43:04.000 Kicks out the right-wing parties through a so-called firewall.

00:43:07.000 And in many ways, I think J.D.'s speech there was reminiscent of Ronald Reagan.

00:43:12.000 Ronald Reagan goes to the Brandenburg Gate, he says, Gorbachev, tear down this wall.

00:43:15.000 What J.D. was saying, literally, to the Germans and to the Europeans was, tear down this firewall.

00:43:21.000 Allow your people who are smart, who have good interests and the heart of your civilization, you know, close to them.

00:43:31.000 Allow them to have their way a little bit.

00:43:33.000 I mean, if you really believe in democracy, live up to what you're speaking.

00:43:38.000 But they don't.

00:43:39.000 They want to have power with the people that are in power.

00:43:42.000 They want to make sure that no one else has a voice.

00:43:44.000 They want to keep doing their thing because there's no consequence to them.

00:43:47.000 And frankly, they probably couldn't make it in a world where it was fair.

00:43:51.000 That's right.

00:43:52.000 They couldn't.

00:43:52.000 They certainly could not.

00:43:53.000 And so that's why what you're seeing.

00:43:55.000 is a real upending of this political order.

00:43:58.000 It's not an original insight.

00:43:59.000 I first saw it from Walter Kern, but he pointed out that this shift from Biden to the second Trump administration feels like an actual peaceful transfer of power.

00:44:10.000 You know, we always hear the left prattle on about the peaceful transfer of power, but when you go from Bush to Clinton to Bush to Obama.

00:44:19.000 It kind of just feels more like people changing shifts at the regular job.

00:44:24.000 This, however, seems like a legitimate transfer of power, and the left is not particularly peaceful about it, but it's a new vision for the country.

00:44:33.000 And every entrenched power is upset about it, other than the people.

00:44:39.000 And the people, happily, in this case, have had their say.

00:44:42.000 Well, we touched on it a little bit, but obviously we're learning that the entire...

00:44:46.000 Woke agenda has really been propped up by our own tax dollars.

00:44:50.000 It was a lot of smoke and mirrors from the start.

00:44:52.000 The left can't really exist without essentially the government subsidies that we're getting.

00:44:57.000 I mean, I noticed that none of the things in USAID or any of the other things went to prop up anything that was even remotely right-leaning or conservative.

00:45:06.000 It was just always the worst of the left.

00:45:09.000 And then you start looking back in hindsight now that you know where this money is coming from.

00:45:13.000 And you understand exactly why they took the positions that they did.

00:45:17.000 It was pay for play.

00:45:19.000 The media artificially propping up those who paid them and allowed them to continue their propaganda.

00:45:28.000 This, I think, is why it was so brilliant to go after USAID first.

00:45:32.000 A lot of people would have said, you know, of all the priorities for the administration, who cares about this?

00:45:38.000 Foreign aid agency.

00:45:40.000 But of course, it wasn't really just about foreign aid.

00:45:43.000 I mean, even the good programs at USAID, and there were a couple of them, but even those had been poisoned by liberalism.

00:45:49.000 I mean, just the fact that Joe Biden...

00:45:52.000 It tied all foreign aid to the promotion of LGBT ideology and abortion.

00:45:56.000 Just that alone poisons it.

00:45:58.000 But of course, so much was leading to domestic unrest and astroturfed leftism.

00:46:03.000 And so it was so brilliant, as the administration is really going into high gear, to say, okay guys, if people really oppose the basic common sense policies that we're instituting, that's fine.

00:46:14.000 They can protest it.

00:46:15.000 This is a democracy.

00:46:17.000 But we are not going to force taxpayers to fund those protests because of the radical leftists in the government.

00:46:23.000 And what's amazing is, ever since those funds have been cut off, Don, have you seen mass protests in the streets, BLM 2.0?

00:46:32.000 I don't know.

00:46:32.000 Maybe I've just missed it.

00:46:34.000 I haven't seen it anywhere.

00:46:36.000 Well, I imagine they were funding all of that, too, by the way.

00:46:40.000 And I'm sure we'll find out more in the coming months.

00:46:43.000 But, you know, we talked about J.D. Vance a little bit.

00:46:46.000 And he literally brought a European diplomat to tears for simply saying we shouldn't have censorship or give away endless money to Ukraine.

00:46:56.000 By the way, that was the same guy that when my father said, hey, Russia's going to own your lunch if you don't have yada, yada, yada.

00:47:01.000 He laughed at him, you know, five or six years ago. 0.99

00:47:05.000 Turns out, like all conspiracy there is, my father was right and the leftist morons were proven wrong. 0.99

00:47:12.000 I mean, what is wrong with these people? 0.99

00:47:14.000 I mean, imagine being brought to tears by just a disagreement of something that, I don't know, seems fairly obvious.

00:47:20.000 Is it just that they see their power slipping away and they understand that they're inextricably linked to that hegemony and it's at risk?

00:47:29.000 I totally understand why not just the one guy, but why so many at the Munich Security Conference would have been brought to tears.

00:47:36.000 Because they, as you say, are seeing their power slip away and they are seeing a fundamental shifting.

00:47:42.000 Of the political order.

00:47:44.000 And I think this is why it was so important.

00:47:46.000 It seems to me like the second Trump administration has been around for three years now.

00:47:51.000 So much has gotten done.

00:47:52.000 I'm actually exhausted by it, which is good.

00:47:55.000 You know, I guess that's what your father said when he talked about being tired of winning.

00:47:58.000 I'm not tired yet.

00:47:59.000 Please don't stop the winning.

00:48:00.000 But I see all of these things happening.

00:48:04.000 And I think many people did not expect.

00:48:06.000 Tariff threats against Colombia, for instance, for not taking our criminal migrants that we're deporting.

00:48:11.000 I think they did not suspect really serious tariffs being levied on China.

00:48:16.000 I think they did not suspect renaming bodies of water, you know, such as the Gulf of America.

00:48:21.000 I don't think they expected this rapidity.

00:48:23.000 And part of the reason why it was so important to do that is so that your father's administration can show there is a new sheriff in town.

00:48:31.000 We are not afraid to wield power.

00:48:34.000 We are the global hegemon.

00:48:36.000 You might like that.

00:48:37.000 You might not like that.

00:48:38.000 But we are that.

00:48:39.000 And we are not going to squander this opportunity.

00:48:42.000 In part, it makes me think there was a certain providence to Joe Biden assuming the presidency for four years, allegedly.

00:48:50.000 I don't know.

00:48:50.000 I haven't seen a lot of evidence that he was all that actively the president.

00:48:53.000 But in a way, there was a kind of providence because the speed and intensity.

00:49:00.000 With which the second Trump administration has been able to hit the ground running, the clarity of political vision is not just an ordinary second term.

00:49:09.000 This feels to me like a major shift.

00:49:12.000 And it's not just me.

00:49:14.000 Look at all the tears that were being shed in Munich last week.

00:49:17.000 A lot of other people are sensing that, too.

00:49:20.000 Yeah, and I think maybe that's what we needed.

00:49:22.000 I would say, hey, you know, the last four years under Biden, it's sort of like addiction, right?

00:49:25.000 Maybe you have to hit rock bottom to understand. 0.92

00:49:28.000 What you have to understand just how fragile it all is and how one dolt like Joe Biden and a couple radical leftists in his cabinet can literally destroy it.

00:49:39.000 We also had those four years to figure out who was actually really good.

00:49:42.000 So you're not just rolling over the 16 to 20 team that we just didn't know any better when we got in.

00:49:47.000 Now they're getting things done to the...

00:49:49.000 Guys like James Carville are like, don't worry, guys.

00:49:53.000 Just wait.

00:49:53.000 They can't keep this up forever and we can get ahead of the narrative again.

00:49:57.000 It's like by the time they get outraged and all the talking points memos go out, it's like there's three things already that have gone on since then.

00:50:04.000 They can't keep up.

00:50:05.000 They don't even know what to be outraged about anymore.

00:50:07.000 This is the really important point too about transparency and giving the voters in a democracy real ample notice of what you're going to do, is that when the supposedly controversial picks for the administration came up, Tulsi Gabbard, Bobby Kennedy, Kash Patel, even Elon Musk over at Doge, no one could seriously argue that this was a big surprise.

00:50:32.000 Your father was campaigning with these people.

00:50:34.000 I was at the Madison Square Garden.

00:50:35.000 But they tried to, right?

00:50:36.000 I didn't elect George Soros or Alex Soros or any one of the other.

00:50:42.000 The difference is my father campaigned with them.

00:50:45.000 I campaigned with them all numerous times.

00:50:48.000 I mean, the American public knew who was going in the cabinet.

00:50:52.000 The American public knew who would be in charge of various things because we made it very clear.

00:50:57.000 Unlike sort of the shadow government of the Democrats, the big funders there, no one voted for any of those people.

00:51:03.000 And they certainly don't campaign with them.

00:51:05.000 They just take their money and run on their radical agenda doing whatever they wish.

00:51:09.000 Exactly.

00:51:10.000 The Democrats, they hide the ball on the real powers there.

00:51:13.000 But when your father goes out, really not beholden to anybody, one of the advantages of running after a very successful business career, is he can say, look, look, Republican squish senators, you don't want to confirm Bobby Kennedy, you don't want to confirm Tulsi Gabbard?

00:51:27.000 Well, the American people voted for them.

00:51:29.000 Or he can say, hey, look, establishment media, you're trying to raise a ruckus about Elon Musk going in and cleaning up the government.

00:51:36.000 I campaigned with him at dozens of rallies.

00:51:39.000 The American people voted for him.

00:51:41.000 So you can lie and pretend that this is some big surprise, but you're going to do so at your own peril.

00:51:46.000 You and the media, the peril of your ratings collapsing, which they have for the liberal media, and you squish Republicans in the Senate, good luck running for re-election because the American people clearly voted for this, okay?

00:51:59.000 And if you want to stymie that now and you want to go side with the swamp and the Democrats and the careerists in the bureaucracy, Be my guest.

00:52:07.000 You're not going to be around Washington very long.

00:52:09.000 Yeah, you're not going to be on the right side of history.

00:52:11.000 And, you know, we had to deal with a couple of those early on in sort of the administrative process, just getting those through.

00:52:17.000 And I think we sent that finally.

00:52:20.000 Conservatives finally, you know, sort of got together and be like, OK, he won.

00:52:24.000 There's a mandate.

00:52:25.000 Popular vote.

00:52:25.000 All the swing states.

00:52:27.000 Yada, yada, yada.

00:52:28.000 He was very clear who he wanted.

00:52:30.000 There were some, you know, squishy Republican senators that weren't going that way.

00:52:33.000 I think that when they made that very clear.

00:52:35.000 You know, guys like you, me, a bunch of the other people, we just sort of went after him and everyone else followed suit.

00:52:41.000 I think that reigned in a lot of insanity that allowed us to get Tulsi, that allowed us to get Pete Hegseth, that allowed us to get Bobby Kennedy.

00:52:48.000 Again, all people that were, you know, quite vocal and...

00:52:52.000 You know, always part of that team.

00:52:54.000 The next one, obviously, we got to get across the line is Kash Patel.

00:52:57.000 I'm seeing the feed just blow up about that because I think, you know, you need someone who actually understands those things because I think if there's a department that the American people were frustrated with before it was all exposed, before all this information was out there, you know, half the people probably watching had no idea what USAID even did until about three weeks ago.

00:53:17.000 But what happened at the FBI? The weaponization of, you know, the DOJ and the FBI against ordinary Americans.

00:53:24.000 We talked about, you know, concerned mothers at PTA meetings.

00:53:27.000 But, you know, the guy drove through a Christmas parade.

00:53:30.000 You know, well, that guy was on our watch list, but we couldn't do anything because he checked a couple boxes.

00:53:33.000 I mean, that's next.

00:53:35.000 And, I mean, I imagine we're going to find a lot there.

00:53:38.000 I totally agree.

00:53:40.000 And what you're seeing here with what Kash Patel is going to do, I'm quite confident, what Tulsi Gabbard and Bobby Kennedy and the whole admin are doing, is in many ways not charting some...

00:53:50.000 Totally novel course.

00:53:52.000 In many ways, it's just restoring what's normal.

00:53:55.000 I so loved when your father the other day made the Libs' heads explode because he tweeted out a quote attributed to Napoleon, which is that the good of society is...

00:54:06.000 No man violates the law when he is saving a country.

00:54:10.000 And this line from Napoleon echoes...

00:54:14.000 Much older political wisdom coming from Cicero in On the Laws, who says that the good or the health of the people is the supreme law or should be the supreme law.

00:54:24.000 It's actually used as an epigraph in John Locke's Second Treatise of Government.

00:54:28.000 In other words, the Libs lose their minds, big headlines, Trump is going to make himself Napoleon, it's the end of the Constitution.

00:54:35.000 And what do they find?

00:54:36.000 They find out that actually your father is articulating the words of classical political thinkers, enlightenment political thinkers.

00:54:44.000 The very men who served as the basis of our Constitution when our framers actually put it together.

00:54:53.000 It even reminds me of when J.D. Vance was lecturing Margaret Brennan about the order of charity, the Ordo Amoris, and the Libs all lost their minds.

00:55:02.000 They had no idea where it came from, that this was a basic concept, not only in Christianity, but in our political tradition.

00:55:08.000 And it's so refreshing because you recognize how much of this Modern liberal order is totally foreign to how things used to be in this country.

00:55:18.000 We used to have a pretty normal country back when we were flourishing.

00:55:22.000 And so every time the liberals' heads explode because your father tweets something or more importantly does something, I think a lot of people are just waking up to the fact that, oh wait, that thing that Trump is talking about, that thing that Trump is doing, that's actually what used to be normal in America.

00:55:37.000 Maybe we should get back to that.

00:55:39.000 Yeah, it seems like their extremism hasn't gotten as much other than, you know, failure, poverty, and war.

00:55:47.000 Maybe we should go back to that old way in terms of political think.

00:55:50.000 I mean, it seems to make a lot of sense.

00:55:52.000 But, you know, the media, again, they're losing their minds over everything.

00:55:56.000 You saw this week the AP is melting down over being taken out of the White House pool.

00:56:02.000 They're writing letters complaining about it.

00:56:04.000 They're going nuts.

00:56:05.000 They're trying to get the other media.

00:56:07.000 What do you make of the press briefing so far?

00:56:09.000 Because again, it's all available to everyone.

00:56:12.000 A company that's been activated, that's done a lie.

00:56:17.000 They've lied.

00:56:17.000 They've weaponized themselves against one side.

00:56:20.000 Why do they deserve to sit in that versus, I don't know, maybe a podcaster who is a much bigger following could objectively be proven to be far more accurate over the last few years.

00:56:30.000 There's no First Amendment right to be able to just get in the Oval Office.

00:56:34.000 You can report on everything the way everyone else does.

00:56:37.000 That's right.

00:56:37.000 You have to ask yourself, what is the point of these briefings?

00:56:40.000 Be they from the briefing room or be they from the Oval Office?

00:56:43.000 The point is to inform the American people of what the government is doing and to hear the questions from the American people for the government.

00:56:50.000 If the media are not fulfilling that intermediary role, then there's no purpose in them being there.

00:56:57.000 The last time that I was on this show with you, Don, we made a little bit of news because I suggested...

00:57:02.000 Kicking some of these establishment outlets out.

00:57:04.000 And you said, well, you know, not to get too out ahead of our skis here, but stay tuned because that's exactly what's going to happen.

00:57:11.000 And I have to say, I had suggested kicking out the New York Times or the Washington Post.

00:57:17.000 And what the White House has done is even better than that, because the New York Times and the Post have their own problems.

00:57:25.000 But the Associated Press is the...

00:57:28.000 Biggest purveyor of fake news in the establishment media today.

00:57:33.000 Just through the AP Style Guide alone, just in recent years, the AP Style Guide has insisted on woke transgender pronouns, has actually called to eliminate the use of the word woke as a pejorative.

00:57:47.000 The Associated Press Style Guide has called to capitalize the letter B when talking about black people, but lowercase the letter W when talking about white people.

00:57:58.000 Yeah, just so everyone's clear, maybe give them a little bit of understanding, right?

00:58:01.000 The AP aggregates a bunch of news from all over, then they write it as though it's their own.

00:58:05.000 But they put out a guide as to how to do journalism.

00:58:10.000 And the guide is like a manifesto of the most insane views of the radical left.

00:58:16.000 You know, anything that's conservative has to be minimized, not even talked about it.

00:58:19.000 That's not in good taste.

00:58:21.000 Anything that's woke, articulated, elevated, put out there very differently.

00:58:27.000 I mean, these are the supposed to be arbiters and aggregators of news that have done exactly the opposite.

00:58:33.000 They've pushed an agenda in each and every story published across their board because if you don't follow the style guide, you don't get to actually report there and they won't cover it.

00:58:45.000 Exactly.

00:58:45.000 You know, in many ways, it's much more insidious than what the New York Times does.

00:58:49.000 At this point, most people know the New York Times is a left-wing paper.

00:58:52.000 So you know that going in, you know what to expect.

00:58:55.000 But as you point out here, Don, the AP is establishing the rules for writing journalism.

00:59:01.000 And as I point out in my book, Speechless, the way that the left has most thoroughly...

00:59:08.000 Controlled our political order is by controlling language through political correctness or wokeness, through the schools, through the establishment media, through style guides like that of the Associated Press.

00:59:19.000 And theirs has been so insane, demanding that journalists refer to men as women.

00:59:24.000 When the right finally exposed critical race theory and its insidious effects on society and education, the AP style guide said, stop using this acronym, CRT. Please, if you're going to speak about it only...

00:59:37.000 I think the other one was you can't refer to illegal aliens as illegal because illegal is, you know, strictly reserved for people who broke laws.

00:59:53.000 But, you know, obviously coming into the country illegally is not breaking a law in their mindset.

00:59:58.000 Again, they're trying to soften the reality of what's happened on one way and then trying to make it much harsher.

01:00:03.000 Anytime a conservative does anything even remotely, it's blown so far out of proportion that that's how they've manipulated so much.

01:00:11.000 So I love that they threw them out.

01:00:11.000 They probably should never come back.

01:00:13.000 I love it.

01:00:14.000 I totally agree.

01:00:15.000 It was an important statement, and it's good in itself.

01:00:18.000 You know, it means that the...

01:00:21.000 Second administration for your father is coming in and saying look We have a mandate here and we're gonna take that seriously even on the littlest things I loved when when your father said the penny costs two pennies to produce that's crazy We're gonna get rid of the penny.

01:00:36.000 We are going to save money Even when it comes to counting pennies.

01:00:42.000 It reminds me of a line from the first season of The Crown, which is the head butler in the royal household says that it's in the little things that the rot begins.

01:00:51.000 If you really want to refresh an institution, you need to pay attention to the really tiny little things, that little federal agency that no one's paying attention to, the little pennies, and especially the words that we are using.

01:01:06.000 You've got to send that message.

01:01:09.000 Cross the bow to the establishment media.

01:01:12.000 If they still had a big audience, it'd be one thing.

01:01:16.000 If they were still doing good journalism, it would be one thing.

01:01:19.000 But neither of those things are true right now.

01:01:21.000 And so it's very important to kick these people while they're down. 0.98

01:01:25.000 Not in a cruel way, not in an unjust way, but we have to kick them while they're down. 0.97

01:01:29.000 They're down for a reason.

01:01:31.000 They have failed in their jobs.

01:01:32.000 They have failed the American people.

01:01:34.000 The American people have looked for an alternative, and it's incumbent upon us to give it to them.

01:01:38.000 Yeah, I mean, it's interesting because obviously Biden was an absentee president at best, right?

01:01:45.000 Nowhere to be found.

01:01:46.000 And the media just sort of went along with it.

01:01:48.000 They were fine.

01:01:49.000 He's not in company.

01:01:50.000 He's not this, despite numerous incidents, you know, falling upstairs, falling downstairs, can't remember anyone's name, walking off the stage, shaking hands with invisible people.

01:01:57.000 I mean, now my father's everywhere and the media can't keep up.

01:02:03.000 I think part of this is, like, they just don't like people working too much.

01:02:07.000 I mean, that's why they're against coming back into the workforce.

01:02:09.000 They don't want to have to work long hours because he does for the American people.

01:02:14.000 Do you think that's part of the outrage?

01:02:16.000 Certainly it is.

01:02:17.000 I loved when Elon said, look, we're not going to fire everyone in the government, but...

01:02:21.000 You guys need to come back to the office, okay?

01:02:24.000 The majority of you aren't even showing up to the office anymore.

01:02:27.000 This would not pass muster in any kind of middle-class job.

01:02:32.000 So, sorry, you've actually got to show up to work.

01:02:34.000 They can't really keep up with it.

01:02:36.000 I think you've honed in on an important point as we're talking about all the vices of the establishment media.

01:02:40.000 One of them is they are lazy.

01:02:43.000 They really are profoundly lazy, and they've been able to coast because they've had institutional power, and now that power is being taken away from them.

01:02:50.000 Really revealing them.

01:02:52.000 Also, their old tricks don't work.

01:02:54.000 You know, the fact that the left wants to call your father a Nazi, or even in those viral exchanges you were showing earlier when I was on the Surrounded podcast, you know, some girl comes up to me and says, I'm going to call you a fascist.

01:03:08.000 And I thought, okay.

01:03:10.000 All right.

01:03:11.000 I used to say this about racism, so they moved racism to Nazium. 0.90

01:03:15.000 It's like sort of the easy button of the left, right?

01:03:18.000 It's like, if I can't win an argument, I'm just going to call that out, even if you're talking about basic things.

01:03:24.000 And the problem is, I'm not saying there's not racism left in the world.

01:03:28.000 It's just not like the cause of and solution for all of life's problems.

01:03:31.000 I mean, it's a minor thing, but it is something that happens.

01:03:37.000 When you use it as the excuse to win any argument that you can't otherwise win, the only people you actually do a real disservice to are those that are actually afflicted by it.

01:03:46.000 Because now someone here is racist or Nazi and they just kind of roll their eyes and move on.

01:03:50.000 It doesn't have any effect because everything has been racist. 0.97

01:03:53.000 Everyone's a Nazi.

01:03:54.000 You know, it doesn't meet anything.

01:03:58.000 And you actually hurt those, you know, and I don't think it's a lot of people, but it's probably a lot of people throughout the world who are actually affected by these things.

01:04:04.000 And by the way, good luck calling your father, or MAGA broadly, racist.

01:04:11.000 And historic proportion of the Black vote, of the Hispanic vote for a Republican.

01:04:16.000 So good luck. 0.98

01:04:17.000 It's totally ridiculous. 0.89

01:04:18.000 It's another reason that I love your father's Napoleon tweet the other day. 0.98

01:04:22.000 They say, you know, you're an authoritarian or whatever.

01:04:26.000 And he kind of jokes about it.

01:04:28.000 I read that tweet.

01:04:29.000 I thought this joke, oh, yes, I'm Napoleon now.

01:04:31.000 What kind of headlines are you going to write?

01:04:34.000 Nobody believes this stuff anymore.

01:04:36.000 Well, Michael, where can we watch the Michael Nell show as well as some of the other stuff that you were doing?

01:04:41.000 Because I think people may want to see these full interviews.

01:04:43.000 I mean, just for the entertainment value of it all, you know, what else can preview?

01:04:48.000 And I know we still have to get that Mayflower cigar together sometime.

01:04:51.000 Well, you can find my show on Michael Knowles' YouTube channel, on The Daily Wire, of course, all around the interwebs.

01:04:58.000 You can find the show that I just sat down with that is going viral over at Jubilee.

01:05:03.000 It's the Surrounded podcast.

01:05:05.000 But most important of all, you can find the cigars at mayflowercigars.com.

01:05:10.000 And Don, you're a busy guy.

01:05:12.000 You're juggling about, by my count, like half a dozen jobs right now.

01:05:15.000 But whenever you get a breather, let me know.

01:05:17.000 I will make sure the humidor is stocked.

01:05:19.000 I look forward to it, my friend.

01:05:21.000 Michael Knowles, thank you very much.

01:05:22.000 I look forward to seeing you soon, buddy.

01:05:24.000 Good to see you.

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Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - February 17, 2025

The Left is Taking one L After Another, Live with Michael Knowles | Triggered Ep. 217

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