Ep. 1797 - Everyone Is Mad That Trump Wants to Go to Heaven

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Another day, another reason fanatics are furious at President Trump.

Today's nontroversy, I kid you not,

is that Trump wants to end a war because he wants to save lives because he wants to go to heaven.

That's why everyone's mad at him today.

I'm Michael Knowles.

This is the Michael Knowles show.

Welcome back to the show.

Gavin Newsom wants to distinguish himself among the field of mediocrities in the Democrat 2028 presidential primary, and he is doing so by attempting to roast Trump on social media.

Some people are getting a kick out of it.

I don't think it's totally working.

We'll get to why in a moment.

First, though, this is the greatest nontroversy.

We hate Trump because he said this, because he did that.

We hate Trump because he supports Russia.

We hate Trump because

he called Rosie O'Donnell ugly or whatever.

We hate Trump because all these reasons for 10 years, for 10 years.

Now,

they hate Trump because he wants to end a war, because he wants to save lives, because he wants to go to heaven, as he explained when he called into Fox and Friends yesterday.

I just want to end it.

I want to end it.

You know, we're not losing American lives.

We're not losing American soldiers.

We're losing Russian and Ukrainian, mostly soldiers, some people, as missiles hit wrong spots or get lobbed into cities like Kiev and towns.

But, you know, if I can save 7,000 people a week from being killed, I think that's a pretty, I want to try and get to heaven if possible.

I'm hearing I'm not doing well.

I hear I'm really at the bottom of the totem pole.

But if I can get to heaven, this will be one of the reasons.

Well, I think.

Beautiful.

Can I tell you?

Of all of the things to attack a politician for,

this will never be topped.

Attacking a president because he wants to go to heaven.

Now, some people said, well, he's just joking around.

Caroline Levitt was asked in the briefing room yesterday, was Trump just joking around?

Here's her answer.

I know the president said on Fox News this morning that he's partially seeking peace in order to get to heaven.

Was he joking or is there spiritual motivation behind his peace deals here?

I think the president was serious.

I think the president wants to get to heaven, as I hope we all do in this room as well.

That was a very good question.

Who was that excellent reporter in the room?

Oh, was that Daily Wire's very own Mary Margaret Olihan?

I think it was.

There are two groups attacking him for this.

And

both attacks are really funny.

The funnier attacks are from the liberals who are upset that Trump is talking about heaven.

They're posting this on social media.

They say, look at this wacko.

Look at this crazy person talking about heaven.

You know, there was a time not so long ago when political leaders spoke of eternal things.

I know it's hard to believe in our stupid, modern, degraded age, but there was a time when political leaders talked about things like morality, felt that they were accountable to a power higher than themselves, actually believed in God and religion, took seriously the human person and the eternal soul and justice.

There was a time, it wasn't that long ago.

That's what Trump is doing a little bit here,

when political calculations were not merely based on temporal personal self-interest, but actually included things like, I don't know, considering the commandments, considered the Sermon on the Mount, blessed are the peacemakers.

There was a time when such a thing existed.

The other group that is attacking Trump is extreme Protestants.

You know, I love my Protestant friends, and it's not far from every Protestant attacking him, but there's some people.

Some really ideological people who are saying, well, President Trump is presenting a false gospel because he's suggesting that you could be saved by works.

This is is a works-based salvation.

This is Pelagianism.

Calm down.

Calm down, people.

This was not a theological treatise from the president.

He was saying, I want to end a war because that would be good and it would save people.

And blessed are the peacemakers.

And I want to go to heaven and I want it.

The Pelagian heresy, which says that we do not have original sin, which says that we earn our salvation, we can deserve our place in heaven, that was condemned.

That was condemned at the Council of Carthage in AD 418.

I don't think that President Trump is

a neo-neo-Pelagian resurrecting this ancient heresy.

I think that President Trump is expressing a pretty basic, broadly Christian intuition because there are three parts.

to what he says there.

He says, I want to end the war and save lives

because I want to go to heaven because I don't think I'm top of the list for getting into heaven.

And that last part is the one that no one's talking about.

But that's the most important part because that's the expression of humility.

There we have the beginning of wisdom.

He's saying, he is saying, I don't deserve to go to heaven.

Do you get it?

I think I'm the bottom of the totem pole.

And when I, and I've said this for years, I've said, Trump is a humble guy, and none of you get it because none of you know comedy and you don't know how to talk like a New Yorker.

And so when the libs would say, he's so arrogant, he's so narcissistic, he's so prideful, I said, I actually think there's a kind of humility to him.

Like when he was asked if he was going to have a beer in Ireland or beer on St.

Patrick's Day, he said, no, I don't drink beer.

I'm probably the only president ever who doesn't drink beer.

It's the only good thing you can say about me.

Can you imagine if I drank, I'd be the worst?

That's an expression of humility.

That's a self-deprecating joke.

Here he says, look, I want to save lives.

Why do I want to save lives?

Just because it's in the American interest?

No, it's actually not necessarily in the American interest to save lives.

That's the party's, the liberal grand strategists who have been talking about how important it is to keep the Ukraine war going.

People like Joe Biden, people like Mitt Romney, who said, well, this is a great way to degrade the Russian military and we don't have to sacrifice any American lives to do it.

This is great.

Keep the war going forever.

They are articulating the grand strategy that keeping this meat grinder moving in Ukraine serves the American interest.

And Trump says, yeah, but 7,000 people a week are dying.

I don't want that.

Why don't you want that?

Isn't that good for the American?

I don't want that because I want to go to heaven.

That's why.

You think you earn your salvation?

You think you deserve a place in heaven?

No, I don't.

I don't.

I think I don't deserve to go to heaven.

I think that I'm the bottom of the totem pole now.

And I think that if I can, in my power, do any good whatsoever and cooperate with what I think God is demanding of me, I think it might help.

That's a very Christian point of view, folks.

Not to sound like a preacher here, like a Bible thumper, but I am recalling a verse.

I think it's what James 2:24,

which which is, man is justified by works and not by faith alone.

Do we forget that?

The phrase faith alone appears exactly one time in the Bible, and it's in James 2.24, and it says a man is justified by works and not by faith alone.

Now,

this is a little bit confusing, of course, because we don't earn our salvation, and Pelagianism is heretical.

And the initial justification.

that comes to us is purely from God.

We do absolutely nothing to earn that.

But that's not the whole story, because then we are called on to cooperate with God's grace.

James goes on to tell us that faith without works is dead.

What he is telling us, what God is telling us, inspiring the authors of the Bible, is that faith looks like something.

What our Lord tells us in the Gospel of St.

Matthew is that a man will be judged according to his works.

That doesn't mean that he earns his salvation.

That doesn't mean that he is not totally in need of God's grace, but it means that it looks like something.

That's what Trump's saying.

Are we clear on the theological point?

Can we not, you know, it's like we can't ever take yes for an answer.

We have, for the first,

maybe the first time in my life, a president openly expressing a longing to be with God, expressing profound humility in, I think, a sincere way.

trying to end wars, which is exceedingly rare at the Oval Office in my lifetime,

and

saying that he's humble.

He's like, I don't deserve heaven and I want to be with God.

What does it mean to say I want to go to heaven?

It means I want to be close to God.

Those are the three least objectionable things I've ever heard out of the Oval Office.

And people find a way to complain about it.

Not just the libs, but even sometimes people on our own side.

Give me a break.

I think we could all use a little dose of humility.

And in fact, we could learn a lesson or two in humility from President Trump.

You ever think you'd hear that?

Okay.

Now,

speaking of the Oval Office, an amazing photo that tells you a lot about our world order comes out of this meeting between Trump and the European leaders in Zelensky.

We'll get to that in one moment.

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President Trump had this meeting.

He had the meeting on Friday in Alaska with Vladimir Putin.

Then they end that early.

He rushes home and then he calls the leaders of all of Europe together and Zelensky and says, get to the White House by Monday.

And then they all have a meeting at the White House.

And there's a photo that's come out of this meeting that tells you everything about the political order today.

It is Trump sitting behind the resolute desk, and then the leaders of all these European nations, European and the UK, you see Kirstarmer there at the end, and Zelensky in Eastern Europe,

all sitting

like

they're Trump's assistants, All sitting there like you've got the

deputy director of such and such agency and like you've got the special assistant to this and that agency.

They don't look like the heads of sovereign states.

They look like people who are getting their marching orders from Trump.

And that is the Western world order.

That has been the Western world order since World War II.

And this is the clearest expression of that.

And you got Zelensky there, because Zelensky doesn't really matter all that much.

I don't mean to diminish him.

He's shown some courage, but this is a war between

the West, led by Trump, led by America, and Russia.

And Ukraine is just the battleground for that, and Ukraine is just a proxy for that.

And Trump is marshaling the leaders of Europe.

so-called, who are really vassals for this American empire.

And I mention all of this, not to even say that I recommend it.

I have plenty of thoughts on empire versus nation, but

just to remind you,

that's what it is.

Trump's critics and some of his supporters have misunderstood his political vision for 10 years.

They've said, this man is an arch nationalist.

Oh, no, we have the rise of nationalism.

This is Christian nationalism.

N-N-N-N-N.

It's just the N-word for 10 years.

We've been hearing the N-word constantly for 10 years applied to Trump.

But he's not the N-word.

Trump is not an N-word.

He's not a nationalist.

He's an imperialist.

And I, for one, do think that empire is a more natural form of political order.

I think it's an inescapable form of political order.

I think it is the providential form of political order.

We were talking about religion earlier.

Our Lord is incarnate.

during the Augustan age in the Roman Empire, which claims jurisdiction over the whole earth, which is significant actually for the meaning of salvation, the meaning of the passion, but that's a digression and a topic for another time.

Trump is leading an empire.

That's why he wants to acquire Greenland.

That's why he wants to invade Canada.

That's why he is, because he has that clear political vision, that's why he's able to marshal the forces of Europe.

And that's why he's able to deal directly with Putin.

Putin said at the summit, he confirmed what Trump has said for years.

He said, this war would not have broken out had Trump been president.

This war war broke out because of Biden.

The war first broke out under Obama, then it lay dormant when Trump was in his first term, and then it exploded again when Biden was president.

Because, and this is another thing that

maybe you wouldn't have believed 10 years ago, because Trump understands the dynamics of the world order in the year of our Lord, 2025 and 2016, and every year in between, better than all the geniuses who went all the think tanks with all of the degrees in international relations.

He just gets gets it.

That image in the Oval Office, that's the West.

That is the West today.

That's not the Westphalian system exactly.

That's not the UN exactly.

That's not, but that's how the West works.

I think about this sometimes, speaking of life and death, you know, I've mentioned before, my mother died when I was in high school.

And we were close, you know,

I grew up in New York.

Trump was a very popular figure.

And sometimes you think when

a loved one dies, you know, a long time, you think, wow, if that person came back, what would I tell them today?

And

it sounds crazy, but

the two things I would have to tell my mother before I say, hey, this happened and that.

And look at my beautiful family and look at this great part of my life and look at this company that I've been,

the things that I would have to rush to tell her.

Having grown up as a New Yorker in the 90s and the 2000s, I say, you're not going to believe this one.

You're not, two things you're not going to to believe.

You know who became president?

Trump.

Say, what?

You got to be.

I said, no, that, but the crazy part is he became president

and he's good at it.

He's like really good at it.

That's like, oh, by the way, I got married.

I have all these kids.

You know, I started this company.

I have this show.

I have whatever.

It's just, it's crazy, man.

And even in that image, there's, you can see up in the corner is Reagan is looking down.

Reagan seems to be looking down with a smile on his face in that Oval Office image.

Very, very beautiful.

Okay, speaking of security threats,

I talked yesterday on the show about this trucker, this illegal alien trucker who killed three people because he made an illegal U-turn.

Well, we're getting more information now.

This semi-truck driver who killed three people while making an illegal U-turn in Florida was given an English language proficiency test.

You will not be surprised to know that he failed.

Federal investigators also tested him to see if he could read highway traffic signs.

You will not be surprised to find out he failed.

He only accurately identified one in four highway traffic signs, and he only correctly answered two out of 12 verbal questions.

So what people are going to say whenever they see an illegal alien commit a crime or, you know, kill someone in a terrible apparent accident, They'll say, well, you know, look,

that happens.

But statistically, they're really no worse than legal immigrants or native-born Americans.

You say, well, no, actually.

The reason that he killed those people, likely, is because he couldn't read the signs and because he couldn't speak English.

And the reason that that was true is because he's an illegal alien.

Immigrants struggle with these things generally, but you guys, you Democrats flooded the country with illegal aliens.

And then you didn't require anything of them.

You didn't require them to assimilate even the mod that would be the minimum that you could require and you didn't do that.

And so not to belabor the point, three people are dead

because

Joe Biden opened the border and Barack Obama opened the border and even some Republicans opened the border.

It's not just one administration exactly, but three real Americans are dead.

And

the likelihood of them dying was radically increased because you let people in who can't read and don't know what street signs mean.

And then you gave them commercial driver's licenses.

And you did like really practical things.

And you try to make some argument and you say, well, statistically, he's no more likely.

Statistically, he is more likely to use welfare resources and to commit certain crimes.

But even beyond that,

three particular Americans, not statistics, three particular Americans are dead because of this particular guy that you particularly let in

did things that we all could have predicted.

That's the problem.

And they're going to flee accountability on the left, but

this was all so predictable.

It would have been sad enough, but it's so much sadder because it's also predictable.

Okay, speaking of illiterates, Shmuley Botayak, do you know Shmuley Botaek?

He is this rabbi.

I don't want to call him a rabbi, actually.

I know he is technically a rabbi, but I don't want to call him a rabbi because there are many rabbis that I like, and I don't want to besmirch their honor by making them associate with Shmuly Botayak.

Shmuley Botayek,

he's this attention seeker who I think he's also a sex toy vendor, but he's a rabbi technically.

And anyway, he took to the Times of Israel

to talk about my new series, The Pope and the Fuhrer, The Secret Vatican Files of World War II, available exclusively on Daily Wire Plus.

It's doing very well on the platform.

I appreciate all of you for letting me rub it and matt and Ben's face that my show is doing better than all the other stuff right now.

Anyway,

the show tells the real story of the venerable Pius XII, the Pope during World War II, who has been slandered and maligned as being complicit in the Nazi atrocities, even being Hitler's popes are ridiculous.

Anyway, we have the facts, and so we present the reality of it.

And

Shmuly Botayek is accusing me, Ben Shapiro,

and the Daily Wire, of quote, desecrating the six million and rehabilitating a Nazi collaborator.

He's calling Pope Pius XII a Nazi collaborator.

Now, no one has ever accused Shmueli Botayek of being informed.

He is one of the most proudly ignorant people I've ever come across.

But though he is frequently wrong, he is absolutely never in doubt.

And he is always happy for the opportunity to leapfrog off of the attention that other people are getting to try to get some attention for himself.

So he's written this absolutely preposterous, incoherent piece in the times of Israel.

I'm just going to throw out a few facts here about this Nazi collaborator,

supposed Nazi collaborator, Pope Pius XII.

Hitler wrote to Francisco Franco and said that Pope Pius XII was his personal enemy.

De Führer says that the Pope was his personal enemy.

That's one fact.

Next fact, Pope Pius XII

personally saved, well, many, many people, but specifically we're talking about Jews here, personally put 800 Jews in Castel Gandolfo, the papal vacation spot, in order to hide them from the Nazis.

Personally was able to save huge numbers of Jews just around Rome.

And through his efforts, which were often clandestine and were done in silence, is responsible, I think the consensus number is

for saving the lives of some 860,000 Jews during World War II.

Okay, final point.

The chief rabbi of Rome at the end of World War II, the chief rabbi of Rome converted to Catholicism.

Do you know what name he took when he was baptized and became a Catholic?

He took the name Eugene, Eugenio.

Do you know why?

Because that was Pope Pius XII's first name.

And that's what a hero he was, not just to Christians, not just to the whole world, but specifically also to Jews.

And so anyway, I guess if you like, you can read Shmuly Botayak's babbling nonsense in the times of Israel.

But more important, you should go watch The Pope and the Fuhrer

exclusively on Daily Wire Plus.

You can sign up for it now.

Great.

It's a great antidote to Shmuly Botayak syndrome, the antidote being that you fill your head with facts and reality.

Okay, now, speaking of arts and culture, President Trump is going off on the Smithsonian.

It's delightful.

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President Trump,

he has earned the ire

of

the left.

They're really upset because he wants to go to heaven, or they're really upset because he wants to save people's lives.

And then the other reasons, a secondary reason that they're upset, is because he wants to improve the Smithsonian,

you know, the series of museums, art, history, culture.

So Trump writes, the museums throughout Washington, but all over our country are essentially the last remaining segment of woke.

The Smithsonian is out of control.

where everything discussed is how horrible our country is, how bad slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been.

Nothing about success, nothing about brightness, nothing about the future.

We are not going to allow this to happen.

And I have instructed my attorneys to go through the museums and start the exact same process that has been done with colleges and universities, where tremendous progress has been made.

This country cannot be woke because woke is broke.

We have the hottest country in the world and we want people to talk about it, including our museums.

I love this.

The part that the left is seizing on to attack Trump is when he says that the Smithsonian's out of control where everything discussed is dot, dot, dot, how bad slavery was, dot, dot, dot.

And they're saying, they're saying, you don't,

you're, you're upset because the museums talk, said that slavery was bad?

You think slavery was good?

The operative word for our increasingly illiterate friends.

The operative word here is not bad.

The operative word is not slavery.

The operative word is everything.

Trump's issue.

I don't wish to presume to speak for the president, but I will.

The issue is not that a museum in some exhibition on slavery mentions that slavery is bad.

I don't think people really need to be told that, but the issue is not that it sort of just mentions that.

The issue is that

everything the museums say about our country is that we're bad, is that we're stupid, is that we're evil, is that we have an original sin called slavery.

And the issue is that that's everything.

That's the whole focus.

is all the errors in American history, all of the moral failings.

Because when we look at our country, I mean, slavery is actually a perfect example of this.

We had slavery in America for a vanishingly short period of time, and then we sacrificed 600,000 Americans to end it.

Slavery still exists today in Africa and the Middle East and East Asia, and like everywhere, basically, outside of the West.

But they all get a pass.

All the Muslim pirates that have been enslaving people since that religion has existed,

they all get a pass.

We don't get a pass.

We don't get, and in fact, not only do we not get a pass, that is our defining feature.

That's Trump's issue.

He says, you know,

our museums are really telling a really slanted story.

We have a hot country.

We want people to talk about it.

And then the libs will say, well, our museums need to tell the truth.

Yeah, okay, but there are different ways to tell the truth, right?

The museums are not currently telling the truth.

If the museums are saying America's evil, which is what our schools say and it's what our museums say and it's what our cultural exhibits say and have for decades, is that the truth?

America's just evil.

It's rotten.

I don't think that's the truth.

Like some bad things have happened, sure, but that's not the truth.

What museums and centers of art and culture do is they tell stories and the story is false.

And Trump was just elected on.

an important on an important narrative, which is to make America great again.

And he won the popular vote.

And so he's going in and he's telling that story as we enter the bisesquicentennial, the 250th anniversary of America, when we want to re-articulate our story, remind ourselves of who we are, maybe reimagine that story, reconceptualize that, reset that story.

And I guess I would ask the libs who are whining about this:

what do you think a country is?

What do you think a country is?

Some people are asking this question.

What is America?

That's the question of 2026.

What is America?

Well, any country is its people, its ethnic makeup of its people,

its cultural makeup, its religious makeup of its people.

Beyond its people, its geography.

Beyond its geography, it's resources.

And

its narrative, its stories.

Think go back to Rome.

You know, the Aeneid is the story of Rome.

And it's a story that Virgil wrote for Augustine,

for Augustus rather, for the Augustan age, to reimagine as Rome was rapidly changing, to tell a story of Rome that would then give Rome an identity.

And the left knows this, which is why the left has sought to demoralize us.

Communists during the Cold War, speaking of Russia, and then our own internal enemies have sought to demoralize us for decades and say the story of our country is we suck.

And Trump is saying, we don't.

We're, hey, like, yes, there's bad stuff.

We're humble.

We're, you know, we're, I don't know, we're, we don't, we don't deserve heaven,

but we would like to be there.

We're strong.

We want to do good things.

We want to end wars.

We want to save lives.

We want to be a shining city on a hill.

We want to, we want to be with God.

We want to go to heaven.

We want to do that stuff.

Let's tell that story.

That's what he's saying.

He's completely right about it.

Completely right.

Now, speaking of a changing cultural landscape, this is, where's my champagne?

Where is my champagne?

I didn't ask for any of the producers, but I'll yell at him anyway.

Because MSNBC,

the liberal cable channel, the openly liberal cable channel.

CNN, like pretends to be neutral.

Fox is right-wing.

MSNBC is the openly liberal cable channel, and it is no more.

Pour one out.

There is no more MSNBC.

It's done.

They are rebranding.

It's MSNOW now.

MSNOW stands for My Source News Opinion World.

What?

MSNOW.

And why is this happening?

Well, what the company is saying is it's because MSNBC was spun off of NBC Universal.

And so, you know, it just naturally they were going to lose the NBC from their name.

It's no big deal.

It's going to remain largely the same.

It's just, this is just a kind of clerical issue.

My BS detector is going off.

It's actually flying off the upper limit because

MSNBC has already undergone structural and investment change.

What is MSNBC?

When MSNBC started, it was a partnership between NBC and Microsoft.

That's where the MS comes from.

Even the MSN,

Microsoft News, and then NBC.

And so you had MSN and NBC.

People don't even remember MSN, but then they merged together and you get MSNBC.

Okay.

Then Microsoft pulled out in 2005.

Mostly pulled out in 2005, was completely out by 2012, but MSNBC kept its name.

Microsoft remained a company.

Microsoft was totally out of this network.

MSN was done, but it kept the name.

There was no fear of brand confusion at the time.

There was no,

why did it keep the name?

Because at that time, the network was strong.

At that time, some people liked the network.

MSNBC could have been spun off of NBC Universal and kept the name MSNBC, just like it kept the MS and the MSN in 05 and 12.

It could have done that

if the brand were not completely toxic.

That, don't let them gaslight you on this.

Changing the name is not primarily because of some corporate spin-off and it's no longer associated with NBC Universal.

This is a great sign of the times.

MSNBC is simply a toxic brand.

The Joy Reeds of the world and the Chris Hayes of the world and the Al Sharptons of the world and even a touch, the Rachel Maddows of the world, though I have a great deal of sympathy for my doppelganger.

That

is,

Professor, are you bringing, did you bring me?

Thank you.

This, wow.

We are such a decadent, we are such an absolutely decadent company that we just keep tiny little bottles.

of it's not quite champagne but it's decent prosecco just on site do i what do I turn it?

Are we going to...

Are we pouring one out for my doppelganger, Rachel Maddow?

Are we pouring one out for MSNBC?

See you later, MSNBC.

See you.

It's MS Now.

Man, drinking at 9 a.m.

Central.

That's aggressive even for me.

Folks, do you know what the number one piece of content, all content on the Daily Wire Plus app and dailywire.com is this week?

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It's not one of Matt Walsh's blockbuster movies.

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My favorite comment yesterday is from, it's kind of nice,

a little mimosa in the morning.

My favorite comment is from Samantha Ross in 4216.

It says, Junior prom Michael Knowles looks like he should be singing, Shoo Up, Show Wada Wada, Yibbidi Boom Da Boom.

Oh, Shoo Up, Shoada Wada, Yibida.

I couldn't tell if initially that was an Italian joke, like, hey, baby, babity, baby, boom.

Or, okay, it was, I didn't know if it was like, shaboom, shaboom, yada, dad, no, no, it's a Greece joke.

I looked like I was in Greece.

I did.

I looked, I definitely looked a little more greaser when I was a kid.

Leaned a little bit more into the Italian side.

The wasp sartorial inclinations took over a little bit later.

Okay.

Speaking of toxic brands, Gavin Newsom.

Gavin Newsom really, really wants to be the Democrat nominee for president in 2028.

And he's right now looking at a wide field, but a shallow field.

So you got your Kamalas, Kamalan going nowhere she she would be the heiress apparent you've got who else Pete Budigej I don't think so you've got AOC AOC is actually the strongest in that field so far you've got Whitmer in Michigan I don't think so you got Josh Shapiro Democrats don't like Jews anymore you've got

who do you have

Liz Warren?

Bernie's going to run again?

He's 150 now?

You don't have a lot.

So Newsom sees an opportunity.

He says, this is my chance, but I'm a white man,

straight in the current Democrat field.

That's rough.

It would help him in the general, but it would hurt him in the primary.

And, oh, by the way, I'm like the worst governor in America ever.

So he was very illiberal mayor of San Francisco.

He's a totally failed governor of California, let L.A.

burn to the ground on his watch because of his policies.

So he's got an issue.

The way he is trying to distinguish himself is by trolling Trump, you know, by being really bad.

So here's just one example.

Trump posts on Truth Social.

Bela, I think he's probably writing Belarus, but this is sort of a, despite the constant negative press cofefe situation, he started to post it and then he just, whatever, he just posted it, didn't worry about it, let it go.

Newsom responds, all caps.

Donald Tiny Hands has written his autobiography this morning.

This is all caps, the whole thing.

Unfortunately, low IQ, he spelled it wrong.

Beta.

Soon you will be fired, beta, because of my perfect, beautiful maps.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

GCN.

Gavin Newsome.

I don't know what his middle name is.

Yeah, I don't know.

I don't know.

The account has posted some that are kind of funny.

They did one of like Tucker Carlson and the ghost or angel of Hulk Hogan praying over Newsome.

It was kind of weird and absurd.

Still didn't totally, but

that was like somewhat interesting, somewhat funny.

But

this stuff doesn't hit.

The ones where it's just

Newsome, and this is an actual Newsome press office account, the one where it's just Newsome

doing the Trump shtick, it doesn't totally hit.

It's getting people to talk about it.

So in that way, I guess it's helping Newsom to distinguish himself, but it doesn't hit to me.

It reminds me of when Rubio in 16 tried to do the Donald Trump bit, actually on the tiny hands.

Remember, he went out there.

he did his Don Rickles routine.

You know, he's like, ah, this Trump, this guy's got tiny hands.

You know what they say about small hands, weak leadership, or something like that.

And it just didn't work.

It just didn't work because

you don't want Tab Cola when you can get the real thing, you know, when you can get the real Coca-Cola classic.

You know, it doesn't.

The reason it also doesn't work for Newsome

is because

it makes it all about Trump.

You know, right now, Newsome could say in the Democrat field, look, I'm the big dog.

I'm the big dog in the field.

All these other ones, other than maybe AOC, all these other ones are really weak compared to me.

So I'm just going to present myself as the alpha and the real presidential guy.

But by just trolling Trump like, or attempting to troll Trump like this, he's basically just saying, I'm like a reply guy to Trump.

He actually is diminishing himself.

and making Trump the main character.

And he's just this sort of ancillary character, this like 80s movie villain.

I don't think it works.

I don't think it lands.

So whatever.

He can keep doing it.

That's fine by me.

I also think the other problem for Newsom right now, he's trying to distinguish himself quite early.

You know, we're six, seven months into the first year of Trump's second term.

You don't want to peak too soon in a presidential primary.

This is completely silly season.

And peaking too soon has hurt other candidates.

I mean, I think of one, Scott Walker.

I love Scott Walker.

He is one of my favorite politicians ever.

He's just a wonderful guy.

He would be a great president.

He peaked really early in the 2016 cycle.

He was the guy that all the smart money was on.

And had he peaked a little bit later, who knows?

Maybe Trump was just like an avalanche that was going to take over that primary.

But had he peaked a little bit later,

he would have done well.

He should not have been the first guy out of the primary.

He was a very serious candidate.

He was a very, very serious governor.

And Newsom is a complete failure.

So the fact that he's peaking early, I don't know.

I don't think it bodes well for him.

If anything, the person that I think should be happiest about these stupid posts is AOC.

I think it helps her.

You don't become the main act by turning yourself into a heckler.

It's just not how it works.

Okay, speaking of curious uses of language, the Cambridge Dictionary is adding new words.

Are you familiar with these words?

They've added 6,000 new words, but the ones that are making the rounds right now,

broligarchy.

Do you know broligarchy?

It's like an oligarchy, but of bros.

That one's easy to figure out.

Delulu?

Do you know Delulu?

Delulu is, is that, you know that like demon doll that people have?

That's that's Debobo or something?

I don't know.

Delulu is when you're delusional.

You're Delulu.

That's a fun one.

Luke?

I don't totally get Luke.

Professor Jacob,

are you on the intercom?

Phoning Professor Jacob, calling.

Hey, okay, you can respond.

But you're a millennial.

I want to talk to a based Zoomer, like a Giga Chad mogging Zoomer.

What does Luke mean?

Hold on, he's coming.

He's coming.

What's Luke?

Because I looked it up.

I looked it up and I think it means it's like a particular kind of fit, like an appearance that day.

Like, ooh, that's a Luke.

Is that right?

I don't know where you're hearing these words.

I have so much.

You know, no, I can barely, I can barely hear you because you talk like a Zoomer and you're like, you're half a decibel when you speak.

But all right, you're clearly not enough of a Giga-based super mogger

because that's what it says on, I don't know, Urban Dictionary or something.

It says it's a Luke.

Is a Luke.

And you, I don't know.

You You look particular that day.

But that's, I don't want to talk about Luke or Delulu or Brolegarchy.

I want to talk about a word that they added that some people are celebrating, I think, is a bad sign.

Trad wife.

They added the word trad wife to the dictionary.

And you know this term trad wife.

It's a

portmanteau of traditional and wife, trad wife.

It's just simple.

It doesn't take a hip zoomer to figure that one out.

I think it's bad that they added this to the dictionary.

I think trad wives are good.

I have a trad wife myself, love her very much, but adding it to the dictionary is bad in the same way that adding the word cis man would be bad.

You remember the word cis man?

Shows you how done transgenderism is, shows you how it's been basically eliminated from public life entirely, the whole preposterous ideology at every level.

Because three years ago, everyone was talking about cis man.

He's a cis man.

He's a trans woman.

And now we just laugh at that.

It's just a total punchline.

Remember cis, anyway, cis man

just meant a normal guy.

As

Norm McDonald's put it, he said it's a term to marginalize normal people.

So it would be bad to add that because the word should just be man.

Same thing goes for trad wife.

Like a trad wife is just what we used to call a wife.

It's like a woman who keeps a home, deals with the home economy.

raises children, you know, like puts on a dress every now and again, cooks dinner.

We used to call that a wife.

Now we have to have a special term because the word that we now use for wife, when we say, when we refer to wives, that could also refer to people who behave like husbands.

You know, that's bad, man.

It shows you how

normal language has been perverted,

which is one of the chief ways that the left advances its cultural agenda.

Okay, speaking of changes, I have a big story that I'm going to tease it.

I'm just going to tease it.

Okay.

President Trump is trying to eliminate mail-in ballots before the midterm elections.

And this,

perhaps more than anything, could swing the midterms in our favor.

This is very, very important.

And

I think it's possible.

We'll get to that tomorrow, though.

Some people are saying he can't do that.

That's impossible.

He doesn't have the authority.

May, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

They got to open their imagination.

I think it is possible.

But I won't tell you how yet because

that's a tease.

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