The David Knight Show - Thu Episode #2185: Davos Applauds Trump—Theater, Not Resistance

Episode Date: January 22, 2026

00:00:51 — Trump Quietly Restores Planned Parenthood FundingKnight opens by revealing that Trump silently reinstated tens of millions in Planned Parenthood funding after publicly claiming defunding victory. 00:01:18 — The Gaza “Peace Board” as a Trojan Horse for Dictatorial PowerKnight argues Trump’s Peace Board concentrates global authority and wealth while using Gaza as political cover. 00:02:35 — Davos Gives Trump a Standing OvationKnight highlights Trump being celebrated by global elites he claims to oppose, exposing the event as pure theater. 00:09:00 — AI and mRNA: The Genesis Act RebrandedKnight warns Trump is reviving transhumanist goals by merging AI and genetic modification under a new label. 00:11:05 — Trump as a Guest of Honor at Davos, Not an EnemyKnight argues Trump’s keynote role proves alignment with WEF priorities rather than resistance to them. 00:13:22 — Greenland as Theater and Rebranded GlobalismKnight frames Trump’s Greenland rhetoric as cosmetic empire-building that mirrors Great Reset logic. 00:36:41 — The U.S. Credit Card Empire and the $40 Trillion Debt WallKnight explains how America sustains global dominance through unsustainable debt expansion. 00:55:08 — De-Dollarization and Gold as the Real Exit SignalKnight argues central-bank gold hoarding and declining dollar use signal an approaching currency reset. 01:01:38 — Fiat Currency as a Wile E. Coyote IllusionKnight warns the dollar persists only because belief has not yet collapsed—once it does, the fall will be sudden. 01:06:31 — Inflation and War as the Final Tools of Failing EmpiresKnight ties monetary collapse to war, arguing inflation always precedes military escalation. 01:19:55 — Tokenization and Blockchain as Total Financial ControlKnight warns elite plans for tokenized finance would enable surveillance, de-banking, and total economic control. 02:00:03 — The Cult of Political Power and Pro-Life BetrayalKnight closes by condemning religious leaders who excuse restored abortion funding in exchange for political loyalty. Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to https://davidknight.gold/ for great deals on physical gold/silver For 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to https://trendsjournal.com/ and enter the code KNIGHT Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.com If you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @[e-mail] App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support.

Of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. It's the David Knight Show. As a clock strikes 13, it's Thursday, the 22nd of January. You're our Lord, 2006. Well, the Trump administration has quietly reinstated tens of millions of dollars to Planned Parenthood, that they were very publicly proud of cutting in March, then restored it the middle of December, and kept it very quiet.

We're going to take a look at that. We're also going to take a look at some of the details of the new peace board that was supposedly set up for Gaza. Funny that it doesn't even mention Gaza. But it does give dictatorial powers and a billion-dollar tributes to someone who's maybe not just going to be king, but Caesar. Maybe Antichrist. And at Davos, we get a standing ovation.

From the people there who are supposed to be his enemies. We'll take a look at that. Is there a Greenland resolution? Or was it all theater to start with? And what are the limits on the Insurrection Act? $45 billion for ICE had they used. Immediately they had a shopping spree for surveillance equipment, a hiring spree, and now they are looking for industrial warehouse space to be used for prisons.

We'll be right back. Well, the king of Davos, which used to be the title for Kevin Spacey, if you remember. Now we got another purve that I guess is in that position. This is the first year that how Klaus has not been there. Instead, we got Larry Fink. What a perfect name. It's almost like Charles Dickens gave it to him. Uriah Heep.

Anyway, this is the first year that he's been there. He's got his own fantasies that he's airing about tokenizing everything in the world, everything. You know, financial instruments, real things, everything must be tokenized. And then, of course, you've got Yuval Harari there with his usual AI fantasies. And then Donald Trump with this professional wrestling that he's doing out there. And so, as I said yesterday, it was kind of interesting. that you had Air Force One turned around briefly. He got up to the coast of Long Island.

They said they had some electrical issues, not an emergency, but they turned around. Could be a little bit embarrassing. But, you know, if you had to delay or cancel your trip, of course, that's not going to happen. He's got backups. I don't know how many planes he's got. But he has Air Force One.

I'm sure he's got Air Force Two. was a backup for that as well. But what I thought was most amazing was the cheering that was put out by this particular account, Richard Meridi. Air Force One emergency turned back and Trump still went to Davos. The man literally had an Air Force One break on him and he still made Davos. What a big deal that is, right? What courage.

He's a passenger on this stuff. what it shows is that he's not going to have a situation where he loses his face by saying, you know, my expensive weaponized plane broke down. Now, they're going to have something else that's going to be there.

So delayed things a little bit for one of his interviews, I think, but other than that, there was no, and that may not have even been a consequence of that. So again, some people, I was, when I saw some of this stuff, I thought, oh, I don't know what's going to happen with that. I still think, It's an interesting case of the fact that these people who think that they are omnipotent with power

really don't have omnipotent power. But it was kind of interesting that as he goes to Davos, he continued to brag about his genetic code injection bioweapon. So it began. And we ended up with the COVID and the whole world suffered. We did a phenomenal job. I don't think we got the credit. we deserve. We did something that... I'll give you the credit. Operation Warp Speed, which some people say was one of the greatest

military feats ever. We did a great job. Use our military. Use a lot of people. You know, that's always been one of the things that really bothers me about the Maga cult. They hate the bioweapon and they won't give him the credit he deserves. He's constantly saying he deserves the credit for it. I'll give him the credit. And when I call it the Trump shot, they get mad at me. I give him the credit and if I had the power, I would give him the prison sentence as well. But it's kind of interesting to see how this was spun by the Trump fans. Info Wars completely ignored it.

Instead, what they did was they pivoted to Bill Gates. At Davos, there was a person there who confronted Bill Gates over what he wants to do with health. Come on, Bill. The theme of the West this year is spirit of dialogue. Let's have a conversation, an open dialogue. Can you answer some of these questions? Mr. Gates, can I ask you what you think about the United States? The HHS and the CDC lowering the chartered vaccine schedule.

What do you think about that? Mr. Gates, what do you think about the HHS lowering the vaccine schedule in the USA? Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Mr. Gates, I'm a student from Columbia. I'm learning a startup at the end to democratize access to education. Can I just have 10 seconds? We have time. Well, you get the idea.

Okay, so let's confront Bill Gates. And let's show him walking away, not asking questions, but let's not even question Donald Trump. And, of course, InfoWords can use that to distract attention from what Trump is doing. Still bragging after all these years, six years later, he's still bragging about poisoning the world. He's worse than Bill Gates. He's worse than Bill Gates. And if you want to talk about controlled opposition, this is the example of that kind of controlled opposition. Trump goes there and boasts about it.

And so they make it about Bill Gates. So, of course, is also a monster. But Bill Gates has got an idea about what he wants to do with artificial intelligence and health. So the AI is entering into the health system, but not just into the health system. It's all the way down to the level of the patient. So the patient is able to talk in their local language and describe what's going on. And so in order to, you know, make this a reality to see what works, what doesn't work, And we're thrilled that Open AI and the Gates Foundation are committing an initiative called Horizon 1000,

where we'll go into 1,000 primary health care clinics in Africa. And the goal is to make the work there much higher quality and, if possible, twice as efficient as it is today, taking away the paperwork that needs to be done, organizing the resources, you know, so the patient knows. what's available and when to come for their appointment. So there's all sorts of... Yeah, well, notice it's always Africa with Bill Gates. He's got an issue with Africa. And you look at Planned Parenthood,

which they have always supported the Gates family, big supporters of Planned Parenthood. Always focused on the black community, going back to Margaret Singer. He's in the tradition of Margaret Singer. Always want to start his new initiatives, which are going to hurt people, always. Let's start those in Africa.

You know, we can get away with it in Africa. We've got some corrupt politicians that we can pay off and they'll let us kill their people, which is what Trump is doing. But all right, so we're going to talk about artificial intelligence and Bill Gates is there saying, we're going to take it down to the personal level. We're going to help people schedule their doctor's appointments and things like that. Yeah. Now, is that worse than what Trump did on his very first day in office?

Remember that? Stargate, where he brings in the head of a Japanese bank that likes to invest in technology startups, brings in his buddy Larry Ellison, and they talk about combining artificial intelligence and MRA technology. They said, basically, you know, we're going to use AI to analyze your DNA. Then we're going to custom make drugs for you, if you want to believe that. So they're going to merge AI with genetic modification. Trump picked right back up where he ended.

He ended his term, focused on a genetic code. injection. Then he picks it right back up again, pushing M RNA, genetic code injections, but wetting it with AI. Now, we don't want to talk about that if you're at Info Wars, right? Alex Jones, the people, Breitbart, World Net Daily, you name it, Glenn Beck, all these people who are cheering Trump, he's their bread and butter. They're not going to criticize him on Stargate. They're going to focus on other things that Bill Gates is talking about, which quite frankly, who knows what Gates is going to do, but what he's talking about there is pretty tame compared to what Trump is boasting about and what he's focusing on. And so one guy who's actually talking about the Trump's Genesis mission and

his Genesis Act and all the rest of the stuff for AI says, yeah, this is really kind of like the Genesis Six Act, right? And it really is, was to modify us. That is a transhumanist, the technocrat agenda. They've talked about this over and over again. Yuval Harari and Klau Klaufe Schwab, you know, we're going to transform humanity physically as well as mentally. That's what they're focused on. But let's not pay attention to that. Let's pretend that Trump went there to tell off the people at Davos.

And the Davos people were so beaten up by Donald Trump that this happened. standing ovation. After he gives them a tongue lashing, we're supposed to believe they love him. You know, he goes there to talk to them. And as Patriot voice said, let me make this abundantly clear. Trump would not be invited personally by BlackRock CEO, Larry Fent, Flint, to be the keynote speaker at Davos, if he wasn't all in on their agenda. This is just common sense.

it before and I'll say it again. And I said it back in 2020. I said, look at this with this lockdown, this vaccination, these passport things. That's all UN, Davos. Right down the line. Trump is doing it. But we're supposed to believe that he's against all that. We're supposed to believe that he's against NATO. When in reality, what he did with his threats, he gave them an excuse to increase their military budgets so that they could be ready for this Ukrainian war situation. He said, you don't get invited as a keynote speaker anywhere unless you are a guest of honor. If Trump is really serious about bypassing the World Economic Forum and their agenda, he would simply ignore them, pretend they didn't exist.

He would transcend them, right? Instead, he's a keynote speaker, and he goes there to announce his new Board of Peace, which is also loaded with World Economic Forum members. He goes there and brags about how many people have, come to him and said, we got a lot richer under you. He brags about that. Just a few examples. Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, from Palantir, Tony Blair, Bill Gates, Albert Borla,

Sam Altman, Larry Ellison, and his best buddy, Larry Fink. He's now running the World Economic Forum. Who can say he's best buddy Larry Fink? Because if you look at what he was doing in Panama, remember that from last year? What did they wind up doing? He pushed to give Larry Fink a place at the table and push out the Chinese and put his buddy Larry Fink from Black Rock in there. And so he says, so Maria Machado also there.

So she can lead Venezuela. Trump could literally say in his speech that he wished a drone strike would hit Davos, and it would just all be theater. It is all theater. Anything that you see happening there is 100% theater. And nothing says that more. than Greenland and the supposed resolution. We'll talk about that in a minute.

It's just a rebranding of the Great Reset, and it's time that the American-led New World Order Golden Age, and Trump is the chosen Trojan horse. And we can all grab hold of that Trojan horse's tail and follow it, right? You know, he loves to do this. He loves to, you know, when you go back and look at what he did with Marlago. There was a very interesting piece when Trump was running for president in 2016. I went back and got a Vanity Fair piece that had aired like a year or two earlier.

And it really shaped my perspective on Trump. And it was very accurate, as a matter of fact. But it talked about why he bought Marlago and what he did as a head of Marlago. Marlago was like the cultural center of that area there, West Palm Beach. A lot of wealthy people. And, you know, you really made it if you're part of Marlago. And so he bought that so he could be the king of Marlago. They said when you have dinners, he would always make a habit of being late. And Ivano was very obsequious and trying to help everybody.

He comes in and he enjoys having everybody come as essentially holding court, right? And he would be intentionally late. He sat down and he wouldn't really talk to anybody. And then he'd get up and leave. It's just important for him to see people come and essentially bow the knee to him. And that's what we see all the time with Trump. So let's take a look at some of his speech here. His speech put affordability front and center.

But here's what the data actually says. On energy, Trump said, the price of gasoline is now below $250 a gallon in many states. Soon, it will be averaging less than $2 a gallon. Well, there's 10 states that have an average gas price at or below $2.50. By the average price of gas in the U.S. is 281 as of January the 19th. It's about half of what it was during the high of 2022, which is when Biden started the chaos with the Ukraine situation. Gas prices haven't been below $2 since the height of the pandemic,

you know, the imposed recession from Trump in 2020. So what Trump said about housing, he said, homes are built for people, not corporations, America will not become a nation of renters. We're not going to do that. That's why I've signed an order banning large institutional investors from having single family homes. Again, this is sheer demagoguery.

No president should ever have that kind of power, whatever you think about this. And the reality is, is that, as David Bonson has pointed out, and as this article points out, it's unlikely to have a notable effect. The investors only own two or three percent of family rental properties in the U.S., largely in the South and in Sunbelt cities. and so the real issue is not ownership. The real issue is affordability. And that goes back to housing supply. And that goes back to regulations, many of them being pushed by the federal government.

If you want to make things more affordable, there's some fundamental things that need to change. But he's not going to have any fundamental reform. He's going to do things that are going to shine a light on him. And that's why this is happening. The 30-year-fix mortgage rates have been trending downward over the past year, though they've remained relatively high. Average rental prices have seen consistent steep growth over the last five years. On health care, he's boasting about the cost of prescription drugs coming down by up to 90%.

He changed that, by the way. You remember he said he reduced the prices of some of these things by 600% or more. people pointed out that that was not impossible. That's not possible. He acknowledged that in this speech. He said, yeah, I know people say you can't have a 600% decrease in prices by definition. But he goes, but I like my math better. He's going to stick to that, right?

Because again, he's nothing but a liar. And so the president's negotiating with these pharmaceutical companies. Remember he had the press conference where we talked about Trump R.X? a government-run direct-to-consumer prescription platform of crony capitalism and corruption. People booed him when he brought out Albert Borla. And the most amazing thing to me about it was not his partnership with Albert Borla, which we saw six years ago, right? But what amazed me was the fact that they were talking about the pharmaceutical industry

is going to, you know, Pfizer and some other ones are going to put us on their most favored nation. list. It's like, so we were not on your most favored nation when we gave you tens of billions of dollars to get started on your genetic code injections. You decide that you weren't going to favor us. We're on your bad list, right? And so now you're going to be nice to us. Now you like us. Now you're going to charge us the lower rate when you deliberately overcharged us versus every other country. Yeah, it is economic fascism at the very least. And so you talked about this credit card idea, putting only a one-year moratorium, not bringing back the usury laws, but just only reducing it for one year to 10%.

By the way, you can get a better deal than that if you transfer your balance to any credit card company. Pretty much all of them have got first year zero percent interest. So what's the big deal about all of this? You know, it is a bait and switch. It is demagoguery. But it does have bipartisan support from Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders. He said, you know, this credit card thing that I'm doing, I look more like Mom Danny. It's like, yeah.

On economics, you are a tax and spend Democrat socialist. When it comes to foreign policy, though, you look like Lindsey Graham. And some of the worst warmongers we've ever had. The worst of both worlds. The worst of the warfare welfare state. That's Donald Trump. So he had a guy who was doing actually works for CNN, but he was doing real-time fact-checking and shredding Donald Trump during his speech.

And so he covered some of the topics he covered was the war in Ukraine, windmills in China, insults for campaigns. Canada and Europe, recycled claims about the 2020 election being rigged. And, of course, this time he's talking about how the Somalis were the key part of the election rigging. And ongoing demands for Greenland, including several awkward moments where he kept confusing Greenland with Iceland. Here's an example. Europe, I'm helping NATO. And until the last few days, when I told them about Iceland, they loved me.

they called me daddy right last time a very smart man said he's our daddy he's running it I was like running it I went from running it to being a terrible human being yeah yeah he did that at least three times actually I think it was four times that he called Greenland Iceland one time he said it's a place full of ice so I guess that's where he thinks it's Iceland but anyway Trump did come up with the idea of Eli-related companies producing their own electricity, he claimed again

today in Davos, the guy I said. But he said that was my idea back in November, which nobody, frankly, had thought up. That's pure fiction, right? Many people were talking about it. What I thought was most telling about that announcement, again, was the fact that he says, well, you know, these companies, they need to understand that our infrastructure is very old. It's crumbling. It's falling apart. So they need to build their own right next to their factories, right? So to me, you know, he didn't come up with that idea, of course. That idea had been out there for a while. But the fact that he was saying, our infrastructure is crumbling and I'm not going to do anything about it. So if you want something like that for your business, you better build your own power

station because our public infrastructure is crumbling. I'm not interested in fixing that. Trump claimed that after World War II, he gave Greenland back to Denmark. He said, how stupid were we to do that? How stupid are you, if you actually believe that? The 1941 agreement giving the U.S. military the right to operate in Greenland reportedly said that Denmark retained full sovereignty over Greenland. And we'll get to Greenland in a minute here. Trump's list of eight wars that he settled include the Ethiopia-Egypt diplomatic dispute

that was never a war, a mystery Serbia-Kosovo situation that wasn't a war. The war in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that isn't over. And the Thailand-Kambodia border conflict that flared up again just last month. So, yeah, that's a lie. Continually giving weapons to Ukraine as he's pretending that he's trying to negotiate for peace. You can't be a mediator if you're arming one side of the conflict. And also doing that in Israel as well.

So he said about NATO, we've never gotten anything. The U.S. government, however, had a NATO coalition to go to Afghanistan to support that phony war. So he said they weren't paying their bills. So, you know, he had a lot of talk about the U.S. getting out of NATO just to get them to pony. up and buy more weapons from the U.S. That's the way this guy operates. What he does is never really what it's about. In

2024, 18 countries of the 31 have a 2% of GDP target or war above. He said we paid for, in my opinion, 100% of NATO. Well,

in 2024, U.S. defense spending was 63% of total NATO defense spending. Big, but nowhere near 100%. Trump is now called Greenland, Iceland three times, yes, during his Davos speech, one time the day before. So he says there's more than 56,000 people live on a piece of ice. Therefore, I guess it makes sense to call it Iceland, right?

The president started making clear that he's been told you mathematically can't possibly cut prescription drug prices by hundreds of percent as he repeatedly claimed. But he said that he likes his math better. His $18 trillion invested claim remains fiction. The investment announcements show that, and that's he's saying, he got people foreign countries to invest in the U.S. Even on the White House's own site, it's not $18 trillion.

It's $9.6 trillion. And a lot of that is a massive exaggeration of things that haven't happened. I mean, they took promises from Ursula fond of lying. Remember that? And people were pointing out, that'd be almost all of the money that Europe has invested. Now they're going to invest in the United States if the amounts that she promised were true. And she doesn't have any authority to make that kind of commitment. She doesn't adjust the budgets of the individual countries, let alone the individual companies that would be investing that.

So it was all just a game. She gives them a press release, and he runs with it. He's very happy to run with it. I see a comment here from eye handy. Andy says AI is already directly involved in your care in the ER here now. Yeah. The doctor carries a phone in his front pocket that dictates everything that said. Then it assists him in diagnosing and creating a treatment plan.

Not surprised at all. I'm surprised that it hadn't happened a long, long time ago. You don't necessarily even need to have AI do that. But the doctors have become as basically a lookup table. You know, let's take the symptoms here and then let's go over and see what drugs are recommended by Pfizer. That's your treatment. And it's just, you just need to formalize that. It's become algorithmic.

The doctors have become robots for the most part. Just pill pushers. And if you talk to them, as I realized, about anything that's not in their prescription drug list, their ice just glaze over and it's like, well, I don't know anything. about that. So, you know, they're not going to even consider it if it doesn't come from Pfizer. So Trump's claim that you can't find any wind farms in China. And he says it's an up is down reversal of reality. And actually, he posted a map of China's large wind farms on his Twitter feed, just to show that Trump was not clear about that. Well, basically what he did was he gave an hour

and a half speech that was a stump speech. And comments from the Atlantic study shows that he still doesn't understand how American greatness functions globally. I think the best summary of this was a baby Trump summary of the speech summarizing it. You know, they have these people with AI. They've got this cute little baby. And they have Donald Trump's voice and the baby is mouthing it. And of course, in this particular one, they've got reactions from other babies in the audience that look like Vladimir Putin or Marco Rubio or the ones.

Here's a little bit of that video. Greenland is a vast, almost entirely uninhabited and undeveloped territory. Sitting undefended in a key strategic location between the United States, Russia, and China. That's exactly where it is right smack in the middle. wasn't important nearly when we gave it back. You know, when we gave it back, it wasn't the same as it is now. It's not important for any other reason, you know, everyone talks about the minerals.

There's so many, there's no rare earth, no such thing as rare earth, there's rare processing, but there's so much rare earth, and this is to get to this rare earth. You've got to go through hundreds of feet of ice. That's not the reason we need it for, strategic national security and international security. This enormous, unsecured island is actually part of North America on the northern frontier of the Western Hemisphere. That's our territory. It is therefore a core national security interest of the United States of America. And in fact, it's been our

policy for hundreds of years to prevent outside threats from entering our hemisphere. And we've done it very successful. We've never been stronger than we are now. That's why American presidents have sought to purchase Greenland for nearly two centuries. You know, for two centuries, they've been trying to do it. They should have kept... Okay, so most of that is visual, and we have a lot of people listen on a podcast, but I thought it was great when he's loaded with lots of ice, and they cut over to a picture of a baby Christenome and ice across her militarized uniform there. And as he's referring to different things, you see babies that have surprised expressions, you know, when he talks about former presidents or he talks about Russia, China, they have babies that look like Putin or

babies that look like she. And they're all like looking like, really? Is that really happening? Well, he scolded European leaders at the World Economic Forum, as you just saw there. These babies Perhaps the Germans have a word for the experience of watching your country's leader Embarrass himself and the country on the global stage. I don't know. You know, it's like Schadenfreude. It's a...

He said, without us right now, you'd all be speaking German. Well, maybe they would have a word for that, right? Herr Klaus, you'd be speaking German. Ursula von de Vlying, you'd be speaking German. In German, actually, they do. As part of the problem with the World Economic Forum, it really is a Nazi plot economically to take over the world. Where does one start in summarizing such a speech?

Says the Atlantic. Do we start with the economic illiteracy, the determination to alienate allies? Or the many moments where the president said things that were just blatantly lies. He rambled through more than an hour and he covered a lot of ground. The most anticipated section was about his ongoing effort to acquire Greenland. Trump argued that only the U.S. could defend the island, which he perplexingly also dismissed as a giant piece of ice. He accidentally called it Iceland on several occasions, and he said, Greenland was essential for the Golden Dome Missile Defense System that he claims he's going to build someday. We'll see about that.

Although Trump insisted that he has the utmost respect. for both Danes and Greenlanders. Nothing else, he said and evinced any respect. He accused them of being ungrateful for the U.S. defense of Greenland during World War II. He argued that the American government erred when it, quote, gave it back, unquote, after the war. Trump delivered a classic mafioso threat to take Greenland by force, saying the U.S. military might was irresistible before adding nonchalantly, but I would never do such a thing, right? Like a mafia boss.

It'd be a shame if anything were to happen to that, you know. Very nice country you've got here. Be shame, real shame. Something were to happen to it. That's right. This is not as reassuring as some headlines might lead readers to believe. He said that if European leaders didn't acquiesce, we will remember. It's like a mafia boss.

There's a reason for that, right? That's the world in which he grew up. you know, casinos and mafia bosses and trade unions and all the rest of the stuff. He was like the only builder there that didn't have a problem with the trade unions because he was part of the mafia there, knew how to pay them off anyway. He still doesn't grasp the idea that NATO is an expression of American might. The group has made much of Europe into vassal states to the United States. Trump seemed determined to alienate allies.

He mockingly imitated. Macron's accent. He took a swipe at Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney. The banker didn't criticize him for being a central banker and a globalist, but, you know, he's going to mock him for other things. He ridiculed the UK as too incompetent to extract oil from the North Sea, saying, it's sitting on one of the greatest energy sources in the world and they don't use it. All right.

So, well, actually, that part of it is actually true. Somalians, he said, had a low IQ, but somehow they had rigged the election against him. He believes that he won Democrat Minnesota three times. I think that might, maybe I'm just going from memory, but I think Minnesota, Travis, was the only state that Ronald Reagan didn't win in his landslide 49 state victory. But, of course, Donald Trump would have won it. if it hadn't been for those pesky Somalians that are there with low IQ. After all this, the president abruptly delivered a boilerplate conclusion about unity and cooperation. It's baffling unless you spend a lot of time watching the Trump campaign rallies,

in which case is very familiar. Trump has no interest in calibrating his tone or his approach to different audiences. This can make his speeches painful to watch, but it also may be illuminating as in this case. global leaders in politics and finance who otherwise wouldn't spend their time watching a full Trump stump speech got the stump speech to come to them providing a good reminder of exactly who the president is as he tells them to their face

you don't want to stare me in the eyes but they still give him a standing ovation he said I was paid visits by everybody Rolex came to see me they all came to see me but I realized and I reduced it because I didn't want to hurt people. So I'm about his arbitrary tariffs. I don't want to hurt them. Don't make me hurt you. Do what I say.

And we brought it down to, you know, lower level. But they now pay this tariff. It says, think of it. Switzerland made $41 billion on us. Well, that's people who willingly wanted to, and had the ability to buy a Rolex. watch. It isn't that they were taking advantage of anybody. That's called a free market, which as a New York City Democrat, Trump has no understanding of and no appreciation for that. He is very much

like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. Guard Goldsmith, Liberty Conspiracy, good to see you, Guard. He says Trump issued a new executive order allowing forced institutionalization of homeless people in states. How that is a federal issue is beyond me. Well, everything is a federal issue for Donald Trump. And again, you're right, guard. I said for the longest time, when I was growing up, people would always say, somebody start getting real upset about something. Hey, don't make a federal issue out of it.

You never hear that anymore. Because people are both conservative and liberal, want to make a federal issue out of everything. And, you know, it's just, it's crazy. I realize that the conversation, that the U.S. is keeping the whole world afloat, he said. Well, that's how we do it. We have this massive credit card that we never have to pay off.

And we just keep putting it on our tab. We keep the whole world afloat. You know, we go out and buy Rolexes and all the rest of this stuff. And we don't have to pay that bill collectively. That's what the U.S. government is doing. By the way, I looked today based on the current, rate that we're expanding the federal budget deficit

and we're already at wait a minute, we're past 1030. Where's Tony? Yeah. Oh, do we forget? Okay, sorry Tony if you're listening. I just noticed the clock here. I can ramble on all day about Donald Trump. But as a lead

up to getting Tony Ardavan here and we can talk about what's going on with gold and silver. If you look at the budget deficit, we just passed over the right up to the $39 trillion amount. We added $2 trillion last year, a little over that. But if you look at the current rate that we're adding this stuff, we're going to hit the $40 trillion deficit the end of September this year. That's something that Trump can put on his resume, something he can be proud of, right? Let's take that credit card. We're making, we're keeping

the whole world afloat. What happens when this fiat thing gets kicked out? And that's what everybody is anticipating. That's what everybody is preparing for. That's what's happening with gold and with silver. All of that stuff is tied to the U.S. government keeping the world afloat. Well, at Davos, he's bragging that the elites come up to him and say, you doubled my net worth. Yeah, this is one of the big things, isn't it? The massive transfer of wealth from middle class, the people who, as Trump said in 2020 are not essential, to the Wall Street corporations that he said they were essential. They could continue to do business while we were shut down.

That's the key thing, doubling their net worth. He says these great companies coming in. Apple spending $650 billion. I mean, it's so many. One just announced $10 billion. It was Toyota. I met Mr. Toyota in Japan. So what's your name?

I said. He said, Toyota. Oh, he says, are you rich? He says, yes, I am. And so he goes, do you own the car company? And he says, yes, 92%. You know, there was an article just a week or two ago said, you can tell when Trump is making something up in line because he always goes back to this figure of 92%.

Now, you know, Toyota, Mr. Toyota, and actually in English, his name is spelled with a D instead of a T. It's not Toyota. It's Toyota. And I imagine that's what he's talking about. I don't know what percentage he owns, but that looks a bit suspicious. The 92% figure is something he loves to go back to all the time. But then he starts talking about Tim Cook, the guy he used to call Mr. Apple. Remember that?

And so Tim Cook and Apple have made a lot of money off of this stuff as well. He said, but fantastic people, fantastic people. I go around, I say the biggest people, the biggest business people. I say, congratulations. I said, you've doubled your network. since I've been president, right? And he says, yeah, even more than that. Isn't that great?

This massive transfer and concentration of wealth. And it really has accelerated and continues to accelerate under Trump. He says, in a way, I'm jealous of. In a way, I'm upset. To a couple of people in the room, I can't stand them, and they've become very rich. There's nothing I can do about it. I would screw them if I could, but I can't do it, right?

I can't do it. It's amazing the way this. guy talks. You know, you'll find a way. Don't worry. He'll find a way. And he's jealous about the amount of money that they made, but his family has made one and a half billion dollars in just the first year. And now he's come up with this new grift, the Peace Board, make his family the chair of the Peace Board, and you can pay a billion dollars to get into that club. Do we have Tony yet? Oh, okay. We're still working on Tony. I'll keep going here. They said, yeah, I'm not allowed to do that. I'd love to do it, really, you know. It's one of those things, but everybody's

making a lot of money. Everybody's investing money in the U.S. and our jobs are through the roof. Thank goodness for robots, because we're never going to have enough people to all these places that are being built. Yeah. It was never about reshoring manufacturing for American manufacturing jobs. I said that in 2017 when they were talking when they made this, this move. And, of course, Gerald Salenti was all against it. it, we talked about it. And, you know, he made the point. He said, look at how these companies like Apple and they're buying their own stock.

They're not building. They're buying their stock with this money. And I said, yeah, they're not going to build the factories until they, back in America, until they can eliminate the American worker. Once they get to the point where they know the technology is there for automation, then they'll get another round of gifts. And then they will build factories that'll be run by robots. and there'll be staffed by robots, not by people.

They don't want human labor. They don't want the human labor even of cheap foreign labor. They want to eliminate humans out of the entire process. Well, Trump is bragging about that. He thinks it's a good thing. He said, I think robots are actually going to be very big business. I think it's going to be surprisingly big, but I think we're going to need it. We're going to need it, he said.

Well, I think 2026 will be the year of the robot. I think we're going to see it really explode this year. Zero Hedge has been saying that for a couple of years. And I think they're right. I think we're right at the point where they're ready to push this out. And then along the lines of what is happening economically, Larry Fink was there. He says, AI, if left on the current trajectory, risk deepening inequality.

Well, you know, Trump can't wait for that. He wants to have AI and robots to replace all the people. Maybe that's one of the reasons why he's so eager to kill so many people with his genetic code injection in the first place. And again, all of that is a globalist agenda. Reduction in population for control. And so Larry Fink, who, remember, he was the guy who created all the ESG stuff. And he hasn't paid any price for all the ESG and DEI things that are happening. They just walk away in the same way that Trump just walked away from the pandemic and the genetic code injection stuff. So most of people affected by.

by what we talk about here will never come to this conference, said Mr. Fink. He supposedly feels your pain, right? He said the early rewards of AI are flowing almost exclusively to those who own the technology's foundation, the models, the data, the infrastructure, wage earners risk being left behind. He drew a direct parallel between the impact of AI on white-collar workers and the disruption that globalization inflicted on manufacturing jobs in previous decades. And of course, those manufacturing jobs are gone.

They're not going to come back. They're going to be given to robots. And the manufacturing will be onshore in the U.S. when the robots can take the place to the humans. He says, but what happens to everybody else if AI does to white-collar workers, what globalization did to blue-collar workers? That's why Elon Musk's first involvement in politics that I know anything about was when he gave a million dollars to Andrew Yang,

who as he began to run for president, his only policy initiative that he, the only thing that he was talking about was universal basic income. That's something that's very dear to the heart of Elon Musk, because just like all the rest of these guys, he wants you to believe that he's on your side. He wants you to believe that, you know, he wants X as a free speech platform,

nothing could be further from the truth. He rigorously punishes anybody that disagrees with him, just as the people before him did. But they have, you know, his plan is to own everything. He says, you don't need to have money. I'll have all the money. You don't need what I've got. Anyway, he was a leading proponent of environmental, social governance,

Larry Fink was. And, of course, stakeholder capitalism is a concept and label that was actually created by his predecessor, Klaus Schwab. I've said for the longest time we need to put a stake through the heart of this stakeholder capitalism idea that's the heart of Davos. These net zero commitments led many European countries to spend trillions on wind and solar, at the expense of more reliable, more resilient, and considerably cheaper energy alternatives because of this funny climate McGuffin. Even Larry Fink now admits that's not going to work. He's made his money.

So now we can move on to some other scam. So he says that transitioning to solar and wind will cause a global power shortage after spending years pressuring companies to do exactly that. And so what's more important to them than the phony emergency that they created, they're just going to walk away from it. They're going to do a complete 180, just like all the climate people did with, you know, began it was all about global cooling. And then one day they just flipped the switch.

and it's now about global warming. And then when that was clear that wasn't working, it became about something called climate change, whatever that is, right? And so they're just going to, you know, they've done this over and over again. They just completely change. It's like, you know, now we're at war with East Asia.

You know, it's like Orwellian when you talk about that. And you just flip who your enemy is. So he said, what's actually going to happen is that rich people are going to use AI to replace workers, said Jeffrey Hinton. One of Nobel Prize. he's described as the pioneer of AI. He says it's going to create massive unemployment,

but it's also going to create a huge rise in profit. That's all these people going to be coming. They're clapping for Trump because they know that as well. They're going to be going back as you know, you doubled my wealth. You made me really, really rich. And that's why they're supporting him. Yeah, did that happen to anyone else here in the audience? Did anyone else have their wealth doubled under Donald Trump?

Yeah, right. Can we get a consensus? Maybe a poll. You know, you can let us know. Well, I know the farmers are going out of business massively because of him cutting the legs off of their trade. We've got Kentucky bourbon factories are going out of business because of what Donald Trump did. But, yeah, I don't see anybody getting their wealth doubled except the people who are around him and the people who are at Davos and the rest of it. Federal Reserve data shows at the bottom half of Americans on about one.

1% of market wealth, while the top 1% control nearly half of corporate equity. The AI boom is reinforcing a case-shaped economy. In other words, one of them is going up, while the other one is going down radically. A rapid wealth accumulation and a depression for everybody else. Palantir CEO Alex Karp chimed in on AI as well at Davos, saying that it will display so many jobs that it'll eliminate the need for mass immigration. There'll be more than enough jobs for the citizens of your nation, he said. Well, that's the whole purpose, right?

People are going to get upset about this. So let's bring in some people from other countries and they can fight them instead of fighting us who create all this stuff. Tony is ready. So without any further ado, I mean, we're getting it really late getting him on. I apologize for that. But we're going to take a very short break and we'll get Tony on. You're listening to the David Knight Show. All right.

And again, joining us is Tony Arderman of Wise Wolf Gold. And of course, you can go to David Knight, not gold, and that'll take you to Wise Wolf and let him know that you came through us. But people who listened to Tony, I think,

probably did pretty well last year. Maybe we didn't have our wealth doubled. But if you bought into gold and silver, especially if you did it in the way that Tony has set up, I don't know anybody else that lets you. you gradually accumulate gold and silver. You can kind of set it up as a savings program with Wolfpack. You can decide what level you want to buy into, how much we want to set aside each month.

And you can kind of dollar cost average that in. And we had another all-time high this week, didn't we, Tony, because the people worried about what Trump was going to do with Greenland. Another all-time high yesterday. And as a matter of fact, it's hard to keep up with how many. It's like a broken record. That's right. But then, of course, there was some sell-off, as Trump said.

Now, we're not going to have a war with Greenland or whatever. You know, there's that kind of reaction to these things that happens all the time. But talk a little bit about where we are right now. And I just mentioned earlier in the program that we're on track to hit $40 trillion by the end of September at the current rate. Now, that's assuming that Trump doesn't come up with any new grandiose scheme that he's going to dump a bunch of money at You had Jesse Waters this last week when they're talking about Greenland, just casually say, yeah, we can get it for $700 billion. It'd be great. It'd be a steal.

It's like, yeah, it's only another trillion dollars. Remember when Senator Everick-Drickson said, you know, well, a billion here and a billion there. Pretty soon you're talking about real money. Well, now we're spending a thousand times that with trillion, right? And the thing is, we're not talking about real money. We're talking about fiat money. That's the problem. None of this stuff is real and it's going to come crashing down.

Well, going back to what you mentioned about Wolfpack and just dollar cost averaging, it's better to protect your wealth gradually than try to do it suddenly. Kind of like you go bankrupt, like the Hemingway reference. So we're really, really, yesterday we got official word that the trademark for Wolfpack gold came in. So I was glad I owned the name. And it took a little while. That's great. It's an idea, you know, the idea of the Wolfpack. And just setting aside a little bit of the fiat.

value that you have that's diminishing and let us find it for you. I have a great crew, great team, and it's been increasingly difficult to do what we do in the face of these prices. And I think we prepared for it. Well, I wasn't prepared for these types of price spikes because this is not market related, David. I don't believe that the market's truly driving this. I think this is governmental, as I discussed last week with you. I think the way, and it's funny, you see this kind of language popping up now in articles and KitCo. It's like, well, governmental, you know, it's the stockpiling of rare earth minerals and stuff. It's, so it's beyond what we've experienced in the last 50 years. And, and I think this is going to, obviously there's some market forces

built into this and there will be pullback and selloffs and profit taking and all the rest. But, you know, we're in completely uncharted territory. And you mentioned the debt. And you got, there's a great book called The Big Print by. Larry Lippard, and I read that. But I think he's on to something when if you look at all the culminating events with central banks and governments around the world, they've put themselves in such a place where that's why they float the idea of talking about Davos is the great reset. You know, this is something they have to put out there to the consciousness because they're

going to, this is mathematically inevitable. Yeah. They have to do a currency reset. But there's going to be probably this singularity event where there is a big print. Like, you know, you mentioned going to $40 trillion in debt. And then unless Trump does something, you know, Trumpish and some outlandish thing, which is more likely than not, that we're going to have some sort of event where there is a massive print. And it might be coordinated by central banks around the world.

to prop up their own markets to stave off collapse. Because all these indicators of prices are just, these are the outliers and the tell is the sign. How do you spell outlier now? I think we spell outlier with a L-I-A-R. These liars out and get them out of Congress out of Washington. But, yeah, you know, he could easily do this with this Golden Dome thing. You know, that's what he's talking about with Greenland.

He could build a golden dome with all the gold that's in Fort Knox if there is any. And then some is probably what he would spend on it. I mean, as soon as he does this massive tax increase, he calls it a tariff, and he just imposes it himself. And then he says, oh, and I've got $600 billion. So let's just put it all in the military budget, you know. Forget about even the rebate that he said he was going to go to people. forget about getting rid of the income tax.

None of that is going to happen. He will put it into the military. So, yeah, he's going to just continue to tax and continue to spend, just like a Democrat. I think one of the most astonishing metrics that I've seen is that if you take all of the revenue that we take in, minus the tariffs, but if you take all the revenue of taxable internal taxes,

and you put them together, that just services the interest on the, debt. Yeah. Yeah. That's where we are. That's where we are. He's so desperate to get control of the Federal Reserve under his singular control, right? You look at these evil institutions that are out there, as I said yesterday, the U.N., the Federal Reserve, his instinct is not to end them, not even to reform them. His instinct is to become them, to become a one-man Federal Reserve, a one-man UN with his Peace Board and all the rest of this stuff. He's not going to change anything for the better. he's going to use every problem to make himself more powerful.

And that's what's really going to be happening with the Federal Reserve. That's the real issue. It's the money on the debt. Because when he lowers interest rates, as you've seen, and we've all seen, the longer term interest rates for home mortgages and things like that would sometimes go up. They either be unaffected or they'll go up when they lower the short-term interest rates. And I think you're also something else that may kick in pretty. soon is as he's, you know, gotten all these people in NATO and Europe angry over this Greenland

thing, they were already starting to talk about doing a boycott of buying U.S. Treasury bills. That could bring things to a head too, couldn't it? It absolutely could. I mean, I was listening to your show yesterday. You mentioned that central banks now hold more gold than they do U.S. treasuries. And that metric, again, the dollar is still number one held by central banks. but number two is gold and it supplanted the euro

like 18 months ago as number two. That's why the European Central Bank that gold was a threat to the system. Oh, it's a threat to your fake money, you know, and I think the metrics of dollar usage

post-war War II, right after Breton Woods, it was about 90% of the world used the dollar. You know, we supplanted the pound sterling. And the dollar was the world's reserve currency. So about 90% of usage. And that went to past 1971 and then started to a slow decline.

So the year 2001, we're at about 75% of world usage for the U.S. dollar. And then just, I mean, gosh, in the last few years and just talking on your show, this was something I watched was the dollar usage. So the money velocity. And it went from about 56% of usage in 2020. following our sanctions on Russia after they invaded Ukraine. And then it's dropped all the way down to about 40%. And just that time. So, you know, if you look at the, and that's the phenomenon of de-dollarization.

I think that's the key indicator in all of this, whether you're talking about the petro dollar or anything else surrounding that or how much we're going to print, the dollar usage around the world is declining. And even though, you know, 80% of all of our $100 bills aren't in this country, they're outside of the continental United States and 65% of all paper currencies outside the continental United States, less and less is being used. And eventually those dollars will be repatriated, but we're going to continue to print more as the world uses less. So you tell me what does that spell for the purchasing power of that currency unit? And there's really not any great options to prop that up at this point. If you've lost so much, so much usage in such a short period of time. And that's why I think that's what we're watching really with these prices of gold and silver.

Again, there's governmental forces and supply and then showing the weakness of how much actual physical is in the market. But it's that it's that loss of usage by the dollar. is the World Reserve currency at the same time that's really showing in up, showing up in the prices of Golden Silver Day. Yeah, yeah. I'm just curious yesterday. I went back and looked out. I wonder if we're in the territory of not worth the Continental yet.

So I went back and look to see what it happened to the value of the continental during the war, revolutionary war. And they started out, you know, referring it to the Spanish dollar, which was out of gold or silver, right? And they made a few Continentals that were made out of silver. And by the way, those are worth a lot right now because of, you know, historical value and that type of thing. They've had some of them sell at like one and a half million dollars for one continental dollar

because of collectible type of thing. But and there were also some pewter and brass versions of those. And those are selling for tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars as well. But the actual paper that's, there, even though it may have some historical value. The paper right away dropped to one one thousandth of its value. So in other words, the dollar quickly became one-tenth of a cent. The paper continental dollars.

We're not quite there yet. We have lost since the, since Federal Reserve was created, you know, prior to that, we'd been on the gold standard for a very long time, many, many decades. But since the Federal Reserve was created, we have lost 97% of the value of the dollar in terms of purchasing power. So we're not quite incontinentable territory yet, but just wait, that may be coming, right? Well, we're very close. If you look at this, some astonishing metrics if you just use a calculator and a little bit of history, you go back to 1933, right before Franklin Roosevelt had that executive order about turning. in your gold, and you look at a $20 gold piece.

That was $20. So think about this. It was $20 in 1933. It's basically an ounce of gold. It's 0.9, 6, 7, 5 ounces. It's the way that it was set up on our gold silver ratio. So a $20 gold piece was basically an ounce of gold. So today, that's around $4,800 at spot.

That's what $20 was in 1933. So the issue is the expansion of the money supply. That's the magic trick. Like, it's the gold retained its value. It's the $20 that went into oblivion. And that's that 97% that you're talking about. And honestly, I don't think that we've reached a point yet where that the true loss of value has been exposed relative to the money supply. I think that it's worse than it.

I mean, think about all of the liquidity that's trapped in these markets or so-called investments and other things that isn't real. And you know, you talk about this stuff that's that's papered over or has been propped up that by the central bank. And so I don't think that we're there yet as far as like a complete exposure, like in the reset. But it's going to be found like the true value is going to be found in these commodities. And we're seeing this is the beginning of that.

And there's no going back. I've had people call and say, hey, I'm going to pause my subscription until, prices come down. I don't, you know, I love you, but I don't, and I'm not, this isn't even like an infomercial. I just don't believe that's going to happen. And if it does, it will be probably something really bad. Like, I don't know if you'll be able to use the banking system. I don't know. There's something inherently, you know, I think, solidified in this run. Well, I think the analogy here, I think back to the Warner Brothers, cartoons, right? Where he had Wiley Coyote and he goes running off the cliff and he keeps going for a while until he looks down and sees that there's nothing there. And then after that realization, he drops like a rock. And I think that's really what we're talking about. People are going along running on this fiction of fiat currency. And at some point, people are going to realize that there's nothing to it. And then everything is going to drop like a rock. And then you're going to have this massive boulder of 40 trillion or 50 trillion.

or whatever it is at that point in time. It's going to be following us all the way down to smash us when we hit the bottom. You know, it's going to be a wily coyote moment. You're absolutely right. You know, the Ark Buckminster Fuller quote, people cannot get out of the way of what they don't see coming. Yeah. It's just always been some kind of stability thing,

or we've bounced back, or you've had a, you know, into the 1970s moved by the Fed to raise interest rates to the teens to just get it, wrap its arms around inflation. Of course, take you get, take out the hunt family for exposing how weak the dollar was through silver and stop the speculation and do the manipulation of markets of gold like they did for so long and then all of a sudden central banks start buying gold and this becomes weaponized against the dollar and that's what we're

seeing and it's really you can't do those can't fix those things anymore yeah and you can't paper over silver anymore good luck there's too many eyes on it and it's it's it's become again it's become part of the fourth dimensional warfare, you know, nation state currency war. So it's fixed that this market is permanent with the way we are right now. Like we're not going back to $15, $20 silver or $30 silver. I don't see it. I don't see how you could possibly sell off like that. And especially knowing that there's, you know, the metrics, the statistics out there are alarming. Like, you know, the 75% or so of the silver that hits the, you know, the, you know, the metrics, the statistics. the supply is coming from companies mining nickel and copper.

It's like a sideshow. And so if the economy suffers and there's less need for copper or nickel, there's not going to be as much silver because it's something that they just mine on top of what they're already looking for. And so we're years out from because silver was so low for so long, it didn't support mining companies. So there's like the very little silver mining going. on. They cannot reach the levels that are needed for demand. And then you have,

we've had a deficit. We've had a deficit for like six years, haven't we? It's been, yeah, hundreds of millions of ounces. That'd be taken from the above ground supply. And there's bottlenecked everywhere, David. Like, I had to stop buying sterling again because there's nowhere to melt it and nobody will take it at any price. Like, everything's bottlenecked. And the same thing with the big trading houses. You want to like my job has become like my subconscious like solves problems in my head while asleep because I have to get up and more like do we clear this? You know, like the amount of stuff clearing because of the amount of selling.

And then the bottlenecks of it is I know that it's across the board. It has to be industry wide that a lot of operators are like, how do I even navigate this? Because it is so uncertain. And yet the prices continue to rise. That's the tell. That's the tell. But something else is a. foot here.

Absolutely right. You're dealing in an economy that's already in hyperinflation. Yes. Dealing in silver and gold. Yeah. You know, we talk all the time about that Hemingway quote. Has somebody that's very wealthy, go bankrupt. And he said, well, gradually and then suddenly.

There was another quote that I went to. The panacea. Yeah. This weekend. And the fact that Hemingway said, look at these corrupt empires. What they first do is they try to inflate everything. It's all things with inflation. The next thing, when that doesn't work,

They take you to war. And boy, I tell you, is that not Trump in a nutshell, inflation and war? It's just, yeah, he is the guy that they've handpicked to lead the sheeple into this whole situation, I think. Oh, the lizard class always does this. They'll give us somebody like Woodrow Wilson is like, you know, he ran in 1916. He kept us out of war. You know, what's the first thing he does in 1917, takes office, puts us in a war? you know, puts his price smack dab in the middle of the war.

You know, it's every single time, you know, Franklin Roosevelt, you know, in his, what was his third term, comes out, I was like, I've seen war and I hate war, and your boys will not be sent to another, you know, European war. The first thing he does is get us into a war. It's the same. And I hate saying that because, you know, so much of what Trump ran on in 2016, it animated me.

You know, it's 36. I go, well, okay, finally, somebody's saying, This is stuff that I ran on when I ran for Congress. And I'm like, okay, he took the populist playbook. I could see he kind of mixed a little Ron Paul with Pat Buchanan. And I could see that it was tap. I said, this is good. But it's just, it's all smoking mirrors because we're not, we don't have.

Just look at our foreign policy. It's schizophrenic. We kidnap people. We don't. I mean, we, we bomb other nations on behalf of other nations. I think it's very telling that the people who hated himself. much at the beginning, you know, now I really love him. They're the biggest supporters he's got. That's exactly right. That's the tell. Because he's flipped, you know, and, and it's one thing for,

you know, we look at a candidate that doesn't have any record like Trump. And that was another thing for them. He brings some guy out. He's a celebrity, but he doesn't have any record, so you don't really know what he's going to do. But it's very easy for them to go out and say, this is what I think about this. And they can have the right perspective. They can have the right perspective about every issue. But then you have to see what they actually do. And so that's why, you know, I couldn't support Trump a second time, especially after 2020. That was just unprecedented what happened with that with a lockdown and all the rest. And I knew that that was the deep state plan that they'd been practicing for 20 years. If that doesn't tell you that Trump is deep state, nothing will. And so,

yeah, that's where we are right now. Well, I think we're, it's a very dangerous times if you think this is normal behavior by the powers that be? I mean, you need to read a little bit. You need to sit with that and pray about it because I don't think that we've behaved like this. There's other empires that have behaved kind of like we are behaving,

but there's no real example of a nation with our power and standing that has declined as rapidly as we have, and also is making plans for something. We can clearly see that we're setting something up, whether hemispheric, I don't

if it's related to the Wolfowitz memorandum of 1992. We're setting up, you know, the thing with Venezuela, looking at Greenland, like whatever Greenland means to us. There's a lot going on here. And I mean, ultimately, it's, it's God's world. I mean, you've got to leave it up to God. Well, I think there's a lot of pointers going back to the technocracy, of course. You know, you look at the map that he's got there. But it's more than just a map. And it's more than just, let's consolidate everything in the Western Hemisphere under the United States. States. It also goes back to the fact that they wanted everything valued in commodities and things like that and energy specifically. And so I think that's a big part of the move in Venice well.

They have tremendous resources. And so, you know, make that move first, nail that down. And so you keep going back and seeing these contours that looked very similar to what the technocracy wanted. But it is everything that is there is talking about a massive change. that is coming. And so that's why it's very important for people to latch on to something that's been stable for millennia, and that's gold and silver. That's about the only thing that we can do to try to get out of the way of what is coming. And it's going to be difficult to do that anyway. You know, when they have a war that starts, whether it's a domestic civil war that Trump is pushing or whether it is foreign wars and things like that, it's still going to affect us, even if we don't

agree with it. There's nothing we can do to stop that. And there's, Only so much that we can do to prepare for it, but whatever we can do, we need to prepare for it. And a key part of that is to try to get what we've worked for and saved, to try to get that into something that's going to be more stable, like gold and silver. Well, certainly, especially, you know, with the lack of trust. And you know where the collapse of trust started? It didn't start at the bottom. It started at the top.

Look at the central banks. They don't trust each other. It's clear. I mean, the central banks, the financial power. They know what they're doing. I mean, this is the amount of gold purchased by central banks in 2009 was about 0%. And now it makes up the majority of purchases because the central banks are moving away from those currents. They just see this system is broken.

So they don't even trust each other. They don't trust governments. And neither should you. I mean, the system's going through changes. So don't be too overexposed. The thing about I ran a simulation through AI to look at the S&P 500 versus gold from 1975 on. And it was like, well, this could be misleading. It's like the S&P 500 outperform gold if you just bought ounces of gold.

However, you have to add in taxable gains, companies that went out of business. Like you'd have to move it around. It wouldn't be. So you're talking about counterparty risk inside of that. If you just bought gold at the end of the day, like, you know, in 1980, it took one ounce of gold to get a share of S&P 500. By 2000, it was five ounces. And then by 2011, it's 0.5. And then declining.

So that's where, you know, you can look at the metrics of how much it costs to play in something of the traditional stock market. But you'd just been better off with counterparty risk and exposure and not having to do anything. You've been better off just buying an ounce of gold. Yeah. Then to play all those games that you have to play in the traditional markets. That's right. Yeah. Just to try to preserve what you've got at this point in time, rather than to try to, you know, hit a home run with timing or something like that.

Anything that you want to tell us besides the fact you got now got Wolfpack trademark? Was anything else happening with? No, I'm real thankful for that. Just, you know, just thank everybody who's still a part of it. You know, we're doing the best we can at the shop. I had to stop buying, and I don't know how long I'm going to run this, but both of my physical shops, I stopped buying at 3 p.m. daily. Just can't do it anymore. It's so much coming in.

And, you know, I try to serve as many people as I can, but it's been hard on my cruise. And I'm like, I'm going to stop buying it three, give people a break and catch up on inventory. Well, you can always buy from us. That's never a problem. We got plenty of supply right now. But I would just say, you know, for those who. in Wolfpack, it's a, it just hold as long as you can because, uh, you know, we'll continue to put, you know, the best products in there that I'm always looking for loopholes too. Like, what can I,

what can I find that would be, you know, even more interesting? And I started doing another thing I did, David, is anybody's, if you're in Wolfpack, you're going to get like some collectible stuff. When you, when you, when you get silver dollars from me or like the, or like silver dimes, like there's mercury dimes. There's barber dimes in there. They're worth like five times what I put in there. I don't have time to do collectibles, but you'll get them at no charge. I'm just charging you for the silver. They're literally. And I would say, I talked to Yeka about this, my head trader, and she's wonderful.

I said, we're just doing melt on constitutional silver. She said, yeah, I said, just continue to do that. So we, because there's no outlet for it, like I can't even sell it to the trading houses anymore, they won't take it. I mean, just because they're so backed up and I won't get paid for weeks. So the constitutional silver, if you go to Wolf or David Knight not gold and then go to Wolfpack, that's called Constitutional Wolf. If you go into one of those packages like 250 or 5, you can buy it one time, you just get stuff at spot. So like you're getting silver dollars at spot. I mean, that's nuts.

And because that's what we're buying, we're having to buy them under melt level. So you're getting getting, and there's collectibles in there too. So that's probably the best deal that I have right now. Who knows? Maybe you'll get a continental silver dollar. No, no. That one I'd like to keep. I'm sorry.

One half million dollars for an ounce of silver, right? Yeah, I think I'd hold on to that one. But you do get silver dollars from the 1800s all the time. Those morgans, I put those in there. You know, I buy them by the bag full. And so we just pass those on to Wolfpack members. That's great. Well, really do appreciate it, Tony.

And it's been a good thing for all of our listeners who have gotten into this, of course, in last year. I don't see anything changing except for the trends getting worse. And Gerald Stinty sees it the same way. As he said, you know, Trump has been really good for silver and gold because he's really bad for the economy. So for the dollar. And that's only going to accelerate this next year as he becomes the Federal Reserve himself. and they continue that we're going to hit the $40 trillion mark. That's going to be a shot in the arm to gold and silver psychologically right there.

Because, you know, every time you see something happen, you know, when gold crosses a $2,000 an ounce milestone. It's like, okay, everybody recalibrates the way they see things when it crosses $3,000, when it crosses $4,000. Well, what's going to happen when the debt crosses $40 trillion? That's going to be an event. easily be a $5,000 gold here very soon. And silver will hit 100.

I don't know what happens next. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. These are definitely, definitely no going back. Yeah, this is a, we're boldly going where no one has gone before. I guess we can say we're goldly going where no one is going. I like that.

That's very good. Okay. Well, thanks, Tony. It's always great talking to you. Again, go to Davidnight. That'll take you to Wisewolf. and you can buy whatever you want, Tony will sell it to you, or you can start your own savings program with Wolfpack.

Thank you so much, Tony. Always great talking to you. Folks, we're going to take a real quick break, and we will be right back. Using free speech to free minds. It's the David Knight Show. I think the movement towards tokenization, decimalization is necessary.

It's ironic that we see two emerging countries leading the world in the tokenization and digitization of their currency. That's Brazil and India. I think we need to move very rapidly to doing that. We would be reducing fees. We would do more democratization by reducing more fees. If we had all investments on a tokenized platform that can move from a tokenized money market fund to equities and bonds and back and forth, we have one common blockchain.

we can reduce corruption. So I would argue that, yes, we have more dependencies on maybe one blockchain, which we could all talk about. But that being said, activities are probably processed and more secure than everyone. Yeah, there you go. That's the guy that you can trust. He wants to reduce your fees.

He wants to reduce corruption. Let's centralize everything, put it on the blockchain where he can control everything. And we can really debank you at that point in time. Yeah, because he's been all about that so far. Larry Fink, one of the richest most powerful men on the planet, has been unable to do anything to help anyone so far. But, you know, he's got this idea.

That's right. Yeah, maybe he's developed a conscience, right? He's going to help us all with that. Yeah, and beware. That's just another example of how these guys are getting ready to turn over the cart. I mean, they want to flip over everything at this point in time. So, again, grab a hold of something that's been there for me. millennia. That's maybe one of the few lifelines that we've got out there with the machinations of

these Machiavellian billionaires that are out there. I'm going to talk a little bit about Greenland, but before I do, you wanted to say something. Yes, that's right. I want to remind people that you can go to Homestead Products.com. Homestead Products. Shop, and they have their goldenrod tincture on sale. It is now only $9, and it's good for, you know, alleviating upper respiratory congestion, whether it's stemming from allergies, sinusitis, flu, or the common cold. It's at Homesteadproducts.shop. It's their goldenrod tincture. Of course, it's all natural.

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They do a great job at Homestead Products. Shop. They work very hard to make sure they're hard. high quality and they're made in America. And again, it's the Golden Rod Tincture. It's on sale for $9. And you can use promo code Knight for a 10% discount on anything on their website. So go check out homestead products.com. Yes, absolutely. Well, Trump, the orange man, I guess we could say, gave himself a peace prize. He didn't just steal the one from Machado. My intimidation. He also gave himself a peace prize. Sorry to cut in, but we do have comments. And and we should get to those before we move on.

Yeah. We have North American House Hippo, and thank you very much for the tip. We appreciate it. He says, sad, terrible news. My account Trump at Davos dash 1, 2020 was banned at the gayway puppets. Must be something I said. Yeah, well, 2020 is hindsight, isn't it? That was when he was last at Davos.

So we know what happened after that, right after that? Within about 10 days, you had his big pharmaceutical HHS secretary declared a pen. pandemic of COVID. And even at that point in time, they claimed that there was something like a half dozen people that had it. It's ridiculous. But it came right after Davos. I wonder what they were talking about in those back rooms. So 21 gun salute, pour one out for Trump at Davos 2020. The account is gone. And we have Mark Karnakey says America only party. We have just completed filling out, or filing our first candidate here in Hillsdale County, Michigan. And 30 plus other men are on the edge of completing their papers for the race. So they're getting involved locally.

Good. And they are running their own people. And that's what you really have to do. You're not going to be able to take back Washington, D.C. There's billions of dollars at play there. We simply cannot compete at that scale. But you do stand a chance at the local level. And that's where you can have direct impact on your life and the lives of the people you know and care about. I agree. Yeah, they make it difficult to get on the ballot. And you have to create parties to get on ballots and things like that in most places. But, you know, it's difficult to get on there. And it's impossible to get into the debates. But you still have more leverage at the local level. That is absolutely true. Well, as I was saying, the orange man has given himself a peace prize, a piece of

Greenland, to be exact. And so we're going to take a look at this. Is this something that is really going to hold up? Is it real? As Trump is saying there, he said, forever, it'll be forever, he said about his quote-unquote deal. And he said, that's better than the Obama deal with the famous Iran nuclear deal with a nine-year deal. No, this one is forever. This is long run. You know, Obama is living rent-free and Trump said, I think that's a big part of his obsession

with the peace prize. You know, Obama got this peace prize right away. Why can't I get mine? You know, where's my peace prize? And so here he is about a deal. And Obama had a deal. We're going to do another one. As a matter of fact, you got the left out there.

Somebody just asked Big Mike if Barack would run again for president if Trump changed things so that he could run for a third term. Well, I don't know that Trump is going to change anything for a third term. I mean, this is Bannon pushing this. Bannon has absolutely no respect for the Constitution in that regard. He's just like the rest of the Trumpsters out there. But Denmark is not so sure that they agree with this deal. Denmark has rejected Trump's Greenland negotiations. Denmark will not enter into talks about giving up, quote, fundamental principles, said their foreign minister.

After Trump said at Davos, he said, we're going to have immediate negotiations aimed at taking control of Greenland. During a lengthy speech at Davos, Trump reiterated that the U.S. would seize Greenland from Denmark. He said, Greenland is our territory. He said, he's seeking immediate negotiations to once again discuss the acquisition. And, of course, he put out this meme. There he is, planting the flag, like some 19th century conquer. It says Greenland, U.S. territory, established 2026. And standing behind him is J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio.

Well, some people took that still picture and fed it into Grock and they got this. a group of polar bears dragging the three of them off and then one of them coming up and smiling at the camera and then somebody else put up this meme, a polar bear gnawing a bloody bone with a maga cap in the front as a prop there. So they said, we stand on a foundation that the United States

largely helped to create after World War II, said the Danish foreign minister. He said, Denmark will not budge an inch on matters of national sovereignty. Greenland already hosts about 150 U.S. troops at the Petufic Space Base, formerly known as Tool Air Base. Under the 1951, Greenland Defense Agreement, American forces can move freely on Greenland's soil. And this is what I said, and I think this is going to be the compromise, as one person called it Green Tonimo. The idea, you know, we got, Guantanamo was a military base that we had on Cuba, and we said, all right, we're not

leaving that after Cuba flipped. We kept that foothold there in Cuba. And so they said, well, maybe it's going to be something like that. Maybe what they'll do is have some kind of a face-saving thing for Trump where he basically is allowed to put more military bases in there, except he's already allowed under a treaty to do that. I've been saying that for the longest time. you've heard this on the show. I said, you know, he's had this treaty since 1951 or whatever, saying they can put, they can move about freely on Greenland, they can put as many military bases as they feel are necessary in Greenland.

All of this talk about having to have it for defense. It's obviously about something else. But I think this whole thing has been a lot of theater. And I said, before I said, I don't think there'll be an invasion unless you want to imagine that a massive move of the military, to Greenland territory, building military bases and everything. I mean, you could look at that as some kind of an invasion,

some kind of a show of military strength. But it isn't anything that they don't already have the ability to do if they wish to do that. But it's going to allow him to declare victory. Meanwhile, the Danish government has welcomed more frequent NATO deployments to the territory. Trump has insisted on ownership of the land, claiming that the United States alone can defend Greenland from the supposed threat posed by Russia and China, a claim that Copenhagen and Moscow and Beijing have rejected. But then he makes this kind of mafia threat.

He says, well, Danes have a choice. You can say yes and we'll be very appreciative. Or you can say no and we will remember. And so he says that they're not going to use military force, they will acquire the territory. He said this at Davos. He said, we probably won't get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength and force, where we would be, frankly, unstoppable.

But I won't do that. All I'm asking is for a place called Greenland. Or was it Iceland? I can't remember which of those two did he want? He can't remember either. You know, maybe this is your fault. You played that Green Acres is the place to be quite a few times. That's right.

Yeah, we should do a little clip of that and change the lyrics around. So it's like, Greenland is a place I want to be. Prior to his remarks at World Economic Forum, Trump refused to rule out deploying the military to claim the territory. In his address, the president demanded that Denmark enter into immediate talks with the U.S. about transferring control of Greenland to Washington. And they came back and said, no, we're not going to do that. A Danish MP said of Greenland, he said, it would be war and we would be fighting against each other. And he said this.

He said, there is no threat. There is no hostility. There is no need because Americans already have access to Greenland, both militarily and in all other ways, he said. There is no drug route. There is no illegitimate government in Greenland. There is absolutely no justification for it. No historical ownership, no broken treaties, nothing can justify it. Again, it's very much like Canada.

He can't make the false accusations, though, of Greenland that we've got fentanyl coming from Greenlandery, the rest of this nonsense. He can't say they had crooked elections, like he said in Venezuela, I'm also saying that about fentanyl. So, again, you know, it is, it really has. been an embarrassment for America. Meanwhile, the U.S. is spying on Danish military facilities in Greenland. The Danish Defense Ministry report concluded that the U.S. has increased spying on its bases in Greenland. Trump has threatened to seize Greenland from Denmark.

He refused to rule out military force to take control of the colony, rather. And this was just before the World Economic Forum at Davos. He kind of seemed to rule that out. But I think in a sense, if we were to move a lot of troops in, open up some new bases, of course, all the MAGA people are going to cheer it and treat it as if it was a military conquest. I think that's what he's angling for. Defense officials said the U.S. had been spying on its military bases and posts in Greenland and said, we don't spy on our friends.

Well, the U.S. has a long history of spying on its allies, just like Israel. NSA documents leaked by Ed Snowden showed that Washington surveilled European leaders. The Wall Street Journal reported in May that the director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard had ordered a, quote, collection emphasis message to intelligence agencies to collect information in Greenland. I mean, that's got to be a really difficult thing to do to get any information in Greenland since they've only got 56,000 people. And there's not a whole lot of things that are happening there. Can you imagine that you've got an assignment to try to get some intel on Greenland? It's like, there's nothing going on there. I don't have anything to report.

That would make something up here. Trump has threatened to seize control multiple times, and so we'll have to see what happens with all of this stuff. Again, as I said before, you know, Jesse Waters said, oh, yeah, $700 billion. We can easily do that. A trillion dollars. Who cares about that? We're offering them $700 billion.

A billion. A taxpayer money. A billion per person. These are supposedly conservative people. It's dying to sell debt mark. Every European that we're going to grease with the 700 billion is dying to do this deal. It's like when you find out your great grandmother has this amazing piece of real estate right on the coast. And some big fat developer comes over and makes an amazing offer.

And you don't even go to the property. You've never even seen the estate. And you don't have enough money to even build on it. So someone comes here, slap to check down, and you're going to say no, once Besson and Lutnik and Rubio, get into a room with all these guys

and knock their heads together, we're getting Greenland. Yeah, who cares about the cost, right? Also, funny money. This points to his mentality. Everything is for sale. Money is the be-all-end-all. You offer someone enough money.

They'll sell out their country, their heritage, their identity. I mean, look. That's all Jesse Waters cares about. All the people at Jesse Waters, Greg Gutfeld, all these people, they've sold out, right? They sold out to Trump. He got it. Sold out all principles, all conservative issues, all economic concerns. They've sold everything out to Donald Trump. And he didn't get $700 billion. So he's looking at this like, man, they're getting a good deal. Yeah, I know, yeah. Yeah, we can print up this money and give them funny money. We can give them continental dollars. Because we want to be the continent. We want to be the continent. We want to be. the entire continent north and south. So Green Tonimo, as one person called it. The Trump deal gives U.S. sovereignty over small pockets of Greenland from military bases, except they've already got this. With little information that's official about what Trump earlier called a framework

for a future deal with respect to Greenland, the president has called off tariff threats. Again, he did another tariff taco. I hope that the outcome of this is that the Supreme Court is watching yet another example of taco tyranny and terrorism, and I hope that they slap this out of his hand. That really is what has to happen here. The president called off the tariff threats he's been putting there. The New York Times reports the announcement follows a NATO meeting on Wednesday

where, quote, top military officers from the alliance's member states discussed a compromise in which Denmark would give the U.S. sovereignty over small pockets of Greenland, where the U.S. could build military bases, except we already have that. Again, this is nothing new. He's going to say that he got something new and different. That's a big part of all this theater. We've already had that. We've had that since 1951.

And so the New York Times goes on to note that according to two of the officials who attended the meeting, the deal compares it to the U.K.'s bases in Cyprus. which are regarded as British territory. And, of course, also to Gitmo, which is regarded as U.S. territory in Cuba. What wasn't reported is that the U.S. already has a military base in Greenland. The Petuffic military space base where about 150 U.S. service members are permanently stationed as of 2025. The U.S. significantly reduced its presence from 6,000 personnel during the Cold War. The number I've seen in the past was 10,000 right after World War II.

The U.S. has a military presence on Greenland, has had it there since the end of the Second World War when the island was left undefended, actually not the end, but during World War II. The island was left undefended during Nazi occupation of Denmark. The U.S. moved in, set up airfields, weather stations, and defenses, and watched for German submarines in the North Atlantic. Ten years later, the arrangement was formalized. via a defense treaty with Denmark, which is part of NATO, and allowed the U.S. the right to operate military facilities there. Under the 1951 Greenland Defense Agreement,

the U.S. was allowed to operate the base under a NATO framework, as long as both Denmark and the U.S. remain NATO members. The Danish national flag must be flown at the base to recognize that the base is on Danish territory, but the U.S. is allowed to fly its own flag alongside the Danish flag on the facilities that it operates. So again, it's all about this stupid flag stuff. We're going to kill people over who gets to fly their flag? Are you kidding me? This is why, you know, when you figure out what's really going on, you don't go to war for the politicians.

You realize that they are the enemy. That's when you have a revolution. So this agreement was modified in 2004, giving the USA unrestricted access to the base. Danish Prime Minister has referred to this recently. He says, if the Americans want to expand their military presence beyond that, they only have to consult and inform the authorities in Copenhagen and in Newark, I guess is how you pronounce it, NUUK. Is that Newuk?

I don't know. That's the capital, I think. Probably not yuck. Yuck. Yuck. It's three stooges, right? Yuck, yuck, yuck. Anyway, is it, so it's all Trump theater, folks.

It's all there for your amusement and your distraction. And it's all there for his ego because now he can claim he's got a victory when he uses the treaty that was put in, you know, 70 years ago. So, and extended a few years earlier than that. The U.S. will go from having a military base in Greenland on semi-autonomous territory, to having a base in Greenland on autonomous territory. All Trump needs to do has changed the name of the island to Green Tonimo and declare victory, and the entire episode will be forgotten. There we go.

So, yeah, this formalized framework. Actually, the framework was formalized 75 years ago. Based on this understanding, I'll not be imposing the terrorists that were scheduled to affect on February 1st. And so his taco theater, again, had an effect on the stock market, had an effect on gold momentarily. But the fundamentals are still there. Gold set an all-time high and then pulled back a little bit because he pulled off of

these tacos and pulled off of the war, but nothing basically has changed. So J.D. Vance, Marco Rubio, and Steve Whitkoff will be responsible for the negotiations and they will report directly to me, he said. So again, who could have seen this coming, they said, sarcastically. And as I said this all along, the bases could be added. They've already got the legal justification for that. There's no issue with that at all. And so this is just to make Trump look strong, to distract you, and to entertain you.

That's what this has all been about from the very beginning. and he was at Davos. He mocked Macron as I think made fun of his French accent. You know, it's funny how those French people have French accents. Oh, ha. Yeah, you stupid English types. So anyway, we're a great power. He says, we're much greater than people even understand.

I think they found that out two weeks ago in Venezuela. This is a guy who, for someone who, for someone who, who never takes a drink. He is drunk with power. If ever there was somebody who was on a power trip, this is it. Also, Stone Toss, the comic maker, did one the other day, and I'm going to pull it up so you can see it. I don't know if you've seen it yet.

But it's just a real quick doodle he did. How about Orange Land? That's good, yeah. Yeah, let's call it Orange Land instead of Greenland. He's already calling it Iceland, but of course, The joke was that Greenland is full of ice and Iceland actually is green. They've got a lot of volcanic activity there, I guess. As they put it in the Mighty Ducks, too, Greenland is full of ice and Iceland is very nice.

Yeah, that's what we should rename immigration control and enforcement according to Wayne Ellen. We should call them nice and then everything will be okay. So Trump goes on to troll Macron. he says, if this is all President Macron has to do when the French budget is in shambles, do they have a budget deficit of $40 trillion like us? I don't know. Who's got the budget deficit that's in shambles? I'd like to know who really has that issue.

And so we're going to stop it at this point. I want to move on and pick up something I was talking about last couple of days. I think is very important because, again, the spiritual is upstream from both the culture as well as the political, which is downstream from both culture and spiritual. So I want to talk a little bit about what is really happening to a lot of these church leaders and Christian opinion makers out there, people like Al Mueller and stuff like that. They are flipping out over Don Lemon and him going to this church and protesting. And I thought it was pretty funny because at Davos, she had some.

somebody engage Gavin Newsom and asked him about Don Lemon and his comments were kind of what I had said. He was surprised that Don Lemon was in a church. Comment on this Don Lemon charging those guys into the church like that. I literally, it's funny. Someone mentioned Don Lemon and Trump the other day. And so I have no idea what that's about. It's a big viral story. He had a bunch of agitators. They ran into some kind of church. Don Lemon? Don Lemon. Into a church? Yes.

You have a focus on this. No, it's not even at this focus. Literally don't know anything about it. So that's his Aleppo moment. And this has been such a big issue with so many people who are, you know, identified as Christian leaders and so forth. And I look at this and it's like, okay, so he interrupted their service. And, you know, I understand how annoying that is.

And it was criminal trespass. But it's not going to be prosecuted at the local level. So the federal government is starting to get creative in terms of how they can run charges against them. And you've got a lot of these Christian people out there screaming, run the FACE Act against them. Do the FACE Act against them. It's like, come on, the FACE Act needs to be repealed. The FACE Act was an effrontery to free speech and the free exercise religion at the same time. These are people who say you get within X distance of the entrance to an abortion clinic.

And we're going to, you know, lock you up for a felony. and we saw this happening under the Biden administration. This is a law that was setting there, a very bad law that was setting there like a sleeper for a long time. And then the Biden administration decided to weaponize it. You know, they had these Brazil type of raids, no-knock raids, militarized police, kicking in the door of this father who had, you know, something like 10 kids or something like that, and dragging him off and threatening to put these people in jail for a very long time. Grandmothers who were silently praying. I mean, this is an abomination.

Why would they be trying to strengthen this? Well, because when they put this thing in, which was all about abortion clinic access and everything, and that's what it was all about. They added a little add-on there to say, oh, and also church services. How about that? Will you sign on to that? And evidently, that's what got this thing passed, was to put that little appendix, that level addenda there at the end to protect church services. and these people are selling out for that.

They're selling out your right of free speech as well as your free exercise religion. And look, I'm not saying that what Don Lemon did was free speech. That is not free speech. That's criminal trespass. You don't get to go into private property and start haranguing people. In the same sense that you can't set up a soapbox inside of a department store in the mall and start doing your political speech. you can do that at the public square, but that's not the public square. That's private property.

And the churches are private property as well. So what they've done, the feds have decided, and I hope that they don't go back to the FACE Act, even though you've got a lot of Christian op-ed people who are saying, use the FACE Act, use the FACE Act. I hope they don't use it. Instead, and I don't know a great deal about this Ku Klux Klan Act of the 1870s, but from what I've seen in terms of characterization, I haven't gone back and looked at the actual letter of the law. They've characterized it as something that the federal government can come in and bring charges against somebody for stopping somebody's civil rights. And of course, the free exercise of religion is a God-given right that has been recognized in the Constitution.

So if that's all it is, you could use that in order to have some punishment against these people, try to stop this as established as a precedent that's going to be continually done. And I think that's their concern about it. So you see things like this one, protection, not punishment. And, you know, when I see, there's one of the things that really surprises me about these churches. They seem to be more upset about this event that Don Lemon and these other people did. They seem to be more upset about that than they are about church shootings. And I say that because this guy writes this whole long op-ed about how, well, we don't have to just be passive.

We don't just have to turn the other cheek. We have a responsibility to protect the enemy. And we should be doing that in our church building meetings and things like that. I agree with that. I've said that for a very long time. As a matter of fact, I go back to the early 90s, and Charles von Vic, who I've interviewed a couple of times, wrote a book. He was in South Africa. He was a Christian missionary that was there when that church was attacked. And you remember the interview, perhaps. He was able to drive these people off. They found out later during the truth and reconciliation meetings. They said they didn't expect anybody would have a gun at this white, affluent, liberal church.

He just happened to be visiting, and he had already gone through the mental processes to think, you know, should I carry a gun to defend my life, to defend other lives? And it's like, yeah, and that's what this whole op-ed piece is about. And so he had thought about that and said, yeah, we have an obligation to protect innocent life. And that's exactly what he did. You know, from way back in the back, he took a wild shot. He only had a revolver with five bullets in it. Took a wild shot.

These guys, they came in the door with fully automatic weapons and grenades, hand grenades. They threw those in there. They killed, I think, something like 50 people or something. And so they were shooting the place up with fully automatic weapons and throwing grenades. This guy stands up with a little revolver way, way in the back of the church, and takes a shot. And then he thought, I'm never going to hit anybody from here. So he goes out the side, comes around the, goes out the back and comes back around the side and takes another couple of shots at him.

Well, it turns out the very first shot that he took hit somebody. And then the fact that he starts to shoot at him from another direction, they thought they were under attack for multiple people in multiple ways. And so they ran away. It stopped the attack. But when I look at this and this person is going through, well, do we have the responsibility to protect innocent life and everything? Perhaps you ought to go back and take a look.

at this church plant that Pete Hegseth goes to and explain to him what the purpose of real justified defense of innocent life. Yeah, we don't have to be passive about things and we shouldn't be pacifist. But I'm not a pacifist, but a just war is one that is fought in order to stop the aggression. Instead, we have become the aggressors. It is there to protect innocent life. Instead, we kill innocent life. We don't make a distinction between civilians and other people. We don't make a distinction of borders. Instead, it's whatever we're strong enough to get away with. That is the ethics of the, if you can put it in quotes, ethics. That's the ethics of the Trump administration of War Pete Hegsa, who they've had these demonstrations outside their church for quite some time

because of the policies of War Pete. And it's also the quote unquote ethics of Stephen Miller as well. And so it goes back to a long line of, yes, you are justified, as a matter of fact, you're obligated to protect innocent life. But that means that you also have restrictions. You know, you don't continue to kill people when they're disabled as the War Pete administration is doing there at the Pentagon. It's defensive. And the purpose is to stop the hostilities, not to get even. And so that's what a lot of people are missing. And the other part of it is, you know, when I look at this and, and yeah, they're talking about, let's do defense. And they never, you know, these same people never said that about the church shootings that were there. Yeah, you need to have some people who are armed who are going to be able to defend the people who are there in a vulnerable situation.

But now they're saying it because of this. And now they're saying this because the church got stopped. The church service got stopped. It's like, I remember there was somebody else who stopped church services everywhere. Donald Trump. They don't have a problem with that. As a matter of fact, you go back and you look at Al Mueller, who is really exercised about all this stuff. Al Mueller was saying, you obey your government, whatever they tell you to do, Romans 13, blah, blah, blah.

You got that all wrong. And these people shut down their church services over a lie. And even if it had been real, as we said at the time, we said back in 2020. We said, you know, we've had situations where there have been real plagues that have happened in communities where everybody is getting sick. People were worried that they were going to catch something. And yet, they never shut down any of the churches during that time. And you had doctors who would go in and administer people. And you would have pastors who did.

Now it's like everybody, every man for himself. And we're so afraid. We don't trust God. And we're going to shut this thing down. That's where these guys are. Well, there's also an interesting article about the Church of Scott Adams. And that got my attention in that headline. I thought, what are they talking about?

And they said, well, Scott Adams' idiosyncratic deathbed conversion announcement has spawned a discourse that is more spiritual than political, reigniting age-old debates about Pascal's wager, and the theology of Christian salvation. Remember, he said, well, hey, if I do this and you're right, then, hey, I win, you know, when I do that. He said, he put it in openly game-centric terms. He said, it is a smart risk reward calculation.

He says, I hope it'll please my Christian friends. If they're right, I win. And if not, nothing is lost by his understanding of what he called the, quote, dominant Christian theory. The language was echoed in the final message that was composed on New Year's Day. and read by his first ex-wife at his passing, paradoxically, Adams still describes himself as, quote, not a believer, while asserting, quote,

I accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, and I look forward to spending an eternity with him. Before his death, many gently tried to correct Adams who said, you'll wake up in heaven if you had a good life. They said, that is definitely not the dominant Christian theory. He replied facetiously that all the complaining had almost talked him out of his decision. He never made a full response saying that what happened next would be between him and Jesus. So the internet phenomenon around him in some ways, not dissimilar to what we've seen around

Jordan Peterson, who is best understood as a digital age substitute for institutional religious community, a quote-unquote church outside of the church. And again, when you look at Jordan Peterson, who as they point out, he engaged the Bible a lot more and did a lot more thinking about it than apparently Scott Adams did from what Scott Adams said. And yet, when you kind of realized what was going on with Jordan Peterson when I heard RFK Jr. talk about Carl Jung. And Carl Jung is the guy that Jordan Peterson really follows. He's really a follower of Carl Jung. And so there's this kind of spiritualism, mysticism, that is, they were both R.F.K. Jr. and Jordan Peterson, because of Carl Young, because they follow his philosophies. But it's not at all, really, what the Bible has to say. And you start to realize that as you observe what Jordan Peterson is saying. As this person writes, like Adams, the popular psychologist is hewed to a cryptic agnosticism. instinctively suspicious of organized religion. In his heyday, this drew an intrigued audience that had long tuned out of the traditional Christian sermonizing.

Peterson served as an internet dad, as an internet prophet, as an internet priest, all in one. Though less obsessed with the Bible, Adams played a similar role, and his fans looked up to him with a similar earnest affection. And so he concludes by saying Christians are right to wish Adams had reached a true understanding of what saving faith really means. Not just a string of words repeated like a protective incantation, but an embrace of Christ, the living word. Whether we, quote, lived a good life or not, Christ alone saves. But we leave Adams in God's hand and the work of tending to other lonely souls still lies before us. And this is why we talk about it. because what Scott Adams is saying is a common misunderstanding that is there.

May we all be the more motivated to remind the world what our faith uniquely has to offer. The great story that echoes and re-echos through all of our little stories. That is the myth that was actually true and the man who is actually God. And that's the way the true myth is the way C.S. Lewis described. He said, you know, we have... From a myth he meant, he said, you know, the story of Christ is a myth that is true. And by that he means it is a narrative of great stature, you know. And so most of the myths that are like that, the great narratives are not based on truth,

but they are, but the Christian myth, quote unquote, is true. And it is a great narrative. And everybody basically reiterates that, this redemptive idea. Well, we're going to leave it at that point. even though I've got something else here I want to say about that. I just think it's very important that we understand

what is really happening and there are so many Christian leaders that are gaslit by what Trump is doing just like this Planned Parenthood thing. Abby Johnson, who I had the opportunity to an interview once, she worked for Planned Parenthood for quite some time.

As a matter of fact, she had an abortion pill abortion and she thought she was going to die. I mean, it was really, really serious. And so she's not on board with the Trump administration and RFK juniors being fine with the abortion pill at all. And that's accounting for like 70 or 75% of abortions right now. But she's blowing the whistle on this quiet reversal by the Trump administration. Again, they took the funds away from Planned Parenthood in March of last year,

made a big deal about that. And then when nobody is looking, they quietly reinstated it in the middle of December. And the clue to that. And the pro-life organizations that have been backing and supporting Trump all knew that. But they didn't say anything about it. Somebody noticed that the ACLU, which had been suing the Trump administration, over removing the money, the Title Xen money that went to Planned Parenthood. We're talking about $65 million. And so not all of it going to Planned Parenthood, but, um, uh,

the vast majority of it going to Planned Parenthood. So the pro-life organizations were quiet about that. Some people noticed that the lawsuit had been dropped and they investigated further. And they saw what had been done without any comment by the Trump administration. Then the next betrayal was the fact that these pro-life organizations immediately within three days, they invited J.D. Vance to speak at the March for Life. What hypocrisy. What cult this has all become, hasn't it?

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