The David Knight Show - Wed Episode #1987: Wag the DOGE - War with Iran; Panama War Between Trump & China; Jesus Wrestles Flesh & Blook in Church

Starting point is 00:00:00 The In a world of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. It's the David Knight Show. As the clock strikes 13 it's Wednesday the 9th of April, year of our Lord 2025. Well we're going to take a look at the escalating wars. We have a trade war developing with China. As of midnight last night we have 104% tariff on China. What is going to happen with that? What is going to happen with the? What is going to happen with the, how's the stock market going to react? What about the bonds? You know, the bondage that they're putting us into

Starting point is 00:01:11 with this? And we're going to take a look at the pushback from Elon Musk. The war has started between him and Peter Navarro. Very funny essay from Reason comparing Peter Navarro to a stack of bricks that Musk says Navarro is dumber than. Actually, he's a lot more dangerous than a stack of bricks. Even in the hands of radical leftists, he's more dangerous than a stack of bricks. And he turns out to be a leftist himself. But we're going to begin with some interesting insights into Donald Trump and his love of vaccines. We'll be right back. Well, country star John Rich, conservative, Christian and politically active, he said he was the one who got Trump to stop bragging about Operation Warp Speed. You know, we had all these people telling him, shut up, shut up.

Starting point is 00:02:26 Everybody knows that you're killing people with that stuff. Alex Jones told him that, Wayne Alan Root told him that. They would still support Trump, even though he was pushing the death jab. Just don't tell people about it. Just don't take credit for it. Just don't boast about it. It's okay, you did it, you don't have to apologize,

Starting point is 00:02:42 and you don't have to stop it. But just don't talk about it. It's okay you did it you don't have to apologize and you don't have to stop it but just don't talk about it anymore. Well John Rich said that he was in a meeting and several years ago Senator Lindsey Graham was there, Senator Marsha Blackburn out of Tennessee because John Rich is in Tennessee. Marsha Blackburn didn't say anything in this meeting evidently about this. She remained quiet. And also Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker at the time was there. And you had everybody chimed in on this except for Marcia Blackburn. Marcia, Marcia, Marcia.

Starting point is 00:03:20 She wants to run for higher office so she's going to stay out of this. She wants to run for higher office. So she's going to stay out of this. She wants to run for governor. She's center now. And I say higher office because it is a higher office. It's a much higher office. Not only an executive branch versus a legislative thing, but it also, the states have abdicated power to the federal government that they really should have. So it could be a very powerful office if you would use it in the way the

Starting point is 00:03:46 Constitution intended. Nevertheless, they're there at this table and Rich says Trump says why are the people booing me at my rallies when I bring up the vaccine? Now there's a couple different things that you could say at that point. You might ask him, what was it? Think back. What was it that you immediately said before they booed you? But John Rich kind of goes straight to the point. He says, he knew that Trump was proud of Operation Warp Speed, so he had to collect himself before

Starting point is 00:04:22 speaking directly to him. He said, okay, I'm going to tell you the answer and you're not going to like it. We the American people do not trust the people that you were forced to trust. Okay, I know, but we'll get back to that in a minute. The FDA, the CDC, the NIH, the WHO, Fauci and all the rest of them, we consider them to be a bunch of murderous, depopulationist psychopaths." Well, he got that right.

Starting point is 00:04:52 Trump was not forced to trust any of these people. He's actually the president. But nevertheless, the remarks floored Trump, said Rich, who was stunned. Rich believed he had never been told that his base was furious with the program. Well, he knew they were booing him. He said, now let me tell you why they're booing you. Every human being in that rally, either themselves or they know someone directly who has been harmed by the vaccine or has even died from it, including me. He said, I got members of my own family who were forced to take it against their will

Starting point is 00:05:29 to keep their jobs. And now they've got all kinds of problems. Well, you know, good for Rich. The thing about being forced to trust this, of course, we don't agree with that. But he had the courage to speak the truth in them, which we've never seen that with Candace Owens or any of the people who have tried to tangentially bring up the topic with Trump and then immediately back down when he starts bragging about it, right? We saw Candace Owens do that. Many people have done that. Just to point out, this is our genius leader that can't figure out why people are upset

Starting point is 00:06:01 at the vaccine and are booing him. Yeah, exactly. What's going on on guys? What's happening? I just don't know. Yeah and he's forced. He's clueless and he's forced but hey he's our guy. He's going to fix everything. But anyway he said then then he gets even more interesting I think. He said at that point he said Trump turned to ask the rest of the table if anyone else had heard about this. Rich said that Herschel Walker spoke up and told Trump that voters at his rallies were telling him the same thing. Rich said

Starting point is 00:06:36 Lindsey Graham then interrupted and told Trump not to listen to conspiracy theorists like John Rich and instead to keep taking credit for Operation Warp Speed. Lindsay is proud to be a mass murderer where they're talking about wars or depopulation shots, injections and all the rest of stuff. But the other part of this is that Trump knows, right? Of course we always knew that he knew, we always knew, but he's been told to his face that the Emperor has no clothes, that this is not safe, it's not effective. He's been told he knows.

Starting point is 00:07:13 Now he did stop talking about it when he ran for office. And then what did he do on his very first day in office? He brings back the mRNA along with artificial intelligence and some Larry Ellison and some techno bros and bankers and things like that to push that on us. He hasn't changed. He knows and he's cynically doing this. And Lindsey Graham knows as well. But anyway, when Lindsey Graham interrupted and said, don't listen to that conspiracy

Starting point is 00:07:44 theorist John Rich, Rich said, he shot back, told Graham, never interrupt me again and never show me such disrespect again. Good for him. After he finished his remarks, Trump said, so I guess no more vaccine talk. Does he mean ever or for that night? Except that he did shut up about the vaccine until he gets elected in the very next day. He had I mean even when he's waiting to to get in the office he's conspiring with these people and

Starting point is 00:08:22 he's the salesman for all this stuff the salesman the snake oil salesman and the promoter for all of this stuff for Stargate so again Fauci was his alibi and Trump was always back and forth with Fauci the base that supports Trump loves to push all this onto Fauci. He is the scapegoat. They put all the sins on his head and send him out into the wilderness. Unfortunately, the scapegoat has returned and he's got some things to say. But Trump was making excuses for Fauci.

Starting point is 00:08:59 Look at this in the debates between him and Biden in the 2020 election. We've learned a lot, but Anthony said, don't wear masks, now he wants to wear masks. Anthony also said, if you look back, exact words, use his exact words, this is no problem, this is gonna go away soon. So he's allowed to make mistakes, he happens to be a good person.

Starting point is 00:09:18 Yeah, and a great scientist, a very smart person, you know, has two very smart people told him that you got locked the country down. So he did it, right? two very smart people told him that you got locked the country down. So he did it. So Trump makes excuses for him. Biden actually pardons him legally. And since we don't hold any of these people responsible for what they've done, you know, Trump is back pushing mRNA plus artificial intelligence and here's Fauci.

Starting point is 00:09:39 What is likely to happen, I don't know if it's going to be next year or 10 years or 15 or 20 years from now, is the emergence of another respiratory disease. It may be another coronavirus because we know that coronaviruses really mostly in bats have the capability of binding to receptors that are in humans. It could be another flu. We're dealing with H5N1 now, which is bird flu, which has taken the somewhat disturbing step of infecting mammals, namely cows and cats and other mammals, which means it's adapting itself more to a human. Psychopath. So my concern Walter is that whenever that happens the next outbreak will be of a respiratory disease that's easily transmissible that has a significant degree of morbidity. And we are making this a little bit more dangerous with the cuts in our attitude towards science? Oh absolutely.

Starting point is 00:10:38 Oh yeah, our attitude towards science. We need to spend more money and we need to support the high priests of this depopulationism. Rich was right. He's a psychopath, mass murderer, depopulationist. The next outbreak will be a respiratory disease. It's easily transmissible. That has a significant degree of morbidity, he said. And you know, talking about somebody's got a significant degree morbidity, that's Fauci. So you see the response of people on social media to this stuff like this. Well, the last one wasn't an outbreak. It came from a lab where people you funded were messing around with pathogens, to put it politely, like the more deadly to humans.

Starting point is 00:11:24 Now it was not gain of function. The pandemic, folks, is not real. And if we pretend that the pandemic is real, this is a guy who opposes what happened, he opposes Fauci, but if you respond this way and they've got everybody believing this now, if you respond and say that it came from the lab because you're messing around with gain of function, then what happens is, A, that gives an alibi to them. Well, we did the best we could. And it was unintentional and so forth. Right?

Starting point is 00:11:50 Well, you're messing around with it and it got out of hand. Well, you know, not my fault. So it gives them an alibi because all these people are an alibi. That's why they have stopped deplatforming people and that would talk about the lab leak stuff and again I was the first one at Infowars to mention it one first people to mention when I saw that there only biosafety level for lab was in Wuhan But then I saw the fake falling down in the streets And I knew about dark winter and when they started talking about all that stuff by the beginning of January

Starting point is 00:12:24 It's like no no, that's not what this is. This is not about gain of function, out of control. And we should stop the gain of function, which they won't do, interestingly enough. It was Trump who brought it back after Obama shut it down in 2014, 15, I think it's 14. That was a series of investigative articles done at USA Today, showed all the different accidents that they'd had, exposures of people had had to things and the dangerous experiments they were doing. They shut it down. And then 2017, one of the first things that Trump did was to bring it back. Nevertheless, even when it was shut down, Fauci and Francis Collins continued in defiance of Congress, in defiance of their orders.

Starting point is 00:13:11 But that is not the issue here. If you say that, that gives them an alibi, gives them an excuse for everything that happened. Well, we did our best. We're going to have to do better next time. Next time we'll do more lockdowns. Next time we'll rush the vaccine out faster and we'll make more mandates and all the rest of this stuff. And there will be a next time because see if you believe that it came from the lab, you'll believe it when they give you another fear theater.

Starting point is 00:13:35 When you do that again, you're going to believe it. So it's conditioning for the next one that's what they're doing if they respond. And let me tell you, these people responding and calling him and effing this and effing that and responding and pushing this lab leak theory, they're more dangerous than Fauci. Fauci has discredited himself. And what you're doing is you're giving more credit to him, more credit to this fake pandemic. Don't do that.

Starting point is 00:14:01 It's just amazing. These, these ex comments are amplifying and excusing that. It's just amazing. These X comments are amplifying and excusing that. So Scott Atlas says the COVID lockdown censorship has left a permanent black mark on America. It's just so many different aspects. And so the question is then what reforms are needed? This is an article from LifeSite News. Well, you should tell the truth, shouldn't you? What we need is we need truth, we need actual science, which means that you don't hide your data, that things have to be tested, things have to be verified. We have to, you can't just make a pronouncement as a position of authority and we all have to do what you say. No, we have to be convinced. We remain skeptical until you prove it. And

Starting point is 00:14:49 even after you prove it, we say, �So what? So what about your remedies? That�s nonsense, even if you proved it.� So we have to get back to actual science. We have to get back to truth. And we�ve got to get back to the Constitution. And when you look at these things, so what reforms are needed? And there's about seven or eight of these that are listed. First step is to restore trust as a formal official statement of truth on the lockdowns, masks and other pseudoscience. Yeah, that's where it needs to start.

Starting point is 00:15:19 We need to forbid by law all shutdowns. We need to add term limits of five years, all these top level health agency positions. No, no, no, no, no, no. You don't need to keep those health agencies. There's no, there's nothing in the Constitution that allows those health agencies. So you need to kill those institutions because they're killing the Constitution and they're killing us. Literally killing us. All the new heads of HHS, FDA, NIH, CDC, and CMS should be prohibited from post-government company board positions. No, no, no. Off with the heads. Off with the heads. Kill these institutions. They shouldn't have heads, because they shouldn't exist. These institutions, none of these institutions they listed there, is a shred of support in

Starting point is 00:16:12 the Constitution for the HHS, FDA, NIH, CDC, CMS. So they should all be killed. They shouldn't have any heads who can then go back and forth in a revolving door. We need to forbid drug royalty sharing. Well, of course, that is blatant corruption, blatant corruption and conflict of interest. We should forbid all mandates forcing people to take drugs. Again, the Constitution does that. We need the Constitution to be enacted. If we have the Constitution, we don't have any mandates.

Starting point is 00:16:46 the Constitution. We don't have any mandates. We don't have medical martial law. And, you know, we're not going to have these institutions that gave us these things in the first place. We need to require the immediate posting of discussions in all FDA, CDC, and NIH. You see the problem? This person is looking at this and saying, well, how can we keep what we've got and rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic? It is beyond anything that can be restored. It has to be cut out. And I'm talking about, you know, we talked about a radical solution. What does that mean? By the roots. That's where that word comes from. The root word radical is root. You need to rip them out by their roots. You want to get rid of public health and you've got to do it by its roots by getting rid of

Starting point is 00:17:29 these institutions that fund it, that dictate it, and the people who run them, who are corrupt and grifters. And we see this conflict of interest. It's blatant there. Shut this whole thing down. The conflict of interest, the corruption, was built in from the very beginning. It just took time for it to grow and to manifest itself. We need accountability for all government funding of these things. No, you need to stop the funding, completely not accountability. You need to stop the funding of all of this stuff. You see, these half measures that people keep coming out with just don't hack it. Well, finally, they got to a couple of quotes, nothing from the Constitution, but a couple of quotes, one from C.S. Lewis,

Starting point is 00:18:19 one from G.K. Chesterton. C.S. Lewis, courage is not simply one of the virtues, but it is the form of every virtue at the testing point. And who tests us? God sets like a refiner over the metals that are being tested in the crucible, a refiner's fire. Every day we are asked, do we trust God? And every day when we go through things, our question ought to be, what are you trying to teach me? And I think we know the lessons of this, don't we?

Starting point is 00:19:03 And if we were to obey the king of our country, which in this country is the law, none of this stuff would have happened. People wouldn't have been coerced. You wouldn't have had this graph in corruption because you wouldn't have had these institutions. None of this would have happened. And the quote from G.K. Chesterton who said, right is right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it. Yeah, that's why if we could just remember that, we wouldn't have this blind partisan loyalty. Well, I don't know, you know, Democrats have always been against taxes, or always been

Starting point is 00:19:42 for taxes and Republicans against them, but now it's flipped, right? Why? Because of Trump. Just like it was with the vaccines. When Trump was in office, the Democrats hated the vaccines. Then when Biden gets in, they love it. And even though the MAGA people still didn't like the vaccine, they found excuses for Trump.

Starting point is 00:20:04 But when we look at the taxes stuff, now they're telling us that taxes are an engine of growth. Really. That's pretty amazing. And the Democrats don't like taxes for the first time in my life. Never seen that before. Well, Children's Health Defense, this is kind of interesting because they're going in a different way than RFK Jr. RFK Jr. has sold out, completely sold out. And when I saw this piece from Children's Health Defense, they are opposing him on all this measles and MMR shot. He's pumping that up as much as he can.

Starting point is 00:20:44 He goes to Texas, he goes to the funeral of the quote-unquote second person who died from measles and they said, well, no, actually, we know for a fact and we've explained it in the past that that first child did not die of measles, did not die from measles, died after measles in essence, and then I don't know the facts yet of the other case, but to say that there were even if one died of measles, which I seriously doubt, that there's not two. But he goes to the funeral and he's telling everybody you need to take the MMR, it's your best protection, it's safe, it's effective and all the rest of the stuff.

Starting point is 00:21:23 Well, Children's Health Defense is not having any of it. And it'll be interesting to see what happens with them. You know, RFK Jr. started and ran that thing, and now he's gone off the rails. It's like the experience I had at Infowars. You look at RFK Jr., he's completely sold out. He is opposed to everything that he ever stood for at Children's Health Defense. Now the people at Children's Health Defense are opposing him. Are they going to get fired like Alex fired me for opposing him on this stuff?

Starting point is 00:21:50 Well, I don't think that RFK Jr. is running it on a daily basis. So I think they'll be able to keep going and opposing this. This is what they had to say. They said the media would have you believe that measles is a deadly disease, but any suggestion that MMR vaccines are safer than measles infection isn't supported by facts. Now what they're doing at this point is the way I began. I didn't directly attack Alex and you know, but they're gonna have to at some point understand that it's not just the media. It's RFK Jr. who is telling you that as well. They can start at that point and see if anything changes, but when push comes to

Starting point is 00:22:30 shove, we know that RFK Junior has been a push over. They pushed him over. He did whatever they wanted. There are moments in history of a movement that test its resolve, says Children's Health Defense, for the medical freedom movement. This is one of those moments. We're in the midst of another full-on attack by the pharmaceutical industrial complex, aided and abetted by beholden mainstream media, not by R.F.K. Jr., head of HHS, right? They're still making it about the media.

Starting point is 00:22:59 Around its allegiance to a $69 billion vaccine industry. Five years ago, we fought back as our government, big media and big pharma orchestrated and executed a COVID-19 fear campaign. A campaign built on lies, deception and censorship. And then they parlayed the public's fear into dangerous deadly medical mandates and hospital protocols that continue to cause profound harm and death." And absolutely right. Absolutely right. And so, Children's Health Defense, they said, we stood strong, stayed true to our mission during COVID. We're standing just as strong now. It's important for them to put this out because everybody is seeing how their leader has caved. Now it's important for them to put this out because everybody is seeing how their leader has caved.

Starting point is 00:23:46 And they are, this is a declaration of independence even though they're not using his name, even though they're talking only about the media. Yes, the media is involved, but it's also him. So maybe they can keep their integrity by being independent of him because he has sold out 100%. So maybe they can keep their integrity by being independent of him because he has sold out. 100%. They said, as pharma ramps up its measles playbook, our number one job is to dismantle the vaccine industry's lies to broadcast far and wide through the industry's most reliable

Starting point is 00:24:18 and faithful megaphone mainstream media. The media would have you believe that measles is a deadly disease, quote unquote. Any suggestion that MMR vaccines are safer than measles infection, however, is not supported by the facts. In fact, between 2000 and 2024, the CDC says that there were nine measles-related deaths, but during that same period of time, the number of deaths from the MMR vaccine, according to the CDC and their VAERS report, was 141. In other words, 16 times more people died of the MMR vaccine than of measles. So I hope they stay the course and

Starting point is 00:25:09 it's important for them to make that separation there. The separation on the principle. But I think it's going to get to the point where they're going to have to separate themselves from that Epstein-Lovin Kennedy. The MMR vaccine causes febrile seizures, anaphylaxis, meningitis, encephalitis, thrombocytopenia, and anthralgia and vasculitis. They said in 2004, the CDC found that boys vaccinated with their first MMR vaccine on time meaning at a very very young age If you got your first MMR vaccine within your first Year of life, I think there were 67 times more likely to be diagnosed with autism I'm sorry. Not 67 67 percent big difference

Starting point is 00:26:02 Nevertheless, it's huge 67 percent. Big difference. Nevertheless, it's huge. It's still huge. Not as big as a 67 times. The media insists that there is no viable treatment for measles, hence prevention with the MMR vaccine, but that is also not true, they say. The doctors in West Texas are successfully treating measles with Buddha, Buddha-sonite, I guess, and vitamin A. Even the World Health Organization recommends vitamin A. Well, I don't know. I mean, we'd never heard of anybody being seriously injured or dying from measles. No parents had, or they wouldn't have done the things that they did. It was unheard of. And we didn't have vitamin A treatments. We didn't

Starting point is 00:26:41 have this other drug. Last month, a six-year-old child in West Texas died after developing pneumonia while recovering from measles, a spots that had already disappeared. Media seized the opportunity, they said, but so did RFK Jr. He has now seized it. He has embraced this as much as he can. If you ever had, we've had acclaimed measles outbreaks in the past. In 2019, for example, the clip that I always play of Trump. Gotta get the shots, gotta get the shots. You know, that was in New York. Had another scare in California. Somebody with measles went through the

Starting point is 00:27:18 airport. We're all gonna die. Nobody dead. Nobody. Nothing at all. No, but no, nothing happened in New York either. But they took away religious exemptions of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools and everything who didn't want to get their kids vaccinated. And they said, we're not going to allow you to have medical or religious exemptions. You got to get the shot. That's what Trump was talking about. And so we've had these scares before, and yet we've never seen the head of HHS personally go down and campaign for vaccines like we have with R.F.K. Jr. He's gone above and beyond previous people,

Starting point is 00:27:54 hasn't he? What does that tell you? �We have no intention of backing down from the facts,� said Children's Self-Defense. �Vaccines cause serious injuries, including death death as big pharma and big media wage a renewed battle for the hearts and minds of parents we must strengthen our resolve and stay true to our mission so good that's their they're laying down the gauntlet there saying look yeah without mentioning RFK jr. everybody knows he's turned if he was ever on board with that stuff. Uh, or was he just using it?

Starting point is 00:28:27 These people, hopefully they're going to stay the course. They have had good research, done good research, and hopefully they're going to still continue down that way. We'll see. Time will tell. Well, I want to thank everybody on a kick. We have North American house. Hippo has subscribed on Kik and we

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Starting point is 00:29:48 People that you thought had a good head on their shoulders, but are blind to this It's still a very hard thing to deal with in restaurants Yeah, it just shows us the power of propaganda doesn't it? I mean it is social media is so powerful Really powerful, and it's one of the things that makes it powerful is the fact that they can fine tune the message because they can tell how people are responding to an individual message. And thank you for the gifted sub there as well. Well, we're going to take a quick break and we will be right back. And be happy Ain't got no cash ain't got no car but 24 booster shots in your arm. Oh nothing Be happy

Starting point is 00:30:57 You can't even buy shit in the store because of your low social credit score Oh nothing in the store because of your low social credit score. Own nothing. Be happy. You will own nothing. And be happy. Be happy and eat some bugs. My juice is free for you my friend Cause I know you'll be back again and again and again I'm big for Miranda, I'm here for your help Tired of being no harm, I just wanna help

Starting point is 00:31:56 My juice is free for you my friend Cause I know you'll be back again and again and again Do not be ensnared! Do not surrender your bodies to these walls in sheep's clothing, pretending to help you when the exact opposite is true. Do you really think they want you helping, when they are financially dependent on a sheep? Do not let them deceive you, it's an abidational temple of doom, protecting you to death with their ungodly, toxic potions! You are not their experiment!

Starting point is 00:32:47 Resist! Do not comply! Rise up! They're doing what? In the place they named after me? Good thing I have the David Knight Show to keep me informed on the plots of these traitors. Making sense, common again. This is The David Knight Show. Yeah. That's a powerful video. As Jefferson said, I was sworn on the altar of God, eternal It was Jefferson that said, I was sworn on the altar of God, eternal embity to every form of tyranny over the mind of man. And now we have to swear the same thing about the tyranny over our bodies. I tell you, these people are beyond evil.

Starting point is 00:33:39 And it's amazing to me that what they will do to people for billions of dollars. Everybody's got their price tag evidently, right? That was one of the things we used to see when we'd play scruples. We would, they would ask the same question over and over again with different in principle. The same questions over and over again with different dollar amounts. This, all they're doing is they're trying to get people to name their price. Well, you know what the price is for people like R.F.K. Jr. and J. Bhattacharya?

Starting point is 00:34:13 They will bow down to the altar of Big Pharma if you give them a position in government. That's their price. That's how you get them. Well, let's talk about the price that Trump has put on tariffs. The White House says 104% on tariff took effect last night at midnight. And as I said yesterday, it was kind of interesting, you go back and I looked at the actual tariff rates, not what Peter Navarro came up with, that little nonsense thing, but the actual rate was like 20 to 25% on virtually everything.

Starting point is 00:34:46 They had a couple of things that were part of fights that they had and retaliatory things that they had. A couple of things they had that were 50 to 70% tariffs. But for the most part, most of them fell in the 20 to 25% range. They had some things that they only had like a 5% tariff on for example, Chinese tariffs on American products. And so when Trump put on the 20% tariff, they didn't do anything. They didn't react.

Starting point is 00:35:21 And I think it was because they looked at it and they say, well, he's got to have some justification. He's got to say there's an emergency, say there's fentanyl emergency. So that gives me the emergency powers to arbitrarily set terrorists myself, without Congress, without any input from anybody. I just do it myself. And so I look at that and go, OK, he's just leveling up. You know, that's about the same as to where we are on average. And then when he did this Peter Navarro nonsense, then added another 34%, taking it up to 54% now.

Starting point is 00:35:59 Well, when he added the 34%, the Chinese said, okay, we're going to go up on your tariffs, 34%. In other words, you'd leveled up, now we were okay, we're gonna go up on your tariffs, 34%. In other words, you had leveled up, now we were leveled. Now you're gonna go an additional 34%, well, we'll go up with that. So now Trump says he's going to go up to 104%. Now, this is a win where they're not holding any, a win for Trump because they're not holding

Starting point is 00:36:20 any cards on this, but they're not going to just be limited at the tariff rates, as I pointed out yesterday. They are blockading the rare earth minerals that we need for electronics and many other things. And so they can fight back in a different way. They can't beat us on the tariff rates. Trump is holding the cards on that because we're their customer.

Starting point is 00:36:48 But when it comes to the things that we need, and they've got a near monopoly on the production of these things, they've got 60% of the raw metals and they've got 90% of the production, the refinement of them, the rare minerals, rare earth minerals, and they are putting a restriction on that. And that is affecting a lot of other countries, rare earth minerals. And they are putting a restriction on that. And that is affecting a lot of other countries, like South Korea. South Korea that had zero tariff rates, they get clobbered with higher rates from Trump

Starting point is 00:37:17 and then from China, they get their rare earth mineral supply cut off at the same time. It is just chaos, it's stupid. It's like what Trump did with the lockdown. It's just boneheaded stupid. Unless his purpose is chaos. Now I don't know if he understands or not. Again, who knows if he's just dumb. I mean he bankrupted several casinos. He could just be dumb. Or it could be that whoever is controlling him wants this to happen. They want this chaos.

Starting point is 00:37:48 So, a 104% tariff began last night at midnight. Trump also said that the US would cease all negotiations with China while proceeding with trade talks with other countries. We're not even going to talk to them anymore. China's commerce ministry said that Beijing would quote fight to the end. Caroline Levitt said to countries around the world bring us your best offers and we will listen. Deals will only be made if they benefit American workers. Is that true? Is that it's just really for American workers or is it for the billionaire owners of the factories?

Starting point is 00:38:28 You had Lutnick go on with Jesse Waters and say this. We're not going to have all factories come back, like clothing manufacturing, that's tough to bring back, but what kind of manufacturing are you talking about returning here? Well, you can't just give that away. See what's going to happen is robotics are going to replace the cheap labor that we've seen all across the world. I mean think of what our factories did. They went to the cheapest labor in the whole world,

Starting point is 00:38:57 slave labor, cheap labor, the worst environmental conditions, polluting the heck out of it, and then we bring back those cheap products here and we feel good about ourselves because we don't see the pain but yeah okay so it can be robotics it's not gonna be the American workers right it's gonna be people with him like him who have the money to own the factories they're gonna be the ones who benefit from this and I said that the very first Trump administration 45 when he he had his tax cuts, he said, we're going to do tremendous tax cuts to the corporations and so forth.

Starting point is 00:39:34 And he said, and that's going to get them to repatriate this, they're going to bring their capital home and they're going to onshore their manufacturing, all the rest of this stuff. Well, of course, that didn't happen. And Gerald Slinty was correct about that. He was outraged that they did that. He goes, these people are just going to buy their own stock and that's exactly what they did do.

Starting point is 00:39:54 Apple used the opportunity to buy up its own stock. They didn't onshore production. As a matter of fact, with all these tariffs coming in, the 104% tariffs, like get, they had three gigantic plane loads of iPhones that they flew out the last minute before these things happened, because they're being produced over there. So they still did not onshore any manufacturing. They couldn't because they didn't have the robots ready yet. But the robots are coming, as I pointed out yesterday. They're getting to the point where they can actually use them.

Starting point is 00:40:29 And understand, the term robot, where does that come from? That was from a Czech play. Robot is the Czech word for slave. Slave. So, rather than have human slave labor, they're going to have mechanical slave labor. And so he said that on Jesse Waters and then on CBS Sunday News morning news program, Margaret Brennan engaged him on whether or not it was going to be American workers or robots that were going to be getting jobs.

Starting point is 00:41:02 He announced it and he wasn't kidding. The tariffs are coming. Of course they are. Okay. Is the administration considering any kind of offset, any kind of subsidy? You mentioned the first administration, there was some bailout to farmers to help them deal with the pain from Chinese retaliation. Are you looking at that now? I'm not that I've I have not nothing for farmers any meetings with respect go pound sand farmers country is focused on you realize trillions of dollars of factories are going to be built in America that's huge we don't need farms the factories being built in America are

Starting point is 00:41:41 huge that takes years and you said that robots are going to fill those jobs. So those aren't union worker jobs. It's automated factories, automated factories. But the key is who's going to build the factories, who's going to operate the factories. Who's going to make the money. Great American workers. You said robots on other networks.

Starting point is 00:42:01 The armies of millions of people. Well, remember, the army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little, little screws to make iPhones. That kind of thing is going to happen to America. It's going to be automated. And great Americans, the tradecraft of America, is going to fix them, is going to work on them.

Starting point is 00:42:20 There are going to be mechanics. There's going to be HVAC specialists. There's going to be electricians. The tradecraft of America are high school educated Americans. The core to our workforce is going to have the greatest resurgence of jobs in the history of America to work on these high tech factories, which are all coming to America. That's what's going to build. Are you concerned?

Starting point is 00:42:41 Yeah, yeah. Here's what's coming to America. Global arms race for humanoid robots has officially begun, and the battle lines are being drawn right now. On one side, Elon Musk's Tesla Optimus. On the other, China's AGBOT, a startup you may not have heard of yet, but one that's moving at terrifying speed. And here's the shocker. Agibot plans to deploy a 5,000-strong humanoid robot army this year, directly challenging Tesla's dominance.

Starting point is 00:43:12 This isn't just competition. It's an all-out war for the future of robotics, and the winner could dictate the rules of automation for decades to come. A Chinese robotic startup has just announced plans to build up to 5,000 humanoid robots this year. That's not just a random number. It's a direct challenge to Tesla's Optimus project, which set the same target for its humanoid robot production.

Starting point is 00:43:35 We're now seeing the beginnings of a serious robotic showdown between some of the biggest tech players in the world. Oh, so that's going to be where it's it's gonna be right? Who gets to make the robots they get to make everything for us because we don't have a job. I wonder who they're gonna sell their products to. I wonder what kind of consumption those robots are gonna be interested in. Are they gonna be interested in electricity? That's why. Hey you can't depend said Trump. You can't depend on our grid. Our grid is old. It's gonna break down down, it's going to be attacked,

Starting point is 00:44:07 it's vulnerable. Build your own power plant to run your own robots and your own slaves and build your own stuff. Who are you going to sell it to? That's what I want to know. Well I said that again eight years ago at the beginning of his term, when he was talking about the massive tax cuts for the corporations and the fact that they're going to replace the American workers with robots. They don't want to have factories. And I said they're not going to build the factories until they've got the robots that can run in the factories and replace the humans and that's where we are right now. So Trump headed them with 104 percent tariffs again I think it was leveling up and then Trump you know doubled down with

Starting point is 00:44:55 another 34 percent and then they said well we're gonna see your 34 percent he says I'm gonna raise you 50 percent so now they're at 104%. I think Congress needs to take away Trump's emergency magic wand. Even some Republicans are saying the obvious truth. They've got to take away his ability to declare a phony emergency and then do whatever he wishes. Why would you allow the person who is going to be able to use these emergency powers, why would you let that person be the one who declares the emergency? You see a problem with that? Have they structured that? This is the dumbest thing I have ever seen. Yeah, he is creating real emergencies, like he created a real emergency five years ago

Starting point is 00:45:44 when he talked about a phony emergency and locked us all down. like he created a real emergency five years ago when he talked about a phony emergency and locked us all down. Then he created the real emergency. He talked about a phony pandemic, a phony plague, and then he created the real plague with the injection. So let's talk about Navarro. Everybody has the article and the quote from Musk on Twitter. He said, Navarro is truly a moron.

Starting point is 00:46:09 It's been doubling down on that. Uh, perhaps he's going to be the scapegoat rather than Lutnik. Uh, it all started on Saturday when Musk, who is not a fan of the Trump tariffs, not a fan, not a fan,ing to a video on X of Navarro defending how the Trump administration calculated its tariffs on various countries' goods. Zero Hedge puts in parentheses with a question mark. With crayons? No, it was actually something even dumber than crayons.

Starting point is 00:46:41 It was ChatGP tariff. This is the formula. Dumber than crayons. It was chat GP tariff This is the formula. This is the genius formula from this PhD and economics from Harvard, right and so you had People who this is the clip of Navarro where he is talking about deficits. The economist tools, because it's based on concepts like export and import demand elasticities, currency adjustments and things like that. But here's...

Starting point is 00:47:17 No, it's not. No, that's in your formula. ...issue we're trying to do under the principle that the president wants to charge those countries what they charge us. As you pointed out, Vietnam has a tariff rate that's much larger than ours, but doesn't come near the tariff we charge them. So the question is, how do you value the following, Phil? So let me count the ways.

Starting point is 00:47:42 You've got to value currency manipulation. You've got to value the VAT tax distortions, dumping, export subsidies, technical barriers to trade, agricultural barriers to trade, quotas, bans, counterfeiting, intellectual property theft, and all of that. So here's the punch line. If you look at the trade deficit, which every country runs from us, the the punchline. If you look at the trade deficit, which every country runs from us, the first thing economists should tell you, ask the next one you have on your show, should the U.S. have chronic and sustained trade deficits? No, there's a belief they should have to deliberate.

Starting point is 00:48:16 According to economic theory, they should not. So what the trade deficit does for any given country, it's the sum of all cheating. That's the sum of all unfair trade practices. And in a national emergency where the trade deficit itself is the national emergency and security thread, because it takes our factories, our jobs and transfers wealth abroad, the reciprocal tariff is that which reduce. which reduce... So somebody puts that up and says, oh look at this, he really explained all this stuff. A PhD in economics from Harvard is a bad thing, not a good thing. Just BSing people and so that's what Elon Musk replied to. And he said, too much ego.

Starting point is 00:49:13 And so the reality is, and I had some people send me some stuff, that here's somebody on Substack and they're starting to talk about some of these things. Let's talk about elasticity. Let's talk about VAT and let's talk about currency manipulation and stuff like that. Guess what? That's not in his math formula. Okay? Here's his chat GP tariff formula. Tariff rate equals trade deficit divided by imports times one half. We're not talking calculus here, we're talking arithmetic. This is ridiculous. And none of the stuff that he's talking about is in that formula, none of it.

Starting point is 00:49:54 But regardless of whether you want to try to make the case that there's some rational reason for this stupid formula, if you call that a tariff, folks, that's a lie. It's just that simple. Forget about all the smokescreen. Forget about all the double talk from Harvard economics degree. To call that a tariff is a lie. That is a lie. He's responding. He says that, well, I'm going to put this through and the trade deficit divided by the imports, that's your tariff rate. No it's not. No it's not.

Starting point is 00:50:29 It's a bold-faced lie. So is he lying because he's trying to deceive you or is he lying because he's stupid? I don't care. It's still a lie, one way or the other. There's no way to explain that away. And we need to understand that in his books, he invented an anagram of his name, and he actually invented an expert that he referred to all the time, and it was based on his name. And he later admitted that was actually the case. So Thomas Sowell had said once before,

Starting point is 00:51:11 somebody pointed out comments underneath that, paraphrase him. He said, every great American problem has had a Harvard graduate at the center of it. He's not impressed with that either. So yeah, he's he invented a fake economist. And because you know, coming from Harvard just isn't enough, you got to create a fake economist as well. So Peter Navarro responded to Elon Musk, saying that he had lost the plot, that it was smoke and mirrors and a lot of sophistry from Harvard economics. And he came back and said, look, Elon, when he's in his doge, lane is great.

Starting point is 00:51:57 In other words, you're getting out of your lane, pal. But we understand what's going on here. Elon sells cars. He's simply protecting his own. What kind of stuff are you selling and what is your background, Peter Navarro? We're going to take a look at that. Then on Monday, Navarro said, we all understand in the White House and the American people understand that Elon's a car manufacturer, but he's not a car manufacturer.

Starting point is 00:52:20 Oh, now he's going to get further. First, he says, well, he's building cars and he's just trying to protect his own. Now he comes back and says, you're not even a car manufacturer. Oh, now he's going to get further. First he says, well he's building cars and he's just trying to protect his own. Now he comes back and says, you're not even a car manufacturer. You're a car assembler. He says, if you go to his Texas plant, a good part of the engines that he gets, he says, which in the case of the EV case are batteries. In other words, he doesn't sell anything but EVs. So he doesn't have any engines. Anyway, they come from Japan, they come from China, the electronics come from Taiwan. He said what we want, and the difference is in our thinking and Elon's on this, is that what we want, we want the tires made in Akron,

Starting point is 00:52:56 we want the transmissions made in Indianapolis, we want the engines made in Flint and Saginaw, and we want the cars manufactured here." What is he even talking about? I mean they are banning the electric cars effectively. So they are not going to have engines, they are not going to have transmissions, they are only going to have tires. So Musk then replied and said, �Navarro is truly a moron. What he is saying here is demonstrably false. I guess we also want to have the ventilators made here in America.

Starting point is 00:53:29 It was Peter Navarro who went to Ford and GM and told them, well you've shut down making cars, you can't make cars now. You need to make ventilators. And they did that with a declared emergency order. They did that, saying it was national security and all the rest of the stuff. He is a ten pot dictator trying to centrally manage our economy. He has absolutely no clue. And what he did produce killed people. Nearly 90% of the people that were on his ventilators that he told GM and Ford to produce, about 90% of them died for his phony emergency.

Starting point is 00:54:11 Now he's got another phony emergency and this time he's trying to smother the global economy instead of people. The name that he used was Ron Vara, which is an acronym of his name. Antigram, I'm sorry, not an acronym, anagram. By any definition whatsoever, Tesla is the most vertically integrated automobile manufacturer in America with the highest percentage of US content, said Elon Musk.

Starting point is 00:54:39 Navarra should ask the fake expert that he invented, Ron Vara. And then he called him Peter Ritardo. While Tesla is the most American manufactured car, Musk acknowledged last month that the tariff impact on Tesla is still going to be very significant. And so in this article on Zero Hedge, they break it down. The percentage of vehicle that comes from America, broke it down for the various models of Tesla, and it ranges from a low of 60% to a high of 75%. And that has the most American content of any car. Yet still, 25 to 40 percent of that car is foreign parts that will be tariffed. Do you see the problem here? You can't just come in with a naivete and the hubris and

Starting point is 00:55:35 the ego of somebody like Peter Navarro or Donald Trump and just say, okay, stop it. We're going to change it now. We told you to put your factories in Mexico and Canada, but I don't care now. I'm going to pull the rug out from underneath you. And if we look at Ford, the Ford F-150 only contains 29% of American parts. So in other words, it's 71% foreign parts, regardless of where this thing is finally assembled and put together. So one person says, quoted Navarro, and says, Navarro said, "'What the trade deficit does for any given country,

Starting point is 00:56:16 it is the sum of all cheating.'" Oh, okay, so we need to go back to this. Let's modify this. Tariff rate equals cheating divided by imports. Cheating divided by imports. That's easier to remember, isn't it? Cheating divided by imports times one-half because we're good guys. We're not going to charge you. We're not going to cheat on you as much as you cheat on us. We're going to take cheating divided by imports times one half.

Starting point is 00:56:54 He says, is Navarro aware that the U.S. runs trade surpluses with the Netherlands? Because that's the other, that's not a complete thing because it's going to be tariff rate is equal to cheating divided by imports times one half plus 10 10 percent because even if there's no cheating even if We have a surplus not a trade deficit. So even if cheating is zero by their definition We're gonna charge them 10 percent. So we're gonna charge the people to buy more from us than we buy from them We're gonna punish them too According to Peter Navarro and Donald Trump.

Starting point is 00:57:26 He says, is Navarro aware that the U.S. has trade surpluses with the Netherlands, UK, Spain, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and Hong Kong? Should they slap reciprocal tariffs on the U.S.? Maybe they will, because they are our customer and we have that kind of leverage with them like we do with China, but then there's other things like China is doing with the rare earth minerals. Well, Reason nailed Navarro's background. It says, Elon Musk says, Peter Navarro is dumber than a stack of bricks. They said he is also a socialist who has foolish economic views and should never have been put in charge

Starting point is 00:58:11 of anything. And yet he loves to be in charge. He loves to dictate to people. They said, imagine an alternate reality where Trump's top trade advisor was a bulging, hefty trash bag stuffed with discarded bricks. No really, picture it. When Trump gathers his cabinet together, he, for an important meeting, there is a large bag sitting in the corner of the room.

Starting point is 00:58:37 Its black polyethylene side stretches at awkward angles as it tries to contain the sharp edges of what appear to be dozens of bricks piled within. A White House intern struggles to move it from place to place. The bag doesn't speak or communicate in any way. It has no thoughts. It does not opine on the meaning of trade deficits or cheating, or invent false data to tell misleading stories about the state of America's economy. Then ask yourself, would the country be better off if Trump was seeking counsel

Starting point is 00:59:10 from that literal sack of bricks rather than Peter Navarro? I love that illustration. So on Tuesday morning Musk said Navarro is dumber than a sack of bricks. The country would be better off with Navarro or dumber than a sack of bricks. The country would be better off with Navarro or a literal sack of bricks guiding the president's trade policy. The answer seems to be clear. Sack Navarro. Hire the bricks. Navarro is both the dumbest economist in America and the most influential said Noah Smith on X. That's a good way to put it. Now how does the dumbest economist in America become the most influential?

Starting point is 00:59:50 Well, that's when you've got the dumbest CEO in America becoming president. Oh, he's a businessman, is he? Okay, is he a successful businessman? But I think that's a big part of the reason why he was selected. You know, a lot of the people around him, these technocrats, they don't want to go through this whole thing of becoming a politician and, you know, running for, you know, dog catcher on up, working their way up the political hierarchy to eventually run for president, you know. They like the fact that Donald Trump was a businessman with no experience whatsoever in politics and he goes straight to the top.

Starting point is 01:00:29 So Peter Thiel and Elon Musk and these other people would kind of like to do. But there's also, and you know, when you look at that, it's kind of interesting. You'll see at the local level, the city level, usually the people who are involved in government the most are coming from real estate. And the reason for that is because they want to be able to do what they want to do and that's where their regulations against real estate are at local. So they want to fix those things or get around them or whatever for their buddies. And so people who want the freedom to build stuff will get people in.

Starting point is 01:01:07 Typically you have a background in real estate. That's where Virginia Fox, the person I ran against for Congress, came from, was real estate. Now she's owned by Israel, amongst others. But when you get to the state and the federal level, it's usually lawyers. They kind of sit there and they look at it and they're looking at the law, they're analyzing the law, they see things that they don't like or things that they'd want to change, and so they want to get into office so they can change that kind of stuff.

Starting point is 01:01:36 And of course they all want money. I can make a lot of money if I get in there. It's especially true of lawyers, but it's also true of these real estate people. So you've got people who are coming in from that. They spend a lot of time. They didn't just jump into the presidency. That's very unusual to not have any experience in politics. And so I think that was something very attractive to these billionaire CEO technocrats. He's one of us, and maybe, who knows, maybe we could do that as well. But it also meant that because he was focused on money so much, Trump came in his business dealings in New York. We talk about people being involved in real estate or people being involved in law or whatever. Well, Trump was building

Starting point is 01:02:18 things in New York and so he's dealing with organized crime. He's dealing with politicians. I know that's redundant, but that's what he was doing so he's dealing with organized crime. He's dealing with politicians. I know that's redundant But that's what he was doing and he's paying these people off and he even boasted about yeah Hillary Clinton was at my wedding. I paid her to be there He's buying politicians and he looks at it, you know like the Godfather Tells Michael Corleone. He said, all my life I bought the politicians, now they're gonna come kiss the knee to you or whatever, right? And so the, I think he saw this as a chance, rather than paying politicians as a businessman, he could become a politician that other businessmen pay, and that's where we are

Starting point is 01:02:57 today with all of this stuff. And so Navarro is both the dumbest economist in America and the most influential. In response to Navarro's claim on Fox News that tariffs are tax cuts, tariffs are tax cuts he said. And by the way, thanks to Jared Kushner who put him in there, found somebody who was going to be a hawk on China. He found this book, The War with China, How to Win it, that type of thing. Oh yeah, let's get this guy. When he's not spouting more nonsense during cable news interviews, Navarro is reportedly

Starting point is 01:03:35 blocking attempts by foreign countries to strike deals with Trump that could lower tariffs. After the European Union and Vietnam indicated their willingness to negotiate lower tariffs if America would do the same, Navarro immediately capped off the idea. He said, when they come to us and say that they want to go to zero tariffs, that means nothing to us. Oh, really? Hmm. So, um, Navarro became one of the most powerful people in the first Trump administration after

Starting point is 01:04:01 a failed left-wing political career. Here's a socialist background that I was not aware of with this guy. It's a reason, man. He had a failed left-wing political career. He was a long-time California political pundit. Joe Matthews has called him San Diego's Bernie Sanders. San Diego's Bernie Sanders. That analogy helps to explain a lot about the current moment.

Starting point is 01:04:27 If Sanders, a long-time advocate for tariffs, Bernie Sanders, an opponent of free trade, he loves taxes, loves regulation. If Bernie Sanders thinks consumers don't need variety or choice in the marketplace, if he was appointed to run US trade policy, would it be any different from Peter Navarro's? Probably not. Because again, the guy who watches California closely, Joe Matthews, called him San Diego's Bernie Sanders. When Navarro wasn't losing elections or inventing fake economists, Ron Vara. To support his positions, Navarro also founded an anti-growth community organization and

Starting point is 01:05:12 helped to entrench some of the regulatory hurdles to building housing that is still harming California today. And so, just the kind of guy that Trump, a New York City Democrat, would want to have. When Trump wanted to speak more substantively about China on the campaign trail, Vanity Fair's Sarah Ellison reported in 2017 that Trump gave Kushner a summary of his views and asked him to do some research, and Kushner found with, found Navarro's books. Navarro is still a socialist. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he waxed poetic about how beautiful, quote unquote beautiful it was to see, quote, the

Starting point is 01:05:55 power of the federal government merging with the power of private enterprise to kill people and to kill businesses. He literally killed people with his ventilators. And he told Ford and GM, you stop making cars and you start making my ventilators. He was the driving force behind the Trump administration's harebrained idea to give $765 million to the Eastman Kodak Company, a struggling camera company as film was going out, in order for Eastman Kodak to produce pharmaceuticals nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars to have Eastman Kodak change from film to pharmaceuticals. Filmaceuticals! There we go. The next way that they will deliver

Starting point is 01:06:48 the poisons to us through film. The contract thankfully was cancelled after the SEC began investigating it. He says, I feel compelled to point out that a literal sack of bricks would not have done either of those things. While he's not without faults Musk clearly grasps the value of trade and understands that it is a huge mistake for Trump to deliberately tank the economy with these tariffs. Navarro has built nothing. He is a failed politician and a fabulous,ist. A fabulist. Yes, remember, tariffs equals cheating divided by imports. Musk wants Trump to cancel the tariffs, says Washington Post, many other people. Many people reported this.

Starting point is 01:07:37 He's said things like, I would like to see for us both go to zero. Well, you know, that's what the EU proposed. Peter Navarro shut it down. Musk has made direct appeals to Trump urging him to reconsider his decision to impose steep tariffs on American trade partners. But then you have people like Victor Davis Hansen, who has become a real go-to expert for people like Tucker Carlson and people in the Trump sphere. And he wrote this, the poverty, this is the headline, the poverty of the criticism of

Starting point is 01:08:12 Trump's agenda. The poverty? That's a curious line, isn't it? When we're all looking at how much poor these massive terrorists are going to make us, Trump is saying, yeah, we're going to, 300, 600, a trillion dollars, you know? 300 billion, 600 billion, a trillion dollars are going to take out of you. Well, that's going to come out of us for the most part, right? So it's a curious term to talk about the poverty of the criticism of Trump's agenda.

Starting point is 01:08:38 He said, number one, opposition to the Trump administration's initiatives has reached a near unprecedented fever pitch. Why would that be? Victor Davis Hansen, why would there be opposition to that? And basically his arguments all boil down to this partisan tribalism, really. He said there's a common denominator in this fury and frenzy because there's no alternate agenda on trade deficits, budget deficits, and debt. Ah, now we're talking about a poverty of ideas, a poverty of ideas from Victor Davis Hansen.

Starting point is 01:09:16 Because what you really need is real radical change, something more radical than Doge. You need to just rip this stuff out by the roots. Look, it is government and we need a radical reduction in government, a radical reduction in taxes, not an additional trillion dollars in taxes and even more spending. You know, the Trump administration is spending money at a faster rate than the Biden administration. Every time these guys change hands, they accelerate it. They up the slope. But that's really what accelerate it. They up the slope.

Starting point is 01:09:47 But that's really what is needed. That is the alternative. You know, the alternative is really, really simple. Cut government. Cut government across the board. And we just have Trump boasting yesterday, we're going to have our first trillion dollar defense budget for the Pentagon, for the Pentagon. And I've said before that Elon Musk is not pointing Doge at the Pentagon at all.

Starting point is 01:10:14 The Pentagon that was already had misplaced somehow trillions of dollars worth of stuff and the office that was investigating them had a missile flown into its window on 9-11. You know, yeah, that Pentagon, let's take them up to a trillion dollar budget as if that is going to make us safer. If we bankrupt our country, that is one of the worst things that could happen for national security, not just for us as individuals. And so throwing money at the Pentagon is foolish. But I see a lot of people putting comments under it saying, well, it turns out that the

Starting point is 01:10:53 defense part, you know, common defense is one of the few things in the Constitution that they do. That's correct. But when in the Constitution does it say that we need to go abroad hunting monsters to destroy? No. No, we don't. That is foreign interventionism. That is empire.

Starting point is 01:11:10 That is not defense. And the Constitution was not set up to encourage an empire, but that's what these people are doing. It is an abuse, an abuse of our so-called defense department Department to use it offensively as an Empire as a global police department. Anyway back to Victor David Sandstein says so why does the left not simply claim that its prior support of terrorists was wrong-headed? Oh okay you guys like terrorists because you always like every tax. What's the matter with you? You hate them now. Okay well what's fair enough.

Starting point is 01:11:43 What's the matter with the Republicans that they love taxes now? Oh, we're not going to talk about that because Victor Davis Hansen is about the partisan divide. He said, per year, the interest cost of the debt is larger than the defense budget. Does AOC ever notice that, he says? Well, again, Trump's answer is, so let's increase the defense budget. If the interest is higher than the defense budget, let's take the defense budget up to a trillion dollars. You know, just a couple of months ago, Trump said,

Starting point is 01:12:15 well not even. It was right after he got inaugurated, I guess. But he was saying, I'll talk to Russia and China. Let's just, let just cut our defense budgets in half. And here we are a few weeks later, and he wants to increase it by 12% to a trillion dollars. Not cut it in half, increase it by 12%. Big jump, big jump. He says, so what does the left propose as its financial remedy?

Starting point is 01:12:41 So that's the response. He said, Trump killed people with these vaccines. Trump's lockdowns didn't work and all the rest of the stuff. Well, who are you voting for? Who are you voting for? Let's go back to the left-right paradigm and our, you know, bipartisan bifurcation nonsense that we've got here. You're either with us or against us, that type of thing. Well, what are you going to do about it? Well, first of all, I'm going to get out of your election box. Don't box me in with elections. Don't box me in with political parties. That's not where the solution is.

Starting point is 01:13:10 Got to think outside of those boxes. But he's not. He wants to put you in. So what does the left propose as its financial remedies? And what does Victor Davis Hansen propose? Absolutely nothing. He keeps throwing out one partisan red herring after the other. Well, they did this or they did that, and they're worse on this than we are on that.

Starting point is 01:13:29 It's the same kind of stuff. I just don't understand why this guy, people pay attention to him. Does the tax and spend left prefer instead a value added tax or something like that? How about if we get rid of the income tax before we add another tax? What do you think about that? Oh no, you're the tax and spend right. Let's take the Pentagon budget up to over a $2,000,000. So we've got to do something. I heard the same type of stuff from the people who were selling Hillary care. You know, I went to a lot of these town hall things that were there and they were all Democrats because I lived in a Democrat area, it was right outside the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Starting point is 01:14:09 The politics there. Anyway, but I went to some of these meetings and I spoke from the floor on some of them and you heard the other people there. And they said, well, we've got to do something. Look at how bad the hospital medical system is. And I was like, yeah, I agree. Okay, so let's talk about what the real problem is. Instead of just grabbing a bucket of liquid and throwing it on the fire, you might be throwing gasoline instead of water. And depending

Starting point is 01:14:33 on the kind of fire, you may not want to throw water on it. So maybe you need to analyze what the problem is before you start throwing things on it. And that's what the conservatives are doing now. We've got to do something. This trade deficit is going to burn down our country. Well, the reality is that the trade deficit is just under a trillion dollars. He's already burned down more than that in equities on the stock market, and he's going to then take another trillion dollars according to them, they keep upping this ante, another trillion dollars in taxes from us. How is that fixing anything?

Starting point is 01:15:12 You know, they don't have anything constructive because they're not looking at the Constitution, they're not thinking about cutting government to fit inside the Constitution. Federal spending in 2025 is on track to be the highest ever. This is from the Mises Institute. For the first five months of 2025 fiscal year, federal spending is coming in at the highest level ever. This is true even when adjusted for inflation. This largely reflects Biden-era spending since the current fiscal year began in October.

Starting point is 01:15:41 In nominal terms, the growth is even larger with federal spending so far this year, coming in at about half a trillion more than the previous all-time high reached during 2021. However, if you look at figures for February, you see that the year-to-year date is significantly up. Doge has not cut anything, not yet. And even the things that they have cut, we'll see what happens with the lawsuits. Now, they did, Trump did cut probationary employees, and they had the audacity to sue him on that, and fortunately he won. I mean, that clearly is within the prerogative of the executive who is in charge of all of these bureaucracies to be able to fire somebody on a probationary period.

Starting point is 01:16:31 The very meaning of that is that you don't have any tenure rights and that type of thing. They can get rid of you for any reason whatsoever. And so they took him to court and they lost on that. But we don't know what's going to happen with these other court cases. And even if these things are successful, that's not going to be enough to make any significant change as long as the government is doing unconstitutional things. As long as we have a welfare and a warfare state, a warfare state that is set up to be the global empire, as long as we've got those two abominations that are not in the Constitution, nothing

Starting point is 01:17:09 else is really going to help. So the Mises Institute says, the data covers not only period through in February, we do know however that in spite of many claims coming out of the administration, no significant impact can yet be seen in the federal spending data. Revenue has not been keeping up. So the high level of spending has also driven ongoing growth and total federal deficits. They don't want you to see the deficit. They want you, they don't want to see the the spending deficit. They want you to see a trade deficit. Don't look at that. Look at this, right? It's like when they got the

Starting point is 01:17:46 emails from Hillary Clinton. She didn't want you to talk about what was in those emails or what she was saying or doing or the nature of them. She wanted you to focus on who got that data. It must have been Russia, that type of thing. So she creates a red herring. Don't look at what's in it. Look at who showed it. That type of thing. So Trump is proud about this. In fact, he's proud of the borrowing. He's proud of the federal deficit.

Starting point is 01:18:16 He's proud of the additional money that he's put in the Defense Department. On February 25th, Thomas Massie posted, he said, the GOP budget extends the five-year tax holiday that we've been enjoying. You notice that? All these people are saying, well, he's going to replace the income tax with it? No. It's going to be five years at least, right? But because it doesn't cut spending much, it increases the deficit by over $300 billion per year compared to letting tax cuts expire. Over 10 years, this budget will add $20 trillion to the U.S. debt.

Starting point is 01:18:52 So in another 10 years, if we haven't had a complete financial reset, which is, that'll happen before that. But if we keep going down the same path, which is really what Trump is doing, in other words, he's not doing something different. He's distracting you, but he's continuing to spend and borrow and to inflate the debt. And so, in another 10 years, it will be up to $67 trillion. Massey was also dismissive of the Republican leadership's claims that the GOP Congress would cap discretionary spending and then spend at the rate of inflation after that.

Starting point is 01:19:29 He said that's never happened. He says for anyone who is actually paying attention, it's clear these 10-year plans for spending and deficit reduction are little more than smoke and mirrors. Congress cannot bind a future Congress to any budgetary plan. You know, the Congresses, the communists have got their five-year plans. And the American Congress has its five and ten-year plans. We are going to have everything balanced in five or ten years, but not in the first five years while we're here. You know, not for the next two to four years.

Starting point is 01:20:02 We're not going to do it. We're going to continue down the same path. But then the future Congress is going to fix everything. This is like saying I need to lose weight, but I'm going to the diet is going to start tomorrow. Today I'm going to eat cake. And so the Congress is always eating cake and having their diet too. 73% of Americans expect a price surge under Trump tariffs. Isn't it a good thing that we're going to have more inflation and higher taxes?

Starting point is 01:20:40 Because hey, it's winning if it's Trump that's doing it. On kick, gtalent, thank you very much for the subscription. On rumble, dg8, thank you for the tip. He says, David, it'll take years, if not decades, to re-tool, rebuild these closed, abandoned, or torn down factories. And when they rebuild these new factories, they'll be automated, not employing many. David Rand Paul said, tariff numbers are a huge lie, pointing out Canada dairy has no tariff till it hits 18 percent. How come that wasn't told to us and pointed out that interest pointed out interest rising in the bond market. Yeah it's all a lie. Yeah but the tariffs are just

Starting point is 01:21:18 just remember the formula. It's cheating divided by imports. That's all you need to know. That's the Harvard economics version of it. Cheating divided by imports. On kick, Psalm 1441 says, has gifted a subscription, thank you very much, to iHandy and has subscribed themselves. Well, thank you all. quick break and we'll be right back. So You are listening to The David Knight Show. Well, we can talk about how bankrupt America is in a lot of different ways. I think the entire West has become spiritually bankrupt, and that is the root of all of our

Starting point is 01:22:46 problems, financial and otherwise. This was sent to me, and the most amazing thing, I appreciate Tony who sent this to me, not Tony Aarderman, but another Tony. And it's a British church has opened its doors to professional wrestling in order to attract converts. Converts to what? Professional wrestling? This makes the people who follow Jesus looking for the loaves and fishes look really good

Starting point is 01:23:15 by comparison. These people are going to these abandoned churches all over Europe. They have these beautiful structures that people put a great deal of pride in, not necessarily pride, I'll say a lot of work into, in order to honor God. And there was a good essay by the owner of Gap, Andrew Torba, who talked about how important it is for Christians to have excellence in their work. You know, we're told to not work as if we just got to, you know, do the bare minimum here, as long as the boss is pleased, you know, I'm going to cut corners on the side here and this and that. He says, no, you work as unto the Lord. You work as if you're working for Christ himself. You give your very best. You give your highest.

Starting point is 01:24:10 And Andrew Torba said, we can see that in the architecture that has lasted for a thousand years or whatever. A lot of this stuff was almost these massive cathedrals, really multi-generational. People were doing that to show their dedication to God. He said, when we do work, when we do things like Bach writing his masterpieces or whatever, we do stuff like that. We should do it as if we are working for Christ. And people should look at our work and say, so what is behind, what motivates somebody that does work like this? Well that's not the case anymore. We have these

Starting point is 01:24:53 empty shelves, these buildings are not churches. You know, the church that built them is dead now in the cemetery nearby, the people. And so a lot of these beautiful buildings have been repurposed for night clubs or discos or you name it, right? But this is one that is still inhabited by nominal Christians. Christians in name only. This clown show that they're doing really comes from an attitude that has, I think, Christianity all wrong. It's about the marketing of Christianity.

Starting point is 01:25:31 And it has a lot of similarities to what Paula White is doing. She's marketing a prosperity gospel. These people are marketing an entertainment gospel, if you will. But it's marketing. You know, we're going to not rely on the Holy Spirit, but Madison Avenue approaches. This is why we wind up with the churches that we've got. And I saw this clip, and it was just the most amazing thing. And quite frankly, you know, it's Jesus doing a wrestling match. So they have regular wrestling matches there. People go there and they watch the wrestling matches.

Starting point is 01:26:09 But then there's this one where Jesus goes out with the wrestlers, right? I'll show it to you in a moment. And I just want to say that when I saw this, what it reminded me of, well, my first thought is wrestling? Aren't we told that we don't wrestle with flesh and blood? These people are literally wrestling with flesh and blood. They've lost the plot. Now we wrestle with principalities and powers and the dark forces of this world, but these

Starting point is 01:26:38 people are wrestling with flesh and blood. They're wrestling for entertainment. And so they do that, and then they have this wrestling matchup. I'm going to show you here where they have a guy who's dressed up like they think Jesus looked, you know, the popular conception of Jesus. And when I saw this, it made me think of the, you know, where do we get Satan in a red suit with a pointy tail and a pitchfork and horns and stuff like that, right? That was done in the Middle Ages to mock Satan. That was all done as a mockery of Satan. And

Starting point is 01:27:13 quite frankly, this is a mockery of Jesus. Ladies and gentlemen, the son of God! He's waving his hands and these guys are flipping around and falling on the ground. Oh, he does a body slam. He doesn't even touch it. What is this, Buddhism? Or? This is like these martial arts guys that supposedly are using the chi and knocking people down and everything.

Starting point is 01:27:47 Yeah, yeah. That's just blasphemy. That's just mockery of Christ. In the same way medieval people mocked Satan. They call themselves a wrestling church. They bring blood, sweat, and tears, mostly sweat, to St. Peter's Anglican Church in northern England town of Shipley. This is a New York Post report.

Starting point is 01:28:11 It is the creation of Gareth Thompson, a charismatic 37-year-old who says that he was saved by professional wrestling. Oh, and Jesus as well. Thompson says the outsized characters of scripted morality battles of pro wrestling fit naturally with a Christian message. Do they? You know, I mean, we've had great allegory Christian work, you know, like Chronicles of Narnia, The Lord of the Rings, and both of them destroyed by Netflix and Amazon respectively doing their best.

Starting point is 01:28:46 As I pointed out yesterday, it's come out that Netflix is going to be doing the Chronicles of Narnia and they've got as their director the woman who inflicted Barbie movie on us and she has done a gender swap on Jesus. Jesus, the figure of Aslan, and his allegory, and he did it as a deliberate allegory, he said so. Jesus is being played by Meryl Streep as a woman. And of course, the Lord of the Rings was not a deliberate allegory. He said, no, no, it wasn't allegory, but you could see it because he was so involved in his understanding of Christianity, it expressed itself in the world that he made. Boil it down to the basics, it's good versus evil, said this guy.

Starting point is 01:29:33 He said, when I became a Christian, I started seeing the wrestling world through a Christian lens. I started seeing David and Goliath. I started seeing Cain and Abel. I started seeing Esau having his heritage stolen from him." Did you see Jacob wrestling with God? Anyway, so I thought we could tell these stories. Church attendance in the UK has been declining for decades. I wonder why they don't take it seriously. They found that less than half the people in England and Wales now consider

Starting point is 01:30:02 themselves to be Christians. Who would want to be associated with that kind of nonsense? I mean, that would be embarrassing. No, no, no, I'm not with them. This idiotic blasphemous spectacle is there. That's led churches to get creative in order to survive. No, that's led the businesses. They're not churches, they're businesses to get creative in order to survive. And that's why they're resorting to marketing, that's why they're resorting to this prosperity

Starting point is 01:30:26 gospel stuff. Now as Christians we're just there to throw the seed out. And we understand that it's going to be God who makes it grow. That's why I guess we call it the foolishness of preaching. Because we can't make this happen, we just throw it out, we don't know if we're throwing it to somebody who has ears to hear or not. It's not a church as you would know it, he said, and it's not for everybody, but it's bringing in a different group of people. Yeah, it is, and they're coming for different reasons. Quite frankly, it's not a church that Jesus would know, right? Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,

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Starting point is 01:31:34 cheek." No, they didn't do that. They were saying, knock him out, make him bleed. That's great Christian values there, isn't it? The whole thing ought to just end, you know? First guy hits him and he says, okay, he turns the other cheek and the match is over. But no, they don't do that. They actually get them wrestling. Thompson, they said, is a mix of preacher and ringmaster wearing a t-shirt that says

Starting point is 01:31:58 pray, eat, wrestle and repeat. Where's the listen part there? Oh, that's missing. I could tell from the fruit of all this stuff. He said, I would watch Shawn Michaels and The Rock and Stone Cole Steve Austin and I'd be like, I want to be like them. See, it all began with his misplaced idolatry. And that's his gospel. You know, like Paula White, you know. She's focused on money. He's focused on wrestling. That's their God. That's their idol. It's very easy for us to do that.

Starting point is 01:32:32 And I talk about this because it's such an absurd extreme, right, that we look at it. And we can all fall into this in different degrees. That's what we have to guard against. We can look at this and say, �Oh, well, I'm not like that at all.� Well, look at your life. Examine your life. Is it about something else? And you think that you are really falling in line with this. He said, �People say, �Oh, wrestling, Christianity, they're two fake things in a fake world of their own existence,� he says says. But my own personal experience of my Christian faith is that it's alive and living and it's

Starting point is 01:33:08 true and the wrestling…that's good so far, right? But then he fake-ifies it. He says, in the wrestling world, if you really believe in it, you believe that it's true and you can suspend your disbelief. Oh, so is that what you're doing with your Christianity then? Yeah, he doesn't even explain that analogy right, and doing that analogy, he denigrates Christianity. You know, the Christianity is real, the wrestling is not.

Starting point is 01:33:33 He says you suspend your disbelief because you want to get lost in it, because you want to believe in it. Well, hey, you know, we want to believe in Santa Claus, we can just go down that route as well, right? I mean, is that really what this is about? Did Paul want to believe? Did he want to believe or was that something that he wasn't looking for, right? That was definitely something he was not looking for. Now Jesus said, no one can come to me unless the Father draws him. Draws him. That word means to drag or to impel.

Starting point is 01:34:12 It is God who's going to bring us in to relationship. And if we have, if we are being impelled in that direction, if we're being drawn in that direction, it is his work. And that's why it's foolishness of preaching. You're not going to do this out of marketing or out of slick stuff like that. This is why the church is failing. It's not focused on Christ. It's focused on marketing or felt needs or whatever. And so we don't need any phony gimmicks. We don't need any marketing.

Starting point is 01:34:49 What we need is to pray that God will draw people in. So these people, a lot of people putting this out. Jesus has gone viral in the UK. No, the church has gotten sick. Jesus isn't viral. The church is sick. Meanwhile, Christians are being pushed out even in the primary schools. They're not even allowed to have a Easter parade, which there's nothing really necessarily Christian about that.

Starting point is 01:35:17 I mean, this is people dressing up in their, you know, this is like, oh, what was that, the Easter parade, the movie, it had Fred Astaire and I don't know, I don't know what that is. Irving Berlin music, yeah, that's not necessarily Christian, that's people what people do in New York City. They would put on their best clothes and they would parade up and down the street in their best clothes. A real image of Christ there, isn't it? So the Easter parade has been canceled out of this school, and they see that as persecution. Now here's persecution.

Starting point is 01:35:55 China is moving to formally end Christian missionary activity. What's that? Anyway, they're arguing loyalty to the party usurps all other beliefs and credos. So they're going to prohibit foreigners from preaching, sharing their faith, or establishing religious organizations. CCP has long viewed independent religious activity with suspicion, arguing that religious loyalty is at odds with the ultimate loyalty demanded by the Communist Party.

Starting point is 01:36:26 The Communist Party is a jealous God, and you will have no other gods before it. Right? They've got their commandments, don't they? All these other groups have got their commandments. They may not have ten of them. They might have more than ten of them, but yeah, you will worship the Communist Party, your Lord and your God. They want to be omnipotent.

Starting point is 01:36:47 They want to know everything about you, omniscience, and they want to be everywhere, omnipresent. The government labels independent religious activity as cultish and extremist, but not theirs. Regardless of its theological roots and demands that all Christian religious activity must take place within the confines of state-run churches and they're now even tearing them down, even though those people tried to comply with what they wanted. China is officially atheist in a communist state that claims to tolerate only five legal

Starting point is 01:37:16 religions – Catholicism, Protestant, Christianity, Buddhism, Taoism, and Islam. However, all five of these religions are only legal through government-operated institutions. And these government institutions that do not actually preach the teachings of these faiths, but instead encourage believers to abandon the faith and to worship the dictator, Xi Jinping. Sounds like our own government schools, doesn't it? You know, we're going to say that we're tolerant of this, but we will use the opportunity of having unfettered access to your children and their minds and their souls and their spirits.

Starting point is 01:38:01 We'll use that to undermine their faith. So we've got a movement. this is picked up by one publication, this is an entire group of people leaving a Democrat state because they perceive political persecution there. I thought, is this Illinois or something? Because there's a lot of that happening in Illinois. No, this is actually Minnesota. They're moving from Minnesota to Tennessee, and they're setting up a Bible-based community in Tennessee in order to be left alone.

Starting point is 01:38:35 And it's kind of interesting, because we're seeing something that is, you've got a lot of Muslims who are trying to set up a city in Texas, but it's a bit different what they're trying to do. And that particular thing in East Plano, just outside of Dallas, early last year, they announced plans for the epic center. Epic stands for East Plano Islamic Center. 400 acre town north of Dallas being promoted as the epicenter of Islam in America. Seeking permits from the county to build 1,000 homes, a school, a shopping center, all centered around a mosque just outside Josephine, Texas.

Starting point is 01:39:20 At a public meeting on Monday, dozens of Josephine's 2,000 residents urged Collin County Commissioner's Court to deny permits for the Islamic city. Some voiced concerns that it would affect Josephine's resources while others raised fear that it would impose Islam's totalitarian Sharia law. This is a Sharia compound where they will do Sharia compliance including honor killings, stoning and marrying their young girls off to grown men," said one speaker. Another opponent of the proposed city is Texas Governor Greg Abbott who in February suggested that Epic City will impose Sharia law and establish itself as a no-go zone.

Starting point is 01:40:02 No-go areas which have become very prevalent in Europe, are Muslim neighborhoods that consider themselves to be sovereign under Sharia law and reject the authority of secular law enforcement. It's not compatible with our country that is based on a Christian foundation. That's the fundamental difference between these two groups. You've got one group that wants to escape a government that is telling them, is intolerant of their parenting and other things like that. They want to be left alone. This other group wants to set up a government within a government.

Starting point is 01:40:37 That's the fundamental difference. It may superficially seem to be similar to each other, but they're not. Governor Abbott said, to be clear, Sharia law is not allowed in Texas nor are Sharia cities nor are no go zones which this project seems to imply. Bottom line, the project as proposed in this video is not going to be allowed in Texas. Now why did this happen in Texas? Well you say well maybe they went there because, you know, Texas is known for, you know, large areas of land, let people just be wild and free, do whatever they want to

Starting point is 01:41:11 do. I think it has to do with what's been going on for a long time in Texas with Fatala Gulen and his quasi-Islamic schools. Now, Fatala Gulen just recently died. He was a Muslim cleric out of Turkey, and both he and Erdogan started moving Turkey towards an Islamic republic away from the secular Islamic government that they had had before. They started moving it towards religious fundamentalism. Fatala Ghulain went further and he started creating a cult around himself and so then

Starting point is 01:41:49 they had a falling out and these two factions started competing with each other. Fatala Ghulain had a lot of people in the judiciary as well as the police and military that were loyal to him. And so he was going to be arrested, and he wanted to come to the United States. And the people who knew what he was about did not want him coming in to the United States. And yet the CIA wrote letters for him and got him in, and he set up a compound in Pennsylvania. And they've gotten nearly a billion dollars a year out of Texas with charter schools. Mark Hall did an excellent documentary about it. It's called Killing Ed.

Starting point is 01:42:32 You can see it on some of these platforms that are out there. I forget the name of the different platforms, but you can find it on several different platforms. It is there. And it's an excellent documentary. And I think, and it's with the Republican Party that's basically laid down and let Fatala Ghulam do whatever he wants. And so I would imagine that these people would think, well, yeah, we can set up a Sharia city next. He doesn't explicitly teach Islam in these schools. They are masquerading as schools of science and math. In the rest of the world, they are explicitly madrasas, but not in Texas.

Starting point is 01:43:14 In Texas, he's got to keep that out of it so he can get the funding. But he is bringing in, and there's a lot of fraud that's involved, and Mark Hall talks about that in his movie, killing it. Where's this platform here, Travis? I am DB. I am DB. Okay, yeah. I forget the places where you can look at it, but it's an excellent documentary.

Starting point is 01:43:34 What he shows is that they bring in a lot of people that are coming from Turkey and say, well, we've got to have them because the same kind of the H1B visa type of stuff that Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are doing. Oh, we've got to have these people because we just don't have any Americans who could do this. And the teachers who were there said, these guys don't know the subject that they're teaching. They don't know math.

Starting point is 01:43:55 They come in, they really don't have very good English skills, and they certainly don't have the skills for the subject that they're teaching. And they also found out that what was happening was they were being paid quite a bit more than the American teachers were being paid, even though they didn't have any expertise. They found out that that money was being kicked back to the organization. So in other words, it's part of their overhead and they can get money from the state for that but then they can funnel it off for the organization itself. So getting back to this, to the epic center, Abbott said, we're uncovering legal violations

Starting point is 01:44:32 by epic center that go far beyond what people realize. The proposed community will never see the light of day. More to come on this. The group behind the proposed East Plano Islamic Center compound may be misleading investors," he said, and we will not tolerate defrauding Texans. So they're going to stop that. It'll be interesting to see how that develops. We're going to take a quick break. Before that, I pulled this up briefly, but this is a funny little comic about the difference between Tolkien and CS Lewis when it comes to allegory. I'll pull it up again so you can have a look at it and read it for our viewers.

Starting point is 01:45:05 Sure, sure. Okay, so Tolkien, Professor Tolkien, is it true that you wrote your novels as an allegory for the First World War? No, never ask me that again and I will call the police. Or ask me that again and I will call the police. Lewis, who says, if even one person reading this does not understand that the big lion is

Starting point is 01:45:25 Jesus, I will set myself on fire. He hammered down that. So I guess if CS Lewis were around, he'd have to set himself on fire. Although I think Greta wasn't a Greta Gerwig or whatever, the Barbie director, I think she knows what it is and I think she's doing it deliberately. We'll be right back. So So So You're listening to the David Knight Show. Well Trump's, the Trump team's tariff incoherence is worsening in the market sell-off, says one analyst. And the Fed is not going to ride to the rescue.

Starting point is 01:47:38 See, this is the key thing. We have not stocks and bonds, we've got shocks and bondage is what we've got from Trump for the first couple of months of his administration. One shock after the other and more bondage. I guess we call the taxes that are being imposed bondage, right? The Trump policy and its constant vacillation has been a shock to the system. The Trump administration's incoherent messaging on tariffs is exacerbating market turmoil that they have caused.

Starting point is 01:48:11 The Federal Reserve will not come to the market's rescue, according to Mohammed L. Arrian, former CEO of PIMCO. He was asked whether he believes that Trump's massive trade tariffs are designed to force negotiations with tariff nations. This is what we've heard, right? No, he's not really going to do that. He's just putting that up as a negotiating tactic. Well, then he did it.

Starting point is 01:48:31 He's not going to leave them on. He's going to take them off. And then when the EU says, well, we'll come down to zero, you do zero, we'll do zero. No, no, not going to do that either. Thanks to Peter Navarro. Anyway, or whether they represent the long-term new paradigm for trade with the United States? Well, he said, we don't know. Because as much as there was uniformity when it came to statements on where we're going

Starting point is 01:48:55 to end up, which is this notion of a golden age, in which tariffs play a critical role in getting us there, we've heard a lot, at least three different messages about what's going to happen in the short term. The first message came from Treasury Secretary Scott Besson. He said, �There's nothing to worry about. The rush by Wall Street and others to price in lower growth recession�. He says, �In the Secretary's view, that's excessive and there's no need to do that.� So he's saying, �Everything's fine in the short term. The second view that comes out of the Trump administration actually came out of Trump's

Starting point is 01:49:29 mouth one of real short term pain for long term gain. Yes, it's going to create a lot of pain said Trump, you know, but just get used to it. Take your medicine. No pain, no gain type of stuff, right? Just like Biden. Do you realize what you're doing with these restrictions, these mandates, these emergencies, and these sanctions and all that? Yeah, well, you know, it's going to be painful, but we've got to get there.

Starting point is 01:49:53 I've got a vision of how I want to change this country like a dictator. Both of them are dictators. I've got an idea of what I want to do. And I don't care how much it hurts you. You're going to go through this for me." So he says, so we've heard them say it's going to be tough in the short term, but it's worth it because these terrorists will hold and what you're going to get is this higher revenue and you're going to get protection and what you're going to get is people moving

Starting point is 01:50:21 back to the US with their production facilities and their robots. Well, bottom line is that you're not going to get revenue and protection. You're going to get one or the other, really. I mean, if you do the revenue, that means that they're not moving back. Okay? They're not moving. You're not protecting the industries that are there. So he says, then you've got a third view.

Starting point is 01:50:47 That we have 50 plus countries negotiating and we may go into a world where tariffs are uniformly low across the world. That's kind of been rejected by Navarro. He said, so I try to evaluate where the destination is, not so much that, but how bumpy the journey is going to be. He said, this incoherence on the part of the administration, the resulting confusion with market participants is already having an impact that's impossible to contain in a modern trading environment. He said margin calls are there and people are reducing, in fact, reducing winners

Starting point is 01:51:22 and losers across the board in order to raise cash. So they're very concerned. Whether or not this investment is doing good or not, they're going to still sell it. Fund managers are worried about actual and expected outflows. And there are no circuit breakers on the horizon, he said. So he said, I can see two potential paths. He said on the one hand, the sell-off has been quite indiscriminate. Whether it is equities or gold, the correlations have gone positive and high positive. Therefore, value is

Starting point is 01:51:59 being created in certain pockets of the market. What he's saying, in other words, is that regardless of whether it's good or bad, regardless of whether it's a stock or whether it's gold or something like that, people are selling it. They gotta meet their margin calls and other things like that,

Starting point is 01:52:16 or they're really concerned about where this is all going. They just wanna liquidate and go to cash, one way or the other. So he says, so that means that you got some areas where you can do some discount shopping. He said, on the other hand, people are worried about catching a falling knife.

Starting point is 01:52:33 You've got to be really brave to go in there and pick the pockets of value because there's still a very high technical cloud over your head, gets cast a pall over the entire market. And it's this indecision, nobody knowing what Trump is going to do, what he's going to stick with. He added that it would take not just a declining market, but a breaking market in order to force the Fed's hand. He said, you need for markets to malfunction. You need treasuriesuries not to be a safe haven, but to start showing technical breakdown, and we haven�t seen that.� He said, �Unless there�s a malfunctioning of the market, the Fed is forcibly sidelined by the inflation side of its mandate.� And of course, this is what the people say, �What Trump is doing is genius.� No, it�s not.

Starting point is 01:53:23 Is he going to be able to force the hand of the Federal Reserve? This is why a lot of people are saying he's deliberately breaking things because he wants the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates. Well, if he's successful in that, if that was his plan, how do all the king's men and all the king's horses put Humpty Dumpty back together again after he's pushed him off the wall. And then what happens when he lowers interest rates? What happens to inflation? He wants to lower interest rate because he's got $37 trillion of debt. But inflation is going to create even more spending because we have entitlement programs

Starting point is 01:53:58 and a lot of those are indexed to inflation and so forth. This is the broken window fallacy again, like we talked about yesterday, except this is really kind of the broken humpty-dumpty fallacy. And of course, our government has broken quite a few eggs, hasn't it? I haven't made any omelets yet. So this is why some people say that Trump's chaos is deliberate. L. Arrien has been with a key voice of sounding the alarm about the broader implications of the global gold rally.

Starting point is 01:54:27 On March 19th, he said in an interview with Bloomberg that the ongoing gold price rally represents a dire warning for the future position of the US dollar in international markets. He said, I think the gold issue is really important. You've heard me argue here that people cannot escape the dollar as a reserve currency, but they can start slowly doing two things. One, they can build pipes around it, and two, they can change the asset allocation to include a little bit of other things, and gold is one of those other things. Now I'll just say here, I don't have the letter to read it, but I had somebody send

Starting point is 01:55:07 me an email and he was talking about how sick he has been. And really, I'm sorry to hear that. He's also somebody that he had told me before, he said he's an analyst. So he looks at things like the price of gold. And he thought with his charts that we're reaching a peak and that it's going to flatline for a couple of years and other things like that. I've not responded to him with an email. I do it publicly here.

Starting point is 01:55:33 I'll just say, when we look at this, I've never really been focused on the value of gold priced in competition to the US dollar. That's great if it goes up, but I look at the gold as something that gets me independent. In the same way, these people, they're talking about different countries building pipes around it. You know, we're not going to get rid of the dollar, and these other countries are not going to be able to get rid of the dollar either. Those of us who live in America can't get rid of it and even people around the world can't get rid of it. And it's going to remain to some degree or the other as a reserve currency status unless

Starting point is 01:56:11 things get unbelievably bad and a collapse. But you can build pipes around it. And that's my intention. Because as I've said for the longest time, my interest in gold is not about finances. It's about privacy. And it's about getting outside of this system that they're trying to bring in on us. And that's something that is very different that we've never seen before. That's something that there isn't any chart for.

Starting point is 01:56:40 There's no price calculation, any of that. Privacy and being outside of their system is priceless And that's the key thing having something of value that they cannot track They cannot see having a privacy of transactions. That is the key thing. I think Anyway, going back to this guy. He says that there's something going on about the dollar internationally, and that's something that they have to take really seriously. On October 21, L.A. penned an op-ed in the Financial Times arguing that the Western country should pay more attention to the rise in gold prices as its persistent rally reflects increasing

Starting point is 01:57:22 interest and alternatives to the dollar-based financial system." So in other words, what he's saying is this is an indicator that people are losing confidence in what you're doing, right? You should pay attention to this for that reason. And these are the other issues that are out there. Yeah, we go through business cycles and we go through cycles of value of assets and gold has gone through cycles and stuff like that. We've had stagflation and then...

Starting point is 01:57:52 But this is fundamentally different because this is part of completely redesigning a financial system to be replaced by what? Well, to be replaced by a complete surveillance and control system that I want to get out of as much as possible. And so that's why I don't... Just like we talked about, some people, when they started Bitcoin It was going to be as a transactional thing and then they changed it to an asset Started changing it. You know the and Roger Verbe talks about that being the hijacking of Bitcoin and so when you look at gold, I don't see it so much as an asset, but I see it as a Transactional privacy thing outside of the system. So again, if it goes down, I don't really care. If it goes down against the dollar. And if it goes up, that's a bonus. For me, it's a prepping thing.

Starting point is 01:58:43 The current gold price rally, he said, is not just unusual in terms of traditional economic and financial influences, it also surpasses strict geopolitical influences to capture broader phenomenon, which is building in momentum. And it is. Nasdaq correlation and the central bank buying or driving Bitcoin's divergence from gold. This article, they talk about the fact that Bitcoin and gold have been going up, you know, and of course there's variations about that all the time. But for the most part, they've been going up and then all of a sudden things changed

Starting point is 01:59:15 and they diverged and Bitcoin started going down. He says from November 2022 to November 2024, gold and Bitcoin moved in tight correlation with gold gaining 67%, while the more volatile Bitcoin surged nearly 400%. But this relationship appeared to be breaking down in 2025. As of late March, gold has risen 16%, while Bitcoin has fallen by more than 6%. To understand this divergence, it's essential to examine the distinct factors that are influencing each of these assets." And so in that, he's talking about the fact that BlackRock and others have increased their exposure to Bitcoin. They've been buying it, putting it into ETFs and that type of thing. That has pumped it up. What has pumped

Starting point is 02:00:02 up gold is the accumulation of the central banks who have been accumulating it. So that was part of all of that. And then you had the happy news for the crypto people about what Trump was claiming he was going to do. And then it was kind of like a buy the rumor, sell the news type of thing. So it got up to 109,000, Bitcoin did, on the rumor about what Trump was doing,

Starting point is 02:00:28 and then when he started actually talking about what he was going to do, that really kind of crashed it. Guess what he was going to do was not exactly what they expected was going to happen anyway. But it's always the anticipation that's the buildup, and a lot of people say, well, that's as high as it's gonna go,

Starting point is 02:00:44 so let's bail out at this point. And they did. The gold price, that was driven by central bank policies, but it also driven by inflation and especially by uncertainty. And so you might ask, why is the gold price going down the last couple of days?

Starting point is 02:01:01 Well, it's because a lot of people are being forced out, again, for liquidity. A lot of people are forced to sell. Whether it's something they think is a good investment or not, they have to cash out. And this same thing is happening with individuals as well. But if you can hang in there, it's an important thing for privacy. Gold gains could also be coming from Bitcoin's losses in part. The total market capitalization of cryptocurrencies is estimated at about 2.8 trillion. It's pulled money away from the more traditional dollar hedge of gold. Bitcoin was in a period of weakness.

Starting point is 02:01:38 Perhaps investors seeking safety and stability might turn to gold, which has a history spanning thousands of years as being a reliable store of value. So that's part of it as well. Even Germany, the German government, is getting concerned about the tariffs and about the uncertainty and about the rhetoric that is coming out. The capriciousness of Trump is scaring everyone.

Starting point is 02:02:01 So Germany says, well, we've got about 1, 1200 tons of US gold in the New York Fed vault. We should bring that home. They started repatriating their gold a few years ago, and now they've got half of their gold holdings in Germany, and they have some of it stored in New York as well as in France and other places in the London Gold Exchange. They have some of it there. But you've got politicians in Germany saying that it needs to be held by us. And again when we look at what the central banks are doing, when we look at

Starting point is 02:02:46 Germany saying, well, I don't know that I want to trust them to hold my gold, that is something we all need to think about as individuals. You know, we're looking at, even with Bitcoin, you know, do you really want to get an ETF if you have Bitcoin? Do you really want an ETF that's by BlackRock? Do you really want an ETF of gold being held by somebody in Shanghai that claims that they've got the gold behind it? I think you really want the actual thing. So the German government, they're saying a former minister there, previously lobbied to personally inspect the New York gold reserves, did that back in 2012. That was their Fort Knox moment, I guess.

Starting point is 02:03:25 Right? It'd still be interesting to see if Trump or Musk or both of them do a photo op there. But his request was denied. And I thought it was interesting who denied his request. Was it the German government that told this minister you can't do it? Or was it the Fed that told him? Because we had Rand Paul say, you know, I wanted to look at Fort Knox, which is in Kentucky, his state. And he said, no, you can't look at it. So, who knows what is really going on? He said, I demand regular checks of Germany's gold reserves. Official representation of the Bundesbank must personally count the bars and document their results. And now with Trump treating trade deficits as financial crimes or as balances do, because

Starting point is 02:04:11 remember the tariffs are cheating divided by imports, according to Peter DeVaro, while also brow-beating the Federal Reserve to do this bidding, the billions in gold seem more distant and less secure than ever before." So they believe that the US is no longer a reliable partner. Wow, that's pretty amazing. Right now they have the second largest gold reserves after the United States, but of course what has been reported that China owns would dwarf these other reports.

Starting point is 02:04:46 So they've got about 50% of it in Germany, 13% the Bank of England in London, 7% in France, and they're wanting to bring this home, especially from the U.S. The Dow tumbled more than 300 points yesterday with a tariff-induced sell-off. Did you see anything about where it is today? Can you, did you take a look at the market there? Okay, oh there we are, thank you. So right now it's been basically flat, down almost 1% the New York Stock Exchange. So I thought it might be a bigger difference with this back and forth with China with a 104% tariff there, who knows.

Starting point is 02:05:26 But so far it's kind of hanging in there, so we'll see. I don't want to see the stock market crash, I certainly don't want to see the taxes either. So we've seen large drops over the last few days, over four days, the NASDAQ lost 13%. The NASDAQ lost 13% in four days. It was a 2% yesterday. The Dow has lost, let's see, dropped 320 points yesterday, just under a point. So, you know, we'll look at the S&P declined 1.67%. It's down

Starting point is 02:06:07 nearly 19% from the record that it hit in February. The S&P 500 has fallen more than 12%. So 12%, 13%, 19% these major indices are down. And a lot of people say, well, I don't really care how stock market reacts to all this stuff. It's, even if you're not invested in it, it's going to have some knock-on effects. Apple stock was down nearly 23% over the last four trading sessions, and they are desperate to get those iPhones into the country and out of China. The stock market will go down 80% when this is over, says bearish investor Mark Spitznagle. He still believes we haven't entered the main event.

Starting point is 02:06:49 He says the recent stock market plunge is just a trap. As they point out in this article, he is one of Wall Street's most notoriously pessimistic and successful investors. He said the stock market plunge that's followed Trump's tariff rollout isn't the epic one that he has been calling for, but it is turmoil along the way to the big event. He said I expect an 80% crash when this is over. I just don't think that this is it. This is a trap, in other words, to make you think that it's not going to be as bad as he thinks that it's going to be.

Starting point is 02:07:25 So we actually had gold being pulled down as one person attributed it to an equity crash. But again, I don't sit there with a ticker-take looking at these things. I look at the long-term stuff and the long-term trends, and long-term trends are not looking good for the U.S. government's debt, for its dollar, for other things like that. And long-term trends are to try to take away our financial transactional privacy. If you want to try to build some pipes around the side of this system that they're trying to put in place, you can start accumulating that at davidknight.gold.

Starting point is 02:08:03 That'll take you to Tony Ardman's Wise Wolf Gold. And he has a program there where you can start accumulating that at davidknight.gold.com. That'll take you to Tony Arnabin's Wise Wolf Gold. And he has a program there where you can start a savings program. You can set it up for a monthly amount. And they'll take anywhere from, I think, lowest is 50, the highest is 750. Or you can do it as a one-time thing as well. And of course, you can just straight out buy gold or silver from Tony as well. And he has IRAs that are available all of that stuff, but you need to start getting into some diversification away from the people that control the cash and

Starting point is 02:08:36 Want to use the cash to control you in a way that they've never done before of course You know that's why they created the income tax the Federal Reserve was to control you But we're talking about something with a technocracy, of course, that is way, way beyond that. On Rumble, Honor Seeker says, David, if the banks can guarantee our deposits with FDIC, why then can't they guarantee deposits of other nations' gold? If they'll do this to them, they'll sure do it to us. Yeah, I don't trust anything they're doing. I mean, the FDIC stuff is there to try to prevent runs on the banks. And we saw that when Biden's SEC and banking regulators forced a solvent bank to close.

Starting point is 02:09:22 Remember, they paid off every single investor. They didn't even have to use the FDIC. But they forced the closure of three banks simply because they were dealing in crypto. That's how bad the Biden administration was. They can pick something like that, and they can do their best to drive it out of existence. But yeah, I don't trust them at all.

Starting point is 02:09:42 That's why you want to get into something that is on the side. We're going to take a quick break and we will be right back. The The I'm going to be a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a

Starting point is 02:10:58 little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a You're listening to The David Knight Show. Well, we have Trump boasting about his record $1 trillion defense budget. We talked about this earlier. And at the same time, we have a war with Iran that is looming. You know, the peace president. So look, defense is legitimate.

Starting point is 02:11:42 But this national security state that we have, this global empire that they're trying to build, this policing of the world as an empire, that is not legitimate. And it is not only constitutionally illegitimate, but it is going to be financially bankrupting us as well. Again, it is the welfare state and the warfare state. What they're doing in the warfare state is far beyond anything that would be necessary or prudent for defense. Glenn Greenwald, in commenting on this, says that when I said that one day after Israel

Starting point is 02:12:22 murdered a 14-year-old American in the West Bank that Trump would hold Netanyahu's chair for him like a waiter. He said, I was speaking metaphorically because he did it the last time. But yes, he did it again today. Here he is. There's Trump, the waiter, the butler. I guess we could say maybe he's the dumb waiter. But when he's talking about the murder of children that we see happening and the targeting of civilians by the Netanyahu government, as I have said many times. Half of the people in the nation of Israel don't agree with the politics or the war of Netanyahu. There has been, you know, he fired his own Shin Bet security people after they pointed

Starting point is 02:13:18 out that he was culpable in terms of helping to set up Hamas, statements that he made, saying that they wanted Hamas there because they wanted to divide the Palestinians with these two different political parties and they wanted to have a very radical Hamas there so they'd have justification for taking away Gaza. In addition to that, there's now he's facing Cutter Gate because they were giving them money through Cutter. And as all this stuff was happening, as the war kicked off after the October 7th attack, you could see that the leadership of Hamas was safely tucked away and publicly tucked away in these penthouses in Cut and cutter living a life of luxury and

Starting point is 02:14:07 So all for all these reasons when you look at this stuff It's Netanyahu who has always always been pushing to go after Iran Remember when he went before the UN and he put up everybody laughed about it because he put up like this cartoon bomb you know look like the Acme bombs from Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner. You know, there's this bowling ball with a cylinder sticking up and a fuse that is on fire, you know. And that was about the fact that, oh, just within days or weeks or months, Iran was going to have the bomb and that was many years ago. So that is still happening.

Starting point is 02:14:46 And now we see a big massing of stealth bombers by the American government we'll talk about here in a minute. But Trump says that, well, we have to build our military. He says this in the presence of Netanyahu. We have to build our military. We have, and we're very cost-conscious. You notice that, haven't you? I mean, nobody can squeeze a penny like the Pentagon

Starting point is 02:15:06 I mean they watch every cent that is there No, they don't waste money at all But the pen the military says is something that we have to build we have to be strong Because you got a lot of bad forces out there right now And we are very very cost-conscious Okay, so yeah, again, a government that is constantly picking fights everywhere and getting involved in every single conflict around the world is not something that increases our national security but decreases it.

Starting point is 02:15:41 Two months ago Trump floated cutting our military budget in half. He said one of the first meetings I want to have is with President Xi of China, President Putin of Russia, and I want to say let's cut our military budgets in half. Well now we've got a 12% increase. A 12% increase. The trillion dollar budget came as Trump was meeting with Netanyahu and threatening to go to war with Iran. Ironically, the announcement comes as the administration has been aggressively seeking to root out government waste and excessive spending. That looks to continue and the big winner will remain to be the military-industrial

Starting point is 02:16:20 complex even amid a doge administration. Now this is zero-hedge. They want to believe in Musk. They really do. But when you look at this, and we said this before, Musk has completely ignored the military-industrial complex. Why? Well, because he is a part of the military-industrial complex. He is a huge defense contractor. So, Tim Anderson writes, well, add another trillion to the U.S. debt. None of the budget cuts in Washington have reached the Pentagon, which does precisely nothing to defend the U.S., but instead sets up tripwires, sets up people who hate us. And you know when we talk about setting up tripwires and the US military funding wars abroad, starting wars abroad, you know, this is why civilian bombing campaigns never win. Look at this father with his children. Yeah, you look at

Starting point is 02:17:22 Look at this father with his children Yeah, you look at this if you have children or grandchildren, can you imagine if that was your child? It's just horrible to see this happening on both sides and We got to somehow break this Hatfield and McCoy cycle of violence. But what is driving it all is the greed and the geopolitics of people like Trump and Netanyahu. And of course others, you know, the Hamas people as well. They've got their own agendas. And we're the ones who have the dead children in our hands. And when you look at this, this is why these civilian campaigns, bombing campaigns never work.

Starting point is 02:18:07 They galvanize the population. People are rightfully outraged when they see this. And it's going to be blowback. And at some point or the other, it's going to be blowback on Americans. Yeah, this guy, that guy has already got a dead child in his hand and he's shouting. So our geopolitics, is that making America safe? Making us more powerful? No, it is eviscerating us economically and it is making people hate us around the world.

Starting point is 02:18:42 So the Pentagon, as I said before, Musk is not going to take a look at the Pentagon with much scrutiny because he's making a lot of money out of it himself. Pentagon is considering giving SpaceX military missile tracking satellite program. Yeah, he's doing a lot of stuff for them. And he's doing a good job of looking the other way with Doge. So they're going to reward him with this, but they've been rewarding him for quite some time. In the real world, it says, gateway pundit, relevant things are in motion and Musk continues to excel and thrive. Is it really the real world in the Pentagon? I mean, do you really

Starting point is 02:19:20 have to be that competitive? No, you don't. And the money is just flowing everywhere. The Washington Post says that SpaceX is already operating a militarized version of its Starlink network, known as StarShield, used by the Pentagon and intelligence agencies. In a statement, the Air Force and Space Force said they're working with the Office of the Secretary of Defense to quote evaluate all acquisition programs at a time when the Trump administration is looking to cut the Pentagon's budget by 8%. Oh, that didn't happen.

Starting point is 02:19:54 He didn't cut it by 50%. He didn't cut it by 8%. He increased it by 12%. And again, we've seen nothing from Doge about the Pentagon. We can't find anywhere. So I wonder, they said at a time when the Pentagon's budget is going to be decreased by 8%, when is that time? I don't, I've never seen the Pentagon's budget cut by anything like that.

Starting point is 02:20:21 Rarely is it ever cut. Large satellites are vulnerable attacks so the Pentagon is opting for satellite swarms. Satellite swarms. That will be hard to target and will provide redundancy when they are. And you know this whole thing about swarms. That is, as Whistler said, nothing good ever comes in a swarm. That's especially true when we're talking about drones and things like that. An excellent book. I've mentioned it many times by Daniel Suarez, Kill Decision. And it's about drone swarming as being this weapon that takes out all kinds of systems, including aircraft carriers and traditional stuff. And he wrote this, what, I guess Travis, about a decade or more ago.

Starting point is 02:21:07 And we've already seen in Ukraine these tanks that cost $10 million taken out by very, very cheap drones. We've seen the people in Yemen, now they're not using drones or swarms of drones or anything like that. But we have seen them be able to take out multiple MQ-9, I think it is, Reapers, the Reaper things that cost $30 million a piece. There's the book, Daniel Suarez, Kill Decision. The missile warning system is expected to have between 300 to 500 satellites in low Earth orbit. But meanwhile, the Pentagon is preparing for Trump to go berserk.

Starting point is 02:21:44 Yeah, a berserker They have an unprecedented number of B2 bombers that have amassed for a strike against Iran They're right on the cusp of this. I wouldn't be surprised if they're waiting for Netanyahu to return and then kick this thing off They've got six B2 Spirit aircraft there at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. It's a very small island. It's basically just a big aircraft landing strip. They call it aircraft carrier that is unsinkable because it's an island. And it's just basically they've used it as a giant runway. The long range bombers which are uniquely suited to evade Iranian air defenses and can carry America's most potent bunker busting weapons flew in from Missouri last week in a little-noticed operation. So Trump has said

Starting point is 02:22:37 hell will rain down on the country. There you go and that that makes us safer doesn't it? How did Iran get to this radical Islamic thing? Oh, that was our CIA and our foreign policy and our other wars that were there. Our foreign policy has been a disaster. Our wars, our asymmetric wars, have been lost. So doing a deal would be preferable to doing the obvious, he said. And so that means a massive strike. I think there's also the wag the dog thing, like Clinton did.

Starting point is 02:23:15 As he was having his Monica Lewinsky issues, he did the wag the dog. That's why, you know, when you look at the script of that, it's very clever. They know exactly what is going on. So yeah, if he's having something difficult political time, well, let's have a distraction. Let's have a war abroad. And nobody will pay attention really to what's going on with me. And I think we've had for the last couple of months, Trump began with a wag the doge, right? Take a look at the doge thing and you know, I'll pay attention to these other things that I'm

Starting point is 02:23:51 doing and now if we're going to have issues with these tariffs and other things like that, it'd be the perfect opportunity for him to get everybody's attention focused on a war abroad with Iran. That'll definitely whip any remaining doubts of the MAGA people that they have about these raised taxes. That'll get rid of them right away if he starts a conflict with that. So I think it is very likely that he's going to do something with Iran besides just flying these B-2 bombers over there. Now, some of the people, retired Air Force Brigadier General Blaine Holt, has said that, to my knowledge, this is the largest B-2 deployment to a foreign location. Actually, that's Hans Christensen, who's director of the National Nuclear Project, the Federation of American Scientists.

Starting point is 02:24:40 The Brigadier General Holt said, well, all these bombers are not in hangars. They put them out there to be seen by satellites to be photographed. The idea is, do you see our sword? In other words, this is being done as a deterrent? Well, I don't know. I kind of think that just like when we talked about the tariffs, Trump's tariffism was on its way. He was not there as a negotiating tactic. He really wanted those tariffs.

Starting point is 02:25:11 He really wanted tariffism. And I think he wants terrorism now. I think he wants a war now. And I think he wants it for obvious reasons, to make him to consolidate people behind him. That helped Netanyahu quite a bit. But now that he's fired the people who reported on him, he's fired his attorney general, he's in conflict with the Supreme Court, and you've got a lot of people there saying, well, even with a war going, which

Starting point is 02:25:36 usually solidifies support around the leader, that's not happening there. So At least one party is not supposed to notice however, that is the American people the Pentagon Has refused to acknowledge that the deployment is going on. So there's not gonna be any debate about this There's not gonna be any vote on this Trump will do whatever he wishes You know, how many ways are we going to have the president become a dictator? And everybody just abdicates their power to the presidency and to the bureaucracy that is under the presidency. So the war between US and Iran has never been closer, says the next

Starting point is 02:26:19 UK ambassador. And Sir Richard Dalton described the situation as the most dangerous that it has ever been. He said the Americans appear to want a very rapid progress towards a surrender by Iran on three fronts. Iran however is not in the market for a surrender and they would be in the market for serious negotiation but not for surrender. He warned, if they have discounted Iran's capacity to retaliate, I believe they are making a big mistake.

Starting point is 02:26:53 Missiles and drones would be directed against American facilities in the region. It would cause massive disruption of oil trade out of the Gulf. It might mean what was intended to be short, sharp strike turns into a protracted conflict You know we tend to think of Iran and Iraq because we mentioned them both in the same language They were fighting each other at one point in time But they're not mirror images of each other Iran is much much much bigger Geographically with population with development than Iraq is, if we could not subdue and control Iraq, what do you think is going to happen with Iran?

Starting point is 02:27:32 Maria Zakharova from the Russian Foreign Ministry said, �The use of military force by Iran�s opponents in the context of the settlement is illegal and unacceptable. Threats from outside to bomb nuclear infrastructure facilities will inevitably lead to an irreversible global catastrophe. These threats are simply unacceptable." And of course, just as we see with the bombing of civilians, this push to shut down the Iranian nuclear program. And we've seen assassinations of nuclear scientists there in Iran. You would have a massade. Others would do these assassinations, a drive-up in some cases.

Starting point is 02:28:20 There's been incidents, one of them. They have a magnetic bomb. They drive up beside this car, the person is in and throw the bomb on the side of the car and speed off with the motorcycle and boom, the car goes up. They've targeted scientists and others and that has not stopped them, that has not demoralized them. It's kind of like our drug war, right?

Starting point is 02:28:42 Fentanyl is evil. It's horrible. And we wind up getting drugs like fentanyl and other things like that, more intense forms of whatever it is that we're trying to prohibit. Maybe we should stop trying to do the same thing over and over again and hope for different results. But now you've got the Trump administration

Starting point is 02:29:03 talking about doing drone strikes in Mexico against the cartels. The drug war has never been effective. We've run it for fifty some odd years. It is a UN agenda. It was the UN that came up with the four schedules for drugs. And just like alcohol prohibition, it never worked. What it did was it corrupted police, it corrupted courts, it destroyed the rule of law and addiction continued to go up. And just like with alcohol prohibition, we got more intense forms of the things that we're trying to prohibit. Same thing is happening in our foreign policy with Iran. And now the drug war looks like they want to now take this into a literal hot war. These cartels that they have created have become vast, dangerous, ruthless criminal enterprises that they have given a monopoly to, a very lucrative

Starting point is 02:30:01 monopoly on this. And the way they compete with each other is cutting off people's heads and hanging the bodies from overpasses and things like that. So with or without the cooperation of the Mexican government, this administration is talking about doing covert action with drones. They said, unilateral covert action without Mexico's consent has not been ruled out. And it could be an option of last resort," said administration sources.

Starting point is 02:30:27 It is unclear whether American officials have floated the possibility of drone strikes to the American government. Have we even asked them? Who cares, right? We do whatever we want. And it's that kind of hubris, arrogance, and pride that has undermined all of our foreign policy. Well, we've got some comments here before we go to break. On Rumble, Jim Z7, thank you for the tip. that has undermined all of our foreign policy.

Starting point is 02:30:45 Well, we got some comments here before we go to break on Rumble. Jim Z7, thank you for the tip. He says, every time he says something his handlers don't like, they remind him the Epstein list can go out if you don't do as I say. Yeah, yeah, that is always there, isn't it? They like to have people that are blackmailable

Starting point is 02:31:02 and you know that Donald Trump, with his, as he hung out with Jeffrey Epstein for a decade their best friends Uh, you know, he's got The FBI Uh, it's not just jagger hoover that's got the files on everybody blackmailing everybody You know, there's plenty of people got blackmail files on him on kick nights of the storm. Thank you very much and um, also on kick they write the storm. Thank you very much and Also on kick they write it's they have subscribed

Starting point is 02:31:30 They write it's been clear They're going to instigate a war with Iran get ready for some massive fear porn in the mainstream media over Iran You know, you're absolutely right by the way nights of the storm Look for them on Twitter. And if you go to nights of storm, one of the things I really like that they do, they've got like a programming guide of places where you can hear a lot of like-minded people, people who will tell you what they believe is true. That's one of the best things. You don't have to agree with everybody on everything, but if somebody's going to give you an honest opinion and they're not trying to grift you, you know, tell you what you want to hear so they can succeed economically. That's the key thing. So they got a long list of people there, you know, people like Gard Goldsmith who has Liberty Conspiracy every evening. And again, they broadcast on Twitter. They were on Rockfan. I don't know if they're still on Rockfan or not, but you can look at that scheduling,

Starting point is 02:32:22 see where the people are. That's one of the things Rockfan started shutting down some of the smaller channels or independent channels. And that was a concern as well. So that's why we started moving things over to Kick. But I don't think Kick takes any tips, do they? Do they take tips on Kick? You have to set it up to a third party, but I think Jason and Angry Tiger

Starting point is 02:32:43 are gonna be moving over to Kick as well, so you'll be able to find them there soon Good. Well, that'd be good. Yeah, I think it's a really good platform for live streams except for the tip stuff But they don't take a tip and we'll have to just see what happens if they're going to censor or not. You never know never know with anybody out rumble is pushing pretty hard for free speech. Odyssey is. And Rumble has got a court case going on with the Canadian government that's trying to come after them. So they're fighting for free speech. And that's good news.

Starting point is 02:33:16 We're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back. The You're listening to the David Knight Show. All right. We have, this is good. We've had the Tennessee Star, and I think they're out of Nashville. They've been all over this Nashville school shooting. The transgender woman who was filled with hate, Audrey Hale, she attacked this Christian school, killed six people, several of them, nine-year-olds that she shot them in the face, face-to-face with them and shot those nine-year-olds. I just don't know how anybody can be filled with that kind of hate to do something like

Starting point is 02:34:47 that. But if you look at her diary, you can see it there. And so the Tennessee Star had been fighting and suing to try to get that diary released, and the Nashville Police Department would not release it. Somebody within the Nashville Police Department leaked a good deal of it to the the Tennessee Star and they did a lot of reports about what she had written and then the Nashville Police Department released their assessment finally and it said well her motivation was notoriety end of story They never referred to her as being transgender

Starting point is 02:35:28 They the people of Tennessee Star said how in the world can you miss the fact that she referred to it so constantly in her manifesto and you just completely throw that out? Then we had, it was the FBI that was also withholding this stuff and pushing back on it. Cash Patel just released all of it, and it truly is amazing. It's even beyond what we had expected. She wanted to kill all the white kids, she said, in her newly released diary entries. She slammed white privilege, women, and Christianity. We knew that she had an issue with Christianity because she had attended that school briefly

Starting point is 02:36:03 as a Christian school, and she wanted to go back there. She put things like this, being white sucks, but being black is so cool. Black people should rule. White people should fall. Every white person who lived and died, I hate you all, she said. Well, again, where did she get these ideas? Ah, from school. It's not enough to not be racist, right? Just treat people equally. No, you have to be anti-racist, which means that you have to be racist against white people. That's what they push. That's why there was such an outrage when some of these 4chan people said, hey, this

Starting point is 02:36:41 will be fun. Let's go to some of these colleges on Halloween when we can wear masks. This is before the lockdown. Let's put signs up that say it's okay to be white and watch them freak out. And boy, did they freak out. It's not okay to be white. White people have to be killed. And notice that this is all, she hates women as well. Notice how the educational system had instilled all of this self-loathing in her. She hated herself because of her sex. She hated herself because of her skin color. This is the result of DEI and of CRT, Critical Race Theory.

Starting point is 02:37:20 That's what this is about. And this is the heart. It truly, and I mean, not just the center, but it is the heart, the emotional center, the motivation of our modern school systems. She said, I hate the American people. America's not a land of the free. It's full of idiots. It'll only get worse in this country.

Starting point is 02:37:39 Not near enough gods like me. Gods like me. She put near enough, not like me. Gods like me. Should put near enough, not nearly enough anyway. I don't want to be a grammar Nazi, but you know. By the way, you misspelled, you're making death threats to everybody. You misspelled that word there. But look. Manifestos have really gone down in quality as the years have gone on.

Starting point is 02:38:05 That's all I'm saying. Yeah, when you compare it to the Unabomber, yeah, it is not the Unabomber's manifesto. There's nothing at all in there of any intelligence. But look, take your kids out of the government school. This is what they want to create. This is exactly what they're pushing for. And we know the reason that they're pushing for this to make people like this. So it was Cash Patel who published the manifesto.

Starting point is 02:38:31 I'm glad to see that happening. And it was the FBI, the Nashville Police Department trying to cover this up. Of course, one person in the Nashville Police Department, as I said, leaked it to the press and they were able to show some of it. But now we've got a lot more. Kill all the white kids, kill my own race, female pronouns make me feel like I wanna die. Growing radicalization that we can see inside the trans movement. But it's not the trans movement folks is the government schools.

Starting point is 02:39:02 Yes it also involves the entertainment media, but look, the schools are the ones who are pushing and pushing and pushing this, and it's our government in many states that are pushing this stuff. You have to understand where this is coming from. So, they'd gotten about 80 or 90 pages of a manifesto, but Cash Patel released a thousand pages of it and so we can see now why the hatred that was involved there I still don't understand how anybody could look a nine-year-old in the face and pull the trigger the Nashville Police Department admitted key aspects of her beliefs and its recently released report it was absolutely a dodge, but again, Cash Patel released it, so that's good.

Starting point is 02:39:49 Meanwhile, in terms of our ability to protect ourselves from people like this, to be able to protect yourself, to be able to protect your family, that is being undermined by the Supreme Court. The New York gun restrictions are going to remain as the Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to them. They're leaving restrictions in place on concealed carry licenses and firearm bans in sensitive locations. Well, what would sensitive locations be? Well, it'd be places like churches and schools, you know, so it leaves, has a firearm ban in New York.

Starting point is 02:40:26 So if you had a Christian school in New York, maybe in upstate New York, the rest of New York is not like New York City, because New York City, they'd just be hypothetical, I guess. But if you have a church or a school or something, you're not allowed to protect yourself. Healthcare facilities, entertainment venues, parks, other public places. Go at your own risk to these gun-free zones because you are a sitting target for somebody who wants to murder people. Do you think they care about gun restrictions with that?

Starting point is 02:41:03 Of course not. The Supreme Court has denied hearing this case. They said, we're challenging the people who put it up and said, we're challenging New York's unconstitutional good moral character requirements to carry a firearm. Well, that should stop people like her. Sorry, you can't have a firearm if you're not good moral character. In other words, you hate people because they're white, you hate Christians, and you hate women. I don't think you've got the kind of character of a person that should have a gun.

Starting point is 02:41:32 So I guess that fixes it, right? No. No. A person who is not a good moral character really doesn't care what your laws are. And we know that's going to be subjectively determined by the people in New York as to whether or not, you know, you are the kind of character that they want. The decision leaves in place an October ruling by the New York-based Second Circuit Court of Appeals. This is the third time the Supreme Court has rejected an appeal of this case,

Starting point is 02:42:03 effectively upholding a lower court's decision that found most restrictions were constitutional." Oh, okay. So the lower court says that these restrictions are constitutional. I think another word for that is infringement, right? The infringements are constitutional, says the court. Where did that shall not go? Shall not be infringed?

Starting point is 02:42:29 Last month the Supreme Court also upheld a Biden-era rule regulating so-called ghost guns. And understand that this is largely Trump's court. You know, the people who are pushing back against this are going to be reliably going to be Clarence Thomas and Alito The people that Trump appointed are not reliable at all with the Constitution Lawmakers are proposing ending taxpayer subsidies for sports stadiums

Starting point is 02:43:00 Now this is interesting. Did you know that the federal government is subsidizing sports stadiums as well? I Talked about this about 12 years ago Did reports at info wars talking about how outrageous these? Outrageously expensive these sports stadiums were and how we were always told. Oh, don't pay attention to the price tag It's great for the economy and all it's great, it's great for the egos, the politicians who put it in there, and it's great for their careers because, you know, they always get kickbacks on this kind of stuff. That's the reality of it, whether they get caught or not. But there's also now federal money that is going into these projects. It's not just local taxpayers that are getting ripped off. It's federally done. And so there

Starting point is 02:43:44 is a bill. It's a bipartisan bill, Republicans and Democrats, I say Cory Booker's name is there, he's the guy who just gave a speech for 25 hours. I don't know that he had that much to say for 25 hours. And he didn't have to go to the bathroom either, I guess. I guess it just depends on what he was wearing. But he stood there for the entire time. He didn't have to go to the bathroom either, I guess. I guess it just depends on what he was wearing. But he stood there for the entire time.

Starting point is 02:44:09 And he wasn't dehydrated either. I don't know what was going on with it. But anyway, he's part of the group. We've got two Republicans, two Democrats, are calling for the end of taxpayer subsidies to build professional sports complexes. The No Tax Subsidies for Stadiums Act would terminate the ability for professional sporting teams to utilize tax-exempt municipal bonds to finance the construction of stadiums. The lawmakers argue that the tax exemptions were originally intended to help local governments

Starting point is 02:44:39 fund essential public infrastructure projects, things like hospitals, schools and roads. Instead, what they're using it is to build palaces for their friends. And they say, oh, we're not going to give you a federal tax exemption for that kind of stuff. The legislators claim that this, quote, loophole has enabled wealthy sports franchisor owners to benefit from taxpayer dollars, often with little measurable economic return to the surrounding communities." That's, again, the thing that always bothered me. It's going to bring so much money to the area.

Starting point is 02:45:13 It's like, no, what about the businesses and the people that you're taking the money from? Do they count at all? You're giving money to billionaires so they can build a stadium so we can go watch millionaires play a child sport and When I first started talking about this They were talking about you know a hundred million dollars what now they're over billions of dollars so they said that just the tax exemption That they were given federal

Starting point is 02:45:44 Amounted to four point.3 billion and lost federal revenue. So it's pretty big business. By the way, we're talking about Tesla and how it's been attacked in so many different places and he's become a political target. The cyber trucks are an interesting story in and of themselves. Tesla is setting on thousands of unsold cyber trucks. And it won't even, if you want to get a different Tesla, for example, not the fact that you're worried that some idiot's gonna, and this happened to a pregnant woman,

Starting point is 02:46:19 throw a brick or a rock through the window and injured a pregnant woman simply because she was driving a Tesla. Another example, it was a woman who is in a wheelchair and somebody vandalized her car. Just idiotic what people are doing. And again, harming people because they own the... That's even beyond the lunacy and the criminality of fire bombing a Tesla dealership or some of the charging stations. But so some of the people who are trying to get rid of their cyber truck, they would like to trade it in on a different Tesla model. And guess what?

Starting point is 02:46:56 Tesla will not accept a cyber truck and trade for another Tesla model. What does that tell you? Many people have talked about what a horribly made car this is, a truck, and how the body panels are falling off as people are driving down the road or this or that are happening or the bricks, you know, right after you drive it off a lot. Despite producing the Tesla Model Y, which is the most popular car on the planet last year, Tesla has had a rough time so far in 2025. They faced these protests and everything, and though the company has previously declared

Starting point is 02:47:32 that there were over a million Cybertruck pre-orders, Tesla can't find buyers for the current backlog of nearly 2,400 Cybertrucks, which is about $200 million worth of inventory. Not only that, but Tesla is allegedly refusing to accept its own Cybertrucks as trade-ins since it can't sell them, and is reportedly even forcing owners to use lemon laws on their cars instead. They said the most recent Cy cyber truck recall affected almost every unit sold and in the process it revealed the number of cyber trucks that Tesla had sold and that's only 46,000. So how did that happen? Did Elon Musk lie to people?

Starting point is 02:48:23 He said he had a million pre-orders. And yet, it's been out for, what, a year or two? And in that period of time, he has only sold 46,000. So that's less than 5% of what he had to say. I guess 95% of the people walked away from their pre-order stuff. Many Cybertruck owners reportedly are trying to trade in the truck for a new vehicle. They were told that the automaker, Tesla, currently doesn't accept its own vehicle as a trade-in.

Starting point is 02:48:54 Some owners who have had their trucks in service for extended periods of time are also trying to get Tesla to take the truck back, but the company is forcing them to go through the lemon law process. back, but the company is forcing them to go through the lemon law process. Used Cybertruck prices are down 55% year over year. That's pretty amazing. That is pretty amazing. And that's a very expensive car, a truck, you know. It's over 100 grand. You lost $55,000 on that car in just one year.

Starting point is 02:49:25 That's the kind of depreciation. I think I've ever seen that before in any other car. 13% of the depreciation over the last three months, 6% over the last month alone. Tesla doesn't take the cyber truck as a trade in and other used car dealers now are reticent also about buying the vehicle. Uh, so again, maybe, you know, Trump and all the Republican congressmen can buy

Starting point is 02:49:52 one, uh, just to show their loyalty to Trump and I'm sure they can afford it because even though their salary is something like 150,000 or something, I think all wine, most of them, I should say, not not all of them most of them wind up becoming multi-millionaires Somehow I don't know must said he was going to investigate that he's not gonna investigate the Pentagon But he I would like to see him investigate that anyway we talked about this in the past the moves that are being made and Panama back and forth and So you have this Hong Kong corporation they're going back to late 90s,

Starting point is 02:50:29 was allowed to buy a couple of ports on either side, the CK company and CK Hutchinson. And now Panama is upping the ante against them. So Trump says we want it and we want these ports and I want BlackRock to be able to buy them. The Panamanian government started a process of investigating them with essentially its IRS or whatever. We now see the fruit of that investigation, but that was there to pressure them to sell, I believe. And they agreed to sell.

Starting point is 02:51:06 They said, oh yeah, that's fine, we'll sell it, and we've got to put together a big deal with BlackRock, and we're going to give them a bunch of assets, and it'll include these two ports as well. The Chinese government then came in and said, no, we're going to investigate you for antitrust. Well, they're caught between a rock and a hard place, aren't they? You've got to feel sorry for this company there. They are going to be investigated by Panama at the—I'm sure they're being pushed to do that by the Trump administration.

Starting point is 02:51:36 So they've got actually criminal charges against the Chinese-linked canal port owner. Criminal charges for a breach of contract to try to twist their arm to get them to sell. Meanwhile, the Chinese government says, we are going to investigate you for antitrust violations. So Hutchinson Port Holdings, accusations of breach of contract over two ports that it manages at the Panama Canal. And they said they're accusing them of misrepresenting financial figures.

Starting point is 02:52:11 They're filing criminal lawsuits against the company's board. This is more lawfare escalation at the behest of Trump and also lawfare from China on both sides of this. Panama Ports Company had signed a contract with them in 1997 that granted them a 25-year concession to develop and administer two ports. Local authorities renewed the contract for an additional 25-year period in 2021 as per the terms of the original 1997 agreement. Now why would they do that? I Mean, they must have been happy before Trump began the pressure campaign on them

Starting point is 02:52:51 But that's where they are right now When we look at What is happening with all of this inflation stuff. As the Wall Street Journal said, when Trump said, this is a couple of days ago, he said, I really couldn't care less what is going to happen with this, right, if the car manufacturers raise prices. And they said, well, that's a winning slogan for the Democrats to use against them.

Starting point is 02:53:24 And he just keeps giving them more when he comes out and he says, yeah, I don't care about the car prices. He says, just take your medicine. This is going to be painful, but it's going to be worth it. Boy, I can just see the highlight reels of that stuff coming out. Do you think he's going to get a third term? Are people going to want him for a third term? He thinks that everybody loves him so much, that he's gonna get a third term, and you know the New American talked about that, and you

Starting point is 02:53:53 know, we have term limits is one of the things that the conservatives were always pushing for a constitutional convention. You know, people like Mark Levin and others, you know, his liberty amendments, very dangerous idea. I don't agree with the Constitutional Convention. The New American absolutely doesn't agree with it. They have recognized how dangerous that is. But always one of the issues that they would have for a Constitutional Convention, the conservatives would push term limits. They said they don't want term limits for Trump. It's amazing how he just cast this spell of delusion over people. The people who always said, taxes are bad, now taxes are good, now taxes are how we get

Starting point is 02:54:35 prosperous. No, that wasn't what happened in the 1800s. You had people who always said, well, I don't like the income tax, let's do some other kind of tax. But then they would always pull back and say, wait a minute, we're gonna wind up with both of them. Now, they don't care because it's Trump. And they don't care about term limits because it's Trump. Take the term limits off.

Starting point is 02:54:53 Or we'll find a way to finagle around them. As the New American says, the founding fathers like George Washington set the example, the gold standard, like Cincinnati and the Roman Empire, he went back to his farm, went back to the plow. And King George said, he is the greatest man. In other words, he had the ring of power. And he cast it into the fire. Yeah, George Washington was our Frodo. He didn't lose a finger in it as well.

Starting point is 02:55:26 So the fact that you had that moral precedent was broken by FDR. So in 1951, they decided that they would stop the idea of multiple terms like that. And so we've talked about this before. Will the vice presidency be a loophole? And you know, Trump was asked about that. He said, no, I'm serious about a third term.

Starting point is 02:55:48 I said, well, would you have a situation where J.D. Vance would run as president? He would be his running mate. And then as soon as he wins, he says, well, thank you very much. I'm stepping down. And now you become president. He goes, well, that would be one way to do it. There's other ways to do it. Well, it turns out that that is not a way to do it. There's other ways to do it. Well, it turns out that that is not a way to do it.

Starting point is 02:56:06 You could not do it that way. As the New American points out, and it's important to remember this, the Constitution specifies that you cannot be the Vice President unless you are qualified on your own to run. Well, if he's not qualified to run at the top of the ticket, he's also not constitutionally qualified to be at the bottom of the ticket either.

Starting point is 02:56:29 So, so much for that. And yet, there still is talk about a constitutional convention. The 12th Amendment says, no person constitutionally ineligible for the office of president shall be eligible to that of the vice president of the U.S. So that vice presidential loophole is shut down. But then, of course, they could try to amend the Constitution, 22nd Amendment. That's not easy to do.

Starting point is 02:56:55 So they could always just ignore it. Just like they ignored the 18th Amendment and the 21st Amendment, the fact that you had to have a prohibition of alcohol required a constitutional amendment, they just ignored that, they did their own thing. When they wanted to prohibit other drugs, they just completely ignored the Constitution. They claimed they had the authority under the Commerce Clause to do whatever they wanted. And so, again, you just, if you don't like the Constitution, you don't have to amend it. You can just ignore it.

Starting point is 02:57:28 Trump is ignoring it left and right. If conservatives truly believe in the restraint of government power, they have to defend the 22nd Amendment, says the new American. But I don't think they truly believe in the restraint of government power. They don't believe in the restraint of the size of government or the scope of government. They're out there cheering this massive increase in spending on the Pentagon side. They're cheering an increase in taxes on the tariffs side. The New American says we must not become enamored, so enamored, of a political leader that we abandon the very structure designed

Starting point is 02:58:02 to keep tyranny at bay. The 22nd Amendment is not an obstacle to greatness, it is a guardian of liberty. We must be the first to reject any effort to undermine the term limit on the presidency. Whether through legal gymnastics, legislative trickery, or puppet regimes, any attempt to return a twice-elected president to power must be met with swift and vocal opposition History will not forgive those who stood by silently while the constitutional floodgates were battered open Good for the new American. They're back. You know, they were starting to check out on this Trump Train and I'm glad to see that they have now returned to stand strongly on their principles as well. So good for them. I agree with them. When we're talking about

Starting point is 02:58:50 hate crimes, interestingly enough, South Africa's highest court, essentially their Supreme Court, has denied that the chant, kill the boar, is hate speech. It's basically kill the white farmer, that's what they're saying. And they chant it at the Marxist rallies that they have. And look, you know, this is not, this is the ANC that is there, the Marxists that are there, the Zulus are not on their side. The Zulus are really more on the side of the Boers, according to the people that I've talked to out of South Africa. And they say, kill the Boer, kill the white man is not hate speech. Yeah, there we go. Okay, well, we're at the end of the program.

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The David Knight Show - Wed Episode #1987: Wag the DOGE - War with Iran; Panama War Between Trump & China; Jesus Wrestles Flesh & Blook in Church

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