The David Knight Show - Wed Episode #2234: From War to Withdrawal: The Crisis Unfolds

Episode Date: April 1, 2026

──────────────────────────────────────── [00:00:59] Trump Announces He's Leaving the Strait of Hormuz to Iran — Declaring Victory While Running Away Trump told aides a mission to forcibly reopen the Strait would exceed his four-to-six week timeline, signaling he will exit the war while Iran retains control and begins collecting tolls — leaving the global energy crisis entirely unresolved. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:02:52] France, Spain, and Italy All Blocking US Military Use of Their Territory for the Iran War Spain opposed the war on moral grounds, France blocked US military supply flights over its airspace, and Italy denied basing rights to US bombers — while Hegseth and Rubio publicly begged allies for help in a war the US chose and started. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:21:30] Trump's "Victory": Iran's Navy Was Seven Frigates and Some Speedboats Trump claimed military success by destroying Iran's navy, which consisted of seven frigates and fast speedboats. Iran's missiles remain active, having forced the US to expend interceptor stockpiles defending against ongoing strikes. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:43:58] Laura Ingraham Admits on Fox: 80% of EU's LNG Passes Through Strait — Only 2% of US Oil Does Even Fox News conceded that the US launched a war whose worst energy consequences fall almost entirely on European allies, who now receive lectures from Trump to "go get your own oil" after he shut down the waterway they depend on. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:53:07] Trump Promised to Eliminate the $19 Trillion Debt in Eight Years — It Has Since Doubled Ten years ago Trump told the Washington Post he would eliminate the national debt fairly quickly. He is personally responsible for 27% of the now nearly $40 trillion debt, having added more than the total debt when he first made that promise. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:59:32] Airlines in Crisis: Jet Fuel Has More Than Doubled — United Faces $11B Extra Cost on a $5B Best Year United, Delta, and American Airlines each report ~$400M in added fuel costs in March alone. SAS canceled 1,000 April flights. Analysts warn oil could hit $200 per barrel if the war extends into summer — a 40% probability scenario. ──────────────────────────────────────── [01:06:03] If Trump Bombs Iran's Infrastructure on Exit, Iran Will Destroy All Gulf Oil States Iran has explicitly warned that any strike on its electricity infrastructure will trigger attacks on refineries, power plants, and desalination facilities across Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, and Kuwait — meaning Trump's "parting shot" threats would ignite the entire Gulf energy complex. ──────────────────────────────────────── [01:21:29] Chicago Bulls Cut NBA Player Within an Hour of Him Publicly Opposing Pride Month Jaden Ivey was waived within an hour of posting Christian objections to Pride Month, labeled "detrimental to the team" — while NBA players convicted of assaults, DUIs, and gun charges routinely keep their positions. ──────────────────────────────────────── [01:25:01] Canada Passes Bill Making Bible Quotation a Potential Hate Crime With Life Sentence Canada's House of Commons passed Bill C-9, removing religious exemptions and allowing life sentences for expressions deemed hateful — with a Liberal MP explicitly citing Leviticus, Deuteronomy, and Romans as constituting clear hatred. ──────────────────────────────────────── [01:38:20] Supreme Court Strikes Down Conversion Therapy Bans 8-1 — Law Was Targeting Christian Counselors The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that Colorado's conversion therapy ban violated the First Amendment. 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in a world of deceit. Telling the truth is a revolutionary act. It's the David Knight Show. As a clock strikes 13, it's Wednesday, the first of April, April Fool's Day, 2026. And is it April fools when Trump says, I'm just going to leave? And you guys can sort out the Strait of Hormuz on your own. Get your own gas on oil.

We'll take a look at this. I mean, he has brought the troops in. Is this another hoax like his peace talks? A bit of treachery trying to catch people off guard? He does say that he's still going to bomb Iran back into the stone ages. That's why he put it ages. I wonder how many stone ages we've had. Yeah, he's pure evil.

But what he's doing is in line with Beebe's desire to have a greater Israel. And this victory will leave the strait of Hormuz and the hands of Iran to charge tolls that were never charged before. But, you know, when you look at Trump, he is the ugly American, isn't he? But we're also going to take a look at some bimbo eruptions that have happened in the Trump regime. And the bimbo is Christy Knoem's husband. And the march is on to serve. Censor Christianity as the Chicago Bulls engage in pure censorship and punishment of a guy over the Bible. And the Canadian government is criminalizing the Bible.

So we're going to look at all of that, but I want to thank everybody yesterday for the money bomb, especially I'm Marty for getting the ball rolling. We went from 71% to just over 90%. And so I really want to thank everybody for the contributions. I know things have gotten more expensive. we're living in uncertain times and so I understand that. And yet we had the same people supporting us as always. So thank you so much.

And a few new supporters as well. So I'm going to thank all of you. We have moved the gas gauge up and we'll leave it there for today. But look at the list of countries that are denying the U.S. military access. Of course, we've had Spain and the Spain prime minister was very outspoken against it. he said we have to oppose this kind of immoral, illegal war, and he's not even talking about the Constitution. He's talking about it from the standpoint of morality and even international law. Everybody understands that if you are the aggressor, if you start the war, you're in the

wrong. So France has also done this. France, on Tuesday yesterday, Trump criticized France because it refused to allow planes that were loaded up with military supplies headed to Israel, refused to allow them to fly over French territory. He's very unhelpful. As a matter of fact, Pete is very concerned about the fact they're not getting help. And yet, this is the guy who boasts about how almighty and powerful his military is all the time, to the point that it is beyond disgusting. it is an atheistic plea.

This guy is not Christian folks. Pete Hegseth, what he is doing is not Christian. It is the antithesis of Christianity. And as far as NATO's concerned, that's a decision that will be left to the president, but I'll just say a lot has been laid bare. A lot has been shown to the world about what our allies would be willing to do for the United States of America. And you've shown what you are as well.

...effort of this scope on behalf of the free world. These are missiles. Yeah, right. They don't even range the United States of America. They range allies and others. And yet when we ask for additional assistance or simple access spacing and overflight, we get questions or roadblocks or hesitations. And the president's pointing out, you don't have much of an alliance if you have countries that are not willing to stand with you and you need them. He's simply pointing that out.

You need them? And ultimately it'll be his. I thought you were self-sufficient and almighty. Yeah. Well, Rubio is basically. saying the same thing. Please help. We're winning, right? We're indestructible. There's no way that we can lose, but we need your help. You're not going to give us help? Oh, well, there'll be punishment for that. Mr. Secretary, are you going to ask G7 to help with the Strait of Burmose? Well, it's in their interest

to help. The other countries get far more of their fuel from there than we do. So, but what kind of help are you going to ask? Is it wine, mafewers, naval help? Well, those specifics, I'll leave it to the Department of War as to exactly what. but it's in their interest. It's in their national interest. Do you think President Trump criticizing NATO this morning, that sentiment? I think he just made an observation, and the observation is that the United States is constantly being asked to help in a war, and we have more than any other country in the world on a war that's happening in another continent in Ukraine.

A war that's happening. It's not a war that we started. Get positive responses. So right now he's just making the observation that, you know, I think it was a couple of the leaders in Europe who said that this was not Europe's war. Well, Ukraine is not America's war, and yet we've contributed more to that fight than any other country in the world. So it'll be something to examine. The president don't have to take into account down the road. Yeah, what they don't seem to acknowledge or understand is that this is a war that we started. It's a war that we chose. It's a war of our aggression. And so it's not just Spain. It's not just France. It's also Italy.

Italy denied landing rights to several U.S. bombers on a base in eastern Sicily. The flight plans were submitted while the aircraft were en route and were not authorized by the Italy's military. The move stops short of closing Italian airspace to all U.S. military aircraft. And they said, no, you're not going to use this for your bombers as you have decided that you are going to bomb Iran back into the Stone Age. So do we need help? Do we need allies? Do we need ammunition? Do we need oil in the strategic petroleum reserve? Ah, no, just forget all that.

We're all mighty. We're the United States. All right. I think we are back now. Is that correct, Travis? We had some issues apparently with the router. We're trying to get that out of the loop and trying to go hardwired here, but that hasn't happened yet. I was talking about the outrage from Trump, Rubio, and Pete Heggseth, about the fact that we're not getting help from our allies in a war that we chose. a war of aggression that we started. And they demand loyalty, nevertheless, just as they demand loyalty from their own troops, their own soldiers, their own sailors.

And this is the amazing thing. Here's a message from the past. This is during Vietnam. And a reporter asked a soldier, if you got a message for the future, what would you tell people? 69, a young American soldier in Vietnam was asked to send one message 50 years into the future, and he didn't hesitate to speak the truth. If you could send one message to Americans 50 years in the future, what would it be?

Don't send your son to finish where politicians start. That's right. And I would say that to other countries. Don't send your soldiers and sailors to finish what Trump has started, a war that he has started. And of course, we have, this message has resonated many times. This is a soldier who was talking to the press when Ron Paul was running. And he starts talking about why he supports Ron Paul. And they cut him off. Listen to this.

We have here somebody who actually did just go vote for Ron Paul, a first-time caucus voter, Corporal Jesse Thorson, who is 28 years old and your active duty U.S. Army. What did you vote for Ron Paul? Well, I'm really excited about a lot of his ideas, especially when it comes to bringing the soldiers home. I've been serving for 10 years now, and all 10 years of those have been during wartime. I'd like to see a little peacetime Army, and I think he has the right idea. Now, you have done two tours in Afghanistan. You told me you're going to go back for a third tour.

I mean, you can see your neck right there, what you have on your tattoo, 9-11, remember in a picture of the Twin Towers. You know, some Republicans out there have been saying that Ron Paul would be very dangerous for this country because he wants to bring troops like you back from your post from all over the world. Well, I think it would be even more dangerous to start nitpicking wars with other countries. Someone like Iran, Israel is more than capable. And they cut the transmission, right? We just lost our connection, unfortunately. Oh, yeah, unfortunately.

What a coincidence. And so here we are today. as you've got the soldiers lined up to say goodbye to their families. Look at this. They're all standing there, and the family can come by and give them a final hug before they go off to die for Israel. It makes me disgusted to see this. And they're not even trying to hide this, as a matter of fact.

You've got the people who talk about it. Here's a Zionist who explains to us that they are God's chosen people, this racist Zionist. We're God's chosen people. Your duty is to die for us. We Jews are God's chosen people. And the Gentiles must learn their purpose in life is to fight and die for Israel.

Oh, yeah. That's our purpose in life. To fight and die for Israel. You've got a lot of people who are saying that. You've got a lot of Christian pastors who have been bought off by Israel, just like the politicians. They're now reinventing a,

Judeized Christianity that they're selling to people. But here's Potteritz who says, well, you know, we can do this. Nobody cares. Nobody cares about the soldiers who are being sent off to die. Nobody cares about the hidden costs of this war. It's only about what they see at the gas pump. But do we have the capacity to go to June if it remains a low casualty situation? I think absolutely.

Because I, the sad part is, I don't. think the American people care very much. They're very uninvested in this, unless gas prices go to $250 a barrel, and suddenly it costs $9 a gallon at the pump. Well, we're on the way. What cost is being inflicted on any individual American by this conflict? There is no cost. No cost. There is no cost. No one in the... Go die for Israel. One out of every 330 people has a relative in the military, if that. And, The military is a volunteer. And from what we know, the military and people in the military are overwhelmingly in support of the mission.

So they're not opposed to it. That's not true. The Democrats, people who think that war doesn't work and we've had a terrible time over the last 25 years and haven't won anything. But so I don't think Trump is going to get a lot of credit for what's going on. Clearly, he isn't. I think he's going to get a lot of credit for this. But, you know, this is the issue. Yeah, who cares?

Not that many people are in the military. hey, they signed up to die for Israel. They signed up to go kill and die for some politician in Washington, who doesn't give a whit about them, who like Henry Kissinger said, they're just animals, you know, just use them. Yeah, look at them as livestock. It's amazing. And so, you know, Fox News is looking at this and saying, you know,

what happens to Operation Epstein Fury? Well, we just got to make sure the gas prices don't go up. We're getting too high. $4 a gallon nationwide average. And Caroline Levitt is telling us about that, that as soon as Epic Fury is over, they project the gas prices will drop down to multi-year lows. Jillian. Yeah. As soon as it's over.

I'm interested to see whether they are right about that. Thank you, Peter. As soon as it's over, drop down to multi-year lows. Well, if it comes back down, and again, we have seen this with the opaque oil embargo, it did not come back down. It continued to build. But if it does come down, it's not going to come down. right away because this wasn't an embargo of the usual sort like the opaque embargo. There's a lot of production capacity that has been destroyed.

So you can't just resume this. And not only that, but you've got this massive supply chain backlog and traffic jam of all these tankers. So it's not going to come back right away. And so the reality is that a lot of people don't see, first of all, they don't see or care about the military dying. they certainly don't care. No, it's what was not an issue there.

Who cares about all the people that were killing in these other countries? It doesn't matter the people that we kill in Iran. It doesn't matter the people that we kill in Lebanon. I should say we, the Israeli government that is in control of the American government. And as Marco Rubio said about Iran, he said, just imagine what Iran would be like if their country didn't invest in military. You know, well, let's imagine what it would be. like in America if that didn't happen. And at the end of the day, I think that if there are people in Iran who now, given everything

that's happened, are willing to move in a different direction for their country, that would be great. Imagine in Iran that instead of spending their wealth, billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons had spent that money helping the people of Iran, you'd have a much different country. So we are always hopeful that that would exist over there. Yeah, imagine if we had an American government that focused on America's interests, right? Now, the Iranian people, the Iranian government is making weapons to defend themselves against Israel and the U.S. that they knew was going to attack them. We don't have anybody threatening us.

We are the attackers. We have chosen to squander our wealth, to squander the lives of American soldiers, to squander the lives of people who get in our way for our geopolitical goals and empire. We have chosen to take that path. And that is impacting our lives, folks, far. more than what we pay at the gas pump. Nevertheless, you've got people like Lucky Lutnik. We're talking about 9-11.

Talk about that guy who is flattering Trump. Listen to this. Disgusting. That's he gets money down. That's how you fix the deficit. You are fixing everything with your policy. You are fixing everything. Changed America and created the golden age.

Thank you. Yeah, you've changed America and created the golden age. Well, he is going to abandon the strait. and he's going to declare victory at the same time that he runs away. So is this April fools coming from Trump? We'll be leaving very soon. And if France or some other country wants to get oil or gas, they'll go up through the strait and almost straight,

they'll go right up there and they'll be able to fend for themselves. I think it'll be very safe, actually. But we have nothing to do with that. What happens to the straight, we're not going to have anything to do with, because these countries, China, China will go up and they'll fuel up their beautiful ships and they'll leave and they'll take care of themselves. There's no reason for us to do it. We hit them hard. Yeah, we hit them hard and we're going to turn them into the Stone Ages again, right?

And so he's going to declare that as a victory if he's really telling the truth this time. How is that a victory? You know, this guy, if he does this, and I hope he does, quite frankly, I hope he does run away. that'd be the best possible outcome of a bad situation. You know, don't keep pushing forward. Don't keep escalating. You can always say, I came, I saw, I ran. I ran away.

And he left the Iranians in control of the Strait of Hormuz, left them stronger than they were before, would leave them with a new source of income, the tolls that are there. but that's better than continuing to press on and wastefully spending the lives of Americans, which, by the way, isn't that interesting? He goes to all this trouble to move all these troops in, you know, to move the Marine Expedition Unit all the way from the Far East to the Middle East. And yet he's not going to use them. He's not going to use 82nd airborne. I hope he doesn't.

I don't want to troll him too hard on this. I don't want people to pick this up and start. taunting him to fight. We don't want a fight. We don't want this war. And so I hope he's serious about that. And yet, what a betrayal? You know, as they're talking about it,

the Americans don't really care as long as they don't see the price of oil go up, the price of gas at the pump. Well, that price is embedded into everything. Everybody saw that with the opaque oil embargo. And it's fundamental. So, you know, the price of diesel goes up. Maybe you don't see that. Maybe you don't see the fact that jet fuel has more than doubled.

Why is everything more expensive? I just don't understand. Well, it's like a value-added tax that percolates through the entire system when you have a shock to the system of energy prices. People are going to see it in electricity rates. They're not just going to see it at the pump. And guess who's going to see it the most? Places like Europe, how much are they going to hate America because of Trump?

and rightfully so, rightfully so. Trump has said he is willing to end the U.S. military campaign in Iran, even if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, according to a report, leaving Tehran in control of the vital shipping lane and prolonging economic chaos. And again, why did he send the Marines there? And is this an admission of defeat? Well, let's let him claim victory. because his defeat and his lies about victory are the least harmful outcome at this point.

The U.S. President told aides that a mission to forcibly reopen straight would push the war beyond his timeline of four to six weeks. There's a couple of factors here that he's not being honest with people about. Number one, they are taking a licking. They've had to abandon a dozen different bases and move their troops into civilian. structures to hide. They have boasted that they control the airspace. And you have an F-35. It's supposed to be invisible, invulnerable, was shot down.

And you've had the massive surveillance plane. The, what was it, I think, an E3, but it's a $300 million plane with a big rotating antenna on the top that is the eyes and ears of the military when they're doing their stuff. That was destroyed on the ground. pinpointed and destroyed, just as they destroyed the billion-dollar antenna array that was the eyes and ears of the missile defense system. So, yeah, it's been a huge cost, and they're not as invulnerable as they want to pretend that they are. So there's been a tremendous price paid in terms of the prestige of the military industrial

complex. They reveal the Trump administration as revealed themselves as nothing but petty thieves, stealing from their own allies, as they did with Switzerland, taking money that Switzerland had given for weapons systems and repurposing it, quote unquote, into their own weapons systems. So the U.S.S. President told AIDS that a mission to forcibly reopen the strait would push the war beyond his timeline of four to six weeks. He's got to get out of there. It's very, very unpopular here at home. First time that a war has begun, that they didn't get a consensus first. That's what I said at the very beginning. Where is my false flag? Usually they give us

the courtesy of creating an attack, making it look like we've been attacked, even if we haven't been attacked. They are so arrogant in the exercise of their power, they didn't even bother to try to create consensus by organizing a false flag. And so many people said, well, maybe the false flag will come after the fact. But this is such a clown show. He's got to get out of there. He's reportedly decide to focus his goal of dismantling Iran's Navy. Well, yeah, disment, what Navy? They never had a Navy. What a joke. They had seven frigates and a bunch of small speedboats. Navy, yeah, and their missile stocks. Yeah, they will dismantle the missile stocks by having them draw down their missile stocks by launching them at U.S. bases in Israel. That's how they draw down

their missile stocks. It comes as Iran struck a fully loaded Kuwaiti oil tanker in the Persian Gulf, while the U.S. military bombed targets in Isfahan. The Strait of Hormuz is becoming Iran's biggest pressure point in the war, the regime imposing a de facto blockade on the waterway, upending global oil and gas supplies, which have caused energy prices to surge. Now, some people think that Trump is a genius, an evil genius, who is doing this. deliberately to destroy the oil of other people and to establish America as a primary supplier of oil, make other people dependent on this. I think that is beyond foolish. But it does sound like Trump's thinking, when you look at his terrorist, for example. He never seems to understand,

or at least he always discounts the effect of the global supply chains and the fact that when you damage something over there, it usually has a way of working through. He doesn't understand how everything is interconnected. He needs to go back and read Leonard Reed's eye pencil to figure out how all these different components work. But he is constantly throwing a monkey wrench into the domestic supply chains as well as the global supply chains. When he shuts down everything and cuts off the supply of things like rare earth minerals, when he hasn't secured a domestic source of that. He arbitrarily draws a line around continental United States and says if it's not made here, then we aren't going to buy it. We're not going to allow it to be sold here. How foolish?

Because there are things that are made here that require things that come from outside of his imaginary border line that is there. And the same thing is true of this. If you create a global depression, this is going to affect America as well. Again, going back to the opaque oil embargo. at the time all of the imported oil that America brought in was only 19%. This is 20% of the global supply. And what was embargoed was only about 15% of our supply. But that affected everybody globally. And in the same way, of course, he can't see this.

And his foolish economic advisors like Peter Navarra, dumber than a sack of bricks, Elon Musk got that right. They don't see what's going to happen in reverse. What Trump has done is an oil embargo for Europe and the rest of the world, Europe and Asia. And he doesn't understand that that oil embargo that he's done for Europe and Asia is going to affect America, just like the embargo that was strictly on America affected the rest of the world as well at that time. So the Islamic Republic has allowed some ships to pass through as a toll booth system where they pay as much as $2 million per voyage. people pointed out, oh, this is piracy.

Well, we charge, you know, the Iranian minister pointed out that we charge large fees to go through the Panama Canal, the Suez Canal charges fees. People came back and said, yeah, but those are canals that were built. This is a natural waterway that is here. They didn't build the Strait of Ramos. That occurred naturally. Well, there are other passageways throughout the world that people charge told. for that are natural, that are not man-made canals as well. And so this is something he woke up, I guess you could say Sleeping Giant or whatever,

but they're now getting paid in Chinese yuan. And so this is yet another blow to the American petro dollar system, as well as to the whole idea that America was going to provide peace and prosperity and kind of a Pax Americana for energy. as well as within the Middle East, all of that has been destroyed by Trump. He is the BSer in a China shop. The prolonged closure of the choke point

threatens to extend disruption to the world's energy supplies with prices per barrel of oil continuing to rise above 100 the first time since 2022. And again, Trump ignores all those interconnections. He doesn't seem to have any sense of history about what happened with OPEC, just as they ignored the issue of the Street of Hormuz itself.

He has also appeared to downplay the Strait of Hormuz's importance, saying it's up to other countries to reopen it. Again, foolish, myopic. And so what about this? Over the weekend, the USS Tripoli and the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit entered the region, while thousands of soldiers from the U.S. Army's elite 82nd Airborne have also arrived in the Middle East.

What's all bad about? Is this an April fool's lie? Is this a hoax? Is it treachery from Trump or is it taco? They are there. He said for future operations. Well, when will that happen? Caroline Levitt told reporters that the U.S.

was, quote, working towards normal operations in the strait, but didn't include it among its main military objectives. So, yeah, we're still thinking about it. You know, we're fixing to do something about it. Maybe sometime of the future. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, the Soros Soyboy, suggested that eventually the U.S. or other countries would provide escorts for ships. He said the market is well supplied.

Is it? Is that this economic genius? Does he know about supply and demand and how that factors into price? Why is the price of gasoline? and energy and all these other products. Why is that going up, Scott Besson, if the market is well supplied? It's just one lie after the other.

So he tells his allies, go get your own oil. Here's what he had to say. He said, all those countries that can't get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz, like the United Kingdom, which refused to get involved in the decapitation of Iran. Now, by the way, you know, that never works. I saw an interview with a guy,

Robert Pafe. And he wrote a book, and he's been a consultant to the U.S. military. It's called Bombing to Win. And he had a very interesting story about how he got into this. It's not what he set out to do. But he was looking at the wars that we've had and how we seem to think that with air power, we can bomb people into submission. We can at least, you know, bomb them into the Stone Age,

and then they will submit to us, as Trump was saying. I mean, you can destroy an area like Israel destroyed Gaza. You can do genocide for this. And yet Israel still doesn't have control of all of Gaza. Nevertheless, what he's saying is, when you think that you're going to break morale, that never works. When you think you're going to do decapitation strikes, he said, that never works. You know what he said does work? What Iran has done.

He said, you target key military installations, like taking out the central radar facility, the cost of billion dollars that is used to be the eyes and ears of the missile defense system. If you strategically take out assets with bombing, that can cause you to win because then that creates a sense of hopelessness. And I think that's exactly what Iran has done. They have bombed American bases and critical assets in order to win. And I think that is what is happening. but he says, I have a suggestion for you. Number one, buy your oil from the U.S. We have plenty. And number two, build up some delayed courage. Go to the straight and just take it, he said. Well, he's not willing to do that. Trump wrote Tuesday morning on Truth Social. He said,

you'll have to start learning how to fight for yourself. The USA won't be there to help you anymore, just like you weren't there for us. And he's ending the U.S. empire. And quite frankly, I'm happy to see it go personally. But just understand it's going to have huge financial consequences for all of us. It's going to raise the price of borrowing because of this massive deficit. And by the way, 27% of the deficit that we have that nearly $40 trillion has been added by Trump alone. And so this massive debt bomb that is hanging over our head is, is going to come crashing down us, is going to dry up credit for everybody, it's going to be very difficult losing the petro dollar and losing the financial benefit of the U.S. Empire.

But then on the other hand, if we can stop the spending and wasteful spending of the Pentagon, make them pass an audit before they get any more money. They've had audit after audit and they failed every single one of them. And when people were auditing, we're missing $6 trillion in the Pentagon go. The people in that office that were auditing that got a missile through the window 9-11. They claimed it was a plane. Anyway, the U.S. won't be there to help you anymore, he said. In other words, I broke it. Now you fix it. This is the comment of Chris Minnehan, an information liberation. He says, just as a reminder, I wrote on April 9th, 2025,

if Trump handles war with Iran like he has handled tariffs, he will start the war and then surrender and claim victory once he realizes that he doesn't actually, quote, have the cards, right? Which is Trump's way of putting it. So he says, it's not over yet, but it appears that that is now what is coming to pass. Unless it's a head fake, unless it's a hoax, unless it is more treachery, as he did with the so-called peace talks that he had with Iran, as he's just waiting to strike them. He's done that twice. At most, he'll send a commando force to their deaths and some idiotic raid to try to steal their, quote, nuclear dust.

That's the way Trump puts it. Mark Levin made the case for putting troops. This is from Chris Minahan. He said, tweet out, he said, Marklevin makes a case for putting troops on the ground in Iran. Why would we need to have troops on the ground? We've got to get the uranium. Iran can make dirty bombs. You've got to get the uranium.

and Trump urged his followers to watch Mark Levin's show about this on his Ministry of Truth social media. Mark Tyson and Mark Levin interview, Trump urged all of his followers to watch. Makes a case for troops on the ground in Iran. He said, we got to get what Trump correctly calls the nuclear dust. Yeah, he also tries to connect Iran to al-Qaeda at 9-11. Well, here's a reality check. Even if you don't understand what happened on 9-11, even if you don't understand that was a false flag attack.

Here's the big reality check. You know, we just went to bat and installed in Syria, a guy who has been with al-Qaeda, with ISIS, with Al-Nusra. He's got his own organization there of radical Islamists, which immediately started killing Christians and Alawites in Syria as they got him put in. you know, for the longest time, the Basad family, even though I'm claiming that there, anybody that should be supported, at least they didn't kill the Christians that were there

and the minorities, the Alawites and things like that. The Islamic jihadists did. And we put those guys in power. And we did 9-11. So talk to me about that kind of stuff. Anybody doesn't understand that at this point. I just don't have patience to try to explain it to them. The number of U.S. military personnel in the Middle East is only 20% higher than usual, says Ken Klippenstein, totaling 50,000. During the invasion of Iraq in 2003, there were 500,000. The plan isn't a large-scale ground war. It is a special ops raid to send people to their death to try to find and extract the nuclear material that has been moved out of these places that Trump did not do.

destroy. So take over your institutions. Help is on the way. And then a few moments later, says Chris Manhattan. He says, well, now that we've lost the war, I'll be bombing all of your infrastructure on the way out just for kicks. And you did this to yourselves. That's basically Trump. Hateful, mean-spirited evil. And everybody can see it. Everybody in Europe can see it. everybody in the Middle East can see it. Totally untrustworthy, this king. The people who can't see it are the Maga people. They put their eyes out a long time ago.

President Trump in a remarkable rambling session says that he basically succeeded in enacting regime change in Iran because the regime changed, he said. This is a change in the regime because the leaders are all very different than the ones that we started off with. Are they fundamentally different? That's a tweet from Chris Minnehan. So Alan Dershowitz told the Israeli outlet, news outlet, 24 News on Monday,

that he's dedicating himself to destroying the Democrats due to their purported opposition to Israel. You see, Alan Dershowitz doesn't care at all about America. when he talks about this, he talks to the Israelis, and he only cares about the Israeli government. That's the only thing he says. And when you look at Alan Dershowitz, folks, he is the poster child of Trump and Epstein, really. He is kind of the nexus of those two.

He defended Jeffrey Epstein. He defends Trump, regardless, because Trump is for Israel. Dershowitz has always been a liberal, Democrat is radically for Donald Trump. And of course, he's still a Democrat when it comes to pedophilia, when it comes to LGBT, when it comes to murdering children with abortion. And he makes that very clear. I haven't become a Republican because I don't support the Republican views on abortion, on immigration, on a range of other issues. But I'm no longer a Democrat. I am an anti-democrat.

I will work very hard to see the Democrats lose the midterm election and lose the 2008 election. I do not want Elizabeth Warren, who is viciously anti-Israel. I don't want to see Senator Murphy, who's viciously anti-Israel. You know what? Our elections are not about your country, Israel. Who says, sick of these people. President Trump in making peace because he won't support anything that President Trump does.

I don't want to see those anti-Israeli, some of them anti-Semitic, some of them anti-American, and people who would prefer America. America. I will not support them. I don't want to see them as chairman and chairwomen of congressional committees.

I feel safer today with Republicans in charge than I do with Democrats in charge, though I won't join their party at least not at this point. Yeah, he won't join their party because he loves the values of perversion and depravity

that have been the hallmarks of his life. I just disgust me. And you know, you want to talk about this guy being a petto. Of course, you know, he defended Jeffrey Epstein as his lawyer. But he also came out. Here's an article here. Dershowitz defends the 1997 article. Statutory rape is an outdated concept.

Yeah, bring me your young girls. You know, this is Epstein's lawyer. The Trump Epstein connection. There's your poster child. This Woody Allen lookalike. And he and Woody Allen act alike as well. Both of them heavily involved with Jeffrey Epstein. What a disgusting person he is.

Trump's straight of Hormuz, blame game is shameless and delusional, says Mediite. He says, just take it. You know, you people can take it. We're not going to take it. Get your own oil. You know, Trump could have told Israel, go steal your own land. We're not going to steal the land for you. But no, he didn't.

He didn't want to do that when it came to greater. Israel. Now, we'll help you steal the land and kill the people that are living there now. That's how Trump responded to American allies. Just take it. They were struggling to secure jet fuel through the Strait of Hormuz that the U.S. and Israel helped to shut down, while gas prices at home have climbed to over a dollar a gallon, climbed by over a dollar a gallon in a single month. And economists are warning about this. And of course, again, does it matter that we are self-sufficient in oil, that we're a net exporter in oil? No, because the price of all these things as well as everything that is transported is going to go up for Americans.

The people are going to get rich off of this are the donor owners of Trump because these big corporations are going to make a lot of money out of this. But the average American is not. And so a prolonged closure could tip an already precarious global economy into recession. says mediate. Oh, how about depression? How about make great depression again? Is that really what Manga is about, what Trump is about? You know, his monkey wrenches with tariffs, and now with this,

looks like Trump wants to make a great depression. Looks like Trump wants to make a world war, as I said many times. He is a one-man-forth turning. Gas is $4 a gallon now on average. the United States and climbing. Inflation is about to get a second win from an oil shock entirely of its own making. And it's not just that. It's also the money printing.

Quietly, not too many people have talked about this. I've only seen one article pointing out the fact that money printing has skyrocketed. That's the true cause of inflation in the American dollar. But the price inflation is of its own making. global shipping is in chaos. Trump's contribution is a truth social post telling the UK to learn how to fight. This isn't isolationism. It isn't even transactionalism.

A government that is actively creating a crisis, watching the damage spread, then publicly disclaiming responsibility for it in real time, in writing with apparent satisfaction. No country bears more responsibility for what's happening. happening and that straight right now than the United States and Israel. And hopefully, um, other countries will be angry enough to eventually come after Trump and Pete Hegseth. Uh, you know, Trump is pretty elderly. He doesn't have that many years left. Uh, Pete Hegseth has got quite a few years left. I expect to see him as an international war criminal. And, uh, he'll be hiding from people like, uh, Henry Kissinger.

and rightfully so. An implicit contract in American leadership of the Global Commons where the U.S. secured critical choke points and absorbed disproportionate responsibility. Allies aligned with the U.S. with a policy and accepted a system that for all of its imperfections provided stability. Trump is ending that. He is ending the American Empire.

And after all, I think these guys do deserve prosecutions for their war crimes that they have. done. I'm glad to see the American Empire end, but again, it's going to be tremendous cost for the average American. More than a year of draconian terrorists, public insults, and loudly conditional commitments have already spent down the reservoir of goodwill of our allies. And just take a look at Greenland, for example. He keeps taunting them that he's going to take him over, and he's so crazy, they have to take him seriously. And so he had Denmark, work out an agreement with France, they said, well, let's pretend they were going to have some war games there.

And then they said afterwards, they said, well, the purpose of that was to fortify it and to against an American invasion. That's what's happening with our allies now, with Denmark with France and others. No wonder they don't want American bases to use their, American airlines to use their bases there. When you're telling partners to take it, after years of signaling that the partnership is optional, you're not exercising leverage, you're just being contemptuous. Even some Trump-most-loyal media allies are feeling the contradiction without quite naming it. Monday night, Laura Ingram noted on Fox News that barely 2% of U.S. oil imports pass through the Strait of Hormuz, while more than 80% of EU's liquefied natural gas does.

The U.S. launched a war whose worst enemy consequences land almost, entirely on other countries as now telling those countries to sort it out. Just imagine, you know. It is, just imagine what these people think. We don't even have to imagine. Which brings us to the logical problem that the administration hasn't resolved. If Iran has been decimated, which is the word that Trump uses, why is the world scrambling to secure energy flows through the strait?

And if the United States still has, still needs allies to step in and stabilize the situation, what exactly was accomplished? Right. These are the logical problems that this guy has when he lies to everybody. The U.S. is responsible for this and with Israel, by choice, with full knowledge of what a Strait of Hormuz disruption would do to global energy markets. Blaming someone else for the mess that you made is the least acceptable. move. Trump went on truth social and made exactly that move, however, in writing, on purpose,

and apparently with a straight face. And so, is he going to make depression great again? Take a look at what is happening already, the far-reaching consequences of this. We're seeing semiconductor crunches already, and you're going to see more of these. Sony has temporarily suspended memory card orders in Japan as a global memory crunch worsens. Now, some of this is due to artificial intelligence and its drain on some of the stuff. But again, AI that Trump is pushing is massively consuming power. How are you going to power their AI? And again, I'm happy to see that not happen because AI is going to be used to power Big Brother.

that is the fuel for Big Brother surveillance and auditing and the rest of the stuff, as they've just mentioned this week. They're going to start using Palantir to do tax audits of us, right? You're going to merge Palantir into the IRS. That's Donald Trump for you. That's how he wants to use artificial intelligence. It's not going to bring back American manufacturing jobs. They're planning on using robots and automation, even in whom they on short.

And, of course, Trump will give them massive tax breaks. it'll be a field day for all of the donor-owner class of Trump, but it's not going to help the average American. So Sony said they've decided temporarily suspend the acceptance of orders from our authorized dealers and customers at the Sony store. And we're going to see this kind of shortage all over the place. Again, it's not just oil that passes through there. Fertilizer and helium that is used for semiconductors.

And, of course, fertilizer that is used to grow food. we're going to see all kinds of shortages because of what Trump has done, this disruption, even if it continues to allow, even if with a toll system, Iran allows people to resume shipping, just not American ships going through there. So even some of the largest consumer electronics companies are not immune to global memory shortage, which is rippling across the world due to surging demand from data centers. but we're going to see all kinds of semiconductor shortages as well. So this is what happens when the gas runs out.

And Asian countries are already burning more coal and reducing consumption. And the New York Times is concerned about that because, again, they still buy into this climate change nonsense. But they will do other things. They will aggressively curtail consumption. This is the kind of reactions that we've already seen. seen from governments. This is, just take a look at what happened in the U.S. with the OPEC embargo.

55 mile over speed limits, the creation of the Department of Energy. You're going to see some draconian measures like this around the world. And it's not to say that it won't happen here in the United States as well. So, again, since 1987, people have said, look at this. Donald Trump, he's so consistent. It's consistently a thief. Since 1987, he was saying, hey, just take the oil. We need to take the oil from Iran.

Yeah, he's always been a thief, always been a pirate, always been a mafia figure. He said, back in 1987, he said, to be honest with you, my favorite thing to do would be to take the oil in Iran, but some stupid people in the U.S. say, why are you doing that? But they're stupid people. You know, it's interesting when you look at this sentence here that everybody says, oh, look, he's so consistent. Yeah, he is. have you ever noticed? Actually, we have a comment about that from Berlin.

Bin Laden Bernanke won. He says, Trump is a fool every month. You have to hand it to him. He's consistent. That's right. That's where his consistency is. Something I've noticed from people who are liars. They always say, well, to be honest with you, right?

Because they know that they're not being honest with you. And so when somebody says, well, to be honest with you, that immediately starts a reaction from me, It's like, well, you mean you're not usually honest with me. But then the rest of it, I think, is very telling. He said, these are stupid people who don't want to steal the oil. You ever notice that thieves always criticize their victims as stupid? Hey, they're stupid. They left that door unlocked.

It's just there for me to take. And I deserve to take it because they're stupid. They didn't lock it when I'm around, right? those are two things in that sentence. To be honest with you, and these people who don't want to steal this stuff, they're stupid, right? That is, they deserve to be ripped off.

This is how these people basically assuage their guilt as well. Well, these people deserve it because they're stupid. They deserve be ripped off. So maybe we take Carg Island, maybe we don't. It would also mean that we have to be there in Carg Island for a while. And, of course, while they're there for a while, they will be taking a lot of hits. Of course, not him, not Brent, what's his name, Baron,

not Eric, not Laura Lumer, not Ben Shapiro. None of those people who are eligible to go now. None of them want to go. They want other people to go for them, for their agenda. We're going to take a quick break, and we will be right back. Making sense. Common again. You're listening to the David Knight Show. APS Radio delivers multiple channels of music right to your mobile device.

Get the APS radio app today and listen wherever you go. Well, I think we have stabilized things. That's what Travis is telling me. What do you think happened, Travis? There was nothing on our end that I could find. I believe our ISP was simply having some kind of issue this morning. When you live in the woods, you have to deal with that sometimes. But it seems to have normalized.

We've had more than our share of problems in the last couple of weeks. it seems like on our end on the hardware side, the guys have gotten everything fixed. Yeah, if you can believe it, almost all the problems were unrelated and different from each other. Yeah, I think Satan is just messing with us. I'm trying to push my buttons and get me to lose it here. Massad is sneaking in here at night and unplugging our stuff. Well, 10 years ago yesterday, Trump promised to eliminate the national debt. Instead, it has doubled.

This is from reason. And this was when he was running for president. And that day the debt was only, only $19 trillion. But it was a problem even at that. Can you believe that it's been 10 years? Yeah, I can. It's gone. It both feels like it's gone extremely fast and like it's been interminable.

That's right. The Obama presidency feels like it was a lifetime ago. Yeah, that's right. And it's because Trump is so disruptive. And, you know, he's entertainment. president, but he's like an evil professional wrestling heel. The guy just keeps giving us things to cover. We live in interesting times because of this character, who has no character.

But about a quarter of this debt is by Trump. I think the exact number was 27%. Maybe it's 92%. That's his favorite number. He said at the time, we're not a rich country. We're a debtor nation. Candidate Trump told the Washington Post in an interview. in 2016.

He said, we've got to get red of the $19 trillion in debt. How long would it take him to do that? asked Washington Post's Bob Woodward, who was interviewing him. Fairly quickly, he said. Well, I would say over a period of eight years. Well, at the time, Reason points out, the Committee for Responsible Federal Budget pointed out that, quote, achieving this goal would be virtually impossible,

particularly for a candidate who's proposed large tax cuts and has ruled out any significant entitlement reform. And so they estimated that Trump's proposal would cause the national debt to nearly double within 10 years. How did they get that right? I mean, as they point out in this article from reason, they said, you know, look at all the extraordinary things that happened,

the massive increase in debt that happened with the fake pandemic, different wars that have happened. and big tax cut programs and other things like that. They would have boosted. And yet the reality is, is that it's the entitlement programs that swamp all that out. And so that's how they're able to estimate this very accurately,

to say that within 10 years it would be about double, which is where we are. Biden added $4.7 trillion to the debt with various proposals. In his first year back in the White House, Trump has done nothing to address the growing pile of debt. You know, that's the other thing about it. He freaks out about the trade deficit, which I don't think is a big problem. It's an ego problem for him because he wants to see everything made in the United

States. But the big problem, the big deficit that he doesn't talk about is the budget deficit every year. That is something that he could do something about. And yet he chooses to completely ignore it. Doesn't even talk about it. He talks incessantly about the trade deficit. And he does all the wrong things. But he never talks about the budget deficit. It's the budget deficit that, as they point out, the consequences of this are for a typical 30-year mortgage, borrowing costs today are about $2,500 higher annually than they would be in an alternative reality where the federal borrowing did not explode in the past decade. That is coming from the Yale Budget Lab estimates. Similarly, the average car loan costs $120 more annually.

the average small business loan cost $770 more. And the bottom line is that as they lose the petro dollar and this magic money printing machine that they've got, the borrowing costs for all of us are going to go up on everything. That's going to be the price we pay. But it is, can I say it, it is worth the price, right? How do you value getting some freedom from the American government? and I would like to see it officially go broke. Because if it doesn't go broke, it's going to destroy our lives

and it's going to usher in this horrific artificial intelligence stuff. It's one of the things that really concerns me here in Tennessee. The person who has jumped onto this more than anybody else in Washington, along with Trump, even calling it the Trump Artificial Intelligence Act or something like that, is Marsha Blackburn, who is a shoe in to become the governor here in Tennessee. all the Republicans have run away, afraid of her, that people who could have mounted a challenge who had a base, and she's become the biggest cheerleader for artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency,

and what she is cheering with artificial intelligence. Her approach is to destroy the 10th Amendment. Who wants a governor who doesn't understand the importance of the 10th Amendment, who wants to centralize everything into Washington. I certainly don't want somebody like that. And yet that is her approach. She has been a co-sponsor or an author. Of course, this latest bill, she was the author of it,

but she's been a co-sponsor of both the Genius Act for crypto and manipulation, as well as the Genesis Act for artificial intelligence. And as many people correctly pointed out, should have called it the Genesis Six Act, in the rise of the Nephilim. That's really what she has co-authored there. But a particularly important, relevant move right now as the Trump administration tries to figure out the next steps in a war with Iran that it launched in a similar, grandiose, improvisational manner. That's a good way to describe Trump, grandiose improvisational manner, just like his tariffs.

So jet fuel spikes, as airlines are warning the supplies could run dry. within weeks. This is another reason why Trump has to cut and run. I came, I saw, I ran. So we don't need the Strait of Hormuz open. It's other people's problem, is it?

Well, U.S. jet fuel prices have jumped from $2.17 to $4.57. More than doubled. If it doubled, it'd be $4.34. But it's $4.57 per gallon. Prices jumped. That was by March 27th. They've continued to rise since then.

United Airlines CEO said that the carrier will cut about 5% of planned flights in the near term as fuel costs surge. Warning that if prices persist, jet fuel alone could add $11 billion to their annual expenses. I reported this before, and he pointed out that he said, look, in our best year, we made $5 billion. And we're looking at an $11 billion dollar. fuel surcharge just from what Trump is done here. Delta Airlines CEO said Jet Fuel Spike added as much as $400 million in costs in March alone, and American Airlines came up with exactly the same figure for their airline, $400 million in one month that has added to their prices there. So other countries, other airlines, Air France, as well as Quantus, Thai airways, they're all adjusting fares and

schedules, canceling flights. SAS said it will cancel about a thousand flights in April due to rising costs. Great job, Trump. If you want to destroy the world economy, if you want to make everybody's lives more expensive and more difficult, you're doing a great job. The Middle East exports about 1.1 million barrels per day of jet fuel, about 15 to 17 percent of global consumption. Much of that supply moves to the straight of war moves. where tanker traffic has slowed sharply, to put it mildly. So how high could gas prices go? Well, there's not really any limit to it if you're going to continue this war of vanity,

this war of choice. So one person warned the $4 gallon national average has now breached a psychological wall, said spikes in crude oil prices. Gasoline is the most visible price. in the economy for consumers. And when that price jumps, it hits psychology immediately. But, of course, the more important one is the price of diesel, because that is what is used by the trucks that deliver the products everywhere.

That's what's used by the farms when they do the planting and other things like that. Of course, they're getting the double whammy. I'd say triple whammy. American farmers are getting hit with retaliatory tariffs from their customers abroad, to try to not be able to sell their products. And then they're also getting hit with rising diesel costs as well as rising fertilizer costs and shortages. So California has posted even higher gas prices. The average on March 31st in California was $5.87 per gallon.

They're knocking on the door of $6 a gallon gas in California. Prices of diesel have gone up 45 percent. since the start of the war, now $5.45 average on Tuesday. The U.S. is a major oil producer, yet gas prices are still tied to globalist crude markets. Not globalist, but global crude markets. And diesel costs are largely affected by these global benchmarks. That's what I was saying before. It is a global market.

So even, you know, when Europe was not embargoed by OPEC, their prices went up. because when we were embargoed by it, we started going to their markets and bidding for the prices. Now this is happening in reverse. You know, we've got our own internal oil, but the American companies, when they're doing the refining of this stuff, they're not going to sell it in America for $3 a gallon if somebody in Asia or Europe is going to pay $6 a gallon for it. And so we'll have a shortage and there'll be a bidding war between American consumers, and businesses and European and Asian consumers and businesses. This is why it's foolish to talk about the fact we got all the oil we need.

What an idiot. It's almost like he could drive even a casino into bankruptcy. Anyway, the regime has tried to mitigate the war's impact on pump prices early in March. Trump ordered the Department of Energy to release 172 million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which he forgot to fill up. And again, he is the, you know, it's Trump and it's the Department of Energy that controls the strategic petroleum reserve. They have to get money from Congress, but Congress is going to give them whatever they asked for. They just didn't want to tell Congress anything about any of this stuff.

They didn't have any plans. They didn't have any plans about the straight-door moves. They had no plans about the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Unbelievable. I still go with the take that Trump is not an evil genius. I think he's just an evil mafia figure. year. How high can gas prices go from here? It's what the article asks. Is that analyst forecast pump prices have nowhere to go but up? What is the ceiling? Well, you don't know. One commodity

specialist told the Wall Street Journal earlier this month that a $10 increment and the price per barrel of crude oil can lift gas prices by 10 to 15 cents per gallon. While Bloomberg estimates that the same $10 per barrel increase in cost would cause gas prices to go up at the pump 30 to 40 cents per gallon. So they said we could even set new records if conditions fail to improve. And of course, it is built into the fact that they're not going to improve for a while even after Trump leaves because they have damaged production significantly. And if he's going to go through and decide that on his way out,

he's going to bomb Iran back into the stone ages, as he put it. What do you think Iran is going to do? They've already said what they're going to do. You know, they've been pretty consistent in terms of following up on what they say they're going to do. And so you can bet on the fact that if he's going to set their infrastructure on fire, they're going to do the same thing to all the countries that host American bases around the area.

They've promised to do that. They will make good on that promise. So you're going to wind up bombing the Gulf oil states, all of them, back into the stone ages. As Trump likes to call it, strategists from the Australian firm Macri Group warned that if the war extends into the summer, oil prices could hit $200 per barrel, which would push pump prices to as much as $7 a gallon. These analysts reportedly put the probability of such an outcome at 40%, while a different scenario that they give a likelihood of 60% to, would see the conflict in Iran ending this month

and oil prices subsequently falling, though the price would remain higher than pre-war levels. We saw the same thing with OPEC. And even if it were eventually to come back down to the pre-war levels, as they point out, prices go up like a rocket, but they float down like a feather. We've always seen that, haven't we? If Cargile and a key Iranian oil hub were redamaged amid the conflict,

Brent prices could hit 120 per barrel with some endless forecasting levels as high as $200. And again, what about the high cost in lives? Does anybody care about that? No. Stock market, meanwhile, soared to its best day in 10 months, as Trump suggested that the Iran war won't last much longer. And again, they will always react to this with irrational exuberance, trusting that this liar-in-chief is actually telling the truth about something for a change.

Following initial strikes against Iran, Trump has been fixated on controlling the Strait of Hormuz. After failing to rally allies to join the U.S. effort to control the strait, Trump egged on the Allies Tuesday to, quote, go get your own oil, or you can buy it from us. On Monday, the president threatened to attack Iran's electric plants, oil wells, and desalinization plants if a deal to end the war is not reached shortly. And again, that's one of the worst things that could happen at that point. Well, you know, on the bright side, it looks like Pete Hegseth may have something new to shoot at.

He's been blowing up boats. This is how the stuff all started was back in September last year. starts blowing up boats that they suspect might be trafficking cocaine and, you know, they're going to verify it. Even if they verified it, what do we typically do to people if they're trafficking cocaine? Do we line them up on the side of the ship and execute them? No. But they were doing that without even verifying that people carrying cocaine. A new study has shown that sharks are testing for unusually high levels of cocaine.

Could this be a result of, point? ships up in the water. I'd notice actually from a different geographical area. Nevertheless, maybe we should tell Pete that they need to start shooting at sharks because they might have cocaine. It makes about as much sense as what the American military has been doing and Venezuela anyway. And you go back and you look at this is something. I didn't tell Lance's last night, Travis, but he has constantly looked at this stuff and

said, I just don't buy this that microplastics are in everything. It's going to be something wrong here. It just doesn't seem reasonable. Guess what? Now there's a new admission. Some scientists have figured out, you know, we figured out why everything is testing for microplastics. It's because we're using these nitral gloves and they're giving up from

microplastics and contaminating the tests. How about that? Your genius is at work, folks. Science. It's science. Trust the science. Trust the scientists. We finally traced down on the microplastics literally.

everywhere we traced it down to the gloves. They said they're coated in it straight out of the packaging. Researchers from the University of Michigan found that the special coating on commonly used nitral and latex gloves worn by scientists could be causing measured levels of microplastics to shoot through the roof, even though the coating isn't technically made of microplastics itself. As microplastic researchers looking for microplastics in the environment, we're searching for the needle in the haystack.

But there really shouldn't be a needle to begin with, she said. Yeah, well, there you go. You're going to find what you'd look for, I guess. Take a quick break. We'll be right back. You're listening to the David Knight Show. Elvis. Ladies and gentlemen, the Beatles,

and the sweet sounds of Motown. Find them on the oldies channel at APSRadio.com. Well, let's talk about free speech. And the free exercise of religion. Folks, these are the most important things. They were number one priority for the Bill of Rights, and they are combined. You know, the hand of force can destroy them, but cannot disjoin them. And so we see in Finland, we have, and I mentioned this before briefly, this is somebody

who was a longtime parliamentarian in the Finnish government. She was also in the cabinet, and she is a Christian. and she and her pastor, I think it was, reacted to their denomination, celebrating Pride Month by pointing out that the Bible condemned that. And so as a result, the government came after her for hate speech. You know, we're seeing this as, you know, when we look at Tala Rico, as I pointed out the other day, he loves to talk about anybody that doesn't want to mutilate minors, you know, you're a hateful person, right? and if you don't want to allow women to have the choice to murder their babies to rip them apart,

you are a hateful person. And so we hate you. And we need to figure out who you are. We need to end anonymity. We've got to have digital ID on the internet to find out who these people are who are saying this stuff. So we can track them down and punish them. And a new bill has just been passed in Canada to do just that. And so it's coming everywhere.

It's not just Finland. It's not just Canada. It's also happening in the U.S. We had an NBA player who spoke out against this stuff, and they came after him right away to cancel him. And so we got a clip of what he had to say about that as well in here. I think. Let's see.

Where is that? It's in here somewhere, I think. See if you can find that. Travis is the NBA thing. It was put in after I did the grid here. So I'm not sure where it is exactly. Anyway. they came after her.

This is 2004 this happened. And they've been trying to prosecute her ever since. She's already had a couple of trials where she was found innocent unanimously. And so they keep appealing this. And now after the third one of these ordeals, they have now gotten a conviction against her. Her name is, I don't know how to pronounce these A's with an umlaught over it, but let's say Pavey Ray Sainan, I guess, is how you would pronounce her name. Anyway, they came after her for a hate crime.

We have been seeing this from the left for quite some time. Now what the right is doing is saying, you can't criticize the government of Israel, because if you criticize the government of Israel, you are a racist and guilty of a hate crime. And the Trump administration is fully on board with that censorship from the right. And if you look at a lot of Jews who have spoken out,

secular Jews as well as ultra-Orthodox Jews. I said, don't associate us with what's being done by Benjamin Netanyahu or the Israeli government. Please don't lump us into that group. We oppose that ourselves. And of course, they do, even in Israel, you've got protests against what's happening. You've got the ultra-Orthodox Jews who don't want to get into

the military. And you've got ultra-Orthodox Jews and said, yeah, we believe that God gave us, they promised us the land, but he will give it to us. We don't need to steal it. As one rabbi said, the Torah is against what Netanyahu and the Israeli government is doing. The Torah says, don't steal, don't kill. And that's how they are expanding greater Israel by stealing land and killing people to take it. And so you've got a lot of opposition there. And again, you just get people lumped into it.

You know, we just, we look at these attacks against synagogues, I feel for these people. because I know that a lot of them don't support this. I mean, it'd be like, you know, some terrorist attack killing my family, even though I certainly don't support what Trump is doing. And so in this particular case in Finland, she said, I'm shocked and profoundly disappointed that the court has failed to recognize my basic human right to freedom of expression.

Yeah, religious freedom as well as your free speech. She said, I'm taking legal advice on how to possibly appeal to the European Court of Human Rights. This is not about my free speech alone, but it's about the free speech of every person in Finland. She said, I'm experiencing the same ordeal for simply sharing my beliefs. And again, it went in for 22 years of this. This is the third prosecution. She was two and one, unanimously not guilty by many. of them, after the evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland became an official sponsor of the Helsinki

Pride Parade for the first time in 2019. She tweeted, the church of which I'm a member, has announced that it is an official partner of the Helsinki Pride 2019. How does the doctrine of the church, the doctrine of the Bible, fit in with the idea that shame and sin are raised to the point of pride. And again, she appealed to the authority of the Bible, so they had to come after her. She said, I will defend my right to confess my faith so that no one else will be deprived of their right to freedom of religion and speech. The more Christians keep silent on controversial themes, the narrower the space for freedom of speech becomes. The Finnish politician's case has been called unprecedented, and it had gained international attention to law courts. Two law courts

unanimously acquitted her of all charges, but prosecutors continued pursuing the case until Finland's Supreme Court heard it in October. She was charged under Finland's criminal code for, listen to this, crimes against humanity. Because she criticized, she said this Bible speaks against this and calls it a sin. So why is our church embracing this? That was her crime against humanity. It's coming, folks.

The bigger surprise for me was how much joy, she said, and how much opportunity this has opened up. I have gained much more than I have lost. From the beginning, I had a deep feeling that the entire process is in God's hands and that this all has a purpose. I've considered this fight as my calling. It has been a privilege and an honor to defend freedom of faith, which is a fundamental right in a democratic state.

Democratic state. And again, this is, you know, part of the problem is that we look at these grifters like Paula White and people like Hagey, the Zionist, and people think that is Christianity. And there is a good deal of things that are not Christian in what they are doing. And here is what happen to an NBA basketball player? The world can proclaim LGBTQ, right? They have, they have, they proclaim Pride Month and the NBA. They proclaim it. They, they show it to the world.

They say, come, come, uh, come join us for pride, for Pride month to celebrate unrighteousness. they proclaim it. They proclaim it on the billboards. They proclaim it in the streets. Unrighteousness. So how is it that one can't speak righteousness? How is it one that, how are they to say that, man, this man is crazy?

I'm not, I'm not the J.I. used to be. But the OJ is dead. Love in Christ, no matter what. the basketball setting is, you know, I'm born again, the Holy Spirit. And I've been saved by Jesus Christ, no matter what, how many DMPs I don't get to play, or no matter how many points I score, those things are a temporary thing. Yeah, so he pays the price for it. This is what the NBA is going to do.

They're going to punish him. Chicago Bulls. Pure BS. What they're doing to him. Chicago Bulls cut him on Monday after he publicly criticized the NBA for celebrating Pride Month. Jaden Ivy is his name. He was waived, released, I guess, because he objected to Pride Nights. He said, they say, come join us for Pride Month to celebrate unrighteousness.

Sports reporters have betrayed Ivy as mentally unrighteousness. unstable when in fact he's just a born-again follower of Jesus who's talking about his faith, said Todd Starns, and he's got that right. He said, we live in an age where right is wrong and wrong is right, and those who seek to follow the teachings of Christ are punished for their beliefs. And yet God has said, I will honor those who honor me. And it'll work out for him really well. Ivy is openly talking about a stand that is rooted in his religious conviction, you know, just like this politician in Finland. But for seemingly for that reason,

the Bulls are now openly cutting ties with him. Because LGBT is a religion of its own. And it is filled with hate. Filled with hate and with censorship. You know, the First Amendment, the free exercise of religion, as well as free speech. That came in response to religious persecution that many people had experienced in Europe in the UK.

They understand that. That is a Christian principle. And yet the people who are pushing LGBT issues do not appreciate that freedom. It's going to come back and it's going to bite them as well. Jaden Ivy was kicked off the Chicago Bulls after being labeled detrimental to the team due to his Christian views on LGBT Pride Nights. Detrimendal to the team, says Catholic vote. Before I believe in the truth, because I know that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the

life, that's detrimental to them. A guy who doesn't want to celebrate two men having gay sex doesn't need mental help, said one person on X. The NBA is a disgrace. The NBA is straight up anti-Christian. and anti-Bible. Jaden Ivy expressed his Christian views on his personal social media, and he is fired within an hour, said one person.

So many ex-users said, ask Grock, Grock, how many NBA players in recent decades have been convicted of crimes but didn't get cut from their team? Grock indicated the instances of DUIs, assaults, gun charges, are in the hundreds. If only he'd just raped a girl or beat up his girlfriend, then everything would be fine. He could stay on the NBA team. Anthony Edwards, one of the young superstars in the NBA, paid off one woman to get an abortion and encourage another to do so as well. and the NBA celebrates and encourages his behavior.

As another person pointed out, by this morning the Chicago Bulls Patrick Williams had come to Ivy's defense. He said, I stand with Jaden Ivy on everything that he said. If they cut him, they might as well cut me too. Well, good for him. Well, speaking of people who are going to get cut, we have Canada has declared that

quoting the Bible is a hate crime. This is where this is all headed. We need to stop this whole idea of hate crime. That is basically saying thought crime. You can't think certain things. You can't say certain things. Crimes should be something that people do. And yet we see the government, just like the NBA,

constantly ignoring real crime and coming after thought crime. And what former Conservative Party leader, Andrew Shearer, calls a dark day for free speech in Canada, the House of Commons passed a bill Wednesday that could criminalize the quoting of Bible passages if they are deemed to be hateful. The bill is called C-9.

It passed the House by a large margin, 186 to 137, and of course it is a shoe-end to pass in the Senate because the Senate is loaded up with people from Trudeau's party. It's an unelected body, so they just appoint it. So it's going to rubber stamp that.

And nearly an identical vote, the same parties shut down all debate on the bill in order to force it to a floor vote without the opportunity for further amendments. An offense whose maximum sentence is currently two years will now have a maximum sentence of five years if the government believes that it was motivated by hatred. Again, purely subjective in terms of, I'm going to show you just how subjective this is here. A sentence of 14 years. may be increased to life under the same circumstances. Think about that. A thought crime, life in prison. It gives prosecutors and judges considerable leeway to punish people without

whose opinions they disagree with. It also removes a religious exemption to the existing laws, prohibitions of communicating statements that promote or incite hatred against any identifiable group. Now, quoting the Bible or the Torah or the Quran, anything like that. Verses that condemn homosexuality, transgenderism, or abortion could now land you behind bars, and you could get a life sentence for this.

When the bill passes, people will be criminally charged for just reading certain passages of scripture. Liberal MP Mark Miller had already said that he thinks criminalizing scripture should happen, he said. Miller said, in Leviticus, Deuteronomy and Romans, and there are other passages, there's clear hatred towards, for example, homosexuals, clear kind of nation. In spite of the lies that were told by James Tolariko, he said,

the Bible's silent on this. No, it is not. And that's why these people hate it. He says, I don't understand how this concept of good faith can be invoked if someone were literally invoking a passage from, in this case, the Bible. And there are other religious texts that say the same thing. You know, the Torah, the Quran. And somehow they say that this is good faith? Well, these people are playing God. And the real hate crime is the fact that they hate God. And they hate God's standard and God's design. Elsewhere, Bill C-9 defines hatred as an emotion of an intense and extreme nature that is clearly associated with vilification and detestation. Well, speaking back against it is the Justice Center for Constitutional freedoms.

They said this bill allows Canadians to express disdain and dislike. Listen to how subjective this is. You can express disdain, you can express dislike without worrying about facing criminal charges. Yet, Canadians must be careful not to possess illegal emotions that involve detestation, or vilification. So it's not hate to discredit, humiliate, hurt, offend, and dislike people, but it is hate to detest and to vilify people.

Are we clear about this? This is amazing. Just how subjective it is. And so they are now criminalizing the Bible, and we are seeing people being punished for speaking out about their beliefs when they conflict with the protected status of the LGBT or the Israeli government. This is truly an amazing time that we're living in, and it's going to get a lot worse.

Trump, meanwhile, has bragged about his LGBT support. And as I have said all along, this YMCA thing that he does, I said, that's deliberate. He's rubbing the noses of these Maga people and these Christians like Franklin Graham, who tell you that he's God's anointed person, all the rest of stuff. He is rubbing their noses in it, and he fully understands that as well. He goes on to Fox News, and he talks about how, hey, I even chose the gay national anthem, YMCA, from the village people. So he boasted about his popularity with the gay vote.

In a recent call into Fox News, he called it something that he was, quote, very proud to attain. He spoke on Thursday, last Thursday with Fox round to. table show, the five co-host Jesse Waters asked about the unconfirmed reports of the latest Iranian supreme leader, Motabha Kamene, who has now been seen not been seen publicly in weeks and may or may not still be alive, was rumored to be homosexual, which had previously been an obstacle to his accession, prospects in the Islamic regime before the U.S.-Israeli military strikes eliminated, not only the leader, but all the alternative leaders as well. Well, said Trump, they, the CIA, did say that.

But I don't know if it was only them. I think a lot of people are saying that, which puts him in a bad start in that particular country. You know, I sort of have to smile for myself when I say, I see people trying to defend the Palestinian regime for women and women for Palestine. But they kill women if you don't wear a certain group of, well, if you don't wear a certain cloth over your face, you have no chance of living. Seems to me like I remember some tyrant named Donald who said, if you don't put this cloth over your face, you'd have no chance of earning a living. How is he different from these other people? Well, he's not, quite frankly. He said, do I look at gays for Palestine?

He said, they kill gays. They kill them instantly. They throw them off of buildings. And I'm saying, so who are the gays for Palestine? They have a significant amount of gays for Palestine? well, then he gets into how much inroads he's made boast about how the inroads he's made with the LGBT. He said, I think, you know, I did very well with the gay vote. He said, I even played the gay national anthem, YMCA, as my walk off.

And I think it probably helped me. But I did great. No Republican has ever gotten the gay vote like I did. And I'm very proud of it. I think it's great. perhaps it's because I'm from New York City. I don't know, but the gay national anthem was my walk-off. He says it multiple times.

He knows exactly what he's doing. And I said this all along. He's rubbing their noses in this. And they still worship him. It disgust me. They've got a flag. They've got an anthem. They've got a month that has been dedicated to them.

And then, of course, he talked about how he sold rainbow merchandise. on his website in 2020. Melania has been given award after award who had very high profile homosexual weddings at Marlago that he celebrates and the LGBT people have been giving Melania one award after the other. She's very proud of abortion

and many of these other things. These people have nothing in common with people who support conservative principles. Not a thing. as a matter of fact, there's yet another move besides continuing the pistol brace prohibition and setting up that precedent for Trump. You know, he set the president with the bumpstock. Then he did the pistol brace.

And within a week, pressure from the NRA and other gun groups finally got him to remove it, but then Biden put it back in. These gun groups like gun owners of America sued to remove the pistol brace. and now the Trump Department of so-called justice under Pam Bondi, who does not like guns either. They are continuing the lawsuit to fight gun owners of America and to establish this gun control by executive order and to ban pistol braces.

And we've seen Janine Perrault in Washington, D.C., both she and Pam Bondi have boasted about how we got guns off the street. and made the streets safer by getting guns off the street. It truly is amazing that conservatives don't see this. And they continue to support this guy who is antithetical to everything they say they believe. Except they don't believe it. They simply want to have a savior. They've decided that it has to be Trump.

I've heard, had so many people tell me, well, if we don't have Trump, we have nothing left. It's like, is that really conservative? Is that really the Christian viewpoint? In Trump, you trust? Yeah, it's just a matter of time after he puts his name, puts his face on a 24-carat gold commemorative coin. It's just a matter of time before he moves that in God, we trust. And it puts in Trump we trust.

As a liberal celebrity businessman in his life before politics, writes LifeSight News, Trump in 2012 is the owner of the Miss Universe Beauty Paget, repeatedly endorsed the inclusion of transgender women. I've pointed that out many times. He was one of the pioneers in terms of pushing this. He repeatedly endorsed the inclusion of transgender women and competition with actual women.

And the Trump organization called this modernizing the rules of beauty contests. He won praise from LGBT pressure group Glad. While running for president in 2016, he criticized a North Carolina law that banned male. students from female restrooms and he said anyone should be allowed to use the bathroom that they feel is appropriate. We don't care about how the women feel about it. A consistent supporter of same-sex marriage, Trump nominated a variety of pro-LGB officials. He boasted about the fact that he was the only presidential candidate to support homosexual marriage before becoming president. So,

He put in a nominate a variety of pro-LGBT officials to government posts and to judicial vacancies. He continued an Obama-era executive order on gender identity non-discrimination and U.S. support for international recognition of homosexual relations at the UN's Human Rights Council. His campaign actively courted LGBT identifying voters with rainbow merchandise. And over the years, he's allowed his Mar-Lago residents to be used. used for many high-profile same-sex marriages and log cabin Republican fundraisers. So how do you not know who this guy is? But now he's all against it. He's just flipped on all this stuff.

And he set up a religious liberty commission. And yet don't you dare criticize the state of Israel? Or you get kicked off of that commission as Kerry Prejean Baller saw. His first term prioritized religious liberty. That's what he considers to be religious liberty. You can say whatever you want, just don't criticize B.B. Netanyahu's government. Or we'll say that you don't have the liberty to do that. We'll shut down your free speech and your religious beliefs.

So since returning to office, he's had multiple executive actions to reverse the Biden administration's transgender policies, including an order that ends all federal support. for transition procedures on minors unless they have parental consent. So that's an important if that is there. Another order prohibits males who claim to be female from competing against actual women in sex-specific athletic programs at schools receiving government funding. But look, even Bruce Gender opposed that. So that's not a controversial issue. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has struck down a Colorado law.

law banning conversion therapy for LGBT minors. And why do they call it conversion therapy? You know, psychologists are not converting anybody, quite frankly. They are, you're not allowed. This is about Christian counselors. And this is really about people being able to talk to other people about Christ. Now, the good news is the Supreme Court has shut that down. And it was an eight to one decision.

only Biden's appointee, Katanji Brown Jackson, was the only one to vote against this because, you know, she doesn't even know who a woman is. That was the famous question that Marshall Blackburn asked her. What is a woman? Also, I would be surprised. I bet most people will be surprised the amount of things Katanji Brown Jackson doesn't know. I assume that's not the extent of her ignorance. Well, bias as much as anything. else. This is going to affect 20 other states that have similar laws to Colorado, saying that you can't

talk to minors about the biological realities or about religious beliefs or anything that would change them. You can push them towards believing that they're in the wrong body. You can push them towards mutilation and sterilization, but you can't give them any counseling going back the other way. this is what is so amazing about this law. Neil Gorsuch wrote the court's opinion. He said, the First Amendment stands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy and thought or speech in this country.

Well, tell that to the Trump administration, when they keep pushing, accusing anybody that disagrees with Israeli policy, calling them racist and anti-Semitic. The law has never been enforced, but it includes fines of up to $5,000 for each violation. and possible suspension or revocation of a counselor's license. The law includes an exemption to those who are engaged in the practice of religious ministry. Nevertheless, they did shut this down because the person brought the case to the Supreme Court as a Christian,

sued Colorado over the law in 2022, arguing that it prevented her from working with young patients who want to live a life that is consistent with their faith. And again, this is why they're calling it conversion. It was directed at people who were Christians. It's not about the transgender confusion. You can push that, but just don't try to convert people to reality. So as we see this kind of persecution happening, understand that it's not just in Nigeria where Christians are being killed for their faith.

Christians vow to remain in Lebanon. despite increasing threats to their safety from the Israeli government. Despite waves of Israeli ground troops invading southern Lebanon and evacuation orders for the entire region south of the Latani River, many Christians have resolved to remain in their homes as the first line of defense for the Christian presence in Lebanon. We stand in solidarity with those who remain steadfast in their towns, rejecting war and calling for peace, said the local patriarch. They said that there's well over

one million Lebanese who have been displaced by this Israeli invasion. Last week, Israel announced that it was sending a fifth division of ground troops into southern Lebanon as part of a stated goal to ethnically cleanse hundreds of thousands of people from the small nation's southern border with Israel, and then occupy this new extended quote-unquote buffer zone. Similar to his conduct in Gaza, the Israeli army has been targeting journalists and medical personnel during its bombing raids in Lebanon. On Saturday, Israeli forces executed a direct and repeated assault, firing four missiles on a clearly marked press vehicle resulting in the deaths of three journalists and injuries

to several others. On March the 19th, Israeli Army struck a crew from RT, injuring British journalist Steve Sweeney, and his cameraman. And that was widely reported. I didn't show the video of it, but he's staying there talking. And that's the video that Travis has got there. And you can hear as he's talking, you hear this incoming missile. And he jumps down and it blows up behind him there. Lebanese president has condemned Israel's Saturday strikes, noting that,

Quote, once again, Israeli aggression violates the most basic rules of international law, international humanitarian law, and the laws of war by targeting journalists who are ultimately civilians performing a professional duty. This is a blatant crime that violates all norms and treaties, granting journalists international protection in times of war according to the 1949 Geneva Convention and their protocols. We strongly condemn this attack. We call on international bodies. to act to stop what is happening on our soil.

Lebanon's health minister noted that Israel has executed at least 75 attacks against his nation's health sector, including the shelling of nine hospitals, five of which were forced to close. He added that 18 attacks had struck ambulance centers, damaging 48 vehicles, and had thus far taken the lives of 51 medical workers. Well, that is the key. As a matter of fact, when you look at this, that building there that was blown up. That's a civilian building.

They're doing the same thing they did in Gaza, which is, let's destroy all their houses, all their infrastructure, kill as many of them as we can, run them out, and we will steal the land. That's the same pattern that you see from the Israeli government over and over again, and the world is getting sick of it. In Lebanon, they're also using white phosphorus against civilians over residential areas, incinerating homes, and as they kill journalists, as they shell hospitals and civilian facilities. During a March 26th interview, with aid to the church in need, Lebanese archbishop was asked what Catholics and other Christians in the West can do to help restore peace, stability, and prosperity in his nation. He characterized prayer as a primary means of assisting Christians, and he said, as a Greek Catholic Archbishop of Beirut, said to, quote, put pressure on your governments to work for peace to find a solution.

Nobody in the region can remain in a land, he said, where there is a war every decade or so. He said it imposes a constant sense of insecurity. And although President Trump has said that these settlements are illegal and need to stop, just in the past couple of months, Israel, this is Jason Jones, by the way. Approved a new settlement called Schema, where they will destroy 11,000

predominantly Christian homes to make way for settlers. This would effectively be the end of the Christian community in Bethlehem and in the Shepherds Field. And this is, it would be really tragic to see the oldest Christian community in the world

erased before our very eyes. Yeah, and that's Jason Jones. That was not the Archbishop that was saying that. Nevertheless, Benjamin Netanyahu says that this is the opportunity they don't want to let go to make Israel into a super nation. And I don't know if I've got the wrong label here, if I've got the right clip. Let's see if this is Benjamin Netanyahu or the tar baby. This is the guarantee for our future. We are working on transforming Israel into super, super.

nation in the region and globally, and we were able to do so thanks to our soldiers and our captains and all those who fought and those who died. And of course, thanks to your solidarity and your steadfastness. Yeah, that's right. Well, we keep seeing that over and over again. They're telling you what they're doing. You should believe them. And meanwhile, as we've got some Christians saying, you know, can we just pray for peace? Can we work? Work for peace. Talk to your government about this. We've got other Christians, quote-unquote, grifters, I would say, people like Paula White, people like John Hagee. Of course, they've got different angles to grift people with. But this is what John Hagee is saying.

A previous speaker was talking about getting to the young people. Christians United for Israel has created a textbook for elementary students fighting anti-Semitism, and we now have it in 1200 Christian schools in the United States of America. Be it politics or podcasting, there can be no quarter for anti-Semites. None. To those cowards using their faith as the fig leaf to legitimize their... This lying, hateful grifter. You don't represent us and you don't speak for us.

You don't represent Christ. You don't speak for Christ either. The Jewish people is eternal. It never changes God's covenant to the... Jewish people for the land of Israel is forever and forever and forever, end quote. Let us as Christians and Jews resolve to win this fight, both on the battlefield and in the media war for the hearts and minds of the next generation. He's exactly right when he says we've got to get this knowledge into elementary school. propagandized people. Let me tell you, he's not Christian. And it bothers me to see people like

Paul White and John Hagee as a poster children for quote unquote Christianity. They are grifters. They're liars. This guy, the hate, the lies, the censorship, the murder that this guy is pushing is antichrist. He doesn't think the Jewish people need Christ. If he loved the Jewish people, if he loved Christ, he would tell them about it. But he doesn't think that's a important. The only thing that's important to him is their race. And you've got plenty of people who are like this. As a matter of fact, Lebanon is just a pattern of what Israel has been doing everywhere. Israel is approved, approved a new settlement called Stema, where they will destroy 11,000 predominantly Christian homes to make way for settlers. This would effectively be the end of the

Christian community in Bethlehem and in the Shepherds field. And this is, this is, it would be really tragic to see the oldest Christian community in the world, um, a race before our very eyes. Yeah, these people who tell you that, uh, Jews are the chosen race and, and you're nothing. And you have to hate everybody that's not a Jew as much as the Jews hate everybody else. And so they come after the Arabs.

They come after the people in Palestine, but they're coming after Christians as well. That's what he's pointing out. So he's talked about what is happening in Lebanon, Jason Jones has, as well as what is happening in Gaza and areas like that. It's interesting, there was an ultra-Orthodox rabbi that I saw speaking. He said, you know, in Iran, there are, and I think, I forget what the number was, I should have grabbed the clip and written it down.

But anyway, I think he said there was 35,000 Jews in Iran. He said, they're living, it's fine. They're not being persecuted. They're not being killed by the Iranians. He goes, you don't see the Israeli government having that kind of forbearance for people they don't agree with. And of course, he was the one who said, you know, the very state of Israel is a violation of the Torah because they have killed people to steal their land. And when you look at how this plays out in the Trump administration, you got people like Caroline Lovett who says

this. He said yesterday, and I quote him, God does not listen to the prayer of those who wage war. Can you comment on that? I think our nation was a nation founded 250 years ago almost on Judeo-Christian values. And we've seen presidents. We've seen the leaders of the Department of War. And we've seen our troops go to prayer during the most turbulent times in our nation's history. And I don't think there's anything wrong with our military leaders or with the president. Let me just say that,

the values of Netanyahu have nothing to do with the Torah. They have nothing to do with the Old Testament or the New Testament. And where does all this Judeo-Christian nonsense come from? I put out a tweet this morning that mentioned the J-word, and I try to know how to mention the J-word, because you get it from both sides, you get the right-wing saying you need to become an anti-Semite, you get the left-wing saying you are an anti-Semite,

you get the right-wing saying you're a Zionist, to get the left wing saying you need to become a Zionist or whatever. I don't care, whichever faction it is. But my stance is that I'm a Christian, and I put Christ first. So I ask the question, where the hell did Judeo-Christian values come from? What does this term mean? I know what Christian values are. They're what built the West. What are Judeo-Christian values? And the kickback I got from that is ridiculous. I'm not saying that people should hate Jews. I'm not saying that. I'm asking a simple question, why do we put Judeo before Christian? Why do we put anything before Christian? I don't believe in putting anything before Christ. I think he told us that the only way to the father is through

the son. And therefore, if we love people, including Jews, if we love everybody, we want them all to come to know our Lord, because he is the only way to get into heaven. That's the Christian message. Modern day Jews don't get a special out clause from that. And I've seen there's a growing movement amongst American evangelicals, where there's almost an idolatry of modern. modern-day Judaism that is put on a pedestal above everything else. Sometimes even including Christianity. It's weird. Heggy.

I don't understand it. Which is why I'm asking questions. Exhibit A. At all. No anti-Semitism. Certainly no Zionism. Neither side. I'm just trying to find out why do we put something before Christian values?

People keep replying because of the Old Testament. I'm like, what do you mean because of the Old Testament? Well, because Christianity takes on the Old Testament as well as the New Testament. Well, yes, because the New Testament fulfills the Old Testament. But we don't, and people say, well, yeah, they're seeing to be reminded of the inclusion of the Old Testament because Christ was a Jews. Like, yes, he was of the time. But the point is that he came to fulfill the law. And the law has been fulfilled.

The New Testament fulfills the Old Testament. And we don't need to say, read your Bible, read your Old Testament slash New Testament Bible. Like, we just say the Bible. It's all included. And it's like Christ fulfilled the Old Testament. therefore freed us of that of that we are not Jews essentially we are Christians we follow Christ and that's important anyway I'm going off on a tangent because it's just something that I tweeted about this morning but I'm kind of baffled by the language that people are using like the Gentiles were

grafted in with the Jews but they are now called Christians all of them the Gentiles and the Jews together are called Christians modern-day Jews are not the Jews of the Bible the Talmudic Judaism didn't exist in the time. The Jews of the time are now Christians. The Gentiles of the time are now Christians. I'm not a Jew or a Gentile. I'm a Christian. That shouldn't be confusing. And people seem to think that the Israel on the geographical map that we see today is the Israel of the Bible. No, the Israel of the Bible wasn't geographical. It was the nation of Israel. It was the people. It was the community, which is now known as the church. So the church is Israel. And so people are getting confused, I think. It's a conversation that needs to be had further. This is probably

not the way to have it, but I'd like to get someone on to have a proper discussion about that at some point. But we should be able to have that conversation without accusations of anti-Semitism or Zionism. Let's move past those silly labels and get to the conversation and try to find the truth. And that's exactly why they use those labels, is to stop people from talking. He was pointing out, in a sense, it's been said that the New Testament is in the Old Testament concealed. You can see it there. Once you get to the New Testament, it is the Old Testament. Testament has then revealed the true meaning of all these types and things that happened. And that's the

way it needs to be understood. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. In a world of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. You're listening to the David Knight Show. If you like the Eagles, on a dark desert highway, the cars, and Huey Lewis in the news, love the classic hits channel at APS Radio. Download our app or listen to at APSRadio.com. Welcome back, folks. And real quickly, I just wanted to ask the, you know, Zionist Christians that are out there, imagine you had a friend that, you know, you did things for,

anything they asked, you would do. And then you found out behind your back when you were around, they were talking about your mother the way the Jews talk about Christ. Yeah. Your mother or your wife. Would you consider them a good friend? Would you consider them someone that you should continue helping? they're talking about your mother or your wife burning in hell in a lake of excrement.

Is that someone you would continue to support and aid and consider your closest ally, your closest friend? Right. Because I wouldn't do that. I would cut that person off. And when you look at, you're exactly right, Travis. And when you look at Zionism, Zionism is political. And they use this veneer of religious side. That's why when you see people like John Hagee, it truly is amazing because Zionism is a political movement.

And it's about setting up a secular government. Yeah, they draw on dispensational theology, but they even pervert that in order to get Zionism. And that's why we're talking about is a legitimate term to oppose Zionism. But let's talk a little bit about what the regime optics of the Trump administration. Of course, Christy Nome has been somebody who is into dress up. And as we talk about cosplay, costume play, right? She would dress up as Ice Barbie or Border Barbie or whatever, pretending that she's law enforcement,

pointing her and gun at the head of the guy standing next to her, all the rest of this crazy stuff and all the, she got the Mar-Lago face with the big lip fillers and everything. Well, it turns out that the Daily Mail discovered yesterday that her cuckold husband has been leading a double life himself, Christy Noam's husband, revealed as a secret cross-dresser who don's gigantic fake breasts and pink hotpants

to chat with online fetish models. He's calling up these high-priced prostitutes and role-playing with them. And meanwhile, his wife was role-playing as a law enforcement officer, but this is the way Daily Mail describes her. While his wife was operating at the highest echelons of government and handling matters of national security, No, she wasn't.

She wasn't handling any of that stuff. She's lying about what happened when her agents murdered people. Brian Nome, her husband, 56, was dressing up and paying adult entertainers to talk dirty. Adult entertainers and prostitutes. The Daily Mail has revealed hundreds of messages involving these women from what is called the bembofication scene. What was really funny about this was. Remember Hillary Clinton when. all the stuff started coming out about Bill Clinton, she called it bimbo eruptions, right?

And these women that Bill Clinton had sexually assaulted, abused, and raped were not bimboes. They were not trailer trash. But this guy is a literal bimbo. And so now the Trump administration is looking more and more like the Clinton administration, so many different ways. Now they've got their own bimbo eruption. And it was the bimbo eruption was the husband. of the cosplay Homeland Security,

director, Christine Ome. It's a bembofication scene where porn performers transform themselves into real-life Barbie dolls by pumping colossal amounts of saline into their breasts. Folks, this is the Trump-Epteen regime,

just like Dershowitz. You know, well, there's a lot of, I'm not going to become a Republican because Republicans don't like all this transgender stuff and murdering babies and mutilating minors. They don't like that stuff, so I can't go along with that. You know, I've got my standards, after all, says I'm on Dershowitz. But national security experts consulted by the Daily Mail say that his brazen behavior could have left the 54-year-old MAGA favorite vulnerable to blackmail.

Not in the Trump regime. In the Trump regime, who cares, right? This stuff gets put out. This isn't going to hurt Trump. It's not going to hurt even Christy Nome, not with the MAGA people. Hey, if she's on the Trump team, if she's got an R behind her name, we're all for her, right? No matter what happens. What was that cross-dresser, Lady Maga or whatever that was there for the longest time, this influencer that was legitimately a, gosh, drag queen.

There's the term. That kept showing up to all these events and getting welcomed with open arms. Well, you got, it was a guy, Pressler, some Pressler guy. They keep putting him out there as a surrogate, and he's, you know, as well as Bruce Gender. You know, Alex Jones has got Blair White. I mean, these people make common cause with this stuff. They have no standards whatsoever when you look at this. So if a media organization can find this out, you can assume that with a high degree of confidence that a hostile intelligence agency knows this as well.

Let's get this straight. Homeland Security doesn't protect anybody any more than TSA protects anybody. and understand how it was created. It was created in the aftermath of a false flag event where our own government terrorized and murdered its own citizens. That's what this is really about. This is not, we're not to worry about some kind of foreign threat. We have met the enemy and he is us and he is in Homeland Security as a matter of fact.

But again, perversion is no longer any kind of thing that matters to the Maga cult. Not at all. And a selfie shared with one of his online contacts, her husband Byron, an insurance mogul, can be seen squeezing into flesh-colored crop top and skin-tight pink shorts. And he puts big balloons in his chest. Then he used the knots on the balloons, his nipples, they're pointing in different directions. And it was actually kind of comical.

But people used to laugh at stuff like that. Now you're supposed to take it seriously, I guess. remarkably his face is clearly seen in pictures that he sent to them. Mrs. Noam, your husband is a beautiful woman. No, not quite. Not beautiful. Here's what I thought was really key about this. He sent his secret roster of online acquaintances at least $25,000 via cash app and PayPal.

I'm banned on PayPal, but these prostitutes are allowed to do the whole Bimbo. scene, but I'm banned off of PayPal. They accept these people as a legitimate users of PayPal. They don't get... Well, you might have been up to something nefarious. Yeah, that's right, exposing what they're doing. It's astounding that somebody whose spouse is at that level has that kind of bad judgment.

Well, you should see the kind of bad judgment that Christy Knoem exhibited, as well as evil and corruption. You know, the... Was it $200-something million? $220 million, I think it was? that she gave to a newly created organization that never had a contract. They create a website, and a couple of days later, they get, you know, a quarter of a billion dollars from Homeland Security to promote Christy Knom,

to put her face out there, to let her role play as a cowgirl or something. Mrs. Nome, they said, is devastated. The family was blindsided by this. She didn't know. See, that's the key thing they should be saying. It's like, well, okay, so this leaves her open to. blackmail from foreign actors. No, what it should tell you is that either she is incredibly corrupt. If she's blindsided by this, which is her alibi, then what does that say about her discernment,

her ability to run an investigatory organization? I mean, she doesn't know any of this stuff is happening. Meanwhile, she was having an open affair with Corey Lewandowski for a very long time. and the two of them were, it was a scandal. Even within the Trump-Eptain regime, it was a scandal of what was happening between the two of them. Their marriage became subject of intense speculation with the Daily Mail revealed their alleged years-long affair. Christy at the time that it first came out was Republican governor of South Dakota,

but she continued this. She pushed to get a very high-level position for Corey Lewandowski. People inside the Trump regime said no, but she managed to get him in there anyway. And so she was asked about this when she appeared before Congress recently and had to answer about her other corruption crimes. She was asked by one person, have you had sexual relations with Corey Lewandowski?

She didn't answer. Instead, she went on offense. How dare you go down this path and peddle tabloid garbage in this committee? This is a standard approach of all the corrupt individuals in the Trump regime. He got in contact with the model using the pseudonym Jason Jackson. He complimented her for her amazing curves and vowed to worship her like a goddess, according to messages that were seen by the Daily Mail. And again, the PayPal account, he was sending these people $500,000 a pop,

You know, I guess a pop. That was a reference, I guess, to his balloons. But a second woman told the Daily Mail that she pocket dialed him and was astonished to hear a voicemail greeting saying, Nome Insurance, leave a message. A quick Google search pulled up photos of Christy Nome and Byron Nome. She said, I was completely shocked. I said, why are you doing this?

I didn't think hot guys did this, she said. Yeah, right? Yeah, hot guy. Well, she's not much of a detective if she didn't know any of this stuff. Prostitutes figured it out. They're not sending the best. Well, Christie's kind of prostituted herself to Trump in terms of the policies, right? Second woman had also read about Christie's alleged affair with Lewandowski, who married a 9-11 widow in 2005. and has four children of his own. She said, I asked him about it.

And his response was, I know, but there's nothing I can do about Corey and Christy. Meanwhile, Nome and GOP operative Corey have continued to appear alongside each other publicly. Again, has anybody checked Corey's closet to see if he's got any women's clothes in there? I don't know. Why are you spending $20,000 a month on balloons? Yeah. That's pretty amazing. that she didn't notice that either, right?

Of course, she's getting kickbacks from this $220 million contract that's there. And Mark Wayne Mueller is Mullen is going to be the replacement, Mr. Anger. Yeah, it so reminds me of the mystery men thing. You know, the one guy, his superpower was that he would get angry with everybody. Oh, that's Mark Wayne Mullen's superpower. And I guess it comes in handy when you're ahead of ice and you want your people act like thugs on the street. He replaced her at DHS.

She's now been, they created a special office for her to laterally move her out and help her try to save face too late for that, actually. They made her a special envoy for the Shield of the Americas. A newly created role

that is widely seen as a soft landing for her. She will liaise with Latin American governments to fight drug cartels. Oh, she's going to take on the CIA now, right? It's big trouble. Maybe this is why these things leaked out because if she's really going to fight the drug cartels, she would be fighting the CIA. They're the ones who are behind it.

And this is, I think, the most important thing. Not the most important, but this is important. Daily Mail, at the end of their article, made it very clear what they had done to make sure this was not AI generated. They said the Daily Mail ran the photos of Byron through specialist software to check for any signs that they'd been generated by AI1, our analysis found no evidence of digital tampering with consistent lighting across the face, chest, fabric, and background. A telltale sign of edited or fake pictures, such as visible seams, artifacts, or background distortion were not detected.

The metadata suggested they were taken in early 2025 on an iPhone that was set to central time that would be consistent with his South Dakota location. And so, again, you know, like the Clintons, they've had their own bimbo eruptions, but this one is legit. And this is coming from a regime that is all about the optics. And we just saw this with Caroline Levitt. She had a real issue with a turkey picture going back to Thanksgiving. They brought in this turkey as a joke, and, you know, they always do this pardoning of the turkey. and so she brings it into the press group and one photographer that was with AFP gets down on the ground to get a picture of the turkey and he's then getting a picture looking up at her and she's looking down never a flattering angle for anybody she's staring straight down so she winds up with a turkey neck or a double chin or whatever and she was very unhappy about that made it very clear to AFP about that and she also got it removed

moved from the Getty archives as well. This picture has now been removed. They were very clear to say, I never told them that they had to remove it. But of course, you know that if you get on somebody's bad side like that, they will make you regret it. But she's not the only one in the Trump administration

that is very concerned about having flattering pictures. You remember right after this Iran war, war that Trump kicked off right after it happened. Pete Hegseth brought in the regular press for the first time. He had already shut everything down and said, no, you're going to have to, you know, pledge loyalty to me and not ask any difficult questions or you're not going to be allowed to cover anything you do. Well, he opened it up to a general press conference. And there were some pictures that were taken that he thought were unflattering of him in his vanity, his unending vanity. And so he banned all of these people again.

And so they, he thought they were very unflattering. So he went to war with the press corps yet again over that. And when you look at the dear leader himself, he is laying plans for how he is going to set up his presidential library. And he's getting things named after himself. again, they're talking about putting his profile on the $1 coin. You know, he banned the penny.

And now they, you know, because of inflation, we're getting rid of the penny. We're going to have a dollar coin. And he would like to put his face on the dollar coin. He's got his face on the 24-carat commemorative coin for the 250th anniversary. And he put his face on there. This is all breaking precedent, as I pointed out yesterday. His signature is going to be on the, the currency along with the Treasury Secretary. This is also breaking precedent. And so he is setting up

a giant library, if you will, and this is what it looks like. And I take a look at this. As you look at this, Shannon Joy had the perfect comment. She said, look at the Trump library, the skyscraper. She said, it looks, how fitting that the Vax Daddy would have a library that looks like a syringe. Look at that. It truly is amazing. This is the monument that he's building to himself. He's constantly building monuments to himself, putting his name on everything.

But of course, if you believe RFK Jr., he's not a narcissist, not at all. He's really empathetic to other people. That's the Trump library that he wants to build right there in Florida. And of course, they've just changed the name of the Palm Beach International Airport to Trump Airport as well. His name on everything.

Yeah, I will not be going to that. I'd be tempted to vandalize something, I think. Well, if you go there, you're going to be able to see something very special on the inside. Are they going to show it in this video? Let's wait and see. Looks like they're going into the entrance there. Well, there's the big plane and the Trump plane, but there's something even more special. Oh, we got a golden escalator.

That's how his campaign started with his escalator. There it is. There's the Piestresistance, right? The golden statue. It's actually 30 feet high. Got one arm raised on that statue. Here's the picture of the statue. And it's got the arm up there just like the fight, fight, fight, right?

But all the secret service around him are gone. A big golden statue, 30 feet tall. with his arm raised in his fight, fight, fight. Or maybe, as I like to refer to it, his fake, fake, fake. And, of course, the ear is not hit on that statue either, just like in real life. That is what we're seeing from the giant syringe library of the Vax Daddy with his big golden statue of himself. But, you know, he is not a narcissist, not at all. You may somehow get that, you just misunderstand him if you think the guy is a narcissist,

a crook, and a money-grubbing thief and pirate. Well, that's it for today. We went over a little bit of time because we had a problem at the beginning of the program. But I just want to thank everybody and Marty once again. Thank you so much, Marty, for kicking everybody off. Not kicking him off, but kick-starting it yesterday. And we were down quite a bit this month. And we got it up to close to where the goal is.

I want to thank everybody who contributed, especially in these difficult times. Keep your eyes open and prepare for the future. Thank you for joining us. Have a good day. Yes, thank you. Real quick before we go, this is completely off topic, and I figure the end of the show is the best place to do something off topic. But if you're in the market for a dog or two,

I found some and turned them over to a shelter a while ago. And so if you're in the mood for either a pit bull terrier or an elderly little white chihuahua, mix, you can go to the East Tennessee Care Animal Shelter website and find them there. So this is one of them. This is off topic again, but this is Violet. She was a very, very sweet dog. And if you are in the mood for a dog, you can go find her again at the Care Animal Shelter.

Yeah, Travis is a sucker for stray dogs, if ever there was one. Yes, please go adopt her because the temptation to go back and get her grows every single day. Well, thank you for joining us, folks. Have a good day. Thank you all. The common man. They created common core to dumb down our children. They created common past to track and control us.

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