The Michael Knowles Show - Best of TikTok: Knowles REACTS To Libs RAGING Over Venezuela and Maduro

Episode Date: January 7, 2026

Michael Knowles reacts to the most unhinged liberal meltdowns on TikTok over President Trump's bold operation that captured Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and brought him to justice in the U.S.! Watch as leftists rage, cry "imperialism," and defend the narco-regime while ignoring Maduro's crimes against his own people and America. From AOC-style freakouts to viral TikTok tears – Knowles breaks it all down with hilarious commentary. The libs are BIG MAD that a dangerous narco-terrorist is finally facing American justice. Classic! - - - Today’s Sponsor: PreBorn! - Make a difference for generations to come. Donate securely online at https://preborn.com/KNOWLES or dial #250 keyword 'BABY' - - - Privacy Policy: https://www.dailywire.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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President Trump took out a drug trafficking communist dictator in Venezuela, and so the libs are, of course, furious about it. Oh, no. Here we go again. Here we go again. We'll pour one out for their main homie, less Maduro's, okay, that's enough. They couldn't be more upset,

even though the removal of Maduro has been official U.S. policy for many years now. Well, let's hear their arguments. I'm saying the United States will be running Venezuela. So a multinational corporation can get profit. What?

Ah, ooh, yikes. What? You know, I guess she's trying to be facetious here or something, but when people have that degree of emotional dysregulation, it is a pretty reliable sign that you shouldn't pay attention to what they're saying. That's stupid! Use your common sense. So she says there was a war for oil.

Because Hugo Chavez and Nicholas Maduro stole American oil properties from corporations. But it is in part about that. That is real. Like they did do that, and that's bad. That's illegal. You're not allowed to do that. that and the United States is a global superpower, we can't look weak. That's true. But also, we need our oil. When people say, we shouldn't have a war for oil, then what should we have a war for?

We need the resources that fund our whole country. And if a country is going to steal them and then ally with our enemies, Russia, China, Iran, that's a big problem. There's actually a very basic national interest in stopping that. But even beyond it, Maduro was a communist. He led to immense poverty and misery in Venezuela. The Venezuelans are thrilled that the guy's gone. He was effectively the head of a drug cartel. And it was the official policy of the Biden-Harris administration to remove him from power. In fact, they offered a $25 million reward for anyone who would lead to his arrest, for anyone, that is, who would allow the policy that Trump actually implemented to be implemented by them. This is colonialism. To which I say, if that's colonialism, great, okay.

Yeah, great. Love it. Do you notice something strange about this woman? Wow, and there it is. You know, we could have avoided playing the whole clip. We could have avoided the whole. Because if you just have that one rule of thumb, and it's not look, the hair, it's the eyes, it's the face, it's the everything. But just that one, she has the symbol. And everything you know is that's going to follow is going to be the craziest thing you've ever heard.

Next one. Although Maduro is not a good guy, what Trump did first and foremost is illegal. You cannot just go into a foreign country and start actively bombing them without any sort of congressional approval. And you also can't be offering people at sea with absolutely no proof that they are smuggling drugs. He's just doing whatever he wants. And I'm telling you right now, there's going to be a. influx of bought accounts that originated in the United States saying that they're from Venezuela and that they are happy about what just happened. Rest assured this has absolutely nothing to do with

democracy. Venezuela has oil. This has everything to do with money, power, and greed. Why else would the United States be sticking its nose in the business of a foreign country? it's just insane that people think he cares about Venezuela. He doesn't even care about Americans. He doesn't even care about the people living here. What makes you all think he cares about the people in Venezuela? Okay, so once you get through all of the fluff, what she's saying is, presidents have no right to just go in and blow up foreign countries, for whatever the reason. To which I would say, okay, well, if that's the case, then why did the Biden administration call for basically this precise operation. The Biden administration offered 25 million bucks to go in and

arrest Maduro. And you're not going to arrest Maduro without blowing some stuff up in the country. So Biden wanted to do what Trump did. Barack Obama went in and blew up a foreign country in Libya and elsewhere. Was that totally unacceptable? George Bush obviously did. I guess she would probably hate that. But before Bush, Bill Clinton set off bombs in Africa and Iraq, by the way. Then George H.W. Bush did this in Panama. Then Ronald Reagan did this in Grenada. And then and then and then and then and then. Nations don't have any right to pursue their interests around the globe.

Furthermore, she says this was illegal. There is a legal predicate for the arrest of Maduro that both parties agreed to. And he's being tried in New York. and he wasn't even recognized as the leader of Venezuela by much of the international community because he stole an election. I know, it's very, I'm all for the realist view of the American involvement in Venezuela. Like we just sometimes top a Latin American dictators because it's in our interest. And it might also advance justice.

But she doesn't even know, she doesn't even know how to make the argument against that. It's very sad. It's sad. Next one. Hold on one second. Hold on. go to preborne.com slash knolls. This episode is sponsored by Preworn Ministries.

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Actually you, you pink-haired SJW, you are in the wrong for deciding what's best for the people of Venezuela. All right, if we're liberating people, let's liberate Russia. Okay, like Vladimir Putin put a potato sack over his head and just eat him over to the United States. That's fine, right? How about the state of Israel? Netanyahu is a war criminal. I don't think anyone would mind if we just zipped in and, you know, tied him up and just, you know where I'm going with this. When has it ever ended well for a country when the U.S. has invaded and taken over? Like, when?

Nicaragua, Panama, Grenada, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Nicaragua again. The Philippines, Germany. I remember? I don't know. It usually works out pretty well, actually. I get that Iraq was pretty bungled. And then Obama bungled Libya, which we didn't really take over. But it usually works out pretty well.

when we intervene in these foreign countries for any number of reasons, in the case of Venezuela, because he was the illegitimate leader of a narco state that was allying with our enemies. He was an illegitimate, so-called president. He was not a head of state. He goes in, he says, well, if we're just going to liberate people. Trump is liberating Venezuela. By the way, the Venezuelans are thrilled that he's gone. He was devastating, as with Chavez, we're devastating to the country.

But even beyond the Venezuelan's greatest as liberators, it says, why don't we do that to Putin? Oh, because Putin is much further away and his country has nuclear weapons pointed at us. And Venezuela is very close to home and therefore a more imminent threat to the United States when things go wrong, which is why we've had the Monroe Doctrine on the books for over 200 years, it's not as big a threat. You would not be able to invade the Kremlin and extract President Putin within 88 minutes, as you could do with Venezuela. So that's one realistic reason why.

Why don't we do this to BB Netanyahu? Oh, because Israel is an ally of the United States. That's why. Putin's not an ally of the United States. Venezuela is not an ally of the United States. Bibi Netanyahu, love him or hate him, his country is an ally of the United States. And so, yeah, we wouldn't do that. Also, because he's further away.

Also, because it wouldn't really advance our interests. And so that's why. Okay, keep going. Are justified by, we're helping the people, and it never helps. That's not the justification for the war. I grant you that was one of the justifications of the Iraq War or the Afghanistan War, one of them, but Trump is explicitly not doing that. Trump is going out and he's saying, yeah, they stole our oil properties and we're going to take them back and they're sending

drugs into America. They're sending people into America. The Venezuelans have been flooding into the country because of the turmoil caused by Maduro. And so we're going to go boot this guy out because it's in our interest. And it'll help the Venezuelan people too, but it's in our interest. So Trump is explicitly making a self-interested America-first argument for this war, quote unquote. So I don't know. I guess this guy just didn't hear it. The Pink Care got in the way. For that matter, the government of the United States of America does not care about the welfare of people from other countries. Put a pause here. It's not true. We do care. We obviously you care about the welfare of people in other countries. One, as a matter of justice, because we are human beings.

but two, because the palace is never safe when the cottage is unhappy. So we care about the welfare of people in other countries in as much as geopolitical turmoil is a problem for us. If there's a civil war in a country, if there's economic carnage even, that's bad for business because we maintain the global order. So we do care. Even if you say it's not at a perfect charity, it's a little bit self-interested, we do care. They only care about power.

We do care about power. We care about power. That's true. That's true. You're right. really weird thing about that guy's reaction? He said, you know, and maybe it takes a pink hair. Do people still say that? That's so dated. That's 2016 lingo. I mean, S-J, who still says that? That's very, that's cringe.

Oh my God. Oh, you're killing me. Even the word cringe is kind of dated. We're in a whole new world. And the new world actually looks a lot like the old world, which is where we have great power of politics. Okay, keep going. Y'all pay attention to what they will spend money on and what they won't spend money on. They will spend money invading another country to kidnap their president and steal their oil. They won't spend money on you when you need health care and when you need housing. I suspect what he is insinuating here is because we don't have more socialistic or communistic health care and housing policies. That that's evidence that we don't care.

But of course, the president of Venezuela that we just went in and abducted was a communist. And the reason that he caused so much turmoil in his country and problems for our country, is in no small part because his communist policies were very bad for the country and for the world. So no, we don't want to become communists. When it comes to health care, though, and housing, taking out Maduro actually could have downstream effects to help that, because one of the chief reasons that health care is so expensive and opaque, and the chief reason that housing is so expensive is mass migration, a lot of which comes from Venezuela. So actually, by stemming all of the mass migration from Venezuela, you actually could help on those

two fronts. But yeah, it's true. It's true. We sometimes have to kick our geopolitical adversaries out of the Western Hemisphere. We've had to do it since the early 19th century. We still have to do it today. Okay. Are there any more libs who are very upset? No, we're out of them for now. Maybe more we'll show up. I'm Michael Null. See you next time. This podcast is brought to you by Carvana. Selling your car should feel like one less thing on your list. Not one more. With Carvana, it is. Just go to Carvana.com. And to your license plate or VIN and get a real offer down to the penny. No back and forth. No surprises. just an experience you can trust.

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