Unnamed Guest (11:37)

Good.

Michael Knowles (11:37)

That's a good way to guide our understanding of justice moving into the Trump era. Let's not allow those words to be twisted. Just like freedom's twisted by the libs. Equality is twisted by the libs. Merit. Justice is twisted by the libs. Then major, major news on pardons and on further executive action. There's so much more to say. First, though, go to balanceofnature.com, use promo code Knowles. Balance of Nature fruits and veggies is the most convenient way to get whole fruits and vegetables daily, especially if you have centered your New Year resolutions around creating a healthier lifestyle. Nature is pretty good at giving us the nutrients that we need through our fruits and vegetables. Balance of Nature takes fruits and veggies, freeze, dries them, turns them into a powder, and then puts them into a capsule. You take your fruit and veggie capsules every day, then your body knows what to do with them. 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January 6th, the worst day in the history of this or any republic. That could encompass 1625 people across all 50 states, over 465 people in prison. Then an order to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. President Trump spoke about that. And then also to declare a national energy emergency. This is perhaps less tangible, less visible to people than the national emergency at the border, but we do have an energy emergency. You know, energy can dictate the fate of great nations. I was speaking to my friend Alan Estrin, the executive director of PragerU, and he said, you know, by my analysis of great powers rising and falling, it pretty much all comes down to energy. And the left has sought to destroy America's energy, to stop us from drilling, to stop us from fracking, to stop us from building nuclear power plants, to stop us from using any energy that actually works. And what do they want to do? They want to sing Kumbaya around the windmill and put some solar panels and a few parking lots and that's that. Not gonna cut it. Here is how the New York Times covered in particular the Birthright citizenship executive Order. Get a load of this. This is. If the New York Times were not now largely irrelevant, this would bother me. Now. I just want to laugh. They say, declare an end to birthright citizenship, a guarantee granted by the 14th Amendment for the children of undocumented immigrants. The President cannot change the Constitution on his own. So it's not yet clear how Trump plans to withhold the benefits of citizenship to a group of people born in the United States. All right, did you catch that? Did you catch that? Because you were listening to the show yesterday? The President cannot change the Constitution on his own. One of Joe Biden's final acts as president was to try to change the Constitution on his own. That was one of the last things he did, other than trying to pardon his corrupt family members to protect himself, a corrupt politician, from being investigated and facing consequences for selling state influence or his personal enrichment. Allegedly, Biden tried to single handedly ratify the so called Equal Rights Amendment. This feminist nonsense that would have transed our culture 50 years before anyone was really talking about it. It failed. The Equal Rights Amendment failed its first deadline in the 1970s. It failed its second deadline in the early 1980s. 1982. It's done. They needed to get 38 states to ratify this amendment. They only got 35. It's done. But then a couple years ago, a few years ago, Virginia decides to ratify it. Decades after the deadline, and then years after that, Joe Biden says, okay, I now declare the law of the Land. So you got one day, Joe Biden single handedly trying to change the Constitution. New York Times all supportive of it. They either keep mom or they support it. And then days later, two days later, Donald Trump offers a legitimate interpretation of a contentious question pertaining to the meaning of an amendment that's already been ratified. And the New York Times up in arms, just totally ridiculous. Now, Trump gave two inauguration speeches. That's how fired up he is. We covered it a lot yesterday. We were live from the Capitol. Right now I've got the Capitol behind me. But yesterday I was suffering in the freezing cold and it didn't even feel like suffering because of how great the speeches were. President Trump made a lot of very particular claims in the speech. Inauguration speeches are very often high minded, soaring rhetoric, 30,000 foot view. And Trump's had that as well. But what was distinctive about Trump's inauguration speech is he tied the high flying rhetoric to particular policy proposals, notably on American territory itself.

Donald Trump (17:29)

And above all, China is operating the Panama Canal. And we didn't give it to China, we gave it to Panama and, and we're taking it back. The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation, one that increases our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises our expectations, and carries our flag into new and beautiful horizons. And we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars.

Michael Knowles (18:00)

Our Manifest Destiny. The Manifest Destiny is an old term going back to the 19th century. You're noticing a lot of 19th century coming back, a lot of America's greatness, these eras of expansion, growth coming back in the person of Trump. Manifest Destiny is the American iteration of an ancient concept called the Translatio emperii, that the empire, the power, the authority of the governing body moves. Why does it move? The idea of it comes from Troy, actually, that when Aeneas leaves Troy, the Translatio imperii moves westward. It moves from Troy to Rome and the founding of the Roman Empire. And this is actually why Emperor Constantine is sometimes criticized, because Constantine moves the empire in the wrong direction, starts moving it east from Rome to Constantinople. It's this notion that we're moving, we're growing. It is actually part of the logic of history that the empire is to expand and to expand westward. So when the early United States existed as merely 13 colonies on the east coast of the continent, the notion of Manifest Destiny arose, that we were supposed to conquer westward, go west, young man. And then at some point after 1959, I guess we just decided that America could not expand anymore. We shouldn't take on new territories. Everything had to be perfectly fixed. In part, this is because after the Second World War, we adopted a liberal fiction that borders were going to remain exactly fixed forever. Now, that, of course, doesn't make sense because people grow and people contract. We have a problem in the west right now that we don't have any children anymore. So if you stop having children, you're gonna lose your borders, your country's gonna contract, countries rise and countries fall. And so it's not merely an injustice, a fact of the fallen world, that national borders change and that some countries grow and some countries shrink. It's actually a necessity. It's a political necessity because people change, because time goes on, because history moves. And Trump's saying time is moving on and we wanna make sure that we continue to grow, that we continue to be great, that. That we're not left behind by history. Now, here, Trump might be insinuating an expansion eastward. He might be talking about Greenland, as he's been discussing in recent weeks, or to follow the logic of Manifest Destiny, the Translatio in Paris, and take it into, I don't know, three dimensions, four dimensions, I don't know, to take it onto another axis. He's talking about expanding even into outer space. I guess we'll go back to the moon, but we're going to go to Mars. We're going to keep exploring, we're going to keep growing. This is going to surprise some people who view Trump as a rigid nationalist. You've heard this from the liberal media warnings about Christian nationalism. I always tell people, if you're worried about Christian nationalism, just wait till you discover unchristian nationalism. That's going to be a lot worse, trust me. But here, even I've hesitated to call myself a Christian nationalist beyond a practical way that, you know, perhaps Christianity is better than the alternatives. I am a Christian. I believe Christianity is true. If you don't like Christianity, just wait till you hear about the alternatives. And nationalism is good. It's better than liberal globalism. But I sometimes say, no, I'm not a Christian nationalist, I'm a Christian imperialist. Because the empire traditionally is considered to be the ideal form of government, but when it goes bad, it can go really, really bad. Like the liberal globalist empire is really awful. Trump here, I think, is shifting away a little bit from a merely nationalist perspective, a 20th century perspective, into a more classical and older perspective of expansion, of growth, of recognizing that America is the global empire. It just is. We just are. You might like that, you might not like that. We have a lot of foreign Dignitaries who flew in for this inauguration from countries all around the world. People don't fly in for Tibet's elections. Does Tibet have elections? People don't fly in for the changing of the guard in Liechtenstein, but they do fly in for the American inauguration. With a global empire, Trump says we're gonna be strong, especially when he talks about the Panama Canal. He says, look, we don't have the Panama Canal so that we can sell it to China. We're taking that back. We're taking that back. That's ours. That's right. That is ours. That is strong. That is just. That's in America's interest, and it tells the rest of the world. China. 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Trump, then, speaking of the 19th century, brings up in his first inauguration speech. In the modest inauguration speech, he brings up McKinley, President and Mountain.

Donald Trump (24:51)

A short time from now, we are going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. And we will restore the name of a great president, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley, where it should be and where it belongs. President McKinley made our country very rich through tariffs and through talent. He was a natural businessman and gave Teddy Roosevelt the money for many of the great things he did, including the Panama Canal, which has foolishly been given to the country of Panama after. The United States. The United States, I mean, think of this. Spent more money than ever spent on a project before and lost 38,000 lives.

Michael Knowles (25:51)

So, so true. We invested not only money, but lives into building the Panama Canal. We're going to take it back. We're also going to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Who's going to step. Why can't we do that? Why can't we do that? And as we rename Mount McKinley, Mount McKinley, we're also going to look at McKinley's policies, the policies that did make America rich. We're going to start talking about tariffs, which Democrats and Republicans have been loath to talk about in recent years, as there has been a Uni Party consensus on things like free trade. And Trump is saying, no, it's actually a more complicated story. And maybe pursuing a policy of freer and freer trade, maybe that was good for a certain time, but we're in a different time now. We need to adapt to changing circumstances. Then President Trump, speaking of foreign affairs, speaking of Latin America, gives a little warning to the drug cartels that are poisoning our country, literally poisoning our country, and sending millions and millions of foreigners into our country illegally.

Donald Trump (27:00)

Under the orders I signed today, we will also be designating the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. And by invoking the Alien enemies Act of 1798, I will direct our government to use the full and immense power of federal and state law enforcement to eliminate the presence of all foreign gangs and criminal networks, bringing devastating crime to U.S. soil, including our cities and inner cities. As commander in chief, I have no higher responsibility than to defend our country from threats and invasions. And that is exactly what I am going to do. We will do it at a level that nobody's ever seen before.

Michael Knowles (28:11)

I'm gonna translate that for you. A bunch of cholos with face tattoos are about to get a visit from U.S. special Forces. That's what that policy means in practice. In practice, to declare that the cartels are foreign terrorist organizations means that we are. As we fight the global war on terror and its continuations and its permutations, we're gonna start targeting them, okay? We're gonna go get jihadis in the Middle East. That's good. It's good to get jihadis, I guess. But we have a threat that is much closer to home, and that threat is the cartels at our border. And all of a sudden, the same guys who are just blowing the heads off of jihadis in Syria, they're gonna start showing up in Guadalajara, okay? They're gonna start showing up a little closer to home. If I were a Mexican with a face tattoo right now, I would go into hiding. I'd put a lot of makeup on, I'd cover that up, and I would get out of dodge because Trump is signaling things are gonna get very, very bad for them. And it's a reminder that we still have political power. The way the libs talk about the border, they say, oh, there's nothing to be done. I know the majority of Americans not only wanna close the border, but wanna drastically reduce all immigration. But, you know, it just, it can't be done, you know, and that's so sad. And Trump's saying, no, it can easily be done. You just need to have courage and will. You have to come to a smart conclusion, the correct conclusion about the problem. Then you have to have will and courage to actually do something about it. It's really easy, though. US Special Forces are unbelievable. They're the most lethal fighting force ever in the history of the world. They can blow the heads off some Mexican gangsters. They're not that tough. We just have to have the will to do it. Trump's saying he will and speak. Speaking of those face tattooed, actually Satan worshiping, in some cases Mexican gangsters. President Trump makes a big point in that first speech to talk about God.

Donald Trump (30:08)

Just a few months ago in a beautiful Pennsylvania field, an assassin's bullet ripped through my ear. But I felt then, and believe even more so now, that my life was saved for a reason. I was saved by God to make America great again. Thank you very much.

Michael Knowles (30:49)

It's a clear statement and it's one that Trump gave with, I think, sincerity, but with a clear amount of humility. This is where moving inside for the weather or maybe because there was a security threat, the latter I think is more likely. This is where this, I think Helped Trump because he could speak real close up to a relatively small number of people and speak, I think, quite clearly from the heart. Either the guy's a better actor than Brando, or he's speaking from the heart. I think if you have a bullet go through your ear and only miss the back of your skull because of an inexplicable last second jerk of the head, inexplicable by natural means, jerk of the head. I think you're going to get religion and I think that's going to humble you a little bit. And he says, I was saved by God. None but the most hardened atheist could look at what happened in Pennsylvania, look at Trump's survival and not say that it was God. It was providential. As a priest friend of mine, Father Rutler says, it's a wicked generation that seeks a sign and wonder, and it's a stupid generation that ignores signs and wonders. He says, I was saved by God for a purpose, to make America great again. He wasn't saved by God just so that he can go play more golf. I don't think, I don't think that would make sense. He says, he certainly doesn't think that. He says, I was saved for a purpose, and that purpose is to make America great again. Beautiful first speech. Then he goes downstairs in the Capitol and he gives an impromptu second speech off the cuff. And in this speech, he says, off the top, he says, hey, all right, I want to talk about a few things. When I wrote my speech for up there, I had a great speech, and Melania and JD Told me that I couldn't give this speech. They said, it's such a great speech, but you got all this mean stuff in there and you're settling scores and you're going after people and you're being. And you know, listen, Don, just come on, take that stuff out, please, sir. And he says, okay, for the one upstairs, the formal, official one, I'll keep it. Basically high minded. Trump settled his scores in the second one. This speech was great. And he's telling you this in the second speech. He's saying, so this is what I did. And they told me I shouldn't talk about this. So, okay, I won't talk about this. But it was like I was saying this to Jeremy. He and I were talking about it on the show yesterday. It felt like a post game interview. You get the Yankees manager comes up to the cameras after he goes, yeah, look, all right, this was all right. This we should have done differently here. Back up, actually in the fourth inning I was thinking about doing this, but I ended up doing that. That's what you get from Trump. And so the second speech had this air to it that was a little bit more, I don't know, casual, but it was to give you one little taste of it. Here is Trump discussing, even deciding to give the second speech as he's walking with Melania.

Donald Trump (34:05)

And then we went out to the helicopter, though, just prior to this, and said goodbye. And it's a custom and the wind is blowing like crazy. And with the hat that she's wearing, she almost blew away. We almost lost our. She was being elevated off the ground. She almost blew away. No. So we all appreciate it because you. She's been a great first lady, a beautiful and a great first lady. And they love our first lady. You know, JD, whenever I make a speech, I see hundreds of times, we love our first lady. We love and they do and they should. She's great.

Michael Knowles (34:43)

So he has his experience, he's walking out, he sees Biden off. I was sitting there, I saw Marine One flew right by us. I waved goodbye to Joe Biden. See you later. I was considering a one finger salute, but I said that wouldn't be dignified. So I did a five finger salute. But then he says, I'm gonna go in and I'm gonna give this speech anyway. And some people will say, I know people are saying this, that it was a mistake for Trump to give the second speech. The first was so successful, it was brief, it was beautifully written. He shouldn't have given the second speech. What that criticism misunderstands is that this is what sets Trump apart. Joe Biden doesn't give off the cuff speeches. Obviously, he could not do that. Now, he probably couldn't read a written speech. Kamala Harris certainly can't do that. Bill Clinton can do that, but he won't. Bill Clinton is a pretty scripted guy. Barack Obama, very scripted guy. Trump, he does the thing and then he does commentary on the thing. This is why Trump is not only a political figure, he's a meta political figure. This was true in the first administration too. He does politics about politics in the first administration. Says, look, I get up here, they tell me I'm not very presidential. They tell me, this is what they say I gotta do. I gotta say this, I gotta comb my hair this way. I gotta do. But I don't wanna do it like that. He's breaking the fourth wall. I don't know what other theatrical metaphors one can use, but he's a showman. This is a guy who's been in movies, he's been in hit TV shows for years and years. He's a real showman. He is doing a kind of politics that is in another dimension. He's doing the actual politics, these issues for these reasons with this history. But then he's also doing a politics about the politics, which is why President Trump has this effect on our polity, which is that he's the guy who points out that the emperor has no clothes and that gives him a great deal of freedom. Freedom to radically change the Republican Party, or rather, I think to say to restore the greatness of the Republican Party, because he's not within that system. The guy can be elected to a second term, a non consecutive second term. He's now dominated GOP politics for a decade, and yet he's still kind of like an outsider. That's what you got in the second speech. That's the magic of the second speech. That's part of the magic of Trump. The holidays are a time to slow down and savor moments shared with those who matter most this year. Make those moments extraordinary with Mayflower cigars. From the milder Mayflower dawn to the bolder Mayflower dusk, each blend of Mayflower premium handmade cigars is crafted for conversation and contemplation. Give the gift of unrushed excellence this holiday season. Create your moment@mayflowercigars.com. you must be 21 years old or older to order. Some exclusions apply. You know, you watched, I hope, our exclusive inauguration coverage from the weekend through the historic day in D.C. right here on Daily Wire. We were all over Washington. All exclusive coverage, uncensored, unfiltered, ad free. Exactly how we intend it to be. The Daily Wire does not just report the news. We go straight to the center of it to give you the facts. Live, live daily shows from the most trusted voices and most handsome voices, I would say, in conservative media. Groundbreaking culture shaping, premium content, hit movies, explosive docs, series that actually matter. Not a Daily Wire plus member yet. You're crazy. Now's the time. Get 47% off as we honor the 47th President of the United States. Code 47 at checkout. 47% off. When you go to DailyWire.com subscribe. Code 47. 47% off. My favorite comment yesterday is from riggedupgaming says, Love the glasses. Mr. Knowles, thank you. Here you were not talking about my Rachel Maddow lesbian glasses. I think you were talking about my sunglasses. I was wearing shades on the show yesterday. We were sitting Outside and the future is so bright that one must wear shades. The liberal media, you will be unsurprised to hear, did not like Trump's speech. Either of them. Even the first one, which was extremely presidential and really quite beautiful. They hated it. New York Times was talking about how dark and divisive and how he presented a grim view of America. No, he presented a very bright view of America. Starting today. Sorry, starting yesterday, America has gone through very dark moments, but it's looking bright. It was a bright, sunshiny day yesterday. Meanwhile, Biden was absolutely bitter. This is according to cnn. You don't have to take my word for it. CNN spelled it out on Inauguration Day. The final hours of his presidency were spent reportedly in a dark mood.

Unnamed Guest (39:48)

All of our reporting talking to sources in recent days and weeks really suggests that the President is in a bit of a dark space when it comes to just his headspace in these very final days. We are told that he never really stopped feeling angry about the fact that he believes he was forced out this pressure campaign to drop out of the 2024 race. And then, especially since Election Day, when his vice president, Kamala Harris, was defeated by Donald Trump, he has grown increasingly embittered, we are told by sources at the blame that he has gotten for Donald Trump's eventual return to the White House. And one thing importantly that President Biden has been absolutely consistent about is this belief that he believes that had he stayed in the race, he would have defeated Donald Trump again. Now all of this adds up to, I would say, a mood of sadness and sort of this sense of tragedy here at the White House. Those around him believing and actually hoping that when history judges President Biden years from now, that it will be a little bit more forgiving than how the President is being widely judged.

Michael Knowles (40:59)

At least today, Jake, history will not be more forgiving to Biden. I'm willing to go with Biden a little bit here and say at the very least, I think he would have done better than Kamala, even after the disastrous first debate. Cuz he might have done better in the second debate. They might have shot him up with more adrenaline. Presidents have won elections after bad debates, even though the Biden debate was particularly bad, cuz he could barely speak. But I think he would have done better than Kamala. Here's my proof. Joe Biden has consistently been a much more popular politician than Kamala. Kamala could barely win a race in California. Kamala never won a single vote in a presidential primary while she was running. There's no evidence that Kamala can win any national election. There's zero evidence for that. There is a lot of evidence that Joe Biden's very popular. He got elected to the US Senate before he was constitutionally eligible to run. Okay, say what you will about Biden. I think he's awful, but he's been popular over the years. He's certainly more popular than she is. Even a drooling Joe Biden is more popular than also frequently drooling Kamala Harris, though she does not have the excuse of dementia, allegedly. History will not judge Biden well, not because he didn't run or he tried to run and he got booted out or this, that, or the other thing. History will not judge Biden well, because he's never accomplished anything. He's never accomplished anything. The one thing you could say Joe Biden accomplished would be when he was in the Senate, he spearheaded an important crime bill, and that was the one thing that he ran away from because he was trying to suck up for the black vote. And he mistakenly believed that turning on his one accomplishment, which is to actually put criminals in prison, that that would help him. It didn't work. That's it. What else has he done? Not only does he leave the White House and leave his entire political career without any notable accomplishment whatsoever, over half a century in politics, but he leaves looking corrupt. He leaves looking undignified. He leaves looking petty and out for personal gain. Joe Biden is a relatively wealthy guy. He's a wealthy guy for having been a government employee his whole life. And we have some speculation as to how he got that rich, because we know that his kid was peddling influence all around the world. We know that Joe Biden was involved in Hunter Biden's business. We know he was on a lot of phone calls with Hunter Biden's business pals who were shaking down foreign countries, peddling Joe's influence, getting money. And we know from the Hunter Biden laptop that Hunter Biden at least said that he was kicking up 10% or even half of it to the big guy, Joe Biden. So Biden is leaving not merely as a nothing. He's leaving us looking like a dirty, sleazy politician. I think that's why he's in a dark mood. I think he's in a dark mood not because of the 2024 election and how he really thought he could win it. He said publicly that he had a sense that maybe he couldn't totally finish out a second term. He's even admitting that now. I think it's the reality of his career, which was pointless. It was worse than pointless. It was disreputable. I think that's what's hitting him. I think it's the telltale heart just beating. He's hearing it beat a little bit. He's considering his own missed opportunities and his own sins, basically. By the way, here's my proof of this. His last action as president was to pardon his whole family. He pardoned the whole family. We know that Joe Biden gave Hunter a ten year pardon, blanket pardon for any crimes that he did or might have committed, any crimes of which he was accused and crimes that he wasn't even yet accused of. And he just did the same thing for his brother James, for his sister in law, Sarah Jones Biden, for his sister Valerie Biden Owens, for his brother in law John T. Owens, and for his younger brother Francis. Pardons to cover any nonviolent offense from. And this is where it looks so dirty. From January 1, 2014, until the day before Trump's inauguration, why did he have to do this? The Trump team, the conservatives will say he didn't really have to do this. Trump was not going to go after the Biden family. There's no indication Trump was going to go after them. Now, Joe might have thought that he had to do this because they were maybe guilty of crimes. Maybe because, yeah, they did run a little family business called selling American influence to the highest bidder. Yeah, maybe they did enrich themselves. Yeah, maybe if they were investigated, there'd be a lot of dirt to dig up. The guilty flee when none pursue it. That's it. And I don't think Trump, Trump's talked about pursuing it. I don't think he would have. He was corrupt. Joe Biden was a corrupt guy. And he might not have even started out that way. I don't know that he was corrupt in 1971, but at the very least, he became corrupt over time. And that's how he ends. That's the end of the Biden story. A corrupt politician worked in government his whole life and he made some money. And he seems to have pretty miserable circumstances around him. It reminds me, I talked about Chester Arthur at the top of the show. We've been talking about a lot of 19th century American politics. Chester Arthur wrote advice to his son after leaving the White House. He said, don't pursue a political career. It's not worth it. And Chester Arthur had spent a lot of his career as a corrupt politician, though he reformed at the end of his career. But he said, don't the sacrifices are not worth it. It's really hard. It's really, really hard, especially if you want to do it in a dignified way. It's very, very difficult. So Biden ends. He accomplished nothing, I guess he made a little bit of money. And now that chapter's over and we have a new chapter from Trump. And this feels bigger than just four years ending. This feels bigger than a presidential term ending. This feels like a massive shift in politics in the way America understands herself. America has meant different things to Americans over time. We like to think that America is just frozen in ember. America's an idea and it just means liberty and low taxes or something. That has not always been true. And it feels like we're moving into some new self conception of America. And maybe if Trump is right, that's going to be a golden age. It was such a good day for Trump yesterday. I haven't even gotten into how he became a crypto billionaire and how now something like 85% of his net worth, 89% of his net worth, sorry, is in crypto. I guess I'm gonna have to get to that tomorrow. There's no member block today because I'm in D.C. and I have to come home. 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