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Ep. 1682 - Leaked Pro-Russia Audio of Donald Trump Jr. Is FAKE
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DNC outlets spread fake pro-Russia audio of Donald Trump Jr., Don Lemon accuses Megyn Kelly of being racist, and Tulsi Gabbard fires a group of pervy spies. Click here to join the member-exclusive portion of my show: https://bit.ly/4biDlri Ep.1682 - - - DailyWire+: Join us for Backstage Live, March 4, at 8:30 PM Eastern—we’ll watch President Trump address Congress, then stay tuned for unfiltered, no-BS reactions you won’t get anywhere else. Watch at https://dailywire.com Now is the time to join the fight. Watch the hit movies, documentaries, and series reshaping our culture. Go to https://dailywire.com/subscribe today. GET THE ALL-NEW YES OR NO EXPANSION PACK TODAY: https://bit.ly/41gsZ8Q - - - Today's Sponsors: Jeremy's Razors - Visit https://jeremysrazors.com to get your Precision 5 Razor + Precision 5 Razor Box today. Policygenius - Head to https://policygenius.com/KNOWLES to get your free life insurance quotes and see how much you could save. PureTalk - Switch to Pu...
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Michael Knowles
Did you hear the shocking audio of Don Jr calling for the United States to ditch Ukraine and start sending weapons to Russia? If you follow the Democrat National Committee's rapid response account, fact post, or any of the other outlets that repeat the DNC's talking points, you probably heard it with your own ears. And the only problem with it is that it's completely made up. I'm Michael Knowles, this is Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. Elon Musk has now presented the first wave of Doge at President Trump's Cabinet meeting. It was explosive. It was just a great Cabinet meeting overall. We'll get to that in a moment. First though, I'm gonna take my Mayflower Xikar single flame lighter and I'm going to light my Smells and Bells candle just in time for Lent. The Smells and Bells candle is back. It's bigger than ever@thecandleclub.com it is literally bigger than ever. It's this big giant glass holder for our most popular candle, by far my favorite candle in the collection. And I like them all. That is the Smells and Bells candle to make your home smell like a 12th century monastery. Just in time for Lent and just in time for you to take advantage of our 20% off deal running right now. This ends soon, so do not wait. Also, members save an additional 20% on all the candles in the collection. Thecandleclub.com Michael M I C H A E L Get your Smells and Bells candle the Candle Club. Don't Forget the the thecandleclub.com Michael M I C H A E L Right now go to jeremysrazors.com Jeremy's Razors crunch the numbers to map out the grim reality of a razorless American Rev. What if the Founding Fathers never shaved? The results horrifying. Suddenly our founders become a bunch of dirty, unshaven hippies whining about the man. The lesson Without a good shave, history falls apart. Thankfully, Jeremy's Razors is here to keep jawlines sharp in America's golden age and to honor President's day. You get 20% off to do it. Great men shave boldly. Get 20% off right now@jeremysrazors.com you probably heard the fake Don Junior clip if you are plugged in to any kind of social media, political media. But this comes from fact, post fact, post posting all the Democrat Committee national rapid response. And here's how it sounds.
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Don Jr.
Can't imagine anyone in their right mind picking Ukraine as an ally when Russia is the other option. I mean, just Think about it. Massive nuclear power, loaded with natural resources, everyone needs literally the biggest country on the planet. And haha, there's Ukraine, which has Chernobyl and some radiation proof dogs. Meanwhile, the Biden administration is like, oh yeah, this is definitely the ally we need. Let's dump all our money into them. Honestly, if anything, the US should have been sending weapons to Russia.
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Michael Knowles
Ok, so since you know it's a fake clip, you can probably hear. All right, the audio's not perfect, his voice isn't modulating perfectly, but you really got to listen. Listen closely. If you did not know that that were a fake clip, and this is important, if you were not listening to the words he was saying, if you're just listening to the tone of his voice, you might think, yeah, okay, that sounds like Don Jr. Okay, what am I listening to from Don Jr. However, if you have any discernment, if you have any judgment, if you understand political reality at all, you would know immediately that's fake. Don Jr. I don't care what you think about Ukraine and the wisdom of giving Ukraine a blank check or what. Nobody would ever seriously believe that Donald Trump Jr. Would advocate arming Russia against Ukraine. No American is advocating arming Russia against Ukraine. The American left defended Russia for the entire history of the Soviet Union, but the Berlin Wall fell 30 years ago and it's totally unthinkable. Anyone with judgment and discernment would know that's a ridiculous. It's obviously AI, which is why the big Democrat accounts were posting that out there, because they lack discernment, they lack judgment. I'm even gonna be charitable here and say they weren't intentionally trying to deceive people. I'm willing to say that they were deceived themselves because they are so disconnected from political reality, they are so high on their own supply, that they really believe the propaganda that they made up eight years ago that Trump is a Russian spy. He's a KGB sleeper cell colluding with the Russians to steal the election. They just made that up. The Democrats cooked that up with Christopher Steele and Russian intelligence, ironically enough. And they believe it. They've told themselves this lie so many times. They really believe that conservatives have no principles whatsoever other than the naked worship of power and the avarice, the desire for money and stuff. They believe that that's disconnected from reality. It's part of why they lost the election in November. But because they're willing to believe their own press releases, they're easily duped. They're so gullible. This is gonna be really Important beyond just the Democrats lacking discernment, beyond this particular hit job on Don Jr. Which didn't make it very far, this is going to be an increasingly prominent problem. It's deep fakes in the social media era. This also reverses the conventional wisdom regarding social media. The conventional wisdom regarding social media is that you just put all the information out there and the people will be journalists themselves and they can sift through everything. And no, actually, increasingly, what you are going to need in the social media era is to cultivate wisdom and discernment. You're going to need to know how to separate truth from falsehood, separate the wheat from the chaff. And that's very difficult when we live in an era that alternately denies the existence of objective truth or even just an era that doesn't know what a baby is, doesn't know what a woman is, doesn't know what a country is that's confused about really basic things. They're gonna be duped. And in this case, the social media are gonna make it harder. Because while the establishment media are dishonest with the social media, you just put information out there. It's then repeated by the gullible establishment media and the political parties, and people look pretty stupid when they fall for that stuff. Now, speaking of the fake news media, Don Lemon, the former CNN host, has just come out swinging against Megyn Kelly. Why? Because Megyn Kelly made fun of Joy Reid. Megyn Kelly said. Joy Reid has viciously mocked the tears of every white person she's helped cancel over the years for some imaginary racial slight. Fact check. True. She's had zero empathy for anyone. True. Now she wants us to feel sorry for her. True. All caps. We don't. Meghan just comes out swinging. So how do you think Don Lemon attacked Megyn Kelly? Don Lemon also not having learned anything over the past 10 years, decided that the best way to attack Megyn Kelly for his attack on this lib journalist who just lost her show is to call her a racist.
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Don Lemon
Megyn Kelly, in my 30 some years as a journalist and my 50 some years as a person of color. Go yourself. Okay, let's move on. Thanks, everyone, for watching. Your support means the world.
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Michael Knowles
Go f yourself, Megan. As a person of color. And that's only a. That's the punchline of the segment. He goes on and on about the racism and the this ism and the that ism. First of all, who talks that way to a woman? Now, Don Lemon's a little bit confused about male roles and female roles, of course, but who Speaks that way. Even a woman in media, go f yourself. That's not how a man talks to a woman. That's very degrading behavior for a man to engage in, though. Don Lemon, you know, I don't think I'm revealing any private sins here. You know, some of the salacious headlines, it seems like he occasionally engages in that kind of behavior. And Don Lemon doubles down on the typical Democrat attack. If you disagree with me, you're a racist. As a person of color, I'm so terribly offended f you, Megyn Kelly. I think it's really weak. It just shows you the problem that Joy Reid is having right now that Don Lemon has been having for a little bit longer that MSNBC and all the establishment media are having, which is that they have not kept up with the times. They haven't changed their strategy. So they think it's 2012 and you can just call everyone a racist and that's absolutely fatal to their credibility. And it's just. That's not true anymore. They think that you can just go out there and say that Trump is a nasty, evil, bigoted person and that that will work. I don't think that really works anymore. So now Don Lemon is relegated to the fringes here. Joy Reid is booted off the network, and they can keep screaming at the sky about the racist Republicans and we can win more and more of the racial minority vote. There's so much more to say. First, though, go to policygenius.com knowles securing your family's future has never been more critical than it is today. As someone who advocates for smart financial planning, I can tell you proper life insurance is not just about sleeping better at night. It's about empowering your loved ones with choices when life takes unexpected turns. That is why I want to tell you about policygenius. It's not an insurance company themselves. They are the leading online insurance marketplace. They let you compare quotes from America's top insurers side by side, totally free, no hidden fees. Their platform uses real, licensed insurance experts who work for you, not the insurance companies, so you can find the best fit for your family. With policygenius, you can find life insurance policies that start at just $292 per year for $1 million of coverage. Some options are 100% online. They let you avoid unnecessary medical exams, and the process is fast and simple. Their licensed support team handles everything, answering your questions, managing paperwork, and advocating for you throughout the entire process. Do not just take my word for it. Thousands of satisfied customers have left five star reviews On Google and trustpilot. No matter what stage of life you're in, policygenius helps you find the perfect coverage for your specific situation, secure your families tomorrow so you have peace of mind today. Policygenius.com knowles or click the link in the description. Get the free life insurance quotes that you need. See how much you could say policygenius.com I speaking of firing people, want to get to Elon Trump at Elon Trump. Elon Musk at President Trump's first Cabinet meeting. Absolutely beautiful stuff. Now, obviously, Elon is not a member of the Cabinet, but he's such an important role in the second Trump administration that he comes out there, President Trump introduces him, he says, you've all heard a lot about Doge. Okay, Doge, what are you doing? Elon Musk, please say a few words.
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Elon Musk
Thank you, Elon.
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President Trump
Thank you, Mr. President. Well, I actually just call myself a Hubble Tech support here, because this is actually as crazy as it sounds, that is almost a literal description of the work that the Doge team is doing is helping fix the government computer systems. Many of these systems are extremely old. They don't communicate. There are a lot of mistakes in the systems. The software doesn't work. So we are actually tech support. It's ironic, but it's true. The overall goal here with the Doge team is to help address the enormous deficit we simply cannot sustain as a country. A $2 trillion deficit. We will make mistakes. We won't be perfect, but when we make mistakes, we'll fix it very quickly. So, for example, with usaid, one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was Ebola. Ebola prevention. I think we all want Ebola prevention, so we restored the Ebola prevention immediately, and there was no interruption. But we do need to move quickly if we're to achieve a trillion dollar deficit reduction in financial year 2026. It requires saving $4 billion per day, every day from now through the end of September. But we can do it, and we will do it.
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Michael Knowles
Both of these points he just made are really, really important. The first one, he says, hello, I'm here to give you your update on your tech support. And everyone kind of laughs. He says, but, you know, we are doing that. And this undercuts the lib narrative that Elon's Doge is unprecedented or has no place in the federal government or whatever. DOGE is the new name of the U.S. digital Service. That's where DOGE comes from. Trump took this department, U.S. digital Service, which is tasked with updating computer software, updating the technology keeping the electronics going. He reformulated that as Doge, and Doge is doing that. As Elon says, the computers don't really talk to each other. He's like, I build electric cars and rocket ships, and I plug electronics into people's brains. So I know a little bit about it. I have developed one of the most impressive AI systems in the world, and so I know a little bit about that. And we are doing that. And as we do that, we are also updating the government. We're updating how the human networks are working as well. Then he gets to the second part. He says, look, we are going to make mistakes. We are moving really, really quickly, and we are going to make mistakes. But just to use one example that the libs wanted to make a big deal out of, we accidentally canceled Ebola prevention. And then we caught it very quickly, put it back online. There was no interruption to service. Good. This is really important because I think some of the more libertarian ideologues would say, you know, we don't even care about Ebola prevention. What is the United States spending hard earned taxpayer dollars on Ebola prevention for? And most Americans would say, ah, you know, whatever. I'm not that ideological. The US Government's going to spend some money on overseas programs. Ebola prevention seems pretty important. You know, teaching Afghan peasants about Marcel Duchamp and urinal modern art is probably not that important, but Ebola prevention's probably a good idea. So Elon's coming in much like Trump and saying, I'm really not an ideologue about this. It's just we have to save trillions of dollars, and it's gonna be difficult, and we have to move quickly. And when some really good program accidentally gets caught up in the mix like a dolphin in a tuna net, you know, okay, we'll fix it. And we have demonstrated that we can fix it quickly. Really, really good. Now, turning to all of these other departments, President Trump made a really, really good point, which is he opens up the cabinet meeting with a prayer. And this was kind of shocking, I think, to a lot of people. It's always shocking because Trump has this reputation as the billionaire playboy. He never seemed to be particularly pious. I think he got some serious religion in that field in Butler, Pennsylvania. But it was so refreshing, just as an American citizen, to see the top tier of the executive branch beginning the meeting with a prayer.
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Elon Musk
Let's pray. Father, we thank you for this awesome privilege, Father, to be in your presence. God, thank you that you've allowed us to see this day, the Bible says that your mercies are new every morning. And Father God, we give you the glory and the honor. Thank you, God, for President Trump, Father, for appointing us. Father God, thank you for anointing us to do this job. Father, we pray you will give the President, the vice president, wisdom. Father God, as they lead. Father, I pray for all of my colleagues that are here, around the table and in this room. Lord God, we pray that we would with a righteous clarity, Father God, that as we serve the people of this country and every prospective agency, every job that we have, Father, we would humble ourselves before you and we would lead in the manner that you've called us to lead and to serve. Father, the Bible says that blessed is a nation whose God is the Lord. Well, Father, we today honor you and in your rightful place. Father, thank you for giving us this opportunity to restore faith in this country and be a blessing to the people of America. And Lord God, today in our meeting, we pray that you will be glorified in our conversation. In Jesus name, Amen.
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Michael Knowles
Scott, that was a very good job you did. I love it. You have to keep the button there at the end. Wow. Boy, that was a really good prayer. I really like that. It's so endearing and really a beautiful thing to see all of the Cabinet secretaries and the President of the United States, heads bowed, eyes closed in prayer. Why is that important? Because. Well, I think it's important because God exists and we need to invoke his blessings because he is constantly sustaining everything that is okay. So that's the basic reason why it's good to pray. Second reason is it makes you holier and you are called to be holy. And if you want to be holy, you have to pray. But the third reason, even if you're an agnostic or an atheist, the reason that it's good to see your political leaders with their heads bowed and their eyes closed in prayer is it demonstrates that they recognize that they have obligations, that they're not the boss, that they're not the master of the universe, that there will be consequences if they behave in an unjust way. That's what that demonstrates. Even if you're some Reddit tier atheist, agnostic, like 2008 style silly person, even if you tip the fedora and whatever, don't believe in God and ignore the kind of classical tradition, even if you're that guy, you want your leaders to behave like this. Even this goes back even to divine right monarchs, okay, some centuries ago. What is misunderstood about even that absolutely magnificent, elaborate kind of role is that the notion of a divine right monarch is that the monarch has obligations to God, that even he, even the glorious Sun King, is not the boss ultimately. And that's really, really important. So you get this prayer, and it's not just a tiny little prayer. It's a kind of long, elaborate prayer. Really beautiful. I hope we see a lot more of that. Then Trump hands it off to Musk. And part of the other important reason that Musk is presenting here is that his work is cutting across all of the departments in the executive branch. So this is something else that's really refreshing about the second Trump administration, is you're seeing everyone work together, even just Elon. Musk's role alone shows you that there is some consistency. There's a through line between the departments. They're talking to each other. There is a clear vision. It is an organization that is moving with integrity. In the first Trump administration, you saw departments kind of undercutting each other. You saw a lot of inconsistency. Here, I think you're seeing a far greater unity of vision, probably because Trump was in the wilderness for four years. Gives you a lot of time to reset, recalibrate, figure out what you are going to do. Now. One of the roles that brings together a lot of departments is the Director of National Intelligence, that is Tulsi Gabbard. And we have some great, great news coming out of the DNI after Chris Ruffo's report yesterday that NSA chat logs showed all sorts of American spies engaging in pervy, weird sex talk, promoting transgenderism and the like. There's so much more to say. First, though, go to PureTalk.comKnowles this country was founded on freedom, I'm told. Freedom from a country that forced us to buy overpriced tea, then tried blockading us when we dumped their tea into the ocean. How'd that work out? Well, it's time to throw your overpriced big wireless contract overboard, too. You don't need to pay $100 a month just to get a free phone. PureTalk, my cell phone company, says no to inflated prices. The qualifying plan, you can choose an iPhone 14 or Samsung Galaxy for $0. This is for premium service on America's most dependable 5G network. Get your iPhone 14 or Samsung Galaxy for $0. With a qualifying plan by going to PureTalk.com knowles K W L E S you can make the switch in as little as 10 minutes. No hassle, no gimmicks, just honest to goodness wireless priced right? That is puretalk.com knowles knes I love this service. I know you heard me say oh it's good service or it's quite good coverage or whatever. I'm telling you it is the best 5G coverage. And you can now claim your iPhone or Galaxy with qualifying purchase from PureTalk America's wireless company. Go to PureTalk.comKnowles for details. In case you missed it, I had a lovely conversation with multiple men of the clothes, at least self identifying men of the cloth. Some a little probably more validly ordained than others. However, all gave a really important perspective on whether or not the Trump administration is violating the principles of Christianity as we are constantly told by the media. Check out this teaser. It seems to me Reverend Alexander, you're kind of moving the goalposts as we hone in on these various features of illegal immigration.
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Don Lemon
Immigration, it's a very complex issue that is being simplified and reduced to dehumanizing immigrants.
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Tulsi Gabbard
You're trying to de legitimize your opponents by saying they, they do dehumanize the people that they're speaking about.
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Don Lemon
It's so antithetical to everything that Jesus preached and lived by. It is a myth. This is the wealthiest country in the world. The wealth 7 trillion in debt.
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Michael Knowles
Why are we not taking care of ours first at some point we have so much because we clearly somehow ran.
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Vivek Ramaswamy
Out of FEMA money.
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Tulsi Gabbard
I live in New York City. There are people with mental illness and substance abuse problems sleeping on the street by their own decision. And the police can't arrest them and put them in shelters so they're left out there. That's cruel. But that's what the, that's what the law allows.
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Michael Knowles
Go check it out now. Go check it out now. Right on YouTube. I really like you're hearing all these people say, oh, such and such policy. It's not Christian. This is contrary to Christian values. All right, so a lot of we got three people varying perspectives on Christianity. A priest, a Protestant pastor and a progressive pastor. Let them duke it out. Now. Speaking of morality, there's a lot of immoral stuff going on in our spy agencies. Not just the killing and the undermining and the deceit and all this, some of which actually is morally justifiable. But there's a lot that's not justifiable. Like all the weird sex talk on the government servers going on between our spies covered this yesterday. Chris Rufo has a really, really good piece on it at City Journal. You have a bunch of spies talking about how much they love transing themselves and talking about all the weird behaviors they engaged in after they trans themselves and pushing this radical leftist sexual obscene agenda on government servers. Not very good spies. Not sending their best. So Tulsi Gabbard, the top spy in America, just came out and fired more than 100 of them for the sexually explicit chats. Agents involved were from the nsa, the National Security Agency, also known as Nosuch Agency, the CIA, the dia, Defense Intelligence Agency. This all according to a follow up by Chris Ruffo. I guess my big takeaway from this look is good. Thank you, Tulsi. Good stuff. Clear leadership. Great job. To Chris for breaking the story. All great. I'm glad. These people have been run out of government and they need to seek psychological and spiritual help. But I guess even my bigger problem, just looking with cold, clinical clarity at. At the quality of our government, is that the spies ain't what they used to be. Man. This ain't James Bond, huh? Even. Even beyond the substance of the weird sex stuff that they're talking about. You know, Jane Bond, I guess. I don't know. The transgender James Bond. Even beyond the substance of it. How thick do you have to be to post your weird sexual fetishes on the NSA chatboard? How darkened must your intellect have become through sin that you think that's a good idea, that that's not gonna be a political liability down the road? These guys are supposed to be some of the most subtle, crafty, devious, clever operators in world politics. And then they're sitting at their keyboards, huh? Duh. I'm gonna talk about my weird sexual fantasies on the government chatboard that probably won't ever come back to bite me. Da da, da. Oh, yeah. They wanna hear something else really weird that I did last night. Good grief. If this is the caliber of our spies, no wonder that we're losing ground to China. This is. This is a bigger problem even than the culture war. You know, the left is the aggressor in the culture war. The right comes in and is in a defensive posture in the culture war. But this is beyond the culture war. This is just basic incompetence from our spies ain't what they used to be. Tulsi Gabbard has her work cut out for her. Now, getting back to Doge a little bit here. Vivek Ramaswamy is running for office in Ohio. He was initially running for president, then he endorsed President Trump. He was picked to run Doge with Elon Musk, but I don't know, there was some disagreement or something. I think they're all still Friends, but it wasn't working. So then Vivek went over, and he is now running for governor of Ohio.
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Vivek Ramaswamy
I am honored to announce my candidacy to serve as the next governor of the state of Ohio. President Trump is reviving our conviction in America. We require a leader here at home who will revive our conviction in Ohio. And that is why today I am honored to announce that I am running to be the next governor of a great state at the heart of the greatest nation known to mankind. The state where I was born and raised, the state where Apoorva and I raise our two sons today, a state whose best days are still ahead. I am honored to announce my candidacy to serve as the next governor of the state of Ohio.
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Michael Knowles
Great stuff. It's Vivek's race to lose. At this point, I think he could walk right into the governor's mansion for a number of reasons. One, he's very intelligent. Two, he's very articulate and persuasive. Three, he's very wealthy. He's done very well in business, and he can fund a campaign that will be formidable. Obviously, he showed that when he ran for president, but four, he is the MAGA spinoff for the Ohio governor's race. There are all sorts of MAGA spinoffs in races all around the country. And he has support from President Trump. He was just endorsed in this race by Elon Musk. He has the MAGA stamp of approval here. And Trump has reshaped the gop. There are always little factions in the gop, and they're all fighting, oh, is it going to be the Chamber of Commerce wing? Is it going to be the populist wing? Is it going to be the paleocon, the neocon, the this, the that, the whatever? Trump owns the GOP. Even if there were some people after 2016 who were in denial, even if there were people after 2020 who were in denial, and there were many of those, all good. Trump was a flash in the pan one term. Now we can get back to the old party of no Romneys in the Bushes. That good. Thank goodness. Trump winning reelection means that Trump will have personally dominated the GOP for a dozen years at least. That reshapes the party. And so if Vivek comes out there and he's even got the red tie, you know, he's really. He has clearly taken this MAGA lane, and he comes out there and he runs for governor of Ohio, that's it. That's the next iteration of that. Expect to see a lot more of this. Trump won. Trump won. The civil war within the gop. And now the Trump candidates are going to have all that much more of an advantage when they run. Now, speaking of gubernatorial candidates, President Trump has just endorsed a gubernatorial candidate down in Florida. That would be Byron Donalds. Byron Donalds, a very popular member of Congress. Saw him not too long ago swinging through Nashville. He is now running for governor of Florida. The reason this story is interesting is, well, not just that he also is a spin off of MAGA and has the support of Trump, but also because there were news reports that Ron DeSantis wife wanted to run for governor. Ron DeSantis, very, very popular, very successful governor in Florida is term limited out. So there were some reports. Palm Beach Post headline, who is Casey DeSantis? Florida governor's wife could be the state's next governor. There were some reports that Governor DeSantis was gonna go meet with Trump to try to get him either to stay out of the race or to endorse his wife again. I don't know if any of this is true. This is all just the political rumor mill. But before that meeting could take place, Trump came out and endorsed Byron Donalds. This is a sign that the personal rift here between Trump and some of his former opponents is still pretty wide. I think DeSantis has been an amazing governor in Florida. I think he did a really great job. You know, I've supported President Trump since 2016. Quite a fan of the president. To me, this signals Trump's early endorsement of Byron Donalds here signals that he is still in personal control of the party, and he is gonna still hold people personally accountable if they cross him or in any way undermine him. Ron DeSantis, it was totally his right to run in the 2024 primary, but he made Trump spend some money and go out there on the campaign trail and fight. Obviously, the primary campaign didn't last very long, but to me, that signals Trump is still holding a little bit of a grudge here, okay? And it's not just ideological affinity that's gonna matter. It's also personal loyalty. And you're gonna hear a lot of political pundits and prognosticators and political scientists say that's bad. That's not how we should run. That's so tribal. We hate tribal. Guys, politics is a team sport, okay? And teams have captains, and teams are about personal loyalty to a large degree. And this is still like that, okay? Trump is signaling, listen, guys, you want to succeed in the GOP anywhere, at the federal level, at the state level, at the local level, you better make sure you're on good terms with the team captain here. That's a sign. Like it or not, that is what is being signaled now, folks. On Tuesday, March 4th, President Trump is addressing Congress at 9:00pm 9:00pm Eastern. He's gonna lay out his America first vision tackling immigration reform, economic revival, national security. You know we are not gonna sit this one out. Join us for backstage live, 8:30pm Eastern. Our pre show breakdown with the full crew at the Daily Wire. Then we will watch the entire speech together live on Daily Wire plus. And when Trump is done, we're gonna be back with unfiltered no BS reactions you will not get anywhere else. This is the event shaping America's future. So be there. Watch it all live on Daily Wire plus this Tuesday night. Subscribe now@dailywire.com My favorite comment yesterday is from strokesurvivor50 who says those fired from the government can pick the crops? That's a great solution. The libs are complaining. No, no. If we deport the criminal aliens, then who will pick our grapes and clean our toilets? Well, the answer is the no show bureaucrats who are getting fat on the public dole who can't even answer an email about what they did last week. They can go pick the grapes. What a great idea. They can go scrub the wealthy liberal people's homes. What a great idea. Problem solution. They'll help the unemployment rate. Good stuff. Good, good stuff. Now turning to the private sector. Apple has just announced a major investment for the United States. Apple announced this week that it will invest half a billion dollars in the US and hire 20,000 people in the US over the next four years with expansion and construction projects planned all across the country. The company says this is the largest ever spend commitment that it has made. And according to Tim Cook, from doubling our Advanced manufacturing fund from $5 billion to $10 billion to building advanced technology in Texas, we're talking about red state here. We are thrilled to expand our support for American manufacturing and we'll keep working with people and companies across the country to help write an extraordinary new chapter in the history of American innovation. This tells you what the tariffs are really about. And the media are totally missing this. The media believe, and Trump plays into this a little bit, that the tariffs are about punishing other countries. You know, we're getting ripped off by Canada and Mexico and China and this country and that country. We're gonna punish them for ripping us off. That's not primarily what the tariffs are about. The tariffs are primarily about rebuilding America. That's the purpose. And you might disagree with tariff theory and you might think that it's economically misguided or what, but that's the idea. You do have to punish other countries, but you're not doing it out of vindictiveness. It's not because you hate them or something. You're doing it because you need to set up high barriers to doing business overseas so that you can convince one of the biggest companies in the world, Apple, to reassure American jobs, so that you can convince companies like Apple to invest half a trillion dollars in the U.S. hire tens of thousands of people in the U.S. the reason that Apple right now makes everything in China is one, because it's cheap and two, because everyone else is gonna do it. If there's no barrier to using cheap quasi slave labor, sometimes literally slave labor in China, then American companies almost have to do it because they know that their competitors are gonna do it and their competitors are gonna have much lower prices and their own companies are gonna be beaten out in the market. So when President Trump comes out and he says, we're gonna slap a 10% tariff on China to start, though it could be much higher when he says, hey, within two or three years, you better get your manufacturing back in the United States because we're gonna really hit you with the tariffs in two to three years. What he is saying is in a way, a punishment, but in a way, it's giving permission to corporations to say, okay, we can build an America now, because there's going to be a level playing field, at least among the corporations. We're not going to be punished for helping our fellow American citizens. And the American people voting in November have determined that it is in their national security interest and in their economic interest to actually build things here and to not just rely on slave labor from adversarial powers that can choke off our supply chains the minute that a bad batch of bat soup escapes from Wuhan. This is good stuff. This is what it's about. And this is the first big sign to me that the tariffs really might be working. Now, speaking of corporate changes, gotta give a hat tip to Robby Storbuch on this one. Pepsi is eliminating its DEI officer. So Pepsi has over 318,000 employees. Pepsi has a market cap of $200 billion, and they are now saying, we're gonna eliminate our DEI officer. It's a little bit unclear what this means because on the one hand, Pepsi is saying, look, we heard you. You hate the DEI stuff. A lot of corporations are saying this now. So whatever we're gonna get rid of it. But Pepsi doesn't want to irritate the libs and cause some lib boycott. So saying no, we're just kind of restructuring. And don't worry, we still believe in inclusion or whatever. So the director of Corporate Integrity Project for the National Legal and Policy Center, Paul Chesser, has come out and said, you know, if you check their website, it still has DEI crap all over it. They're just pushing it below the surface. And that's the question. Right now. The corporations are ditching dei, some universities are ditching dei, the government is certainly ditching dei. Is it really going away or are they just hiding it? You know, when Trump instructed the government to get rid of dei, he said, hey, look, we're getting rid of the DEI stuff, but a lot of agencies are gonna want to just rename it or kind of hide it. And so if you are caught doing that, you're gonna be fired. We're gonna punish you, and we're gonna punish anyone who knows about it, okay? So don't try that. That's the question for corporate America. Now, I suspect a lot of the DEI stuff really is gonna go away because the majority of American voters voted against DEI in November. But there's a long institutional lag here. So it's the old Ronald Reagan quote, trust but verify. You've gotta verify this stuff. It's all really good signs coming out of corporate America. The cancellation of these radical left, disgusting shows on TV news. These are all really good signs. The government firing feckless bureaucrats who are getting fat on the dole, not doing any work. That's all good signs. Just gotta make sure it's not just for show, you know, that they're real teeth to this kind of stuff. Now, speaking of dei, speaking of the racial and sexual identity politics, there's a scary little story in the Washington Post comes out, says the trans Americans turning to guns for protection. Increasingly, people who identify as trans are embracing guns, and that is not good. I'm a strong defender of the Second Amendment and of the natural right to defend yourself. However, call me crazy, I don't think men who don't know what sex they are, who are so mentally ill that they don't understand their own sex, I don't think they should own guns. I don't think they have a right to that. And I think the federal law backs me up in principle. The Gun control Act of 1968, say what you will about it, can prevent mentally ill people from owning guns. And if you Think you're the opposite sex. That is about as obvious an example of mental illness as I can see. I know we're not allowed to say that anymore and we're supposed to pretend that it's true because of this gnostic false religion of the two spiritedness or, I don't know, whatever nonsense they talk about. But it is a deep mental and spiritual illness and they shouldn't own guns. And this is gonna be another interesting little political shift. When I was a kid coming up in politics, the Republicans were the total free traders. It was the left that wanted to implement all sorts of economic regulations. Now it's almost the opposite. It's the Republicans who are talking about the beauty of tariffs, who are lamenting free trade going back to nafta, all the way up to other free trade agreements. It's the Democrats who are lamenting the tariffs, who are calling for greater trade and who want more access to China. That kind of flipped. Same thing when I was a kid coming up, you could not get a Republican, a conservative Republican to come out and embrace any kind of regulation on gun ownership. But when I was coming up, we didn't have a lot of fellows who thought they were chicks. You know, we didn't have the public celebration of severe mental illness. There is nothing conservative about trans identifying people owning firearms. They should not own firearms. That is extremely dangerous. This ideology is really dangerous. I don't know if even many conservatives appreciate that. I have been in political media for some time now, better, better part of a decade. And I've worked around politics for, I don't know, 15 years or more. I have been physically attacked twice. One time at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, one time at the University of Pitt. I'm actually going, going back to Pitt this spring. Should be fun. Both times I've talked about every kind of issue. Religion, culture, politics. I've talked about economics, immigration, global warming. I've talked about all sorts of stuff. 100% of the times that I've been physically attacked, it's because I dared to question the ideology of transgenderism. This is a very, very dangerous ideology because the people who embrace it in their own persons are really sick. They are deeply sick. And one can feel some kind of pity for them. But in any case, they should not have access to guns. No chance. Before we go, one little story out of the government, out of that nsa, Tulsi Gabbard, weird spies doing stuff that I have to get to the NSA and the DIA and the Navy intelligence officials, they attacked the Italians so they attacked this. According to AF Post, they attacked Jews. And someone said any Jew who says Judeo Christian without any irony as much as Ben Shapiro should be expelled from the tribe. So these are the spies who are going after Ben, going after Jews who use the phrase Judeo Christian. Then it goes on. Some of the users say they're embarrassed that libs of TikTok is a Jewish. And they expressed their contempt for the Irish and for the Italians. Now, forget about Shapiro, whatever. You know, forget about the Jews. I love the Jews, but, you know, forget about even the Irish. I'm part Irish. But the Italians you're gonna go after. Excuse me. The NSA is going. They're expressing anti Italian discrimination. I'm glad Tulsi fired them. They go to Guantanamo. I want these people. I want you to go where they live. I want you to go. I want you to go burn down the house and urinate on the ashes. That's not true. I'm quoting. I'm quoting Robert De Niro as Al Capone. I'm not actually calling. Don't. I am actually calling for them to be deported to Guantanamo, but I'm not. We will not tolerate that. Okay? We talk about all kinds of discrimination. Anti black, anti Jew, anti this, but anti Italian discrimination. Uh, deport them at least to Bukele's El Salvador, maybe Guantanamo. Today is Theology Thursday. The rest of the show continues now. You do not want to miss it. Become a member. Use code Knowles Kenneth Wles at checkout for two months free on all annual plans. J.