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April 29, 2025 - The David Knight Show
16:14
First 100 Days: Trump says “I Run the Country and the World”
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I saw this on the Hill, and frankly, it kind of made my blood boil.
Trump, in an interview with The Atlantic on Monday, said, I run the country and the world.
Really?
And I looked at that and I thought, boy, you know, George Washington is spinning in his grave, isn't he?
You know, the King of England said about George Washington, when he stepped down at the end of his second term and set an example that everybody followed until you had FDR.
And then because he accrued that power to himself, people said, you know, okay, we're going to put it in the law.
Everybody else voluntarily followed the example of George Washington.
King George is reported to have said the greatest man in the world.
He walked away from power like that.
He didn't want to be a king.
Now we've got somebody who is the anti-Washington, right?
The anti-Washington.
Donald Trump.
He's the polar opposite of everything that George Washington was.
George Washington can tell a lie.
We're told that now Trump can't tell the truth.
George Washington said, I'm going to leave after two terms voluntarily and set an example.
Donald Trump wants to run for a third term.
And his imagination thinks that he's going to live forever, I guess.
I don't know.
He's just like all of these other power-hungry politicians that we've seen.
Whether you're talking about Dianne Feinstein or Ruth Bader Ginsburg, all of them.
Or Mitch McConnell, his nemesis.
They've all got to be carried out feet first.
They will die in office.
Because apart from them, life has no meaning if they're out of political power.
It's all just about the power and the money.
And they don't care.
Nancy Pelosi, retired.
Now she's back.
Just can't give it up.
And so, you know, it really is an abomination, folks, to even aspire to run the country, let alone the world.
To run the country.
And yet this is what everybody wants, isn't it?
Both factions, both Republicans and Democrats, both of them want their party and the president to run the country.
And this is the path to civil war.
We don't want that.
Here's the positive vision for what we want.
And that is a free country that doesn't have a dictator elected.
You know, it isn't, and really, if we've got a dictator, do you really think there's going to be elections?
Do you really think there weren't elections that we had?
Are these people selected?
This is the opposite of what we want.
So he says in an interview with The Atlantic that was released yesterday, and you just watch, you'll see Breitbart, Alex Jones, W&T, all the different conservatives, they'll all be cheering this, like, hey, Trump is running the country and the world!
They're all going to cheer that!
They don't want limited government.
They just want their way.
And it never works out that way.
Just as we were talking about the electrical grid and how you had to have inertia in the system, that's what the Constitution and the rule of law gives us.
It gives us inertia in our political system so that we're not whipped back and forth with a dictator who can sit up there and arbitrarily...
Put on taxes one day, and then within 12 or 24 hours, take them off again with tariffs.
So Trump said to the Atlantic, this is the quote.
He said, the first time I had two things to do.
Run the country and survive.
I had all these crooked guys.
The second time, I run the country and the world.
What arrogant hubris.
And people are laughing at him in the rest of the world.
They really are.
On trade, Trump's rollercoaster has rattled global markets, raised economic anxiety.
He has pushed taking over Greenland, whether the people want it or not.
Taking over Canada, whether the people want it or not.
While speaking with the Atlantic, the president also commented on the possibility, of course, of a third run for presidency.
Because, again, it's all about ego and power.
And because he thinks he's God, he thinks he's going to live forever as well.
Something he's previously flirted with, but now GOP lawmakers have largely agreed with this.
So, from the Rutherford Institute, John Whitehead, you can also find this on Free Thought Project, how a president becomes a dictator.
How do you become dictators?
By executive order, as I've said.
When we look at what Trump did in 2020, That was medical martial law.
I'm going to use a fake pandemic that doesn't even exist to give dictatorial powers to myself.
He starts with a quote from Ayn Rand, who says, We are fast approaching the stage of ultimate inversion, the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases while the citizens may act only by permission, which is the stage of the darkest period of human history.
The stage of rule by brute force.
Well, I was not familiar with that quote, but I have said for the longest time that the government has inverted everything.
You look at the 9th and 10th Amendment, you know, and they make it clear that if you don't specifically have those powers delegated to you by the states and by the people, you don't have them.
And now what they say is we have all power.
And you just try to take it from us.
That's the game they play.
We've got all power.
We have the ability to know everything about you, but you're not allowed to know anything about us, because that would be a violation of our national security.
And so they have inverted everything.
Everything is permitted for them, unless expressly denied, and even if you expressly deny it, they still do it.
Take a look at the First and Second Amendment and what Trump is doing and what Biden is doing with gun control and other issues and what Trump did with gun control the first time through.
He was expressly forbidden to do what he did.
Congress and courts are not allowed to infringe on our God-given liberties of self-defense and carrying firearms.
And yet, they do it all the time.
Trump is the first one to do it by executive order, of course, by executive order.
Red flag gun laws banning bump stocks, banning pistol braces.
He removed that brace just before he left office, but then the pistol brace executive order was brought back in by Biden.
But it was originally a Trump executive order as well, because he's a New York Democrat.
He's a New York Democrat, folks.
And so, they were fast approaching the stage of ultimate inversion.
No.
She was writing that middle of the 20th century.
Long ago, past that point of inversion.
So, John Whitehead, Rutherford Institute, says 130 executive orders in under 100 days.
And Trump is proud of that.
He's really proud of it.
And so are his supporters.
Sweeping powers claimed in the name of security and efficiency.
One president acting as lawmaker, enforcer, and judge.
No debate, no oversight, no limits.
This is how the Constitution dies.
Not with a coup, but with a pen.
The unitary executive theory is no longer a theory.
It is the architecture of a dictatorship in motion.
Where past presidents have used executive order decrees and memorandums and proclamations and national security directives and legislative signing statements to circumvent Congress or to sidestep the law, President Trump is using executive orders to advance his unitary executive theory of governance.
A thinly disguised excuse for government by fiat.
Fiat.
By order.
Fascism.
Yeah, we have fake emergencies, like the fentanyl emergency from Canada.
Yeah.
And then the big one that everybody seems to not care about anymore, that fake emergency of a COVID pandemic five years ago.
How he went out of office.
And now he begins with another fake, immediately begins with another fake emergency.
Well, now we got fentanyl coming in from Canada.
We had COVID coming in from China.
Now we got fentanyl from China.
And it's all from Canada.
Now it's all nonsense.
It's all nonsense.
And you got everybody selling this now.
He set up a page on the White House website about, you know, the gain-of-function release of a COVID pandemic.
There was no pandemic.
There was no pandemic, folks.
It was him killing people.
It was him responsible for killing people because it was his policies, his executive orders, and his cash that was incentivizing these avaricious, greedy hospitals to do the types of things that were killing people by masses.
But, of course, that was nothing compared to the bioweapon that he was so proud of being the father of.
And when that went out, It spiked straight up.
So this is what government by fiat looks like.
Congress was once the nation's lawmaking body.
It's now been eclipsed by a deluge of executive directives, each one issued without public debate, without legislative compromise, and without judicial review.
And of course, the swamp is the bureaucracy that is under the president.
And that's what I was saying throughout.
Trump's first term.
If he wants to drain the swamp, the swamp begins with him.
He's king of the swamp.
Literally.
I mean, not just the fact that he's president, but it's his branch of government that he wouldn't do anything about.
Well, they started out with Doge this time, and we'll see what happens with that.
Nothing really has happened with it.
But the swamp, the bureaucracy, is really part of the executive branch as well.
But now he's extended this.
John Whitehead is saying, you know, we had all these other things.
We had presidential signing statements, and we had memorandums and proclamations of national security directives, and we had rule by the bureaucracy, but now we have the unitary executive who's just going to rule as a dictator.
Czar.
Okay?
We have the Trump has now made himself the tariff czar.
Okay?
It's bad enough that we had a drug war czar back in the day.
Represent, and still do, you know, we've got a border czar, we've got a drug war czar, we've got czars and all these other, well, it's just a matter of time before the president openly owns the term czar.
It represents a radical shift in how power is exercised in America, says Whitehead.
From trade and immigration, to surveillance, to regulation of speech.
Yes, that's right, Trump is censoring just like Biden did, except for different...
Political purposes, right?
But yeah, he's going to get rid of the First Amendment as well.
And policing.
The president is claiming broad powers that traditionally reside with the legislative and judicial branches.
Some orders invoke national security.
In order to disrupt global markets, others attempt to override congressional control over tariffs or fast-track weapons exports or alter long-standing public protections through regulatory rollbacks.
A few go even further, flirting with ideologically loyal tests for citizenship.
Chilling dissent through financial coercion and expanding surveillance in ways that undermine due process and privacy.
The only thing I would disagree with him on there is public protection through regulatory rollback.
We don't have any public protection through regulatory agencies.
That's a fantasy.
And most of these regulatory agencies themselves.
Have no authority to exist.
And that goes for all of HHS that RFK Jr. is over.
All of it has no right to exist.
You will not find anything that supports any single function of HHS in the Constitution.
Nowhere is that to be found.
It is in defiance.
The entire structure of HHS, all these people who look at RFK, ma-ha-ha.
All these people who look to him as some kind of a savior.
The entire existence of that agency, like, for example, the ATF, is in defiance of the Constitution itself.
This is not merely policy by another name.
It is the construction of a parallel legal order where the president acts as lawmaker, enforcer, and judge.
I am the law.
Judge Dredd.
The very state of tyranny our founders sought to prevent.
This legal theory, the so-called unitary executive, is part of a doctrine of presidential infallibility.
Under this theory, all executive agencies, decisions, and even enforcement priorities bend entirely to the will of the president, obliterating the idea of an independent bureaucracy or of impartial governance, an imperial presidency that is cloaked in legalism.
We're watching the collapse of constitutional constraints not through tanks in the streets, but through policy memos drafted in the West Wing.
That's what I saw five years ago.
And of course, we've got an army of government employees who are willing to be in the arms and legs of that tyranny five years ago.
And now, nothing has changed.
Nobody's been punished.
You've got Ron Johnson, Senator Ron Johnson, now talking about some of this stuff.
And boy, what a limited hangout he is.
It's just unbelievable.
The war on terror, the war on drugs, the war on illegal immigration, asset forfeiture.
The war on terror, the war on terror, the war on terror, the war on terror, the war on terror, the war on terror.
The common man.
They created Common Core to dumb down our children.
They created common paths to track and control us.
Their commons project to make sure the commoners own nothing.
And the communist future.
They see the common man as simple, unsophisticated, ordinary.
But each of us has worth and dignity created in the image of God.
That is what we have in common.
That is what they want to take away.
Their most powerful weapons are isolation.
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