The David Knight Show - The David Knight Show - 03/20/2026
Aired: 2026-03-20
Duration: 09:39


=== Trump Movement Morale (07:49) ===

[00:01:00]  In a world of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
[00:01:06]  It's the David Knight Show.
[00:01:11]  As the clock strikes 13, it's Friday, March the 20th, Year of Our Lord 2026.
[00:01:18]  Well, today we're going to look at justice and Trump.
[00:01:22]  We're not going to get any justice from Trump.
[00:01:24]  Will there be justice for Trump and for war crime Pete as sidekick?
[00:01:30]  We also have Bibi, who's been suspected to be dead.
[00:01:34]  We've seen several clearly AI videos been put out as proof of life.
[00:01:39]  Yesterday, he held a press conference.
[00:01:42]  Or did he?
[00:01:44]  We'll take a look at that as well.
[00:01:46]  And then we have morale.
[00:01:48]  Morale not only within MAGA, but morale on board the premier aircraft carrier of the U.S. Navy.
[00:01:56]  And when you look at the morale within MAGA, the effects of this war have not even been felt yet.
[00:02:05]  And we have a Frenchman who goes full holy grail on Donald Trump.
[00:02:12]  You stupid English types.
[00:02:15]  And he farts in his general direction.
[00:02:17]  And we'll give you all the points as to why they and NATO would never support Trump in the Gulf.
[00:02:25]  And finally, we got Paul Ehrlich, the false prophet of death and depopulation, has finally depopulated himself.
[00:02:34]  We'll take a look at his legacy of lies.
[00:02:40]  Well, the UK Telegraph, as a matter of fact, has an article about how unpopular this war is.
[00:02:49]  Look at this picture here.
[00:02:51]  This is Washington, D.C.
[00:02:52]  These are posters that people put up.
[00:02:54]  You see that picture of the servicemen members, some of them, it's at least one woman who has died.
[00:03:02]  But you see the service members' name, their picture.
[00:03:07]  It says, such and such name did not have to die fighting Iran for the Epstein class.
[00:03:15]  And then that's alternated with a poster that says Operation Epic Fury.
[00:03:21]  And the epic is scratched out to be Epstein Fury.
[00:03:26]  This is in Washington, D.C.
[00:03:28]  And so this is another reason, folks, for quagmire because of the wag the dog aspect.
[00:03:39]  Actually, I think we're going to call it the wag the documents, right?
[00:03:44]  So there's a lot of different reasons that we're in this, right?
[00:03:47]  We're in this to wag the dog.
[00:03:49]  We're in this because Israel demands it.
[00:03:51]  We're in it because Trump is a chaos agent.
[00:03:56]  Yeah, we need to get smart.
[00:03:59]  As I've said before, this guy is a one-man fourth turning.
[00:04:02]  Whether he intends to do that for some other powers that be, you know, that's what the World Economic Forum wants.
[00:04:09]  They're pushing very hard for their fourth turning.
[00:04:11]  They want the current world to be burned down so they can build their new one back better.
[00:04:18]  Not something that we want, but what they want.
[00:04:20]  It's the same type of thing you see happening in Gaza.
[00:04:23]  And so that's also a part of this.
[00:04:26]  That's another motivation.
[00:04:28]  A big real estate deal.
[00:04:31]  And so there's an interesting op-ed piece on Spectator, The End of Trumpism.
[00:04:37]  The guy says, After Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz, all the boasting from Trump and War Pete looks pretty hollow.
[00:04:48]  The reversal has not brought out the president's dignified side.
[00:04:53]  He now boasts about the comprehensiveness of his glorious victory while imploring America's hitherto unconsulted allies to join him in a naval campaign to get the strait back open.
[00:05:05]  The message seems to be: help, help, we're kicking ass.
[00:05:12]  And it is that silly, that absurd.
[00:05:16]  So he said, the attack on Iran is so wildly inconsistent with the wishes of his own base.
[00:05:23]  Well, it's not just the wishes.
[00:05:25]  It's what he ran on.
[00:05:26]  It's one of his central planks.
[00:05:29]  No more regime change, no more foreign wars.
[00:05:32]  It is so diametrically opposed to their reading of the national interest that it's likely to mark the end of Trumpism as a project.
[00:05:40]  Trump may entertain himself with the presidency for the next three years, barring impeachment, but the mutual respect between him and his movement has been ruptured, and his revolution is essentially over.
[00:05:53]  Well, at least some good could come out of this, maybe.
[00:05:57]  I don't know.
[00:05:58]  But he says, contrary to its portrayal in the newspapers, Trumpism was a movement of democratic restoration.
[00:06:07]  I don't think I would characterize it that way.
[00:06:10]  I mean, you know, there was all this talk about voting and everything, but you wanted to have honest elections.
[00:06:15]  He's the guy who started the vote by mail for everybody.
[00:06:19]  Prior to that, there were absentee ballots for people who were disabled or sick or had some other issue, but it wasn't universal vote by mail.
[00:06:29]  I would say that it is not a movement about democracy.
[00:06:34]  I would say it is a movement that is about demagoguery.
[00:06:39]  That's really what the Trump movement is about.
[00:06:41]  As a matter of fact, Gerald Slunte sent this to me.
[00:06:45]  He said, you gave Trump too much credit.
[00:06:49]  You said that he speaks like an eighth grader.
[00:06:52]  He says you gave him six grades too high.
[00:06:55]  He actually speaks like a second grader because this is what demagogues do.
[00:07:01]  And this is an analysis that people did of his speeches compared to speeches of recent presidents as well as current global leaders from other countries.
[00:07:14]  They said, and of course, I've got a clip of this so you can take a look at it here.
[00:07:20]  Let's see, here it is, right here.
[00:07:22]  That's what it looks like.
[00:07:23]  They grade it.
[00:07:24]  They looked at 34,000 words.
[00:07:28]  And how many unique words did he have?
[00:07:31]  What percentage is he repeating himself over and over again?
[00:07:34]  And that's another sign of not having much of a vocabulary.
[00:07:38]  They said modern political leaders often sacrifice clarity for theatrics using repetition, exaggeration, and emotional appeal to dominate headlines rather than inform citizens.
[00:07:50]  That's demagoguery in my book.
[00:07:52]  A new report that examines Trump's speech patterns and compares them to those of other political leaders.
[00:07:59]  They examine thousands of words from Trump in recent interviews along with other American and European political leaders.
[00:08:07]  Key metrics including vocabulary, diversity, average sentence length, readability, hedge frequency, and recurring signature expressions.
[00:08:17]  The study compares his communication patterns with those of other leaders to identify a data set.
[00:08:25]  And so, what they found was that he has the readability level of a second grader.
[00:08:30]  His vocabulary is limited with a 10% diversity.
[00:08:34]  He rarely hedges statements.
[00:08:36]  And by that, what they mean is he's always certain of what he has to say.
[00:08:40]  Never uses words like perhaps, definitely, in my opinion.
[00:08:45]  Have you ever heard Trump say that?
[00:08:47]  I can't recall ever hearing him say, use those words.

=== Certainty Over Nuance (00:48) ===

[00:08:50]  He's always certain about what he does.
[00:08:55]  So he frames nearly everything in extremes.
[00:09:00]  Bigger, never seen before.
[00:09:02]  It's huge.
[00:09:03]  100%.
[00:09:04]  Actually, he doesn't use 100% all the time.
[00:09:06]  He uses 92%.
[00:09:08]  It wasn't that long ago, somebody pointed out, you know, he's lying and just talking off the top of his head about numbers.
[00:09:13]  And they say, well, 92% of blah, blah, blah.
[00:09:15]  He uses that over and over and over again.
[00:09:18]  Structures, topics around himself.
[00:09:21]  Only because of me.
[00:09:23]  I inherited this, right?
[00:09:25]  And signals shared understanding.
[00:09:28]  Well, everybody understands this.
[00:09:31]  And then he uses numbers symbolically, emphasizing scale over precision.
[00:09:39]  So if.