Ep. 364’s host mocks Kim Jong-un and Trump as "two fat crazy men with nuclear weapons," then pivots to defend Trump’s Charlottesville response via Molly Hemingway’s argument—condemning media bias while Brett Stevens’ column frames James Alex Fields Jr. as a disenfranchised loner, not a terrorist. The episode critiques media polarization, workplace female "witch hunts," and feminist echo chambers, culminating in a call for raw honesty over ideological suppression. [Automatically generated summary]
With tensions building between the United States and North Korea, we now take you live to the Congress of the Workers' Party of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, where party chairman and supreme leader Kim Jong-un is speaking.
I'll supply the translation.
Thank you very much for that warm welcome.
Without which I would have had all of you put to death.
In fact, I noticed my dear friend Kim Jong-kim was the first to stop applauding.
So obviously he and his wife and children will be tortured and then shot.
I always like to start these speeches with a little humor.
I come to you today at a time of dangerous crisis to issue you blustering threats and overblown braggadocio while you applaud wildly or die your choice.
If the United States continues its acts of aggression in an attempt to prevent me from acquiring nuclear weapons, just because I'm completely out of my mind, I will either respond with a show of force greater than anything the world has ever known, or I'll shoot off a rocket that sputters around wildly like a leaping balloon and then falls harmlessly into the sea.
I'm not yet sure which.
But believe you me, whether I destroy the known universe or blow my own foot off, you will cheer wildly as if I did something wonderful or take a bayonet with you.
The point I'm trying to make is that no matter what happens, you will continue cheering or I will kill you.
The problem we face today is that America's former president, Barack Obama, is gone.
That guy is hilarious.
So we're no longer dealing with a mincing girly man whom I could slap around and abuse almost as I would my own mother.
Now the Americans have Trump and I'm here to tell you he is one crazy white man.
You know I'm serious.
You think I'm nuts?
This Trump guy is totally out of control.
And if we're not careful, he could kill us all.
He's just that insane.
I mean look at his hair for crying out loud.
Even his hair is crazy.
I know some of you think my hair makes me look like one of those woolly-woolly toys where children use a magnet to put iron filings on a picture of a bald man.
And of course I plan to find out which of you think that about me and destroy them painfully.
But Trump's hair is so crazy it strikes fear into my heart and his hair is still not as completely loony tunes as the man himself.
Therefore I tell you today, two fat crazy men with nutty hair and nuclear weapons are screaming threats at each other and it's a terrifying situation.
So I hereby issue an order to kill everyone everywhere and then I'm leaving for my country home in China until the smoke clears.
That's it.
I'm out of here.
And that's the news from North Korea.
Run for your life.
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All right.
So Molly Hemingway is with us today.
Did you see this last night?
Did you see this thing on Special Report?
She was on Special Report.
You know, they have that panel at the end of the show, and it's usually usually a very stately, kind of pleasant collegial panel.
And she and Steve Hayes, well, I'll play it for you later on.
I'll play it for you pretty quickly, actually.
She and Steve Hayes went off on each other about Trump.
It was pretty good.
So we're going to have her on and find out whether she wants to move on to fight Mayweather at the garden.
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It's really, really interesting.
So, speaking of Kim Jong-un, did anybody notice that he backed down?
He was going to bomb Guam, and suddenly, maybe not so much.
So, of course, the press was just rushing out to say, you know what?
Here is a montage of all the reporters saying we were wrong about Trump's aggressive stance.
And we really praise him that he got Kim Jong-un to back down.
And that's the montage.
Nobody talking about it at all, right?
I mean, all we heard was when he said, oh, there'll be fire and fury.
Oh, there's always starting nuclear war.
And then Kim Jong-un was like, maybe not.
Also, he did it because, of course, China joined in the vote at the UN to sanction him.
And that's Nikki Haley working her magic behind the scenes.
And that's something that also should be praised.
And so I'm sure we'll be hearing a lot of press, I'm sure, will be out there talking about what a wonderful job the President of the United States is doing in keeping us.
You know it.
So let us look at this Molly Hemingway clip because it's really, really interesting in light of what's going on.
Obviously, the story so far, right, the story so far is that Donald Trump comes out after first he comes out and makes the statement.
Everybody talked about the statement and said he didn't condemn the alt-right and that's what makes him so evil.
But let me play the second part of that statement.
This is the first statement Trump made that nobody has talked about at all.
This is number nine, cut number nine, I think.
Is it cut number nine?
Yeah.
Okay, so he made this statement.
This is the first statement he made, and nobody plays this part.
Above all else, we must remember this truth.
No matter our color, creed, religion, or political party, we are all Americans first.
We love our country.
We love our God.
We love our flag.
We're proud of our country.
We're proud of who we are.
So we want to get the situation straightened out in Charlottesville.
And we want to study it.
And we want to see what we're doing wrong as a country where things like this can happen.
My administration is restoring the sacred bonds of loyalty between this nation and its citizens.
But our citizens must also restore the bonds of trust and loyalty between one another.
We must love each other, respect each other, and cherish our history and our future together.
So important.
We have to respect each other.
Ideally, we have to love each other.
So, not exactly like code to the alt-right to go nuts.
I mean, it was a pretty, pretty strong anti-racism, anti-hatred statement, but he didn't call out the white supremacists because, in his mind, right, he knows that the anti-FA guys are just as violent.
They're all over the country now, pulling down statues.
I mean, it's kind of this animalistic vandalism.
They're pulling down statues that they feel represent the Confederacy, and they're kicking them.
It's like this, it really is this animal, you know, it's ugly, it's ugly stuff, they're incredibly violent.
As I've said, I have a particular animus toward the Nazi right because they're in my house.
I am on the right, and I reject these guys, and every single thing they believe, I reject everything, including their stupid tiki torches and their idiotic, you know, soil and blood, this Nazi crap.
You know, I mean, all this stuff.
I just want to, every time I see them, I just want to take a shower because they're on our side, and that's what makes them doubly bad.
And I would like it if Trump would come out and say it.
So he did come out the next day.
He comes out and he said, you know, I won't play it again, but he said, I single out the KKK and all these stuff.
And of course, here are all the reporters praising him for making that change.
Oh, yeah, it's the same montage as we had for North Korea.
So Molly is on, and Molly is great.
And Steve Hayes is great, by the way.
This is one of the things about them is that Molly Hemingway, wonderful, she's the editor of The Federalist, a great, great site, terrific journalist, goes on Fox a lot.
I think she's one of their contributors now.
And she always has eloquent, insightful things to say.
Same thing about Steve Hayes from the Weekly Standard.
I know Steve.
I know Molly and Steve.
They're both really nice people.
Really talented journalist Hayes, very bright guy, writes for the Weekly Standard, hates Trump, has hated him.
He had my favorite line of the campaign where he said, are we going to have to sit around, listen to some orange guy?
So they went off.
And so Molly is surrounded by all these guys, right?
And Krauthammer, of course, who is the king of commentary.
And they're all dissing on Trump.
And she went off on him.
Listen to this.
It's like we're living in an alternate reality here.
People are taking, they're not listening to what Donald Trump actually said on Saturday.
And they're not reading the actual full comments that he gave where he was explicitly denouncing bigotry and violence, where he called on people to come together.
And the fact is that there actually is a violence problem on both the left and the right.
In recent years, Americans have seen violent protests everywhere from Portland, Berkeley, Ferguson, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, Brooklyn, Baltimore, all throughout the country.
People have experienced these violent protests.
There was an assassination attempt against Republicans by a totally mainstream progressive leftist activist.
And there is a problem on all sides.
And people need to come together to denounce all of those things and not tar the entire Democratic Party as being part of the leftist violence and not tar the entire Republican Party as being part of the rightist violence.
Steve, quickly, we're going to.
Yeah, look, I agree with you that some people are living in an alternate reality.
I just don't think it's us.
The problem is, if you look at what the president said, he didn't single out those specific groups.
What you read to Mo was what he said today.
The fact that he didn't do it for two days speaks volumes.
And the fact that he condemned generic racism and bigotry, it's a pop-up.
Trump says will ever be enough for certain people.
And that is something that a lot of people are doing.
And certain people will defend everything Trump says no matter what.
So we cut that a little short.
Afterwards, they just launched at each other and just fell off the podium with their clothes and shoes flying all over the place.
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So, you know, of course, Trump comes out and he makes the statement, and it's never enough.
And, you know, I want to be clear about this.
I never put Donald Trump forward as a model of probity or virtue.
Okay.
He is an offbeat guy to have as president.
He was tone deaf on this.
I wish he had come out right away and said, what I wish he had said is, I condemn the violence on both sides.
But since some of these alt-right guys support me, I'm going to go out of my way to kick them down the road.
And they say that Steve Bannon, I don't know if this is true, all this anonymous stuff.
I even hate to talk about it.
But, you know, they say Steve Bannon doesn't want to alienate these people.
He doesn't need these people.
He can win elections without these people.
And I wish he had said that.
He didn't say it.
He caught up with it.
I'm glad during the campaign he frequently was a little too slow to catch up with this stuff.
But, you know, this utter horror that is going on strikes me as a little ridiculous.
The press reaction is like, oh, it's not enough.
It's not enough.
hear of course of course we had to hear after trump made the statement we had to hear from cnn's jim acosta who shouted this at him that's jim acosta All right, here's the real exchange with Acosta.
Mr. President, can you explain why you did not condemn those tapes by name over the weekend?
They've been condemned.
They have been condemned.
And why are we not having a press conference today?
You said on Friday we'd have a press conference.
We had a press conference.
We just had a press conference.
Can we ask you some more questions then?
Sure.
It doesn't bother me at all.
I mean, any authority that the press would have to condemn him, they have completely squandered in this sort of nonsense.
Afterwards, Acosta issued a statement on the exchange.
If I get on up and dance for you, scream and shout like a witch boot dog, would you give a little bit?
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Acosta is always on one note.
You know, whatever authority the press has had, they have squandered it.
They've squandered it on the Russian phony Russian scandal.
They've squandered it on, you know, now we have information that they sought to essentially cover up the meeting between Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton during the election.
They sought to cover that up.
They didn't want to cover it.
You know, it's like they just don't have the authority to condemn him with the kind of fire and sword that they want to condemn him with.
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Conservative Critiques Debunked00:14:49
I was talking about your run-in with Steve Hayes.
You know, I was saying, Molly, as I've said, I introduced you earlier, but I'll repeat that you are the senior editor of the Federalist, an excellent site.
You are on Fox News all the time.
You're a contributor to Fox News now, right?
Yes.
Yes.
And you do an excellent, excellent job.
I am also very fond of Steve Hayes.
And you guys really went at each other.
I mean, that seemed pretty heated.
I hope you weren't actually hitting each other after the show.
No, not at all.
And I frequently disagree with my fellow panelists at this moment, but we all can handle it just fine.
But yeah, we had a genuine disagreement on what happened this weekend.
And I think that the view that Steve has is shared by almost everybody inside the Beltway and certainly everybody in Manhattan.
They all came to this view immediately together in the aftermath of Trump's statement that he needed to be very specific about a certain number of groups that they had identified needed to be named.
And they all agreed that this was the fatal flaw of what he had said.
So the fact that he had, that Donald Trump had in the aftermath of the conflict between the racists or the white nationalists and the anti-Fa people in Charlottesville, which led to the death of a woman who was protesting the white nationalists and the death of the two police that were there in the helicopter.
They didn't hear what Donald Trump said about condemning bigotry and violence.
Or if they did, they just didn't feel like it was sufficient, despite the fact that he said that Americans need to come together and that they should not divide based on color or creed or political ideology or whatnot.
You know, one of the things that, of course, just immediately got me when I was watching this argument is this is an argument that goes on behind the scenes here at the Daily Wire all the time.
I mean, I sort of feel, I was very opposed to Trump.
I can't remember.
Were you opposed to Trump at the beginning as well?
When he was kind of.
No, I actually like right away, I kind of got the why people liked Trump.
Then I mean, I didn't personally support him, and I was pretty opposed to it.
But I always tried to understand why people were liking him.
And it was difficult for me to get to that point, but I certainly did.
That's kind of the way I have felt.
I mean, I sort of felt once he became president, I was just going to judge him from that moment on.
I like a lot of the things he's done.
He has been in no way an incompetent.
He hasn't been, he hasn't played to his most liberal, those liberal instincts that really worried me.
He hasn't violated the Constitution as it seemed to me Obama did on a regular basis.
It's been a real improvement.
But every day we have these arguments back here where the question is, is he somehow polluting the conservative movement?
Is there something at the end of the argument, Stephen Hayes said, oh, you're going to defend him no matter what he says.
And the fear is that we will follow him down.
The right will follow him down into some kind of Trumpian pit.
Are you worried about that at all?
Yeah, no, I was thinking it was funny that later on in the show, I was criticizing him for his comments on Venezuela and how people, I just kind of get the feeling that unless you're literally holding, or not literally, unless you're figuratively holding a bloody head of Donald Trump, it's not enough.
So I criticize Trump all the time for things where I disagree with him.
I just think that a lot of what people react to against him, particularly those people in the resistance, whether that's the activists, the media, or Never Trump, or whatever it is, I just don't agree with their criticisms.
I have a whole different set of criticisms.
And they're usually based on policy because I never really liked Donald Trump in the 80s or the 90s or the aughts, but I kind of understand that the way he talks is the way he talks.
So just don't get so worked up about it.
But also I think that a lot of people in the resistance, again, whether that's media or never Trump or the activists, they want to take this moment to perpetuate a smear that has been, that actually is part of the reason why Trump rose, which is this idea that every Republican is evil.
And I always take it back to what happened with Mitt Romney, another guy I wasn't particularly fond of.
But the media portrayed him as racist, as Hitler-like, as a horrible misogynist.
And I think when they did that successfully, something kind of broke in the Republican voter.
They realized we can literally support someone like Mitt Romney and it's not enough.
So when there are these calls for these ritual denunciations, and these calls are only made to the right, you know, when people in my neighborhood shot up, when a guy in my neighborhood shot up the Republican leadership, there were no calls for ritual denunciation of mainstream progressive rhetoric.
And that guy was actually, you know, a mainstream progressive.
And that is so frustrating to people.
they want people to come together at this moment and not use things like this as an excuse to further divide people.
Well, that is the other side of this.
And that's the other thing I wanted to ask you.
I mean, I mean, the one question is, is Trump somehow polluting the conservative movement?
But the other side of this is, are guys like Steve, and I love Stephen, I have so much respect for him.
I mean, I think he's a wonderful writer and a really intelligent guy.
But are they being played a little bit?
I mean, is the press using their animosity to sort of get in to wheedle their way into the conservative movement and rip us apart a little bit?
I think these things are kind of related.
I think there is a larger issue going on here, which is that the conservative movement itself is going through a major realignment and that certain people are on the losing side of that or on the, they're frustrated with what it means.
I personally think a big part of Donald Trump's success was in his view that the way that we had been fighting wars and our manner of getting involved in war was not good.
And so there are people in the establishment on both left and right that are pretty comfortable with certain foreign policy ideas that where they didn't get the American buy-in that they should have.
And I think personally that's because Congress has abdicated its role and they've allowed presidents to just keep fighting wars without making sure that they're the ones authorizing these wars.
So there's a foreign policy divide there.
There's also definitely an attitudinal separation, which is what I was referencing before.
People do not want conservative leadership to just go along to get along or to just offer some kind of mild criticism of the moment, but then be perfectly fine with a continuation of the way things are going.
Conservative voters keep voting for Republicans with an expectation of results that they're not getting.
And that is a frustration with the Republicans and it's a frustration with the conservative movement.
And I think the key for conservative thought leaders is to wake up to that and respond and provide some leadership.
And I'm not, I don't have a huge point of agreement here in D.C., but that's how I see it.
You know, I mean, it was a very riveting moment yesterday, that argument, because it was like you were sitting in a Mount Rushmore of commentary, when you're sitting with Krauthammer on one side of you and Steve on the other side of you.
And I'm not as familiar with Mo.
I hadn't seen him before, but he was obviously a very bright, articulate guy.
You're sitting in this kind of like Mount Rushmore of commentary, and you're this one voice speaking up for the president and speaking up against this kind of con game the media runs.
Well, and I, oh, sorry.
Go ahead.
I think it's also mostly, I think what people don't understand here in D.C. is that the average Republican voter understands when they're doing these games like they did this weekend, where they hype up a story and then they make it all about Donald Trump saying that really what's going on is that the Trump voter is being attacked.
And that's what I always try and think of.
It's really weird that this country elected a guy president and there are no people on TV who represent the people who voted for it.
None.
I mean, even, you know, it doesn't matter what network it is, there are very few people who actually understand the Trump voter or what led them to get to that point.
And I think that's kind of scandalous.
I think that media outlets, whether they're newspapers or radio or TV, they should do a better job of making sure to understand the sentiment that led to this moment and not alienate or marginalize that Trump voter so much.
It really is amazing.
I mean, when you look at it from the entertainment angle, when you look at the comedians on late night television and there's not a single one of them, not one, that will say a kind word about Trump or anything against the left.
It's just like spitting on 40% of the countries.
Like it really is just telling the middle part of the country that they don't count, that they don't matter, that we're not here to entertain you, or if we entertain you, we also expect to slap you around.
And it seems to me to lead to more division and anger.
When you look, when you step away, the question that I wanted to ask you, when you're sitting, like I said, with these, you know, these are top commentators and you hear the fact that you're a lone voice, do you think Trump stands a chance against the media?
Do you think that these, I know that they are selling, oh, his latest popularity poll is so low and he's always falling, falling, falling.
It never seems to really fall, but he's always falling, and things are always about to go wrong, and Bannon's always about to get fired, and there's always going to be this disaster in the Trump White House.
It doesn't happen.
Are we being conned that way too, do you think?
I mean, do you think that Trump is actually not doing anywhere near as badly as they want us to believe?
Well, that's what I do think there is a problem with analysis right now, that the same people who failed to understand what was happening in 2016 or who assured us that there was no way in the world that Donald Trump could be elected are now giving us analysis about what his presidency means.
And so there's just something missing there where you want people to, you know, and I get it because when I realized Donald Trump was going to win the nomination, it kind of broke my heart.
I'm someone who's very pro-life and I care about religious liberty.
I got the feeling those weren't his big issues.
I'm also a free trader.
I got the feeling that wasn't a big issue for him.
So I was very frustrated by it.
But at the same time, I understand why people are fed up with politics as usual, why they did not want to be force-fed, the same type of candidate, why they truly genuinely want change.
That's not just in this country, that's across the world.
And if that sentiment is brewing, I think people should think about how to make it a positive thing or how to lead it to a happier place or to a better movement.
But the thing is, I think that the media and Trump kind of have a dysfunctional relationship where by being oppositional to each other, it benefits both of them.
And so he was obviously able to ride anti-media hatred to the presidency.
And they're able to ride their anti-Trump sentiment to higher ratings or bigger profits.
I think who loses in this battle are the American people and that it's not healthy for civil discourse and it's not good because people aren't learning how to just disagree with each other or have kind of a fun chat where you disagree, but you come to understand each other or see the good in another argument or whatnot.
We don't have good leaders either politically or in the media to help us navigate those discussions.
Molly, it's really nice talking to you.
You're a really refreshing voice.
People should look you up on the Federalists.
The Federalists itself is a terrific site and you do a great job on that panel.
Try not to kill Steve.
He's a good guy.
I hope you'll come back and talk to us again.
Thanks.
He's great.
So, yes, thank you.
Bye-bye.
Really, really interesting.
I just found that incredibly insightful into what's going on.
And I wish there was more talk like that.
You know what I mean?
I wish people would talk like that.
Here is a great piece that I want to read from Brett Stevens.
And I know a lot of people don't like Brett Stevens.
He went so nuts against Trump that he actually had to leave the Wall Street Journal.
I'm not sure this is why he did it.
He went over to the New York Times.
Since going over to the New York Times, he's kind of been a voice that makes them uncomfortable over there.
He wrote a terrific column today.
Brett Stevens is a very, very smart guy.
And I don't always agree with him.
I thought he went a little nuts with Trump, and especially when he lumped Trump and Cruz together.
Okay, fine.
So we disagree.
But he wrote a great column.
And I just want to read, I'll try and edit it as I go along, but it's really worth looking at.
I read the New York Times, a former newspaper, so you don't have to.
Here he says, he says, regarding last week's events in Charlottesville, Virginia, consider the following propositions.
James Alex Fields Jr., the young man who on Saturday police say rammed his Dodge Challenger into a crowd in Charlottesville, killing Heather Heyer and injuring 19 others, was not a domestic terrorist.
That's one.
Proposition two, Fields was a fatherless, troubled individual who likely experienced economic disenfranchisement as a child of Kentucky and was moved to violence for motives about which we can only guess.
Proposition three, the marchers who gathered in Charlottesville to protest the removal of a statue of General Robert E. Lee are not necessarily alt-right.
After all, the alt-right movement encompasses a diverse spectrum of opinion.
Four, white people should feel no sense of responsibility because a tiny handful of so-called white nationalists and supremacists falsely claim to speak in their name.
Proposition five, the blame for the events in Charlottesville does not lie with any particular group.
Proposition six, President Trump was right on Saturday to avoid stigmatizing any particular group.
Okay, says Brett Stevens.
Now here's hoping you're revolted by each of the six preceding points.
Because if you are, then maybe we can at last rethink the policy of euphemism, obfuscation, denial, and semantic yoga that typified the Obama administration's discussion of another form of terrorism.
That would be Islamist terrorism.
I mean, really, the reaction to one and the reaction to another is so different and so hypocritical.
And the fact that Trump is being absolutely raked over the coals for this.
And look, I'm not afraid to slap Trump upside the head.
You know, it was really funny yesterday.
I took my opening about the white supremacists making fun of the white supremacists.
And I sent it around and they put it up on one place I saw they put it up was Instapundit, great site, Instapundit.
And a lot of negative comments.
You know, why are you picking on the white supremacists?
Which I love.
I'm picking on the white supremacists because they suck.
That's why.
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That's why I'm picking them.
And they suck.
And as I say, they're in my house.
They particularly offend me in that regard.
But the comment that I got more than anything else was, this doesn't take any courage.
This doesn't take any courage to hit at the white supremacists.
You should be hitting at the left.
That's a really interesting statement.
And I got it numerous, numerous times yesterday.
And what I'm doing doesn't take any courage.
Being a police officer, being a soldier, those things take courage.
I just am blessed with the gift of complete indifference to what people think of me.
So I can say whatever I want.
That is the gift that I have.
It's not a question of courage.
But if it took courage, it would take more courage to hit at the people on my side because they comprise my audience.
They are my audience, right?
You alienate your audience.
Ben Shapiro, who's tougher on Trump than I am, you know, he risks alienating the people who actually listen to him.
The left isn't listening to Ben.
You know, Ben is a guy who's going to say what he has to say.
I'm a guy who's going to say what he has to say.
And the thing is, when you hear somebody that you basically agree with, I get this all the time.
People say, well, I agreed with you up until you said that, and now I'm not listening to you anymore.
But think about that for a minute.
That means that I have to kowtow to you.
That means that I have to lie to you.
That means that I have to sell you what you want in order to keep your attention.
Instead, you should be looking for people who are willing to possibly offend their audience.
It's harder to offend your own audience.
The left makes this mistake, too.
They always say we're speaking truth to power by attacking Trump.
Well, no, you're not, because no power in your life, the power in your life, are all liberals.
All the people who are going to hire you, all the producers, all the big studio execs, they're all liberals.
They will hire you for attacking Trump.
They might blacklist you for liking Trump.
I mean, Jimmy Fallon had to apologize.
You know, and they say, oh, he gave an emotional speech yesterday on attacking Trump.
Well, I'm sure he did because the last time he was nice to Trump, they crucified him.
So it's speaking to your own.
It's speaking truth to your own people, the people who are powerful in your life, that really matters.
And if you only want to hear your own opinions echoed back to you, then you're just going to be in that echo chamber.
And that's how all those conspiracy things start and all the kind of nonsense where you start to believe stuff that only five years later you find out isn't true.
All right, a new, we didn't get our art ready.
We have another new feature, sexual follies.
Is that what we're calling it?
Sexual follies, where basically we attack feminists.
No, no, no.
It will cover the whole range of sexual misbehavior in our culture today, and then we'll attack feminists.
Today, I want to point out an article in the Atlantic Journal called, Why Do Women Bully Each Other at Work?
And this is a really interesting by Olga Kassan.
Now, you know, I don't really have bosses in my life.
I'm a contractor.
I contract for people.
And of course, when people pay you, you owe them a debt of, you know, loyalty and service, and you want to give them their money's worth and all that stuff.
But it's not quite the same as having a single job where you can be tossed out at any time.
But still, I have worked with many women.
I'm in the arts.
There are a lot of women in the arts.
And some of the experiences have been spectacular.
The experiences that have been awful have been awful in peculiarly feminine ways.
Let me put it that way.
So that is really interesting.
The only enemy I ever made in Hollywood in all, and I have quit jobs and I've gotten into big, big arguments.
But the only time I ever made an enemy in Hollywood was a woman, a very, very famous woman.
I can't tell you who she is because you'll know her.
But, you know, when I very mildly, in the most polite way, told her that I disagreed with what she was doing with the script, she went ballistic.
First of all, she didn't do it to my face.
She went ballistic and she called my agent and screamed at me and yelled at me and really did a lot to torment, screamed about me and yelled about me and did a lot to torment me.
So I have run into these people.
But this article is called Why Do Women Bully Each Other at Work?
And I'm going to change the word.
The word he used is obviously the B word, but just to be safe here, I'll call it the witches.
The witches, they say there are a lot of witches in business, and the witches, as one woman put it, they come in three varieties.
She categorized them on her personal blog in a post titled, Beware the Female Big Law Partner.
So this was a lawyer working in a big law firm.
She said the first was the aggressive witch, a certain kind of high-ranking woman at the firm where she worked who didn't think twice about verbally assaulting anyone.
When one such partner's name appeared on caller ID, Shannon told me we would just freak out just to see her calling.
Next was the two-faced, passive, aggressive witch, whose subtle, semi-rude emails hinted that you really shouldn't leave before 6.30.
She was arguably worse than the aggressive witch because you might never know where you stand.
Last but not least, the tuned-out, indifferent witch, she wrote, is so busy both with work and family that they don't have time for anything.
This partner is not trying to be mean, but hey, they have things to do till midnight, so you will too.
They're going to make you work till midnight.
And this woman finally said she left the firm and she went to a place with gentler hours.
She later took time off to be with her young children.
She now says that if she were returned to a big firm, she'd be wary of working for a woman.
And in polls, men and women say this too.
Men say it less.
Men are more willing to work for women than women are.
But the writer says, the female writer on this Atlantic Post says, her screed against the female partner surprised me since people don't usually rail against historically marginalized groups on the record.
Now, I would take issue that women in America have been historically marginalized, but let's say they are.
When I reached out to other women to ask whether they'd had similar experiences, some were appalled by the question, as though I were Phyllis Schlafly calling from beyond the grave.
Heaven forfend, you should be Phyllis Schlafly.
But then they would say things like, well, there was this one time, and tales of female sabotage would spill forth.
As I went about my dozens of interviews, I began to feel like a priest to whom women were confessing their sins against feminism.
And that is actually the point that I actually wanted to get to, because I know that women don't like working for women, and I know that men prefer working for men, though by smaller numbers.
I would say in my life, the best bosses I've had have been men.
But I can't tell.
None of us works for so many people that we really have a good selection.
And as I say, the women who have been really bad, and I have worked for some really bad women, have all been peculiarly bad in peculiarly feminist ways.
But what I want to know is, how is it that feminism has been allowed to co-op the dreams and desires and opinions of women?
This is what I want to know.
Why does it take a priest for you to confess your sins against feminism?
I have heard this, if I have heard this once, I have heard it 10 times of a woman in private conversation will say to me, you know, I actually, my daydream, my daydream is that a man will come along and rescue me.
But I know you're not supposed to dream that.
How did feminism acquire the power over your daydreams?
How did it acquire the power over your opinions and your desires?
I would really like to know this.
I mean, women are more social than men.
Like I said, I'm kind of a guy who doesn't care what people think of me unless I love them, unless I really care about them.
I care what my friends think about me.
I care what my wife thinks about me.
I just don't care what like some guy who comments, you know, I have a very thick skin when it comes to what people are saying about me and all this stuff.
And I know women are more social than that.
They care a lot more.
But how is it that women have allowed feminism to co-opt their daydreams and their desires and their opinions?
I just want to know, I would love to hear from women about this.
Like, do they feel afraid to sit down and ask themselves not what they're supposed to want out of life, but what they actually want out of life?
Do they ever hold their life up to their real daydreams, the daydreams that they have when they're lying in bed before they fall asleep, when they're walking, when nobody's around?
Do they ever hold their life up to that instead of the daydreams they were sold by their feminist professors, their feminist teachers, maybe their feminist parents?
I really would like to know about that because I hear this from women again and again.
I'm not supposed to say this, but.
I'm not supposed to say this, but.
And that was the thing that caught me in this article was not so much about whether women make bad bosses or not, but that nobody's willing, that women weren't willing to say it.
They weren't willing to say it.
Feminism has shut down women's minds.
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