Andrew Clavin dismisses media claims that Trump’s week was his "worst ever," calling it a "lunatic" narrative while praising Trump’s EPA rollbacks, Obamacare subsidies cut, and Iran deal rejection. He accuses NBC of protecting Harvey Weinstein due to left-wing bias, ties Hollywood to partisan corruption, and promotes Another Kingdom—a conservative podcast mocking mainstream media—as an alternative. The segment also critiques Rick and Morty as a metaphor for cultural decline, framing it as scientists’ denial of God amid absurd fan obsessions like Mulan Sechuan sauce. Clavin’s rant ties media bias to broader moral decay, positioning his platform as the antidote. [Automatically generated summary]
To be without myself for three days was just an absolute lie.
You know, all I read about all weekend long was the press saying that last week was Donald Trump's worst week ever.
I guess it's his last worst week, which was the week before that.
And obviously, if you can't trust the press, who are you going to trust?
Like some lunatic raving on the street.
Oh, that is the press.
Sorry.
I mistook him for a schizophrenic.
But actually, when all the fake news clears away, last week was actually kind of amazing.
It was an amazing Donald Trump week.
And we're going to talk about that.
And we have the inimitable Michael Knowles.
At least I can't imitate him.
Somebody else maybe can do a great Knowles.
But the possibly inimitable Michael Knowles, I sent him off to cover corruption at NBC.
And he's here today.
I don't know.
They sent me his pants with fish wrapped in it.
I don't know what that means.
But we'll talk about all of that.
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So, watching the news now is like living in a left-wing fantasy world.
It is just like an entire made-up place.
You know, last week they were going on and on about this is Trump's worst week ever.
This is such a terrible week.
Molly Hemingway, whom we love, the Federalists, she runs, she edits the Federalists, but she wrote a piece quoting the Washington Post.
The Washington Post headline was, Republicans, it's time to panic.
Columnist Michael Gerson wrote that Senator Bob Corker, this is the big thing.
If you haven't been paying attention to this, Bob Corker, the Republican Tennessee, big-time senator, lots of big committees and all this, he's been attacking Trump, and the press, of course, is falling all over him.
The press loves you when you attack Trump, and that's they get what they call a strange new respect.
They hate Republicans until Republicans are attacking each other.
Then they say, you know, this is a man universally respected, suddenly, suddenly.
And Corker was making all these comments like it's a, you know, the place is out of control and he's going to start World War III and all this stuff.
Morning Joe, so help me, spent two solid days talking about the 25th Amendment.
The 25th Amendment.
I'm serious.
It's like a fantasy world.
There's like living in their fantasies.
The 25th Amendment provides that I think the vice president has to initiate it, but you can get rid of a president who can't do his job.
If he's sick, if he's in a coma, you know, if he's Donald Trump, like one of those, one of the, I think they actually, those are the things they list, sick in a coma.
That's right.
In the fantasy version of this, they actually mention Donald Trump.
But then your cabinet has to go to the, you know, to the Congress and the Congress has to vote on it.
It ain't going to happen.
And by the way, it's basically useless because if your cabinet starts to actually say this about you, you can fire them.
President, you know, they serve at the president's pleasure, so you fire him against somebody who won't say it about you.
But Joe Scarborough, two days, just take an individual.
This is just a quick snip of Joe Scarborough selling the 25th Amendment, which he did two days in a row.
Have you got this?
Yeah.
There's something called the 25th Amendment that they're going to have to start looking at.
This is not acceptable as the status quo when you have the most powerful Republican on Capitol Hill saying the president of the United States could be leading us toward nuclear war.
And Republican senators remain silent.
Let's pray for some courage, because they certainly have been warned very clearly.
We're praying for courage that they're going to upend the election.
I mean, can you imagine?
Like, not one person has talked about the 60 million people with pitchforks and torches who would be out on the mall the next day.
I mean, this is, it's just this fantasy world.
So the other fantasy, and Molly talks about this too with the Federalists.
The other fantasy is that everything is in chaos.
Obviously, Trump is a chaotic guy.
Trump is a guy who generates chaos.
He yells at people.
He's obviously got a, he's a big personality.
Kind of, he's been living on reality TV, so everything he touches becomes reality TV.
So the press has been relentlessly running these stories.
Remember when everything was Russia?
Neither do I.
I mean, I've totally forgot.
Yeah, Russia is completely off the map.
But remember, every day it was Russia and Russia said this.
And a guy who knew Russia, somebody who saw from Russia with love, is now an anonymous source and everything, you know, whatever they could find.
Somebody who read a John LeCourt novel once was hanging out with Donald Trump.
And it was just all this garbage, which is now gone.
I mean, they keep hoping it'll come back.
They keep praying that this is going to get him impeached, something like this.
But it's a complete nonsense story.
So now the nonsense story is about the chaos.
Everybody's getting fired.
And the big one was Tillerson.
Did Tillerson call Trump a moron?
And here's my opinion.
Of course, he called him a moron.
Tillerson is a big guy.
Trump is a big guy.
They probably call each other names all the time.
You know, that pansy, that moron, I hate that guy.
There are probably a lot worse names than moron.
So Tillerson is too cool to lie, but he doesn't want to answer the question.
Jake Tapper has him on.
This is this, you know, here he is on CNN, Secretary of State, and Tapper asks him a question, and Tillerson gives this long, long answer.
He says, I'm not going to do this.
I'm just not going to answer the question.
And goes on and on, and then he talks about the administration, what they're doing, and all this stuff.
And then Tapper comes back to it, and this is how he uses his time.
So this is cut number three.
When you don't answer the question, it makes people think that you probably did say it.
But either way, whatever happened, it is serious.
So can you please clear it up?
As I said, Jake, I'm not playing.
These are the games of Washington.
These are the destructive games of this town.
They're not helpful to anyone.
And so my position on it is: I'm not playing.
I'm not playing.
You want to make a game out of it?
I'm not playing.
I'm not making a game out of it.
I mean, I'm just trying to see clarity because saying that if I said that my boss was a moron, that would be a serious issue.
It wouldn't be, and my boss doesn't control nukes.
I'm willing to move on, but I just want to be clear.
You still haven't denied that you called him a moron.
And, you know, a lot of people are going to watch this and think he probably said it.
I'm not dignifying the question with an answer, Jake.
And I'm a little surprised you want to spend so much time on it when there's so many important issues around the world.
Now, I have to tell you, I was a reporter.
I was a reporter both in the newspaper and in radio.
And reporters do this all the time.
They try and convince the guy that it is in his best interest.
Reporters are a little like cops this way.
You try to convince the guy that it's in his best interest to answer your stupid question, which you obviously are going to blow up underneath him.
Like, you know, it's trying to get him to hoist himself on his own petard.
Does anybody know what that means?
You know, a petard, yeah, petard was an explosive device.
And if you blew yourself up with it, you hoisted yourself on your own petard.
That's just a little side note.
I thought you might be interested in it.
But the thing is, reporters do this all the time.
It would really be in your best interest if you would tell me this fact that you don't want anybody to know that I will then use to excoriate you in the press, okay?
Because if anybody actually, Tillerson actually said, Yeah, I called him a moron.
What do I care if he's the press?
You know, we'd never, ever, ever hear the end of it.
It's the same as when cops say to people, get it off your chest, you'll feel better.
And then they put you in jail for 25 years to life, you know, and that doesn't feel as much better as you kind of thought it would.
You thought it was going to feel better, but 25 years to life is too long.
So, anyway, this is the thing that the press is absolutely focused on.
Never mind substance, never mind what's going on legally in terms of new legislation, in terms of new regulation, none of that.
It's all this stuff.
So, John Kelly, the chief of staff and the former general, comes out and surprises the press at a press conference, at the usual press conference.
He comes out and talks to them, and he tries to be a little charming.
He says, I'm not getting fired.
Nothing has happened.
This is his one complaint.
Listen to this.
My only frustration, with all due respect to everyone in the room, is when I come to work in the morning and read about things I allegedly said or things that Mr. Trump allegedly said or people who were going to be fired or whatever or thing, and it's just not true.
That's my frustration.
I mean, no disrespect to you all.
I mean, no disrespect to you all, but everything you say is a lie.
So, I mean, obviously, like I said, this guy is a chaotic guy.
There's a lot of noise, a lot of sound and fury.
But let's talk about what really happened last week.
Okay, let's brush all that away.
What really happened last week?
Trump started to tame the EPA.
He got rid of this clean power plan.
And the thing about the clean power plan is that the EPA has been running riot against business and especially against the coal industry.
And the way they do this is they declare, like they'll declare the particulates that come out of producing coal and burning coal.
They'll declare them absolutely lethal.
And Congress will say, well, how do you know they're lethal?
And they'll say, well, you know, we did a study and Congress, this is absolutely true.
Congress will subpoena the study and the EPA won't turn it over.
And so they've done other studies.
It's not, you know, it's not absolutely lethal.
Obviously, there's always going to be some pollution.
Coal is probably not, you know, even clean coal is probably not the cleanest thing you can use.
But still, this was just an attempt to destroy an industry that they don't like.
The left doesn't like.
And the EPA has been out of control and this was the right thing to do.
They started to pull this back.
I mean, this is definitely an improvement.
I mean, one of the things that Trump is doing that is great.
He ended illegal subsidies to the insurance companies.
What's happening with this is these companies, Obamacare is such a mess that these companies can't afford to pay out things.
You know, when you say to an insurance company who's supposed to insure you against the possibility that you're going to get sick, and you say to them, well, you have to cover people who are already sick, there's no business model there.
That's not a business model.
That's fascist business.
You know, communists take over businesses.
Fascists just tell the business what to do and then blame the business when things go wrong.
That literally is a definition, one of the definitions of fascism.
That's what they do.
So these subsidies that they were paying out to insurance companies were completely illegal.
The Constitution says you have to legislate.
How would it be if Trump just said, like, you know, I'm going to build the wall?
And then, you know, I don't care what Congress says.
I'm just going to build the wall.
These were completely illegal.
So he ends them, and now the insurance companies are in trouble and they're scrambling.
So here, this is just to give an example of how the left reacts.
This is Democratic Senator Chris Murphy from Connecticut.
What does this mean for everything?
And then I'll tell you what it really means.
This is the equivalent of health care arson.
He is literally setting the entire health care system on fire just because the president is upset that the United States Congress won't pass a repeal bill that is supported by 17% of the American public.
These subsidies going to the insurance companies help very low-income people afford insurance.
And without the subsidies, there will be many people who won't be able to provide insurance and afford it.
And the other set of subsidies that go to individuals to access coverage will actually increase, meaning that the deficit goes up, the amount of money that we spend overall in the Affordable Care Act goes up, because all that happens is the payments that used to be going to insurance companies now get substituted with increased tax credits for individuals to afford the coverage.
The fact of the matter is the president is trying to sabotage the American health care system, trying to put a gun to the head of our constituents by taking away their health care or raising their costs in order to force us to repeal a bill that the American public doesn't want us to repeal.
So it's a gun to your head.
It's arson.
He's setting things on fire.
He's blowing things up.
What happens now?
What happens now is the Senate will now have to figure out what to do because they didn't weren't, they were doing this illegally.
You didn't hear the word constitution once there.
You didn't hear the word legal once there.
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All Trump did was end something that was being done illegally.
And now the Senate will have to figure out what they're going to do about this.
And that means that they're trying to put together packages to basically repeal and replace Obamacare.
Trump has forced the Congress.
Now, what does the president mean by going to Congress to pass laws?
What the hell is going on in this country?
This man is an autocrat.
He is a tyrant.
How can he force Congress to do its job?
Same thing with Iran.
The same thing with Iran.
He said he would not certify the Iran deal.
And the thing is, this Iran deal is such a bad thing.
It is so bad.
But one of the reasons it's bad is because Barack Obama, remember Barack Obama?
What did he do?
Yeah, he's something.
You know, it's hard to, I always forget him.
I can't remember what he looks like because his legacy is just kind of a drifting mist floating away on the winds of change.
But Barack Obama was not a dumb man.
And he set this thing up.
So we gave Iran all this money.
We pulled off the sanctions.
Remember, the Western world was basically as one delivering these sanctions against Iran.
But we knew that Europe is dying to do business with Iran so that they're never going to come back on board.
They're never going to come back on board these sanctions.
And all this did was it meant that Iran can continue their nuclear research, but they can't do it in a way that immediately applies to weapons, and then the whole thing sunsets and they build a nuclear bomb.
I mean, they could have a nuclear bomb tomorrow because all they have to do is buy North Korea would be happy to sell them what they've got.
But this just, you know, I guess it slows them down, but it's the same deal.
You know, Nikki Haley was on, and she pointed out this is exactly what Clinton did with North Korea.
Listen to what she's talking about.
Everybody is turning a blind eye to Iran and all of those violations out of trying to protect this agreement.
What we need to say is we have to hold them accountable.
They can't be continuing to support terrorism around the world like we are saying they do.
They can't continue to test ballistic missiles, which will lead to a nuclear Iran.
They can't continue to do arms smuggling in the way that they're doing.
Are we really ready to have them become a government?
So you're saying you believe that there are other dangers posed by Iran, but right now, remaining in the deal is in the national security interest of the United States?
I think that's why you saw the president as staying in the deal.
He's saying to Congress, can we make it better?
What else can we do so that we can better protect Americans?
And I think that his engagement with Congress is something that never happened under President Obama.
They were never allowed to debate it.
They were never allowed to discuss it.
So now Congress is going to be fully engaged on the threats of Iran.
These are all lessons learned from North Korea, every single one of them.
See, this is the other thing.
Obama set this up, and Congress let him do it, which is really criminal, but they set this up.
This is a treaty.
They keep calling it the Iran deal.
It's a treaty, and it should have been voted on by Congress.
And it wasn't all this unconstitutional stuff.
This is what really bugged me.
Once again, he's pushing this back to Congress.
And all the gray heads are on the Sunday shows, and they're all saying, oh, you know, Congress isn't going to do anything for six months.
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We're going to be right back where we started and all this.
I mean, once again, Trump is asking Congress to do its job, to justify and examine this treaty.
And there's nothing good going to come out of this treaty except maybe a delay, maybe a slight delay in their acquisition of nuclear weapons.
Whereas, and I agree, Iran is not going to negotiate.
But why should we have the treaty at all?
I don't understand.
Why should we have the treaty at all?
What Trump is basically saying is he's readjusting our foreign policy to preventing Iran from having a nuclear war.
So when Bob Corker says he's going to push us to World War III, all these sophisticated gray heads have been sitting here for 20 years while North Korea has slowly gone building its bomb, and now they're sitting here where Iran slowly goes ahead building its bomb.
And as long as it's not happening today, somehow everything's okay.
And when Trump says, you know what, we really better stop this, it's, oh my God, it's World War III.
I don't buy it.
I don't buy it.
You know, he did a lot more last week.
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Have we got Knowles?
Show me Knowles.
I somehow made it back from the pits of the mainstream media.
I have scars all over my body.
I expected when I sent you out to look at the corruption in the mainstream media, I expected there to find your bottle in a barrel of lie.
Oh, the women's march was a walk in the park compared to what they tried to do to me over at NBC.
I could see us like, you know, me and Shapiro sitting around.
He was a good kid, Knowles.
Too bad he went after NBC.
So I wanted you to look at this because, I mean, basically, I heard this guy, Joe Concha, talking about it at the Hill.
He's a really good media reporter.
And he was just talking about the fact that Harvey Weinstein, this major, major Hollywood scandal, is being covered everywhere except at NBC.
That's right.
And Concha did a great piece on this.
There was this sort of question in my mind.
They always gaslight us a little bit.
And I wondered, why isn't NBC covering this?
Everybody is covering this.
Why won't NBC?
And they said, well, Lauren Michaels at SNL said, well, it's a New York story.
Some of them say, well, you know, it's not a big enough deal.
No one knows who Harvey Weinstein is, but it's a little too weird.
For seven and a half hours after the story broke, NBC News did not cover it.
Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon, the two late night hosts at NBC, didn't do jokes on it for five nights.
Five nights went by.
They didn't do jokes on it.
Then NBC News division chief, and I think this is the guy behind it, Noah Oppenheim, said that NBC encouraged the original story.
They encouraged Ronan Farrow to break the story.
That's not what Farrow says.
That's not what Farrow says.
That's not what CNN says.
That's not what Huffington Post says.
A lot of major media players on the left and who know these people totally refute it.
SNL also didn't do jokes on it.
After the story broke, they wrote some jokes about Weinstein, and then they cut them before they went to air.
So somebody made a decision to get those jokes out of the show.
And this week, now we're talking a full week later, obviously SNL feels the pressure.
They have to cover Weinstein jokes.
So how do they open the show?
They make fun of Donald Trump.
Of course they make fun of Donald Trump.
They do Donald Trump, Rex Tillerson.
I guess they try to make a joke about Russia now, but that story has been utterly discarded.
Only halfway through the show did they even acknowledge the jokes.
And here is Michael Che at Weekend Update explaining the trouble.
This is a tough spot for a comedian because it's so hard to make jokes about sexual assault.
Yeah, it's so hard to make jokes, right?
Do you remember Donald Trump?
Do you remember that Access Hollywood tape?
We're still hearing these hackneyed, low-hanging fruit jokes about Trump being made about this nine months later.
You know, this reminds me of when they were hit for not making jokes about Barack Obama because they never made fun of Barack Obama.
They occasionally made fun of how nice the press was to him.
And one of their writers, one of their comedy writers, said, well, he's just like a flat obsidian wall.
He's so perfect that there's no handhold that you can climb up to the humor, which was really interesting because obsidian is a black stone, so you could tell that what he was subconsciously saying is not making fun of the first black president.
That's a Freudian slip where you say one thing but me and your mother.
Even Dana Carvey.
Dana Carvey's a great comedian.
He was one of the best at SNL.
He said on some late night show, well, how do you make fun of Obama?
You know, he's so purr.
He's this Harvard genius.
That's the phrase he used.
He's so charismatic.
I don't know.
There are a lot of ways to make fun of Barack Obama, as far as I'm concerned.
But the joke about Trump's sex tape, and it's not really a sex tape.
He just was talking to Billy Bush and making crude comments.
That draws a whole new light on this controversy at NBC because that was an NBC property.
That Access Hollywood tape was owned by NBC.
Now, somehow that Access Hollywood tape just walked out the door, it made it onto television, it made it into the Hollywood Reporter just a few days before the presidential debate.
But Harvey Weinstein jokes cannot be told at the network.
Even NBC Sports, Al Michaels, sportscaster, was covering the Giants Broncos game, and he told this joke.
He said, quote, I mean, let's face it, the Giants are coming off a worse week than Harvey Weinstein, and they're up 15 points.
He was forced to apologize.
He couldn't even tell that joke.
He came on later and he said, sorry I made the reference earlier.
It was a little flib.
My apologies.
We'll just leave it at that.
But that wasn't forced out of the business.
It really came from the heart.
It reminded me of an old joke about Bob Hope, who once said his hotel room was so small that the mice were round-shouldered, and they forced him to apologize.
And he said, well, you know, I said the mice were round-shouldered.
They weren't.
It was not a very sincere apology.
That's exactly it.
And, you know, they asked Lauren Michaels about this.
Lauren Michaels also has been an NBC executive forever, creator of SNL.
And his excuse was it's a New York story.
No one knows who Harvey Weinstein is.
I think I've heard Harvey Weinstein in every Oscar speech of the last 20 years.
I think the whole country knows who he is.
He's the most powerful man in Hollywood, but they're covering up for their own.
And NBC has a history with this stuff.
Former NBC executive Don Olmeyer fired Norm McDonald, the greatest comedian of his generation, fired Norm McDonald from the weekend update desk because he was making too many jokes about his buddy O.J. Simpson.
That's right, because he Olmeyer played golf with O.J. Simpson.
That's right.
And Norm kept making jokes about the fact that he was obviously guilty.
You know, they say you're known by the company you keep, you're known by the friends you keep.
Harvey Weinstein and O.J. Simpson, I don't know, there's this crowd around NBC that is a little unsavory, if you ask me.
I mean, obviously, this guy, since NBC has their sister channel, MSNBC, there is obviously this left-wing Democrat connection here.
It's really interesting.
A while back, my friend Cyrus Nawasta did this thing, The Path to 9-11.
And it showed that Bill Clinton could have killed Osama bin Laden before the horrible 9-11 thing.
Or he could have responded to the USS coal bombing.
Yeah.
Many opportunities.
And Clinton was just too busy fending off the scandal about Monica Lewinsky.
And it was a very honest, very balanced.
It didn't speak that well of George W. Bush either.
It was a very balanced docudrama.
And they still, this is ABC, this is Disney.
They still have not released this on DVD.
So anyway, the point that I want to make is just when I went into the offices where they made it once, and I talked to them about it, just chatting about it, and they were shocked.
They said, you know, we love Clinton.
You know, we don't know why he would shut us down.
We made this, we loved Clinton, but it was, you know, and I really do believe that below the level of the top management, there are a lot of people who do not know that they are being used as mouthpieces for the Democrat Party.
I really believe that.
That very well might be true.
I mean, it gets to a great distinction you make between reporters and editors at that former newspaper, the New York Times.
They have some very good reporters, but the editors are all hacks and communications directors for the Democratic Party.
And it ties into this NBC news chief.
I guess he's a screenwriter or something.
There is the line between Hollywood and news, the line between New York and Hollywood, you know, the entertainment industry and the news industry, has always been a little blurry.
But the incest that they've engaged in and the absolutely hackneyed partisan character of it is really corrupt and corrosive.
And I hope people are predicting that Hollywood is going to fall apart now.
Obviously, Trump took a wrecking ball to the mainstream media.
I can't wait.
Let's watch it burn.
It's been a blast.
And there can be a real culture and a real art scene that will come up in its stead instead of the tripe that's being pushed out by both of those institutions.
Amen.
Amen.
And I have to say, you know, it used to be in the old days, these corrupt, hideous producers would draw actresses in and to bring them into the casting couch and have sex with them.
And now we have these corrupt, hideous producers drawing women in to watch them take showers and play with themselves.
I think this is a marked decline in the quality of our corrupt, hideous producers.
It's true.
There used to be a sort of glamour to their crimes.
Yeah, now it's just a 100% perversion.
But I think we should mention, I think it's important for us to mention that you and I single-handedly are reinventing the culture without any help from Hollywood so far.
That is true.
Yes, with our new podcast, Another Kingdom, which is now available on iTunes, right?
So it's now, it's everywhere.
It's on iTunes, it's on Stitcher, it's on Google Play.
Obviously, I agreed to do this project because not only did I rebuff Harvey Weinstein's advances, I actually was never asked, which kind of hurts my feelings.
But Hollywood is a place that can exclude conservative art.
And so I don't think we ever had a shot of making this in any mainstream outlet.
It's just too honest.
It's too compelling a story.
And so it's been great.
It's up right now.
The first episode is up.
We're going to do it every Friday.
We're releasing it every Friday.
And it's a story of a schlubby Hollywood screenwriter who can't catch a break, can't get any work.
I have no idea why you cast me.
And then he walks through a portal into another kingdom where there are ogres and monsters and broadswords and British accents and beautiful dames.
And he's a murder suspect in this other place.
That's right.
He's a murder suspect.
He walks in on him holding a dagger next to a bloodied body of a beautiful woman.
And I will say it is possibly providential that we're doing this story.
It's being released exactly at the moment that Hollywood is falling apart for its perversion and its corruption.
I think the timing is perfect.
And the real question is which land is more fantastical and horrifying.
Well, I think if people will come on, if they'll listen to this, give it a chance, and then subscribe on iTunes and also leave reviews, because that's very important.
If they will do that, I think within months, you and I can be harassing women and abusing people.
You know, fingers crossed.
I found, I went out and bought a bathrobe.
I don't know.
It's not really flattering on me, but it doesn't sound like it's flattering on Harvey.
Yeah, but if you do, it is very helpful if people check it out and then leave a review and a rating and everything.
That's really helpful.
And I want Hollywood to come groveling to us out of the ruins of their edifices and say, hey, give us some art, conservatives.
We're finally willing to listen.
Well, I look forward to hearing that you've escaped to Europe for counseling.
But in the meantime, you still have to do the Michael Knowles show that comes on after this.
And you'll be abusing people there.
Absolutely.
Today, you know, just a little preview.
The New York Times accused Ben Shapiro primarily, but a number of us also, Molly Hemingway, me, of pandering to our audiences.
So today's show is called The New York Times is Trash and Historical Retrospective.
And I think you'll enjoy it.
Good.
I look forward to that on the Michael Knowles Show.
Knowles, thank you very much.
I'm glad you survived your journey into corruption.
You're telling me.
That piece on Shapiro was absurd.
I mean, it was genuinely absurd.
Although, you know, the New York Times has been running pieces for the last year on how great Red China, like, women had better dreams in Red China.
Women had better sex in the Soviet Union.
If you're not being attacked by the New York Times, if Shapiro were not being attacked by the New York Times, I would lose respect for him.
I would start to feel like, why are these communists being nice to Shapiro?
What's he got going on?
I'm actually glad when they attack him.
It restores my faith in mankind.
I just want to close.
The one thing I want to close out is just from the left-winger Howard Feynman at the Huffington Post, this thing I was saying about Trump's week, it's starting to bleed through.
I saw it on Ricochet where they're not all that friendly to Trump.
It's a very middle-of-the-road right-wing site.
And I saw somebody, what was the headline?
Trump is doing a great job discussed.
I talked about Molly Hemingway at the Federalist.
But this is at the Huffington Post.
And Howard Feynman writes a piece called The Method to the Moron's Madness.
The conventional wisdom about President Donald Trump is clear enough.
He's an infantile, ignorant moron surrounded.
I should read this.
I should act this out.
It's like, because you could just feel the anger bubbling up as he writes.
The conventional wisdom about President Donald Trump is clear enough.
He's an infantile, ignorant moron surrounded by a shrinking political base, a phalanx of enemies who used to be friends and more investigators than the FBI Academy.
Washington reacts with alarm to his inflammatory tweets and lately has made a parlor game out of chronicling his outbursts of anger, dismay, and ignorance as news organizations offer a cascade of vivid, in-the-room portrayals of an out-of-control boyking, all of which are made up completely.
So Democrats hope against hope that he will be impeached over Russia.
I can't believe these guys are living in this stuff.
His approval rating is lower at this point than any other modern president.
But, he says, by the end of this week, it was clearer than ever that if Trump is a moron, he is a moron on a mission and with more method to his madness than his enemies understand or want to consider.
The tweets are a useful distraction, a kind of air cover for his carpet bombing of federal policy and programs.
In quick succession, the president and his small but focused dead-end gang have used administrative diktots to wreak havoc on clean air rules, immigration procedures, Obamacare, and the Iran deal.
Each of these moves, whether designed to serve the interests of big business, Tea Party, xenophobes, or the new SUNY-NICON alliance, is unpopular.
Trump doesn't seem to mind.
He knows what he wants.
This is, I mean, they're just beginning to catch on, you know.
And, you know, I have to, let me end with this.
Lindsey Graham was on TV.
You know, Steve Bannon is doing this thing where he is swearing he's going to take on the mainstream GOP with outlying Tea Party candidates.
And of course, the press loves this idea of civil war in the GOP.
There's a big civil war going on in the Democrat Party, too, but they're not covering that as much.
They're covering this.
And it is kind of strange because the Republicans won, so usually the party that wins doesn't tear itself apart quite as much.
But Lindsey Graham answered, hit the whole thing right on the button.
You know, everybody's been, especially conservatives, have been attacking Mitch McConnell.
And I should say that Mitch McConnell stopped the practice that was slowing down.
I won't go into the whole thing, but he stopped an arcane practice that was slowing down Trump's so far excellent judge nominations.
So McConnell gets some points for that last week as well.
And here's Lindsey Graham explaining exactly how powerful Steve Bannon is or is not going to be.
You're going to ask me about Bannon, so I'll just go ahead and ask myself a question.
Steve Bannon, the president, what's going on?
It's a symptom of a greater problem.
If we don't cut taxes and we don't eventually repeal and replace Obamacare, then we're going to lose across the board in the House in 2018.
And all of my colleagues running in primaries in 2018 will probably get beat.
It will be the end of Mitch McConnell as we know it.
So this is a symptom of a greater problem.
If we do cut taxes and we do repeal and replace Obamacare, it doesn't matter what Bannon do because we'll win.
But Steve Bannon has said that Republicans should go to war against Mitch McConnell, that all y'all should get rid of him and that that should be the Republican rallying.
Mitch McConnell is not our problem.
Our problem is that we promised to repeal and replace Obamacare and we failed.
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We promised to cut taxes and we've yet to do it.
If we're successful, Mitch McConnell's fine.
If we're not, we're all in trouble.
We lose our majority and I think President Trump will not get reelected.
Is Steve Bannon a big problem or a little problem in trying to get anything done?
He's saying everything you're doing is going against the cause.
He's a symptom of a problem.
Bannon can't beat us if we're successful.
If we're not successful, it doesn't matter who tries to beat us.
They'll be successful.
Let's leave it at that.
Trump is doing what he can without Congress, but he does have Congress.
Congress is Republican, and they have not done their jobs yet.
We'll see if they can get it done.
let's look at our crappy culture.
So I've got a couple of things I want to talk about.
I'm not sure I'm running out of time, but I have to talk about Rick and Morty.
Rick and Morty.
So you watch Rick and Morty, Austin, right?
It's a great show.
It's a great show.
So let me, I will say what I think it's about, and you can tell me.
One of them is a mad scientist, right?
And one of them is just a schlub, right?
Just the guy.
Okay, and the thing is, it takes place in multi- it's a world of multiple universes.
Now, I'm really interested in multiple universes because this is a theory that was invented by scientists to explain the fact that there's a God, but they don't want to believe in him.
This is absolutely true.
Really, one of the reasons they have had to invent multiple universes is because the world makes too much sense.
And it makes it weird.
It is weird that the world has created a being, us, that can understand the world and that we can calculate things mathematically.
And then they turn out to be true about the universe.
The odds of this happening, I have heard it said, are the same as the odds of a strong wind passing through a junkyard and assembling a 747.
I mean, these are incredible odds.
So the scientists came up with this great idea.
They said, well, this is, there are infinite universes, and we just happen to be living in the one in which this takes place, which is kind of like if you're playing cards and a guy draws five straight flushes in a row, and you get up and you draw your six shooter and say you're a cheater.
And he says, no, no, no, there are an infinite number of card games.
This just happens to be the one in which I drew five straight flushes in a row.
It's not a very good theory.
But they put this theory to use to show that life is meaningless, right?
Yeah.
Okay, so I'm just want to make sure I get this right because you've actually watched, and it's funny.
It's pretty good.
It's really funny.
Okay.
So on the this is, I think, the opener of the third season.
Yeah.
The mad doctor, which one is the doctor, Rick or Morty?
Rick is the doctor.
Rick is the mad doctor.
All right, so he's the insane doctor.
Since life is meaningless, he has no purpose to his life, and he attaches all the purpose of his life to this, these, what is it?
Like Sechuan sauce that McDonald's put out to advertise the Disney film Mulan.
Okay, right, in 98.
So it was out for a couple of weeks, and then they stopped making it.
They stopped making it, and all he wants is to find the place in the universe where he can find it again.
Here's that scene.
We've got adventures to go on, Morty.
Just you and me.
And sometimes your sister, and sometimes your mom, but never your dad.
You want to know why, Morty?
Because he crossed me.
Okay, take it easy, Rick.
That's dark.
Oh, it gets darker, Morty.
Welcome to the darkest year of our adventures.
First thing that's different, no more dad, Morty.
He threatened to turn me into the government, so I made him and the government go away.
Oh, I've replaced them both as the de facto patriarch of your family and your universe.
Your mom wouldn't have accepted me if I came home without you and your sister.
So now you know the real reason I rescued you.
I just took over the family, Morty.
And if you tell your mom or sister I said any of this, I'll deny it.
And they'll take my side because I'm a hero, Morty.
And now you're going to have me go and do whatever I say, Morty.
Forever.
And I'll go out and I'll find some more of that Mulan Sechuan teriyaki dipping sauce, Morty.
Because that's what this is all about, Morty.
That's my one-armed man.
I'm not driven by avenging my dead family, Morty.
That was fake.
I'm driven by finding that McNugget sauce.
I want that Mulan McNugget sauce, Morty.
That's my series art portal.
If it takes nine seasons, I want my McNugget dipping sauce, Sechuan sauce, Morty.
That's what's going to take us all, Morty.
Season nine more seasons, Morty.
Nine more seasons until I get that dipping Sechuan sauce for 97 more years, Morty.
I want that McNugget sauce, Morty.
Now, here's a test.
Do you know what the reference to the one-armed man is?
Yeah, it's in there.
Oh, it is.
Okay, because there used to be a show on, I was like, even before my time, really, called The Fugitive.
And the fugitive was an innocent man charged with murder.
The police were hunting him obsessively, kind of like in Les Miserables.
And he was hunting for the one-armed man he saw leaving the scene of the crime.
So the Sechuan sauce.
They do, yeah.
Like when they caught the one-armed man, they actually announced it on planes.
I mean, everybody was so turned on to find that.
So somehow, now the thing about Rick and Morty is it has lovely fans like Austin, our wonderful producers, a totally nice file, but it has these crazy fans, right?
They just get obsessed, and they become obsessed with finding this Sezhwan sauce.
Fact, McDonald's actually issued, reissued it for a few weeks to supply the Rick and Morty fans.
But here is one Rick and Morty fan who could not find his Szechuan sauce.
You guys know Szechuan sauce?
I want Szechuan sauce!
Where's my Szechuan sauce?
I'm Tickle Rick!
I'm Tickle Rick! Rick! Rick! Rick!
I'm Tickle Rick! Rick! Rick!
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What the hell?
I love that guy.
What the hell?
That is our crappy culture.
You can't even put on a funny TV show without people going insane.
It's like everything has to be about the people.
Nothing is about the art itself.
Everything has to be about us.
Anyway, that's our crappy culture.
We will be back again tomorrow, not only with the show, but we will also be here with the conversation at 2 p.m. Pacific and 5 p.m. Eastern.
I will answer all your questions.
Plus, you get to watch Alicia Krauss, which is always a pleasure.
It's on the Daily Wire Facebook page and YouTube channel.
Anyone can watch, but anyone who's anyone will subscribe and then you can ask questions and I will answer them all.