Andrew Clavin argues Trump’s "hellholes" remark exposes media hypocrisy—CNN’s emotional outrage over immigration ignores 92% of U.S. prison inmates being foreign-born while downplaying crime and welfare strain, framing it as a political correctness "mental prison." He dismisses 17 mainstream Trump scandals (Russia collusion, travel bans, Comey firing) as overblown, comparing them to Obama-era controversies like IRS targeting, and claims leftist media weaponizes race—from Rotherham’s ignored child abuse scandal to MLK’s legacy distortion. Clavin frames Trump’s bluntness as a necessary break from tribal supremacism, suggesting his policies (tax cuts, deregulation) outperform leftist governance failures like Haiti’s dirt-based economy, while accusing the resistance of suppressing dissent under "racism" pretexts. [Automatically generated summary]
Man, I don't know what happened over this clavenless weekend, but I turned on the TV and on CNN, there were all these women and gay men getting super emotional.
Here's a sample.
His name was Private Emmanuel Mensa, and he immigrated from Ghana, a country Donald Trump apparently thinks produces very sub-poor immigrants.
I don't know why the president doesn't know that.
I was there when a five-year-old boy named Mondle was rescued after being buried for more than seven days.
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Haitians slap your hand hard when they shake it.
They look you in the eye.
They don't blink.
They stand tall and they have dignity.
It's a dignity many in this White House could learn from.
Those comments are frankly disgusting.
There's other language I'd like to use, but we are on television.
Now, don't get me wrong.
Some of my best friends are women and gay men.
I'm even married to one of them.
I'm guessing a woman.
And if women and gay men get a little weepy and overemotional from time to time, hey, it's no problem.
Maybe that's just the way they are.
But what's it got to do with the news?
I mean, apparently, they were all choked up that the president allegedly used a dirty word to describe some countries that, let's face it, are hellholes.
That gives the women and gay men at CNN the sads because they feel people from these countries should be able to come here to America anytime they want because their countries are hellholes.
But you shouldn't say they're hellholes because then CNN gets the sads.
My question is this.
Who cares if CNN has the SADS?
What's that to me?
I mean, isn't CNN a news channel?
Shouldn't they be covering important issues like the fact that 92% of foreign nationals in our prisons are illegal immigrants and each one of those criminals had one or more victims whose life may have been ruined or even ended by them?
Or that illegal immigrants take money out of our medical support systems without having put any money in?
Or that they take jobs away from poor Americans?
Shouldn't CNN lips be trembling and CNN eyes getting misty over their fellow countrymen who suffer at the hands of illegal immigrants?
And another thing, given that CNN has gotten story after story wrong recently, whether it was saying that Donald Trump Jr. received an email from Wikileaks on one date when it was really a different date, or saying that members of the Trump team had ties to a Russian investment fund when they didn't, or calling Jim Acosta a White House reporter when he's obviously just a buffoon, shouldn't they triple check their sources on these stories before they burst into tears about them?
The point is, you could be forgiven for feeling that the people at CNN aren't really all that upset about Donald Trump using a dirty word, that they're just trying to manipulate our emotions so we'll support Democrat policies that make our country worse instead of Trump policies that are actually making our country better.
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So here's my suggestion.
How about from now on on CNN, they just report the facts and if any of their reporters, whether they're female or homosexual or Chris Cuomo, if any of them get teary-eyed, they can walk off camera and collect themselves and then come back on and continue to describe how Donald Trump's immigration reforms are better than Obama letting wave upon wave of illegals and refugees into our country unvetted.
Then they can go off screen and cry some more or just go home because no one's watching them anyway.
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I tell you, if you thought you had a Clavenless weekend in Hawaii, you know, I worry about this because, you know, there's all this terrible stuff happening in Montecito where I used to live.
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So does that mean like if there's a mudslide in my house in LA that it'll be like, everything's fine?
So in Hawaii, some guy pressed the button that said there was a nuclear launch.
And I guess since they're so close to North Korea, that wasn't funny.
And for about 30 minutes, people were hiding their children in sewers.
I mean, I shouldn't laugh.
It's terrible.
But at the same time, they didn't fire the guy who pressed the button.
They just reassigned him because they said, hey, you know, anyone can make a mistake.
But I mean, if it's a button that says there's a nuclear war coming, shouldn't it be like a big red button, like with a glass dome over it?
And you have to put a key in and then press a button and then it scans your eye, you know, and then finally the thing opens up and you can press it.
It's just like a button that's sitting there.
Oops, you know, I meant to press the one that opens the door to the bathroom, but I set off a nuclear explosion, you know?
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All right, Michael Knowles is going to be with us later on.
We're going to talk about all these scandals.
I have got to talk about this whole thing with Donald Trump and his, his potty mouth.
I wrote a story in CITY Journal, an article in CITY Journal.
It's been getting a lot of press.
You can go on and look on it.
Go to cityjournal.org, I think it is, one of the best magazines in the country, no question about it.
And you can get almost everything they have online, even though you should subscribe, but you can get everything they have online.
And take a look at this article because I am really, I really feel, I'm a polite person.
I don't go around and say to people, oh, your country's a hellhole or whatever.
And sometimes Donald Trump offends me with his impoliteness.
But I think that weirdly, even maybe even in spite of himself, he is doing God's work.
And I will explain to you what I mean.
The culture, the right is really bad about understanding the culture.
If you watch Paul Ryan, he thinks if he stands up in front of a chart with a stick, you know, people go, ah, I see when you cut taxes, then businesses get more money.
There are more jobs and profits, and everybody's vote, all ships are lifted.
That's not what happens.
What the left does is it simply creates a web of silence through using our good manners.
And because we are people with good manners, we don't like to feel that people are offended by what we say.
We don't like to feel that people are hurt, their feelings are hurt.
We're nice people, right?
All of us.
Most of us, most people are nice people.
They don't want to.
And this entraps us when they establish what is nice, when they have the power through Hollywood, through the news media, through the Academy.
They have the power to establish what the manners are, right?
So Donald Trump is in a meeting.
He's talking with Democrats and Republicans.
And he says in an offhanded way, why do we have people coming in from all these hell holes of countries?
And he doesn't use the word hellhole.
On CNN, they've been repeating the curse word over and over again, even though they never did that to Obama, who also cursed behind the scenes, as all men tend to do.
They curse in closed-door meetings.
So Trump cursed, so the CNN is repeating this over and over again.
So you know what the word is.
I don't have to repeat it.
Why are we letting in all these people from hellholes?
Why don't we have people from Norway?
Now, the thing is, we do not know this happened.
Dick Durbin said it.
Dick Durbin lies.
Dick Durbin, you know, and also what kind of a weasel, a little tattletale weasel goes running to the press.
The president cursed.
The president cursed.
So here is the press.
And remember, the press is just the information arm of the Democrat Party.
That's all it is.
They are not journalists.
They're not the First Amendment made flesh.
They are the information arm of the Democrat Party.
That's who there is.
There's not one managing person at any network.
I would almost bet all my money on it.
There's not one who decides which stories go on the news who voted for Donald Trump.
Not one.
That means they're all Democrats.
They're all on one side.
And you only have to follow them to see what it is.
But let's take a look at the way the media, the balanced, restrained way the media reacted to this remark made behind closed doors in a meeting.
So this is, yeah, number nine.
The president is a white supremacist.
We heard in Charlesville, our president is a terrorist sympathizer, and our president is a clear and present danger to non-white people in America.
If you are working inside the White House and your goal is to try to prove that this is a rational, sane president, that this is not a president who's lost his step mentally, if this is not a president in the early stages of dementia that can't control some of the things that he blurts out of his mouth, sir, they're not whole countries.
For one, Donald Trump isn't their president.
And now if we take this additional, very clear racist thing, he's an evil man.
You know, we don't talk about that a lot.
We talk about he's insane and he's crazy and he's just, that's evil.
And I'm not surprised at all, to be honest with you.
A lot of this has been rooted in white supremacy and racism since the very beginning.
Because we now know that we have in the White House someone who could lead the Ku Klux Klan in the United States of America, somebody who could be the leader of the neo-Nazi- So if you don't think this stuff is powerful,
okay, and I've compared, I frequently compare Donald Trump to Randall Patrick McMurphy, who comes into this insane asylum where the rules seem to be of benefit to all, and Nurse Ratchet seems to be the mother of everybody, and she's taking care of everybody, but it really creates a mental prison.
And because Randall Patrick McMurphy in the novel and in the Jack Nicholson film, because he's a loudmouth, because he's a thug, because he's not a nice guy, he breaks that mental prison.
He breaks through that mental prison.
And I think Donald Trump does that, whether we agree with what he said or not.
But if you don't think this thing is powerful, I just, I have, I know I've used this example before, but it really is important because it's happening all over Europe.
Between, I think it was 1997, I'm talking off the top of my head, but it's 1997 to 2013, somewhere in there, the early 2000s, at a conservative estimate, a conservative estimate, 1,400 little girls were raped by Pakistani Muslim immigrants in England in a city called Rotherham.
And they were raped and they were bred to rape and they were enslaved, essentially.
And they were going, they were complaining to the police and they were complaining to the council and everybody knew it was happening.
These are little girls as young as 11 years old being raped by these monsters.
And nobody wanted to say anything because nobody wanted to be called racist because it's as much as your career is worth to be called racist.
And it's also just, it's uncomfortable.
It's a horrible thing to say about anybody.
We've all got it.
We got it.
Racism is bad.
So nobody wants to be tarred with that brush.
Nobody wants to be called these names, right?
And so that's how powerful this is.
And the problem that we have, the problem that we have is every time somebody says something that the left doesn't like, just facts, you know, that black people commit proportionately more crime, that Muslims commit most of the terrorism in the world, that women and men are different.
And maybe that's why that accounts for the disparities in their careers and their pay.
Maybe women don't actually care about careers the way men care about careers.
Maybe they shouldn't care about careers.
Maybe they have something more important to do than a career.
You know, anytime you say this, you're accused of some form of bigotry and you can't say anything.
And the thing is, once you get accused, you start to argue on their terms.
And this is how they win.
Okay, this is the point that I'm trying to get to, is the minute they make the accusation, you have to say, well, it's not racist because of this.
It's not racist because of that.
This is more racist.
That's more racist.
Instead of saying, wait a minute, wait a minute, I reject the entire terms of the argument.
In Trump's case, let's just take Trump's case for a minute.
Let's pretend that he said what he said.
We don't even know that he said it, but there's some confirmation.
We're just not sure.
But let's pretend he said it.
I'll pretend.
Let's say he says Haiti and African countries are hellholes.
And why don't we have more people from Norway?
The leftist contention is that is inherently racist because the people in Haiti and African countries are black and the people in Norway are white.
Okay, now I get attacked from the left and the right on this.
Okay, the right wing, because I don't believe in racism.
I believe racism is a scam.
I believe racism, I believe the theory of racism is wrong in and of itself, okay?
They are saying that because the people in Norway are white and their country is nicer than Haiti, it obviously is, and because the people in Haiti are black and the country is a hellhole, which it obviously is, that this is a racist statement.
Now, there's only two possibilities here.
One is that race matters.
One is that the race you were born with, the way you look, matters.
And if that is true, then we have the right to defend our race in a tribal way to be supremacists, whether you're black or brown or Asian or white, whatever you are, you have the right.
If race is what matters about us, if race is the thing that we care about about each other, then we have the right to fight for our race.
And when the white supremacists, the Nazis come out and they say, you know, well, we're going to fight for our race, that if racism matters, if racism is true in any way, then they have a perfectly valid point of view.
That's why they keep attacking me.
That's why the Nazis keep writing me and saying they put my name in parenthesis.
That's their way of calling, isn't it?
The way of calling you a Jew.
I mean, I can't even respond to that because I don't use the kind of language that we're talking about.
But that's the way the right attacks me.
But the left does it too, right?
They say, well, because Haiti is black and because Norway is white, to say Haiti is a nicer country, to say Norway is a nicer country than Haiti, which it obviously is, is inherently racist.
The other way of looking at this is that race doesn't matter at all, at all.
And this is, to me, the only, if you are a believer in the Bible and I am a believer in the Bible, this is the only possible way to look at it.
The Bible says that man is created in God's image.
And it doesn't just say, it doesn't say man like male.
It says man and woman, right?
Man and women, men and women are created in God's image.
If you don't like the way somebody is made, it's not what somebody has become, not what they've made of themselves, not what the world has turned them into.
But if you don't like the way somebody is made, then you are insulting the image of God.
Good luck to you.
Just don't stand too close to me because when the lightning hits, I want to be in the next block.
Okay, that's fine.
But that is where I stand.
Where I stand is that, look, and what people keep sending me, these right-wingers, fascists keep sending me, is they keep sending me stuff saying, well, look at IQ levels and look at this country and look at that country.
Look, I'm not a scientist and neither are you.
I mean, you're just compiling.
We don't even know how long it takes to change the IQ of people.
I suspect it's probably one generation, one generation.
What we are talking about is we're talking about ideas, right?
When I talk about Islam, I don't care whether the person who believes in Islam is Kat Stevens or Muhammad Muhammad.
I don't care.
I think the ideas in Islam are not right.
I think they are incorrect ideas about God.
I think they are incorrect ideas about revelation.
I think they're incorrect ideas about women.
I think their ideas are wrong.
So when I attack Islam, and I don't attack Islam, when I criticize Islam, I'm not criticizing the race of the people.
I'm criticizing the ideas.
When I look at Haiti, I'm looking at corruption.
I'm looking at some of it, by the way, by perfectly white people like Bill Clinton.
You know, I'm looking at corruption.
I'm looking at bad governance.
I'm looking at bad ideas.
When I look at Britain, for instance, during the Victorian age, I can safely say that the ideas of the British in the Victorian age were better than the ideas of people in Haiti governing Haiti today.
I can say that because I can look at the result.
When I look at Islam, I don't have to tell you about the fact that I don't have to say, oh, there are plenty of nice Islamic people.
Of course, there are.
But when I look at places where Islam rules, the countries are worse than other countries.
You know, they're more unequal.
They're more violent.
They're more impoverished.
There's something about this that doesn't bring the human dignity that Christianity brings.
And so if we're arguing about ideas and it's hard to do this, then what are the people who point to race trying to do?
They're trying to keep from talking about ideas.
They're trying to stop you from talking about ideas.
Why?
Why are leftists trying to talk to keep you from talking about ideas?
And why is it only leftists?
Well, I'll get to that.
That's the next thing I want to talk about.
It's only leftists who try to silence people.
And this is the important thing.
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Let us just for a minute think about the fact that only the left, only the left shuts down ideas.
You cannot name an important person on the right who wants to silence left wingers.
It is only they who shout racist.
It's only they who Twitter is shadow banning conservatives.
It ain't shadow banning liberals.
Why is that?
Why is that?
Why don't they shadow ban liberals?
Only conservatives.
Google is now being sued by Dennis Prager, an honest man, if ever there was one, is suing them because on YouTube, they demonetize his Prager University videos that are the most rational, straightforward explanation of conservative ideas.
They did it to Knowles the other day.
Knowles did a video.
They demonetized that.
Why?
Why are they doing it?
Why did they have to fire James Dammore when he said, hey, you know what?
Women may have different sensibilities and different desires and different capabilities and may not be as good at tech or as committed to tech as men are.
They had to fire him.
Why?
Why do they silence ideas and we don't?
You know, Ben goes and gives a speech.
Rioters show up.
You know, 5'9 Ben Shapiro shows up and they show up with clubs.
You know, Charles Murray, another, I mean, these are guys who, these are intellectual guys of goodwill.
Christina Hoffsommers, they meet violence when they go to campuses.
Why?
Why?
It's because their ideas are wrong and they have to keep them in place because they benefit from them.
They get power.
They get power and they get money from them.
So they benefit from them.
They keep their ideas in place by this incredible, elaborate system of manners where it is impolite to speak the truth.
It is so impolite to speak the truth that in England and other countries in Europe, they allowed little children to be raped.
The police, and we know what the police are like, they hate this stuff.
They hate crime.
They allowed it to go on because they were so afraid of violating this system of manners.
And so when Donald Trump comes along, who's a rude guy, he's a boar.
You know, he's a guy who comes out of Queens with his business.
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He sits around on construction sites and he talked to people in the way that he talked when he does that.
You know, a guy like me, who's kind of courtly and kind of has good manners, may recoil, but that's what it sometimes takes to break the chains, the mental chains.
That's what it takes to put Nurse Ratchet in her place.
And when I say Nurse Ratchet, I mean the New York Times.
I mean CNN with all those weepy little guys.
What the hell are they weeping about?
Why is that news to watch those guys' lips tremble?
It's just to make you feel an emotion about one thing, but not about another.
A little Syrian boy dies in the sand.
It's heartbreaking, but it's no more heartbreaking than Planned Parenthood ripping children out of their mother's wombs and selling the body parts.
That's also heartbreaking.
Why aren't CNN's lips trembling about that?
It is all emotional manipulation.
And because Trump is kind of a bore and because he's kind of a blockhead, he breaks through that.
And that is a good, he is doing God's work.
You know, I was just talking backstage to Knowles and J. Hey, and I was saying, you know, I just finished rereading the biblical story of David and what a terrible guy he was.
He was a warlord.
You know, what a rough, tumble-and-tumble, murdering, you know, slaughtering guy he was.
But that's what it took to get the job done.
Trump is not that.
He's just a little bit rude.
But this is what it takes to get the job done and turn back the tide of government overreach.
And we're going to talk to Knowles about that in just a minute.
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Yeah, they're so much nicer to you than they are to me.
You know, they won't even give me a shirt.
They just give me a jacket to cover up my t-shirt.
I got to say, this shirt is actually just a product of my poker winnings from Saturday night.
Yeah, I'd like to talk to you about those poker winnings.
Some of those.
Drew and I played poker on Saturday night.
He brought over a bottle of wine that said, you can't coexist with people who want to kill you.
We had a nice time.
We had a few drinks.
But I cleaned house.
I'm very proud to say.
You did.
You know, I have to say, and I'm not making excuses here, but it really is true.
I wrote that piece for City Journal and I was exhausted because I also wrote, was writing, I'm putting together the book of Another Kingdom.
And I did that.
And I came over and I thought, you know, it's so nice to just sit with friends and just have a couple of glasses of wine.
Oh, you took all my money.
Wait a second.
I was relaxing.
You were a shark.
And you played brilliantly.
And you pulled four sixes.
I mean, it's not like you beat me with like a bluff.
You put four sixes in a pretty good end.
All right, you bum.
You know, speaking of Another Kingdom, by the way, that episode 12 is out, which means there's only one more left.
One more left.
I know we're done.
We're done.
And then my Hollywood career is over.
So you've got it.
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It's already been turned down by people who have declared themselves part of the resistance.
I am.
They did.
After the Golden Globes, the people I pitched it to said were part of the resistance.
So I thought, what chance did I ever have?
I'm going to pitch this again.
So I hope people will show up because it makes such a difference because I can turn in the room, I can turn to the page.
They're almost like 1,700 five-star reviews now, five-star ratings.
And it makes such a big difference in a pitch because it shows them that it already works.
It's really helpful.
It is really helpful when people go over there.
I said it on my show on Thursday.
Nothing would please me more in the new year than to shove a fork right in Hollywood's eye.
So if you go over there, that would be really helpful.
It's funny because it's not that conservative, but it is, it's just enough to make them real in their seats.
It's just not leftist.
It's just not ideologically on the left.
So that makes it.
And by the way, I can't, speaking of, I can't believe that you're defending Joseph Stalin, our part, the Stalin and the White House outrage.
I think we should leave Trump out as the middleman and just go right to defending Joseph Stalin.
A communist killed 20 million people.
Yeah, starved 20 million people to death.
And that's kind of like Donald Trump, who's kind of rude, right?
This is Flake's Law.
Any anti-Trump conservative, if given enough time, will ultimately compare him to the murderous Soviet dictator.
I mean, they've been doing this since he took office.
They're so, because he can't be constrained by their system of manners, they have to destroy him and they just throw fake scandal after fake scandal at him.
I loved your piece.
I really loved your City Journal piece.
And it was occurring to me.
I thought, you know, the government is shrinking.
The government is getting more free.
I'm getting more free.
I get to keep more of my tax money.
We're on better footing on foreign policy.
Why do I care about all these things?
So I compiled a list.
I found 17 major scandals.
And these are according to all of the mainstream papers, according to Wikipedia, according to all of the compilations.
These are the biggest scandals from the Trump presidency.
17 of them.
There are 17 of them.
You judge for yourself if this is sufficient reason to imperil our freedom agenda.
So the first one, obviously, there's the big Russia collusion, which Dianne Feinstein said there's no evidence of, and Van Jones called a nothing burger.
That's the big one.
Then on just January 27th, President Trump expanded Obama-era travel restrictions from countries such as Iran, Iraq, and Libya, and Syria.
On January 30th, President Trump fired an Obama-era holdover deputy attorney general for refusing to do her job.
On February 2nd.
This is a scandal.
These are the big scandals.
These took up multiple days of headlines.
These are big enough that on CNN and the New York Times and Wikipedia, all left-wing outlets, they consider these the complete list of scandals.
On February 2nd, Kellyanne Conway referred to the arrest of two Iraqi terrorists as a massacre, even though it wasn't a massacre, it was an arrest of terrorists.
On February 12th, Jeff Sessions fired some Obama-era U.S. attorneys, totally in keeping with transition tradition.
On March 4th, Donald Trump tweeted that Barack Obama surveilled his staff during the 2016 campaign, and then CNN later admitted that they had indeed done just that, but for some reason that was a big scandal.
On May 9th, President Trump fired James Comey.
This was the big one.
And Democrat Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, announced months earlier, I do not have confidence in Comey any longer.
But apparently this was a big scandal.
Everyone on both parties wanted to take a look at the family.
And he serves at the president's pleasure, right?
I mean, he has absolute right to fire.
He serves at the president's pleasure, and everybody in the government wanted him fired, including Hillary Clinton.
Yes, they wanted him.
Sure, because he ruined her career.
So that's the really big one.
On June 1st, we withdrew from the Paris Climate Accord, even though everyone agreed it would do nothing to help the environment.
On August 15th, President Trump responded to the Charlottesville protest that included white nationalists and Antifa by condemning hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides, later adding racism is evil and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.
Finally, he said not all of those people were neo-Nazis because some peaceful non-racist demonstrators simply opposed statue toppling leftists who wanted to change history.
That is in the top three of the biggest things.
He said racism is evil and these people are antithetical to American ideals.
And the trick they use is they make a big fuss about it and maybe four days later somebody looks at the transcript and says he didn't say that.
But by then they're already simply referring to it.
They're just saying Charlottesville.
You know, they just use it as awful remarks that you're doing.
Oh, yeah, terrible, terrible remarks.
And you look back and he said, you know, he didn't actually say anything bad there, you know?
Yeah, if you look at everything he said, you get a clear picture of the situation.
But hey, listen, that would be for journalists to do.
That's not for CNN in the New York Times.
Then, oh, these are really bad ones.
On August 16th, he disbanded the American Manufacturing Advisory Council.
On August 16th, he also disbanded the Strategic and Policy Forum because its members were protesting the administration.
Then a couple days later, the Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.
How will our government function, by the way, without the President's Committee on the Arts?
He's killing Big Bird, right?
Whenever they go after this, there's always he's killing Big Bird.
Yeah.
Yeah, Trump fired Big Bird.
Big Bird, meanwhile, is smoking a cigar.
He's saying, I got the HBO books now, buddy.
I don't need it.
I'm out of this government.
Yeah, that was a big one.
On August 25th, President Trump pardoned Sheriff Joe Arpaio for misdemeanor contempt of court.
The injustice.
Our government's falling apart.
On September 29th, HHS Director Tom Price resigned because he used slightly too much money on private jets.
On October 3rd, President Trump compared Hurricane Maria to Hurricane Katrina, and he was subsequently blamed because the Puerto Rican government squandered all of the relief money.
On December 6th, President Trump announced that the U.S. had formally recognized the capital of Israel as the capital of Israel, and he wouldn't back down.
No, wait, is that a scam?
Where is that listed as a scandal?
Yeah, it's listed on Wikipedia.
And then, the controversy is across the mainstream media because what you might have forgotten is that a bunch of anti-Semites and the United Nations, but I repeat myself, condemn the United States for that action.
Wow, that's a scandal, huh?
You know, if I forget the O Jerusalem, you know, like this has been the capital of Israel since the Bible days, and that's a scandal that he said that.
I thought it was St. Louis.
I thought St. Louis was the capital of Israel.
St. Louis Jerusalem, I can't remember.
It's in the middle of the day.
Because I'm learning history in this administration.
And then the final one, this was really bad.
President Trump, just a few days ago, disbanded the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity because a lot of states wouldn't turn over their electoral information.
There you have it.
There are all of the scandals, all of the major scandals, according to every mainstream news source and Wikipedia and all of the online watchdogs and fact checkers.
Which of those scandals, for which of those scandals, would you imperil the most ruthlessly effective pro-freedom agenda in recent American history?
You know, it's an excellent point.
First of all, as you were listening to them, I was listening very carefully.
I could hear a couple in there where I might say, oh, well, maybe he made a misstep here, a misstep.
Yeah, yeah, whatever.
But the atmosphere of scandal that they have managed to create by this, and I was talking about this this morning in my opening, when you turn on CNN, you go on, their lips are trembling and their eyes are filling with tears.
And you sit there and go, what do I care if Allison Camerada is crying?
You know what?
It's like, go home, Allison.
You know, if you can't sit and deliver the news and tell us what's happening in the world without crying, there's no crying in news.
But they've managed to create this crisis atmosphere that something is terribly wrong and nothing's terribly wrong.
In fact, things are going quite well.
I mean, these are so minor.
Like four of those were random White House advisory boards of rich people disbanding.
Right.
And compare it to Barack Obama.
Compare the level of scandal to Barack Obama, who regularly and egregiously lied to the American people, in one case to upend a sixth of the economy, who lied about major terrorist attacks that killed our ambassadors, who lied about gun running across the Mexican border, who lied.
It was, to borrow a phrase, an empire of lies under the Obama administration.
But of course, that's scandal-free Obama.
No drama, Obama.
And in the meantime, Donald Trump, just in the first year, has cut the federal bureaucracy massively.
HHS by half a percent.
Even defense by over a percent.
Transportation, one and a half percent, justice, one and a half percent, energy two and a half percent, commerce three percent, housing and urban development, three percent, on and on and on, all the way up to treasury, which has been cut by 7.5 percent.
Yeah, under Barack Obama, treasury increased because he was using the IRS to spy on a conservatives and harass them.
It is all about this.
It is all about the establishing of the power of government, which is the power of the elites, which are these people who are doing this.
But it's also about the fact that he undercuts their authority to decree what is racist and what is sexist and what is bad and what is good.
I mean, they have taken that authority on themselves, on themselves.
That's what all the crying is about, all the trembling lips.
It's like we know through our emotions that a dead Syrian child is more important than a dead unborn baby.
You know, we can tell you this because we cry about the Syrian child, but we don't cry about that.
And that's how you know what's right and wrong.
And it's just Trump shatters all that because he doesn't care.
You know, one of the things is Trump said today, yesterday, he said, I'm probably the least racist president you've ever interviewed.
I think that they're, you know, look, everybody has racism in them and all this stuff.
That's what makes this whole thing so bad, this whole technique so evil.
But the fact is, what he really thinks about is money.
He thinks about money.
He feels, I mean, blacks now have a better employment record than they've had for, I think, 20 years.
And that's, and Trump thinks, like, what do you want?
Everything else is on you.
You know, you have a job.
Now go make your life.
You know, it's not his job to make you feel good about yourself.
His statement is probably true because he most likely thinks about race the least of any president's recent memory.
Yeah, yeah.
Did you, I mean, did I hear that some people were actually blaming him for the fact that some bonehead pressed the nuclear warning button in Hawaii?
That was Trump's fault sometimes.
Of course that was Trump's fault.
Stalin.
He has a lot of control over this government.
This was amazing.
If you missed this news item, everybody was blaming Trump.
So Jamie Lee Curtis was blaming Trump.
And she survived Halloween, so she must know something.
Yeah, it's true.
She survived like 10 times, I think.
Yeah, she survived a whole lot.
I just saw it like Halloween H2O.
They cut off the guy's head.
He still came back for another movie.
Yeah, she says, this Hawaii missile scare is on you, Mr. Trump.
The real fear that you can tell they're serious, by the way, when they randomly capitalize words on the title.
Yes, yes.
And you know they've found it.
Your arrogance, your hubris, narcissism, rage, ego, immaturity, and your unstable idiocy.
You know, if you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and be the child.
It's a lot of projection.
I mean, Hawaii is a Democrat state, right?
I mean, why is this Trump's fault?
Of course.
Hawaii, there are like three Republicans in all of Hawaii.
And Jim Carrey tweet, he said, I woke up this morning in Hawaii with 10 minutes to live.
It was a false alarm.
But if we allow this one man, Gomorrah, and his corrupt Congress to continue alienating the world, we're heading for suffering beyond all imagination.
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Oh, my.
Well, if Jim Kerry says so, it must be true.
That's all I can say.
Because these guys, they're pretty good at saying words that other people wrote for them.
So I think they can analyze geopolitics.
They were a breakdown in evolution, I think, because evolution has made us trust our eyes, and they all look so attractive, and they look like they know what they're talking about, but they just don't.
I mean, that's.
You got to listen a little bit, too.
I know, you got to listen to.
What's on the Michael Knowles show today?
The Michael Knoll show today is about our hellhole culture.
I won't use the word that it's on, but it's talking about race and whether or not Haiti is a very nice place to live or not.
And just examining what Donald Trump, how he stacks up to Barack Obama on these questions, what it matters for American freedom and America as a country and prosperity, and why we can't blame the culture all on President Kofefe.
We're mistaking cause and effect here, folks.
Michael Knowles, that was a great segment.
Really good.
I appreciate it.
And listen to the show.
It's coming on after this.
That's right.
I'll see you later.
And give me back my money.
All right.
I got to play this one thing before we go into our crappy culture.
This is a report.
Where was this report from, Robert?
World News or something.
World News.
This is how they make cookies in Haiti.
They look a lot like pancakes or cookies.
The recipe passed down from generations here in Haiti.
Women spend entire days making them.
Grandmothers, daughters, and younger girls.
Infants are nursed while mothers work the mix.
Kids seem to enjoy them, at least when our camera was around.
But these patties, known as bon bomb terrestries who eat them, are a grim reminder of just how poor this Caribbean nation is.
They aren't sweet.
They're hard to swallow and add almost nothing in terms of nutrition because the cookies are actually made of dirt.
I mean, I don't want to laugh at that.
They're eating cookies made of dirt.
Okay.
And this is a country, I think Haiti has oil.
I think they actually have oil.
I think they have a gold mine and all this.
You know, it's like these, this is not a racial question.
This is a question of governance.
It's a question of corruption.
It's a question of ideas.
I mean, we've seen in South America, we've seen just like not, you know, in our own hemisphere, we've seen how when you institute socialist ideas, you can turn a thriving economy in one generation.
You can turn it into a hellhole.
You know, this is what makes the difference.
And why do they want, you know, the thing that gets me is this everything the left does, it's like you celebrate Columbus Day, oh, the indigenous people, you're racist.
You celebrate Thanksgiving, oh, the Indians, you're racist.
You celebrate Christmas, ah, Kwanzaa, you're racist.
Everything they do is all about destroying this culture that has been one of the most successful cultures in the history of humankind.
I'm talking about Western culture, which we, America, are now the last repositories of, because Europe is virtually gone, because they opened up their doors to everybody, people who didn't agree with them, people who don't like them, Muslims who don't share their religion.
They opened up their doors.
Donald Trump is trying not to do that.
If he occasionally says things that I don't like, I don't care.
It's not a scandal.
It's not a big deal.
The most important thing are his policies and his policies so far are working.
All right, let's look at our crappy culture.
So today is Martin Luther King's birthday, which we celebrate.
And it's always kind of an annoying holiday to me because we've just gotten back from Christmas and the last thing I want is another day off.
But we don't get a day off, so it doesn't matter.
But, you know, I do actually believe that Martin Luther King was one of the great men of America and worthy of having a holiday in his name.
And sometimes right-wingers like to point out that, oh, you know, he cheated on his wife, which he probably did.
He dabbled with socialism and communism, which he probably did.
He was not an economic genius.
He was not some guy who really knew what the future was.
The fact is, though, he was a devout Christian and a Republican most of his life.
I mean, he did support Kennedy because Kennedy kind of started, got on the civil rights train.
It really, really annoys me to see the left steal this holiday, as they do, by somehow proclaiming that it's Martin Luther King versus Trump.
It's Martin Luther King versus the right.
It's Martin Luther King versus the people who believe in America.
But let us remember the most important thing, I think, that Martin Luther King said in some of his brilliant speeches.
Two things I will point out, and I won't play the cuts, but just to point out these things he said.
One is that he called on America to live out the meaning of its creed.
In other words, the left constantly is attacking everything about America, our Constitution, our Declaration, our founding principles, our founding religion.
They are constantly attacking all these things as racist, imperialist, evil.
But Martin Luther King did not.
He called on us to fulfill the meaning of our creed.
The problem with 1950s and 1960s America was not the principles that we were living on, is that we betrayed those principles by cutting out people according to the color of their skin.
And we did.
We did do that.
That was wrong.
It was wrong.
We know it was wrong because it was against our principles.
It's our principles that he was trying to put in place, not the principles of the left, which have been antithetical to everything America stands for.
And the second thing he said is that he dreamt of a day when people would be judged by the, not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Let that day be this day.
All we have to do is stop.
We have to stop listening to the left who makes everything about race.
We have to start listening to our hearts and our Bible, which tells us that it is all about ideas.
It is all about right and wrong.
It is all about behavior.
It's not about IQ.
This worship of IQ is disgusting.
It is just a form of racism.
It's just another form of racism.
IQ can be changed in a heartbeat.
It is only one of the many gifts God gives to human beings.
It is absolutely ugly.
We can stop judging people by race today if we stop listening to the people crying at CNN.
If we stop listening to the left who charges racism at everything, we only talk about which ideas are better no matter who has them, no matter what color.
If they come out of England, great.
If they come out of Norway, great.
If they come out of Haiti, great.
But if they don't, they don't.
And we're not going to pretend they do just to make people with different skin colors feel good.
Let this be Martin Luther King Day.
Let us start judging each other by the content of our character, by our ideas, by our actions, and not at all, ever, by the color of our skin or by what somebody might have said by accident or anything else.
Banned Thinkers00:00:49
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Owen Benjamin.
Oh, comedian Owen Benjamin, who has been banned.
I think he's one of the guys who's been banned, I think, on YouTube.
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