Ep. 1909 - The Supposedly "Racist" Trump Post Explained in 5 Minutes
JD Vance’s Armenia visit—first Christian nation (converted 301 AD)—contrasts with liberal globalist critiques of Trump, like his disputed Truth Social post mocking Obama, Biden, and others as animals. The speaker argues outrage stems from anti-Trump bias, not racism, while linking Eileen Gu’s China defection to cultural erosion. Meanwhile, Judge Davis’s leniency toward a rapist who threatened victims and the court highlights liberal judicial failures, framing it as "anarcho-tyranny." Vance’s trip signals a shift: U.S. leadership reclaiming Christian heritage amid Azerbaijan’s alleged conquest of Armenian lands and holy sites, exposing Cold War-era alliances that sidelined shared values. The episode ties Trump’s rise to backlash against perceived lawlessness and cultural betrayal. [Automatically generated summary]
Vice President JD Vance becomes the highest ranking U.S. official ever to visit the first Christian country in the world.
And we enter day four of faux outrage over President Trump's posting a supposedly racist meme about Barack Obama.
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President Trump's Meme Mishap00:11:51
Before we get to anything, we have to cover the most important news story according to the Libs and the Centrists and even the squish Republicans.
And that, of course, is President Trump's, see if you can follow me.
President Trump's posting a video to Truth Social about election fraud that at the very end for like a second or two auto scrolls to another video, which is a meme that had Barack and Michelle Obama had their heads placed on gorillas.
Did you follow that?
Did you follow where you're supposed to be outraged?
I know it's a little distant.
I know, and also, by the way, President Trump took down the video and said a staffer posted it, which is pretty, pretty likely.
That you're supposed to be outraged of that.
We're on day four of the outrage, not just from the libs, which would be one thing, but from multiple U.S. senators, all these squishy types.
So just want to put all the cards on the table here.
Let's examine it.
We have to examine it.
It's four days of this.
We got to examine it.
What exactly did President Trump post?
Initiated by a court order, the Michigan investigation team obtained forensic access to a DS-200 tabulator, the machine that counts the votes.
A TEL-IT 4G wireless chip manufactured in Taiwan was discovered embedded into the motherboard.
The voting machine tapes clearly indicate modem engagement and transmission of election data.
Some of the anomalies that we noticed in the 2020 general elections, that five key states all stopped counting at a certain time in these key battleground states.
These were all where the software, the mini machines, ESNS machines were used, the SmartMatic, the gems software.
So when the vote stopped counting, and this has been noted in other countries as well, President Trump was significantly ahead.
When reporting and counting resumed, there was a massive spike occurred that favored Joe Biden.
Okay, okay.
So I know if you're only listening, you could maybe hear it there.
At the very end where you get that Lion King, hee, right?
That for that one and a half seconds, there was this image of Barack and Michelle Obama with their heads on monkeys.
And this was very, very racist, of course.
This is proof that Trump hates black people.
This is the only thing that anyone knows about this post.
99.9% of the post was about voting machines and the potential of rigging in the 2020 election.
But then there was this thing at the end, which I think very clearly was just an auto scroll like you get on Instagram or Twitter or anywhere else.
You play the video and then a new video pops up.
Anyway, in any case, that's the one that everyone's focused on.
Said, this is proof that Trump is really racist.
So I said, okay, you know, it's not really tasteful to put black people's faces on monkeys.
I certainly agree with that.
So I don't think he did this intentionally.
I don't think he posted this.
He obviously thought it was distasteful because he took the video down when he even got to the very end, if he got to the end the first time he saw it.
But I said, let me go back to the original video, not the voting machine one.
I'm talking about that one that auto-played there at the end.
I just, I'm even skeptical that that video is racist.
Not because of putting black people's faces on monkeys, but I'm skeptical of it because the libs have been lying about everything when it comes to Trump.
So you know what?
Let me just go back.
I found the original video.
Here's the original video.
I'll describe it to you if you're only listening.
So we've got Barack and Michelle and their heads are on monkeys.
Okay.
Okay.
That's a little distasteful, I think we say.
And then there's Hillary's like a warthog and then Hakeem is there.
AOC's a donkey as his as his newsome.
Frisker's an elephant.
Zoron is a leopard.
Hold up.
Pause it.
Pause it.
There's the key.
Joe Biden is a monkey.
So if this video, which is just all the Democrats looking like animals, and then the punchline is Trump comes in as the lion and they say, you know, the lion sleeps tonight and he's the lion and they're all a bunch of animals.
But if it were only black people as monkeys, I might be able to understand the outrage a little bit.
So, you know, it's kind of distasteful, isn't it?
But that's not what happened.
Because here you have Joe Biden, vice president to Barack Obama, and then the Democrat president that followed him as a monkey.
Furthermore, in that very image, you got Joe Biden as a monkey eating a banana, and then you've got Kamala as a turtle.
Now, Kamala, I'm reliably informed, is a black woman of color.
So if this were a racist thing, Kamala would be the monkey, and I guess Biden would be the turtle.
And it would actually make more sense for Biden to be the turtle because Joe Biden's really slow and he's like 200 years old.
So the craziest part about this, and I haven't really seen people talking about this, is, yeah, okay, it's yes, it's distasteful to put black people's faces on monkeys.
Sure, fair enough.
Trump clearly didn't intend to do that.
He almost certainly didn't even see that.
He might not have posted the video himself.
Very likely he did not.
He's got other things on his plate.
And, you know, posting a video is a little more complicated than just sending out a tweet with a few lines that you type yourself.
But beyond that, what everyone seems to agree on, including the conservatives, is, but the original video in context is racist.
And the fact is, it's not.
In context, the original video itself is actually not even racist.
In order for the original video to be racist, it would have to be the black people as monkeys and the non-black people as not monkeys.
But that's not what happened.
You get Biden as the monkey.
And then to prove it, you get Biden and the black person in the very same frame.
And the white person is the monkey and the non-white person is the turtle.
A hoax through and through.
And it's crazy.
I haven't even seen anyone defend that.
Look, obviously Trump regretted posting it because he took the video down.
But I don't want to hear, I've been seeing some conservatives saying, well, obviously the original video is racist.
It's actually not in its original context.
You could say that making black people look like monkeys is racial and cruel or whatever.
But in the context of the video, it's actually not.
You don't even need to give lives that much.
It is thoroughly, entirely, 100% grade A USDA certified a hoax.
Okay, speaking of criticizing Trump, which everyone loves to do, we have another Olympian throwing shade at Trump.
This after, what was that guy's name?
Rudolph Hess?
Is that his?
No, not Rudolph Hess.
It was something Hess.
Whatever Hess is, the skier, he comes out and he starts attacking Trump.
And he says, you know, you know, man, there's a lot of bad stuff in the country right now.
I don't, just because I wear the American flag doesn't mean I represent America.
It's like, well, that's literally what it means.
And that's all that it means.
And then this figure skater chick comes out and she attacks Trump.
And now we have the perfect exemplar of American Olympians criticizing Trump.
And we have the perfect example of what is wrong with the Olympics.
And that is this skier, Eileen Gu.
Do you know Eileen Gu?
I don't really follow the Olympics.
I don't care for the Olympics.
I don't watch it.
I don't.
It doesn't interest me.
I think it's pagan and super lib and I just doesn't interest me.
But some people like it.
That's fine.
De gustu bus nund despoutan de mest.
Eileen guo has has just come out.
She was asked about President Trump attacking this skier, Hess.
And Gu says, quote, she's sorry that the headline that is eclipsing the Olympics has to be something so unrelated to the spirit of the games.
She says, as someone who's been caught in the crossfire before, I feel sorry for the athletes.
I hope they can ski to their very best.
She's really upset.
Trump.
Oh, this Trump.
He's just, you know, why does this headline have to take away from the spirit of the games?
What is the spirit of the games?
Is the spirit of the games American athletes dissing America?
In a way, I was trying to read her comments as an esoteric defense of Trump.
You know, I'm sorry that this headline is eclipsing the Olympics and so on related to the spirit of the games.
I was wondering if in a way she was throwing shade at Hess here.
Hess should have kept his mouth shut and not undermined America kind of thing.
Actually, weird, maybe kind of weirdly defending the administration and the United States.
But then you look at Eileen Gu and who she is and you say, probably not.
Eileen Gu is American.
She's born in America.
She's an American citizen.
Her mother was an immigrant, but her father's American.
She was raised in America.
She was educated in America.
She trained in America.
She's lived basically her whole life in America.
And she competes for China.
She competes for China.
Not only a different country, but America's chief geopolitical rival.
She's competing for them.
I thought, this is just perfect.
This is the perfect example of what's wrong with the Olympics.
First of all, a lot of athletes are like this.
A lot of athletes live here.
Maybe they're born here.
They train here.
They get all the benefits of being in America.
And then they go back to their country and they compete for their actual country, not for America.
And you say, all right, if it's a tiny little country somewhere in Africa or the Far East, if it's like Mauritius or something, you say, okay, why not?
Okay, that's fine.
When it's America's geopolitical rival, chief rival, China, you say, well, that's a little distasteful, isn't it?
Maybe that's the word to describe all these stories today on this show.
It's a little distasteful.
But what are the Olympics?
The Olympics are a modern invention.
They don't go back to antiquity.
There was an Olympics in antiquity, but the modern Olympics is a creation that's roughly 100 years old.
And it's to promote liberalism, internationalism, globalism, we would say today.
And this is it.
This is the kind of thing that the election of Trump was a rebellion against.
This idea that people are going to come here.
They're going to get all the benefits out of this country.
They're going to sap this country dry.
They're going to get welfare benefits when they move to Minnesota.
They're going to train at the best facilities.
They're going to go to the top schools.
They're going to get the greatest legal and political protections.
They're going to benefit from this great economy.
They're going to benefit in every single way.
And they're just going to take, They're not going to consider themselves American.
They're not going to assimilate.
They're not going to adopt an American identity, which includes getting rid of your old identity in large part.
No, they're going to take, take, take, and then they're still going to identify with their country of origin.
And they're even going to help their country of origin to compete against the United States economically, politically, maybe militarily, and in this case, in skiing, in athletic games.
This is it.
She says, I'm sorry that these headlines are contradicting and eclipsing the spirit of the Olympics.
I'm not.
I'm thrilled that these headlines are eclipsing the spirit of the Olympics because the spirit of the modern Olympics is terrible.
High School Protesters' Derangement00:07:05
It's a horrible spirit.
And it is actually that spirit, which was the cause of the election of Donald Trump.
It wasn't literally the Olympics.
It wasn't practically the Olympics, but it was that spirit that animates the Olympics.
That is what galvanized people to vote for Trump in 16 and 2020 and 2024 and to win the popular vote in 2024.
A rebellion against this globalism, this liberalism that diminishes the United States, that does not really benefit, that does not constitute our strength, that does not create a beautiful, delicious stew in the melting pot that's greater than the sum of its parts.
That's the spirit of it.
Okay, speaking of attacks on Trump, there's a really weird one.
I teased it yesterday.
I think I teased it.
An Illinois high school had a walkout to protest ICE.
And as part of the protest, they crucified Trump in effigy.
And they actually completely undermined their protest as they did it.
We'll get to that momentarily.
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This story, got to give a hat tip to Frank McCormick here.
An amazing story.
An amazing story because it doesn't just pertain to a high school in Illinois.
This is a symbol of the Libs' derangement and the ways in which the people who think they're the good guys very often are the bad guys.
This is from Waukegan High School in Illinois.
They had an anti-ICE protest with hoisting Mexican flags, of course.
They almost never hoist the American flag.
It's the Mexican flag.
And they erected, this is pretty disturbing.
They erected a cross and they crucified an effigy of Trump and they made him look kind of fat, you know, mostly naked, wearing a MAGA hat.
I actually, I don't love this display because it's so vile and sacrilegious, but I love the point they accidentally made.
The Libs thought they were really going to at this, first of all, students at high school should not be doing this.
Whatever teachers encourage this, there are people with gray hair over there.
Those people need to be fired, obviously.
These students need to be severely punished.
They should be grounded by their parents.
They should be suspended from school.
Maybe they should be expelled.
And this is pretty outrageous stuff and has no place in a high school.
However, notice the imagery here.
These libs have become so deranged, or they're just so ignorant.
You know, their intellects are darkened by sin and ignorance that they think the way to get Trump is by comparing him to God.
They think the way that they're going to really stick it to Trump, that guy that they hate so much, is by comparing him to, what is that?
Oh, yes, Christ crucified.
This mob of students here is reenacting the passion, except they're on the side of the mob calling for Barabbas, calling for Christ to be crucified.
I don't know if you've ever read the story.
I hope you have.
If you haven't, the mob, it's not the good guys.
You know who the good guy is?
God, Christ, the one that they're crucifying.
And they're comparing him to Trump, and they don't even realize that they're doing it.
This reminds me of something that it wasn't just ignorant high school students.
It was ignorant members of Congress and governors and politicians did some years ago.
Do you remember after the 2020 election about which President Trump is still posting videos, potential rigging?
Do you remember what the Libs said?
They said that Republicans had perpetrated the big lie.
They said, you Republicans who are denying the results of the election, libs have denied the results of basically every single election they've lost in my lifetime, going back to Bush V. Gore, at least, but never mind that.
They said, you Republicans who are denying the results of the election by pointing out that the rules were all changed at the last minute, in some cases illegally and unconstitutionally.
They said, you all are perpetrating the big lie.
That was the phrase you heard on CNN and MSNBC and the Washington Post and the New York Times, all over the place.
And they use that phrase specifically because they associated this phrase with Hitler.
It's the big lie, like the Nazis, like Hitler.
And what was so amazing about them using that phrase is that that phrase was coined by Hitler, by the Nazis.
The phrase appears in Mein Kampf.
The phrase is not an accusation from the Allies or from the Jews or from the innocent German people against the Nazis.
Au contraire, Mayfreire, that was a phrase used by the Nazis against the Jews.
And they didn't know it because they don't know anything about history.
So they're using this phrase.
They're saying, you Republicans, you Republicans are pushing the big lie.
In so doing, they were putting themselves in the place of Hitler and they were putting Trump and the Republicans in the place of the persecuted Jews.
You couldn't make it up.
If you were writing a Hollywood screenplay about this, you could not make it up.
It was so on the nose.
And now you have these liberal high school students being pushed by their parents and by Democrat politicians all around the country.
You have them putting themselves in the place of the crowd calling for the crucifixion of Christ in whose place they put Donald Trump.
Couldn't make it up.
Why You Might Be the Baddie00:02:43
Really makes you think.
Maybe sometimes when you think you're the good guy, maybe you're actually the baddie.
Maybe you should have some introspection and you should examine your conscience and have a touch of humility to ask yourself, is what I am doing actually right?
This is the whole point.
This is the central debated point of that stupid halftime show with what's his face, Bad Bunny.
Have you seen this going around?
There's this picture from the Bad Bunny halftime show, Levi's Stadium, and then up there on the big billboard next to Bud Light, very fitting, it says, white background, black text, all caps.
The only thing more powerful than hate is love.
And then some guy, it's gone totally viral, almost 4 million views, tweets this out and says, imagine getting mad about this and still thinking you're a good person.
Why would you get mad at the transvestite, anti-American, vulgar, degenerate rap singer babbling in a foreign tongue that the vast majority of Americans don't speak while featuring two men grinding on each other in front of a sports game that is supposed to be viewed by children?
Why would you get mad about that?
A guy who disses America, even in the phrase, God bless America.
How could you get mad about that when he put up a sign that said love is better than hate?
How could you get mad about that?
We'll get to how you could get mad about that.
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Imagine getting mad about this.
Muhammad's Impact on Debate00:15:21
This is a meme.
This is a meme that the right uses to make fun of the left.
And the left is now just doing it sincerely, unironically.
And the meme is, you know, the left comes out as they're like killing people, slaughtering babies, you know, mutilating little children, flooding the country with rapists and poison peddlers and murderers.
And they say, yeah, but we stand for love.
We define everything we do as love and everything you do as hate.
So we're actually the good guys.
Did you know that?
Did you know that?
When the libs redefined marriage for basically the first time in human history anywhere, and they did so in such a way that excludes mothers from their children, from families, or alternately excludes fathers from families, leads to all sorts of horrible things, up to and including creating children for the purpose of denying them their natural mother and father.
You know, really heinous stuff.
But what did they say?
They said, love is love.
Love is love.
Love wins.
How could you oppose love?
Why are you, we have defined the disordered things that we're doing that are contrary to reality and to the common good in human flourishing.
We've defined them as love.
And if you oppose us, you hate love.
Huh.
Checkmate.
Checkmate, conservatives.
This is like when Anthony Kennedy decided to abdicate his responsibility to interpret the law as a Supreme Court justice, and he instead decided to write cheap romantic poetry that is fitting for an eighth grade English class.
And he decided that his interpretation of the Constitution was going to find a right to privacy, just as he earlier in an abortion case had found a right to define the sweet mystery of life somewhere in the Constitution.
I don't know where it is.
And they say, look, we support mystery.
We support love.
We support life.
Well, life, that's the key here.
Is when your lib friends send that memor.
Hate is worse than love.
Love beats hate.
How could you get mad at that?
Bad bunny had a sign.
How could you get mad at that?
The point you should tell them is that you are pro-life.
And they are angry at people who are pro-life.
Imagine being against life and thinking you're the good guy.
And what would they say?
They would say, no, no, no, but you're not really pro-life.
You're anti-choice.
You want to control women's bodies.
And they'd use all their own silly euphemisms.
You say, okay, okay, okay.
Before we get into the abortion issue, I just want to point out you have granted me the premise.
You have accepted the premise that sometimes people use words in ways that can be misleading or tell a partial truth or at the very least can be euphemistic.
You've granted that point, right?
Okay, great.
So you don't like my phrase pro-life.
I think pro-life is an honest phrase that accurately depicts what we're talking about.
But you dispute that.
Okay, fine.
Then let's dig into the real substance of it.
I support the law coming in and restricting women from going to a medical professional to kill her baby.
That's what we're talking.
You want to get past the euphemisms and the slogans?
That's what we're talking about.
And what you support is women being able to kill their babies in defense of their own disordered autonomy.
Right?
That's what we're talking about.
With marriage, you support excluding mothers or alternately fathers from marriage and denying babies their natural mothers or fathers.
Okay.
That's what you support, along with other acts that we don't even need to get into when it comes to gay marriage.
I support not that.
I think that babies have a right to their mothers and their fathers.
So let's get down to the brass tax.
But I think what you will find as the Libs promote all their slogans, love beats hate, love is love, love wins, whatever.
I think you will find the conservatives are more than happy to put the slogans aside and talk about the real issue.
The libs will focus on more and more hyperbolic and preposterous slogans.
They will do whatever they can to avoid looking at the real issue.
They will only speak in euphemisms.
And that very fact tells you everything you need to know about the issues.
All politics uses slogans, but that fact tells you everything you need to know about the issues.
The conservatives are using slogans and euphemisms to try to convey the truth.
The left is using slogans and euphemisms to deny the truth.
If that isn't the case, then let's get down to brass tax.
Let's talk about the details.
Now, turning from the party of love to the religion of peace, Zorhan Mamdani, peace be upon him, the mayor of New York, has defended the city's sanctuary city policies, said this is a reversal from his predecessor, albeit a Democrat, Eric Adams.
Eric Adams said, illegal immigration is going to destroy New York City.
Zoran comes in.
He says, no, no, no, we need more illegal aliens.
Bring them here.
All the rapists from MS-13, all the murderers from Trende Arago.
We want them.
Come on in.
The water's warm in the Kiwanis or whatever, in the East River.
So that's not surprising.
We knew he was going to run on that.
He's a communist.
So there's no surprise there.
But listen to how he is defending the sanctuary city policies.
The story of the Hijrah reminds us that Prophet Muhammad, Sulawah alayhi wasallam, was a stranger too, who fled Mecca and was welcomed in Medina.
Surah Nahl 1642 tells us, as for those who immigrated in the cause of Allah after being persecuted, we will surely bless them with a good home in this world.
Or as the Prophet Muhammad said, Islam began as something strange and will go back to being strange.
So glad tidings to the strangers.
Okay, I'm out.
I mean, I'm literally out of New York because I was born in New York, raised in New York, and I've since left New York.
But what I mean is I'm out of this.
I don't want this.
I don't want my mayors quoting Muhammad or the Hadith or the Quran or any of it.
I don't want it.
It's wrong.
And you can tell me that we don't have a religious test for political office in America.
Sure.
And you can tell me we don't have an official established religion in America.
Okay, kind of, sure, whatever.
I don't want it.
I don't like it.
I'm even somewhat open-minded when it comes to Muslims.
I've said on this show many times, I have a reasonable degree of respect for Islam, and I find it in many ways easier to talk to a Muslim than to talk to some decadent lib atheist.
Okay.
So it's not even, I mean, my Islamophobia is intensifying when I hear the mayor of New York talk this way, but I'm not even like a knuckle-dragger on the issue.
There are nice insights that we in Christendom have taken from our interactions with the Muslim world.
Some as warnings, but some as legitimate contributions.
I don't want it.
I don't want it in New York.
This reminds me of a debate that happened about 15 years ago.
They were going to install a mosque, or at the very least, an Islamic center by the World Trade Center.
And this was at the time when the left was very Islamophilic.
I guess it still is.
And this was at a time when the right was very libertarian.
The conservative movement was very libertarian.
So they lacked the fortitude and the moral clarity and the guardrails of authority to explain why it was wrong to put a mosque at ground zero.
They couldn't quite say why, because they were so libertarian.
We all knew it was wrong.
And Charles Krauthammer of Blessed Memory, Charles Krauthammer wrote a great piece in the Washington Post, I assume, about why.
He came out.
We were all kind of wondering where these pundits and these thought leaders were going to land.
And he said, you can't have a mosque at ground zero.
It's just not the place for it.
It's just not fitting.
It's not fitting for the mayor of New York to be quoting Muhammad as some kind of great authority.
It's just not fitting.
That's just not what we do there.
And especially in the wake of 9-11, it's perverse to do that.
It's just wrong.
It's not the right place for that.
It's not that there's no place to quote Muhammad.
There's certainly places around the world.
Maybe even in America, Muhammad could come up.
Not from the mayor of New York.
It's just wrong.
However, I have to give some credit here.
Professor Jacob made a great observation to me.
In a way, I'm glad Momdani is quoting Muhammad in this way because it allows us to ask ourselves where all of this ends.
Mamdani comes out.
He says, you know, Muhammad was booted out of Mecca and he was welcomed into Medina.
He was welcomed there.
So anyway, that's why we need to let a bunch of illegals in.
You say, well, hold on.
Keep going with the story.
What happened after Muhammad was welcomed into Medina?
What happened?
Did he just live peacefully, happily ever after?
He just kind of got along with the locals and they all just decided to live their own lives and, you know, you do you?
Oh, or was he welcomed into Medina and then raised an army, conquered not only Medina and Mecca, the entire Arabian Peninsula, and then the entire Levant, and then this is obviously including his followers, and then all of North Africa and then half of Europe going all the way up almost to Paris until he was booted out and had to remain in Iberia for 800 years.
What happened?
You understand we need to let these people in, just like Medina allowed Muhammad in.
So then Trendeiragua and MS-13 and all of these foreigners who don't speak our language or share our culture or have any desire to assimilate, then they can conquer us, just like Muhammad did.
You say, well, hold on.
Wait, if that's your example, I think we need to get rid of all of them immediately as quick as possible.
Maybe not the best example if you're trying to convince people that the mass migration will turn out well for them.
How did it turn out for Arabia and the Levant and North Africa and Europe and America increasingly?
Okay.
Speaking of Christianity, a great, great turn of events happened just yesterday.
And that is that the vice president, JD Vance, became the highest ranking U.S. official ever to visit the very first Christian country in the world.
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My favorite coming yesterday is from at OXXXG, who says, I speak Spanish and I didn't understand anything Bad Bunny said.
Yeah.
I looked up some of the lyrics.
Someone sent them to me.
It's probably good that we did not speak Spanish.
Some of his lyrics are not great.
Not great, let's say.
Okay, Vice President JD Vance has just made history and very, very important history because it relates to history and it relates to the history of our civilization.
JD Vance just flew to Armenia to become the highest ranking U.S. official ever to visit the very first Christian country in the world, Armenia, which became Christian in 301, the year of our Lord 301, which is a decade before the Edict of Milan, the Edict of Milan, by which Constantine legalized Christianity throughout the Roman Empire.
Here is the vice president.
This is one of the oldest Christian countries in the entire world, a true bedrock of Christian civilization and culture.
As a devout Christian myself, I know the meaning of this country to the entire world and to the religion that the prime minister and I share.
So to the people of Armenia and the great prime minister, I want to thank you for your partnership.
President Trump is committed to this partnership, and so am I, and we're thrilled to be here to take the next step.
God bless you.
Really, really important.
And the context here, we've talked about it on the show a little bit, but it hasn't gotten a lot of play in American media.
There has been a decades-long war between Armenia, which is the very first Christian country, Christian before Constantine made it legal in Rome, and Azerbaijan, which is a Muslim country.
And there's been this war over a debated region called Artsakh, which is Armenian, which unfortunately the Azerbaijanis were able to steal from them, and they're destroying every last vestige of Christianity there, which goes back to antiquity.
And it's a little complicated because Armenia was a Soviet satellite state during the Cold War, so the U.S. didn't really have relations with Armenia.
And Armenia has been squeezed by Russia and Iran.
And the United States is NATO allies with Turkey since the 1950s.
The United States is allies with the state of Israel.
Israel hates Iran, so Israel cozies up to Turkey and Azerbaijan, which means that in this war, indirectly, American money was being used to wage this war from a Muslim country against the very first Christian country.
And it's just a whole mess until President Trump comes in.
President Trump insists upon a peace.
Now, unfortunately, the peace, granted the political realities, which is that Azerbaijan really did wrest this territory from Armenia.
And so it's very unfortunate the way it ended, but it is happy at least that there is some peace here.
And the vice president, the very fact that someone as high-ranking as JD Vance, who is, by the way, given the circumstances of the second term, is the presumptive heir to MAGA, the presumptive Republican nominee in 2028, and by my calculations, very likely the next president, that he would go there and say, you know what, it is important that we stand with Armenia.
And there are all sorts of realpolitik aspects to this move, ways that can kind of weaken Russia, weaken Iran, other American adversaries.
But there's a civilizational aspect here.
And this is the point I've been talking about since I've been bringing up the Armenian issue.
We ignore the Armenians.
We focus on all sorts of persecution and religious groups, genocides, ethnic cleansings.
And somehow we forget the Armenians, who were subjected to a genocide in the early 20th century by the Turks.
And even today are seriously being persecuted and being persecuted as the first Christian country.
And we have a cultural relation to them.
Okay.
St. Paul is like writing to these people.
Okay.
We have a cultural relation to them because we are a Christian country.
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We're one nation under God.
We're founded on the Christian morality, as John Adams tells us.
The Founding Fathers are writing constantly about Providence.
John Jay writes in the Federalist Papers about our shared religion, Christianity.
So we have a relation to them.
And it's important if America is going to have any global leadership at all, surely we have to do our very best to bring some peace to and defend the very first Christian country.
I talk a lot about one of the arguments for supporting the state of Israel is the protection of the holy sites.
That's a very compelling argument to a lot of people.
Well, you could make similar arguments about Armenia.
Okay.
And especially in the wake of the Cold War, now that the Cold War is over, now that the Soviets are out of Armenia, though they still want it, you know, we have an opportunity for global leadership to expand our influence and to protect Christians.
This is a great way to do that.
Very, very important.
I'm really, really pleased to see this from the vice president, from the White House, from the whole Trump administration, from our national security strategy.
I think it's just terrific.
Very important to call attention to it.
Okay.
Speaking of defending civilization, a little more of a depressing story here, closer to home.
A Louisville judge is catching some heat going viral for reducing the sentence of an unrepentant rapist.
Judge Davis thought the jury's recommendation was too long.
She feels he hasn't mentally matured yet and never had a real shot at getting any help early in life.
But if you were to come in here and instead of being hurt and angry, which is what this court hears, right, as a 20-year-old African-American male that has been, you know, experienced this society, et cetera, and you would show that, yes, okay, this is the situation.
This is who I am.
I don't want to be this person anymore.
I don't want to be in jail for forever.
Thompson repeatedly stated he did not care, not about his sentence, the victim, or her family.
But Judge Davis emphasized she's the one that holds the pen.
And regardless of what the media may think, she applies the law.
To her, 65 years was an extremely long time.
As she puts it, it's his whole life.
One she doesn't believe should be spent entirely behind bars.
This court does not believe that Mr. Thompson, if giving the resources that he can get while incarcerated, is beyond being rehabilitated.
What?
You hear these cases all the time.
Some judge lets these career criminals, these people who rape and murder and have a rap sheet a mile long.
They keep letting them off the hook.
And what do they do?
They go out and they rape and murder some more and then they wind up right back in front of the judge.
You hear these cases all day long.
But this case seems so egregious because she brings this guy in.
What did he do?
Let's just be clear about what he did.
He kidnapped a woman a couple years ago, two, three years ago, about two years ago, kidnapped a woman in her own vehicle, forced her to perform certain acts on him in a school parking lot, drove her to an ATM, robbed her, drove back to the school parking lot, performed more deviant, disgusting acts on her at gunpoint, and then was arrested.
And they cut this out of the media report.
They go in and the judge says, before we even got appearances, Mr. Thompson, I'm going to need you to be respectful.
He responded, I am doing nothing.
Eat my DICK.
Then moments later, the judge says, it's fine.
Okay, it's fine.
He responds, if I could spit on you, I would.
And she says, at the end of the day, I'm the one with the pen.
And the rapist says, the rapist robber says, I don't care.
This is so, this is such a perverse exchange.
She goes, hey, whether you like it or not, I'm going to let you off the hook for raping that woman twice at gunpoint and robbing her.
And he says, basically, I want to rape you too.
I want to just go, I want to assault you.
I'm not sorry at all.
And she goes, well, too bad.
Too bad, Buster.
Okay.
Because I'm the one with the pen and I'm letting you off the hook because you're a black man in America and you've experienced this society, whatever that means.
And so I'm letting you off the hook for multiple rapes.
You shouldn't.
What does he say?
He goes, I don't have sympathy for nobody.
I don't have sympathy for you, the victim, the victim's family.
I don't care boo-hoo.
Direct quote.
She goes, yeah, okay.
Well, you can say you're unrepentant.
You could even come out and say you wanted to rape us all tomorrow and rob us and kill us.
I'm letting you off the hook.
So take that.
This is so pathetic.
And why?
Because he fell through the cracks, the judge says.
Unfortunately, he fell through the cracks and ended up in this court as an 18 or 19 year old.
This court does not believe that Mr. Thompson, if given the resources that he can get well incarcerated, is beyond being rehabilitated.
Okay.
Yeah, I don't think anyone's beyond redemption.
That's true.
But first of all, just like statistically, listening to this guy, I wouldn't put my money on him becoming the president of the HOA when he gets out of prison.
Wouldn't bet money on that.
But second of all, he can be rehabilitated and still serve his sentence, which would also, by the way, protect society from the people that he's very likely to rape and rob a gunpoint the second he gets out.
This is where we're at.
This is when people talk about the Soros DAs, you know, the Soros DAs and these liberal judges, you know, it kind of sounds like your boomer uncle, you know, just idly complaining about the political order while he's grilling or something.
You say, okay, Uncle Bob.
Yeah, all right, whatever.
No, no, no.
What we're talking about is rapists telling the judges to their face, I have no repentance.
I would harm all of you right now if I could.
I hate you and I am villainous and I am a threat to everybody.
And the judge saying, yeah, la I can't hear you.
You're going to be on the street again soon.
La la la la.
Like that's what we're talking about here.
Okay.
That is such an escalation of lawlessness.
That is so irresponsible.
That is such, in effect, anarcho-tyranny.
It requires a political solution from Republicans that's a little more severe than just, oh, golly shucks, this is George Soros.
You know, isn't he awful?
Oh, boy, these liberal judges.
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We got to do something.
No, no, we need.
I've said it before.
I'll say it again.
People talk about the under, the over-incarceration problem in America.
We have a severe under-incarceration problem and we have a serious problem of lawlessness.
And if you don't enforce the law, if you can't protect people from rapist robbers on the streets, if your judiciary is explicitly, specifically encouraging and promoting rapists and robbers on the streets, you can't have any other of the goods or the accoutrement of civilization.
Very serious.
I hope people see this for the reality that it is.
This is whatever you thought this was.
It's a lot worse.
Okay.
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