Dennis Prager Show - Eric Metaxas on the World After Trump
Aired: 2020-09-05
Duration: 04:32


=== Donald And The Fake News (04:32) ===

[00:00:00]  I saw a beautiful video of you handing out my Bible commentary to some homeless people, and I want to thank you.
[00:00:07]  You know what?
[00:00:07]  I didn't know that I was being videotaped.
[00:00:09]  We're always being videotaped right now.
[00:00:11]  A guy who looks like me was videotaped during those D.C. riots, and it's just an amazing thing.
[00:00:19]  Eric Metaxas, ladies and gentlemen, is one of the handful of truly funny people.
[00:00:26]  And by the way, as a truly...
[00:00:28]  No, no.
[00:00:29]  That is the truth.
[00:00:30]  And he does it deliberately.
[00:00:32]  There are people who are funny unintentionally.
[00:00:35]  But he is deliberately so.
[00:00:39]  And very profound.
[00:00:41]  We have a great time when we're together.
[00:00:43]  It is about one-third trading insults and two-thirds profound stuff about life.
[00:00:50]  Is that fair to say?
[00:00:51]  That sounds like a good friendship, I have to tell you.
[00:00:54]  I need more friends like you.
[00:00:56]  I have just a handful, but that sums it up, my friend.
[00:01:00]  That sums it up.
[00:01:01]  You do need more friends like me.
[00:01:02]  I agree with you.
[00:01:05]  You've got to leave Manhattan to get them.
[00:01:07]  Yeah, well...
[00:01:08]  I've been telling you this for a long time.
[00:01:10]  Anyway, Eric Metaxas, author of a number of books, one of which I've read a number of his books, including the great one about the abolition of slavery.
[00:01:21]  And, of course, his book on Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who died as a Christian opposing the Nazis, is a classic.
[00:01:30]  And now he has a new book out.
[00:01:31]  He also has fun books out.
[00:01:33]  His latest is Donald and the Fake News.
[00:01:36]  It's a humor book, just in case people...
[00:01:39]  People keep thinking it's a kid's book.
[00:01:41]  It's a humor book for adults, but it can work as a kid's book because it's meant to look like a kid's book.
[00:01:46]  But adults are going to get the humor.
[00:01:48]  It's political humor, making fun of...
[00:01:50]  There's a character with a gavel named Madame Misspeaker.
[00:01:55]  She's the head of the Resistance.
[00:01:58]  There's a crazy old man in a deli who looks a little bit like Bernie.
[00:02:03]  It's a lot of adult humor, but it's a simple story of what is fake news and why we need to understand it.
[00:02:11]  It's fun, folks.
[00:02:12]  It's part of his series, Donald the Caveman book series.
[00:02:16]  Anyway, it's up at DennisPrager.com, so folks, please check it out and please get it.
[00:02:22]  But the primary reason we're talking now...
[00:02:25]  Is that the new documentary Trump 2024 is coming out?
[00:02:30]  Is it coming out this weekend?
[00:02:33]  I was told the primary reason we were talking was to plug Donald and the fake news.
[00:02:39]  So the answer to that is, I don't know.
[00:02:41]  But people need to go to SalemNow.com and they can find it.
[00:02:47]  Actually, look, all joking aside, you and I, we're both in it.
[00:02:50]  It's a documentary about what the significance of this presidency is.
[00:02:58]  And I don't say president, I say presidency because we're talking about an administration of people who are doing things for the American people that...
[00:03:09]  Haven't been done before.
[00:03:10]  You know, we've elected all these Republicans and things, and they don't seem to get to it.
[00:03:14]  I think that they take social conservatives and conservatives and evangelicals pretty much for granted, the way the Democrats have taken black voters for granted.
[00:03:23]  It's like they think, hey, where are you going to go?
[00:03:25]  We don't need to do anything for you.
[00:03:27]  Where else are you going to go?
[00:03:28]  This president...
[00:03:29]  Has taken seriously a number of things that it's just astounding to me that he's the guy doing the things that you would have hoped others would have done.
[00:03:41]  I mean, moving the embassy to Jerusalem is the most obvious and insane thing.
[00:03:46]  They all said they were going to do it.
[00:03:48]  Nobody had the guts to do it.
[00:03:49]  He did it.
[00:03:50]  What happened?
[00:03:51]  Nothing.
[00:03:52]  You know, except he just looks better and better for doing the things that he said.
[00:03:57]  I was talking today to somebody.
[00:03:59]  I was laughing that this president actually brought back the idea of keeping your campaign promises.
[00:04:06]  In my lifetime, it just became a joke.
[00:04:09]  Because not only would they break their promises, usually they would simply never mention them again.
[00:04:15]  Never.
[00:04:16]  Yes, exactly.
[00:04:17]  Hold on a moment, because I've got to tell everybody.
[00:04:20]  Trump 2024, this great documentary.
[00:04:25]  Is at SalemNow.com.
[00:04:28]  Salem Now.
[00:04:29]  They have a lot of great videos.
[00:04:30]  This is the latest.
[00:04:31]  This is just coming out now.