The Michael Knowles Show
Ep. 1895 - President Trump's Fiery WEF Speech Explained in 5 Minutes
21 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Melania, only in theaters January 30th. President Trump has arrived in Davos to tell the globalists of the World Economic Forum what's what. The sworn enemy of the liberal transnational elite from both the public and the private sectors shows up. And they all just have to listen to him because he is the most powerful man in the world. We will get into everything that he said.
It's happening as we speak, actually. We're pulling clips live. And We will also get into the plans of the World Economic Forum. Wef darling Yuval Harari proclaims that AI will soon take over everything, including religion. And then, turning from the future back to the past, a famous actress joins The View to tell the harrowing account of seeing lynchings as a kid in Ohio.
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President Trump is promising to bring back insane asylum. We will get to that. Mental institutions coming back. He didn't promise that in Davos. That was when he took over the presser at the White House yesterday. That may be more explosive even than what happened at the World Economic Forum. It's a good competition.
We will get into all of it and what it means because it has implications not just for here at home, but for the whole world order. First, though, I want to tell you about HALO. Go to hallow.com slash Knowles. Folks, I love the Hallow app. I've been a fan since the very beginning, and now it's the number one prayer app in the world.
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Chapter 2: What did President Trump say at the World Economic Forum?
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But yesterday, we got a little preview of what Trump was going to say from his deputy, Howard Lutnick, who showed up and told the globalists this.
Globalization has failed the West and the United States of America. It's a failed policy. It is what the WEF has stood for, which is export offshore, far shore, find the cheapest labor in the world, and the world is a better place for it. The fact is, it has left America behind. It has left the American workers behind.
Okay, Lutnik, totally right here. You can see all of the other panelists from the web here just looking at him. What? It's a mixture of just defeat. You can see the one guy in the middle, he's just looking with defeat. Why do we have to listen to America? And then the bemusement, they don't know what to make of it. His point is right, though. This has failed America.
WEF is not made up of radical leftists. I think there's a misconception for some people who see this shadowy gathering in Davos, Switzerland, and they think it's these radical leftists, these communist agitators who are trying to destroy the world.
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Chapter 3: How does Yuval Harari envision AI's role in religion?
In a way, they kind of are, but they're not really radicals. In the sense that the people you're seeing in Minneapolis who are punching cops and wearing black masks and calling for revolution, those are leftist radicals. The kind of people who meet in Davos are, I hate to use vulgarity or profanity, but it's called for because this is a precise technical term. They're shit libs.
I don't really know the etymology of that term, but they're the kind of liberals who are,
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elite, who sip champagne, who don't throw punches in the streets. They're the kind of liberals who have institutional power in the private and the public sectors. That's something specific to WEF, is that it's a meeting of business leaders and government leaders who do want to bring about a left-wing form of governance throughout the
It's a more elite, bourgeois, even insidious kind of liberalism. It's the liberalism of globalization. And so when Letnick comes out and he says globalization has failed America, he's not talking about the last few years. He's not talking about wokeness. He's going back to the 90s or earlier. He's going back to the liberal ideology that says from now on, nations are not going to matter as much.
We're going to be governed by these supranational international institutions like the United Nations or the IMF or the World Economic Forum. And borders, therefore, are not going to matter so much. And so we're going to get a lot of mass migration. And we're going to get global trade that is not even established by sovereign nations, but is regulated by these international institutions.
And we're all going to be kind of one world. And yeah, you're going to lose your sovereignty. And yeah, you're going to lose your traditions and your way of life and your specific national identities. But hey, we're going to get more cheap stuff. And Lutnik comes there. Everyone agreed with this. The Republicans and the Democrats agreed with this in the 90s. Everybody, the world is flat.
It's great. History has stopped. But now we don't agree with this. The left is still kind of there. The establishment left, not the woke left. They've woken up from that. And even the right, the red-pilled right, they've also woken up from that. Those two terms, woke and red pill, they speak to the same kind of thing. You've woken up from a fantasy, from a dream.
And you're rejecting that liberal consensus. And so when Letnick says globalization's failed, he says, look, the American worker was left behind. Our national identity is gone. We have a total fraying of social solidarity. We don't even know what it means to be an American anymore on the 250th anniversary of our country.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of Trump's comments on asylum and mental institutions?
So what we are rejecting It's not merely leftism. It's not merely liberalism. It's not merely some policy or other policy. We are rejecting the prevailing ideology that animates things like the World Economic Forum. A nice little start to the trip. Trump rolls up. Do we have the clips now, guys, or no? I want to wait until we have all the clips. I want to hit the big winners from Trump.
All right, there's one, no, there's one more because I want to get Trump's entrance here. So before we get to what Trump says, just have a sense beyond policies regarding trade and immigration, whatever. What is the broader, deeper vision of the World Economic Forum? Yuval Harari sums this up well. Yuval Harari helped to contribute to Klaus Schwab's book.
Klaus Schwab, who was the head of the World Economic Forum. Yuval Harari is sort of the court intellectual of the World Economic Forum. And he came out and he told everyone that as we look into the future, the future is going to be run by AI. Anything involving language, up to and including the Bible, religion, is going to be taken over by AI. Here's what he had to say.
Chapter 6: How does globalization affect America according to Trump?
Do you know, as far as putting words in order is concerned... AI already thinks better than many of us. Therefore, anything made of words will be taken over by AI. If laws are made of words, then AI will take over the legal system. If books are just combinations of words, then AI will take over books. If religion is built from words, then AI will take over religion.
This is particularly true of religions based on books, like Islam, Christianity, or Judaism. Judaism calls itself the religion of the book, and it grants ultimate authority, not to humans, but to words in books. Humans have authority in Judaism not because of our experiences, but only because we learn words in books. Now, no human can read and remember all the words in all the Jewish books.
But AI can easily do that. What happens to a religion of the book when the greatest expert on the holy book is an AI?
This guy could not make himself seem more villainous if he tried. I've thought this about Yuval Harari for a while. He leans into it. He's going to be the Bond villain. He's going to be this figure who seems to herald the end times, and he leans into it. And he's not totally wrong about the influence of AI. AI has crept into all of your lives.
In one way or another, AI has crept into everyone's life and we even cooperate with it a lot. So in that way, he's right. But he gets the fundamental things wrong here. First of all, he says Jews refer to themselves as the religion of the book, the people of the book. That's a half truth. That's sometimes true today. The Jews did not originate this phrase, the people of the book.
Do you know where the people of the book comes from? It comes from Islam. It's a phrase from the Quran to refer to Christians and Jews and try to make Islam seem like it's part of that. But people of the book is a Muslim term that then later Jews and some Protestants have reappropriated. Or appropriated, I suppose. Appropriated for the first time.
But when you get down to it, we would not say, forget about Islam, whatever Islam is, put that aside. Judaism and Christianity are not fundamentally, are not essentially religions of the book.
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Chapter 7: How does Elon Musk's view on sex relate to societal norms?
They're religions of sacrifice. It is true since the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD, Jews gather and conduct their religious services in the synagogue. But previously, that was a religion of temple sacrifice. Christianity, crucially, is a religion of sacrifice. The centerpiece of the Holy Liturgy is the holy sacrifice of the Mass, the Blessed Sacrament.
Christ in the Holy Eucharist, Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity. I don't mean to diminish in any way the importance of the book, but John Paul II beautifully, I think, corrected this idea that we are the religion of the book when he said, no, no, no, we are the religion of the word of God. We're the people of the word. And so we have Holy Scripture, inerrant, authored by God,
But the center point here is the word himself, the word which becomes flesh and dwells among us. That's what we are. And when you realize that, Yuval Harari's statement is all the more jarring. Because he says anything that involves language, that is to say anything that involves words, will be taken over, will be conquered by AI.
But if the religion that animates our civilization is the religion of the word, in the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God, then what he's saying is AI is going to conquer God. He's a smart guy, so he might be aware that that is what he's saying.
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Even if he's not, even if this is inadvertent, perhaps then it's all the more jarring. He says that AI will conquer God. And I think that's what a lot of these liberal, humanist, materialist, atheist, globalist, this is thatists believe. That's what they believe. This is the culmination, not just of a few years or a few decades. This is the culmination of centuries of liberal thought.
They're going to make their own God, and AI is going to be their God, and they're going to worship it. Just like in the Old Testament, we see pagans worshiping dumb idols, just as God tells us throughout the Bible not to worship these dumb idols lest we become dumb ourselves. And that's exactly what we've done.
which is why all of these fancy elites who went to very good schools and they have lots of money and they have fancy jobs, it's why they seem so dumb. It's why even guys like Yuval Harari, who's probably got a very high IQ and he's read a lot of books, it's why what he's saying seems so, so dumb. And it's why you need a guy like Trump to barge in there and tell them.
That's why you need to go to the imperial capital of global liberalism, which is to say Davos. And you need the Trump to walk in and say, hey, the emperor has no clothes, which we will get to momentarily. First, though, I want to tell you about Policy Genius. Go to policygenius.com slash Knowles.
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President Trump rolls up, first thing he does is says a special hello to all of his enemies in the audience.
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