The Michael Knowles Show
Ep. 1943 - NBA Player CUT For Criticizing LGBTQ Pride Propaganda
31 Mar 2026
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Chapter 1: Why was NBA player Jaden Ivey cut from the Chicago Bulls?
The Chicago Bulls fire player Jaden Ivey for not being sufficiently gay in the run-up to Pride Month. The Daily Mail stokes conspiracy theories about the assassination of Charlie Kirk. And Eric Trump debuts his father's future presidential library, which totally mogs that brutalist trash that Obama built in Chicago, and which, at a deeper level, tells us about the souls of the two presidents.
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Chapter 2: What conspiracy theories are being discussed regarding Charlie Kirk's assassination?
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Chapter 3: How does Eric Trump compare his father's presidential library to Obama's?
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Actually, Dennis Rodman probably would have been okay for Pride Month, but this guy is not. Jaden Ivey. Jaden Ivey is a basketball player. That's basically all I know about him. But beyond the basketball court, I know that he holds Christian views of sexual ethics.
The world can proclaim LGBTQ equality. They proclaim Pride Month and the NBA. They proclaim it. They show it to the world. They say, come join us for Pride. For Pride Month. To celebrate unrighteousness. They proclaim it. They proclaim it on the billboards. They proclaim it in the streets. So how is it that one can't speak righteousness? How are they to say that, man, this man is crazy?
Okay, so he just says that in his view, gay stuff is not righteous. For that, this guy was fired from the Chicago Bulls. Mind you, even a semi-Orthodox view of every major world religion, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, on and on and on, holds that homosexual acts are not allowed, that it's unrighteous. In fact, some of his language here was pretty mild by comparison to, say, scripture, right?
Jews and Christians reading the Old Testament view these acts as an abomination. He didn't even say abomination. He just said, look, it's not righteous, and you're seeing all this weird stuff on the billboards, and it's no good. And for that, the Chicago Bulls fired him. According to the Bulls statement, there is a certain level of expectations and standards that are here.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of the Chicago Bulls' firing of Jaden Ivey?
In fact, they're immoral precepts. Okay, I want to get to a really, really frustrating headline that just came out of the Daily Mail that's going viral. It's spreading conspiracy theories about the assassination of Charlie Kirk. We'll get to that in one moment. First, I want to tell you about fast growing trees. Go to fastgrowingtrees.com. Use code Knowles.
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New court filing claims. Right off the bat, you see this last part, they say new court filing claims. This is a claim that is being made by the defense. This is a claim being made by the guy who allegedly murdered Charlie Kirk. the leftist with the trans furry boyfriend who killed Charlie. His lawyers have made this claim.
So right off the bat, you say, hold on, why are we giving credence to what his lawyers are saying? But then just the headline, bullet used to kill Charlie Kirk, did not match rifle allegedly used by suspect Tyler Robinson. You just read into the article I'll just read you the first three paragraphs, short paragraphs.
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Chapter 5: What does the Daily Mail's headline about Charlie Kirk's murder imply?
Very 80s. Very Wall Street. It's just very, it's cool. Big Trump name on the top. And then I think they've got other facilities there where you could have nice cocktail parties, nice greenery, big American flag down the middle. It's nice. It's not Beaux-Arts. It's not Art Nouveau or even Art Deco, but it's nice. It's okay. It's a nice building. Good job. They did a good job. Very Trump.
I was hoping that it would not be in Miami or New York. I was hoping that the Trump Library would become the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library and Casino in Atlantic City. I thought that would be the funniest version of it, but they haven't. Okay, it's going to be in Miami and it's cool. It's really nice. Where's that Obama library? They're almost done with that, right?
Do we have a picture of that? Yeah. So if you're only listening now, you got to go Google it if you haven't seen it already. Barack Obama's library is almost done and it's, I can't describe to you how ugly it is. It's brutalist and brutalism itself is very ugly, but it's particularly ugly brutalism. It looks just like a big, ugly, asymmetrical, but still just
Flat slab, angular flat slab in the middle of Chicago. Somehow, despite all the degradation to Chicago in recent years, the Obama library makes Chicago uglier compared to the Trump building. Red, white, and blue, flag, nice, 80s New York, business. The reason that I point it out is not just to dunk on Obama.
The added perversity of the two presidential libraries is the presidents get to pick their library. It's not like anyone forced this on them. I'm sure President Trump, or at the very least his family, was involved in designing. But knowing Trump, I bet he was pretty actively involved in designing the library himself. So was Obama. Obama picked that. Obama picked the brutalism.
Nobody forced it on me. It's kind of, I think of that meme, the meme of the guy going up to talk to the cute girl, you know, says, hi, could I buy you a drink? And then the just big, fat, ugly friend walks up and says, oh, actually she's not interested. That's what it's like looking at the two presidential libraries. Hi, I'd like to go visit a presidential library.
You're just trying to walk into the beautiful Trump library. And then just the ugly Obama one comes around. Oh, actually he's not interested. You can come to my library instead. Uh, It's brutal. It's awful. The Obama one's brutalist. And it reflects the president's. The Trump library is so Trump. So Trump. New York, big, bold, brash, glass. It's not the most ornamented, but it's there.
It makes a statement. The Obama library, it's just a bunch of ugly nothing. It's a bunch of depressing, nihilistic nothing. What was Obama? He's just kind of nothing. Just kind of ugly. Not physically, he's a fine looking guy. Just ugly, nothing. drab, spirit discouraging nothing. Reminds me of a line that I heard. I think Drew Clavin might've told me this, but it's become a cliche.
By 40, you've earned your face. If you're ugly at 12 or even at 18, that's probably not your fault. I don't know. It's just genetics or circumstances in which you were born. But if you're really ugly, if you look weathered and I don't know, just twisted and bent by the time you're 40. That's on you. You've lived that way. You didn't have to live that way. It's true.
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