The Michael Knowles Show
Ep. 1948 - Trump Haters Wrong Again: Iran Ceasefire EXPLAINED In 5 Mins
08 Apr 2026
Chapter 1: What caused the recent panic over President Trump's actions towards Iran?
For three days, the entire left joined by the neurotic right, whined and cried and rent their garments over the prospect that on Tuesday evening, last night, President Trump would detonate a nuclear weapon and then perpetrate a genocide in Iran.
The hysteria was based on President Trump's tweet on Easter Sunday telling Iran to, I'm paraphrasing, open the effing straight or they would all be living in hell after he wiped out their civilization. Praise be to Allah. Now, some of us, some of us, a small number of us actually, on the right, were not particularly worried. Sorry, I should rephrase it.
I think people on the right generally are normal. Some of us in the media on the right, we were not particularly worried. Some of us actually thought the tweet was pretty funny. Just as some of us, while everyone freaked out about Iran turning into an endless war, a decade-long quagmire, some of us, some, some of us, said to calm down. President Trump said it would be over in about five weeks.
Now, halfway through week six, after decimating Iran's nuclear weapons missile program, the entire military, we've got a ceasefire and at least an outline for long-term peace. Despite my profound distaste for for saying, I told you so.
We will get into what that peace deal with Iran means, as well as, and this is crucial, turning back to domestic matters, as well as the mass amnesty bill that squish Republicans are trying to sneak through Congress while the rest of us were all distracted by Iran. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show.
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Chapter 2: How did President Trump's tweet influence the situation in Iran?
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Breaking news, President Trump did not detonate a nuclear weapon last night. Breaking, shocking, stop the press's news, Trump didn't commit a genocide last night. As the entire left was telling us, and as a ton of neurotic, hysterical people on the right were saying. Oh my goodness, for the last two, three days, all these tweets, all these podcast episodes.
Trump, Trump, he's gone too far.
You know, this time. You hear that? I supported Trump. I voted for him three times. But this is too far. He's going to do a genocide now. Oh my, oh my goodness, these people. How is it? It's been 10 years. It's been 10 years. And some of you people, not you people, you people listening are normal.
But some of these people, especially in the media, on the right, as well as the left, they still don't get it.
10 years later, he's going to do a nuclear weapon. This is the end of the world. He's gone mad.
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Chapter 3: What does the ceasefire with Iran signify for U.S. foreign policy?
Democrat Congress lady. The president just threatened genocide. The joint chiefs of staff must disregard any such military orders that violate federal and international law. Republicans in Congress can't hide anymore. We must consider all options, including impeachment, to stop Trump. Lady, would you like a cigarette? Would you like a cocktail? Would you like to just take a deep breath?
Get a hold of yourself, woman. What's the matter with you? It's not just a woman. Bernie Sanders, same thing. It is very easy to become accustomed to Trump's ravings and laugh them off. That's a dangerous thing to do. When Trump states a whole civilization will die tonight, he is threatening to commit genocide. We cannot allow that to happen. Congress must end this war now.
Ten years later and people are still befuddled, befuddled. Now the rejoinder.
Chapter 4: What are the implications of the mass amnesty bill proposed by Republicans?
To the observation that Trump obviously wasn't going to commit a genocide, wasn't going to set off a nuke. The rejoinder is, well, he threatened to wipe out a whole civilization. He threatened that they would be living in hell. So what? You can't trust what Trump says? That's what you're saying, Michael?
Michael, you're saying that the lesson of this whole episode is that you can't trust what Trump says. Excuse me. You can trust what Trump says. if you know what he means. You see, words have a tie to an objective reality, but they also mean different things depending on the circumstances in which they are said, and depending on who is saying them.
Because different people have different credibility, different people speak to different audiences. And the way that Trump speaks is as a New Yorker, someone posted last night on social media said, maybe it's just, you gotta be from New York to know what he, and I'll tell you what, it helps. For years now, when President Trump uses quotation marks to mean boldface,
So, you know, he'll do that and say, like, we're going to destroy you or whatever. But he really, a lot of people don't understand that. My grandmother used to write like that. New Yorkers of a certain age write like that. They think the quotations mean a joke. They mean mockery. They mean verbal irony. But actually, sometimes New Yorkers use it. So it's true.
New Yorkers speak in a different way. Maybe that helps. But the other thing that we know about Trump is that he uses hyperbole for rhetorical purpose. In fact, he tells you that he does that in the book that he wrote about how he makes deals. The very famous, best-selling book, decades-old book, he says, yeah, I use hyperbole for rhetorical purpose.
The passage about his use of hyperbole is actually worth reading. But you can trust what he says when you know what he means. I did that whole exegesis, as it were, of the Trump tweet about open the effing straits, you crazy bastards, or we're going to rain down hell on your civilization. Praise be to Allah, Donald J. Trump. I pointed out the tweet was not, as some said, reckless.
It was a disciplined tweet. The proof that it was a disciplined tweet, it was a treat too, on Easter Sunday, no less. The proof that it was disciplined was in that last line, that dry humor, praise be to Allah. The tweet was saying, open the straight. I want you to open the straight of Hormuz and we'll get to the now open straight, which Trump got us in the sixth week. But
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Chapter 5: How are New York Democrats targeting Catholic charities?
The tweet was mocking the diction of the Iranians because the Iranians are the ones who are always saying, the great Satan will go down in a ball of flame and la la la. That's how the Iranians talk. And so Trump, who speaks in different ways, depending on the circumstance, sometimes he's a little more diplomatic, sometimes he's a little more blunt. But he did the Iranian thing. He said,
We're going to rain down fire on you. You're going to be living in hell. You're all going to be gone. And he let you know that that was what he was doing with that final ironic line. Praise be to Allah. Yeah, okay. Maybe I got to talk your language, Iranians. Anyway, you can trust what he says if you know what he means.
And the proof is you're going to hear from all these people, all these hysterics. You're just saying, no, you just got lucky. He was really going to do it this time. I'm telling you, he was really going to do it. Okay, I think the proof is who freaked out over the Trump tweet and who didn't. The people who freaked out don't understand Trump.
And therefore, they don't understand the political moment. And therefore, they might be entertaining. You might like them personally, but... Therefore, you should not trust their opinions when it comes to political observation because they got it spectacularly wrong. And those of us who didn't freak out, those of us who kind of chuckled along with it, those of us who were completely right about
In this very high stakes moment, maybe those of us who said and did those things, maybe we have a better grasp on what's going on in politics. I don't know. I would never say such a thing because I hate to say I told you so.
The further proof before we get to the Dignidad Act, before we get to what this means in Iran, the further proof that these guys just look completely foolish is that they've now flipped their criticism. 12 hours ago, they were criticizing Trump for bombing Iran, for potentially dropping a nuke on Iran.
Immediately after he didn't do that, after he stopped the war, actually stopped the war because we have a two-week ceasefire, immediately afterward, they criticized Trump for not nuking Iran. We'll get to that momentarily. First, I want to tell you about Mizzen and Main. Go to mizzenandmain.com, promo code MICHAEL20. Most dress shirts make you choose between looking sharp or feeling comfortable.
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