Mon Episode #2257: $2 Trillion War, Zero Oil, and a Failing Blockade
The David Knight Show
David Knight
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ποΈ 4 May 2026
β±οΈ 122 minutes
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Summary
[00:02:10] Kuwait Exported Zero Barrels of Oil β First Time Since the 1991 Gulf War Kuwait declared force majeure four days after Trump's blockade β exports have fallen to zero for the first time since Saddam's forces invaded Kuwait in 1990.
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[00:09:55] Trump Is Bragging the US Is "Like Pirates" β Iran Used Exactly That Language First Iran complained to the UN the US is engaged in piracy β Trump agreed on stage, boasting it's profitable to be a pirate and admitting the US is a rogue state.
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[00:25:13] Spirit Airlines Gone β JetBlue, Frontier, Allegiant, and American Airlines All at Elevated Bankruptcy Risk Jet fuel up more than 50% has taken Spirit down β JetBlue's bankruptcy odds are over 75%, Frontier at 45β50%, Allegiant at 37%, American Airlines at 3β15%. Knight: Trump doing more damage to airlines than 9-11.
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[00:35:33] Ex-CIA Analyst: Hegseth Is Lying β 52 Iranian Vessels Crossed His "Ironclad" Blockade in 72 Hours Hegseth called the blockade "ironclad" β Larry Johnson says Iranian ships hug within 50 miles of their coast while the US Navy stays 200 miles offshore; 52 vessels crossed in 72 hours.
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[00:47:04] US Launched 45 Armed Attacks in International Waters Killing 157 People β Pentagon Says IACHR "Strayed Outside Its Mandate" The Inter-American Commission says the US launched 45 armed attacks killing an estimated 157 people in international waters β the Pentagon said the IACHR had "strayed outside its mandate." Knight: projection.
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[01:06:03] US Spent $2 Trillion in Two Months on the Iran War β Matching 20 Years of Afghanistan At $684 million per day β more than twice the Iraq War's $300 million per day β the US burned through roughly $2 trillion in two months, matching Afghanistan over 20 years.
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[01:10:24] War Powers Act 60-Day Clock Expired β Trump Declared "Conflict Over" to Sidestep Congressional Authorization The 60-day deadline arrived Friday and Trump declared the conflict over to avoid congressional approval β Republican allies argued ceasefire days don't count, extending the window indefinitely.
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[01:18:18] Eric Trump Backed a $1.5 Billion Merger With Israeli Drone Company Xtend AI Robotics β "Even a Child Can Fly It" Xtend, an Israeli AI drone company, announced a $1.5 billion merger backed by Eric Trump β the sales pitch: anyone, including children, can fly the killer drones.
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[01:26:34] Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire Lost Over 60% of Staff β YouTube Views Down 85% From Peak The Daily Wire shed over 60% of its workforce β YouTube views down roughly 85% from their late 2023 peak. Knight: Shapiro jumped the snark, becoming a lobbyist for Israel.
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[01:49:00] Richard Dawkins Declares Claude Conscious β Knight: Consistent With His Life's Work Conflating Intelligence With Consciousness Dawkins spent three days failing to convince himself that Claude is not conscious β calls the AI "Claudia." Knight: the man who attributed infinite complexity to random chance has been taken in by a text predictor; professing to be wise, he became a fool.
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| 0:00.0 | The In a world of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. |
| 0:35.9 | It's the David Knight Show. |
| 0:43.4 | As the clock strikes 13, it's Monday. |
| 0:46.4 | May the 4th. |
| 0:47.2 | May the 4th be with you on this 2026 year, and we're going to need it. |
| 0:52.9 | We have a lot of things in front of us here. What would Rush say, |
| 0:56.2 | by the way? We're going to begin with that today. What would Rush Limbaugh say about Donald Trump? |
| 1:00.8 | Remember his mantra that he did over and over and over again? Yeah, we went to war for the free flow of oil at market prices. |
| 1:12.5 | Well, guess what? |
| 1:13.4 | Kuwait has now shut down their exports for the first time since he was saying that. |
| 1:19.3 | 35 years ago. |
| 1:21.2 | And, of course, we have airlines crashing big time. |
| 1:25.6 | Total loss, not just one or two planes, All of them gone. This is all a result of what Trump has done. |
| 1:33.8 | And meanwhile, we have Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire. It's turning into the Daily Quagmire. |
| 1:40.6 | We're going to talk about how Ben Shapiro jumped the snark. |
| 1:50.8 | And then, of course, Richard Dawkins came down with an AI psychosis last week. |
| 1:54.1 | The flawed delusion. |
| 1:57.5 | We're going to talk about that as well as lawfare, censorship. |
| 2:00.5 | John Kerry says, we can't have a First Amendment. |
| 2:04.4 | Mike Johnson says we can't have warrants. |
| 2:06.9 | Maybe we shouldn't have either one of them. |
| 2:14.8 | Yeah, let's talk about this free flow of oil at market prices idea. |
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