Daily Wire host: “Trump in many ways is our Napoleon”
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From the February 18, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Michael Knowles Show
MICHAEL KNOWLES (HOST): What Trump is posting here comes from an insight that our Founding Fathers and framers would have been well aware of. Cicero and John Locke, pretty important figures in the American founding. Once again, once again, and there are many such cases, President Trump is articulating truths that come from the very heart of the American political tradition.
And the modern libs, who until very recently ran our political order, they're arguing that it is a betrayal of the American political tradition because it's a betrayal of the things that they believe. Because what the liberal elites, who until very recently have been running our country, what they have been doing is in itself a betrayal of the American political tradition and the broader Western political tradition. That's what this is about. Once again, Trump exposing his opponents with a bunch of egg on their face. Once again, Trump showing that all of the things that we're told are crazy and kooky and a threat to our constitutional republic that he is proposing actually have far sturdier grounding in the American and more broadly western tradition than anything that these modern libs are suggesting. I love it.
And I love the comparison of Trump to Napoleon because Trump in many ways is our Napoleon. In as much as Trump, like Napoleon, is simultaneously a child of the revolution and the undoing of the revolution. That's the comparison. Trump is a product of the modern liberal revolution. The way he behaves, all the business mogul stuff, the playboy lifestyle, the brash, big, gold letters. He isn't — he's not some stodgy stuffy figure wearing a tweed suit with his glass of port talking about the good old days or the or the Middle Ages or any — he's not that guy. He is a pop culture figure. He is a product of the revolution, and he's also the undoing of the revolution because he rides this wave of the revolution into power like Napoleon. And then he becomes the enemy of all of these excesses. In some ways, he's really the restorer of tradition. Beautiful comparison. All the more beautiful when Trump himself is making it, when it's a self-conscious comparison.