Michael Knowles fantasizes about Trump serving as speaker of the House and then chief justice of the Supreme Court
“It would be very charming if he could be the president and the Speaker of the House. ... If he does somehow manage to make it back to the White House, he's gotta nominate himself for the Supreme Court ... ideally for chief justice.”
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Citation From the October 11, 2023, edition of The Daily Wire's The Michael Knowles Show
MICHAEL KNOWLES (HOST): We have a race for the House speaker on right now. This information is going to become outdated the moment I say it. In fact, even in real time as I'm speaking, it's probably all changed. But the way the race is set up, you've got Jim Jordan, a favorite of conservatives, and Steve Scalise, who conservatives also like, but he's a little bit less conservative and he's been in House leadership a little bit longer. He's been on the leadership track, unlike Jim Jordan, who is chairman of the Judiciary Committee.
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There's one other option which is the one that I know we're all holding out for, not because it would necessarily be the most effective thing or conducive to conservative policy, but it would certainly be the funniest, and that is Speaker Trump. Donald Trump has suggested that he might consider being a temporary speaker. The man does not want to be the actual speaker of the House, and he doesn't wanna be the speaker of House because he's running for president and he's up fifty points on his opponents. And I'm not sure he can win the general, but he's almost certainly going to lock up the GOP nomination. And so, he says I won't be speaker when I could get the real job. But he has suggested he might be willing to step in temporarily.
I think this would be great. I strongly encourage this even if it's only for five seconds because Donald Trump is a world historic figure. Whether you love him or hate him, he's just different from the other presidents that we've had before. And so, it would be very charming if he could be the president and the Speaker of the House.
And then what he has to do -- and I don't know if the timing will work -- but if he does somehow manage to make it back to the White House, he's gotta nominate himself for the Supreme Court so that he can have served in all three branches of government. Ideally, for chief justice. Not -- again, not because he's qualified to be on the Supreme Court, not because he's necessarily the best choice for speaker -- I do think he was an excellent president -- but really just because it would be super duper funny, and I would really enjoy that.