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HEAVEN — Within moments of arriving at the Pearly Gates, local boomer Gary Whitaker located Heaven's sound booth and politely but firmly informed the angelic operator that the worship music was too loud.

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes.

Jack Fowler: Jimmy Kimmel, who’s got a role in this kerfuffle—it’s not a kerfuffle. This is an assassination attempt egged on by morons. Your thoughts about Jimmy Kimmel? 

Victor Davis Hanson: I mean, the worst part about it was not just what he said, that I think everybody remembers, that he set up a little skit and photoshopped himself at the dais of the White House Correspondents’ [Dinner], as if he was [President Donald] Trump or somebody.

And then they splice shots of people that he doesn’t like in the audience in unflattering ways. And you got the impression that they were actually there and listening to Jimmy Kimmel, which was kind of a dissimulation. 

And then he said that, look at beautiful Melania, she has—and she was smiling—the look of a soon-to-be widow, something to that effect. In other words, Donald Trump will either die or be shot, and she’ll be probably kind of, ha ha … she’ll be happy about it. And then when he got caught on it, then he lied and said, well, I was just thinking maybe because she’s so much younger than Donald Trump and he might die. It was just pathetic. 

So, there’s two issues, and that is, under the First Amendment, does he have a right to say that, as long as he doesn’t threaten the life of the president? Absolutely.

Does Disney have a prerogative? Yes. They can put him on there if they want. If they want to be that stupid. It’s their choice. And do people have a choice to lobby to get him off? Yes. There’s nothing he did, unless he threatened the president. Now, maybe he was implying that, but not as much as Madonna, I suppose. 

So, he’s a bore. He is talentless. He’s a mean-spirited person, but he has a right to sound off, and people have a right to say, we don’t want to buy … we don’t want to go to Disneyland. We don’t want to buy anything that has to do with Disney. We’re done with you because you’re putting this guy on to get ratings. And the more he’s on there, the more he’s foul-mouthed, the more he hates Trump.

And you all know that if anybody, anybody said 25% of what he had said about Barack Obama, he would be yanked with a cane, in two seconds, off the stage. 

You remember the clown in the Missouri State Fair, Jack? All he did was he put an Obama mask on. It wasn’t a racist blackface or anything. It was just Obama’s face. And they immediately banned him for life, as I remember, from the fair. For life. And that was their prerogative, if they wanted to do that. 

But we’ll see. I think he does it because he thinks that he can’t do anything—everything else he has tried, his ratings have gone down. At least they’ve gone down enough that they don’t justify his obscene salary in the cost-to-benefit analysis. 

Fowler: Right. 

Hanson: He’s like [Stephen] Colbert. They lose $40 or $50 million, and they pay that guy $20 million or more, $30 million. And he can’t make any money for them. So, it’s kind of like, well, we’re left-wing and we want a left-wing, you know, expensive—we can write it off or something. 

But so, it’s the same thing with all these people. They have the right to say whatever they want, as long as they don’t threaten the life of the president of the United States. 

But it’s so boring. 

Fowler: Victor, I have not watched late-night television, not that anyway, for years.  

Hanson: I haven’t either. 

Fowler: And I did watch Johnny Carson, and it was just humor. And there was no sense, with him, of self-importance or self-satisfaction or smuggery. 

It was just the opposite. 

Hanson: Yeah. He banned people. Anybody who came in and acted like he was a prima donna, he banned. And the other thing is they asked him once, why don’t you—in that period, it got very political during the [Richard] Nixon years. And they asked him, they said, why don’t you go out? And he said, why would I want to offend half my audience? 

That’s what—Michael Jordan said, the same thing, with Jordan. Why don’t you be political? And even Steve—is it Steve Kerr, the coach of the Warriors? 

Fowler: Mm-hmm. 

Hanson: Who could not keep his mouth shut about politics and principles and ethics. And then people reminded him, oh yeah, you go over to China and you play there and you’re part of the NBA investment, franchising Chinese teams, and they’ve got a million people in a slave labor camp. That doesn’t bother you, Mr. Morals.  

And I only mention that because the other day he came out and he had an interview with a left-wing interviewer, and she was throwing these soft T-ball swings for him, you know. And he kind of said—I was really shocked—he said, I was kind of wrong, what I did. I shouldn’t get into politics. And the critics were right about the China thing. So, I was surprised. So, he got smart is what I’m trying to say. 

Fowler: Yeah. Yeah. 

Hanson: And late-night comedy is a joke now. They’re not very talented. Just a small audience. You got 500 channels to watch, other than that. You’ve got streaming people. We got [Greg] Gutfeld who’s out. He’s got much better ratings than these guys do. And it’s a—I don’t know. 

Fowler: Well, it was—I don’t know if it was a great American institution, but once upon a time, it was fun and it was unthreatening. 

Hanson: I never understood it , though, because my parents would—my dad would watch it. Or he taught at the night school, and he’d get home at 10:30, when I was in high school. And then they’d turn it on, my mom and him. That generation, those guys would stay up till 11, and then they’d watch Carson. It started at 11 after—they would watch the late-night news. There was no 10 o’clock news, then it was 11. 

And then it would be over at 11:30. 

Then they’d watch him for—you know, midnight. And then my dad would say, “Up and out.” He’d always imitate Dwight Eisenhower, telling everybody not to, I mean, to vote for Dick Nixon. “Victor, Alfred, Nels, get up and get out and vote for Dick Nixon. Ike, get up.” And it would be 6 o’clock in the morning. 

And I thought, I just saw you when I went to bed at 10. And he stayed up till 11. All those guys did, in that generation. 

Hey, we sleep when we die, as a motto for some of us. 

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Congress secured major wins for the Make America Healthy Again movement, including striking pesticide liability shields and passing the 2026 Farm Bill.

States’ and families’ rights are protected, and pesticide companies can continue to be held liable for poisoning Americans. The Farm Bill passed the House on Thursday by a vote of 224-200.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., forced Congress to go on the record with a vote stripping the liability shield for pesticide companies accused of harming Americans. Her amendment passed with huge bipartisan support, receiving a vote of 280-142.

“I do not support giving blanket immunity to corporations at the expense of American families. Pesticides are linked to a 30% increase in childhood cancer, and over 170 studies corroborate the evidence,” Luna said, celebrating the win. “This amendment ensures we stand on the side of the American people and the health of our nation, not corporate interests.”

The amendment, the Strike Pesticide Preemption Provision, removes language from the Farm Bill. It now protects states’ ability to enforce and regulate pesticide rules and labels beyond what the Environmental Protection Agency requires and allows lawsuits against pesticide companies to continue to be lawful.

The charge was primarily led by Luna and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and had support from Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas.

The amendment came in the wake of the Supreme Court case Monsanto v. Durnell, which could instate these liability shield protections Luna fought to remove. Bayer/Monsanto, the Roundup pesticide giant, is currently paying $7.2 billion to settle lawsuits claiming its pesticides cause cancer.

One MAHA loss in this bill included Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas, attempting a nationwide ban on soda from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

“Taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to fund unhealthy, sugary drinks that provide ZERO nutritional value,” Self wrote on X after the amendment failed 186-238. “Assistance programs should prioritize real nutrition, not subsidize unhealthy junk with taxpayer dollars.”

Striking down the pesticide liability shield language was a fight Luna did not let up on. Speaker Mike Johnson announced Wednesday afternoon that the Farm Bill would be punted until members return from their weeklong recess. He made a deal with oil hawks, like Roy, who strongly oppose the E15 bill—which, if passed in the House, will be attached to the Farm Bill when sent to the Senate. The E15 bill has been put on the back burner and will get a vote on May 13, which will hold the Farm Bill until then.

Brand new battleground polling shows that immigration topics remain the clearest and strongest issue set for all candidates heading into November’s midterm elections. Despite persistent opposition from legacy media and business interests, voters continue to rally to the “America First” vision of sovereignty, restrained immigration, and robust enforcement of our nation’s laws.

But predictably, the chattering Washington class of political dinosaurs insists that the GOP surrender on this one macro issue that is clearly working. Beltway GOP insiders seem intent on snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Here is the harsh current reality: The GOP faces a very tough November, and my latest Arizona poll underscores that challenge. In a state President Donald Trump won by more than five points, his job approval rating now stands at -16%, with 39% approval and 55% disapproval. This mirrors my last two Wisconsin polls, which show Trump at -15% in that battleground state.

Both swing-state polls show that the war with Iran is unpopular. Right now, only 31% of Arizona voters believe the war is a “net positive” for America, while 51% say they are more worried about higher prices, and only 20% believe those costs are necessary to keep America safe. But despite the unpopularity of the war, Trump’s overall approval has not budged compared to my prewar polling.

So, the economy remains the foremost concern of voters, who continue to struggle and now largely blame the governing GOP. Of all available policy tools to improve the prosperity of the masses right now, the single most effective is immigration.

In order to grow real wages—meaning pay adjusted for the cost of living—immigration provides leverage on both fronts. First, removing millions of illegal workers—where Trump has made significant progress—raises the pay of American citizens in the workforce, especially blue-collar strivers. Second, removing illegal immigrants from the country reduces the strain on resources like housing, providing needed relief to consumers struggling with high prices.

Voters in Arizona grasp the efficacy of immigration enforcement and overwhelmingly back deportations. Specifically, a supermajority of 66% say that state and local police should fully cooperate with federal authorities in the Trump deportation agenda. Even 45% of Kamala Harris voters agree on this point. Within the large Hispanic population of Arizona, a majority—52%—support this law enforcement effort on immigration. That number is particularly crucial because Latino support for Trump has cratered since he took office, with only 28% of Arizona Hispanics expressing positive job approval for the president in this poll.

But in the face of common sense and sound electoral politics, establishment politicians like Rep. Maria Salazar, R-Fla., insist on pushing a so-called dignity agenda to allow millions of illegal immigrants to remain permanently in the U.S. Despite their claims to the contrary, such a policy retreat represents mass de facto amnesty—a surrender on the foundational issue of the patriotic populist movement.

In addition, such a retreat on immigration would amount to a massive political surrender that would dispirit the base and abandon the most popular and effective element of the current conservative agenda.

So, D.C. Republicans: Stop catering to a small cadre of donor-class interests who clamor for a bygone era of porous borders and managed decline. These are not the early 2000s, and George W. Bush is not our leader. Americans demand sovereignty and recognize that immigration control provides a pathway to a safer, more prosperous, and more cohesive society.

Stick to principles—and stick to winning politics.

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