The Ben Shapiro Show - Ep. 110 - Can The Trump Train Turn Hillary Into Roadkill?

May 2, 2016 - The Ben Shapiro Show

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Ep. 110 - Can The Trump Train Turn Hillary Into Roadkill?

Trump is the presumptive nominee if he wins Indiana, so can he beat Hillary? Ben talks the White House Correspondents Dinner and rips into Amy Schumer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		With the end of the Republican primaries in sight and Donald Trump the prohibited favorite for the nomination, critics of the Never Trump movement have been out in force and they're trying to browbeat those of us who don't support Trump into embracing this demagogic loudmouth moron with tyrannical views of government and an incoherent quasi-isolationist foreign policy.
		So last week I talked about Never Trump and I said never means never.
		But here's a more important question given the fact that the Trump train is now barreling down the 2016 tracks.
		What comes next for the Trumpsters?
		Now that their whining, mewling rage has brought about the nomination of the most leftist candidate in the GOP's history, here's the question.
		What do they do?
		Well, they have to do three things.
		First, they inflate the myth of Trump.
		Trump is the overwhelming favorite to lose according to every betting market.
		He's currently at 18% at Betfair.
		He's at 29% at Bovada.
		Predict-wise, gives him a 27% chance of winning the Republican presidency.
		Of the last 50 head-to-head polls between Clinton and Trump, Clinton wins 42 of them.
		She ties three.
		So, Trumpsters have claimed for months their man is the only one who can beat Hillary.
		So they have sort of a bind.
		Like the Joker in the Dark Knight, they've now chased the car and they've bitten the bumper, but now they don't know what to do with it.
		So they'll pretend for just a few months that Trump will win.
		Today they're holding up a new Rasmussen poll that shows Trump ahead of Hillary 41 to 39.
		This, they say, shows Trump is competitive.
		Now, put aside that Rasmussen polls were wildly off last time around in 2012.
		Instead, focus on the fact that the poll includes 15% of voters who say they want somebody else and another 5% who are undecided.
		No candidate in history has won an election with 41% of the vote without a third-party candidate, and there's no third-party candidate on the horizon.
		Beyond that, the poll shows that Trump wins about 48% of white voters.
		He needs 63% to be competitive with Hillary Clinton.
		So, in the absence of decent stats showing that Trump would be competitive with Clinton, they're starting to spin.
		Michael Walsh, who's a big Trump supporter over at the New York Post, he says Trump can win.
		He says, quote, You're darn right he can.
		Does anyone think that in the debates, Hillary will be able to withstand the blunt force trauma the braggadocious billionaire deployed to knock Jeb and his other rivals out of the race?
		First off, he didn't really knock Cruz out of the race with that same routine.
		He didn't knock Rubio out of the race with that same routine.
		He looked pretty bad in those last debates.
		New debates will look much more like those late debates.
		Then they have to move on to step two.
		Wait for the consolidation.
		They have to pretend that the old establishment is the new anti-establishment.
		Everybody who's anti-Trump, but used to be establishment, is now the new anti-establishment.
		So the Trump people made a bet.
		They bet that the establishment wing of the GOP would get behind them if they could threaten them into conciliation.
		Historically, that's a pretty good bet.
		Obama made the same bet.
		He constantly threatened and cajoled Republicans, and it always paid off.
		Now, Marco Rubio is making ridiculously funny noises about how Trump is coming around and has become more mature.
		John Boehner, the former Speaker of the House, says Cruz is Satan incarnate and he'd vote for Trump over Hillary, but not Cruz.
		Trump is overtly defending Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
		In Indiana, former Governor Mitch Daniels has kept quiet, and current Governor Mike Pence reluctantly endorsed Cruz, but then said nice things about Trump.
		GOP leaders are getting behind Trump for a few reasons.
		First, they don't want the party split.
		Second, they want the cash.
		Anytime there's an election, they get a lot of cash.
		And third, They actually like Trump's leftist program, even if they don't like Trump personally.
		Okay, third thing that the Trumpsters are prepared to do.
		They're preparing for the crash.
		So the Trumpsters are really worried that Trump's gonna lose.
		And so they're preparing, they're stabbed in the back myth early.
		They're relying on these first two steps, they're claiming Trump is a super powerful, wonderfully brilliant candidate, and they're gonna say that even the establishment got behind him, and then if they lose, they're gonna say that the evil, nasty conservatives wrecked the whole thing.
		Ian Tuttle put it this way at National Review.
		He said if Trump is the nominee, it's not going to matter what anti-Trump conservatives do leading up to November.
		If he wins, supporters will trot out the guillotine.
		If he loses, they'll trot out the guillotine.
		They just want to see heads roll.
		This has been the animating impulse from the beginning.
		At the heart of the Trump phenomenon is a bloodthirst, and one way or another there will be blood.
		Now the Trump people have to push this narrative, or they'll be blamed for nominating the most despised person in modern politics, and thus losing the presidency to the most despised leftist in modern politics.
	That'll turn 2020, four years from now, into a brawl between the Trump supporters, the people who initiated this stupid, pathetic Beer Hall Putsch, and those who oppose them.
	The burden is now on the Trumpsters.
	They're about to find out that if you like the match for the burn-it-all-down movement, that's not quite the same thing as sitting in the center of the house while the walls are flaming.
	I'm Ben Shapiro.
	This is the Ben Shapiro Show.
unidentified		You tend to demonize people because you don't care about your feelings.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		So we're back from Passover, and this week's episode is sponsored by the post-Passover laxative Let My People Go.
		And it's a- And it was a great vacation, I'm so glad that I had it.
		And I'm so sad that I get to come back the day before Armageddon.
		It's just- it's bad vacation scheduling.
		Like, if you're gonna schedule a vacation, preferably you do it when Armageddon is actually happening.
		You don't come back right before the sweet meteor of death hits the earth and obliterates all life.
		That's the time when you'd prefer to be on the vacation.
		We're coming back the day before Indiana.
		Newest poll from the Wall Street Journal, NBC, shows that Trump is up 49 to 35 over Ted Cruz, which of course has everybody who cares about the Republic, everybody who thinks Trump will be bad for the Republic, shredding their clothing and ripping their clothes and gnashing their teeth and Donald Trump is poised to win Indiana.
		There are two different polls that came out over the weekend.
		Glenn Beck show.
		But in any case, I love Glenn, but that's sort of what a lot of us are becoming.
		In any case, it's very sad.
		Donald Trump is poised to win Indiana.
		There are two different polls that came out over the weekend.
		One shows Cruz way ahead, and then one shows that Trump is way ahead.
		The one that shows Trump way ahead is the NBC Wall Street Journal one.
		The one that chose Cruz ahead is some nowhere poll from Indiana.
		So take that for what it is worth.
		The establishment couldn't be happier about this, by the way.
		The establishment, which I've been saying for months, was going to swing behind Donald Trump when the chips were actually down.
		When there's only one way to stop Trump, and that was going to be them, they would cave, and that's what they're doing.
		And so what you're starting to see is this new call from the elite In the Republican Party, that Trump is actually fine.
		Secretly, he's okay.
		It's all just been a big ruse.
		You know, this whole thing is, it'll be okay, it'll be okay.
		And Cruz really is desperate.
		Now, yes, of course Cruz is desperate.
		But one of the things making him desperate is that you guys keep saying that he's desperate.
		Like, it turns out that when everybody in the establishment jumps onto the seesaw on Donald Trump's very heavy side, then that's going to make Cruz a little bit more desperate.
		So here's Newt Gingrich.
		Rolling out like the bowling ball that he is, talking about how Indiana is life or death for Ted Cruz.
unidentified		What do you think?
		You think Indiana is the make-or-break situation?
		I mean, if Trump wins Indiana, is it over?
		Oh, sure.
		Look, Indiana is make-or-break for Cruz, and it's a bump in the road for Trump.
		If Cruz can't win Indiana, and by win I mean get virtually all the delegates, do something like close to what he did in Wisconsin, There's no possibility that he can stop Trump.
		It'll just be over sometime Wednesday morning.
		On the other hand, if Trump doesn't do particularly well in Indiana, he has so much overall momentum and is such a huge lead, he could still win by winning in New Jersey and California on June 7th.
		So for Trump, it is a significant event.
		For Cruz, it's life and death.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		Well, it's become that because people like Gingrich over the past few weeks have been throwing their rather ample support behind Donald Trump.
		And he's not the only one.
		David Brooks, who really doesn't like Trump very much, he hates Cruz even more.
		I mean, David Brooks despises Cruz because he thinks that Ted Cruz is just the worst.
		He said that he has, I think he called it a satanic impulse toward darkness, something ridiculous like that.
		David Brooks, who actually is a leftist, he's a leftist masquerading as a right winger.
		David Brooks says he's the in-house conservative over at PBS and New York Times.
		He says that cruises drown and cruises collapsing and all the rest of it.
unidentified		The second thing that's happened is not only Trump is strong, but Cruz looks a lot weaker.
		And flailing about with Carly Fiorina and the alleged Kasich deal, that looks like the axe of a drowning man.
		And so just in terms of the moral rigor, the motivation force, the morale, Cruz is collapsing and Trump is surging.
		So I agree with Mark.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		And you don't have to look quite so happy about it there, David.
		Karl Rove, too, seems a little... He's coming around, too.
		You're seeing the entire Republican establishment jump on this bandwagon.
		Now, look.
		There's objective analysis.
		Cruz is desperate.
		Cruz has to win Indiana.
		If he doesn't win Indiana, it is over.
		Essentially, unless something unforeseen happens, Donald Trump spontaneously combusts from dusting his face with the Hot Cheetos instead of the regular Cheetos or something like that.
		But...
		It's true.
		Donald Trump is probably going to be the nominee.
		But the point that I'm making is that the talk about Cruz, you can see there's like a little bit of glee behind a lot of these folks talking about how Cruz is basically done.
		And the reason that he's basically done is because these people have blown up in the last two weeks Trump's victories, which he was expected to win, on the East Coast into, well, this is over now.
		He won New York.
		He won Delaware.
		Clearly he's going to sweep.
		The media helped craft a feeling of momentum.
		It's what they do.
		After Iowa, the media did not push the notion that Ted Cruz had a lot of momentum going into New Hampshire.
		They said, oh, he's gonna get killed in New Hampshire, and he actually did much better than expected in New Hampshire.
		The media helps craft the momentum conversation, and they're really behind the Trump train right now, and which is why Trump will probably win Indiana tomorrow, and he'll probably win it in bigger numbers than people think he will.
		Karl Rove does the same thing.
		Rove has been making secret, quiet overtures toward backing Trump because he wants his American Crossroads super PAC to be relevant in the general election.
		He doesn't want to take himself out of play.
		And so here is the panel on Fox News Sunday.
		Chris Wallace, who is a Trump backer, and it looks like I think Kimberly Guilfoyle, who's a Trump backer.
		Karl Rove, who is a quasi-Trump backer.
		Juan Williams, who is kind of a quasi-Trump backer.
		And George Will, the only person on the panel who doesn't like Donald Trump.
		But there's Karl Rove in the center.
		Again, why this man is considered a legitimate political figure is beyond me after he ran up and down the halls of Fox News during the last election cycle.
		Like a character from Harry Potter haunting the bathrooms.
		Like moaning Myrtle, here's Karl Rove.
karl rove ▲ ● ▼		He said if Trump won Indiana it could all be But over.
unidentified		Right.
karl rove ▲ ● ▼		So, look, this is not a strategic move.
		This was a tactical move.
		The Ocella primary was a night of good night for Donald Trump.
		And what better way to stop people in Indiana from focusing on that than naming your vice presidential running mate and spending a lot of time in Indiana.
		And so, you know, it was a desperate move.
		But it may have shut down a certain amount of the coverage of Trump's Ocella primary win and spend a little bit more time on the pizazz of a vice presidential running mate.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		And they're eager.
		The media is eager to make it into a Cruz-out-Trump-in routine.
		E.J.
		Dionne, he's a leftist, he's trying to push the horse race narrative now, and this is what the entire media are going to do.
		This is a real horse race.
		Trump can win this thing.
		You're already starting to see that narrative out today, as I suggested earlier.
		This is the first step in the narrative.
		The first step is Trump can win.
		Then it's the establishment jumps on the bandwagon, because they like the money and they want to keep the doors open.
		And then finally it'll be, Trump loses and he loses pretty big, and then they turn around and they say, well it's because of all you conservatives who wouldn't back him in the first place.
		EJ Dionne is on the left, he's pushing the horse race narrative, here he is.
unidentified		Trade, trade, trade, and deindustrialization.
		And that's his whole card.
		If he could win those Rust Belt states that are traditionally democratic, he could win the election.
		His problem is, on Matt's point, the country may say we're on the wrong track, but Barack Obama's numbers have gone over 50%, as he said last night.
		And if Barack Obama is doing that well in November, it's going to be very hard for Trump to advance that argument.
		Whatever he picks up among voters concerned about trade and those issues, he's going to lose with those massive negative numbers he has among women.
		So I think his path is very difficult.
		But if there is a path for him, it's in the Rust Belt and it's with young voters not voting in the numbers that Hillary needs.
		He helps bring them out.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		Okay, so the idea is that this will be a more competitive race than everybody thinks.
		Now, I want to talk a little bit about how Trump can win.
		Okay, how Trump can actually win.
		So I don't think that it's going to be as much of a cakewalk as even I have been saying Hillary over Trump.
		I do think that Hillary will end up winning.
		I do think she'll win a lot of states that Trump has put into play.
		But if Trump wins, it's really going to be just because the left is so terrible, which is what makes this whole thing really frustrating for me.
		Because if Trump wins because the left is just so terrible, that means that Cruz could have won just because the left is so terrible.
		And then we could have a constitutional conservative as president of the United States, not this bloviating big state buffoon.
unidentified		Right?
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		If the left is so terrible that anybody could have won, which is basically the premise, because the only other premise is basically that Trump attacks a lot, but Trump's attacks backfire as often as they strike, But if Trump wins, it's going to be because the people who are on the other side are so terrible.
		So one of the big narratives that's emerged over the last few days has been all of the protesters at Trump rallies.
		There are a lot of protesters showing up and harassing people, and this is true.
		And when I watch this stuff, as somebody who ardently does not like Donald Trump, somebody who ardently dislikes Donald Trump, I understand the sympathy for Donald Trump when you look at this stuff.
		So here are a bunch of Hispanic kids protesting one of Trump's appearances in California, and here's what it looked like.
		We've got people driving past with Trump signs, and what you see is a bunch of Bernie Sanders holding Latino kids.
		They're children.
		I mean, we're looking at children.
unidentified		They're wearing sombreros, and they are flipping the birds.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		There's people driving past.
		There's a rather large black woman who's shaking her rump at the cars and slapping her butt.
		All these kids.
		These kids must be, what, 12 years old?
		Maybe 10, 12 years old?
		And they're flipping off all of the cars that are passing.
		I look at this and I say, you're holding a Mexican flag and you're wearing a sombrero and you're flipping off to cars that are passing.
		I have a lot of sympathy for the people who oppose you, even if I don't like the people who oppose you.
		And this is what's... The Trump movement is an anti-movement.
		It's an anti-movement.
		It's an anti-everything movement.
		And it's an anti-these-people movement.
		So the more prominent these folks are, the better off Trump is going to be.
		Another event over the weekend.
		There was a bunch of protesters who clashed with the police at a Trump event.
		Here's what that looked like.
unidentified		Mr. Haight!
		Leave our state!
		Protesters in California tried stopping the billionaire in his tracks, clashing with police, breaking down barricades, even fighting with a Trump supporter, the most violent opposition to a Trump appearance since a canceled event in Chicago last month.
		They forced the candidate to take a winding detour to a GOP convention near San Francisco.
		That was not the easiest entrance I've ever made.
		My wife called.
		She said, there are helicopters following you.
		And we did.
		And then we went under a fence and through a fence.
		And, oh boy, it felt like I was crossing the border, actually.
		I was crossing the border, but I got here.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		It's a funny line.
		Okay, it's funny.
		And this is what creates the feeling of popularity for Trump.
		Because the people who face him are such dimwits.
		The people who face him are so terrible.
		Right?
		It's sort of the same feeling.
		I'm sure there are people who dislike me.
		And when I go and I speak on a campus and people try to throw people who want to hear lectures around and start beating them up, people start to have sympathy for my point of view just because the people who are protesting me are so terrible.
		Here's another Trump supporter.
		They showed him briefly there.
		Sean Hannity described this guy as somebody walking through hell.
		Okay, let's be real about this.
		Like, this isn't Auschwitz, and it's not Normandy, okay?
		It ain't quite hell.
		And the guy is choosing, in fact, to walk through a bunch of leftist protesters, but it does show that there are a bunch of people out there on the left who are violent.
		There they are flying Mexican flags and honestly trying to beat up a guy who's wearing a Make America Great Again hat.
unidentified		And of course, this is a pro-Trump video, so it's the legend of Christopher Conley.
unidentified		This guy's walking, and if it's a fancy video, you should subscribe, number one.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		But number two, this guy, and he's walking, he's getting all feisty with some of these protesters.
unidentified		Like, he wants to fight them.
		And he kind of looks like Trump, this kind of big dude.
		Um, and, uh...
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		And finally, here's a Trump protester explaining why it is that these protesters are doing what they're doing.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		And finally, here's a Trump protester explaining why it is that these protesters are doing what they're doing.
unidentified		This was on MSNBC over the weekend. - Can you tell us just how this escalated, How this kind of gotten out of control?
		I don't think it is out of control.
		I think that what you're seeing is people express righteous rage at the fact that we've got this hateful bigot coming to speak in our state.
		And they're saying no, absolutely not.
		Was this action planned?
		Was this planned to be a peaceful protest?
		Or was it by any means necessary at this point?
		We respect the diversity of tactics, right?
		We plan to lock down the streets and keep him out and stop him from speaking.
		And by any diversity of tactics, you mean anything goes?
		We mean that black and brown and poor people have a righteous rage and they have a right to express it in the way that they need to and to prevent this man from speaking in our state.
		Why is the anger so directed at this one person, at Donald Trump?
		What is the rage about?
		Because he's been inciting violence against black people and brown people and Muslim people and giving a platform for basically hate speech and white supremacy to permeate the country.
		Do you feel like rushing over the barriers and heading towards the entrance of a convention is the right way to approach this?
		I think that we should be interrupting the convention and making sure that Donald Trump does not take stage today.
		Do you plan to keep going?
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		The bottom line is these people, if Donald Trump becomes president, it's because of these people.
		It's because of these people.
		And they're handing a talking point to the RNC.
		So RNC Communications Director Sean Spicer, he said this, he was on CNN, he says, why is it that we never talk about the anti-Trump protesters who are getting violent?
alisyn camerota ▲ ● ▼		But what was not as fun is to watch the violence outside of the Donald Trump rally last night.
		Sean, I want to just pull some pictures up of what happened last night.
		These were anti-Trump protesters.
		They were turning over police cars.
		They were just, you know, there was all sorts of vandalism.
		Yeah.
		So what, I mean, how much of a concern do you have moving forward, Sean, about these scenes that we're seeing?
unidentified		Well, I'll tell you, here's what's interesting.
		When the issues happened in Chicago a few months ago, it was the Republican National Committee and members of folks on our side that called out and said, we agree this sort of violence is unacceptable.
		But yesterday, you heard absolute silence when folks on the left went and caused this absolute disrespectful nature, caused violence, you know, ruining public property.
		Silence from the DNC.
		Silence from Hillary Clinton.
		They are such hypocrites.
		When it comes to voting rights... Sean, I'll announce it right now.
alisyn camerota ▲ ● ▼		I will announce it right now, Sean.
unidentified		They said nothing.
unidentified		When it comes to violence, they say nothing.
alisyn camerota ▲ ● ▼		Hold on, Sean.
unidentified		You know, it's interesting.
unidentified		They're always willing to call out everybody else, but when it's their side that disrupts, that creates violence... I will announce it right now, Sean.
alisyn camerota ▲ ● ▼		Give Lewis a chance.
unidentified		Sean, hold on.
alisyn camerota ▲ ● ▼		Go ahead, bro.
unidentified		Protests should be peaceful, absolutely.
		And I hope you join me, too, in denouncing your local Republican Party chairman in Broward County, Florida, who last night said the most offensive, misogynistic thing that anyone has said on this campaign.
		And it's largely driven because the RNC has stood by and not stood up to Donald Trump's misogynistic... Okay, let me stop it there.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		So, again, the contrast here is what's going to help Donald Trump.
		Because on the one hand, you have Sean Spicer who's saying, you guys won't even stand up to people who overturn cop cars.
		And on the left, you have their spokesperson, and he's saying, yeah, well, we don't like when they do that, but you should really condemn the comments of this person.
		There's a difference, as I like to say, between action and words.
		Okay, somebody saying something can be something you don't like, it can be something offensive, it can be Donald Trump saying stupid things, it can be lots of things.
		Violent action, of course, is the line that once you cross it, there is no return.
		And so equating the two things is very dangerous stuff.
		The idea that Donald Trump says something that's the equivalent of people surrounding cars and overturning them, that's absurd.
		That's absurd and that is the road to fascism and that's why Trump is seeing A significant base of support.
		Because the opposition to Trump, and this is the problem for folks like me, I oppose both Trump and the opposition to Trump.
		The people who you're seeing in these streets, I think they're awful.
		I think they're terrible.
		I also think that Trump is awful and terrible, but not in the same way.
		So Trump is awful and terrible because he says a lot of things that I think are really terrible.
		I think he has a lot of bad positions.
		I think he hangs out with bad people.
		I think he incentivizes bad people.
		I think he's incoherent on policy.
		I think the people who face him are worse.
		Because they're actually engaging in violent action.
		But this puts me in a small minority because people tend to think in binary terms.
		People tend to think in binary terms.
		Jeremy Boring, who's the managing editor over at Daily Wire, he likes to give the example, I think I've talked about it before, he likes to give the example that people love Star Wars, but Luke Skywalker is one of the most boring heroes in movies.
		What makes Luke Skywalker the hero is that you open the movie with Darth Vader.
		You open the movie with a 7 foot tall guy in a black death mask bursting open a door and force choking somebody, picking him up from the ground, and choking him to death for no reason.
		Right?
		Just crushing his larynx, his windpipe, for no reason.
		And then you cut to Luke, who's a whiny teenager, like, oh, that guy must be the hero.
		Okay, in this scenario, Darth Vader is these protesters, and Donald Trump is Luke Skywalker, But what if Luke Skywalker is actually just, like, not a great guy?
		What if Luke Skywalker, in that case, is Boba Fett?
		If they just cut to Boba Fett, now Boba Fett is the good guy, right?
		Because the guy you cut to after the worst person must be the best person, and that's how the mind operates in terms of Trump versus his opposition.
		And so, for example, you see that sort of stuff, and then you see Trump getting all pugnacious, and he's asked about Vincente Fox and the wall, and he says, his usual line, the wall just got 10 feet taller, right?
		You look at Trump doing this, and you go, okay, I get this.
unidentified		The former president of Mexico, Vicente Fox, he said today, and I'm quoting him, he said, I'm not going to pay for that effing wall.
		So if you don't get an actual check from the Mexican government for 8 or 10 or 12 billion dollars, whatever it will cost, how are you going to make them pay for the wall?
		I will, and the wall just got 10 feet taller.
		believe me.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		And that's when you get the big yells, right?
		This is a flashback to the debate.
		It's that sort of feel from Donald Trump.
		He's a counterpuncher.
		This is his routine.
		I'm a counterpuncher.
		Okay, so that's how Trump can win, is if the left is so terrible that the person who counterpunches against the left becomes more popular.
		Hillary's irritating and annoying and awful.
		Hillary Clinton, she said that, for example, here's a good juxtaposition.
		So, Hillary is so bad, she makes Trump look funny and good by contrast.
		So Hillary said, over the weekend, that when she has to deal with, how will she deal with Donald Trump?
		Well, she knows how to deal with men off the reservation, is clip 20.
		Here's Hillary Clinton talking about Donald Trump.
hillary clinton ▲ ● ▼		I have a lot of experience dealing with men who sometimes get off the reservation in the way they behave and how they speak.
		I'm not going to deal with their temper tantrums or their bullying or their efforts to try to provoke me.
		He can say whatever he wants to say about me.
		I could really care less.
		I'm going to stand up for what I think the American people need and want in the next president.
		That's why I've laid out very specific plans.
		There's nothing secret about what I want to do with the economy, with education, with health care, with foreign policy.
		I've laid it all out there.
		And he can't, or he won't.
		I can't tell which.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		So two things.
		One, she looks like death.
		Second, she sounds like a scold, right?
		I've dealt with men who get off the reservation before.
		I've dealt with men who get off the reservation before.
		Except, of course, the reservation where her husband lived, in which case she just brought the hookers to him.
		I mean, she basically was his procurer.
		But in any case, Trump says that, and so the contrast is going to benefit Trump.
		So here is Trump responding to that comment from Hillary.
		It is funny.
unidentified		She has taken from others a lot of heat having to do with that statement, and I think it's a very harsh statement.
		It's basically...
		Like, I can handle men.
		Don't worry about me.
		I can handle men.
		If somebody said that, if I made that statement about women, there'd be front-page headlines.
		Yeah, you basically did.
		The way she talks about, I can handle men.
		You basically did.
		You said all she's got is that she's a woman.
		Now, I won't even bring up the fact that the Indians have gone wild on that statement.
		You know that, okay?
		The Indians have said that that statement is a disastrous statement, and they want a retraction.
		I'm not going to get into that.
		Well, you just did get into it.
		I had not really heard that.
		I'm not bringing that up.
		I'm saying that has been taken pretty quickly.
		You did bring it up.
		But I think it's a very nasty statement to men.
		And if I made that statement, it would be a big, big story.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		Okay, so Trump is fighting back on her level, and because she's nasty and inheritant, and he's also nasty and a horror show, they'll fight it out on that level with each other.
		So, in that way, Trump could win.
		Now, here's the problem.
		Here's where Trump goes wrong, and this is the problem.
		The benefit of Trump is, if he really were everything he says he is, if he were just a counter-puncher, that's all he were, You know, people attack him and he hits them back really hard.
		If that's just what his candidacy was, he'd be in good shape.
		But that's not all he is.
		Donald Trump is also a sideshow.
		And because he's a sideshow, the media will turn on him in a New York minute.
		They will break him.
		So the media made him, and the media will break him.
		And the media made him, they've spent 30 years portraying him as this master of the financial universe, this whiz kid who comes from nowhere and makes himself into this massive brand and the whole deal.
		And they spent $2 billion worth of media coverage in this primary alone to help push him.
		And now they're going to destroy him because all of this sideshow nonsense?
		If it's initiated by Hillary and he responds, that's not sideshow.
		He's good at that.
		Legitimately, he's good at it.
		It's his best trait.
		It's what he's good at.
		If he has to initiate action, he's in serious trouble.
		When he's left to his own devices, he's in serious... Listen, I said back in 2011 that if the man had any discipline, he'd be president.
		We're about to find out whether he has any discipline at all.
		So here is, you know, the sideshow.
		Here's the part of the sideshow campaign.
		So, you remember two weeks ago, Donald Trump said he'd let Caitlyn Jenner use a women's restroom in his Trump Tower.
		So Caitlyn Jenner took him up on it and decided to truck on over to Trump Tower and then use the restroom over there.
		And Caitlyn Jenner, a very beautiful woman.
		Oof.
		And here we go.
unidentified		Oh my god, a trans woman in New York.
		I gotta take a pee.
		Anyway, oh my god.
		Trump International Hotel.
		I love this.
		Okay, last week Donald Trump said I could take a pee anywhere in a Trump facility.
		So I am gonna go take the key in the ladies room It's not a man folks That's a woman.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		Just keep remembering.
		And then here comes Caitlyn Jenner into the lobby, asking where the ladies' room is.
		They tell him where the ladies' room is.
		He's eight feet tall.
		And he's going on.
		He's not going to go to the men's room, because he has a willy.
		He's going to go into the women's room.
		And that's where the tape cuts out.
		Now, it is funny to me that the tape cuts out there, presumably because you don't want to show what happens in the women's room.
		It gets real awkward when it turns out that he's standing facing the toilet in order to go pee-pee.
		They always stop it right where that cuts out because the offensive part actually happens inside the door when he takes out his very feminine penis and begins peeing in the women's room.
		But this is part of the Trump sideshow campaign because now this is all over the news.
		Caitlyn Jenner peeing in Trump Tower.
		And now all over the news, Donald Trump talking about Mike Tyson.
		Mike Tyson is, of course, the famous boxer who is a convicted rapist.
		He did three years and he was, I guess, a resident in Indiana for three years while he was in the state penitentiary.
		He was actually in prison in Indiana.
		And Mike Tyson came out and endorsed Trump.
		He said, yeah, I like Donald Trump.
		Donald Trump's great.
		He's the best Donald Trump.
		He's such a tough guy.
		I'll give him a tiger.
		Yeah.
		Eat his children.
		So Donald Trump was asked about this.
		Ted Cruz came out and he said... Donald Trump touted this, first of all.
		And Ted Cruz said, well, I don't go around touting endorsements from rapists.
		Here's Donald Trump coming back at Ted Cruz via Chris Wallace.
unidentified		It just shows what a liar he is.
		So Mike Tyson, over the internet, endorsed me.
		He said, I endorse Mr. Trump.
		He said that.
		That was it.
		No big deal.
		I didn't have a meeting or anything.
		I haven't seen Mike in years.
		But he said he endorsed me.
		So Cruz is now saying, oh, he was a rapist.
		This guy is a real liar.
		That's why we call him Lying Ted Cruz.
		I mean, the greatest liar that ever lived, except he gets caught every time.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		Except he gets caught every time.
		He's a convicted rapist.
		Convicted, okay?
		Not even accused, like Bill Clinton.
		Convicted.
		Went to jail.
		I know the prosecutor, Greg Garrison.
		He's a talk show host over in Indiana.
		Convicted rapist, but Ted Cruz is a liar.
		So how do you think that's gonna play in a general?
		When he's saying that convicted rapists are not actually rapists.
		By the way, Donald Trump, going back 20 years, was defending Mike Tyson from the rape allegations.
		Suggesting, in fact, that Mike Tyson had been sort of suckered into this whole thing.
		And that Desiree Washington, the woman who accused him of rape, was actually just trying to get him.
		Trump, of course, was running his casinos at that time and wanted Tyson to be able to box there.
		So here, he says, again, this is the Trump sideshow.
		So if Trump were just the counterpuncher, he'd be fine.
		He's the sideshow also.
		So Donald Trump says Mike Tyson is not a rapist, and anyone who calls Mike Tyson a rapist, despite the fact he was convicted of rape, is a liar.
		But there is one kind of rape that Donald Trump doesn't like, and that is economic rape.
		So here's Donald Trump on China.
unidentified		Don't forget, we're like the piggy bank that's being robbed.
		We have the cards.
		We have a lot of power with China.
		When China doesn't want to fix the problem in North Korea, we say, sorry folks, you got to fix the problem.
		Because we can't continue to allow China to rape our country, and that's what they're doing.
		It's the greatest theft.
		In the history of the world.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		Okay, I'm gonna stop it there.
		First of all, Ted Cruz is the greatest liar in the history of the world.
		China manipulating its currency is the greatest theft in the history of the world.
		Not like, I mean, admittedly not quite, not, maybe it's a little bit worse than like, I don't know, killing six million Jews and taking all their money.
		But you know, aside from that, it's like the greatest theft in history, or maybe, you know, the various mass wars of attrition across the Middle East and across the, maybe the stealing of oil and the nationalization of British petroleum by Iran.
		But no, the greatest theft in history is not actually theft, it's just China trading with us.
		But that's rape.
		Okay, so Mike Tyson is not a rapist, but China is an economic rapist.
		Okay, again, this is where the Trump sideshow begins to run off the rails.
		And this is the problem for the Trump train, is that if Trump just stayed on track, if he were just fighting Hillary, if he just were the counterpuncher, he'd be okay.
		But he's not.
		But he's not.
		Because he's all these other negative things.
		And here's how things are gonna go.
		Here's how things are gonna go.
		Harry Reid says, look, we're gonna win back the Senate.
		Democrats are gonna win back the Senate because of Donald Trump.
unidentified		We need to pick four to take the majority.
unidentified		With the numbers I've given you, it's gonna be a fairly certain thing that we can do that.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		Okay, and this continues.
		Here's why the Democratic Senate takeover is likely.
		They're now starting to run ads about Trump.
		So this is the first time we're now nearing the Trump nomination to the point where Democrats feel comfortable spending their money on anti-Trump ads.
		So, there's an ad that's now running in Arkansas.
		And it's an ad that is running.
		I'm trying to remember the name of the candidate who's running this ad.
		I'm bringing it up right now if I can.
		But in any case, the guy who's running this particular ad is running for Senate in Arkansas.
		And he's running against a guy named John Boozman, who's the current Senator in Arkansas.
		It's Connor Eldridge is the guy's name.
		He's a Democrat.
		Here's the ad that he's now running against the Republican senator in Arkansas.
		This is how the campaign is going to go, because again, Trump is a negative force.
		He's not just an anti-force, he's a negative force too.
		Here's the ad that's running in Arkansas.
unidentified		So, for folks who can't see... She ate like a pig.
		I'd look her right in that fat ugly face of hers.
		He once sent her a picture of herself with the words, the face of a dog or not.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		So somebody typing the word harassment to subject someone to hostility.
unidentified		The boob job is terrible.
		You know, they look like two lightbulbs coming out of a body.
		Blood coming out of her wherever.
		A person who's flat-chested is very hard to be a tent.
		You don't think you could get it up for her?
		I think I'd have a hard time.
		Wow.
		No, I don't find her attractive.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		And then it goes back to explaining what harassment is.
unidentified		You dropped to your knees.
		It must be a pretty picture you dropped to your knees.
		John and Dennis thought I should be, Omarosa said me, some other people said you.
		It's like you wouldn't have your job if you weren't beautiful.
		I put together a montage of Marla.
		Donald's had her.
		What is it like when she is in bed with you, Donald?
		It is a beautiful structure, there's no question.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		Trump enabler.
		And this is Arkansas Senator John Boozman, right?
		So the idea is that Boozman supports Trump, and then they kill Boozman.
unidentified		I'll support the candidate regardless of who we pick.
unidentified		Whether Donald Trump, it certainly would be a lot better presidency.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		And then it goes to Conor Eldredge and there's the rest of the ad.
		The rest of the ad doesn't matter.
		So, that's the point, okay?
		Trump's negatives are very real.
		It's not just that he's anti, it's that he's an active negative force.
		So, he's a package deal.
		You're getting the guy who's gonna throw the kitchen sink.
		You're getting the guy who's gonna hit people with a hammer.
		He's also the guy who's always a hammer and has been hammering people badly and in negative ways and in nasty ways for legitimately years.
		Now, what's sad about all of this, again, is that Hillary is so vulnerable.
		If you're just anti-Hillary, you have a good shot at winning.
		If you're anti-Hillary, Hillary's such a shrew, she's such a shrieking harpy of evil, that if you just went out there and ran against her, you'd be in great shape.
		But Trump has so much baggage, there's so much that is negative about Trump, Hillary is just going to eat him up on all of those things.
		And the Trump support base, but again, this is the disconnect, right?
		The point that I'm making is a pretty objective one.
		Trump is good in some ways, but he's really bad in some ways, and the ways that he's bad are really gonna hurt him.
		The Trump support base, though, is so passionate because they're anti.
		Because they're anti.
		And because Trump is anti things, they now assume, his Trump support base assumes, that everything that Trump is anti is something worth being anti.
		So, there's an exchange that happened, it was today, earlier this morning, Ted Cruz was campaigning in Indiana and he was confronted by a Trump supporter.
		And it looked, just to give you sort of a hint, is to, well, let's play a little bit of it.
		Here's Ted Cruz meeting a Trump supporter, and you're about to see why this election has gone so badly.
		Because the anti-feeling, the feeling of resist, has now been extended to even people who are constitutional conservatives, not just the actual enemy, people like Hillary Clinton.
		Because for Trump, and for Trump's people, Hillary isn't necessarily the enemy.
		Everybody who's not Trump is the enemy.
unidentified		I'm going to treat you with respectability, even if not everyone in this process does.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		I'll tell you, this election matters.
unidentified		It matters a lot, and you need someone to stand up for you.
		Yeah, it does matter.
		It matters!
		It matters a lot.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		So I appreciate your coming out.
unidentified		I appreciate you coming out and standing up.
unidentified		And I thank this entire process.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		I think anyone that wants to be president owes it to the people of this state to come in front of you and ask for your support.
unidentified		And I'm running to be everyone's president, those who vote for me and even those who don't vote for me.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		We don't want you.
unidentified		Well, you're entitled to your view, sir, and I will respect it.
		In fact, I will protect your rights.
		Do the math.
		You ask cases to drop out, it's your turn.
		Well, take your own word.
		Now, I'm curious, sir.
		Time to drop out.
		When Donald doesn't get to 1237, are you going to call him in to drop out?
		Donald's definitely going to get to 1237.
		No, he's not.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		No, he's not.
unidentified		He's going to get more than 1237.
		Let me ask you something, sir.
		What do you like about Donald?
		Everything.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		Give me one.
unidentified		Everything.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		Give me one.
unidentified		You can pick anything.
		The wall.
		Okay, the wall.
		That's the main thing.
		Integration.
		Ted's building the wall.
		All right, hold on a second.
		Now, do you know on the wall that Donald told the New York Times editorial board he's not going to build a wall and he's not going to deport anyone?
		You're lying.
		Once again, lying Ted!
		Well, sir, you know, actually, civilized people don't just scream and yell at each other.
		I'm not yelling at you.
		Do you know that Donald's words were caught on tape?
		The New York Times recorded the whole thing.
		Publicly recorded.
		That's a total lie made up by Donald Trump's campaign.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		Okay, and this is, and, okay, so basically this has now become the scene from Tombstone where Kurt Russell is dealing at the casino and Ike, right, Ike Clanton comes up to him and this is the end, this is the scene, this is the exact scene.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		Here's what it looks like, right?
unidentified		Wide herb, huh?
		Heard of you.
		Listen now, Mr. Kansas, law dog.
		Law don't go around here.
		Savvy?
		I'm retired.
		Good.
		That's real good.
		Yeah.
		Yeah, that's real good, Law Dog, cause law just don't go around here.
		Yeah, I heard you the first time.
		Winner to the king, $500.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		That is that exchange, right?
		I mean, he's got the same number of teeth, right?
		You got that guy and he's got three teeth talking to Ted Cruz, Harvard Law graduate and constitutional lawyer about a lying Ted.
		Well, here you are, lying Ted.
		You definitely had those affairs, that's true.
		But when you side that New York Times, them city people, with their crazy words and such, well...
		Now listen, most Southerners are not this guy.
		I assume that he's in Indiana, so he's not even Southern, right?
		He's Midwestern.
		But this is what a lot of Trump supporters have become because they're so anti-things.
		They're anti the Trump protesters.
		I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.
		I think a lot of the Trump people ardently support Trump because they were pushed into the Trump camp by a lot of people who were anti-Trump, originally the hard left in the media.
		And now they've bought full into the dictatorial impulse Nothing Trump says can be wrong.
		What do you like about him?
		Everything.
		I like everything.
		I like the size of his hands.
		I think he has a nice ass.
		Everything.
		All of the things about Donald Trump are wonderful.
		Let me tell you, when he says he's got great appendages, I believe him.
		I believe him.
		I believe every word he says.
		Once you get to that point, folks, you've moved beyond the realm of rationality.
		I fully understood the reactionary love for Donald Trump's candidacy, but you have to acknowledge, on an objective level, that there are problems with Donald Trump as a candidate.
		I've acknowledged, on an objective level, there are problems with my guy, Ted Cruz, as a candidate.
		He comes off like a snake oil salesman, he comes off like a Baptist preacher, and it's very difficult to feel that he's sincere.
		Donald Trump is a bad man, and he comes off like a bad man.
		You can acknowledge that and still support your guy, but this whole routine where everything he does is right, every single thing that he does is right, everything, they're all great, all the things are wonderful about Donald Trump, you truly have to be foolish to believe this.
		And if you buy into this, if you buy into this all the way through the election, you're gonna be in for a bad surprise, because you're gonna think all the way up till the time he gets beat by a thousand percent.
		All the way up until the time he loses 43 states, you're going to be thinking that he's going to win, because that's all he does.
		He just wins.
		That's all he does.
		Lying Ted.
		Crooked Hillary.
		And if you just keep saying these things over and over, I'll love everything.
		It's just... There's no way to convince those folks.
		And those people will be the first people who are saying that Trump was stabbed in the back when he loses, even though we told you...
		A year in advance that he was gonna get his butt kicked.
		Alright, time for one thing that I like and then a couple of things that I hate.
		Alright, so things that I like.
		The, uh, Hillary Mantel wrote a book called Wolf Hall that's very good.
		It's now a series on PBS.
		I'll show you, like, a little bit of the preview of the series.
		The series is okay.
		The book is much better.
		Um, but, uh, but the acting on the series is really good.
		So here, it's about Henry VIII and, uh, and the...
		At last!
		the break in the church and his marriage to Anne Boleyn.
		I assume the series will take us all the way up to Anne Boleyn's beheading.
		The first book takes you to Sir Thomas More's beheading.
		But it's a very good book, and here's what the series looks like.
unidentified		At last!
		A man born in a more lowly state than myself.
		Cromwell, I knew there was something about you that I didn't like.
		I swear to be a true and faithful counsellor to the King's Majesty as one of his Highness's Privy Council.
		You'll not find any talent I possess that England cannot use.
		I trust in your discretion and your skill.
		You made a mistake threatening me, sir.
		Now is the time for you to become the king you should be.
		Weren't you afraid?
		Of what?
		Those who've been made can be unmade.
		I keep you because you are a serpent.
		Everything that you are, everything that you have.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		The acting in the series actually is really good.
		Damian Lewis is a terrific actor.
		I first started to really like him when I watched Band of Brothers, which is the best series ever on TV.
		Band of Brothers is spectacular.
		We'll have to do a Things I Like just on Band of Brothers because it's that good.
		But that's where... So the book itself, Wolf Hall, is what I've read.
		I haven't seen the full series.
		Started to watch it.
		And the series is okay, but the book is much better.
		So Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel.
		Alright, things that I hate.
		Amy Schumer has now put out a new video on guns.
		Amy Schumer is the gal who recently was on the cover of... I can't remember which magazine it was.
		It was one of the women's magazines.
		And it was a picture of her setting her Vahuhu on fire.
		Which is what syphilis will do to you, by the way.
		And she also is a far leftist who pushes anti-gun routines.
		So she did this anti-gun routine.
		This is her routine of selling guns.
		This is why she thinks right-wingers buy guns.
		Here we go.
		Amy Schumer.
unidentified		Now, speaking of perfect gifts, now, this is a no-brainer, all right?
		Now, this is a gun!
		Just your regular, run-of-the-mill, meat-and-potatoes handgun.
		Now, how cute is that?
		I love that.
		Oh, can we pick it up?
		Oh, heavy.
		Oh, can I see this?
		You can hold it, sure.
		Wow.
		Wow.
		Look at that.
		Wow.
		It's like a toy, but it's extremely real.
		Yeah, and now here is what's great about this.
		Now, pretty much anyone can purchase this.
		Mm-hmm.
		Okay?
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		Oh, my God, this is so fun.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		I love this.
unidentified		It's fun.
		Hey, lady, hand me all your money and your makeup.
		Oh!
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		Oh, my God, so fun, and it's on sale now.
unidentified		Call in.
		Oh, we got a caller.
		Oh, caller!
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		Hey, did I miss the Steve Irwin coins?
unidentified		Oh, yeah, you did.
		You sure did, honey, but that's okay.
		You want a gun?
		Oh, no, I could never get a gun.
		I have several violent felonies.
		Oh no.
		Caller, you bite your tongue, you silly goose.
		You can absolutely get a gun if you have several phonies as long as you buy it on the internet or at a gun show.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		None of these things are true.
		What's so bad about this?
		First of all, it's bad comedy because it's not funny in any way.
		But beyond that, every element of this is false.
		All of the things about this are false.
		It's actually not that easy to buy a gun.
		You have to be over a certain age.
		They do a background check on you.
		Every federally licensed firearms dealer has to do a background check for felonies.
		If you buy a gun over the internet, it has to be shipped to a federally licensed firearms dealer.
		You then have to go to that federally licensed firearms dealer for a background check.
		The gun show loophole is not a real thing.
		Real firearms dealers at a gun show still have to do a background check on you.
		The so-called gun show loophole is if I sell a gun to Lindsay.
		That's not a gun show loophole, that's a private party purchase loophole.
		It's a different thing.
		And there's been no evidence that private party purchases like that are what are leading to any sort of spike in gun prices.
		In any case, you wouldn't expect intelligence from a woman who sets her vagina on fire to show the world how she sets the world on fire, presumably.
		But comedy in the service of leftism has now become the thing.
		So, over the weekend was the White House Correspondents Dinner, and I hate Hate the White House Correspondents Dinner.
		There are two Washington spectacles I absolutely despise in every way it's possible to despise them.
		The first Washington spectacle that I despise is the State of the Union.
		It's an imperial diktat that comes from a guy who's an elected official in front of other elected officials, but when he walks into the chamber everybody cheers.
		Oh, it's the King of England!
		He's here!
		And now we all have to worship at his altar, and it's gonna be great.
		So that's the number one thing I hate.
		The second thing I hate is the White House Correspondents' Dinner, because it's the media, which is supposed to cover the president in all of the gory detail, and the president, who's supposed to serve the media and the public.
		And they get together and then they just drink and they wear tuxes and they feed each other and they talk about how they're best friends.
		I don't want the media to be friends with the president.
		The media coverage of George W. Bush was significantly better than any of the media coverage of Barack Obama because the media didn't like Bush and they like Obama.
		So I hate this thing, and I think that if you were somebody who was out of a job watching President Obama wear a tux and sip champagne as he makes jokes with the celebrities, you would think, well, maybe our political class is a little bit out of touch.
		I'm voting for Donald Trump because of all of that.
		Even though Donald Trump is these people, he's both Hollywood and Washington, D.C.
		So there are a couple of things that were particularly galling.
		We can start with Obama's joke.
		So Obama does this comedy routine, and honestly, if I were the President of the United States, I think I would just tell them to stick it.
		I think I would just... I would probably skip the event.
		I'd probably just cancel the event altogether, because they call this thing nerd prom.
		It's not nerd prom, okay?
		All of these people are not nerds.
		Most of them are talking heads who are incredibly stupid but good-looking.
		And so they're there, and they're supposed to be nerds, and they're joking with each other, and it's just... the whole thing just sticks in my craw in a real way.
		Here's President Obama joking about Donald Trump.
unidentified		So this night is a testament to all of you who've devoted your lives to that idea.
		Although I am a little hurt that he's not here tonight.
		We had so much fun the last time.
		And it is surprising.
		You've got a room full of reporters, celebrities, cameras, and he says no.
		Is this dinner too tacky for the Donald?
		What could he possibly be doing instead?
		Is he at home eating a Trump steak?
		Tweeting out insults to Angela Merkel?
		What's he doing?
		And there's one area where Donald's experience could be invaluable, and that's closing Guantanamo.
		Because Trump knows a thing or two about running waterfront properties into the ground.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		Okay, so I just want to point one thing out.
		We'll play one more clip of this and then I want to point one thing out.
		So here is President Obama talking about how warm he is with the press, how much he loves the press.
unidentified		I know that there are times that we've had differences and that's inherent in our institutional roles.
		It's true of every president and his press corps.
		But we've always shared the same goal.
		To root our public discourse in the truth.
		To open the doors of this democracy.
		to do whatever we can to make our country and our world more free and more just.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		So there he is, praising the media.
		This is what I hate about President Obama's regime and his administration.
		President Obama does this routine where now he's feeding the press.
		He spent his entire administration prosecuting members of the press who attempt to uncover things about him.
		He went after the AP, he bugged the AP.
		He sent his reporters, he sent his DOJ after reporters from the Washington Post.
		The media have said openly this is the least transparent White House in the history of White Houses.
		And yet there he is talking about how he has this close relationship with the media and they're all there clapping for him.
		Yay!
		That's what I hate about all of this.
		And it's not just the media, obviously, it's also the folks in Hollywood.
		So you saw Amy Schumer using comedy in the service of leftism, or rather, taking a gun to the head of comedy and pulling the trigger, splattering its brains across the wall in service to leftism.
		Larry Wilmore, who as I've said before, is the second least funny human being on the planet after Trevor Noah.
		Larry Wilmore was the guy who hosted this one, and Same deal, same deal.
		So his jokes about Obama basically fell flat.
		They were really quite terrible.
		His jokes about Trump were much more hard-hitting.
		And then, how he finished it up was the big story of the day.
		So here's Larry Wilmore finishing up.
		Remember, he's the comedian.
		He's the comedian, right?
		He's supposed to be the comic entertainment.
		Here's Larry Wilmore finishing up.
		If this doesn't tell you everything you need to know about the nexus between Hollywood and the media and the White House, this is it right here.
		Okay, Larry Wilmore got praise, nothing but praise for this, from the media.
		The media thought this was brave and wonderful.
		The same media that thought Stephen Colbert going on stage and calling George W. Bush a liar in front of him at the White House Correspondents' Dinner about 10 years ago now, they thought this was just the bravest thing they ever saw Larry Wilmore do.
		Here's Larry Wilmore talking about President Obama.
unidentified		Thank you for being a good sport, Mr. President.
		But all jokes aside, let me just say how much it means for me to be here tonight.
		I've always joked that I voted for the president because he's black.
		And people say, well, do you agree with his policies?
		And I've always said, I agree with the policy that he's black.
		I say, as long as he keeps being black, I'm good.
		People say, what about Iraq?
		Is he still black?
		But behind that joke is a humble appreciation for the historical implications for what your presidency means.
		When I was a kid, I lived in a country where people couldn't accept a black quarterback.
		Now think about that.
		A black man was thought by his mere color not good enough to lead a football team.
		And now, to live in your time, Mr. President, when a black man can lead the entire free world.
		Words alone do me no justice.
		So, Mr. President, if I'm going to keep it 100, yo, Barry, you did it, my nigga.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		Oh, and Obama's so pleased because, of course, he spent his entire life searching for his black identity according to dreams from my father.
		A couple of things worthwhile there pointing out.
		One, he's a comedian.
		He is not a political commentator.
		Second, even if you were a comedian who does political comedy, the idea that he's coming out in full... This isn't true.
		This is politician worship.
		It's Trump-like politician worship on the right, and this has existed for Obama for a long time.
		This sort of stuff created Trump in every way.
		The worship for Obama created a feeling of worship on the other side of the aisle for the anti-Obama.
		The media's collusion with President Obama created a hatred for the media that allows Trump to get away with unbelievable lies.
		I mean, that's an amazing line, what Larry Wilmore says there, where he says, have you do agree with his policies?
		He says, if he keeps being black, I agree with his policies.
		Can you imagine a white person saying that?
		Can you imagine that?
		End of the world.
		Pure racism, right?
		And then when he drops the N-word at the end of that, everybody's supposed to be okay with that, because a black man talking to another black man making a black guy in-joke in front of the entire country, right?
		With the president who's supposed to be the president of all the people.
		It really is appalling.
		But this entire dinner is appalling.
		And it demonstrates again that we've become a politics of celebrity.
		We become a politics of personal loyalty, which is the scariest thing.
		You combine those two, personal loyalty and celebrity, and what you end up with is a joke.
		You end up with a circus, but it's a tyrannical circus.
		We used to be able to get away with this kind of crap when we had hero worship for people in 1840 with William Henry Harrison.
		He was a general.
		But the president didn't do anything then.
		Now it's the most powerful office in the world.
		And the only question is whether it ought to be controlled by Kanye West or whether it ought to be controlled by Justin Bieber.
		That's basically the conversation now.
		And so we've got our own Kanye and Justin Bieber.
		We have our own President Obama and Donald Trump.
		Just because he's anti-things doesn't make him pro-the-right-things.
		We'll talk tomorrow.
		We'll be back tomorrow for the last episode, the ultimate episode, before the apocalypse arrives.
		We'll see if, in the mold of Pacific Rim, we are able to cancel the apocalypse.
		Somehow, being a pessimist, I doubt it, but we'll still be here, and Clavin will make you feel better this afternoon.
		He'll tell you some happy talk or something, and, you know, that's just the way that it goes.
		But I'm here!
		I'm here to impress you.
		I'm back.
		I got all the notes.
		I'm here.
		Yep.
		You brought me back.
unidentified		All right.
ben shapiro ▲ ● ▼		I'm Ben Shapiro.

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