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Nov. 11, 2016 - The Ben Shapiro Show
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Ep. 209 - Protesters Go Nuts, Prove President Trump's Case
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Across America, leftists, many of whom certainly did not vote for Hillary Clinton, took to the streets to protest against Donald Trump's election.
In LA, they tagged police cars with the graffiti F Trump.
In New York, Lady Gaga led protests at Trump Tower, which is just awesome.
In Philadelphia, These protests raise a couple of questions.
I don't remember that headline about the Tea Party.
10 arrested after a largely peaceful Tea Party event.
Republican Tea Parties who were entirely peaceful never received this kind of treatment.
But these protests raise a couple of questions.
First, why?
When Barack Obama won re-election in 2012, conservatives were deeply depressed.
We didn't hold mass protests.
Elections are elections.
We protested Obamacare.
We protested TARP.
We protested executive amnesty.
We did not protest the election itself.
And President-elect Trump, whom, by the way, I opposed throughout the primaries and didn't vote for during the general, and I think he's a bad person, but he hasn't done anything yet!
I think he's an objectionable.
Again, I don't think he's a good person, but his victory doesn't change that.
But as I wrote yesterday, I hope he proves me wrong about that.
And I'm going to give him a chance to prove me wrong about all of that.
But no matter what you think about Trump as a person, he hasn't done anything yet as president.
He's not president yet.
He's president-elect.
So what are they protesting other than reality?
Do they think that Donald Trump is sitting there going, oh, they're protesting.
I guess I won't be president now.
Or is he actually just going to bathe in their salty, bitter tears?
Second, what comes after this?
If the Democrats are protesting Trump before he even does anything, what can we expect when he actually begins acting as president?
Will the left begin engaging in mass violence beyond mere protest?
The left's histrionic rioting helps generate exactly the sort of anger that led to a President Trump.
Their continued rioting won't get him re-elected.
Trump won because Americans didn't show up for Hillary, not because of some enormous search for Trump, who actually may end up winning fewer popular votes than Mitt Romney.
But it certainly will not convince Americans to join the idiotic, ridiculous, and stupid anti-Trump crowd.
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So, here we are.
So much to get to today and so much hilarity.
I mean, they promised hilarity and hilarity shall be delivered.
I mean, we were promised a circus.
The clowns are all here.
It's just fantastic all the way across the board.
I promise we'll get to all of it.
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Okay, so I have to say that everything is just hysterically funny.
Everything has now entered.
We've entered the realm of the absurd, and we are beyond anything remotely resembling reality.
I didn't...
This alternative reality that we entered into about 15 months ago, now is going to continue for four years.
And what's bizarre about this alternative reality is that people like me, who think that Donald Trump is basically a bad person, we're rooting eagerly for him to do some pretty good things.
And I think he's going to do some pretty good things, particularly early in his presidency, but we'll get to that in a minute.
First, we have to get to the story of the day.
Oh my god.
Donald Trump goes to the White House.
Presidents elect Trump.
Presidents elect Donald Trump.
Presidents elect Donald Trump goes to the White House to meet the outgoing president, Barack Obama.
And it is just glorious.
Justice can be done through weird channels.
This is true.
I don't think that Donald Trump has met justice for all of the terrible things he did during the primaries and the general.
He is delivering justice, like Wyatt Earp in Tombstone, to President Obama.
Imagine Barack Obama, and your image of yourself is you're this great statesperson.
You are a wonderful thinker.
You are a deep man.
You are a transformative president, the first black president in American history.
You're a man who acts with the dignity of Martin Luther King and the forethought of Gandhi.
You are just God's gift to the world.
And your successor, who's going to wipe out all of the things that you did, all of them, is a reality TV show star you consider to be an illiterate orangutan.
And that's what just happened at the White House.
Look at that picture!
Oh my god.
Look at this.
Look at this.
This is everything.
This picture is everything!
Oh!
Oh!
It's phenomenal.
Okay, so for those who are going to be listening to this on the podcast later and can't actually see this picture.
Oh my god.
So, it's Donald Trump giving the Trump finger.
It's the press.
Oh my god, it's so great.
Trump giving the Trump finger to the press, the same finger that he used to fire Omarosa, he's giving to the press right now, sitting next to Barack Obama, who looks like he had a rod rammed straight up his ass.
And Obama is sitting stark straight in his chair and gazing off into the distance like a Vietnam War vet who saw all of his buddies get blown away.
And then behind them, behind them, is a bust of Abraham Lincoln, frowning at the Oh my god.
Abraham Lincoln mourning for his country.
Abraham Lincoln, who it turns out, came back to life just to shoot himself in the back of the head.
Because this is what, oh my god, this is what America has become.
It's just, it's phenomenal!
Come on!
Oh my god.
I'll say it again.
This is Barack Obama's worst nightmare come to life.
This is all the nightmares rolled into one.
It is all of the nightmares.
And they are all wonderfully coming true for Barack Obama.
And here's another picture.
Oh my god, you see the Statue of Liberty, the picture, the painting of the Statue of Liberty in the background as her torch goes out.
You see Barack Obama sitting there, this guy who thinks that he is the God-King of the United States, the man who is supposed to be the great leader who restored America to dignity and wonder.
And there's Barack Obama leaning into camera looking like he wants to die.
And Donald Trump sitting there like, Give me a birth certificate right now or Obamacare's on the table.
It's just every bit of justice that Obama deserved.
It's all the things.
It's all of them!
I can't stand Donald Trump, as you know, on a personal level.
I think that he's going to do some good things as president, or at least I hope he will, and I'm willing to give him time to change as a man.
But the fact that he is who he is, is what makes this wonderful.
If this had just been Marco Rubio accepting from Barack Obama, justice has not been done.
The fact that it is Donald Trump accepting from Barack Obama is what makes this so wonderful.
Because it is Donald Trump, a man who is a reality TV show clown man.
Him accepting from a guy who considers himself to be the most dignified human ever to walk the earth.
And look at this handshake.
Trump treating it like he's about to take the presidency of the United States.
And Obama looking at him like, I can't believe that this is in the mirror.
And that's really what this is about.
Because Obama's vision of himself, this is the truth about Obama and Trump.
Trump is just Obama without some of the trappings.
Not with regard to policy, with regard to personality.
And the way I say this is that they're both narcissists, obviously, but beyond that, the reality TV show star nature of Donald Trump, and he is, I mean, this whole campaign was a reality TV show.
That reality TV show star, the fact a reality TV show star is now the president-elect of the United States, that is a direct reflection of the fact that Barack Obama was a celebrity reality TV show star for eight years.
That's what this is.
I mean, for example, here is Barack Obama.
We'll do selfie stick Barack here.
This is the president of the United States, right?
This is – and there are those of us who said at the time, this is undignified.
This is not what the presidency is for.
You've got Barack Obama winking at himself in the selfie stick.
You've got Barack Obama hanging out in Hollywood every five minutes.
I mean he shuts down traffic in L.A. where we are every week.
He's out here doing Jimmy Kimmel.
You've got Barack Obama doing this routine where he is doing interviews with Glozell, right?
The lady who bathes in Froot Loops, right?
He is a reality TV show star.
He is a celebrity.
It's why his popularity ratings are high.
And it's for the same reason his popularity ratings are high, but his policies mean nothing.
That's how you get Donald Trump, because you go from reality TV show star to reality TV show star.
Obama doesn't see himself that way, but that's who he is.
And you can see it.
So, you know, we'll skip ahead a little bit.
Guys, can you grab clip 22?
So this is Barack Obama reading mean tweets on Jimmy Kimmel.
And this, again, this is everything.
You want to know how Donald Trump got to be president of the United States, it's all right here in this small clip from Jimmy Kimmel with Barack Obama.
President Obama will go down as perhaps the worst president in the history of the United States, exclamation point, at real Donald Trump.
Well, at real Donald Trump.
At least I will go down as a president.
Right now, a historic moment.
We can now project the winner of the presidential race.
Donald Trump wins the presidency.
The business tycoon, a TV personality.
Camping is a probable political journey.
That's justice right there.
That is justice coming in the form of Donald Trump to Barack Obama, and justice is indeed sweet.
I mean, you know, again, do I think it's good for the country that we now have a reality TV show star running it?
I'll wait till I see his policies.
Do I think that he's somebody who would strike me as qualified for the office?
No.
As I said to my wife, you've studied for years and years and years to be a doctor.
If somebody made the head of your hospital a guy who had once played Operation, Then you'd have a right to be slightly worried about it, or slightly concerned about it.
Maybe he'll do some good stuff.
But by the same token, when it comes to just justice for Barack Obama, just justice for Barack Obama, karma, it is spectacular.
Spectacular.
And it wasn't just, by the way, that tweet.
Again, the tweet there, he's on Kimmel.
He reads a Trump tweet saying he'll never be.
And then he says, you'll never be president and drops it on Kimmel as a reality star.
You're only on Kimmel if you're a reality star.
Right.
He is a reality star and he's replaced by a reality star.
And you can see all of his visions of himself shattering in those pictures with Donald Trump.
And it's not just that.
I mean, it's Seth Meyers taunting Donald Trump about Barack Obama.
This is, I think, clip 23.
Seth Meyers is at the White House Correspondence Center in 2011.
Same deal.
Donald Trump has been saying that he will run for president as a Republican, which is surprising since I just assumed he was running as a joke.
And there's Trump sitting there, right?
It wasn't a joke.
It wasn't a joke.
Donald Trump often appears on Fox, which is ironic, because a fox often appears on Donald Trump's head.
If you're at the Washington Post table with Trump and you can't finish your entree, don't worry, the fox will eat it. - Gary Busey said recently that Donald Trump would make a great president.
Of course, he said the same thing about an old rusty birdcage he found.
Donald Trump owns the Miss USA pageant, which is great for Republicans because it will streamline their search for a Vice President.
Now I know that he's taken some flack lately, but no one is happier, no one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than the Donald.
And that's because he can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter.
Like, did we fake the moon landing?
What really happened in Roswell?
And where are Biggie and Tupac?
All kidding aside, obviously we all know about your credentials and breadth of experience.
For example, seriously, just recently, in an episode of Celebrity Apprentice at the steakhouse, the men's cooking team did not impress the judges from Omaha Steaks.
And there was a lot of blame to go around, but you, Mr. Trump, recognized that the real problem was a lack of leadership, and so ultimately you didn't blame Little John or Meatloaf You fired Gary Busey.
And these are the kind of decisions that would keep me up at night.
Okay, there's Barack Obama being a reality TV show star at the White House Correspondence Center, making fun of Donald Trump, doing it on Kimmel, making fun of Donald Trump.
All of this is why Donald Trump is where Donald Trump is.
The only way that you get to this level with the American presidency is because we've been there before, and we were there before in the form of a guy who thinks of himself as a dignified man who can sneer at Donald Trump.
So, I just had to point out the absolute hilarity and wonder of it, because it truly is amazing and wonderful.
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Okay.
So that's on the hilarious side.
On the hilarious side, there is Donald Trump visiting the White House and demonstrating in full karmic effect what Barack Obama is to the world, and it's just glorious.
On the other comedic side, there are a bunch of anti-Trump protesters who have been going around making jerks of themselves, and they look like fools.
And it does demonstrate what Trump is up against in the sense that the left has already pre-decided that he's going to be awful, and they're going to oppose anything he does.
And that's not a shock, but I'm old enough to remember when Rush Limbaugh said that he hoped Barack Obama would fail and that his agenda would fail, and the left thought that was unpatriotic and awful.
I guess we're back to the era of dissent being patriotic again.
Here's a video of some anti-Trump protesters yesterday.
There will be casualties on both sides!
There will be, because people have to die to make a change in this world!
Trump, enough with your racism!
Stop splitting families!
Don't split my family!
Okay, and then she eventually says people are going to have to die on both sides.
Yeah, lady, I don't see you doing the dying.
And all these people who say they're going to participate in violent protests, there was a lot of talk that Donald Trump supporters would be violent.
All the people who voted for Donald Trump were people who were very ticked at Barack Obama.
None of them rioted after Barack Obama won in 2012.
But Democrats get to get away with anything.
UCSD, University of California, San Diego, you're seeing some of the same sort of stuff.
Here's some of the students protesting, I think it was last night.
No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No!
Think this is going to accomplish?
Nothing.
It's not going to accomplish anything other than to toxify Trump before he even is able to do a single thing in office, which is really quite despicable.
Now, you're free to do all this stuff.
It's your prerogative.
But the idea that Donald Trump is going to suddenly resign his office because a bunch of whiny college students have decided they don't want to accept the results of a duly enacted election, that's utter foolishness.
And these things continue.
Here's another anti-Trump protest breaking out, and it's from Mediaite.
I'm here because my ancestors came to this country a hundred years ago, and they knew people who were burned in factory fires, and people like Donald Trump would have let them die and not allowed factory safety legislation to take place.
We stand!
Together!
We stand!
Donald Trump has got to go!
Hey, hey!
Ho, ho!
I would love to see a poll of the people who are yelling about Trump and see how many of them who are protesting the elections, how many of them actually voted.
I guarantee you a bunch of these people didn't vote.
A bunch of these people didn't vote and now they're ticked off because they don't like the results of the election.
It's getting uglier than that.
There's a video of apparently, reportedly, a Trump voter being dragged from his car and beaten.
This has been making the rounds as well.
You can see these are a couple of black youths beating a white guy up after pulling him from his car.
He must have had a Trump bumper sticker, and that's how they know, something along those lines.
And they're punching him and beating him.
If that's the direction this country is going to go, first of all, I don't think that Donald Trump is going to stand for that.
And that's one of the reasons Donald Trump was elected, and that's a very good thing.
Nobody should stand for this kind of crap.
This sort of stuff has to stop, and if the left continues to do this, the backlash that the left saw in 2012 is going to be a hell of a lot larger in 2016.
Okay, well, we have to break.
We're good to go.
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