The Ben Shapiro Show - Ep. 240 - Trump Becomes President, All Hell Breaks Loose
Aired: 2017-01-27
Duration: 16:50


=== Women's March Controversy (02:19) ===

[00:00:00]  One of the four chief organizers for the massive Women's March that took place on Saturday is a, quote, Palestinian-American Muslim racial justice and civil rights activist named Linda Sarsour.
[00:00:09]  Sarsour, who also served as a Democratic National Convention delegate, was honored by President Obama's administration as a champion of change.
[00:00:17]  Fittingly, she also posed in Chicago with an alleged Hamas financier.
[00:00:20]  Fitting, because Barack Obama used to give speeches in honor of Palestinian terror mouthpiece Rashid Khalidi.
[00:00:25]  So, what exactly drove Sarsour's ire during the Women's March?
[00:00:28]  Here's a clue from 2014.
[00:00:35]  Quote, If you wonder why hundreds of thousands of women declared themselves brave for marching in favor of taxpayer-funded condoms while doing nothing for women abroad who live in abysmal circumstances, this would be it.
[00:00:48]  A complete lack of perspective.
[00:00:50]  Maybe one reason Saudi Arabia is happy to pay for maternity leave is because they bribed their citizens not to rebel against the autocratic regime through massive welfare payments.
[00:00:59]  Maybe another reason is because the government wants to encourage women to stay home rather than working.
[00:01:03]  In Saudi Arabia, as The Week reports, women can't get a passport without the permission of a husband, father, or other male guardian.
[00:01:09]  Most women can't drive.
[00:01:11]  Women are prevented from wearing attractive clothing.
[00:01:13]  Go to public areas.
[00:01:15]  If you go to those areas that are non-segregated, they won't let you if you're a woman.
[00:01:19]  Or even try on clothes at stores.
[00:01:21]  This is just another piece of evidence that a government big enough to give you goodies is big enough to take away your rights.
[00:01:26]  And it turns out that people who think Saudi Arabia's maternity policies, rather than their restrictions on female driving, probably shouldn't be a guide to female freedom in the United States.
[00:01:36]  But the left would prefer never to focus on such matters, since that would obligate them to favor westernism rather than multiculturalism abroad as well as at home.
[00:01:44]  So much for the Women's March.
[00:01:46]  I'm Ben Shapiro.
[00:01:46]  This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
[00:01:51]  So many, so many things to get to today.
[00:01:53]  I am so excited about all of it.
[00:01:55]  First, the left had a very strong reaction to Donald Trump being sworn in on Friday, and it was all available in this little nutshell video.

=== Signals of Resistance (11:34) ===

[00:02:04]  I think this embodied the primal fear of so many folks on the left, the outrage, and also I couldn't stop laughing at this for several days.
[00:02:13]  This is, just watch.
[00:02:14]  This is the presidential inauguration from NPR News, and you can hear the 21 gun salute.
[00:02:20]  In the background, another signal that for all of that resistance, for all of that opposition, Donald J. Trump is now President of the United States.
[00:02:28]  Darth Vader no from this lady.
[00:02:38]  Yeah.
[00:02:39]  It's spectacular.
[00:02:40]  So she waits until Trump gets inaugurated and then the no screaming to the sky.
[00:02:45]  Yeah, I'm sure this is going to win people over.
[00:02:47]  I'm sure that she just defeated Trump.
[00:02:50]  Trump isn't going to be president anymore.
[00:02:52]  Because this crazy lady, is that a dude or a lady?
[00:02:54]  I assume that's a lady, is screaming to the sky about Donald Trump.
[00:02:58]  So all of that is spectacular.
[00:03:00]  Okay, so before we jump into the substance of the day, and there's so much to get to, we have to say thank you to our sponsors over at Blue Apron.
[00:03:06]  So, several years ago my wife said to me, you know what the most annoying thing about cooking is?
[00:03:10]  The shopping.
[00:03:11]  The most annoying thing is the shopping.
[00:03:12]  Picking the recipe and then having to go out and shop and figure out what sort of portions to get and where to get the best ingredients.
[00:03:18]  Blue Apron solves all of that and they solve the recipe problem too.
[00:03:22]  So what they do is they allow you to pick from a list of recipes and then they send you The ingredients, these fresh ingredients from the recipes for less than $10 per person per meal.
[00:03:31]  They deliver seasonal recipes along with those pre-portioned ingredients to make those great home-cooked meals.
[00:03:37]  And also, each meal comes with that step-by-step recipe.
[00:03:40]  It takes 40 minutes or less to prepare all of their recipes.
[00:03:43]  Everything is super fresh.
[00:03:44]  They guarantee that all of their ingredients are ready to cook or they will make it right for you.
[00:03:49]  A lot of my friends have tried Blue Apron.
[00:03:51]  They say that it's truly delicious.
[00:03:52]  A lot of folks at the office are big fans of Blue Apron.
[00:03:54]  In LA, pretty much everybody uses Blue Apron.
[00:03:55]  It's become a very big thing.
[00:03:57]  In Los Angeles.
[00:03:58]  Go to blueapron.com slash Shapiro right now and you get a discount.
[00:04:03]  You get your first three meals free with free shipping.
[00:04:06]  First three meals free with free shipping by going to blueapron.com slash Shapiro.
[00:04:10]  You will love how good it feels and how good it tastes.
[00:04:12]  I promise.
[00:04:13]  As I say, I know a lot of people who use Blue Apron and they really do enjoy it.
[00:04:17]  They love it.
[00:04:18]  It's not expensive.
[00:04:21]  It is very, very fresh stuff.
[00:04:22]  And again, those first three meals you get free with free shipping by going to blueapron.com slash Shapiro.
[00:04:29]  The meal cooked to order, but you're the one who actually makes it and the ingredients come fresh so it doesn't feel all gross like it's from a restaurant.
[00:04:36]  Okay.
[00:04:37]  So much to talk about here.
[00:04:38]  Let's begin with the anti-Trump protests and the Women's March.
[00:04:41]  So, the left can't deal with the fact that Trump was sworn in on Friday.
[00:04:45]  And we'll get to Trump's inaugural speech in a second, because, as always, we like to be intellectually honest here at the Ben Shapiro Show.
[00:04:53]  It's something that we actually care about, so we're going to tell you the truth, not a bunch of crap that you want to hear, because if we did that, then we might have double the ratings, but we'd also have half the moral value.
[00:05:01]  So what we're interested in here at the Ben Shapiro Show is actually telling you the truth About what's happening in politics and in culture.
[00:05:08]  But first we begin with this truth.
[00:05:10]  The left does not know how to deal with Donald Trump.
[00:05:11]  So, at the inauguration, there are a bunch of people who go nuts and they start burning trash cans and they set a limo on fire.
[00:05:18]  You can see this tape of this limo on fire, this picture of this limo on fire.
[00:05:25]  There are rumors going around for a while it was Jesse Jackson's limo.
[00:05:27]  That turned out not to be true.
[00:05:28]  It would have been beautifully ironic if the protesters burned Jesse Jackson's limo in protest of Trump, but that turned out, I guess, not to have been true.
[00:05:36]  So they set this limo on fire, and look at how many members of the media there are.
[00:05:41]  They're just itching to create this perception like the world is burning, like everybody's going nuts.
[00:05:46]  The truth is, people are upset, but the world is not burning.
[00:05:48]  Nothing is going nuts.
[00:05:49]  It's all going to be okay.
[00:05:50]  The republic is pretty durable.
[00:05:52]  We've survived a lot worse than Donald Trump.
[00:05:54]  We've survived a lot better than Donald Trump.
[00:05:56]  The idea that everything is going to go nuts and cars will burn, everyone will die.
[00:06:00]  It's not true.
[00:06:03]  It's a bunch of crap.
[00:06:05]  So the left is burning things and if they think this is going to win allies, I don't know why they think it's going to win allies, but they did this and the media covered it up.
[00:06:12]  The YZ would be like, one burning car, 200 members of the media.
[00:06:17]  And you would see that, again, there were those burning trash cans.
[00:06:21]  I guess there were 219 total people who were arrested during the inauguration.
[00:06:25]  That's not a huge number of people arrested.
[00:06:28]  It's some people arrested, but the way that the media were playing it, right and left, were that there were these massive riots taking place in Washington, D.C.
[00:06:34]  Not true.
[00:06:35]  It was a pretty minimal number of people who were very upset.
[00:06:38]  Meanwhile, the media really played up this women's march.
[00:06:41]  So the day after the inauguration, all across the land, women left their homes and went out to march in the streets for something that we don't know what it is.
[00:06:51]  Honestly, I don't know why they were marching.
[00:06:52]  They were just out there to signal that they don't like Donald Trump or something.
[00:06:56]  No one knows quite why.
[00:06:58]  What do you want?
[00:06:59]  We don't know.
[00:06:59]  When do you want it?
[00:07:00]  Now!
[00:07:01]  So everybody, apparently, it was incumbent on everybody to bring a sign.
[00:07:06]  And they all brought signs.
[00:07:08]  A huge number of these signs were about abortion and also about pussycats for some reason.
[00:07:12]  I assume that the signs about pussycats were not in fact about pussycats.
[00:07:16]  They were just about Donald Trump and his comments on the Access Hollywood bus.
[00:07:19]  So some of these signs, you'll see like this one, is just sick, right?
[00:07:23]  It's a bleeding coat hanger that says on it, never again.
[00:07:27]  I don't know if these people understand irony at all, but you're using Code Hanger to kill babies, like a million babies a year.
[00:07:35]  So I'm not sure whether that's an anti-abortion sign or a pro-abortion sign.
[00:07:38]  If that's a pro-abortion sign, comparing not allowing people to murder babies in the womb to the Holocaust is a weird comparison.
[00:07:46]  That's one I haven't seen before.
[00:07:48]  Also, I love these ones that were produced by NARAL Pro-Choice America.
[00:07:51]  The National Abortion Rights Action League.
[00:07:53]  They don't like to call themselves that anymore because they don't like to use the word abortion.
[00:07:56]  But they produce these pre-made signs that say, keep your laws off my... and then it's a picture of a pussycat.
[00:08:01]  Right?
[00:08:02]  Okay.
[00:08:05]  A couple of points about this particular attack.
[00:08:07]  People were wearing what they were calling pussy hats.
[00:08:09]  Like pussy cats, but hats.
[00:08:11]  And these were supposed to protest Donald Trump, because Donald Trump is such a sexist.
[00:08:15]  If you want to drive Americans out of your camp, a quick way to do it is just keep saying things like pussy hats over and over and over.
[00:08:22]  And then talking about female anatomy.
[00:08:25]  A lot of these signs are super obscene.
[00:08:27]  There are a lot of kids who showed up to this thing, and there are a lot of really obscene signs.
[00:08:31]  Like, there was... We can look at some more of these.
[00:08:35]  Here's some more of these signs.
[00:08:36]  It says, we stand up for our human rights, planet, dignity, bodies, diversity, health, social justice, equality, America, women, environment, integrity.
[00:08:43]  That's a lot of things to stand up for.
[00:08:44]  And when do you sit down?
[00:08:46]  And then...
[00:08:48]  And these are some of the more innocuous signs.
[00:08:50]  We can see another another picture of the signs.
[00:08:53]  This is the people holding up signs of Trump just saying nope and we're watching.
[00:08:58]  But these are these are the not obscene signs.
[00:09:00]  Some of the really obscene signs like had full pictures of vaginas.
[00:09:04]  Like there's one that said read my lips but the the L in lips for some reason was just a giant vagina.
[00:09:10]  And then there was another one that said the patriarchy can suck my bleep.
[00:09:13]  Right?
[00:09:13]  And if this is supposed to make people feel bad about Donald Trump, I'm confused.
[00:09:19]  Half of the reason that the Trump tape was offensive is because of the casual way that he was addressing the female anatomy.
[00:09:24]  If you just keep shouting, The word pussycat without the cat over and over and over.
[00:09:29]  All that's going to happen is you desensitize people to the idea that it's kind of offensive to use that word publicly.
[00:09:34]  All you end up doing is just like your vulgarity is making Trump's vulgarity more acceptable not less acceptable.
[00:09:39]  But people in this women's march don't understand that or don't care.
[00:09:43]  The women's march didn't accomplish anything other than to make people feel solidified I guess in their opposition to Trump.
[00:09:49]  Apparently, Nate Silver did something I thought that was interesting.
[00:09:52]  He looked at how many people actually marched in various areas of the country, and what he found was 80% of all the people marching were marching in areas Hillary won.
[00:10:00]  So it doesn't matter, right?
[00:10:01]  It doesn't matter.
[00:10:02]  It wasn't like there's some big upswell in Ohio and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
[00:10:06]  All the people who showed up were in Washington, D.C.
[00:10:08]  and in Los Angeles.
[00:10:09]  Okay, so the Women's March happens and the media make a huge deal out of it.
[00:10:13]  It's the biggest deal that ever happened.
[00:10:14]  The March for Life is happening this week.
[00:10:16]  They will immediately ignore it.
[00:10:18]  The March for Life will have twice as many people in DC alone as this march had across the country.
[00:10:23]  It won't matter.
[00:10:23]  They'll proclaim that it didn't even happen.
[00:10:25]  They'll cover it on page 812 of the New York Times.
[00:10:27]  That is actually media bias.
[00:10:28]  And we'll get to the media bias in a second.
[00:10:31]  First, we have to point out also that the celebrities got involved in this Women's March.
[00:10:36]  Madonna said that she went to the Women's March and then she said she wanted to blow up the White House, which is acceptable language if you are a crazy old kook that has more Botox in her than Nancy Pelosi's entire warehouse of Botox that exists in San Francisco.
[00:10:51]  Shh!
[00:10:51]  It's a secret.
[00:10:52]  But Madonna goes up there and here's what she has to say about the White House.
[00:10:56]  Yes!
[00:10:57]  I'm angry!
[00:11:00]  Yes!
[00:11:01]  I am outraged!
[00:11:04]  Yes!
[00:11:06]  I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House.
[00:11:12]  Well, hold on.
[00:11:13]  If Ted Nugent said that with Obama there, how fast do you think Secret Service would be there?
[00:11:17]  Pretty damn quickly, right?
[00:11:19]  I mean, come on!
[00:11:20]  But Madonna can say it, and I guess people just assume the Botox has infused her brain and so she can't actually think anymore.
[00:11:28]  That's pretty amazing stuff.
[00:11:30]  Ashley Judd, who you remember was supposed to run for Senate in Kentucky, she hasn't made a movie since like 1932, I think.
[00:11:37]  She hasn't made a good movie since 1918, like the invention of the motion picture.
[00:11:40]  Ashley Judd was in it.
[00:11:42]  Was she ever in a good movie?
[00:11:43]  I'm not sure she was ever in a good movie, but she used to be a decent actress and very pretty.
[00:11:48]  Now she's just Ashley Judd.
[00:11:51]  So here's Ashley Judd talking about Donald Trump.
[00:11:54]  I am not as nasty as a swastika painted on a pride flag.
[00:12:01]  And I didn't know devils could be resurrected, but I feel Hitler In these streets, a mustache traded for a toupee.
[00:12:12]  Nazis renamed the cabinet electroconversion therapy.
[00:12:18]  The new gas chambers shaming the gay out of America, turning rainbows into suicide notes i am not as nasty as racism fraud conflict of interest homophobia sexual assault transphobia white supremacy you can stop her there because she's crazy and we're running out of time
[00:12:42]  so ashley judd says that the toupee is the new hitler is the new hitler mustache which which is interesting.
[00:12:49]  She also compares the gas chambers to electroconversion therapy.
[00:12:52]  This is a myth that they've been purveying about Mike Pence.
[00:12:54]  It's not true.
[00:12:55]  The idea that he's in support of electrocuting gay kids.
[00:12:58]  But she's saying all this stuff, and again, if they think that this is somehow going to win them converts, I don't know who the hell they're talking to.
[00:13:05]  Who are they talking to?
[00:13:06]  Dude, does Shia LaBeouf think he's winning converts to the anti-Trump cause with behavior like this?
[00:13:10]  Here's Shia LaBeouf, fresh off being dragged out of a Broadway show because he's totally insane, screaming at this party.
[00:13:15]  This is his best performance since at least Transformers 2.
[00:13:19]  Here is Shia LaBeouf.
[00:13:20]  - The existence of the white people. - He will not divide us. - He will not divide us. - He will not divide us. - Oh, just not divide us. - He will not divide us.

=== Why We Left The Left (03:25) ===

[00:13:34]  He will not divide us!
[00:13:37]  Shia LaBeouf having a good time over here.
[00:13:39]  So, yes, I can't imagine that Americans are not paying attention to, I can't imagine that Americans are ignoring all of this stuff.
[00:13:47]  They're paying attention and they're going, if this is how the left responds, I thought that Trump was supposed to be crazy, right?
[00:13:52]  Trump was supposed to be the nutcase.
[00:13:53]  Uh-huh.
[00:13:54]  Uh-huh.
[00:13:55]  Yeah, you're making it real difficult for Americans to turn away from Trump when you act like this, gang.
[00:14:01]  Okay, we have to say thank you to another advertiser, and then we'll get to Trump's inaugural which I want to talk about in an honest way.
[00:14:08]  As I say, honesty above all else.
[00:14:10]  So if you are in dire need of casual wear, if you like sweatpants or sweatshirts or underwear or just great socks, all of this, you can get it at MackWeldon.com.
[00:14:22]  So MackWeldon.com, they believe in smart design and premium fabrics and simple shopping.
[00:14:23]  MacWeldon.com, they believe in smart design and premium fabrics and simple shopping.
[00:14:26]  They are the most comfortable underwear, socks, shirts, undershirts, hoodies, sweatpants that you'll ever wear.
[00:14:26]  They are the most comfortable underwear, socks, shirts, undershirts, hoodies, sweatpants that you'll ever wear.
[00:14:32]  I own a bunch of their gear, and it is super comfortable.
[00:14:32]  I own a bunch of their gear, and it is super comfortable.
[00:14:35]  In fact, I threw out all of my other underwear.
[00:14:37]  I only wear MacWeldon underwear now because it is, in fact, the most comfortable underwear that I can wear upon me.
[00:14:43]  It is spectacular.
[00:14:44]  They also have a line of silver underwear and shirts that are naturally antimicrobial, which means that if you are wearing a sweatshirt, you're going to stink less.
[00:14:52]  Which is great.
[00:14:54]  MacWeldon.com is where you go to get their gear.
[00:14:56]  It is top of the line.
[00:14:57]  As soon as I get home, I don't wear these snazzy outfits at home.
[00:15:01]  I actually get into casual wear, so I spend a lot of my time in MacWeldon wear.
[00:15:04]  And MacWeldon, there's a reason for that.
[00:15:07]  It's super comfortable, and it is classy looking.
[00:15:10]  MacWeldon.com.
[00:15:11]  You get 20% off your order if you use promo code Shapiro.
[00:15:14]  Promo code Shapiro.
[00:15:15]  MacWeldon.com.
[00:15:17]  M-A-C-K Weldon.com.
[00:15:20]  And get 20% off when you use that promo code Shapiro.
[00:15:23]  Again, top-of-the-line fabrics, top-notch clothing.
[00:15:26]  Okay, so And giving it back to you, the people!
[00:15:29]  Trump inaugural and then we'll sign off.
[00:15:31]  But first, I want to give a quick note on the Trump inaugural address to folks who have been waiting.
[00:15:35]  So it makes me sad we didn't have Friday shows yet that I couldn't respond immediately to the Trump inaugural.
[00:15:40]  But of course, the biggest takeaway was the fact that Donald Trump actually channeled Bane from Batman in the middle of this speech.
[00:15:47]  This is the actual mashup.
[00:15:49]  And giving it back to you, the people.
[00:15:53]  And we give it back to you, the people.
[00:16:02]  It actually is a direct quote, which is amazing.
[00:16:05]  But here's the thing.
[00:16:06]  Here's the thing.
[00:16:08]  This is obviously facetious.
[00:16:09]  Trump is not Bain.
[00:16:11]  But the sort of populism that Trump was espousing, this nationalist populism, has nothing to do with conservatism.
[00:16:16]  And we're going to have to break on Facebook and on YouTube, but you can go over to dailywire.com to see why.
[00:16:22]  We'll go through his entire inaugural, then we'll get to Sean Spicer.
[00:16:24]  We're going to do all of it in a very short period of time before Andrew Klavan breaks down the door with an axe.
[00:16:29]  So dailywire.com, if you want to become a subscriber, watch the rest, become part of the mailbag on Thursdays.
[00:16:34]  Make sure that you can watch the rest of my show live.
[00:16:36]  You also get, right now, a free signed copy of my novel, True Allegiance, and more goodies soon to come.
[00:16:42]  Dailywire.com, $8 a month, and if you get that annual subscription, you get a free signed copy of my book.
[00:16:47]  Thank you, and join us there right now.