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June 24, 2025 - The Ben Shapiro Show
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PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH: Triumphant Trump ENDS Israel-Iran War!
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A ton coming up on today's show.
President Trump's massive foreign policy triumph, a ceasefire now achieved between Iran and Israel, ending what he calls the 12-day war, massive victory for Israel, massive victory for America, biggest victory for President Trump.
We'll get into all the permutations of that, how it happened, what's going on right now, and how about that horseshoe right that decided that the left was right and President Trump actually wasn't MAGA enough.
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So President Trump has done one of the most magnificent things that I've seen any president do.
As we'll get to a little bit later on in the show, there are a lot of warnings that he was about to enter us into World War III.
I always thought that that was idiotic, and I will tell you how idiotic I thought that was in just a little while.
But late last night, President Trump announced via Truth Social that a ceasefire had been reached.
He said, quote, congratulations to everyone.
It has been fully agreed by and between Israel and Iran that there will be a complete and total ceasefire in approximately six hours from now when Israel and Iran have wound down and completed their in-progress final missions for 12 hours, at which point the war will be considered ended.
Officially, Iran will start the ceasefire, and upon the 12th hour, Israel will start the ceasefire.
And upon the 24th hour, an official end to the 12-day war will be saluted by the world.
During each ceasefire, the other side will remain peaceful and respectful.
On the assumption that everything works as it should, which it will, I would like to congratulate both countries, Israel and Iran, on having the stamina, courage, and intelligence to end what should be called the 12-day war.
This is a war that could have gone on for years and destroyed the entire Middle East, but it didn't and never will.
God bless Israel.
God bless Iran.
God bless the Middle East.
God bless the United States of America and God bless the world.
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America.
So let's begin with this.
President Trump has achieved in the last week and a half, the complete destruction of the Iranian nuclear capacity.
Israel, with American backing, has achieved the large-scale destruction of Iran's ballistic missile capacity, its ballistic missile launchers.
Israel, on its own, destroyed the entire top layer of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Iran, the IRGC.
Israel took out the top nuclear scientists.
So, worst-case scenario, what you are talking about here, along with President Trump's authorization, his courageous authorization of that B-2 strike on Fordo, what you are talking about is setting back the Iranian nuclear regime by a decade, maybe more, maybe permanently, because even if they still have some leftover remnants of their nuclear machinery, even if they somehow still have some enriched uranium they've squirreled away somewhere, they can't actually enrich it more.
They don't have the centrifuges to do it.
They don't have the factories to do it.
They don't have the scientific know-how to do it.
All of that is gone.
And the United States achieved all of that without losing a single soldier, not one.
That is a piece of magnificent statecraft, truly magnificent statecraft by the President of the United States.
The 12-day war is indeed over.
Now, there are a bunch of sparks last night.
We need to go through the timeline to explain exactly what happened here.
But here is the bottom line.
The bottom line is that Israel achieved its goal.
It had a dual goal to prevent the nuclearization of Iran and to massively degrade its ballistic missile capacity.
Both of those goals were achieved.
I've been talking for days about the fact that Israel is actually running out of targets.
So the fact that this war has now come to a close, apparently, that was going to happen anyway.
Israel is always going to have to draw it to a close.
Meanwhile, Iran desperately needed this war to come to a close because the regime was on its last legs.
And for the United States, the goals were achieved.
I don't know what else to call that, but a masterstroke by the president of the United States.
That's what this was.
So that doesn't mean there weren't some sparks again last night.
So last night, Iran decided that it would be a brilliant idea to fire some missiles at Al-Udaid Air Base in Qatar.
So it turns out that that was all pre-coordinated with the United States via Qatar.
Again, that's not exactly shocking.
If you go back to 2020, the president of the United States then, Donald Trump, killed Qasem Soleimani, the head of the terrorist regime that was spreading its tentacles all over the Middle East in Iran.
And the Iranians basically pre-coordinated with the Americans some sort of symbolic strike that was really directed at domestic consumption.
Fire off a couple of missiles at an Iraqi airbase and then call it a day.
Well, the same thing happened last night.
Iran issued this attack on this Qatari airbase, the U.S. base in Qatar.
And then they announced that they were basically done.
They said that they had released the number of missiles equal to the number of bombs the United States used in its strike on Saturday.
The statement put out by Iran said the base that was targeted in the attack by the powerful Iranian forces was far from urban facilities and residential areas in Qatar.
This action did not pose any threat to our friendly and brotherly country, Qatar and its noble people, which, by the way, shows you exactly where Qatar is, that Iran fires missiles at an American airbase in Qatar and then apologizes to Qatar.
Pretty incredible stuff.
Now, the IRGC, of course, released a statement claiming they had launched a devastating and powerful missile attack against al-Udaid and said that they would not leave any attack on their territorial integrity, sovereignty, and national security unanswered under any circumstances.
That, of course, is complete crap.
It is crap from beginning to end.
According to the New York Times, quote, three Iranian officials familiar with the plans said Iran gave advanced notice attacks were coming as a way to minimize casualties.
The officials said Iran symbolically needed to strike back at the United States, but at the same time, carried out in a way that allowed all sides an exit ram.
They described it as a similar strategy to 2020, when Iran gave Iraq heads up before firing ballistic missiles at an American base in Iraq following the assassination of its top general.
So again, that was perfectly predictable.
In fact, some people predicted it publicly.
I know, you listen to the show.
Okay, meanwhile, President Trump then went ahead and posted on Truth Social talking about how essentially the Iranians had told him in advance that this was going to happen.
Quote, Iran has officially responded to our obliteration of their nuclear facilities with a very weak response, which we expected and have very effectively countered.
There have been 14 missiles fired, 13 were knocked down, one was set free because it was Headed in a non-threatening direction.
I am pleased to report that no Americans were harmed and hardly any damage was done.
Most importantly, they've gotten it all out of their system, and there will hopefully be no further hate.
I want to thank Iran for giving us early notice, which made it possible for no lives to be lost and nobody to be injured.
Perhaps Iran can now proceed to peace and harmony in the region, and I will enthusiastically encourage Israel to do the same.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States.
That's Trump just dunking on them, saying, you guys have nothing, nothing.
You don't have the capacity to hurt us.
If you tried it, we would wipe you out.
Meaning the top levels of the Iranian government, Ayatollah Khomeini, would just be in pieces if Iran had actually attempted to attack American air bases, for example, around the region in a serious way.
And honestly, it was all for domestic consumption for the Iranian government, which seems to be possibly on its last legs.
Iran's supreme leader actually shared a flyer showing an American flag burning with the caption, quote, we did not violate anyone, and we absolutely do not accept being violated by anyone, nor will we submit to any act of aggression.
This is the logic of the Iranian nation.
Sure, sure, Madud.
How little did anybody care about this attack?
The oil market actually declined.
Okay, the price of oil went down as the attack was happening because nobody believes that the Iranians were serious about attempting to fire back against the United States or to close, for example, the Straits of Hormuz.
I pointed out a couple of days ago on the show again.
China is the party most damaged by the closing of the Straits of Hormuz.
And in fact, China had actually called on everybody to not close the Straits of Hormuz.
Wink, wink, Iran.
So Iran really had very few cards to play here.
They were firing something symbolically to demonstrate they weren't dead, essentially.
But that's about all they had.
We'll get to more of this in a moment.
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Also, even Russia was backtracking.
So you recall that a few days ago, Russia made some sort of outlandish claim about how they might transfer or somebody might transfer a nuclear weapon to the Iranians.
And then President Trump's like, not so fast.
He put out a long statement on Truth Social saying, did I hear former President Medvedev from Russia casually throwing around the N-word nuclear and saying that he and other countries would supply nuclear warheads to Iran?
Did he really just say that?
Or is it a figment of my imagination?
And then he said, by the way, if anyone thinks our hardware was great over the weekend, far and away, the strongest and best equipment we have, 20 years advanced over the pack, is our nuclear submarines.
They're the most powerful lethal weapons ever built.
And they just launched 30 tomahawks.
All 30 hit their mark perfectly.
So in addition to our great fighter pilots, thank you to captain and crew.
And Dmitry Medvedev then walked it back and said, Russia has no intention of supplying nuclear weapons to Iran.
Yeah, we know, Madud.
We know.
Okay, so bottom line is all the pieces were in place by late yesterday afternoon for a ceasefire.
Israel had already exhausted its list of main targets.
And there are always a few more apples to pick off the target tree in Iran.
But Israel has been nonstop flying sorties for nearly two weeks over Iranian airspace.
So they've hit the vast majority of what they were looking for.
They have degraded probably 75% of the ballistic missile capacity of Iran.
They've destroyed probably 75% of their ballistic missile launchers.
They, along with the United States, thanks to President Trump's brave decision on Fordo, took out the Iranian nuclear facilities.
Israel has killed virtually every top nuclear scientist in Iran.
They have killed the top members of the IRGC.
Again, this is a triumph by Israel and by the United States, and it's particularly a triumph by President Trump, who was able to achieve every American goal held in this particular area without a single American casualty.
Zero.
That's astonishing.
Astonishing.
Zero American casualties to degrade the nuclear capacity of a country that has been vowing nuclearization for decades.
So President Trump, as we say, late last night, he came out and he announced that it was time for peace.
And then he followed up his statement about the ceasefire, quote, Israel and Iran came to me almost simultaneously and said, peace.
I knew the time was now.
The world and the Middle East are the real winners.
Both nations will see tremendous love, peace, and prosperity in their futures.
They have so much to gain and yet so much to lose if they stray from the road of righteousness and truth.
The future for Israel and Iran is unlimited and filled with great promise.
God bless you both.
Now, he's softening the blow on Iran.
The future for the Iranian regime is not particularly bright because, again, the Ayatollahs have run their country horrifyingly poorly, and they will continue to make bad decisions.
And of course, if they attempt renuclearization, there will be activity by Western powers to stop that, particularly Israel.
If you think that Israel's Mossad agents on the ground are simply going to go to sleep for the next 10 years, wrong you are.
But the destruction of the Iranian nuclear capacity may in fact be permanent in the same way that when Israel destroyed the Osirak reactor back in 1981, that turned into the permanent end of Osam Hussein's nuclear ambitions.
President Trump also said, quote, we couldn't have made today's deal without the talent and courage of our great B2 pilots and all those associated with that operation.
In a certain and very ironic way, that perfect hit late in the evening brought everyone together and the deal was made.
And of course, he's right, because effectively, Iran had nothing to negotiate with at that point.
Okay, now, there was a bit of a tete-tete between Israel, Iran, and the United States that broke out as of Tuesday morning.
So here's what happened.
Just before the ceasefire went into place, Iran fired a barrage of ballistic missiles into Israel.
One of those ballistic missiles struck an apartment building in Beersheba, which is in the south of Israel.
Apparently, there are at least seven people who have been killed, 86 wounded, because this is what Iran does.
Israel, just before the ceasefire, took out a bunch of IRGC leaders at their headquarters.
Iran took out a bunch of elderly women and children at a Beersheva apartment complex.
That was essentially how this war always was fought by Iran.
Then time for the ceasefire came, and Israel stopped.
And Iran didn't.
Iran instead sent a couple of missiles into northern Israel after the ceasefire, basically because this is what they always do.
This is not a shock.
Again, when Israel essentially wiped out Hezbollah in southern Lebanon back in October of 2024, and then a ceasefire was declared, Hezbollah attempted a few actions violating the ceasefire just to see if they could get away with it.
And so this is what Iran was doing.
And so Israel prepared to fire back.
President Trump then went on Truth Social and said, Israel, do not drop those bombs.
If you do it, it is a major violation.
Bring your pilots home now.
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States.
And then he had this rather heated exchange with a reporter talking about how upset he was that Israel and Iran were still firing at each other, essentially.
They violated it, but Israel violated it too.
Are you questioning is Israel a committee?
Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I've never seen before.
The biggest load that we've seen.
I'm not happy with Israel.
You know, when I say, okay, now you have 12 hours, you don't go out in the first hour and just drop everything you have on them.
So I'm not happy with them.
I'm not happy with Iran either.
But I'm really unhappy if Israel's going out this morning because of one rocket that didn't land, that was shot, perhaps by mistake, that didn't land.
I'm not happy about that.
You know what?
We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the f ⁇ they're doing.
Do you understand that?
Okay, and then President Trump walks away.
Now, there are a lot of people on every side who are very upset with President Trump about this.
I am not.
And the reason I am not is because I think that he is attempting to enforce his ceasefire.
End of story.
That's what this is.
The president is saying, everybody, if it's weapons down, it's weapons down.
And in fact, the way that this actually ended up materializing is, according to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's office, the ceasefire was set to begin at 7 a.m.
At 3 a.m., Israel carried out a powerful strike in the heart of Tehran, hitting regime targets and eliminating hundreds of Basij members and Iranian security forces.
Shortly before the ceasefire took effect, Iran launched a barrage of missiles, one of which tragically claimed the lives of four Israeli civilians in Beersheba.
At 7 a.m., the ceasefire officially came into effect.
At 7.06 a.m., Iran fired one missile at Israeli territory, and at 10.25 a.m., it launched two more missiles.
The missiles were either intercepted or landed in open areas, causing no damage or casualties.
In response to these violations, the Israeli Air Force destroyed a radar system near Tehran.
Following a phone call between President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu, Israel refrained from launching further strikes.
In the conversation, President Trump expressed a deep appreciation for Israel, stating it had achieved all of its war objectives and voiced his confidence in the stability of the ceasefire.
Hey, so President Trump was just saying to everybody, guys, stop, stop, like, stop it.
Now we're done.
Now it's done.
Okay, and by the way, I don't think it's bad for Israel, for President Trump to be seen basically yanking Israel's chain there, because what that's saying to Iran is if it were not for President Trump telling the Israelis to stop, then those bombs would still be falling on your head.
So you cut that out right now.
That is the way I think that President Trump means that to be read.
And I think that's the way that it will be read by Iran.
In fact, President Trump then came out within a couple of hours and put on Truth Social, Iran will never rebuild their nuclear facilities.
Now, that is despite the fact that Tehran is openly vowing to restore its nuclear facilities.
According to Iran's nuclear chief, Mohammed Aslami, quote, the plan is to prevent interruptions in the process of production and services.
Iran is assessing its damage to the nuclear industry following Israel's intensive 12-days campaign against it.
And he says that arrangements are going to be made for its restoration.
Now, again, if President Trump identifies Iran rebuilding its nuclear facilities, he's going to do something.
And by the way, Israel will do something.
They're not going to sit idly by while Iran rebuilds any sort of nuclear capacity.
But here's the bottom line.
Once again, President Trump handled this situation better than any president of my lifetime.
If you had told me at the beginning of this war that Israel would be able to do what it has done, that America with effectively one B-2 sortie would have been able to cripple Iran's major nuclear facility at Fordo and also finish off Natans and Isfahan, which, by the way, is what I suggested from the beginning of the war.
We were talking about the possibility of America getting in.
I kept saying one B-2 flight is basically all that America would be required to do.
And that would be it.
And then we would get to the end of the war.
And that was true because President Trump lives in the world of reality.
I can't say it enough.
He lives in the world of reality.
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President Trump was never, ever going to get us into a nation-building project in Iran.
That was never.
Have you met President Trump?
Have you watched him for the last 10 years?
What unbelievable lack of faith it shows in President Trump for people to suggest that Trump, of all people, was going to get us into World War III on a nation-building exercise in the Middle East.
Are you out of your damned mind?
And I think that it's actually worthwhile to replay the footage of the people who said this sort of stuff, because perhaps you should take their opinions with a grain of salt.
Perhaps you should not take them quite so seriously when they claim that they know what the hell they're talking about.
If you got this one this wrong, that does raise some questions about just how seriously we ought to take you on matters of the factual.
Here is just a small slice of some of the people who claimed that this entire situation, that Israel bombing the Iranian nuclear facilities or American support for that, or America doing a B-2 raid, that that was somehow going to lead to World War III.
Just a few of these folks.
A war with Iran is a world war.
This is not 2002.
Iran is now part of a coalition that includes the biggest economies in the world and the largest militaries in the world.
So a war with Iran means a war in effect or, you know, by proxy, but still a war with Russia, China, Turkey, and a lot of the rest of the world.
So that's a world war.
It's not just as simple as we're going to take out their nuclear facilities.
Okay.
How are you going to do that?
In the next 200 days, the next 200 days are some of the most perilous times for the American Republic in its history.
Because if we don't get this sorted, we're going to be drawn in totally into a conflict as a combatant.
And if it's not Ukraine, it's Israel or someone else.
There's so many.
Our foreign policy is so suborned, so much not in America's interest, so much used by the military industrial state or particular lobbies in favor of particular places.
We could be yanked into war for absolutely no consequential reasons whatsoever.
This war, which we do not need to fight, which is not in our interest, has the potential to be devastating to our country, let alone the region.
What is the moral relativism in any of that?
Do you think that we are moving toward war with Iran?
Yes, I do.
And it looks like the chosen destination is indeed Armageddon.
There doesn't seem to be any real appreciation for the implications for us and frankly for Europe and the world, as well as the Middle East.
Whatever you put the risk at here, which if this thing keeps escalating, the risk of this going to a real ground war, another war in the war on terrorism, let me be very clear when I say this.
I don't know that America will survive this.
We went into the terror wars in a much stronger place than we're going into this one.
And this is a much tougher opponent than Saddam Hussein or Muammadafi.
We didn't go into the terror wars $37 trillion in debt.
We didn't go into the terror wars with the cultural and political and racial divides.
We have mass protests in the streets right now over Donald Trump trying to enforce his immigration policy.
This is going to be, this has the potential to be an utter disaster.
America cannot have a war with Iran, by the way.
It would lead to a regional war.
It would be costly, bloody, threatening.
I'm really afraid that my country is going to be further weakened by this.
I think we're going to see the end of American empire, obviously.
Other nations would like to see that.
And this is a perfect way to scuttle the USS America on the shoals of Iran.
These are the people who kept telling you it was going to be World War III.
And there are lots of them, lots and lots of people who are telling you it was going to be World War III.
Now, I just want you to note the complete and utter disconnect from reality, utter disconnect from reality.
Last night, as Iran was firing its obviously pre-coordinated strike on all U-Day airbase, reported by everyone, coordinated.
A vanity project in an attempt to prop up the Ayatollahs, Tucker Carlson took to the airwaves to lament the great tragedy that was befalling Qatar.
And notice the hand-wringing.
Notice the sackcloth and ashes.
Notice the hand to the heart here.
Notice the deep and abiding pain he feels, apparently, at missiles that didn't hit Qatar.
And notice that he did not express any of that same pain I noticed on this broadcast about a jihadi suicide bomber killing 20 Christians at an Orthodox church in Syria the same day, or any of that same sympathy for the victims of October 7th.
It's just sort of fascinating.
He also, by the way, says that Qatar only put al-Udaid airbase in Qatar out of the goodness of their heart.
They're just that nice.
They're just that kind.
Here is Tucker's response to what was effectively just the final gasp of Iran before the end of the war.
It's so distressing.
It's so distressing.
Who could have seen this coming?
I know.
Who could have seen it coming?
Well, I'll just say, I just want to say it should go without saying, but I mean, I'm praying for the success of whatever America does because I'm praying for America.
But I'm concerned.
And I hope that people who have audiences will be responsible.
And just remember, like, life is short.
You're going to have to give an account.
Try to be honest.
Try to be humane.
Try to care about other people.
I don't know.
People should be honest, you see, and humane and care about other people.
Because clearly, that's Tucker Carlson.
So honest.
So humane.
You know, all leaders kill people.
All leaders kill people.
so honest, so humane, so truthful with his audience.
I'm just going to read to you a few of Tucker Carlson's tweets about what he said would happen, not once, but over and over and over again, what he said would happen.
Quote, it's worth pointing out a strike on the Iranian nuclear sites will almost certainly result in thousands of American deaths at bases throughout the Middle East and cost the United States tens of billions of dollars.
The cost of future acts of terrorism on American soil may be even higher.
Those aren't guesses.
Those are the Pentagon's own estimates.
A bombing campaign against Iran will set off a war and it will be America's war.
Don't let the propagandists lie to you.
Tucker Carlson, March 17th, 2025.
Or how about this one?
Quote, whatever you think of tariffs, it's clear that now is the worst possible time for the United States to participate in a military strike on Iran.
We can't afford it.
Thousands of Americans would die.
We'd lose the war that follows.
Nothing would be more destructive to our country.
And yet we're closer than ever thanks to unrelenting pressure from neocons, because obviously President Trump is the neocon.
He's the one who made the call.
This is suicidal.
Anyone advocating for conflict with Iran is not an ally of the United States, but an enemy.
So anyone advocating for a strike on the Iranian nuclear facilities or for just getting out of the way and letting Israel do it is an enemy of the United States, according to Tucker Carlson.
April 7th, 2025.
Tucker Carlson, June 5th, 2025.
Quote, Mark Levin was at the White House today lobbying for war with Iran.
To be clear, Levin has no plans to fight in this or any other war.
He's demanding that American troops do it.
We need to stop Iran from building nuclear weapons.
He and like-minded IELogs in Washington are now arguing.
They're just weeks away.
If this sounds familiar, it's because the same people have been making the same claim since at least the 1990s.
It's a lie.
In fact, there is zero credible intelligence that suggests Iran is anywhere near building a bomb or has plans to.
None.
Okay, he said this the same week that the IAEI came out and said that actually they're violating all of their nuclear obligations.
Anyone who claims otherwise is ignorant or dishonest.
I assume he means the president of the United States.
If the U.S. government knew Iran was weeks from possessing a nuclear weapon, we'd be at war already.
Iran knows this, which is why they aren't building one.
Iran also knows it's unwise to give up its weapons programs entirely.
Well, do they have one or not?
Muammar Gaddafi tried that and wound up sodomized with a bayonet.
As soon as Gaddafi disarmed, NATO killed him.
Iran's leaders saw that happen.
They learned the obvious lesson.
So first of all, NATO didn't kill him.
Members of the Libyan population killed him.
I opposed the NATO action against Gaddafi for the record.
And so here is where he goes with this.
Quote, it goes without saying, there are very few Trump voters who'd support a regime change war in Iran.
Donald Trump has argued loudly against reckless lunacy like this.
Trump ran for president as a peace candidate.
That's what made him different from a conventional Republican.
It's why he won.
A war with Iran would amount to a profound betrayal of his supporters.
It would end his presidency.
Okay, Tucker Carlson saying that Donald Trump, if he decided on an airstrike on the Iranian nuclear facilities, that would amount to a profound betrayal of his supporters and would end his presidency.
That may explain why so many of Trump's enemies are advocating for it.
And then there's the question of the war itself, says Tucker Carlson.
Iran may not have nukes, but it has a fearsome arsenal of ballistic missiles, many of which are aimed at U.S. military installations in the Gulf, as well as at our allies and at critical energy infrastructure.
The first week of a war with Iran could easily kill thousands of Americans.
It could also collapse our economy as surging oil prices trigger unmanageable inflation.
Consider the effects of $30 gasoline.
Okay, I'm just going to say that today, the average price of gas in the United States is $3.22.
It is actually down slightly from where it has been.
So has a word of this come true?
Even close?
No, but don't worry, there's more.
The second week of the war could be even worse.
Wait, that would have been this week, the second week of the war.
Iran isn't Iraq or Libya or even North Korea.
While it's often described as a rogue state, Iran has powerful allies.
It's now part of a global bloc called BRICS, which represents the majority of the world's landmass population, economy, and military power.
Okay, so just to point out, BRICS is an economic alliance.
It is not a military alliance.
And his idea, apparently, is that Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, among others, would have come to the defense of Iran.
This is what he was saying.
I pointed it out weeks ago when he said it.
Quote, Iran has extensive military ties with Russia.
It tells the overwhelming majority of its oil exports to China.
Iran isn't alone.
An attack on Iran could very easily become a world war.
We'd lose.
Did you notice all the losing?
I didn't either because we didn't.
Because we didn't.
Because this is not the world of reality.
And by the way, it is obviously a rip against the president of the United States who decided that he was not going to follow in the footsteps of this complete and utter tomfoolery.
And then he says, the one thing that people like Mark Levin don't want is a peaceful solution to the problem of Iran, despite the obvious benefits to the United States.
They denounce anyone who advocates for a deal as a traitor and a bigot.
They'll say or do whatever it takes.
They have no limits.
These are scary people.
Okay, that was Tucker Carlson, June 5th.
Did any of that remotely come true?
Don't worry, there's more.
Quote, the real divide isn't between people who support Israel and people who support Iran or the Palestinians.
The real divide is between those who casually encourage violence and those who seek to prevent it, between warmongers and peacemakers.
Who are the warmongers?
They would include anyone who's calling Donald Trump today to demand airstrikes and other direct U.S. military involvement in a war with Iran.
So apparently you're a warmonger if you did what President Trump did or if you encouraged him to do the thing that he did.
Not full-scale nationbuilding, not full-scale Iraq-style invasion, not any of that.
If you told President Trump or if you said that President Trump should do the thing that he did, again, the bravest action I've seen from a president of the United States and the most successful foreign policy move of my lifetime.
If you said that, according to Tucker Carlson, you hated the United States, you were actually an enemy of the American people.
Now, as I said yesterday on the program, there are reasons you could theoretically steal man for opposing President Trump's strikes.
Maybe there are some thorough constitutionalists who just want all American foreign policy action approved by Congress.
Sure.
Fine.
They're wrong on this score in terms of their interpretation of Article II power, but fine.
Maybe there are some people who were truly pragmatically worried about a replay of the Iraq war.
I think it's unbelievably dumb.
I don't see any indicators that an Iraq war was on the horizon or that President Trump of all humans who campaigned against the Iraq war was going to enter America into one.
But then there's a third group that I mentioned yesterday.
People for whom intervention against the Iranian nuclear facilities was itself a supposed betrayal of MAGA.
In other words, they would rather Iran have gone nuclear than that America fly a B-2 sortie at exorbitantly low risk to take out Fordo.
People who declared that it was a betrayal of MAGA to do this, like Tucker Carlson.
Now, all those people seem very surprised by the outcome of the 12-day war.
I'm not accusing these people of being in the pay of foreign powers.
I think they're promoting ideological poison all on their own.
And whether these folks slather a layer of pseudo-patriotic paint on top of their neo-isolationist, Howard Zinn, blame America trash, that's irrelevant.
If the guest list for your program looks like the reading list from the Democratic Socialists of America or National Students for Justice in Palestine, that's because you agree with them.
And everybody should know that you agree with them.
Just say it because you do.
America is a free country, thank God.
Everybody's allowed to say what they want and you're allowed to consume it if you choose.
Even RuPaul has an audience.
Now, meanwhile, of course, it's not just the Horseshoe Theory Right that was very critical of President Trump.
It was, of course, the radical left.
Now, a lot of news has been breaking.
So we did record part of the show a little bit earlier before all of the breaking news.
The Democrats have decided to full-scale embrace their radical insane people.
One of those people is Mahmoud Khalil.
You remember Mahmoud Khalil.
He was picked up and was prepared for deportation by the Trump administration.
He, of course, had a green card, and then he claimed that his support for radical terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, well, he actually had a right to do all of that.
Well, Judge ordered that he be released.
The first thing that he did, this wonderful addition to American life, he didn't go back to being a productive citizen because he wasn't a productive citizen in the first place.
He's not even a citizen.
Mahmoud Khalil instead went directly back to Columbia University to protest while wearing a Palestinian flag on the day after the president of the United States authorized the taking out of the Iranian nuclear facilities.
And he was celebrated.
The left was so excited because that's what they believe America needs more of, people who love terrorists and who support terrorist regimes.
Colombia, Colombia, you won't hide.
Colombia, Colombia, you can hide.
You're supporting genocide.
You're supporting genocide.
You're supporting...
I'm so glad that we released this person back into the public as opposed to deporting him to a country that is more in line with his viewpoints.
We definitely need to import more people like Mahmoud Khalil.
Now, we should remember that he's a Syrian-born Palestinian.
He came to the country in 2022 as a guest, according to Hussein Abakar Mansour, writing for the Free Press, ostensibly to study at Columbia University.
While here, he spent his time organizing campus protests in support of Hamas and Hezbollah, both officially designated by the United States as foreign terrorist organizations.
In these riots, buildings were vandalized, windows smashed, classes disrupted, students threatened with physical harm.
Of course, had Mahmoud Khalil told the truth about why he was in the United States in the first place when he was applying for a visa, he never would have been let in.
The Trump administration decided to revoke his green card.
He served as the negotiator for the Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a student organization that cheered for the total eradication of Western civilization.
Now, again, this is the left celebrating people like Mahmoud Khalil.
And it is the left that has made room in its coalition for groups like the National Students for Justice in Palestine.
They released a statement on the bombing of the Iranian nuclear sites.
And here's what the statement says.
Quote, we must be clear, nuclear development is neither a crime nor the reason for the U.S.'s war against Iran.
The U.S. Empire cannot permit the continued existence of a country that dares to stand against Zionism and imperialism.
And they called for the end of the United States.
Quote, for nearly 50 years, the United States and its Zionist vassal state have attempted to dismantle the sovereign state of Iran since the start of the joint U.S.-Zionist genocide in Gaza.
Now, again, it's not a genocide in Gaza by any stretch of the imagination.
Right now, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is handing out literally tons of food every single day, and Hamas is shooting members of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in order to try and stop them from disintermediating Hamas, which was stealing all the aid.
According to the Students for Justice in Palestine, the Zionist entity has taken every opportunity to escalate these attacks on Iran's government, infrastructure, and civilians, most recently slaughtering over 400 Iranians and injuring thousands more in the past week alone.
That's the slaughter, not Iran willy-nilly shooting ballistic missiles into populated areas, Israel doing targeted strikes on military facilities.
And the Students for Justice in Palestine then suggested that the proper solution would essentially be the destruction of the United States.
They said, quote, the domestic repression against immigrant communities and political activity in the U.S. parallels the country's increasingly hostile and erratic global stance.
War crimes against Iran and the rapid militarization and expansion of the police state are both expressions of the same condition in empire in crisis.
We reaffirm our commitment to the struggle against Zionism and the global struggle against imperialism from Gaza to Tehran.
Okay, so why do I bring up National Students for Justice in Palestine?
Because the current possible frontrunner in the race for New York City mayor is a person named Zoran Mamdani.
Zoran Mamdani was a founder of a local chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine because that's who he is.
He co-founded his school's chapter while at college at Bodolem.
For years, according to National Review, Mamdani has been a vocal supporter of the boycott divestment and sanctions movement designed to academically and intellectually isolate Israelis and Zionist Jews from Western scientific discourse.
In 2017, he recorded a rap song sending his love to the Holy Land Five, those would be the leaders of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, convicted in 2008 of providing material support for terrorism to Hamas.
And when October 7th happened, he called for ending the occupation and dismantling apartheid.
Nothing about the actual victims of October 7th.
This is the Person who, according to the brand new Emerson polling, is the front runner in the ranked choice voting in the New York Democratic primary tracking.
Again, according to Emerson, the final Emerson College polling, Hill Survey of New York City Democratic Mayor primary, which happens today, finds former Governor Andrew Cuomo leading with 35% support, followed closely by Zorn Mamdani at 32%.
Comptroller Brad Lander, who got himself arrested over immigration to try and grab some headlines, is at 13%.
However, when you actually complete the ranked choice voting, and again, the way ranked choice voting works is that you have a list of candidates and you actually list them in order of preference.
And if your top candidate is, say, Brad Lander and your second candidate is Zorin Mamdani and Lander gets knocked out in the first round, then your vote now counts for Mamdani.
So the ranked choice voting simulation over eight rounds ends with Mamdani at 52% and Cuomo at 48%.
Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling, says, quote, over five months, Mamdani's support has surged from 1 to 32% while Cuomo finishes near where he began.
In the ranked choice simulation, Mam Dani gauge 18 points compared to Cuomo's 12, putting him ahead in the final round for the first time in an Emerson poll.
Voters who have already cast their ballots during New York City's early voting period break for Mam Dani.
He currently holds a 10-point lead over Cuomo, 41% to 31%.
In contrast, among those who plan to vote on election day or have not yet voted at the time of the survey, Cuomo leads with 36%, followed by Mamdani at 31%.
This is how psychotic Democrats have become.
This is a Democratic primary, of course.
The current mayor, Eric Adams, is not running as a Democrat.
He is running as an independent.
Zoran Mamdani is as radical as it is possible to be.
He's a full-scale communist.
I say that advisedly.
The word communist has a meaning.
This is a man who has taken full-scale nationalization of the groceries positions.
And when it comes to the Middle East, again, I say President Trump has made it so the Democrats will now embrace legitimately the worst people on earth.
Zor Mamdani is one of these people, and he has nothing but love for all the enemies of the United States.
So how did he respond to the news that President Trump had struck the Iranian nuclear facilities?
Quote, these actions are the results of a political establishment that would rather spend trillions of dollars on weapons than lift millions out of poverty, launch endless wars while silencing calls for peace and fearmonger about outsiders while billionaires hollow out our democracy from within.
Andrew Cuomo, by contrast, said, quote, Iran cannot have a nuclear capability.
That's number one.
It's dangerous, not only for the region, it's dangerous internationally.
It's dangerous for the United States.
So again, that is a rather large contrast.
And Mamdani is the one with the vast bulk of the momentum at this point.
So who the hell is Zoran Mamdani?
Well, originally, he was a failed rapper.
I speak here advisedly since I am, of course, a very successful rapper.
But Zoran Mamdani is a failed rapper.
He went by Mr. Cardamom when he was cutting his rap.
Here is one of his early rap videos.
And Democrats in New York believe this person should be mayor, this spoiled brat, beneficiary of America at every possible level, who believes that America is deeply evil, exploitative, and genocidal in its pursuit of foreign policy.
This one should become mayor of New York.
This one should become mayor of New York.
Thank you.
I mean, so that's not good.
He should not be mayor just because he made that video.
But that was not his only video.
also rapped about, you know, all the crazy things he supports.
Outro Music.
No ban, no wall.
Build it up.
We'll make it fall.
And there he was expressing his love for the Holy Land Five, who are, of course, terrorist supporters convicted in federal court.
Remember, this is the city that experienced 9-11.
This is a city where 3,000 Americans were murdered by Islamic terrorists, and now they want to elect to the mayoralty.
Democrats do, apparently, according to the polling data.
They would like to elect a person who has sympathy for terrorism, like tremendous sympathy for terrorism.
But that's not the only reason that he's not.
He also openly says that he is fighting for socialism.
Where we have to make it very clear that people cannot eat words.
People need to have actual food.
People need to have actual houses to live in.
People need to have actual schools that they can go to.
And I think it's so critical that this journey into understanding the way in which we should relate to power, this journey in understanding that it is socialism that we are fighting for, is a journey that should begin as soon as possible for every single person in this country and in this world.
Socialism they're fighting for.
It's deep thoughts like you can't eat words.
That does lead to nationalization and government control of the means of production and generally the slaughter of millions of people.
So probably that person should be mayor.
Also, the kind of person who should be mayor is the kind of person who believes that the New York Police Department should be removed from high crime areas, a contention he made just a couple of years ago.
If you're having an argument with someone and there's a risk of it escalating, who is better positioned to de-escalate it?
Someone who is well-known in the community, or someone who has been trained specifically in de-escalation, or a stranger who has a gun?
And we see so many situations where encounters with police, the police arrive, and all of a sudden the tension rises even astronomically.
The answer is to try and find a non-carceral solution.
Absolutely.
Community service, something where they learn from their mistakes, there's a sense of accountability and growth, all these kinds of things, which for many people in this country, especially black people, are not offered the same opportunity.
Are you for defunding the police?
Are you for a serious reform that people can see on the ground?
I am in favor of defunding the police.
And they would make this one mayor.
He wants to defund the police.
Don't worry, it gets worse.
Again, unbelievable, except that it's all too believable.
The young Democrats, the most rabid Democrats out there, believe that the traditional Democratic Party has not done enough to push the country in a wild leftward direction.
They believe that Joe Biden was actually too right-wing, that Kamala Harris was too moderate, that what you need is full-scale transing of the children, full-scale support for terrorist organizations, at least rhetorically, a cutoff to all of America's allies on the foreign policy front, that you need to undercut the police and make it absolutely unlivable to live in America's major cities, that universities should essentially just be breeding grounds for radicalism.
Here was Zoran Mamdani, again, your polling frontrunner in the New York City Democratic primary for mayor, defending the Columbia University protesters who were tearing up the campus.
I think these students have actually forced many of us to reckon with what's happening there, because for too many Americans, this has been something that is actually getting out of view.
An example is that when students renamed the hall in Columbia from Hamilton Hall to Hind Hall, they were honoring a six-year-old Palestinian girl who was killed in her car watching as her parents had been killed by the Israeli military prior.
And for so many Americans, that was a name that they hadn't heard until these students made it one.
So apparently, according to him, the Columbia University students, as they illegally took over the quad and broke windows and took over libraries and prevented people from actually being able to learn at the campuses, they were doing an amazing job.
And by the way, if it were up to him, there wouldn't be any police to respond to calls to stop the criminality anyway.
In fact, he believed that the New York City Police Department and the IDF share tactics of oppression.
It's also that our city and state governments have partnerships with Israeli municipalities and the state, and that we can hold our governments accountable by really going after those partnerships and really spotlighting them and with the goal of dismantling them.
I think that when I think of partnerships, I think of how the NYPD and the IDF have had a relationship for many years, a relationship that has meant tactics of oppression crossing from one country to the other.
I mean, this is the kind of person, again, it beggars the imagination, but it really doesn't.
Because, of course, Democrats have elected Mayor Brandon Johnson in Chicago.
You have the 9% approval rating, who has decided that police work is actually just too much for him.
And so instead, he'll let the city completely fall apart.
Democrats elected in Los Angeles, Karen Bass, who's presided over not one massive fire, but two, given the riots that broke into conflagration just a couple of weeks ago.
Democrats continue in major cities around America to at least put their money where their mouth is.
And so, you know, I got to hand it to him.
At least they're doing the thing.
Really, if they want to live by this radical credo, you know, at least they are, at least they're doing it.
You know, I have a basic rule, and it's the same as H.L. Menkin's.
Democracy is the theory that people get what they deserve, get what they vote for, good and hard.
And so if the people of New York want this, you know what?
Good.
I think they ought to feel it.
I'm kind of rooting for Zorin Mamdani, to be honest with you, because if Democrats wish to embrace all of this, well, then let them.
And listen, I have a lot of friends who live in New York.
I know there are a lot of people who are just trying to earn a living, have a good life in New York.
Maybe it's time to leave.
When you're surrounded by nuts, maybe it's time to leave.
How nuts is Zorin Mamdani?
He literally called for city-owned grocery stores because he believes that it's the profit motive that is quote-unquote starving Americans.
It's just psychotic stuff.
We will redirect city funds from corporate supermarkets to city-owned grocery stores whose mission is lower prices, not price gouging.
These stores will operate without a profit motive or having to pay property taxes or rent and will pass on those savings to you.
What in the world?
I mean, first of all, is he selling a used car?
Pass on those savings to you.
The profit motive in American grocery stores is what has created the vast bevy of goods at American grocery stores.
Quite famously, when Khrushchev came to the United States in the 1950s and he met with Richard Nixon, who is the vice president of the United States, and he saw the wide bevy and variety of goods that were available for Americans, he was stunned.
And that was true for every Soviet who came to the United States.
Cuban emigres who escaped the Cuban oppression under Castro would go to grocery stores and be blown away at the kinds of things that are available.
But Zoro Mamdani somehow thinks that that is the bug, not the feature of American public life.
He's also the kind of person who yells at Tom Homan over immigration.
This is what Democrats want.
If this is what Democrats want, they should get it.
How many more do you want?
How many more do you know?
How many more do you know, Tommy?
Do you believe in the First Amendment?
Do you believe in the First Amendment, Tom Homan?
Just absolute performative trash.
But again, he saves his best performances for when he's called an anti-Semite because, of course, he is.
Here he was just the other day, shedding crocodile tears over being called an anti-Semite after suggesting that the state of Israel should be disestablished as a Jewish state.
I get messages that say the only good Muslim is a dead Muslim.
I get threats on my life, on the people that I love.
And I try not to talk about it.
Because the function of racism, as Tony Morrison said, is distraction.
My focus has always been on making this a city that's affordable, on making this a city that every New Yorker sees themselves in.
And it takes a toll.
Because this is a city that every single person deserves to be in.
It's a city that we all belong to.
And the thing that's made me proudest in this campaign is that the strength of our movement is built on our ability to have built something across Jewish and Muslim workers, across the workers of all faiths, of all backgrounds, in all boroughs.
And anti-Semitism is such a real issue in the city.
And it has been hard to see it weaponized by candidates who do not seem to have any sincere interest in tackling it, but rather in using it as a pretext to make political points.
it's just that if you're worried about anti-Semitism, it's a pretext to make political points, he says.
Again, I'm kind of rooting for you guys.
New Yorkers, I'm rooting for you.
Today, today's your big day.
New York Democrats, it's your day to finally go hole hog.
I know you tried with Bill de Blasio.
I know.
And he was so terrible that you had to swing back the other way with Mayor Eric Adams.
But this is your moment.
This is time for you to seize this city and turn it entirely red.
Finally live out your principles.
Drive every taxpaying citizen from the city of New York.
Completely destroy all of the real estate values in the city.
Force gigantic businesses out of your city.
See how it goes for you.
Turn your city into Detroit.
See if we down here in Florida care.
I'm spending a lot of money buying up all the luxury real estate because I know that the prices are going to be going up as you guys squeeze everyone with half a brain out of your city.
Ron DeSantis, for what it's worth, tweeted something very similar yesterday.
Governor DeSantis tweeted out, quote, just when he thought Palm Beach real estate couldn't go any higher.
Yep.
It can be a lot of businesses relocating to Florida.
That is for sure.
And again, Mom Dani, Mahmoud Khalil, just indicative of so much that's going on internationally across the left, across Europe.
Thousands of Europeans took to the streets to protest in favor of Iran because of course they did.
This is what they do.
Here is what it looked like outside The Hague, protesting the American strike on the Iranian nuclear facilities.
Again, these are people who are protesting, somebody trying to stop them from being killed.
President Trump is trying to stop the Iranians who have sleeper cells buried, particularly in Europe, from gaining a nuclear weapon.
And here are the idiot Europeans protesting by the tens of thousands ahead of the NATO summit in the Dutch city in The Hague.
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
There are signs reading, stop the attack on Iran, dismantle Israel.
Yes, because Israel is the grave threat to Europe, obviously.
Of course, there are signs reading Donald Trump is a terrorist.
Lots of support for the Iranians.
Again, all it takes for the left to just come out and embrace a radical Islamic dictatorship that hangs gay people from cranes.
All it takes for that to happen is for President Trump to bomb it.
That's all that it requires.
It's totally insane.
It's totally insane.
But you know what?
Points for honesty.
Points for honesty for this entire crew.
And this sort of attitude is quite widespread in Europe, of course.
I was in Rome this week meeting with the Pope.
There were some fairly major protests in Rome, once again, against Israel, against America.
Lots of anti-Semitic graffiti all around the city.
Not a giant shock because too many Europeans have decided that civilizational suicide is actually some form of moral good sense.
And if New Yorkers decide to do the same thing this week, well, I suppose more power to them, but they're going to learn the hard way that actually the city doesn't operate without the actual productive members of society who you are driving out before you.
Already coming up, we're going to jump into that.
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