Trump is now the President-elect of the United States of America. Will he live up to the standard he set for himself in the primary and the general election? Or will he continue to be the bad guy that we all have come to know and hate? Today's episode of The Ben Shapiro Show asks the question: Good or Bad or Trump? Which one will we get today? Ben Shapiro's full reaction to Trump's election victory and what it means for the future of the country and the conservative movement. He also talks about why he thinks Trump is a good man, and why he doesn't need to change as a human being to be a good president. Ben also discusses why you should invest in precious metals, gold, and precious precious metals in gold, precious metals and precious metals. And finally, he talks about what he's going to do with the stock market now that Donald Trump is the next president of the USA and Hillary Clinton is no longer the Democratic candidate in the race for the White House. If you like good Trump, bad Trump, that sucker lives on for another four years, gang! Ben's got you covered! -Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire coverage of the election results and reaction from Glenn Beck's live broadcast on CNN's "The Glenn Beck Show" and more! Click here to watch the full clip here. Subscribe to the Daily Wire mini-series on the election night coverage here at Daily Wire. Thanks for listening and share the podcast! Subscribe on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices and become a supporter of the show? Subscribe and review our podcast? Like us on Podulp=a& comment down below? Leave us a review on iTunes and comment on your thoughts on the podcast on social media? We'll be listening to Ben Shapiro s latest episode on the show on the Podulters and other links in the podcast and other podcasting greats and other great posts on the podchips on the social media platforms we mentioned in this post? Subscribe to our feed Subscribe & subscribe to our podcast in the podtraced by Ben s Insta story & more! Subscribe to his Insta-RATE , v=a_tweeted by , v=t=1_t_a_a&t=8f_t=3f_a
00:00:20.000I was wrong that the movement of which Donald Trump bragged was just more Trumpian braggadocio rather than a real on-the-ground mass phenomenon.
00:00:26.000Now I pray fervently that Donald Trump proves me wrong again about him as a human being.
00:00:32.000For all the reasons I expressed yesterday on this program, I do not think Donald Trump is a good man, let alone a great one.
00:00:38.000I'm deeply concerned he's not conservative.
00:00:40.000I'm deeply concerned he'll fail to fulfill his promises, that he'll focus on useless fights,
00:00:44.000That he'll engage in counterproductive ones, that he'll sell out the people who voted for him.
00:00:48.000I'm concerned that Republicans, justifiably intoxicated by victory over the Wicked Witch of the West Hillary Clinton, will grant a halo effect to Trump that will allow him to engage in anti-conservative policies that will damage the country and political foolishness that will damage the conservative movement with constituencies that conservatives are still going to have to recruit.
00:01:07.000I have said for months that Trump could prove me wrong.
00:01:10.000He certainly has every opportunity to do so now.
00:01:12.000He enters office with the majority of Republicans in the Senate.
00:01:16.000He enters office with the majority of Republicans in the House.
00:01:18.000He enters with an open Supreme Court seat, a vast majority of GOP state legislatures, a vast majority of GOP governors.
00:01:25.000Now is the time for the vast change that we were promised and that Donald Trump promised to deliver.
00:01:31.000This will require Donald Trump to change as a human.
00:01:47.000Bad people don't become better people when they become powerful people.
00:01:50.000And Donald Trump was just handed the keys to the car, the leadership of the most powerful country in the history of humanity, and the most powerful office in the most powerful country in the history of humanity.
00:01:59.000Will Trump feel freed from the boundaries set on him by the strictures of a presidential race?
00:02:03.000Will he feel unshackled to be sort of the bad Trump that we saw during the primaries and during the general?
00:02:08.000Or will Trump actually change as a human and be elevated by his office?
00:02:12.000Will he grow into the person that we all want him to be?
00:02:15.000I sincerely hope, really I hope, that I'm wrong about him and that it is the latter.
00:02:19.000I plan to hold him accountable if it's the former.
00:02:22.000As I have for the entirety of this election cycle and consistently throughout my career, I will praise Trump when he deserves it.
00:02:28.000I will criticize him when he does not deserve it.
00:02:30.000For the sake of America, for the sake of conservatism, I hope, I hope, I have nothing but praise for President-elect Donald Trump.
00:03:08.000People were saying something big was happening.
00:03:11.000If I seem a little bit tired today, that's because we did an eight-hour broadcast yesterday.
00:03:16.000We did a live broadcast here at DailyWire.com, and on Facebook, me and Andrew Klavan and Jeremy Boring and Bill Whittle stopped by for more time than he should have, and some others stopped by, as well as Steven Crowder and Glenn Beck.
00:03:30.000It was a star-studded affair, but it was really great fun, and it was fun to watch the race shift over the course of the evening from
00:03:37.000Donald Trump is going to lose to Donald Trump is now going to defeat Hillary Clinton and watching just the lifeblood drain out of the faces of the people who love Hillary Clinton watching as the universe leached all meaning from their lives was was really quite astounding and in many ways we'll get to all of that in a second but first
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00:06:15.000After running 1,000 times for the presidency, to win the popular vote but lose heavily in the electoral vote, again, to Donald Trump, a person that she and her husband told to run, it's like, that's wonderful.
00:06:27.000Every time I thought of that, I just thought, somewhere Hillary Clinton is just tying Huma Abedin to a bed and beating Ortha Cain, but not in the usual way.
00:06:34.000So that's, you know, that, the imagery there is pretty phenomenal and pretty hilarious.
00:06:48.000I have not been shy about my views of Trump in the past.
00:06:51.000As I said in the opener here, Donald Trump has to change as a man in order for him to earn my support as president of the United States.
00:06:59.000He didn't earn my vote because the evidence that I saw did not suggest he was a man worthy of my vote.
00:07:03.000Now he has the opportunity to earn my support by doing all the things that he promised that he would do and avoiding all the things that he promised he would do also.
00:08:28.000What that means is that the real story of this election, just in terms of how this happened, the real story of this election is that Hillary Clinton failed to drive out nearly 7 million Barack Obama voters.
00:08:41.000Nearly 7 million Barack Obama voters did not show up for Hillary Clinton, and that's off his high in 2008.
00:08:46.000Remember, he lost something like, I think it was 3 to 4 million voters from 2008 to 2012.
00:08:50.000So from 2008 to 2016, Hillary Clinton dropped somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 million Democrat voters.
00:09:12.000Then she nearly lost in the primaries to a septuagenarian asylum escapee.
00:09:16.000And then finally, she loses to a reality TV star who, four weeks before the election, was hit with a tape in which he said that he wanted to grab women by the bleep.
00:10:13.000His agenda is essentially tossed out on its ass.
00:10:16.000And more than that, Barack Obama continued to make the case throughout his presidency that America was a deeply racist, terrible place filled by white people who are terribly, deeply racist and awful, and America was a negative force in the world.
00:10:28.000The best thing about the Trump campaign and the Trump movement, the thing that I think is actually worthwhile, is that people were standing up and proudly saying,
00:10:37.000Bill Little did say this yesterday and I think he's right.
00:10:46.000We don't deserve the ire of elites like Barack Obama scorning us, looking down on us, and pretending that they are on a higher plane while they call us racist and then pander to a racial base.
00:10:59.000And Obama's legacy is now on the table.
00:11:00.000The only legacy he's going to have after the first hundred days of a Trump administration, if Trump does his job,
00:11:05.000The only legacy Barack Obama will have is that he preceded Donald Trump and that Barack Obama was unable to win a third term, which means his real only legacy will be that he was the first black president, which of course is the only reason the media loved him in the first place.
00:11:17.000Okay, then the biggest losers in all of this, bigger than Hillary, bigger than Obama, the biggest losers in all of this, obviously the media.
00:11:33.000I think the media ruined the media in 2012 when they took a fundamentally decent man, Mitt Romney, and called him a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe.
00:11:40.000And then in 2016, they said the same things about Trump, and it just didn't wash.
00:11:43.000People said, you called Mitt Romney that, and we don't believe you.
00:12:02.000Nobody believes anything they have to say.
00:12:03.000There was a poll yesterday, an exit poll, showed 76% of the people who voted thought the media were more interested in making money than they were in telling the truth.
00:12:11.000When that's the case, the media have lost all power in our elections.
00:12:14.000And that is a grand and glorious thing.
00:12:16.000And I do have to thank Donald Trump for consistently ripping on the media.
00:12:19.000Now, sometimes he was ripping on them even when they were telling the truth.
00:12:21.000But the fact that people don't trust the media...
00:12:24.000Overall is a good thing considering the leftist bias inherent in the media and that was so obviously on display.
00:12:29.000Final big losers of the night, Senate Democrats.
00:12:32.000Senate Democrats have serious troubles now.
00:12:34.000So the idea here was that Senate Democrats were going to gain a majority and they'd be able to stymie a President Trump.
00:12:40.000The only seats that Republicans end up losing are Mark Kirk in Illinois and maybe Kelly Ayotte in New Hampshire.
00:12:44.000That one is still a little bit too close to call.
00:12:46.000They end up retaining their Senate majority.
00:12:48.000That's horrible news for the Democrats, because in 2018, there are five, count them, five vulnerable Democrat seats in the Senate.
00:12:55.000If Republicans win anywhere near that number, they suddenly have a dominant majority in the Senate, and Chuck Schumer doesn't have a lot of power.
00:13:02.000Now, I will say, Chuck Schumer is a very smart political operator.
00:13:05.000Chuck Schumer is going to create a consolidated force against the Republican majority.
00:13:10.000Republican majorities have a nasty habit of splintering, because they're always gangs of eight, and people who want to run for president, who want to stake out their own ground.
00:13:18.000But, if McConnell can hold fast, ha ha ha, if McConnell can hold fast, then you're looking at just a devastating night for Senate Democrats.
00:13:50.000When I say I want to see him prove me wrong, I don't mean that facetiously.
00:13:53.000I would love nothing better than for Donald Trump to turn out to shock me and shock the world again and end up being the second coming of Ronald Reagan, being a wonderful conservative president and making the country better for everybody.
00:14:03.000I think that would be a wonderful, wonderful thing for the country, wonderful for the Republican Party.
00:14:09.000I do think that we're going to have to, you know, take a little bit of care in the lessons that we learn from this election cycle because we have a habit of jumping to the wrong lessons in various election cycles.
00:14:18.000In this one, it's a single data point, right?
00:14:20.000And we're going to learn a lot from that single data point.
00:14:23.000Already some of the bad lessons that I'm hearing are things like, polls are stupid.
00:15:23.000In baseball, for baseball fans, there's something called sabermetrics, and that's the idea that you study statistics when you pick the players on your team.
00:15:30.000When you get to the playoffs, sometimes there are teams that win that are not sabermetrically built.
00:15:34.000They're not mathematically built, and the idea is that the sample size is just too small for us to tell.
00:15:39.000Presidential elections only happen once every four years, so the idea that stats don't matter because we had a black swan election, that seems like the wrong lesson to learn and a dangerous lesson to learn.
00:15:48.000The lesson is that you don't need a ground game.
00:15:50.000Is a stupid lesson, especially because number one, the RNC clearly did have a ground game, and number two, because you're going to need a ground game when you have a candidate who doesn't have 100% name recognition and billions of dollars in free media coverage.
00:16:02.000Other things that people are learning from this, you can focus solely and completely on the white vote, that's a mistake.
00:16:08.000Trump has an absolutely wonderful opportunity now to reach out to new constituencies.
00:16:12.000That means he can reach out in a really significant way.
00:16:15.000He should continue to reach out to black communities.
00:16:17.000He won 8% of the black vote, which was more than Mitt Romney's 5% of the black vote.
00:16:22.000He won 29% of the Hispanic vote, which was more than Mitt Romney's share of the Hispanic vote, which is absolutely shocking and demonstrates the wild unpopularity of Hillary Clinton.
00:16:31.000He has to reach out to those constituencies.
00:16:34.000Young people voted heavily for Hillary Clinton.
00:16:36.000The reason I say this is because, not to take away from Trump's victory, but to note that this is not going to be the last election ever, and demographics are continuing to shift away from older white voters, even if older white voters represented the outsized share of Trump voters that drove him over the top on all of this.
00:16:52.000So, those are my basic thoughts on the election cycle, but I want to go through some of the details before we get to all of that.
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00:18:41.000Not a lot of discussion about the popular vote versus the Electoral College because Hillary was so widely expected to win and underperformed.
00:18:48.000Trump got up and he gave a victory speech.
00:18:50.000And I think that there are a few things that we're going to analyze as we continue on the show in just a minute.
00:18:57.000We're going to analyze some of the lessons from this, whether the lessons are right or wrong, as I say.
00:19:02.000What kind of president is Trump actually going to be?
00:19:04.000We're going to try and read some tea leaves on that because we're going to have to see which support base he decides to cater to.
00:19:09.000We're going to talk about the absolutely delicious media reaction because the media just oh my goodness gracious they lost their ever-loving minds and it was quite beautiful and we'll talk about also some stuff I like and stuff I hate but in order to get all that you have to go over to dailywired.com