Donald Trump drops the F-word at a rally and gets a standing ovation. It's not the first time he's said something that gets him in trouble. He's been doing it for a while now, and it's getting worse and worse. But it's not his fault, it's the world's fault that he says things that offend people. And he's not going to be held down by the boundaries of political correctness. Ben Shapiro takes a look at the New Hampshire primary and explains why Donald Trump doesn't need to apologize for it, and why he's fine with saying things that are just plain rude and vulgar. Plus, he explains why he doesn't care if you like it or not. The world is politically correct, and so is the world. Ben Shapiro is a conservative commentator who writes for The Weekly Standard and is a frequent contributor to conservative publications. He is a regular contributor to The Daily Caller and the Weekly Standard, and is one of the most well-known conservative voices in the conservative press. He's also a frequent guest on Fox News and other conservative media outlets, and has a regular presence on conservative radio and radio shows, including SiriusXM Radio and the conservative radio show The HOSTBreeze Radio. If you like what you hear, please HIT SUBSCRIBE and tell a friend about what's going on in your life! and don't forget to tell us what you think about it in the comments section of your feed! Subscribe to our new podcast, The Ben Shapiro Show! on Apple Podcasts! or wherever else you re listening to this podcast might be listening to it. Thanks for listening and sharing it! You can be a Friend of the Ben Shapiro's work? Thank you Ben Shapiro s work is much appreciated! Thanks Ben Shapiro - his work is greatly appreciated! Support Ben Shapiro on Insta: on Instapaper: and his podcast is also on Instagaming if you're looking for the latest Ben Shapiroism and other stuff like that's Ben Shapiro Podcasts on his podcast on the latest episode on his insta or his podcast is on insta-tweet me on Instafeed? and Insta= , . thank you Ben is a friend of Ben Shapiro and Ben is on Instacart on Instagasm I'm on Instago
00:00:35.000If Marco Rubio finishes outside the top four, let's say that Ted Cruz finishes fourth, and Marco Rubio finishes fifth, then Marco Rubio has a real problem on his hands.
00:00:44.000But I don't want to talk too much about what New Hampshire means until tomorrow.
00:00:47.000We'll wait for the actual results, because why speculate?
00:00:50.000Instead, I want to talk about something that's happened inside conservatism that is deeply troubling to me.
00:00:56.000We'll start with Donald Trump yesterday.
00:03:09.000And Trump actually ended up telling MSNBC, he said, quote, I was just repeating what she said so everyone could hear, because everyone was desperate to hear what this crazy lady in the front row is screaming.
00:03:20.000He says, I was doing everybody a favor.
00:03:28.000Right, so the world is politically correct.
00:03:30.000And this has been Trump's constant refrain, is that when he says things that are terrible or vulgar, that he's just, he's saying something that's not, he's not going to be held down by the conventions and the boundaries of political correctness.
00:03:43.000And he's been doing this for the last couple of weeks.
00:03:46.000So the other day, for example, Donald Trump dropped the F-word at one of his rallies, and here's what that looked like.
00:03:51.000We're gonna have businesses that used to be in New Hampshire that are now in Mexico come back to New Hampshire and you can tell them to go themselves.
00:04:09.000Okay, so he's dropped the f-word and of course Donald Trump has also dropped the s-word a bunch of times as well.
00:04:16.000Here for example is Donald Trump talking about the s-word and dropping the s-word.
00:04:20.000ISIS is making a tremendous amount of money because they have certain oil camps, right?
00:04:24.000They have certain areas of oil that they took away.
00:04:26.000They have some in Syria, some in Iraq.
00:04:40.000As anyone around the office knows, as soon as I get off the air, it's basically a sailor.
00:04:44.000I mean, it's... I think a good four-letter word has its place in the English language, and that place is... Actually, it's a variety of places.
00:04:52.000I think that it applies pretty much... It's a great word.
00:04:55.000And there are lots of great words in the English language that people use too often, but are still great words.
00:05:01.000So I'm not a prude when it comes to cursing.
00:05:04.000However, however, there are some people who are defending all of this as non-vulgar.
00:05:54.000If I told the real stories of my experiences with women, often seemingly very happily married and important women, this book would be a guaranteed bestseller, which it will be anyway.
00:06:03.000I'd love to tell all using names and places, but I just don't think it's right.
00:07:20.000Now, obviously I disagree with a lot of Obama's policy decisions.
00:07:23.000I've been disappointed by aspects of his presidency.
00:07:26.000I hope the next presidency is a philosophic departure.
00:07:29.000But over the course of this campaign, it feels as if there's been a decline in behavioral standards across the board.
00:07:34.000Many of the traits of character and leadership Obama possesses, and that maybe we have taken too much for granted, have suddenly gone missing or are in short supply.
00:07:42.000And then he goes on to talk about how the Obama administration is, he calls it, remarkably scandal-free.
00:07:49.000He says they're honest, they're remarkably scandal-free, which is an unbelievable statement to make about the administration that sicked the IRS on its political opponents, covered up Benghazi, fast and furious.
00:07:59.000Hillary Clinton was Barack Obama's Secretary of State when she had a private server.
00:08:02.000Scandals inside the Environmental Protection Agency, inside the Department of Justice, inside the Health and Human Services Department, inside the Veterans Administration.
00:08:10.000Literally every place there could be a scandal, there's been a scandal.
00:08:35.000Imagine if Barack and Michelle Obama joined the board of a charity you're involved in.
00:08:39.000You'd be happy to have such people in your community.
00:08:41.000Could you say that comfortably about Ted Cruz?
00:08:43.000So he thinks that the Obamas would be nicer people to have as part of your charity.
00:08:47.000Never mind the fact that Michelle Obama took a $300,000 salary to do nothing when she was actually on the board of a charity, the University of Chicago Medical Center.
00:08:56.000Never mind that Barack Obama used the IRS to actually target charities.
00:08:59.000No, no, no, but Barack Obama is genteel.
00:09:02.000He says that Obama has a soundness in his decision-making.
00:09:06.000Vladimir Putin, ISIS, the Iranian military, they all agree.
00:09:09.000He says that Obama has exhibited grace under pressure.
00:09:12.000He says a president has to maintain equipoise under enormous pressure.
00:09:15.000Obama has done that, especially amid the financial crisis.
00:09:19.000Well, first of all, the financial crisis basically happened under Bush, and Obama had no place to go but up.
00:09:24.000But, he then continues, he says, Obama has a resilient sense of optimism, as opposed to Trump, and Cruz, and Ben Carson, who wallow in the pornography of pessimism.
00:09:36.000He says, people are motivated to make wise choices, more by hope and opportunity, than by fear, cynicism, hatred, and despair.
00:09:42.000Unlike many candidates, Obama has not appealed to those passions.
00:09:46.000Which begs the question where he's been for the last eight years, while Barack Obama told black people all over the United States that the police are out to murder them, told Muslims that white Americans are out to murder them, told gays that white Christians are out to murder them, and then basically let Muslims who are radical run roughshod over the entire Middle East, Vladimir Putin run roughshod through Eastern Europe, and China run roughshod through the South China Sea.
00:10:06.000So, I don't know where David Brooks has been in all of this, but this is the point.
00:10:25.000He says, there's a tone of ugliness creeping across the world as democracies retreat, as tribalism mounts, as suspiciousness and authoritarianism takes center stage.
00:10:33.000Obama radiates an ethos of integrity, humanity, good manners, and elegance that I'm beginning to miss.
00:10:39.000First of all, Obama is an authoritarian.
00:10:54.000So, on the one hand, you have conservatives who say that Barack Obama is elegant, and that elegance is what conservatism is all about.
00:11:02.000Here's how David Brooks, this supposed leading conservative thinker, described conservatism back in October, quote,
00:11:09.000By traditional definitions, conservatism stands for intellectual humility, a belief in steady incremental change, a preference for reform rather than revolution, a respect for hierarchy, precedence, balance, and order, and a tone of voice that is prudent, measured, and responsible.
00:11:24.000Is there anything in that definition of conservatism that couldn't be applied to a reasonable, rational, elegant elitist like Barack Obama, according to David Brooks?
00:11:52.000And a tone of voice that is prudent and measured and responsible.
00:11:54.000In other words, David Brooks' definition of conservatism has nothing to do with conservatism and everything to do with attitude.
00:12:01.000So it's non-conservatism masquerading with attitude.
00:12:05.000And there are a lot of people in the United States who are very dissatisfied with Obama, and they look at David Brooks saying that conservatism is really just about wearing a creased pair of khakis and sipping Chardonnay, and they say, well, F you, dude.
00:12:19.000F you, and F the horse you rode in on.
00:12:22.000F you, you're a P-word, you're full of ass, you know, F you.
00:12:27.000And this is where Trump comes from, right?
00:12:30.000So you have a non-conservative version of conservatism, and the reaction is another non-conservative version of conservatism.
00:12:36.000If David Brooks says, if conservatism is just elitist, go along to get along attitude, then the Trump people say, well, that's not conservatism.
00:12:45.000The conservatism is being rough and ready and shouting and cursing and being rude and vulgar.
00:12:51.000Now, as I've said, I have nothing against elitism, against Chardonnay.
00:12:56.000I have nothing against wearing a nice pair of khakis.
00:12:58.000I also have nothing against the occasional use of the F-word.
00:13:00.000It doesn't really bother me too much, and I think that we've moved beyond that.
00:13:03.000If the use of the F-word in American society is on your list of top 100 problems facing us, then you're misprioritizing.
00:13:09.000I'm not teaching my child to curse by any stretch of the imagination, but I promise you that cursing, if my president curses, I really don't care.
00:13:49.000And what's more, when Trump says things like, you know, I'm gonna call Ted Cruz whatever I want, I'm not gonna be politically correct, the reason not to call Ted Cruz a pansy, but the word isn't pansy, the reason not to call him that is not because you're not being politically correct, the reason not to call him that is because it's not true.
00:14:07.000Because what you're saying is not conservative.
00:14:09.000I mean, the original riff here on Ted Cruz was Ted Cruz wasn't gung-ho enough in favor of waterboarding.
00:14:26.000They are responding to political correctness and gentility and civility so much that they're basically saying all of the things that they do now are anti-politically correct.
00:14:34.000There's a difference between vulgarity and political correctness.
00:14:37.000Or vulgarity and anti-political correctness.
00:14:41.000Just being reactionary about political correctness doesn't mean you have to be vulgar.
00:14:45.000You know, I'm about as politically incorrect a fellow as is in American politics.
00:14:50.000I'm the guy who tweets out on Trayvon Martin's birthday when the left is deifying him that Trayvon Martin wouldn't be dead if he hadn't beaten a man's head into the ground and gotten himself shot.
00:14:58.000I'm the sort of fellow who goes on national television and refuses to bow to politically correct notions that men can magically become women.
00:15:05.000I'm the fellow who actually crafts videos in which I go through the percentage of Muslims all around the world who believe in extremism.
00:15:12.000So I've dedicated a huge majority of my life to fighting political correctness.
00:15:17.000But saying the F word is not anti-political correctness.
00:15:20.000Saying the P word isn't anti-political correctness.
00:15:23.000Maybe it's good, maybe it's bad, but it has nothing to do with political correctness.
00:15:26.000If that were the case, Amy Schumer, who curses regularly, curses a blue streak, uses the C word.
00:15:31.000You know, Amy Schumer would be somebody who is anti-politically correct.
00:15:56.000So this is true for David Brooks conservatives, and this includes people like my friend Michael Medved who objects to Trump on the grounds that he's vulgar.
00:16:02.000The objection to Trump shouldn't chiefly be that he's vulgar.
00:16:04.000The objection to Trump should be that he's not conservative and also that he's vulgar.
00:16:10.000I think his brand of vulgarity actually is anti-conservative.
00:16:13.000See, for example, when Trump says the p-word, I don't like that being used just generally.
00:16:18.000When Trump says that you should treat women like ass, that actually is anti-conservative because conservatism is a philosophy that says that women are to be treated with honor and respect.
00:16:28.000But again, mistaking attitude for policy is something that has happened.
00:16:33.000It started on the establishment right, and then in reaction, it's now moved over to the grassroots right, and that's actually a problem for conservatism, because conservatism actually means something more specific than either saying the F word or not saying the F word.
00:17:14.000First of all, okay, attacking, I don't even know what Trump said about Barbara Bush, but once you drag somebody out on the campaign trail, my view is that they're fair game.
00:17:23.000Once that person is campaigning for you openly, they're fair game and sort of the slings and arrow that you should expect.
00:17:29.000Would I be upset if somebody attacked my mom?
00:19:42.000Micah and Joe over there, they're cracking up at this, because all that's happening is that you've got kind of the blue-collar feel of Donald Trump, the F word and the P word, and then you got the upper-crust feel of Jeb Bush, and they're just battling it out over nothing.
00:19:55.000They're not battling it out over policy differences.
00:19:57.000They're not battling it out over anything but pride and arrogance and the way that they feel that people should present themselves to the world.
00:20:05.000I really don't care about the presentation.
00:20:07.000I care significantly more about the policies that are reflected.
00:20:10.000I don't oppose Trump because he uses vulgar language.
00:20:12.000I oppose Trump because Trump is not a conservative and his vulgarity extends beyond just his language to thoughts and feelings and beliefs that are not conservative.
00:21:08.000Joining me now, Republican presidential candidate in Ohio, Governor John Kasich.
00:21:11.000And there's a reason they're going after you, Governor, and that's because, at least in the latest Monmouth and ARG polls, you're in second place here in New Hampshire, which would be a remarkable finish for you in this state.
00:21:22.000And so obviously they're gunning for you.
00:22:30.000John Kasich is not an acceptable candidate because he is not right-wing.
00:22:33.000Jeb Bush is not an acceptable candidate because he is not right-wing.
00:22:36.000Donald Trump is not an acceptable candidate because he is not right-wing.
00:22:39.000Marco Rubio is on the borderline of acceptable because he is not right-wing on immigration.
00:22:44.000And when we forget all of that and it just becomes about the various attitudes of the people who are involved, maybe that's the way politics is now.
00:22:50.000Maybe that's just how it is, that we elect the nicest guy, the one who projects the best persona.
00:22:55.000But the definition of conservatism cannot change in order to adjust for the people that we like.
00:23:01.000I got mad when they did this with Mitt Romney in 2012.
00:23:04.000I was mad when they did it with John McCain in 2008.
00:23:05.000Campaign finance reform didn't become conservative just because John McCain was running.
00:23:09.000Mitt Romney did not make Romneycare conservative.
00:23:12.000John Kasich is not conservative because he is less mean than Jeb Bush, and Jeb Bush isn't more conservative because he's less mean than Donald Trump.
00:23:19.000None of this has anything to do with the philosophy.
00:26:45.000I think that this will end up in a brokered convention.
00:26:46.000There are too many candidates, too many states, not enough delegates.
00:26:50.000Move over to the other side of the aisle.
00:26:51.000So Hillary Clinton is on the other side of the aisle, and Hillary is pulling out all the stops.
00:26:55.000She's going to lose New Hampshire today.
00:26:56.000And Hillary Clinton, she says that there's a double standard against her.
00:27:00.000She's going to play victim all the way through the end of this process.
00:27:03.000She's talking here with Rachel Maddow, who was just interviewed in Playboy magazine about having sex with college girls, but here's Rachel Maddow talking with Hillary Clinton about the double standard faced by females on a national television broadcast.
00:27:16.000With the leading presidential candidate and the number one broadcaster at MSNBC, both women, talking about how victimized they are.
00:27:32.000Let's release what everybody has ever said.
00:27:34.000There are a lot of people on both sides.
00:27:35.000If we're going to start saying what you did when you were out of public office, when you were in the private sector, what you did, fair game.
00:28:17.000You've got Trump, who actually is good on camera, but Hillary's already pulling out all the stops.
00:28:21.000To try and bully women into voting for her.
00:28:23.000So Gloria Steinem is this feminist icon from the last century.
00:28:27.000She's the one who said that a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.
00:28:31.000Gloria Steinem, she was so angry at young women who are supporting Bernie Sanders that she drops this unbelievable line over the last 48 hours.
00:29:08.000Gloria Stenum has made her entire career off of young women empowered, make decisions about their bodies and voting.
00:29:13.000But the minute that they vote for somebody she doesn't like, then she says they're a bunch of idiots who only follow their estrogen to the nearest boy.
00:29:21.000Kind of an amazing statement from Gloria Steinem, but this is how Hillary actually feels about other women.
00:31:17.000And they've been building it specifically so that this horrible piece of human debris on the left side of my screen here, the one in the purple who looks like an eggplant,
00:31:29.000Is that she can run for president in building this narrative that she is, is just, she shows how much women are under attack in the United States and she's playing that card over and over so is Madeleine Albright, so is Gloria Steinem, even if it means slapping young women into oblivion.
00:31:45.000They want Trump because Trump has said such terrible things about women.
00:31:49.000Trump polls the worst among women of any candidate in the Republican field and it is not close.
00:31:54.000So, you know, that's the real reason they want Trump.
00:31:57.000So, all that said, okay, let's do some things that I like and some things that I hate.
00:32:44.000What do you identify as besides, uh, pretentious?
00:32:47.000Um, who can tell me what a trigger warning is?
00:32:51.000Um, well, a trigger warning is something that you put before, like, a video or an article or something that might be difficult for them to witness or to hear.
00:33:08.000In this video there will be the clear depiction of a dog pretending to be interested in what a college student is saying, while at the same time making plans to pleasure himself to her at a later time.
00:34:49.000Now, instead of saying the word poor, you say person who lacks advantages that others have, low economic status related to a person's education, occupation, and income.
00:37:37.000But it shows how ridiculous this whole thing is.
00:37:39.000And what's amazing is when you watch the faces of the students, even the students know how ridiculous this is, except for one girl who is wildly offended by everything that is being said.
00:37:49.000So remember earlier I said that being vulgar isn't necessarily being liberal, right?
00:37:54.000I said that, you know, David Brooks is wrong.
00:37:55.000It can be both vulgar and conservative.
00:37:57.000There's a lot of vulgarity in this video, but it's funny because the whole point is that all of the stuff the left is saying is stupid garbage.
00:38:11.000I'm going to a university of North Carolina, and I'm speaking there on March 30th.
00:38:15.000Liberal groups are already planning to counter my ignorance, which will be interesting since they don't know anything.
00:38:20.000So one student wrote, Some ignorant white people who go to my school have booked this ignorant white man, this would be me, so that a like-minded audience comprised of ignorant white people can reaffirm their ignorant beliefs.
00:38:32.000The person should invest in a thesaurus, since he repeats the word ignorant too many times, so they're ignorant.
00:38:38.000There's a Take Back the Night Club, which is this supposedly anti-rape group.
00:38:42.000I'm the most anti-rape person that you will ever find, because I think that rapists should be shot or castrated, but the Take Back the Night Club is very upset.
00:39:33.000Racial justice means that if you're a person who commits a crime and you're black, then you shouldn't go to jail because that would be racially unjust.
00:39:40.000It might be just, but it would be racially unjust.
00:39:42.000They say, stands up against people who make the world an uncomfortable, unwelcoming place for women, non-binary, and non-cis folks.
00:39:49.000Cisgender means, like me, I'm a man who identifies as a man.
00:39:53.000And, you know, like 99% of the rest of humanity, because I'm not a moron, or somebody who's mentally ill, those are the two options.
00:40:01.000If you don't identify as the gender into which you were born, that's because you're either stupid or mentally ill.
00:40:18.000And by the way, I feel terrible for the people who are mentally ill.
00:40:20.000I don't feel bad for the people who confuse themselves purposefully because they want to get on the victimology list at University of North Carolina.
00:41:27.000Thank you for that content-laden explanation of why I should hand the country over to an old bat socialist who's going to bankrupt it before you're even old enough to get a job.
00:41:35.000Thank you for that small child whose parents forced you into this so that eventually you could get a bit part on a sitcom.
00:41:59.000I remember holding you in my arms and I knew I could give you anything you needed.
00:42:06.000We were going to love you, and be a family, and take care of you, and teach you all the wonderful things, and show you what this amazing world had to offer.
00:42:41.000I believe in an America that makes environmentally responsible decisions so that one day, you and your kids can still enjoy playing in the snow as much as you do.
00:42:50.000My mother taught me that everybody needs a chance and a champion.
00:42:56.000I wish my mother could have been with us longer.
00:47:31.000I don't know what's going on over here.
00:47:36.000It's getting a little scary, so we're gonna stop it right there.
00:47:38.000Okay, so that's the Feel the Burn song from the Bernie Sanders rally.
00:47:46.000In American politics, where our attitude is the only thing that matters, where our attitude, whether it's elitist, or whether it's grassroots, or whether it's vulgar, or whether it's highfalutin, where that's the only thing that matters, where ideology has nothing to do with anything, is a politics that is bereft of any possibility of really helping people, of really allowing people the freedoms that we are guaranteed under the Constitution.
00:48:08.000And it's easy to get caught up in all the media coverage of the Trump bombastic stuff, and the Jeb weakness, and the funny headline from The Onion today, Jeb loses New Hampshire, falls victim to a heroin crisis.
00:48:19.000But it's easy to fall into the whole media game of following the persona of all the various candidates.
00:48:27.000But the fact is that if you can't get past the persona, if you can't get past the hippy-dippy Bernie Sanders versus the grip it too tight, white knuckle it Hillary Clinton campaign,
00:48:37.000If we can't get to what do these people believe and what are they going to do, then we really don't have a lot of hope for the future of the country.
00:48:42.000If we can get beyond the optics and we can get to the substance, and that's your job and that's my job, then maybe, just maybe, we can get to a point where what happens to the country is more important than how we treat the candidates while it happens.