Trump celebrates his big win in Mississippi, Michigan, and Hawaii, but Marco Rubio still has a chance to get back in the race. Plus, we talk about the ShamWow Guy and why Donald Trump is better than the Shamwow Guy. Plus, some things we like and things we don't like about Trump's victory speech. And, of course, we finish with a Trump Steaks segment about the steak he's been eating for the past few days. We're here again, and it's another day upon which Donald Trump can celebrate victories. We'll talk about how he celebrated those victories, and we'll also talk about Marco Rubio's chances of getting back into the race, should he stay in or should he get out? Plus we'll talk some things I like and hate about Donald Trump's big night. Ben Shapiro is on The Ben Shapiro Show, wherever you get your news and gossip, and wherever you listen to your favorite podcast. If you like what you hear, please HIT SUBSCRIBE and tell a friend about the show on Apple Podcasts or wherever else you re listening. You can also become a patron patron by texting BONUS to 741741 and get 20% off your first month with discount code: PODCASTBUYER_BENJAMES at +1(at least $50) and get 10% off the entire month for a year of your choice of a new pair of tickets to the next month! Thanks to our sponsor, VIP Passport! You'll get 5% off our next month, plus free shipping and free shipping, and a free shipping throughout the rest of the entire year, plus we'll get an ad-free version of the show, plus an extra $5,000 shipping and shipping that gets you an ad discount when you sign up for a maximum of $50 or more, plus they get a discount on your first week of the month, and they get $5 or they get the choice of your first year of the deal starts shipping you get a maximum product starts starting at $99 or they receive $4/month, and you get 7 months get two months of VIP access, they'll get $4 or they can choose a maximum discount, they get it starts shipping that they get you a maximum rate of $1,000, they also get a choice of MBPROMO, and I'll get a complimentary cart at $5/month and they'll also get two weeks of MBORREPRODE.
00:00:25.000Okay, so, as always, before we get started, we do have to say thank you to our new advertiser, Reagan.com.
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00:01:17.000Okay, so Donald Trump had a big night last night.
00:02:00.000It means that we get a speech from Donald Trump.
00:02:04.000But before we get to the speech from Donald Trump, I have to say that there's somebody who just came to mind, and I'll tell you why in just one second.
00:02:09.000We'll tell you why we're playing these clips back to back in one second.
00:03:04.000Here is the Republican presidential frontrunner last night after winning a bunch of delegates and well on his way to the nomination, Donald Trump.
00:03:22.000I mean, we sell water and we have water and it's a very successful, you know, it's a private little water company and I supply the water for all my places and it's good, but it's very good.
00:04:50.000So, the water that he's handing out there, that Trump water, that is repackaged water from another company that he slapped a Trump label on.
00:05:46.000Donald Trump says that it's time to unify, that we have to get it all together.
00:05:50.000So here is Donald Trump saying it's time to unify.
00:05:54.000Given your statement to Major about how easy it would be to Hillary Clinton, do you agree that you're going to need to get mainstream American Republican politicians, the establishment as it's been labeled, behind you?
00:06:04.000And if so, what do you say to them tonight, given so many of them are pouring their money into trying to beat you?
00:06:40.000And I really say this, Carl, I think it's time to unify.
00:06:44.000We have something special going in the Republican Party, and unfortunately, the people of the party, they call them the elites, or they call them whatever they call them, but those are the people that don't respect it yet.
00:06:56.000We have millions and millions of people.
00:07:03.000He unifies us in the way that Adam Sandler movies unify some people.
00:07:07.000I don't understand for the life of me why anyone likes Adam Sandler movies, but clearly there's a market for them.
00:07:12.000Clearly there are a lot of people who love watching Adam Sandler hit himself in the head and make tiny little voices and be weird and such.
00:07:20.000Clearly there's a market for Donald Trump.
00:07:50.000What he says doesn't really have to make sense.
00:07:52.000Bob Woodward asked Donald Trump directly.
00:07:54.000You know, you keep talking about you're going to make Mexico pay for a wall.
00:07:57.000So, are you going to go to war with Mexico to make them do it?
00:07:58.000Here's Bob Woodward versus Donald Trump.
00:08:01.000I want to ask about the wall you're going to get Mexico to build.
00:08:06.000We were talking about this earlier, and a number of my colleagues here say you really haven't answered the question how you're going to do that.
00:08:15.000And you know from business somebody can have a good idea, but how are they going to do it?
00:08:25.000Okay, look the wall first of all Mexico is not going to build it.
00:08:28.000We're going to build it, and we're good It's going to be a serious wall It's not going to be a toy wall like we have right now with where cars and trucks drive over it loaded up with drugs And they sell the drugs in our country, and then they go back and you know we get the drugs They get the cash okay, and that's not going to happen.
00:09:02.000Now, when you're losing, or essentially losing, but when you're losing $58 billion a year on trade, in addition to that, we give subsidies to Mexico.
00:12:22.000When we say we have a trade deficit with Mexico, what that means is that Americans are buying Mexican goods and Mexicans aren't buying a lot of American goods.
00:12:45.000Eventually, that dollar comes back in the form of investment.
00:12:47.000They buy land, they invest in our companies.
00:12:50.000This is why we have a capital surplus when it comes to countries with which we have a trade deficit, because the money has to come back in.
00:12:59.000Trump complains about us importing cars, for example.
00:13:02.000That's because there are people like me and you who buy cars that are imported.
00:13:07.000And what happens with all the money that these companies get?
00:13:09.000They build factories in the United States.
00:13:11.000More of a Honda car is built in the United States than a GM car is built in the United States at this point, because they have factories down south.
00:13:18.000And the fact is that when you put tariffs on goods coming in, what you're really doing is taxing me.
00:13:37.000The government is taking my money and forcing me to spend it on some industry that is not competitive and that is dying.
00:13:43.000And the people this hurts most are the people who are actually at the bottom of the economic scale.
00:13:48.000You know, to me, it may not make a difference whether I'm spending $35,000 or $30,000 per car, but to the person who's making $30,000 a year, it matters a hell of a lot what that lease payment looks like.
00:13:58.000Trade redirects money to the most efficient industries, to the people who do it the best, who do it the cheapest, who do it the smartest.
00:14:06.000Restrictions on trade, by contrast, stop all of that.
00:14:42.000When technology gets better, it puts people out of work, and when trade is good, that puts people out of work too in some industries, but it creates jobs in new industries.
00:14:50.000Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump say the same thing when it comes to trade.
00:14:53.000That's why Bernie Sanders, just the other day, he said about Detroit that in 1960 Detroit was a big boom town, and then we opened up the markets and stopped protecting Detroit, and then Detroit fell apart.
00:15:04.000What happened is that Detroit was way ahead, the unions started negotiating for outsized wages, the unions started negotiating for better contracts, there were more regulations, the price of making a car went up, and then we were uncompetitive.
00:15:16.000And at that point, people started buying other types of cars.
00:15:19.000Of course, because that's how the market works.
00:15:22.000And then, instead of getting rid of the regulations, or stopping the unions, Detroit didn't do that.
00:15:26.000They tried to tax the people who were left, and all those people left.
00:15:30.000So the truth is that if you want to destroy jobs, all you have to do is make industries non-competitive.
00:15:35.000The way to make industries non-competitive is to protect them.
00:15:37.000Again, if you really think that tariffs create jobs, all you have to do is make the tariff 100%.
00:16:30.000You can buy, for a brief period of time, their goods more cheaply.
00:16:34.000But if you think inflation helps an economy, if you think inflation makes people's trade deficit greater, that it really helps you with trade, then the Weimar Republic should have been great when people were shoveling around wheelbarrows full of cash.
00:16:52.000Saying that inflation changes the underlying math of our trade is like saying that if I'm playing basketball with someone and I decide arbitrarily to change their height.
00:17:32.000Right now, by the way, China is desperately attempting to not inflate their currency, because it turns out they've destroyed all demand in their country for any products through their inflation, and so now they're in a spiral, which is why their stock market has crashed a couple of times in the past year.
00:17:48.000Finally, everybody is acting... You hear Donald Trump use this trade deficit language.
00:17:56.000When I trade something to you, I don't worry about the fact that I spent more money than you did.
00:18:01.000Right, if I buy a jacket from Macy's, then what I'm going to spend on that jacket... I don't worry about the trade deficit that I now have with Macy's.
00:18:07.000I wanted the jacket and Macy's wanted my money.
00:19:28.000I keep hearing from people that he's a genius because he's worth so much money.
00:19:31.000If my financial analyst did as badly with my money as Donald Trump has done with his money, I would fire them ten times over.
00:19:37.000Donald Trump has underperformed every market in which he's taken part.
00:19:42.000But, you know, all of this really in the end is about strength, which is why yesterday at a rally, Corey Lewandowski, who's Donald Trump's campaign manager, apparently took
00:19:54.000Michelle Fields is a reporter for Breitbart and actually physically threw her out of the way.
00:20:32.000There's been so much talk by dishonest people about Trump University or Trump Entrepreneur Initiative, and I thought I should set the record straight.
00:20:40.000Number one, it's something I could have settled numerous times.
00:20:43.000I just don't believe in settling, especially when you're right.
00:20:46.000Recently at the Fox debate, they said it had a D- rating from the Better Business Bureau.
00:20:56.000Before the end of the debate, I gave them the A we had sent to us.
00:21:00.000And here's the A rating from the Better Business Bureau.
00:21:03.000And they refused to put it on that night.
00:21:05.000They probably sent it some other time when nobody was listening.
00:21:09.000So we have an A rating, not a D minus rating.
00:21:11.000Additionally, I just saw a commercial made by a very dishonest guy, Lightweight Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, who's dying in the polls and dying as a candidate.
00:21:22.000And he made a commercial with a few people, two of which, and we have the third we're looking for, is Bob Gallo.
00:21:31.000And here's his report card on the school.
00:22:50.000Okay, so Donald Trump, the point of all of this is to say that Donald Trump is running what really looks like a ShamWow campaign.
00:22:57.000He's running a ShamWow campaign and he's making promises he can't possibly keep.
00:23:01.000When he talks about tariffs, when he talks about trade barriers, when he talks about forcing Apple to manufacture phones in this country, it's not going to happen.
00:23:08.000When he talks about how he's going to force companies to relocate inside the United States,
00:23:14.000The fact is that Donald Trump apparently wants to not only build a wall to keep Mexicans out, he wants to build a wall to keep American businesses in.
00:23:21.000It didn't work for the Soviet Union, and it won't work for Donald Trump.
00:23:24.000But the thing that people like about Donald Trump is that he's strong.
00:23:27.000So Ted Cruz, yesterday he was asked about Donald Trump doing his loyalty pledges, and here is Cruz explaining Trump isn't a king.
00:23:35.000Senator, could you ever ask your supporters to raise their hands and pledge their support to you, or would you be concerned about the optics of that?
00:23:41.000Um, you know, I am asking for the support of the grassroots each and every day, but it's not about pledging support to one person.
00:23:53.000Anyone who thinks that you're making a loyalty oath to some candidate fundamentally misunderstands this process.
00:24:02.000Listen, no political candidate is going to make America great again.
00:25:07.000There's a certain small segment of people who will be helped by Donald Trump, just like there's a certain segment of people who are helped by Hugo Chavez.
00:25:13.000All of Hugo Chavez's friends were helped by Hugo Chavez.
00:25:16.000There are certain industries that were helped by Hugo Chavez at the expense of the entire economy.
00:26:38.000But if you deprive Trump of those other three states, plus some of the delegates in North Carolina, which is still proportional, then Trump will not have a path to the nomination, and he'll end up with less than 1,237 delegates.
00:26:49.000Right now, right now, if you look at the kind of magic number, how many delegates are needed to clinch,
00:26:55.000Right now, Donald Trump needs about 55% of all delegates to clinch.
00:27:26.000But when it shifts to winner-take-all, he's either going to win 100% or 0% in all of these states, and so the number of delegates he gets is going to raise dramatically.
00:27:35.000So right now, even if Trump wins Florida,
00:27:38.000Then he still doesn't get to this number if he loses Ohio and if he loses Missouri and if he doesn't do well in North Carolina.
00:27:46.000According to, according to, who is this?
00:27:49.000Sean, sorry, Sean Davis over at The Federalist.
00:28:00.000So winning Florida and Ohio is a big boost for him, but if he loses Ohio, if he loses Illinois, if he loses Missouri, if he loses North Carolina, it's gonna be very, very difficult for Trump to win the nomination outright, which raises a big question.
00:28:13.000And here's the big question that it raises.
00:28:15.000What happens if Donald Trump has the lead in delegate number, but not enough to get the nomination?
00:28:20.000What if he has the most delegates, but not the nomination?
00:28:23.000So here's Donald Trump answering that question.
00:28:25.000He's asked, well, what if you're winning, but not enough to win the nomination?
00:28:47.000I don't know that that's going to happen, but I'll tell you there'll be a lot of people that will be very upset if that doesn't happen, because we have really fervent, wonderful people.
00:28:54.000And I think that would be pretty unfair.
00:28:57.000Let me ask you about your political path.
00:29:24.000Is it to win the nomination to Delegates Outright or is it to just deny and get to Cleveland and figure it out there?
00:29:30.000Look, we're campaigning to win and I will say anytime you hear people talking about a brokered convention...
00:29:36.000I think that is the fevered talk of the Washington establishment.
00:29:39.000The Washington establishment is in a panic.
00:29:45.000And their favorite candidates, the ones that they want to win, are not getting the votes.
00:29:50.000But if a bunch of Washington dealmakers try to step in at a brokered convention and steal the nomination, I think we will have a manifest uprising.
00:29:58.000If you want to beat Donald Trump, and I don't think Donald Trump is the right nominee to go up against Hillary Clinton, if you want to beat him,
00:30:06.000Our campaign is the only campaign that has demonstrated we can do so over and over again.
00:30:13.000The question here is why Cruz is saying this, because here's the reality.
00:30:15.000Cruz is probably not going to win more delegates than Donald Trump.
00:30:18.000There's a very good shot that Donald Trump ends up with the most delegates, and even if he doesn't win the nomination outright, he has the most delegates.
00:30:25.000One possibility is that Cruz is living in a bit of a fever dream of his own, in which he ends up with the most delegates, but he's afraid that the convention takes it away from him.
00:30:34.000It's also possible he doesn't want to look like he's an establishment guy who's just a stop-Trump-at-all-costs guy, because he still thinks that there are Trump people who might vote for him.
00:30:46.000If Trump does not win 1,237 delegates, let's say he gets 1,100 delegates, should he be stopped at the convention?
00:30:53.000There are a bunch of never-Trump people, like Eric Erickson, who says he'll never vote for Trump, who says, well, if he wins the most delegates, we should still give it to him.
00:31:00.000Even if it's not the number necessary to win, we should still give him the nomination.
00:31:06.000Glenn Beck has said much the same thing.
00:31:14.000This actually makes no sense to me, honestly.
00:31:16.000It doesn't make any sense to me to say Donald Trump is such a problem for conservatism that if he wins the nomination, I can't vote for him against Hillary Clinton.
00:31:26.000But if he doesn't get enough votes to win the nomination outright, let's just hand it to him.
00:31:29.000That doesn't make any sense to me at all.
00:31:31.000So I guess the normal argument is that it'll tear apart the party if we do that, that it'll make it look illegitimate, that Trump will run third party.
00:31:55.000Is that worse than Donald Trump taking over the entire Republican Party and putting the Trump brand, the Trump stake imprimatur on conservatism?
00:32:04.000This is a guy who's pro Planned Parenthood.
00:32:06.000This is a guy who lies about virtually every position he's ever taken.
00:32:10.000This is a person who is willing to associate with the lowest elements of the American populace in order to win.
00:32:16.000Is that something that Republicans are comfortable with?
00:32:22.000So, let's say that the Republican establishment decides we're going to deprive Trump of the nomination and we're going to hand it to somebody like Mitt Romney.
00:32:29.000So yeah, there will be a manifest revolt.
00:32:52.000They don't want a conservative, and they don't want somebody who's anti-establishment.
00:32:56.000Let them reject Cruz and Trump, and then we have clarity.
00:32:59.000And in four years, if presumably Romney loses, in four years, then we can come back, and we can come back with an anti-establishment conservative candidate.
00:33:08.000Who's not a liar about all of his policies, like Trump.
00:33:11.000Okay, let's say that the establishment settles on Cruz.
00:33:13.000Let's say they come back and they say, well, we hate Cruz and we hate Trump, but Cruz is the only one who's eligible other than Trump, because he's won eight states, so we'll give it to Cruz.
00:33:22.000So if the Trump people leave, the Trump people leave, but then it's just obvious they're not conservative, because Cruz is certainly conservative.
00:33:28.000Cruz, his border policy, is significantly more consistent than Trump's, who's been all over the place.
00:33:33.000And if Cruz loses to Hillary, Trump people will blame the establishment and the conservatives, but they're going to blame us anyway if Trump loses.
00:33:40.000If Cruz gets the nomination, at least 65% of the voters in the Republican Party who don't want Trump will be justified in their vote for Cruz.
00:33:49.000Plus, the establishment then can't blame conservatives for what happened since they signed off on it.
00:33:54.000Finally, the worst case scenario is that they actually do this.
00:33:56.000They hand the nomination to Donald Trump.
00:34:02.000He says there are two big risks with this, right?
00:34:06.000One is you're handing a danger, the possibility that you're handing a dangerous authoritarian a much more viable path to the presidency than he would have as an independent.
00:34:15.000And second, even if Trump loses, then the GOP is rebranded as, as Philip Klein puts it, the party of open-ended government entitlements, socialized medicine, partial birth abortion, gun control,
00:34:25.000Private property seizures, trade protectionism, authoritarianism, vulgarity, mindless policy pronouncements, celebrity worship, and white male resentment.
00:34:35.000Which is the reason why, if you're a Never Trump person, there is no logic to this idea that you should give Trump the nomination if he doesn't have the right number of votes.
00:37:33.000There have been incidents of children, of white children, pointing to their darker-skinned classmates and saying, you'll be deported when Donald Trump is president.
00:37:43.000There have been incidents of white kids at basketball games holding up signs to teams which have Hispanic kids on them, saying, we're going to build a wall to keep you out.
00:39:46.000The reason that Bernie Sanders, by the way, is doing better than than Hillary is against Trump in general election matchups is because Sanders is actually popular and Sanders
00:39:57.000Sanders isn't going to win the nomination, but he sort of gives a preview of what an attack on Donald Trump will look like in a general election.
00:45:44.000Well, actually, here's one more thing that I like.
00:45:46.000Yesterday, it turns out the toughest guy in the world was an Orthodox Jew in Israel who was stabbed multiple times by a Palestinian terrorist.
00:46:02.000The American State Department is an absolute horror show.
00:46:05.000So yesterday, an American citizen was murdered, a Vanderbilt University grad student who actually was a veteran, an American veteran in Afghanistan and Iraq, and he was murdered.
00:46:14.000And this student, his name was Taylor Force, he was a student at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vandy at Vanderbilt University, and he was murdered by a Palestinian terrorist.
00:46:25.000And here is what the State Department said.
00:46:29.000The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms today's outrageous terrorist attack in Jaffa, Petach Tikva, and Jerusalem, which tragically claimed the life of U.S.
00:46:38.000citizen Taylor Allen Force and left many others severely injured.
00:47:21.000I thought it was, it was sort of like some of those 1960s Simon and Garfunkel songs, where it was kind of faux deep, but it's not deep at all.
00:47:29.000It's just you pondering your navel, basically.
00:47:32.000And then you're supposed to think, oh wow, such wisdom coming from a movie with great special effects.
00:47:50.000The last few are... I mean, they're just direct.
00:47:52.000But, if you didn't know, a couple of years ago, the first Wachowski brother, the older Wachowski brother, came out and said that he is, in fact, transgender.
00:48:16.000Lily was approached by a reporter at the UK outlet, the Daily Mail, who asked Lily if she could have my picture taken and tell my story, which was so inspirational.
00:48:25.000Lily then slammed the Daily Mail's history with transgender issues.
00:48:28.000And he says, yeah, I'm transgendered and yeah, I've transitioned.
00:49:09.000Mike Ditka, who I was ripping on yesterday, saying he should have run against Obama in 2004, in that Senate race, and then saying that Mike Ditka should have stood up against Donald Trump instead of standing for him.
00:49:24.000He did an interview, we played it yesterday, in which he endorsed Donald Trump and called Obama the worst president we've ever had.
00:49:37.000The big lead reports that they've now hired Matt Hasselbeck to replace Ditka on Sunday NFL countdown.
00:49:43.000Immediately, the comments that Ditka said about Obama set off speculation about whether he'd be fired, and indeed he was, because this is the way that it works now.
00:49:51.000If you're Rush Limbaugh and you're hired to do commentary on the football programs, you're fired.
00:49:57.000If you're Mike Ditka and you have a long history as one of the faces of the NFL, if you say something that doesn't fall in line with the politically correct orthodoxy, then you're fired as well.
00:50:06.000I can disagree with people without thinking that they ought to be fired.
00:50:09.000The only reason to fire somebody is if their views are impacting job performance negatively.
00:50:14.000There's nothing to suggest that Ditka's views were in any way impacting his job performance.
00:50:19.000He was doing the same thing he's always done.
00:50:20.000He was one of the more popular figures on ESPN, and now he's basically been kicked to the curb because he had the temerity to suggest what everyone knows, that Barack Obama is a terrible president.
00:50:30.000Once again, folks, you will be made to care.
00:50:35.000They will come after you, and they will come after anyone who is in any way mildly conservative.
00:50:40.000By the way, I have a feeling this is why, for example, Sylvester Stallone didn't win the Oscar for the latest Rocky movie, for Creed, because Sylvester Stallone is pretty openly a Republican.
00:50:50.000In Hollywood, that's a big no-no, so they didn't give it to him in the end.
00:50:53.000So, again, the left never stops their program, and there's no reason why we should allow the left to infiltrate the right in the form of Donald Trump.
00:51:02.000We'll talk about all of this and more tomorrow.
00:51:04.000Plus, the mailbag is coming up tomorrow.