The Ben Shapiro Show - October 26, 2026


Bill Maher and Trump Are Going at It

A Message to the Co-Founder of Call Her Daddy The 'Nobody Wants This' Cast War, Explained

Episode Stats


Length

8 minutes

Words per minute

182.99

Word count

1,589

Sentence count

144


Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Now, Republicans have a role too, and that is not to alienate the middle.
00:00:05.000 Guys, all the American people want is some level of normalcy.
00:00:07.000 That's the only thing they want.
00:00:08.000 That's all they care about, truly.
00:00:10.000 All they want is just normal.
00:00:12.000 So don't be weird.
00:00:14.000 Just don't.
00:00:16.000 Well, along those lines, the president decided to get in a fight with Bill Maher yesterday.
00:00:20.000 I don't know what the point of this is.
00:00:22.000 Again, I'm friendly with Bill.
00:00:24.000 I like Bill.
00:00:26.000 Bill will probably vote Democrat, but, you know, we can have political disagreements in this country without declaring that Bill Maher is somehow the enemy.
00:00:32.000 Bill Maher has been one of the people on the left who is willing to actually call out the left for its extraordinary excesses.
00:00:39.000 And he's willing to, you know, have conversations with people who are not of the left.
00:00:43.000 He got in a giant fight with President Trump, or Trump went after him.
00:00:47.000 So over the weekend, Maher questioned what President Trump might do if the Republicans lose.
00:00:52.000 I worry that if this election goes as badly as it looks like it's going to go for him and the Republicans, we're going to have a guy who doesn't have as much power as he did.
00:01:02.000 And he's just, we know he likes vengeance.
00:01:05.000 Do you worry about this last two years, what any president would call a lame duck time, even a successful presidency?
00:01:15.000 What's he going to be like in that scenario?
00:01:17.000 I don't worry about it, actually.
00:01:19.000 And I think, you know, we understand where history is with these midterm elections coming up, I think, in 11 days.
00:01:24.000 The president does have a way of defying history.
00:01:27.000 He was in the Oval Office not once, but twice, and every poll said he wouldn't make it there.
00:01:31.000 So I think he's working really hard out on the road to turn Republicans out to vote.
00:01:36.000 So let's wait and see before jumping to.
00:01:37.000 Conclusions on the midterms.
00:01:39.000 And I don't worry about the president.
00:01:41.000 Look, he loves our country very much and he wants to make it right.
00:01:44.000 And he has said, you've heard him say this, I will work with Democrats to do what's best.
00:01:49.000 Okay, so again, the president went after Marr because apparently he didn't like this interview with Caroline Lovett very much on Friday night.
00:01:54.000 But Bill Marr also, here he was recounting his time with President Trump.
00:01:59.000 This does not sound like a person who, you know, if you're going to spend your days fulminating online, this is probably not the guy you want to go after.
00:02:05.000 So we feel he just, he's just so imperious when he's out of the White House and when he's there.
00:02:11.000 The total opposite.
00:02:12.000 He never pulls rank.
00:02:14.000 No matter how flippant I get, he never goes, How dare you say that in the White House?
00:02:19.000 I mean, I can talk to him just like I talk to any guy at a bar, and he does sound like a guy at a bar.
00:02:23.000 Well, he does.
00:02:26.000 But he just, he seems to like go in and out.
00:02:28.000 There are so many moments where he gets it.
00:02:31.000 Like I said to him, You know, when you said the Supreme Court, they're voting against me, you know that's not how the Supreme Court is supposed to work, right?
00:02:40.000 It's not about they're not voting for or against you.
00:02:43.000 You appoint them and then they make decisions.
00:02:45.000 And he went, Yeah, I took that one too personal.
00:02:47.000 See what I mean?
00:02:48.000 He gets it and then he doesn't get it.
00:02:51.000 Now, again, does this seem like somebody who.
00:02:53.000 The reason I'm pointing this out is because when you are running in an election or when you're the head of a party running an election, you have to do two things make it hard to vote for your opponent, make it easy to vote for you.
00:03:02.000 Making it easy to vote for you means don't waste your ammo on erstwhile middle of the road people.
00:03:08.000 Don't do it.
00:03:08.000 I mean, here was Bill Maher over the weekend saying he doesn't give a crap about the whole ballroom, for example, which the left is totally obsessed with.
00:03:15.000 At least you're honest.
00:03:16.000 I don't give a sh.
00:03:16.000 About any of this.
00:03:17.000 I like the ballroom.
00:03:18.000 Yeah.
00:03:19.000 America does need a ballroom.
00:03:20.000 I love that.
00:03:21.000 We do.
00:03:21.000 Yeah, absolutely.
00:03:22.000 It's the United States of America.
00:03:24.000 Perfect dinner in the grass.
00:03:25.000 It's a shame.
00:03:25.000 I'm stupid.
00:03:27.000 Under a tent?
00:03:28.000 Yeah, under a tent.
00:03:28.000 With mud on your feet, you're wearing these expensive shoes.
00:03:30.000 I don't know about those ones, but maybe.
00:03:32.000 Maybe you went to the White House, you would spruce it up.
00:03:38.000 The Democratic Socialists of America won primaries across the country.
00:03:41.000 Next, they're coming for Congress, and they are coming for you.
00:03:45.000 If they win the midterms, they will defund the police, reopen the border, force men into women's sports.
00:03:49.000 That's just the beginning.
00:03:50.000 You are the last line of defense.
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00:03:55.000 Go to GOPvotes.org right now.
00:03:58.000 Make a plan to vote early.
00:03:59.000 If you live in the critical Senate battleground states of Alaska, Michigan, Maine, Ohio, Iowa, or Texas, early voting is already underway this week, like right now.
00:04:08.000 Democrats are energized.
00:04:09.000 The stakes have never been higher.
00:04:11.000 We can't afford to have people like AOC and her communist friends running the show.
00:04:14.000 This is why I need you to make a plan to vote early right now.
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00:04:27.000 So, again, something here set President Trump off.
00:04:29.000 So he put out a 1300 word diatribe.
00:04:32.000 Against Bill Maher on Truth Social over the weekend.
00:04:34.000 Quote, let's talk about this complete and total loser, Bill Maher.
00:04:37.000 He's got a low rated show on equally low rated HBO, which was once long ago a network of quality and excitement.
00:04:42.000 But that's all gone.
00:04:43.000 It's not hot anymore.
00:04:45.000 Maher's friend and business associate, Chuck Labella, was also a friend of mine, worked on the top hit show, The Apprentice, as a gopher.
00:04:50.000 And because of the success of that show, number one and top rated on many weeks, with the finale being among the top shows of the year, he was automatically and quickly brought up through the ranks of NBC, along with everyone else associated with that historic happening.
00:05:02.000 And then he goes on like this.
00:05:03.000 For, like, a very, long time.
00:05:08.000 And then he's very upset.
00:05:09.000 He says, Caroline Levitt was great on the show, but she started with a biased, dumb sleazebag asking questions.
00:05:13.000 She defended me and herself so well, but couldn't be comfortable going after lie after lie.
00:05:17.000 Importantly, Bill lied about all of the illegal voters in the radical controlled, decrepit, and devastated state of California.
00:05:23.000 And then he just goes on like this Why?
00:05:29.000 Just why?
00:05:30.000 Just truly why?
00:05:31.000 Like, there is a reason.
00:05:33.000 The Republicans in this election cycle who are doing better than the other Republicans are the ones.
00:05:37.000 Who are not actually sort of running in Trump's wake and are running against radicals.
00:05:41.000 This is why, again, I think Susan Collins is going to win Maine.
00:05:44.000 But please make it easier.
00:05:46.000 It's the last week of the election.
00:05:47.000 Please make it easier for people in the middle to just vote Republican as opposed to thinking about silliness like this.
00:05:53.000 There's no reason to do any of this.
00:05:56.000 All righty.
00:05:56.000 So apparently, the White House press office is interviewing Nicki Minaj.
00:06:03.000 One of the weirder, I'll say this is one of the weirder videos of the weekend.
00:06:06.000 Stephen Chung.
00:06:08.000 Who is the head of the White House press office?
00:06:09.000 Was, you know, of course, it's a joke interviewing Nicki Minaj for press secretary.
00:06:15.000 She's obviously pro Trump.
00:06:18.000 And here's how it went.
00:06:21.000 Why do you think the economy is boosting under President Trump?
00:06:25.000 Well, it's boosting because we have a president that understands economics, first of all.
00:06:30.000 You know, I said before that the president is naturally a businessman, he's worked his way out of, you know, Not having a dollar left in the bank.
00:06:43.000 So if he could do that with himself and his own finances, surely he knows what to do with the country.
00:06:49.000 You know, he's very tough.
00:06:50.000 He's tough internationally.
00:06:54.000 He tells them what we need, not what they need.
00:06:58.000 We're not going to be paying to get us there.
00:07:00.000 Okay?
00:07:00.000 They are going to pay us to be affiliated with the United States of America.
00:07:09.000 I mean, she did better than the last one.
00:07:11.000 But first rule of comms, guys control for the sound.
00:07:16.000 I mean, come on.
00:07:20.000 All right, listen, it's all fun and games.
00:07:24.000 I still don't know who the next press secretary is going to be.
00:07:26.000 I assume it's not going to be Nicki Minaj, although she does have a lot of barbs.
00:07:29.000 She does have a lot of fans.
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00:08:39.000 No. I have.