Donald Trump has spent his entire life being an indecent person. According to the left, being a decent person means being a politically incorrect person. But according to the right, being an indecent person means being a political incorrect. And that s exactly what Donald Trump does. He uses political correctness as a cover for being vile and stupid, and he uses politically incorrectness as a go-to excuse for saying stupid, ridiculous things. And that's the great irony. The same people willing to ignore Trump's leftism because he's politically incorrect, are willing to swallow Trump's biggest lie: that he's a politically incorrect warrior. Even as he champions increased taxes, abortion clinics, and transgenders peeing next to little small girls, he's often just as politically correct as Bernie Sanders. That's why we're seeing more and more presidential Donald Trump, and now we're going to see him as the most presidential person we've ever seen. Ben Shapiro: Trump is not a conservative. He is a leftist. He has always been a leftist, but then he takes that leftism and slathers it in the gooey, incoherent gravy of political incorrectness, and his supporters cheer. Well, his pivot is something that looks like pandering to the far-left. And now you have a guy who looks like a lot of things that supposedly does a bunch of things everybody does, and panders to something that supposedly everybody does except he's not even a conservative, is something everybody does a lot, right? and now he's pivoting to the moderates, is a lot more presidential, is he's going to be a presidential? And the media has been waiting for you to get bored with him to be more presidential? And now he s going to pivot to be presidential, isn t he? What does that sound like a good thing? ? And now we re going to get a more presidential person, you re getting a presidential person you d be bored of him, you know what I'm in trouble? - Ben Shapiro on why he s boring, and you d have to be boring, you don t have time to be presidential, right, you're in this election, you d actually have a chance to vote for a decent, decent, presidential person? The Ben Shapiro Show is a show that s boring and boring and you re boring, but you d just be boring?
00:00:30.000Donald Trump is not politically incorrect.
00:00:33.000The fact is that Donald Trump likes to cite political correctness as kind of his cover.
00:00:39.000He's vile and he's stupid, and he uses politically incorrect as a go-to excuse for being vile and stupid.
00:00:44.000When it comes to policy, he's often just as politically correct as Bernie Sanders.
00:00:48.000So today, Donald Trump called placing Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill an act of pure political correctness.
00:00:55.000That's a weird place to make a politically incorrect stand, given that Trump also said, today, in the same interview, that North Carolina's attempt to stop men from peeing next to little girls was, quote, very strong.
00:02:03.000Maybe that's why I'm leading in the polls, because people are tired of hearing politicians and pollsters telling the politicians exactly what to say.
00:02:09.000Here's Trump on mocking a disabled reporter.
00:02:12.000I don't take that back because the person was groveling in terms of creating statements.
00:02:15.000Never say a disabled person or the disabled.
00:02:53.000But then, he takes that leftism and he slathers it in the gooey, incoherent gravy of political incorrectness and his supporters' cheer.
00:03:01.000And that, of course, is the great irony.
00:03:03.000The same people willing to ignore Trump's leftism because he's politically incorrect, the same people enraged at the lies of political correctness, are willing to swallow Trump's biggest lie, that he's a politically incorrect warrior, even as he champions increased taxes, abortion clinics, and transgenders peeing next to little small girls.
00:04:23.000He's really this hardcore right-winger, and he's really, this guy's gonna stand up for nationalist, politically incorrect interests, and then he's, and he's got to say what he's got to say to get elected.
00:04:33.000What I'm gonna make the case for today is that Donald Trump's politically correct left positions on major issues of the day is actually what he believes, and he has been lying to you throughout the primaries.
00:04:43.000Because there is predicate for everything that he is currently saying in things that he has said in the past.
00:04:48.000Everything that he said today, all the crazy stupid things he said today, he has been saying for literally decades, but he thinks his supporters are morons and so he thinks he can get away with this.
00:04:57.000I don't know if Trump supporters know that he's playing them for morons.
00:04:59.000I don't know if many of them are too stupid to get that he's playing them as suckers.
00:05:04.000So, let's take for example today, Donald Trump's commentary on transgenders.
00:05:08.000Here is Donald Trump explaining that he's asked about the North Carolina law that says that men are not allowed to go into bathrooms with little girls.
00:05:15.000More importantly, the government is not allowed to force private institutions
00:05:19.000So if Caitlyn Jenner were to walk into Trump Tower and want to use the bathroom, you would be fine with her using any bathroom she chooses?
00:06:29.000If a religious couple is faced with a gay couple that wants to come in and have their gay wedding catered, the religious people should just sit down and shut up.
00:06:36.000That's basically what he's saying there.
00:06:38.000He's saying, if you run a restaurant and it only has a male bathroom and a female bathroom, let's say you run a Chuck E. Cheese and it only has a male and a female, if...
00:06:45.000If, you know, Bruno from the neighborhood bar walks in in a dress, he should be able to walk right on into the ladies room and you should- there are never any problems that arise from this.
00:06:53.000Except, of course, for the massive brawl that just broke out in L.A.
00:06:56.000high school where they just put him in a transgender bathroom.
00:06:59.000But the other thing is that, you know, when it comes to Trump appealing to the other side,
00:07:04.000He doesn't... Because he is of the other side, he says things they like and things that we don't.
00:07:09.000Because this is who Trump has always been.
00:07:51.000I mean, hey, I lived in New York City and Manhattan all my life, okay?
00:07:55.000So, you know, my views are a little bit different than if I lived in Iowa, perhaps.
00:07:59.000But it's not something that would disturb me.
00:08:01.000You know, this clip, by the way, demonstrates once and for all that Donald Trump's lies about New York values are just that, they're lies, right?
00:08:06.000He understands exactly what New York values are, they're left values.
00:08:10.000Okay, so, on the transgender thing, he's always felt the way the social left does.
00:09:22.000Here's the truth about the rape incest position.
00:09:24.000It is a position of political convenience.
00:09:26.000You'll see politicians take this position because they're trying to be politically correct.
00:09:30.000It is a politically correct position to say that a woman has suffered, therefore she gets to abort the baby that is the product of rape or incest.
00:09:37.000It's a politically correct position because the logic doesn't change.
00:09:40.000Okay, the logic behind no abortion is this is an independent human life.
00:09:44.000This is the entire logic behind no abortion.
00:09:47.000The logic behind the anti-abortion pro-life movement is this is a human life.
00:10:55.000And, again, it may be a little bit of a New York background because there is some different attitude in different parts of the country and, you know, I was raised in New York and grew up and work and everything else in New York City.
00:11:10.000I would, I would, I am, I am pro-choice in every respect and as far as it goes, but I just hate it.
00:11:17.000I just hate it, but I wouldn't ban it.
00:11:19.000Okay, so, again, this is genuine Trump.
00:11:21.000From 1999, when he wasn't running for office, this is genuine Trump.
00:11:24.000What you've seen in the primaries is not genuine Trump, and that's why he ends up in these awkward positions, where he's trying to now walk back all of these harsh positions he took in the primaries, because he doesn't actually believe those things.
00:11:34.000Now, people have said he had this Rhodes-Damascus conversion.
00:11:36.000Most people in their life can tell you when they had the conversion.
00:11:39.000Trump says he has been consistent throughout his political career.
00:11:43.000Trump says that he had some sort of conversion on abortion, won't tell you when, won't really tell you why, won't tell you how, won't tell you what changed in his belief system to bring him here.
00:11:51.000But now he wants to change the abortion platform.
00:11:53.000So he's doing the work that Hillary Clinton won't do, right?
00:11:56.000He's actually changing, he wants to change the Republican platform on abortion, and he's taking Hillary Clinton's position on the North Carolina gender law.
00:12:04.000But that's not all during this interview, right?
00:12:11.000For the most part, I have to say though, Wall Street people, they're aggressive, they're tough, they're smart, and they bring a lot of money and a lot of jobs into this country.
00:12:19.000Do you believe in raising taxes on the wealthy?
00:12:38.000But his pivot is actually back to what he believes.
00:12:40.000Here is Donald Trump in 1991 talking about Ronald Reagan's tax cuts while testifying before Congress.
00:12:46.000So this tax act was just an absolute catastrophe for the country, for the real estate industry, and I really hope that something can be done, as Congressman Thomas recently said, that something can be done to change at least parts of it, because it has taken all incentive away from investing in real estate.
00:13:06.000And real estate really means so many jobs.
00:13:09.000I mean, you have a city called New York City.
00:13:27.000Moderate-income housing, low-income housing, even high-income housing, where you create jobs, you create so many other things.
00:13:34.000They buy carpet, they buy furniture, they buy refrigerators, they buy other things that fuel the economy.
00:13:40.000And incentive has to be put back into the construction of things that are needed, such as housing of all kinds.
00:13:47.000I heard this morning that we've had the lowest number of houses built, in terms of the housing, since 1946.
00:13:57.000To be clear, this is him ripping on Ronald Reagan's tax cuts, saying that Ronald Reagan's tax cuts undercut the real estate market.
00:14:05.000This is Donald Trump suggesting that tax cuts for wealthy people are bad and that taxes ought to be higher for wealthy people, and then there should be magical subsidies, loopholes for the rich, that should then be given to build things.
00:14:16.000The real reason there weren't any housing starts in New York City during the time he's talking about is because there was heavy rent control in New York City during the time he's talking about.
00:15:09.000And for the next two weeks, the person goes on a complete bender.
00:15:12.000They go out and they cheat on you, and they go out and they take drugs, and they go out and they do all the terrible things they were doing before they met you.
00:15:18.000Do you think now, when you marry this person, you're gonna get the four-month person who's trying to get something from you?
00:15:24.000Or do you think you're gonna get the 30-year person and the thing the person's doing now?
00:15:29.000Trump pivoting is pivoting back to what he believes.
00:15:31.000Trump is now doing what he likes to do.
00:15:33.000He's making overtures to the left, and this is what he will do as president.
00:16:08.000Harriet Tubman will now replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill.
00:16:13.000You have so often during this campaign railed against political correctness.
00:16:18.000Do you see this as a move that is all about political correctness or is this a move that is simply way overdue?
00:16:25.000Well, Andrew Jackson had a great history, and I think it's very rough when you take somebody off the bill.
00:16:30.000Andrew Jackson had a history of tremendous success for the country, and as you know, they were gonna do, you know, the $10 bill, and then all of a sudden, the Broadway play, Hamilton, or the Broadway play sort of saved that one.
00:17:40.000I mean, Harriet Tubman was the kind of gal, she was a, as National Review puts it, a gun-toting, Jesus-loving spy who blazed the way for women to play a significant role in military and political affairs.
00:17:51.000She was born into slavery as Arminta Ross,
00:17:54.000And she knew the slave system's inhumanity firsthand.
00:17:57.000She later went back south, always carrying a gun she wasn't afraid to use to help guide her own family and many others out of the plantations.
00:18:03.000Apparently, she carried the guns not only in order to scare away slave catchers, but to tell the people who were with her.
00:18:09.000If you try to go back to that plantation, I will shoot you personally.
00:18:13.000Harriet Tubman did not take prisoners.
00:18:16.000Harriet Tubman was tough, tough, tough.
00:18:19.000I mean, she worked also with John Brown in terms of his revolt against the slaveholders.
00:18:55.000Jackson was not a particularly good guy.
00:18:58.000Jackson was responsible for the Trail of Tears.
00:19:00.000He treated Native Americans very poorly.
00:19:01.000He also was, unlike a lot of the slaveholders who wrote the Declaration of Independence, he was in favor of expanding slavery into the territories.
00:19:08.000And really opposed any attempt to curtail slavery's growth.
00:19:12.000So there are a lot of problems with Andrew Jackson.
00:19:14.000He was the creator of the Democratic Party, which in and of itself has been a disaster.
00:19:17.000But Andrew Jackson off the 20 is a different question than Tubman on it.
00:19:43.000It wouldn't have mattered which woman they picked, whether she's deserving or not deserving, as soon as you say, we're not going to pick the best person for the bill, we need somebody who fulfills
00:19:51.000Such and such identity politics group, you've now moved into the area of political correctness.
00:19:56.000But here's where Trump is so wrong and so stupid.
00:19:59.000Trump's suggestion that Harriet Tubman doesn't deserve to be on a bill more than Jackson is actually silly.
00:20:04.000Tubman does deserve to be on a bill more than Jackson does.
00:20:15.000The fact that Trump, in the same interview where he's saying men should be able to pee next to little girls, draws the politically correct line at Harriet Tubman, demonstrates that the man has a gut non-understanding of political correctness.
00:20:26.000He thinks political correctness just means anything with which he disagrees.
00:20:30.000Political correctness means being politically incorrect across the board.
00:20:34.000If you're going to be politically incorrect, and you want to say this about Tubman, fine.
00:21:53.000But, hey, I guess we wouldn't be here maybe if it wasn't for the media, so maybe we shouldn't be complaining, right?
00:21:59.000Okay, so he says the media's terrible, they're terrible, they're terrible, and then he finally, at the very end, gets to the true point.
00:22:06.000And the true point is, the media has made him what he is.
00:22:09.000Both the media who don't like him, because he's been able to run against them, by suggesting that they're just liars and horrible, and as I've said a couple of broadcasts ago, the more he lies, the better it is for him.
00:22:18.000Because if he lies, then the media take the brunt of it.
00:22:21.000If he lies and gets away with it, then it's a slap against the media, and that's how his supporters take it.
00:22:26.000But at the very end, he gets to the real point, and that is, if it were not for the media, nobody would have ever heard of Donald Trump.
00:22:56.000Listen to Greta Van Susteren's question to Reince Priebus.
00:23:00.000Well, I think that people are going to see that we're a pretty unified party.
00:23:03.000We all want to put on a great convention.
00:23:05.000We don't want to put our hand on the scale.
00:23:07.000We want everyone to understand that we want a fair and open nomination process.
00:23:12.000We want to take the rules kind of out of the equation and make this about the vote on the floor.
00:23:18.000Do you have the votes or don't you have the votes?
00:23:21.000That's really the only question that we want on the table.
00:23:24.000And everything that we can do to make it more about that and less about some
00:23:29.000Goofy idea, or trick, or inserting, you know, rule provision.
00:23:35.000It's better for us, and that's what we want to do.
00:23:37.000And what she said right before that, Greta's question right before that, is she, there's a direct quote.
00:23:42.000She actually said, how are you going to, she says, my email is filling up with people, and it's filling up with people, and she says, how are you going to convince them that the system isn't rigged against them?
00:23:51.000There's no way to answer that question.
00:25:04.000The American people are looking at this and they say, you know, whether we like Donald Trump or not, the guy went out and he has won this thing.
00:25:12.000Now, if by poaching and pilfering delegates here and there, Cruz and Kasich can hold Trump off from the nomination on the first ballot, and then they take it, it'll be like, you know, the heavyweight champ standing there with his gloves over his head and the award going to the guy lying on the canvas.
00:26:16.000And Hannity sits there and, of course, nods along.
00:26:17.000So you've got Buchanan, you've got Hannity, you've got Greta Van Susteren, and here's Laura Ingraham, who subs for Bill O'Reilly, saying, again, this is from the coverage of the night, right?
00:26:26.000This is the coverage of the night where Trump wins the New York primary.
00:26:28.000Here's Laura Ingraham saying, the only question is how far people will go to stop Trump.
00:26:32.000I mean, what you're watching right here is a concerted propaganda effort.
00:26:36.000Now, all of these people can have their various reasons for supporting Trump.
00:26:58.000The only question is, how far will the Republican establishment go to kill off this guy who is the most popular of all the other candidates?
00:27:12.000How far will Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan and all the other people who say, oh, they're not putting their finger on the scale, but come on.
00:27:21.000I mean, we heard Mitch McConnell today.
00:27:23.000We heard Paul Ryan talk about the negative tone.
00:27:25.000Meanwhile, Sean, we're hearing about Trump staffers being blacklisted if they ever try to work again.
00:28:45.000But aside from that, virtually all their other hosts are pro-Trump.
00:28:48.000And again, not a critique of the hosts.
00:28:50.000They can be as pro-Trump as they want to be, so long as they're honest about it.
00:28:53.000It's a critique of Trump who claims that he's been victimized by this whole system.
00:28:56.000And of course, this is driving people to surrender.
00:28:58.000It's driving the mainstream Republicans to surrender.
00:29:01.000Steve Schmidt, who is a campaign advisor for Mitt Romney and a campaign advisor for John McCain, he says Trump is going to win the nomination on the first ballot.
00:29:09.000I think that when you look now at the math of this race, and you look at the states ahead, you look at the winner-take-all states, Donald Trump is going to be the first ballot nominee of the Republican Party.
00:29:22.000He will clear the 1237 mark by at least 50 to 60 delegates.
00:29:27.000By the time the votes are counted on June 7th in the state of California.
00:29:33.000And all of this puts Ted Cruz behind the eight ball.
00:29:36.000The senator from Texas puts him behind the eight ball because you got Ted Cruz there and you can't help.
00:29:42.000Once the momentum and the media momentum is behind a candidate, it's very difficult not to look like you're nipping at that candidate's heels.
00:29:47.000And Ted Cruz, that's all he can do at this point is just say, Trump won't debate me.
00:32:14.000Now, for a couple, we'll just skip straight to things that I like, and then the mailbag.
00:32:16.000So, things that I like will conclude the musical week here on The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:32:22.000This is, I mentioned that I think the best, the most brilliant musical number ever written is that quartet from Sweeney Todd.
00:32:29.000The kind of all-time musical number, the most memorable musical number, is this soliloquy from Carousel, and people who know Broadway know this.
00:32:35.000This is John Wright, who was the original in Carousel by Rodgers and Hammerstein.
00:32:39.000We'll play a little bit of it, but it's just, it's an amazing piece of work.
00:34:51.000There's a picture, was a picture for the Boston Red Sox, and he tweeted, he put up a Facebook post about the North Carolina transgender law.
00:34:59.000You wanna see political incorrectness?
00:35:02.000So, he puts up this Facebook post, and it shows a man who's dressed in what looks like a dress, but it's got pieces cut out for the boobs and for the stomach, and he's wearing a blonde wig, and this thing says, let him into the restroom with your daughter, or else you're a narrow-minded, judgmental, unloving, racist bigot who needs to die.
00:36:41.000Let's start with this one from Victor.
00:36:56.000Why doesn't God convey the truth to us by talking to us or writing all the laws in the sky so we don't misinterpret or falsify his words and create different religious views?
00:37:03.000Okay, so there are several questions there.
00:37:04.000I believe in God because I look at the way that the world works and if you behave responsibly and decently according to the basic rules of behavior that God lays out in the Bible, you end up with a better life.
00:37:14.000That means that there's a system that's been created by someone or something that leads good action to lead to good result.
00:37:21.000Now, that leads to the second question.
00:37:22.000Why is it sometimes bad things happen to good people?
00:37:54.000Not only choice capacity, but the ability to create something where nothing was, essentially.
00:37:58.000Which is why you can create civilizations.
00:38:00.000You can create energy out of oil, which is magic, right?
00:38:03.000I mean, you can do all of these things.
00:38:05.000If you are designed that system, what social scientists have found is that if you're running an office, there are two sorts of behaviors that you want to encourage.
00:38:14.000So habit is, you know, you want to make sure that you put on your shoes in the morning, you get up in the morning, you put on your shoes, you do it every morning forever, and you will never forget to put on your shoes because now it's a habit.
00:38:24.000So there are certain things in life where
00:38:26.000Habit is necessary, and that's why most of the time, most of the time, basic rules result in basic consequences.
00:38:32.000Don't hurt people, they won't hurt you, right?
00:38:35.000Then there's the creative aspect of life that God wants to forward in us.
00:38:39.000That can't exist if all you are is a creature of habit.
00:38:43.000Flow only exists where you are feeling in consonance with your purpose.
00:38:46.000Flow, as defined by social scientists, is the notion that, for example, like when I'm working on a book, I feel there's a certain time when anybody's working at anything.
00:38:55.000Where you feel as though you are completely in consonance with your work.
00:39:02.000You're just ensconced in what it is you're supposed to be doing because you're creating.
00:39:05.000In order to have this, according to social scientists, you can't have preconceived rules hemming you in on all sides.
00:39:10.000There has to be a freedom of movement.
00:39:12.000There can't be a one-to-one ratio, in other words.
00:39:14.000You have to feel free to have new ideas and do new things.
00:39:18.000And so God creates a system where there's a certain amount of randomness and chaos to the system, at least from our point of view.
00:39:24.000And that's specifically so that we can act with the freedom necessary in order to create, because if there was always a one-to-one ratio, there would be no creativity.
00:39:30.000We would just be a machine, and the programming would be placed upon us.
00:39:33.000That's why God doesn't write rules in the sky, because if he were to write those rules, and we were to abide by those rules, then there's no creativity in the machine.