The Ben Shapiro Show - Ep. 111 - Trump Kills Ben! And Other Trump Fantasies Come To Life

00:00:00.000 President Barack Obama went looking for his identity as a black man in his youth.

00:00:05.000 As President of the United States, he found it.

00:00:07.000 The way he found it was by polarizing America along racial lines between black and white.

00:00:12.000 After turning what could have been a unifying presidency for the country into a wedge with which to divide black and Hispanic Americans from whites, President Obama reaped his reward on Saturday night when alleged comedian Larry Wilmore called Obama his N-word.

00:00:26.000 Wilmore, hosting the White House Correspondents' Dinner, explained that throughout the Obama administration, he didn't care about Obama's policies, he only cared about the color of his skin.

00:00:34.000 What he said was, quote, Mr. President, all jokes aside, let me just say how much it means for me to be here tonight.

00:00:39.000 I've always joked I voted for the president because he's black.

00:00:42.000 People say, do you agree with his policies? 0.96

00:00:44.000 And I always said, I agree with the policy that he's black. 0.99

00:00:46.000 As long as he keeps being black, I'm good. 1.00

00:00:48.000 They'd say, what about Iraq? 0.99

00:00:49.000 And I'd say, is he still black?

00:00:51.000 But behind the joke is a humble appreciation for the historical implications for what your presidency means, yadda yadda yadda. 0.92

00:00:57.000 He says a black man was not thought, by his mere color, not good enough to lead a football team, way back when.

00:01:04.000 And now, to live in your time, Mr. President, when a black man can lead the entire free world, words alone do me no justice. 0.99

00:01:09.000 So, Mr. President, if I'm gonna keep it 100%, yo Barry, you did it, my n-word.

00:01:14.000 You did it.

00:01:16.000 Now, here's the deal.

00:01:16.000 Normal people would find this offensive.

00:01:19.000 If anybody suggested that Donald Trump's policies don't matter because, hey, he's white, then we would call you a racist because that would be racist.

00:01:26.000 Obama found this whole routine perfectly acceptable.

00:01:28.000 Not only did he laugh his way through it, the White House actually said today Obama, quote, appreciated the spirit of Mr. Wilmore's expression Saturday night.

00:01:36.000 Josh Earnest said, quote, I'm confident Mr. Wilmore used the word by design.

00:01:40.000 He was seeking to be provocative.

00:01:42.000 Any reading of his comments made clear he was not using the president as the butt of a joke.

00:01:47.000 Right, that's the point.

00:01:49.000 He wasn't.

00:01:49.000 He was offering racial fealty to the president by calling the president authentically black in the leftist parlance, which means using the n-word, and Obama just sat there and lapped it up.

00:01:59.000 Is it any wonder that Obama did, given the fact that in Dreams from My Father, he talked about his racial ambivalence, his longing for acceptance, his attempts to find a place in the black world? 0.84

00:02:08.000 In the introduction to that book, Obama wrote, quote, When people who don't know me well

00:02:12.000 Black or white, discover my background.

00:02:14.000 And it is usually a discovery, for I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so, I was ingratiating myself to whites.

00:02:23.000 I see the split-second adjustments they have to make, the telltale searching of my eyes for some sign.

00:02:29.000 Obama found acceptance in the end by engaging in activism and community organizing black communities.

00:02:34.000 He's extended that to the presidency, where he's legitimated black criminals like Michael Brown, and justified riots in Ferguson and Baltimore, and sticked his DOJ on non-racist police departments.

00:02:45.000 And now, he's finally earned the greatest prize.

00:02:48.000 He is Larry Wilmore's N-word.

00:02:49.000 So it was all worth it, apparently.

00:02:52.000 Maybe for him, but not for the Americans who rely on the president to look beyond racial solidarity to govern.

00:02:58.000 To those Americans, Obama couldn't be more of a disappointment.

00:03:01.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:03:02.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:03:10.000 So, here we are, and it is the day of the Armageddon.

00:03:13.000 It is upon us.

00:03:14.000 I think that Ted Cruz is gonna get schlonged as President Trump, as Donald Trump would put it.

00:03:20.000 It's going to get ugly for Ted Cruz.

00:03:23.000 And Donald Trump will now likely be the nominee.

00:03:27.000 And so here's a quick preview of the show tomorrow.

00:03:29.000 This is just a quick preview of what the show is going to be like tomorrow.

00:03:33.000 Clip one.

00:03:34.000 This is just what it's gonna look like tomorrow morning.

00:03:35.000 We finally really did it. 0.99

00:03:41.000 You maniacs! 0.99

00:03:44.000 You blew it up! 1.00

00:03:46.000 Oh, damn you! 1.00

00:03:49.000 God! 1.00

00:03:51.000 DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL! 1.00

00:03:54.000 Yes, that's pretty much it right there. 0.99

00:03:55.000 That's- that's- that's pretty much how the show's gonna go tomorrow, so I hope that- so just prepare yourselves, if- if you think we've been bleak so far, ho-ho-ho-ho!

00:04:03.000 There's a whole nother level to that down escalator. 0.75

00:04:06.000 I mean, we are just gonna go all the way to the bottom, because Donald Trump's a disaster.

00:04:11.000 For people who don't think that Donald Trump's a disaster, today was a- a- another- each- I- I have to say.

00:04:17.000 Okay, so.

00:04:19.000 In Deuteronomy.

00:04:21.000 In Deuteronomy, it says, in Deuteronomy 28, 67, it says that each morning you're gonna think, I wish it were last night, and each night you're gonna wish it were the morning.

00:04:31.000 That's how bad things are gonna be, should you break your covenant with God.

00:04:34.000 That is the Trump Covenant, okay?

00:04:35.000 We go to sleep thinking the Trump campaign can't go any lower, and then we wake up the next morning and we go, boy, you remember when the Trump campaign was so elevated last night?

00:04:42.000 You remember that?

00:04:43.000 Well, today,

00:04:45.000 Trump issued his latest botched partial-birth abortion of a thought, and it was that he was very upset because Ted Cruz's dad, Rafael, he's a preacher, and so he preaches.

00:04:55.000 So he goes out there and he says that if you want to vote right, you vote as God would want you to vote, and that means voting for Cruz and not like Trump.

00:05:02.000 Okay, fine.

00:05:03.000 He's a preacher.

00:05:04.000 This is what he does.

00:05:05.000 Here is Donald Trump's response to that.

00:05:09.000 I implore, I exhort every member of the body of Christ to vote according to the Word of God.

00:05:16.000 And vote for the candidate that stands on the Word of God and on the Constitution of the United States of America.

00:05:24.000 And I am convinced that man is my son, Ted Cruz.

00:05:26.000 The alternative could be the destruction of America.

00:05:30.000 Does that resonate with the folks there in Indiana?

00:05:33.000 I think it's a disgrace that he's allowed to do it.

00:05:35.000 I think it's a disgrace that he's allowed to say it.

00:05:38.000 You know, I'm backed by, you look at Jerry Falwell Jr., and you look at so many of the ministers that are backing me, and they're backing me more so than they're backing Cruz.

00:05:48.000 And I'm winning the evangelical vote.

00:05:50.000 And it's disgraceful that his father can go out and do that.

00:05:54.000 And so many people are angry about it.

00:05:56.000 And the evangelicals are angry about it the way he does that.

00:06:00.000 Okay, so this is bad enough what he's already said, right?

00:06:02.000 What he said already is it's a disgrace that he's allowed to do it.

00:06:05.000 Allowed?

00:06:05.000 This is called America.

00:06:06.000 You're allowed to say whatever you want. 1.00

00:06:08.000 This is why Donald Trump can let stupid crap fall out of his face all the time. 1.00

00:06:12.000 Like every day, stupid crap falls out of his... because you're allowed to let stupid crap fall out of your face. 1.00

00:06:17.000 This is America. 1.00

00:06:18.000 It's okay.

00:06:19.000 You're allowed.

00:06:20.000 But that's who Trump is.

00:06:21.000 He doesn't like that people are allowed to criticize him, and so he's upset with that.

00:06:24.000 But then...

00:06:25.000 Trump really goes for it.

00:06:26.000 Then Trump finally decides, you know what?

00:06:29.000 I've been acting presidential this whole time.

00:06:30.000 I'm really just going to let it fly.

00:06:32.000 Let's just do this thing.

00:06:33.000 So here he goes.

00:06:35.000 His father was with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to Oswald being, you know, shot. 0.97

00:06:41.000 I mean, the whole thing is ridiculous. 0.54

00:06:43.000 What is this right prior to his being shot? 0.88

00:06:45.000 And nobody even brings it up.

00:06:47.000 I mean, they don't even talk about that.

00:06:48.000 That was reported and nobody talks about it.

00:06:51.000 But I think it's horrible.

00:06:52.000 Right, there was a picture out there that reportedly shows Rafael Cruz standing with Lee Harvey Oswald.

00:06:57.000 I mean, what was he doing with Lee Harvey Oswald shortly before the death, before the shooting?

00:07:04.000 It's horrible.

00:07:06.000 Okay, so let's be clear about something.

00:07:10.000 There are zero pieces of evidence at all that link Rafael Cruz, Ted Cruz's father, with the murder of John F. Kennedy and friendship with Lee Harvey Oswald.

00:07:19.000 There are zero pieces of evidence to this effect, but the Trumpkins are all okay with this.

00:07:24.000 I mean, this originally started, as you guessed it, a story in the National Enquirer, thoroughly debunked, no evidence to support it whatsoever, but Trump is a conspiracy theorist, and this is the part of Trump that's actually frightening. 1.00

00:07:35.000 So most of what Trump says is not frightening, it's just stupid. 1.00

00:07:37.000 There's a difference between frightening and stupid. 1.00

00:07:39.000 This is the part of Trump that actually frightens me a little bit. 1.00

00:07:43.000 And this is the part of his supporters that frightens me too.

00:07:46.000 So first, here is Ted Cruz responding to all of that.

00:07:50.000 This is clip 23.

00:07:50.000 Here is Ted Cruz finally deciding, you know what?

00:07:54.000 F it to life.

00:07:55.000 I'm here already.

00:07:56.000 Let's just go whole hog.

00:07:58.000 So he finally takes off the gloves after months of playing patsy with Trump, which he played too enthusiastically for my tastes.

00:08:05.000 And now, after months of kind of half-hitting Trump, finally Cruz decides to just unleash the beast and here's what it sounds like.

00:08:12.000 I'm gonna do something I haven't done for the entire campaign, for those of y'all who have traveled with me all across the country.

00:08:18.000 I'm gonna tell you what I really think of Donald Trump. 1.00

00:08:21.000 This man is a pathological liar. 1.00

00:08:25.000 He doesn't know the difference between truth and lies. 1.00

00:08:28.000 He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth.

00:08:33.000 And in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology textbook, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying.

00:08:46.000 He accuses everybody on that debate stage of lying.

00:08:50.000 And it's simply a mindless yell.

00:08:52.000 Whatever he does, he accuses everyone else of doing.

00:08:56.000 The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist.

00:09:01.000 A narcissist at a level I don't think this country's ever seen.

00:09:07.000 And this, of course, is perfectly true. 0.85

00:09:09.000 Everything he's saying right there is perfectly true, but it doesn't matter.

00:09:11.000 And the point is that it really doesn't matter, because in the end, the people that Trump is catering to, the reason he can try out all these conspiracy theories is because the people he's catering to like the conspiracy theories.

00:09:23.000 Well, which I'll explain in a minute.

00:09:24.000 First, a quick history lesson on Donald Trump's conspiracy theories.

00:09:27.000 So first you have the conspiracy theory that Ted Cruz's father was somehow involved with the assassination of JFK, or blew up to Hindenburg, or killed Jimmy Hoffa, or something.

00:09:37.000 Obviously it was a mistake.

00:09:38.000 So George Bush made a mistake.

00:09:39.000 We can make mistakes.

00:09:40.000 But that one was a beauty.

00:09:41.000 We should have never been in Iraq. 0.99

00:09:42.000 We have destabilized

00:09:54.000 The Middle East.

00:09:56.000 So you still think he should be impeached?

00:10:13.000 Okay, so there's Donald Trump trotting out the old Code Pink Daily Kos conspiracy theory.

00:10:17.000 The Bush administration just wanted war for oil, no blood for oil.

00:10:21.000 So there's conspiracy theory number one.

00:10:23.000 Then there's the conspiracy theory.

00:10:25.000 As you remember, just a couple of months ago, Justice Scalia passed away and Donald Trump appeared on Michael Savage's radio show. 0.96

00:10:31.000 Michael Savage is an unhinged kook.

00:10:33.000 And so he proposed immediately to Donald Trump that Justice Scalia had been murdered. 0.74

00:10:38.000 And here is Donald Trump giving credence to that because that's what he does.

00:10:42.000 Donald, I need to come back to the topic we've been all screaming about here, which is Scalia.

00:10:46.000 Was he murdered?

00:10:47.000 I know it's pretty brutal to say that, and I'm not wanting to drag you into this, but this is going to get bigger and bigger and bigger.

00:10:55.000 I went on the air and said we need the equivalent of a Warren Commission.

00:10:58.000 We need an immediate autopsy before the body is disposed of.

00:11:01.000 What do you think of that?

00:11:03.000 Well, I just heard today, and just a little while ago actually, I just landed and I'm hearing it's a big topic, the question.

00:11:11.000 And it's a horrible topic, but they say they found a pillow in a space, which is a pretty unusual place to find a pillow.

00:11:19.000 I can't tell you what... I can't give you an answer.

00:11:21.000 You know, usually I like to give you answers, but I literally just heard it a little while ago.

00:11:26.000 It's just starting to come out now, as you know, Michael.

00:11:28.000 Okay, so there he is, giving credence to the Scalia was murdered theory, which of course was not true either.

00:11:33.000 Then you go back a few years and there was Donald Trump making a big noise about how Barack Obama wasn't born in the United States, he was born in Kenya, which is just... 0.99

00:11:42.000 Asinine was asinine at the time.

00:11:44.000 What I said is there are a lot of people who believed it because Obama is representative of a foreign ideology, but that's not the same thing as him actually being born in another country. 0.60

00:11:53.000 And even if he were born in another country, his mother was an American citizen, so it wouldn't have mattered anyway.

00:11:57.000 Or you'd have a Ted Cruz situation. 0.69

00:11:59.000 Here's Donald Trump back in 2011 pushing the Obama birther crap.

00:12:02.000 There's a real question about the birth certificate. 0.91

00:12:06.000 There's a real question about his own citizenship.

00:12:10.000 There is no question.

00:12:11.000 He's got a certificate of live birth that is recognized by the State Department.

00:12:14.000 I know exactly what you're getting at.

00:12:16.000 The facts!

00:12:16.000 No, they're not the facts.

00:12:19.000 He doesn't have a birth certificate or he hasn't provided.

00:12:21.000 He's given a certificate of live birth.

00:12:23.000 It's a much different instrument.

00:12:24.000 A certificate of live birth meets the standard of the State Department for anyone's citizenship.

00:12:28.000 Not the same, George.

00:12:29.000 There were contemporaneous reports in two Hawaiian newspapers.

00:12:32.000 George, they have co-opted you.

00:12:33.000 Those are the facts.

00:12:34.000 George, they've co-opted you.

00:12:35.000 Who's they?

00:12:37.000 Obviously Obama and his minions, they have co-opted you.

00:12:40.000 A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate. 1.00

00:12:46.000 So it turns out of course that Trump is totally full of crap. 0.98

00:12:49.000 Obama releases his birth certificate and Trump still, by the way, two years after this, refuses to acknowledge that the birth certificate has been released. 0.99

00:12:56.000 He still goes on two years after this to say it's still a conspiracy because the nice thing about being a conspiracy theorist

00:13:01.000 And in all fairness,

00:13:14.000 We went after Iraq. 1.00

00:13:16.000 They did not knock down the World Trade Center.

00:13:19.000 Okay?

00:13:19.000 It wasn't the Iraqis that knocked down the World Trade Center.

00:13:22.000 We went after Iraq. 1.00

00:13:24.000 We decimated the country.

00:13:25.000 Iran's taken over. 0.97

00:13:26.000 Okay.

00:13:27.000 But it wasn't the Iraqis. 0.96

00:13:29.000 You will find out who really knocked down the World Trade Center.

00:13:32.000 Because they have papers in there that are very secret.

00:13:34.000 You may find it's the Saudis.

00:13:36.000 Okay?

00:13:37.000 But you will find out.

00:13:38.000 But it wasn't Iraq.

00:13:40.000 Okay, so you'll find out who did it.

00:13:42.000 Maybe it wasn't the Saudis. 0.98

00:13:43.000 Maybe it was the Saudis. 1.00

00:13:44.000 Who knows?

00:13:45.000 We know who did it.

00:13:46.000 It was Al Qaeda. 0.54

00:13:47.000 Okay, it wasn't exactly in the Saudi government's interest to knock down two of our towers.

00:13:51.000 Wasn't exactly in their giant interest to do that, turns out.

00:13:54.000 But, you know, there is...

00:13:56.000 Donald Trump trotting out another conspiracy theory about 9-11.

00:13:59.000 Then, of course, there's this conspiracy theory about autism and vaccines.

00:14:02.000 Vaccines supposedly causing autism.

00:14:04.000 Let me explain to people, for folks who are subscribing, okay?

00:14:07.000 First of all, you should all subscribe to the podcast so you can see my angry face when we talk about Trump, and you can see my less angry face when we talk about other things.

00:14:14.000 Those are my two variations.

00:14:15.000 My angry face and my less angry face.

00:14:17.000 Those are the only two faces in my Mr. Potato Head stash of faces.

00:14:22.000 So, in any case, Donald Trump

00:14:25.000 Talked about autism and vaccines.

00:14:27.000 There are this many, okay, for folks who are watching on TV, this many pieces of evidence that autism and vaccines are linked.

00:14:33.000 This is a giant zero.

00:14:34.000 There are zero pieces of evidence that autism and vaccines are linked. 1.00

00:14:37.000 Only stupid people think this. 1.00

00:14:39.000 Only stupid people think this, okay? 1.00

00:14:41.000 The idea that there is any linkage between autism and vaccines. 1.00

00:14:44.000 In fact, there is a negative linkage by some studies.

00:14:47.000 That if you get an MMR vaccine, you're less likely to have autism.

00:14:50.000 That's just because

00:14:51.000 There's no link at all.

00:14:53.000 So bottom line is that if you get a shot, you don't get autism because you got a shot. 1.00

00:14:59.000 Okay, you idiot. 1.00

00:15:00.000 And all the people who believe this sort of thing are the people who are now spreading measles, mumps, and rubellas, third-world diseases in the first world, because you don't believe in basic science. 1.00

00:15:07.000 You want to talk about science deniers, this is science denial.

00:15:10.000 So Trump, you remember, back in September, he trotted out this one, and there are Ben Carson and Rand Paul, both medical doctors on the stage, saying nothing about it because it would be uncouth.

00:15:19.000 Autism has become an epidemic.

00:15:20.000 25 years ago, 35 years ago, you look at the statistics, not even close.

00:15:22.000 It has gotten totally out of control.

00:15:23.000 I am totally in favor of vaccines, but I want smaller doses over a longer period of time.

00:15:26.000 Because you take a baby in, and I've seen it, 0.96

00:15:49.000 And I've seen it.

00:15:50.000 And I had my children taken care of over a long period of time, over a two or three year period of time.

00:15:55.000 Same exact amount.

00:15:56.000 But you take this little beautiful baby and you pump. 0.99

00:16:00.000 I mean, it looks just like it's meant for a horse, not for a child.

00:16:04.000 And we've had so many instances, people that worked for me just the other day.

00:16:08.000 Two years old, two and a half years old, a child, a beautiful child, went to have the vaccine and came back and a week later got a tremendous fever, got very, very sick, now is autistic.

00:16:20.000 I only say it's not, I'm in favor of vaccines, do them over a longer period of time, same amount.

00:16:26.000 Thank you.

00:16:26.000 But just in, in little sections.

00:16:30.000 Okay, so all of this is absolute nonsense, and then he goes on to talk about how a friend of his had a little baby, and the little baby ended up with a fever, and then the next thing you know, the kid's autistic.

00:16:39.000 Trump's conspiracy theories know no bounds.

00:16:42.000 Now, there are a couple of reasons why people engage in conspiracy theories. 1.00

00:16:46.000 One is that if you are simple-minded, if you're stupid, if you're a stupid person, 1.00

00:16:51.000 You tend to engage in conspiracy theories because it offers a plausible view of the world. 1.00

00:16:54.000 It offers something that offers you a comfortable view of the world.

00:16:57.000 There's a lot of chaos around you, a lot of random events, but if they're all somehow connected, then it all begins to make sense.

00:17:03.000 Life becomes a little bit less scary.

00:17:05.000 We want what's expected in life.

00:17:06.000 We don't want the unexpected to happen.

00:17:08.000 As the Joker puts it in Dark Knight, if it's all part of the plan, nobody worries about it, right?

00:17:12.000 If it's all big conspiracy, nobody worries about it.

00:17:14.000 It's randomness and chaos that people don't like.

00:17:16.000 And so people invent stories about shadowy forces beyond their control that are operating events one by one, right?

00:17:22.000 Simple-minded people tend to believe this.

00:17:25.000 Religious people say that God has a plan for the universe, but simple-minded conspiracy theorists say that there are evil human forces that are controlling all of these things.

00:17:34.000 So that's one reason.

00:17:35.000 The other reason is that it's very comforting to believe in conspiracy theories.

00:17:38.000 If you're somebody who is economically downtrodden, if you're somebody who's made bad life decisions, if you're somebody who's poor or is not succeeding, if you're somebody who's angry, then the easiest thing to do is to blame an external force for that.

00:17:51.000 So President Obama has done this very well for black Americans, right?

00:17:55.000 White privilege. 0.96

00:17:56.000 White privilege is driving all of the problems. 0.94

00:17:58.000 Institutional racism, the evils of the 0.99

00:18:01.000 American DNA, that's why you're poor. 1.00

00:18:03.000 That's why you went to jail.

00:18:04.000 That's why so many bad things are happening to you and people who live next door to you, right?

00:18:08.000 It's these evil, shadowy conspiracy forces.

00:18:11.000 Hillary Clinton does the same thing, going all the way back to the 90s. 0.99

00:18:13.000 It wasn't that Bill Clinton was a sexual pervert. 0.94

00:18:16.000 It was that there was a vast right-wing conspiracy out to get Bill Clinton. 0.98

00:18:20.000 And now Hillary does it about the patriarchy. 1.00

00:18:21.000 There's this evil conspiracy of men. 1.00

00:18:24.000 Those evil, penis-ridden humans. 1.00

00:18:27.000 And they're out to get all of the people with the vajayjays. 0.99

00:18:29.000 And it's just imperative that we elect Hillary Clinton and give her all the power in the universe in order to fight the evil conspiracy. 1.00

00:18:37.000 Trump does the same thing.

00:18:38.000 He does the same thing.

00:18:38.000 He says to his people, okay, you're out of a job?

00:18:41.000 I have a conspiracy theory. 1.00

00:18:42.000 It involves China stealing your jobs and raping you. 1.00

00:18:46.000 Right, if you are having an economic hard time, that's not because maybe you need to broaden your skill set, maybe you need to move out of that downtrodden manufacturing town in the middle of nowhere.

00:18:56.000 No, what's really happening is that evil forces, nefarious globalization is going to take everything you own.

00:19:05.000 And I will stop it.

00:19:24.000 Conspiracy theories, they're out to get you, right?

00:19:26.000 This is why he hangs out with Michael Savage and Alex Jones and a whole group of conspiracy theorists on the right, the false flag crowd, because there is something to be gained from people who think that you can solve the conspiracy.

00:19:37.000 You need to go in there and bust up the conspiracy, like Elliot Ness going after Al Capone.

00:19:42.000 Go in there and just bust it loose, bust it up.

00:19:45.000 So that's one element.

00:19:46.000 The other element is that Trump actually believes this stuff.

00:19:48.000 Trump actually believes this stuff.

00:19:50.000 So Corey Lewandowski, 1.00

00:19:52.000 Who is Trump's idiot, thug campaign manager. 1.00

00:19:55.000 He told the New York Times about Trump's frequent, frequent use of conspiracy theories on the campaign trail. 1.00

00:20:02.000 Because as we mentioned, as you see from these clips, these are straight from the comment sections at InfoWars and Daily Kos.

00:20:08.000 I mean, pretty soon we're going to get to the FEMA camps where Obama's going to lock all of you.

00:20:12.000 He's going to put you all in FEMA camps.

00:20:14.000 We'll have Trump talking about that.

00:20:16.000 I'm sure when it comes to Hillary Clinton, we'll get all the conspiracy theories from Trump as well. 1.00

00:20:21.000 Okay, so here's what Corey Lewandowski said.

00:20:22.000 He said,

00:20:38.000 Okay, always the Trump campaign falls back on the politically correct buttress, right?

00:20:42.000 When they have nothing to say, when they have nothing to do, they just go to... Well, he's just fighting political correctness. 0.99

00:20:47.000 He can say whatever stupid crap comes into his mind and that he read on the internet in the interwebs they've been saying. 0.99

00:20:52.000 He can do all that because, hey, he's not politically correct. 1.00

00:20:56.000 Yeah, I see a lot of stupid stuff on the internet too. 1.00

00:20:58.000 I don't talk about it because it's stupid stuff on the internet. 1.00

00:21:01.000 Not because it's politically correct not to talk about it, but because it's idiotic. 1.00

00:21:04.000 Okay, turns out Holocaust denial, to take a perfect example. 0.99

00:21:08.000 Holocaust denial, because there are all these alt-righters who for some reason think that the Jews just made it up.

00:21:13.000 The Jews just made it up. 1.00

00:21:15.000 Turns out, Holocaust denial is just something for stupid people. 1.00

00:21:19.000 I don't not talk about it because it's politically correct not to talk about it. 1.00

00:21:23.000 I don't talk about it because it's idiotic. 1.00

00:21:25.000 You have to have an IQ well under 80 to believe any of this stuff. 1.00

00:21:29.000 But Donald Trump may have an IQ under 80.

00:21:31.000 I mean, he actually buys into a lot of this stuff, and he feels like it gives him the sort of underground appeal.

00:21:36.000 And it does to some people.

00:21:37.000 It clearly does to some people.

00:21:40.000 As I say, there's this move toward conspiratorialism in politics.

00:21:44.000 It's increased, not decreased, during the course of my lifetime.

00:21:47.000 It's getting worse and worse to the point where every major event, there's a conspiracy theory that immediately brews up about it.

00:21:52.000 You had Alex Jones saying the Sandy Hook Massacre was a false flag for a gun confiscation.

00:21:57.000 Turns out it could just be a crazy guy shooting up a school and then the left could use it for gun confiscation, but pretty sure that 0.99

00:22:04.000 The piece of garbage, Adam Lanza, who went in and shot all those kids, wasn't in the pay of George Soros. 0.93

00:22:08.000 But it's all about the conspiracy theory, because that offers you a convenient enemy, and it offers you a way to explain away all the terrible things that happen in the world. 0.96

00:22:16.000 It's not that a terrible thing can't happen to you, unless you're being targeted, is what the conspiracy theorists say.

00:22:20.000 And therefore, if you elect somebody who will prevent that targeting, your life will just be a giant bed of roses.

00:22:26.000 And this is what you get from the Trump core support.

00:22:29.000 So, there are two groups of Trump supporters at this point.

00:22:34.000 There are two groups of Trump supporters.

00:22:37.000 One is the core, and one is the chaff.

00:22:40.000 So I'll call them the wheat and the chaff, right?

00:22:42.000 There's the core, the core group of support, and these are the people who are hardcore Trumpies.

00:22:46.000 These are the people like the guy that we saw yesterday, the guy who was talking about how

00:22:51.000 Trump was, Trump, he loves everything about Trump.

00:22:54.000 Ike Clanton from Tombstone, Lion Ted, right?

00:22:57.000 There's this guy, we can play it again, this is the Trump supporter.

00:23:00.000 And these guys push, openly, anti-Cruz conspiracy theories in order to target Cruz.

00:23:05.000 So here's what that looked like yesterday.

00:23:07.000 Too slow, dude! 0.99

00:23:08.000 You look like a fish monster, and you're a terrible person! 0.99

00:23:31.000 Now, do you know on the wall that Donald told the New York Times editorial board he's not going to build a wall and he's not going to deport anyone? 1.00

00:23:38.000 You're lying.

00:23:39.000 Once again, lying Ted!

00:23:41.000 Well, sir, you know, actually, civilized people don't just scream and yell at each other. 0.66

00:23:46.000 I'm not yelling at you.

00:23:48.000 Do you know that Donald's words were caught on tape?

00:23:52.000 The New York Times reported the whole thing, publicly reported it.

00:23:55.000 That's a total lie made up by Donald Trump's campaign.

00:24:00.000 Okay, Snaggletooth.

00:24:01.000 So Snaggletooth over here, very upset with Lion Tail.

00:24:04.000 Lion Tail, you lying about your mistresses?

00:24:06.000 I know I saw it in them papers that they keep over by the grocery section.

00:24:10.000 I was checking out at the grocery, using my food stamps, and then I took one of them National Enquirer papers right off the line.

00:24:16.000 I looked right on it, it said mistresses.

00:24:18.000 I had to have my wife read it to me, but she told me it said mistresses.

00:24:22.000 She's also my cousin.

00:24:24.000 So you got this dude over here doing this routine.

00:24:28.000 And this is the Trump hardcore base.

00:24:30.000 So there's always, whenever you have a demagogic leader like Donald Trump, a demagogue like Trump, there's always this hardcore base of support.

00:24:37.000 And I mean, it's relatively small.

00:24:39.000 It's this group of people who think they ask you, you ask, what do you like about it?

00:24:42.000 I like everything.

00:24:44.000 Everything.

00:24:44.000 He is a sexy man.

00:24:45.000 They just love everything about Trump.

00:24:48.000 And then you have the Trump chaff.

00:24:51.000 And the Trump chaff are the people who are sort of mainstream, but have now fallen into the sway of the Trump movement because they feel like he's the best to stop the Trump opposition. 0.95

00:24:59.000 So these are the people who look at Trump and they say, okay, he has a hardcore base of support.

00:25:03.000 Now he's the only one left, as the field is winnowed, he's gained support from the establishment, and you're starting to see people fall into this.

00:25:11.000 So, they base that not so much on loving Trump, but much more on disliking the left, which is more understandable, right?

00:25:18.000 More understandable.

00:25:19.000 So, for example, you look at Bernie Sanders, and here's Bernie Sanders yesterday on the left.

00:25:24.000 ...the socialist loon bag from Vermont, who's not going to win the nomination, but is in fact a very influential leader on the left.

00:25:30.000 Somebody in the audience shouts that the billionaire class should F off, and here's Bernie Sanders' response.

00:25:35.000 ...to tell the billionaire class... ...and the corporations... Well, that is one way to phrase it.

00:25:47.000 It's hilarious, yeah!

00:25:48.000 Screw rich people, woo!

00:25:50.000 I, myself, am constrained. 0.98

00:25:52.000 I can't quite phrase it like that, but that's not bad.

00:25:56.000 Okay, that's not bad.

00:25:56.000 So people look at Bernie Sanders and they go, okay, well, at least Trump ain't that.

00:26:00.000 So I guess I'll buy into that, right?

00:26:01.000 This is the people who are now joining the Trump movement, jumping a little late onto the bandwagon.

00:26:06.000 And you've got people who look at Hillary Clinton and they say, Hillary Clinton is quite terrible. 0.99

00:26:10.000 So, they'll look at tape like this one, and they'll come to the proper conclusion that Hillary Clinton is pretty awful.

00:26:16.000 There's an out-of-work coal miner who confronts Hillary because Hillary has said she wants to kill coal jobs.

00:26:21.000 She openly said that.

00:26:21.000 She wants to put the coal industry out of business.

00:26:24.000 Here's what that looked like.

00:26:25.000 You hear those people out there saying some of the things that they say is because when you make comments like we're going to put a lot of coal miners out of jobs.

00:26:37.000 These are the kind of people that you.

00:26:39.000 You're affecting.

00:26:41.000 This is my family.

00:26:44.000 And while my hope is in God, that's my future.

00:26:47.000 I just want to know how you can say you're going to put a lot of coal miners out of jobs and then come in here and tell us how you're going to be our friend.

00:26:56.000 Because those people out there don't see you as a friend.

00:27:01.000 And Hillary ends up kind of quasi-apologizing, but also doubling down. 1.00

00:27:05.000 And so people look at this and they go, yeah, Hillary's kind of terrible also. 0.98

00:27:07.000 And then they look at the people who are supporting Hillary and who oppose Trump.

00:27:11.000 And it's not just the protesters we talked about yesterday.

00:27:13.000 It's the intelligentsia on the left.

00:27:15.000 So Andrew Sullivan is a guy who used to be a quote-unquote conservative.

00:27:20.000 He shifted to the left because of gay rights. 0.90

00:27:22.000 He's an openly gay guy who was, I think, caught in some sort of peccadillo where he was posting online weird sex habits and such. 0.97

00:27:30.000 But Andrew Sullivan also famous for saying that Sarah Palin's son was not in fact her son it was Bristol's son and Sarah was covering it up. 0.71

00:27:37.000 Andrew Sullivan wrote a piece for the Atlantic about the rise of tyrants in America and he was on with Chris Matthews and here's what he had to say about Trump.

00:27:44.000 Wage is a good thing to do.

00:27:46.000 But don't tell us it's going to make a lot of people better off.

00:27:48.000 But they don't demonize whole sections of the population.

00:27:50.000 They don't discriminate on the basis of people's religion.

00:27:53.000 They don't claim they're going to actually round off and deport eleven million human beings.

00:27:58.000 That's different than saying he's an entertainer.

00:27:59.000 No, he does them both. 0.99

00:28:00.000 Like any reality television asshole, which is what he is, that's the character he plays. 0.99

00:28:05.000 He has a message as well. 0.99

00:28:07.000 He has a message as well, but his style has completely dominated this election.

00:28:11.000 So what is he? 0.98

00:28:12.000 He's either a comedian, a sideshow, or he's a dangerous fascist. 0.96

00:28:17.000 He's a dangerous neo-fascist who is using reality television and the modern media in a way that is leaving the rest of us in the dust. 0.93

00:28:25.000 And it's terrifying to watch. 0.98

00:28:27.000 So he says this and people look at Andrew Sullivan and they go, we hate you, you're terrible.

00:28:31.000 And so the chaff, the chaff of the Trump support, they're not joining in with the core Trump support. 0.83

00:28:38.000 You know, Dennis Prager is not on the side of snaggletooth, but he looks at people like Andrew Sullivan and he goes, yeah, you people support Hillary, you supported Obama.

00:28:44.000 All the things you hate about Trump are equally true about Obama and Hillary.

00:28:48.000 So I guess we'll go with Trump.

00:28:50.000 And so you get people like Sean Hannity.

00:28:52.000 So Sean Hannity is a good guy.

00:28:54.000 And here is Sean Hannity, who's full on the Trump train now.

00:28:57.000 He's been on the Trump train for a long time.

00:28:59.000 And here he is talking about how George Will wrote a column over the weekend where he said that he wants not only Trump to lose, he wants Trump to lose big.

00:29:06.000 He wants Trump to lose 50 states to defeat his movement, which there's an argument to be made that this is at least partially correct. 0.99

00:29:12.000 The idea being that you don't want to see, it's not about watching Hillary win. 1.00

00:29:16.000 It's not loving to see Hillary win. 0.99

00:29:18.000 It's about Donald Trump and his movement are dangerous to the future of conservatism.

00:29:23.000 Because he takes every element of conservatism and tosses it out the window, and then claims he's the new conservative.

00:29:28.000 He takes all the things we care about, and he throws them out the window.

00:29:31.000 He spends his entire career making a mockery of what we say conservatism is. 1.00

00:29:36.000 The left says conservatives are a bunch of racist, redneck bigots, who are ignoramuses, conspiracy theorists, tinfoil hat idiots. 1.00

00:29:43.000 And then Donald Trump comes along and says, yeah, I'm all those things. 1.00

00:29:46.000 And so there are conservatives who say, okay, well, I don't want him leading our movement, I don't want him as president.

00:29:51.000 So George Will basically writes that column and here's Sean Hannity now blaming the establishment for wanting Trump to lose.

00:29:58.000 So I remember those early days where Will was on there battling Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts and at the time was like Reagan's lone defender.

00:30:11.000 And he was stunningly effective, highly intellectual, left everybody else in the dust.

00:30:17.000 Anyway, I don't know what's happened.

00:30:19.000 George Will hates Donald Trump so much that he's effectively endorsed Hillary Clinton.

00:30:25.000 And I'm not exaggerating.

00:30:27.000 George Will writes, if Trump is nominated, the GOP must keep him out of the White House.

00:30:33.000 Well, what does that mean?

00:30:34.000 That means don't let Trump win.

00:30:36.000 Donald Trump's damage to the Republican Party, although already extensive, has barely begun.

00:30:45.000 He talks about all of his problems multiplying and the support of the most anti-conservative presidential candidate in the party's history.

00:30:56.000 Those that collaborate will render themselves ineligible to participate in the party's reconstruction.

00:31:01.000 That's what he's writing here.

00:31:03.000 Trump would be the most unpopular nominee ever.

00:31:07.000 Unable to even come close to Mitt Romney's insufficient support among women, minorities, and young people.

00:31:14.000 In losing disastrously, Trump probably would create a down-ballot carnage.

00:31:19.000 He's reading this column now, and everything that Will says in this column is true.

00:31:22.000 But Hannity doesn't like it, so he's jumped on the Trump bandwagon because he doesn't like the idea of losing to people like Andrew Sullivan, or losing to Hillary, or losing to Bernie Sanders.

00:31:33.000 So the idea is that it's better to side with Trump, to go along, and then maybe we can control him once we get in.

00:31:38.000 Maybe we can control him once we get in.

00:31:40.000 Now, I don't think, and I've spent long periods of time on this show saying, Trump is not Hitler, okay?

00:31:46.000 There's only one Hitler, Trump is not Hitler.

00:31:48.000 But the question for any demagogic leader is, is he a weak guy or is he a chaff guy? 0.98

00:31:55.000 Deep down in the cockles of his tidy heart, is Donald Trump a guy who stands with the core of his support, or is he someone who's just standing aside with the chaff and saying, okay, I'm gonna use that core to get where I need to go, and then I'll abandon them, and I'll be a perfectly reasonable person, and I'll be just a good governing president. 0.81

00:32:13.000 Is that, which is it?

00:32:15.000 So, to look at history, and again, Trump is not Hitler, and I'll say it ten times, Trump is not Hitler, right?

00:32:20.000 Trump, he's not.

00:32:21.000 But let's look at history now.

00:32:23.000 In history, Hitler rose to power on the basis not of his conspiracy theories. 0.67

00:32:28.000 This is rewritten history. 1.00

00:32:29.000 He didn't rise to power on the basis of, let's round up all the Jews and kill them. 1.00

00:32:32.000 He didn't rise to power on the basis of, let's start a world war. 0.99

00:32:35.000 He rose to power on the basis of, let's make Germany great again, and we have to stop the communists.

00:32:41.000 That's really what he rose to power based on.

00:32:42.000 If you look at his speeches between 1930 and 1932, he almost never, Thomas Sowell writes about this, he almost never mentions the Jews.

00:32:48.000 Never.

00:32:49.000 And in fact, after he gained power in 1933, he tried to initiate a boycott against Jewish businesses, and it was so unsuccessful in Germany, it was shut down after four days.

00:32:58.000 Because the Germans weren't into it. 0.99

00:33:00.000 They put him in power because they thought that he was going to wreck the system.

00:33:03.000 They thought he was going to take the Weimar Republic system, and he was going to correct that system by basically coming in and cleaning house.

00:33:09.000 And some of the people who supported him were people like Franz von Papen.

00:33:12.000 Von Papen, high-ranking former chancellor of the German Republic,

00:33:18.000 And he felt that it was imperative to stop the Communists, so imperative, that he went to the then-president, Hindenburg, of Germany, and he said to him, make Hitler Chancellor, because Hitler won't be Communist, and I'll be his second-in-command, and I can control him. 0.68

00:33:32.000 So all these people he's hanging out with, his SA, his SS, his whole base of support here, don't worry.

00:33:38.000 That's just his core.

00:33:39.000 He's just riding them to power.

00:33:41.000 He's not that guy.

00:33:42.000 He'll be one of us.

00:33:43.000 I'll control him.

00:33:44.000 It'll be fine.

00:33:46.000 There are very few times in human history where the people who have been the wheat, have actually, who have been the chaff, when those people actually control the guy who's riding the backs of the wheat to power.

00:33:58.000 It almost never happens.

00:33:59.000 It almost never happens.

00:34:00.000 When somebody rides the bad guys to power, and then turns around and works with the good guys.

00:34:04.000 Almost never happens.

00:34:06.000 Much more common for the chaff to be taken in.

00:34:08.000 Much more common for the Sean Hannity's of the world, and the Bill O'Reilly's of the world, and the people who are good-hearted, but are buying into a bad guy, for those people to be taken for a ride.

00:34:18.000 That if Trump were president, he would immediately turn a snaggle-tooth over there, and then push through whatever agenda he wants, including many elements of a very nasty economic and foreign policy agenda, including an agenda that re-enshrines big government in every part of our lives.

00:34:33.000 He would rely on Snaggletooth to push him forward, because in the end, politicians love to be loved, Trump loves to be loved, and the people who give him the most love are the people like Snaggletooth.

00:34:42.000 And Trump is closest in mentality to the people like Snaggletooth, not to the people like Sean Hannity.

00:34:47.000 Sean still presumably cares about conservatism.

00:34:50.000 Trump does not.

00:34:51.000 He never has.

00:34:52.000 He just likes to say conservatism.

00:34:53.000 So who's being taken for a ride?

00:34:54.000 One of these people, one of these groups is being taken for a ride.

00:34:57.000 It's either the CORE or it's the CHAFT.

00:34:59.000 So if you think that Donald Trump saying all this crap from the National Enquirer about Ted Cruz's daddy, if you think that that's just him taking his CORE for a ride, it's him being super intelligent, just playing those guys, 0.82

00:35:11.000 Then, by all means, jump on the Trump train. 0.95

00:35:13.000 He's too smart for all of us.

00:35:14.000 If you think that the real Donald Trump is the guy who reads the National Enquirer and then airs those rumors, if you think the real Donald Trump is the guy who actually believes vaccines cause autism, and believes 9-11 was basically a quasi-inside job, and believes that Iraq was just a giant lie perpetrated on the American people to waste American lives and kill American soldiers, if you believe all those, if that's what you think Trump is, 0.89

00:35:35.000 Then you shouldn't be surprised when it turns out that he's a bad, bad president and a very scary guy to boot, with a huge base in his core, and his core are a bunch of nasty ignoramuses who are relying on him, relying on him to be their shield, the shield between the giant evil conspiracy out there somewhere in the ether and their own bad lives. 0.88

00:35:55.000 And they're relying on him to save them. 0.95

00:35:57.000 That's a very, very scary phenomenon.

00:35:59.000 It's bad on the left, whether it's Hillary or Obama, and it's really bad on the right too.

00:36:02.000 Okay, time for a couple of things I like.

00:36:05.000 And then some things that I hate.

00:36:07.000 So, a couple of things I like.

00:36:08.000 First of all, my sister, who loves to read comics, she gave me a Captain America, I think this came out in 2011, and she picked it up in like the bargain bin.

00:36:17.000 It's Captain America number one from Ultimate Comics, and it's really quite good.

00:36:22.000 The basic premise is Captain America, while he was asleep, the U.S.

00:36:26.000 government created a second Captain America in Frank Sanders, and Frank Sanders was

00:36:31.000 Placed into Vietnam to fight on behalf of truth justice in the American way and basically he goes full Kurtz.

00:36:36.000 He goes native and so now he's back and he wants to fight the original Captain America because he wants to disillusion him about how America is great.

00:36:43.000 He gives it.

00:36:44.000 He captures him and he lectures him about.

00:36:46.000 Here's what you missed while you were gone, right?

00:36:48.000 You missed Nixon, and you missed Cambodia, and you missed Laos, and you missed Indonesia, and you missed all this stuff.

00:36:54.000 Here's all the bad things that happened in America that you missed.

00:36:56.000 You have this old, antiquated version of America, this vision that America's a great place, but you missed all this stuff while you were asleep, and so you have to pay, as the symbol of America, you have to pay the price.

00:37:05.000 And it's a pretty good comic and then the payoff is really good.

00:37:09.000 The payoff, the very end of it is terrific.

00:37:11.000 The payoff is great.

00:37:11.000 So that's Captain America number one, ultimate comics.

00:37:14.000 Okay, second thing that I like, I just finished over the weekend, Thomas Sowell's Black Rednecks and White Liberals.

00:37:19.000 I mentioned it to you earlier in the context of the rise of Hitler to power and what the German, what was Germany in aberration?

00:37:27.000 Was the Nazi era an aberration or is there something inherent to the German philosophy and to the German people that causes them to be violent? 0.87

00:37:33.000 And it's a fascinating essay because

00:37:35.000 The tendency for everybody, the tendency for all of us, is to say, when bad things happen, those people are an aberration.

00:37:43.000 Right? 0.98

00:37:44.000 Those people are just, they're monsters. 0.96

00:37:45.000 This is why people use the word monsters.

00:37:47.000 I don't like using the word monsters, because there are no such things as monsters.

00:37:50.000 Monsters don't exist.

00:37:51.000 They don't live under your bed, they're not in your closet, and they didn't exist in Nazi Germany.

00:37:55.000 They were people.

00:37:56.000 And people are capable of tremendous evil.

00:37:58.000 And the line between slipping from good into evil is actually very, very thin.

00:38:03.000 And the hill is really steep.

00:38:04.000 So once you take one step, boom, you're right down that hill.

00:38:07.000 And what Sowell says, and this is why I'm so worried about the Trump movement, is that once you have a people that is accustomed to tyranny, basically, and they're willing to hand power to someone on the basis of making X great again,

00:38:18.000 And they're willing to overlook all of his flaws?

00:38:21.000 Don't be surprised when things start to go badly.

00:38:23.000 Don't be surprised when people just kind of go along to get along, because after all, Hitler made the Autobahn and Mussolini made the trains run on time. 0.68

00:38:32.000 So this is, it's a really good book, Black Rednecks and White Liberals.

00:38:35.000 The title of the piece, the title of the book,

00:38:38.000 Is a predicated on an essay that he wrote about why black culture, ghetto culture is what he calls it, why ghetto culture is more violent and where the high rates of single motherhood come from.

00:38:48.000 And his theory is basically it doesn't come from genetics and it doesn't come from Africa.

00:38:51.000 It comes from a white redneck culture that prevailed in the South and was predominant in the South and actually comes from border areas in Britain

00:38:58.000 From Scotland and Ireland, and the people who inhabited the South were very different from the people who inhabited the North.

00:39:04.000 Slaves brought over to the United States grew up not just as slaves, but also grew up in this milieu of tribal, almost tribal Highlander. 0.83

00:39:16.000 Okay.

00:39:20.000 Time for a couple of things that I hate.

00:39:23.000 So, first of all, as we mentioned, Ted Cruz is having a tough time here.

00:39:27.000 Ted Cruz probably loses Indiana tonight.

00:39:29.000 Maybe he drops out.

00:39:30.000 Maybe he stays in.

00:39:31.000 My guess is he stays in, because why not?

00:39:34.000 You know, at this point, you've run it this far.

00:39:35.000 You may as well run it all the way to California.

00:39:37.000 California's in a month. 0.96

00:39:38.000 Who knows, there could be some sex scandal with Trump screwing a horse or something, and suddenly you're the only alternative and you're the nominee. 0.58

00:39:44.000 So, he'll probably stick it out, but realistically speaking, if none of the crazy things Trump has said or done are preventing him from the nomination, it would have to be at least a stable of wild horses to make any difference at all. 0.95

00:39:55.000 Any scandal, it would have to be an underage horse. 0.62

00:39:58.000 Maybe an underage male horse.

00:39:59.000 We'd have to get real specific in order for this scandal to have any impact.

00:40:03.000 So Cruz is now kind of letting the cat out of the bag.

00:40:06.000 He's very upset, understandably so.

00:40:08.000 He's a constitutional conservative and he's getting ripped.

00:40:10.000 Here is Ted Cruz going after Fox News for pretty overt support of Trump.

00:40:18.000 There is a broader dynamic at work, which is network executives have made a decision to get behind Donald Trump.

00:40:28.000 Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes at Fox News have turned Fox News into the Donald Trump network.

00:40:35.000 24-7.

00:40:35.000 Now, Rupert Murdoch is used to picking world leaders in Australia and the United Kingdom, running tabloids.

00:40:44.000 And we're seeing it here at home with the consequences for this nation.

00:40:51.000 Media executives are trying to convince Hoosiers, trying to convince Americans the race is decided.

00:40:55.000 Okay, so the race, you know, is going to be decided tonight.

00:40:59.000 But, you know, what he's saying about Fox News and the problems within Fox News, those are very real concerns held by a lot of conservatives.

00:41:06.000 It's why they've lost some credibility in particular shows, and it's sad.

00:41:10.000 Okay, the other thing that I hate, and I think it demonstrates actually what I've been talking about in terms of the base of core support for Trump, which is almost this fascistic worship

00:41:19.000 Of Trump.

00:41:20.000 There's this video, and I have to say, this is an accurate depiction of my abs, by the way.

00:41:25.000 I have been working out and I am absolutely ripped.

00:41:28.000 But this is a video put out by the oxymoronically named Aryan Wisdom.

00:41:36.000 And the Aryan Wisdom account on YouTube has now put out a video.

00:41:39.000 It's a parody of

00:41:41.000 300, in which apparently I play a prominent part.

00:41:43.000 I have to admit, I'm sort of flattered.

00:41:45.000 And what's amazing about this is just to set the stage, Leonidas is Trump, obviously, because he's the great god king.

00:41:51.000 And then the Persian king is George Soros.

00:41:54.000 Alright.

00:41:57.000 And then the messenger who gets kicked down the well, as you'll see, is Barack Obama, so they should earn this guy a visit from Secret Service, I would assume, because you're not supposed to make material in which you posit the death of the President of the United States.

00:42:08.000 And Ted Cruz is the hunchback, right, who's selling out to George Soros, of course, because, clearly, Ted Cruz and George Soros are in league with each other.

00:42:16.000 Clearly. 1.00

00:42:18.000 People who believe this stuff are so unbelievably stupid. 1.00

00:42:21.000 I mean, they're Phineas Gage-level, stovepipe-through-the-head level stupid. 1.00

00:42:27.000 I mean, it's amazing. 1.00

00:42:28.000 So, they believe Ted Cruz is in league with George Soros.

00:42:31.000 I'm in league with Barack Obama.

00:42:32.000 I, yes, me, I'm in league with Barack Obama in this one.

00:42:36.000 In fact, I'm one of his messengers, which is really exciting.

00:42:38.000 I'm so glad to have been put in that context.

00:42:42.000 And there's some other...

00:42:44.000 We're gonna win.

00:42:44.000 We're gonna win it for the people.

00:42:45.000 We're gonna win it for our country.

00:42:47.000 We're going to make America great again. 0.76

00:43:28.000 And there I go, so... That's me being killed.

00:43:32.000 It's actually more amusing in 30-second segments, but this thing's like 8 minutes long.

00:43:36.000 It's really long.

00:43:37.000 A couple quick notes about 300, just before we conclude here.

00:43:40.000 A couple quick notes about 300.

00:43:42.000 300 is a really entertaining movie, but one of the problems with 300 as a movie is that it's actually fascist.

00:43:47.000 So the Spartans were actual fascists, okay?

00:43:50.000 Like, the movie opens with them taking babies and throwing them in pits.

00:43:53.000 So, okay, not the greatest guys.

00:43:55.000 Basically, it's Planned Parenthood with an army.

00:43:57.000 So Planned Parenthood with an army against ISIS, that's great.

00:44:01.000 So the movie's entertaining, but it just demonstrates the levels of, we're looking for a king, we're looking for a leader.

00:44:08.000 We stand for freedom, and by freedom we mean submission to Donald Trump.

00:44:12.000 We have to submit to the iron hand of Donald Trump, and we have to feel the cool caress of his stubby fingers upon us.

00:44:19.000 There you are.

00:44:20.000 Tonight, as we say, it's going to be a bad night for Cruz, it's going to be a bad night for America.

00:44:24.000 It looks like, after all, we are going to end up with Predator vs. Alien in this election cycle.

00:44:30.000 Which is, it's like Marvel Civil War, except if everyone sucked radically and it was terrible.

00:44:36.000 So, basically nothing like that, except it's a civil war between terrible people.

00:44:40.000 It's ISIS versus Iran, the election version. 1.00

00:44:44.000 It sucks. 1.00

00:44:44.000 It's just terrible all the way around. 1.00

00:44:46.000 And we'll be back tomorrow.

00:44:47.000 We'll get through it.

00:44:48.000 We'll get through it.

00:44:48.000 And just a quick note, we'll always call it like we see it here at the Ben Shapiro Show.

00:44:52.000 So if Trump says something that ain't stupid, we'll talk about it. 1.00

00:44:55.000 If Trump says something stupid, we'll talk about it. 1.00

00:44:57.000 If Hillary ever says something that isn't stupid, I'll be shocked, but we'll talk about it. 1.00

00:45:01.000 We'll always call it like we see it. 0.98

00:45:03.000 So just because I'm not a Trump supporter doesn't mean

00:45:05.000 That I'm not going to call things the way I see them.

00:45:07.000 That's why I've been calling it the whole way like I see it.

00:45:09.000 The concept of standing by principle as opposed to standing by person is key to me.

00:45:14.000 It should be key to conservatives.

00:45:15.000 And no matter what happens tonight, no matter what happens the rest of this election cycle, the conservative movement will be built.

00:45:21.000 We'll build it again.

00:45:22.000 And we'll build it outside of Trump.

00:45:24.000 And we'll build it outside of the wheat.

00:45:25.000 And we'll build it outside the chaff.

00:45:26.000 There's gonna have to be some people who stand for principle.

00:45:29.000 And if you don't stand for principle,

00:45:31.000 You don't get a role in the rebuilding.

00:45:34.000 You know, the people who are the Trumpsters who wanted to burn this whole house down?

00:45:37.000 Here's the rule.

00:45:38.000 You broke the Republican Party, you bought the Republican Party.

00:45:40.000 This is your baby now.

00:45:41.000 This is your car.

00:45:42.000 If you drive it off the cliff...

00:45:44.000 That's on you, gang.

00:45:46.000 But we're not going to do that.

00:45:46.000 We're going to rebuild a brand new car, and it'll be a better car.

00:45:49.000 And in the end, that's the car that's going to end up pulling America. 0.93

00:45:52.000 We'll throw the sucker into full reverse. 0.99

00:45:54.000 That's the car, that's the machine that's going to end up saving the country, not this pathetic Trump Mad Max devil machine that is pulling us toward a terrible end and toward Charlize Theron in a shaved head. 1.00

00:46:08.000 I'm Ben Shapiro. 0.97

00:46:08.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show. 0.97

The Ben Shapiro Show - May 03, 2016

Ep. 111 - Trump Kills Ben! And Other Trump Fantasies Come To Life

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