The Ben Shapiro Show - Ep. 208 - President-Elect Trump

Trump is now the President-elect of the United States of America. Will he live up to the standard he set for himself in the primary and the general election? Or will he continue to be the bad guy that we all have come to know and hate? Today's episode of The Ben Shapiro Show asks the question: Good or Bad or Trump? Which one will we get today? Ben Shapiro's full reaction to Trump's election victory and what it means for the future of the country and the conservative movement. He also talks about why he thinks Trump is a good man, and why he doesn't need to change as a human being to be a good president. Ben also discusses why you should invest in precious metals, gold, and precious precious metals in gold, precious metals and precious metals. And finally, he talks about what he's going to do with the stock market now that Donald Trump is the next president of the USA and Hillary Clinton is no longer the Democratic candidate in the race for the White House. If you like good Trump, bad Trump, that sucker lives on for another four years, gang! Ben's got you covered! -Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire coverage of the election results and reaction from Glenn Beck's live broadcast on CNN's "The Glenn Beck Show" and more! Click here to watch the full clip here. Subscribe to the Daily Wire mini-series on the election night coverage here at Daily Wire. Thanks for listening and share the podcast! Subscribe on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices and become a supporter of the show? Subscribe and review our podcast? Like us on Podulp=a& comment down below? Leave us a review on iTunes and comment on your thoughts on the podcast on social media? We'll be listening to Ben Shapiro s latest episode on the show on the Podulters and other links in the podcast and other podcasting greats and other great posts on the podchips on the social media platforms we mentioned in this post? Subscribe to our feed Subscribe & subscribe to our podcast in the podtraced by Ben s Insta story & more! Subscribe to his Insta-RATE , v=a_tweeted by , v=t=1_t_a_a&t=8f_t=3f_a

00:00:00.000 You're about to hear words from me you've never heard before.

00:00:02.000 I was dead wrong.

00:00:04.000 I was dead wrong about this election.

00:00:05.000 I was dead wrong that Donald Trump would not win in the primaries.

00:00:08.000 I was dead wrong that Donald Trump would not beat Hillary Clinton in the general election.

00:00:12.000 I was wrong that the poll data was reliable.

00:00:14.000 It was not.

00:00:15.000 I was wrong the experts knew what the hell they were talking about with regard to ground game.

00:00:19.000 They didn't.

00:00:20.000 I was wrong that the movement of which Donald Trump bragged was just more Trumpian braggadocio rather than a real on-the-ground mass phenomenon.

00:00:26.000 Now I pray fervently that Donald Trump proves me wrong again about him as a human being.

00:00:31.000 I didn't vote for Trump yesterday.

00:00:32.000 For all the reasons I expressed yesterday on this program, I do not think Donald Trump is a good man, let alone a great one.

00:00:38.000 I'm deeply concerned he's not conservative.

00:00:40.000 I'm deeply concerned he'll fail to fulfill his promises, that he'll focus on useless fights,

00:00:44.000 That he'll engage in counterproductive ones, that he'll sell out the people who voted for him.

00:00:48.000 I'm concerned that Republicans, justifiably intoxicated by victory over the Wicked Witch of the West Hillary Clinton, will grant a halo effect to Trump that will allow him to engage in anti-conservative policies that will damage the country and political foolishness that will damage the conservative movement with constituencies that conservatives are still going to have to recruit.

00:01:07.000 I have said for months that Trump could prove me wrong.

00:01:09.000 I did say that.

00:01:10.000 He certainly has every opportunity to do so now.

00:01:12.000 He enters office with the majority of Republicans in the Senate.

00:01:16.000 He enters office with the majority of Republicans in the House.

00:01:18.000 He enters with an open Supreme Court seat, a vast majority of GOP state legislatures, a vast majority of GOP governors.

00:01:25.000 Now is the time for the vast change that we were promised and that Donald Trump promised to deliver.

00:01:31.000 This will require Donald Trump to change as a human.

00:01:47.000 Bad people don't become better people when they become powerful people.

00:01:50.000 And Donald Trump was just handed the keys to the car, the leadership of the most powerful country in the history of humanity, and the most powerful office in the most powerful country in the history of humanity.

00:01:59.000 Will Trump feel freed from the boundaries set on him by the strictures of a presidential race?

00:02:03.000 Will he feel unshackled to be sort of the bad Trump that we saw during the primaries and during the general?

00:02:08.000 Or will Trump actually change as a human and be elevated by his office?

00:02:12.000 Will he grow into the person that we all want him to be?

00:02:15.000 I sincerely hope, really I hope, that I'm wrong about him and that it is the latter.

00:02:19.000 I plan to hold him accountable if it's the former.

00:02:22.000 As I have for the entirety of this election cycle and consistently throughout my career, I will praise Trump when he deserves it.

00:02:28.000 I will criticize him when he does not deserve it.

00:02:30.000 For the sake of America, for the sake of conservatism, I hope, I hope, I have nothing but praise for President-elect Donald Trump.

00:02:36.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:02:37.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:02:39.000 Good or Trump?

00:02:41.000 Bad or Trump?

00:02:43.000 Which one will we get today?

00:02:46.000 I think that's the big news from the election, by the way, is that that lives on for another four years, gang. 0.99

00:02:50.000 So if you like good Trump, bad Trump, that sucker lives on. 0.94

00:02:53.000 And we still continue not to pay royalties to Brandon Snipes, the creator of that particular ditty. 0.97

00:02:59.000 So that's very exciting stuff.

00:03:01.000 A lot to get to today.

00:03:02.000 Did something happen last night?

00:03:03.000 I missed it.

00:03:04.000 Something?

00:03:05.000 There's a basketball game, right?

00:03:06.000 Somebody won?

00:03:07.000 Somebody lost?

00:03:07.000 I don't know.

00:03:08.000 People were saying something big was happening.

00:03:11.000 If I seem a little bit tired today, that's because we did an eight-hour broadcast yesterday.

00:03:16.000 We did a live broadcast here at DailyWire.com, and on Facebook, me and Andrew Klavan and Jeremy Boring and Bill Whittle stopped by for more time than he should have, and some others stopped by, as well as Steven Crowder and Glenn Beck.

00:03:30.000 It was a star-studded affair, but it was really great fun, and it was fun to watch the race shift over the course of the evening from

00:03:37.000 Donald Trump is going to lose to Donald Trump is now going to defeat Hillary Clinton and watching just the lifeblood drain out of the faces of the people who love Hillary Clinton watching as the universe leached all meaning from their lives was was really quite astounding and in many ways we'll get to all of that in a second but first

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00:04:45.000 Here's the deal.

00:04:46.000 Here's the deal.

00:05:16.000 I don't know.

00:05:25.000 That's a very important thing. 0.84

00:05:26.000 But I want to talk about, first, the biggest losers last night. 0.52

00:05:55.000 We're good.

00:06:15.000 After running 1,000 times for the presidency, to win the popular vote but lose heavily in the electoral vote, again, to Donald Trump, a person that she and her husband told to run, it's like, that's wonderful.

00:06:27.000 Every time I thought of that, I just thought, somewhere Hillary Clinton is just tying Huma Abedin to a bed and beating Ortha Cain, but not in the usual way. 0.89

00:06:34.000 So that's, you know, that, the imagery there is pretty phenomenal and pretty hilarious.

00:06:40.000 And then I thought,

00:06:42.000 President Trump.

00:06:43.000 And I thought, yeah, so that happened.

00:06:45.000 That's a thing.

00:06:47.000 You know my views of Trump.

00:06:48.000 I have not been shy about my views of Trump in the past.

00:06:51.000 As I said in the opener here, Donald Trump has to change as a man in order for him to earn my support as president of the United States.

00:06:59.000 He didn't earn my vote because the evidence that I saw did not suggest he was a man worthy of my vote.

00:07:03.000 Now he has the opportunity to earn my support by doing all the things that he promised that he would do and avoiding all the things that he promised he would do also.

00:07:12.000 I don't know.

00:07:32.000 I don't think never Trump was the big loser last night in the sense that I didn't vote for Hillary.

00:07:36.000 I didn't want Hillary to win. 0.67

00:07:37.000 And my agenda has been always the same, which was hold whoever is in power to the fire when it comes to conservative principles. 0.95

00:07:43.000 So here are the real losers last night. 0.98

00:07:45.000 Number one, Hillary. 1.00

00:07:46.000 Wow!

00:07:47.000 Wow!

00:07:48.000 Okay, so the big untold story of this election.

00:07:51.000 There are a lot of lies that are being passed around already about this election.

00:07:54.000 A lot of bad lessons that are being learned.

00:07:56.000 For example, the idea that Donald Trump drove out a mass movement.

00:07:59.000 Donald Trump just

00:08:00.000 Absolutely drove out this brand new vast mass movement that existed never before in human history.

00:08:05.000 Donald Trump won less, in terms of, won fewer popular votes in the general election than Mitt Romney did in 2012.

00:08:11.000 Mitt Romney won about 61 million votes.

00:08:13.000 Donald Trump won somewhere between 59 and 60 million popular votes.

00:08:17.000 And he actually under-polled, in terms of absolute votes, he under-polled Mitt Romney even in states like Wisconsin.

00:08:22.000 So Romney won something like 1.4 million votes in Wisconsin in 2012.

00:08:25.000 And Trump won 1.3 million.

00:08:28.000 What that means is that the real story of this election, just in terms of how this happened, the real story of this election is that Hillary Clinton failed to drive out nearly 7 million Barack Obama voters.

00:08:41.000 Nearly 7 million Barack Obama voters did not show up for Hillary Clinton, and that's off his high in 2008.

00:08:46.000 Remember, he lost something like, I think it was 3 to 4 million voters from 2008 to 2012.

00:08:50.000 So from 2008 to 2016, Hillary Clinton dropped somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 million Democrat voters. 0.98

00:08:59.000 That's how unpopular she is. 1.00

00:09:00.000 She has been officially named by the Guinness Book of World Records the worst politician in the history of humanity, actually. 0.80

00:09:05.000 So congratulations to Hillary on that prize. 0.93

00:09:08.000 She lost to Obama in 2008, of course.

00:09:10.000 Everyone thought she was going to win.

00:09:12.000 She lost.

00:09:12.000 Then she nearly lost in the primaries to a septuagenarian asylum escapee.

00:09:16.000 And then finally, she loses to a reality TV star who, four weeks before the election, was hit with a tape in which he said that he wanted to grab women by the bleep.

00:09:26.000 She lost to that.

00:09:27.000 She is the worst politician in American history and no one more richly deserves that title. 0.99

00:09:32.000 Okay, second big loser last night, Barack Obama. 0.99

00:09:34.000 His agenda is toast. 0.99

00:09:36.000 His agenda is in serious trouble.

00:09:37.000 Obamacare will be repealed if Republicans invoke the nuclear option and can hold their caucus together.

00:09:43.000 Obamacare will be repealed and it will be replaced, which is a great thing.

00:09:46.000 There could be a conservative justice.

00:09:48.000 Again, if Mitch McConnell does his job, always a dicey proposition, we could see a tax

00:09:53.000 I don't know. 0.99

00:10:13.000 His agenda is essentially tossed out on its ass. 1.00

00:10:16.000 And more than that, Barack Obama continued to make the case throughout his presidency that America was a deeply racist, terrible place filled by white people who are terribly, deeply racist and awful, and America was a negative force in the world. 0.99

00:10:28.000 The best thing about the Trump campaign and the Trump movement, the thing that I think is actually worthwhile, is that people were standing up and proudly saying, 0.85

00:10:37.000 Bill Little did say this yesterday and I think he's right.

00:10:38.000 What was on the hat?

00:10:39.000 That making America great again was something that was worthwhile.

00:10:42.000 That America is great.

00:10:44.000 The people here are not racist.

00:10:45.000 We are not bad people.

00:10:46.000 We don't deserve the ire of elites like Barack Obama scorning us, looking down on us, and pretending that they are on a higher plane while they call us racist and then pander to a racial base.

00:10:56.000 It totally backfired on Obama.

00:10:57.000 It totally backfired on Hillary. 1.00

00:10:59.000 And Obama's legacy is now on the table.

00:11:00.000 The only legacy he's going to have after the first hundred days of a Trump administration, if Trump does his job,

00:11:05.000 The only legacy Barack Obama will have is that he preceded Donald Trump and that Barack Obama was unable to win a third term, which means his real only legacy will be that he was the first black president, which of course is the only reason the media loved him in the first place.

00:11:17.000 Okay, then the biggest losers in all of this, bigger than Hillary, bigger than Obama, the biggest losers in all of this, obviously the media.

00:11:25.000 Obviously the media. 0.91

00:11:26.000 The media just gets schlonged in this election cycle.

00:11:29.000 And I will say this.

00:11:29.000 People say that it was Trump that ruined the media.

00:11:31.000 I don't think that's right.

00:11:32.000 I think the media ruined the media. 0.84

00:11:33.000 I think the media ruined the media in 2012 when they took a fundamentally decent man, Mitt Romney, and called him a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe.

00:11:40.000 And then in 2016, they said the same things about Trump, and it just didn't wash.

00:11:43.000 People said, you called Mitt Romney that, and we don't believe you.

00:11:46.000 We think that that was a lie.

00:11:47.000 You have no credibility whatsoever.

00:11:49.000 Bill Maher said this.

00:11:50.000 We played it on tape the other day.

00:11:52.000 And the media had no credibility.

00:11:54.000 All of their talk about racist, sexist, bigotry, homophobia, all of it just fell apart.

00:11:59.000 It fell apart in their faces.

00:12:00.000 They'd called Wolf too many times.

00:12:02.000 Nobody believes anything they have to say.

00:12:03.000 There was a poll yesterday, an exit poll, showed 76% of the people who voted thought the media were more interested in making money than they were in telling the truth.

00:12:11.000 When that's the case, the media have lost all power in our elections.

00:12:14.000 And that is a grand and glorious thing.

00:12:16.000 And I do have to thank Donald Trump for consistently ripping on the media.

00:12:19.000 Now, sometimes he was ripping on them even when they were telling the truth.

00:12:21.000 But the fact that people don't trust the media...

00:12:24.000 Overall is a good thing considering the leftist bias inherent in the media and that was so obviously on display.

00:12:29.000 Final big losers of the night, Senate Democrats.

00:12:32.000 Senate Democrats have serious troubles now.

00:12:34.000 So the idea here was that Senate Democrats were going to gain a majority and they'd be able to stymie a President Trump.

00:12:39.000 They don't.

00:12:40.000 The only seats that Republicans end up losing are Mark Kirk in Illinois and maybe Kelly Ayotte in New Hampshire.

00:12:44.000 That one is still a little bit too close to call.

00:12:46.000 They end up retaining their Senate majority.

00:12:48.000 That's horrible news for the Democrats, because in 2018, there are five, count them, five vulnerable Democrat seats in the Senate.

00:12:55.000 If Republicans win anywhere near that number, they suddenly have a dominant majority in the Senate, and Chuck Schumer doesn't have a lot of power.

00:13:02.000 Now, I will say, Chuck Schumer is a very smart political operator.

00:13:05.000 Chuck Schumer is going to create a consolidated force against the Republican majority.

00:13:10.000 Republican majorities have a nasty habit of splintering, because they're always gangs of eight, and people who want to run for president, who want to stake out their own ground.

00:13:18.000 But, if McConnell can hold fast, ha ha ha, if McConnell can hold fast, then you're looking at just a devastating night for Senate Democrats.

00:13:25.000 So, here's the deal.

00:13:27.000 Donald Trump has no excuse not to deliver on all the promises that he's made.

00:13:31.000 None.

00:13:32.000 All the promises are on the table.

00:13:34.000 He should be delivering on all the promises.

00:13:36.000 I want to see Obamacare appealed.

00:13:37.000 I want to see the conservative justice.

00:13:39.000 Prove me wrong.

00:13:40.000 I said during the primaries and during the general, I did not trust Donald Trump to do these things.

00:13:45.000 And I want to see him prove me wrong.

00:13:47.000 And I will be the happiest man on earth.

00:13:49.000 I will really be happy.

00:13:50.000 When I say I want to see him prove me wrong, I don't mean that facetiously.

00:13:53.000 I would love nothing better than for Donald Trump to turn out to shock me and shock the world again and end up being the second coming of Ronald Reagan, being a wonderful conservative president and making the country better for everybody.

00:14:03.000 I think that would be a wonderful, wonderful thing for the country, wonderful for the Republican Party.

00:14:09.000 I do think that we're going to have to, you know, take a little bit of care in the lessons that we learn from this election cycle because we have a habit of jumping to the wrong lessons in various election cycles.

00:14:18.000 In this one, it's a single data point, right?

00:14:20.000 And we're going to learn a lot from that single data point. 1.00

00:14:23.000 Already some of the bad lessons that I'm hearing are things like, polls are stupid. 1.00

00:14:26.000 No. 1.00

00:14:27.000 The polls in Wisconsin were off.

00:14:29.000 The polls in Michigan were off.

00:14:31.000 The polls in Pennsylvania were off.

00:14:32.000 The polls were right on in Ohio.

00:14:33.000 They were right on in Florida.

00:14:34.000 They were right on in North Carolina.

00:14:35.000 They were right on in New Hampshire.

00:14:37.000 They were right on in most of the country.

00:14:40.000 They were off in a lot of these places because they assumed that Hillary would not have the massive voter drop-off that she had. 0.96

00:14:47.000 The electorate in this election cycle is D plus four.

00:14:49.000 For a four year election cycle, for a presidential election cycle, that is unheard of.

00:14:54.000 Normally it's a D plus eight.

00:14:55.000 Normally it's a real, but the national polling was right on the money.

00:14:58.000 The polling average had it at about 3% split with a 3% margin of error.

00:15:03.000 Hillary ends up winning the popular vote by somewhere around 1%.

00:15:06.000 So what that means is that all of this talk about suddenly Bill Mitchell is a poll expert because he called that Trump was going to win.

00:15:12.000 No, sometimes the broken clock is right.

00:15:16.000 And Bill Mitchell is certainly a broken clock.

00:15:18.000 He was right.

00:15:19.000 That does not mean that all poles should be thrown out.

00:15:21.000 It sort of reminds me of in baseball.

00:15:23.000 In baseball, for baseball fans, there's something called sabermetrics, and that's the idea that you study statistics when you pick the players on your team.

00:15:30.000 When you get to the playoffs, sometimes there are teams that win that are not sabermetrically built.

00:15:34.000 They're not mathematically built, and the idea is that the sample size is just too small for us to tell.

00:15:39.000 Presidential elections only happen once every four years, so the idea that stats don't matter because we had a black swan election, that seems like the wrong lesson to learn and a dangerous lesson to learn.

00:15:48.000 The lesson is that you don't need a ground game. 0.89

00:15:50.000 Is a stupid lesson, especially because number one, the RNC clearly did have a ground game, and number two, because you're going to need a ground game when you have a candidate who doesn't have 100% name recognition and billions of dollars in free media coverage. 0.97

00:16:02.000 Other things that people are learning from this, you can focus solely and completely on the white vote, that's a mistake. 0.99

00:16:08.000 Trump has an absolutely wonderful opportunity now to reach out to new constituencies.

00:16:12.000 He's the president.

00:16:12.000 That means he can reach out in a really significant way.

00:16:15.000 He should continue to reach out to black communities.

00:16:17.000 He won 8% of the black vote, which was more than Mitt Romney's 5% of the black vote.

00:16:22.000 He won 29% of the Hispanic vote, which was more than Mitt Romney's share of the Hispanic vote, which is absolutely shocking and demonstrates the wild unpopularity of Hillary Clinton.

00:16:31.000 He has to reach out to those constituencies.

00:16:33.000 He has to reach out to young people.

00:16:34.000 Young people voted heavily for Hillary Clinton.

00:16:36.000 The reason I say this is because, not to take away from Trump's victory, but to note that this is not going to be the last election ever, and demographics are continuing to shift away from older white voters, even if older white voters represented the outsized share of Trump voters that drove him over the top on all of this.

00:16:52.000 So, those are my basic thoughts on the election cycle, but I want to go through some of the details before we get to all of that.

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00:18:16.000 Donald Trump wins last night in what is easily the biggest election shocker in the history of the nation.

00:18:24.000 It is by far the biggest election shocker in the history of the nation.

00:18:27.000 This would make the fifth time in American presidential history somebody loses the popular vote but wins the Electoral College.

00:18:32.000 It happened in 1824.

00:18:32.000 It happened in 1876.

00:18:32.000 It happened in 1888.

00:18:33.000 And it happened in 2000 with George W. Bush.

00:18:34.000 And then it happened again last night.

00:18:41.000 It is interesting.

00:18:41.000 Not a lot of discussion about the popular vote versus the Electoral College because Hillary was so widely expected to win and underperformed.

00:18:48.000 Trump got up and he gave a victory speech.

00:18:50.000 And I think that there are a few things that we're going to analyze as we continue on the show in just a minute.

00:18:57.000 We're going to analyze some of the lessons from this, whether the lessons are right or wrong, as I say.

00:19:02.000 What kind of president is Trump actually going to be?

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The Ben Shapiro Show - November 11, 2016

Ep. 208 - President-Elect Trump

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