The Ben Shapiro Show


Ep. 230 - Trump Derangement Syndrome Reaches Epidemic Levels


Summary

During the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump made a strong anti-crime case. He argued that high-crime communities needed more police, not fewer. And that murder had jumped dramatically in the wake of Barack Obama s soft-on-crime policies, targeting of police departments, and tolerance for anti-police riots in major cities across the U.S. Today, violent crime rates have risen in America s 30 biggest cities. The Wall Street Journal reports that homicide rates rose in most big American cities in 2016, continuing a worrisome trend for police and criminologists that began last year. Even as murder rates in most cities are nowhere near the levels of two years ago, it s telling that Trump isn t talking about one of Republicans' top priorities before his election, criminal justice reform. That s good news, given that notions of mass incarceration seem ill-founded in light of America s rising crime problem. I'm Ben Shapiro, host of the Ben Shapiro Show on the FiveThirtyEight Radio Network. I'm a writer, comedian, and podcaster. I've been in the entertainment business for a number of years, and I've always been a fan of the late great John Singleton's music, especially the 80's and early 90's hip hop. If you haven't checked out his music, you'll definitely want to do so. He's got some great songs to go with it, too, like "Space Travel" by Fountains of Wayne, "Goodbye Outer Space" and "Good Morning America" by The Chainsaw Massacre, which I'm sure you'll remember. I'll be looking out for you in the next episode of That's What I'm Working" on Tuesday, January 15th. Check out my new music video on SoundCloud, "The Good Life" by Suneaters, "I'll See You in the Badlands" by Fugue, out in Los Angeles, coming out on Tuesday night, coming out next Tuesday, and "I'm With You, I'm With My Girl" by Goodfellows, by Fergie, I'll Be Seein' That's My Music by Haley Shaw, and I'll Hear You, My Badass by Squeellin' It's That's Good, My Good and I'm So Good by My Good And Good And I'll Say That's Not Good & I'll See That by My Bad And I'm Not That Good And That's Just That And I Say That by So Much So Much And I Love You, Too Much And That'll Hear That by Me And I Can't Say That By Me And That Will Say That And That & I Will Hear That And They Say That & They'll Also Have It And They Will Also Say That So Much Like That And It Will Also Have That And So Much More Like That & That Will Also Do That And And They'll Have That, And I Will Also Be That And This Will Also Hear That, I Can Do That,


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00:00:00.000 During the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump made a strong anti-crime case.
00:00:04.000 He argued that high-crime communities needed more police, not fewer, and that murder had jumped dramatically in the wake of Barack Obama's soft-on-crime policies, Department of Justice targeting of police departments, and administration tolerance for anti-police riots in major cities across the country.
00:00:18.000 The media critiqued Trump's specific claims.
00:00:20.000 They claimed that he was exaggerating the rising crime problem in the wake of what Heather McDonald has called the Ferguson effect.
00:00:25.000 But Trump's overall message was absolutely right.
00:00:28.000 While the left claimed that crime rates were doing fine, had been dropping for decades, they neglected that murder rates rose in America's cities over the past couple of years after a sustained drop.
00:00:35.000 And violent crime rates have risen in America's 30 biggest cities today.
00:00:39.000 The Wall Street Journal reports, quote, Homicides rose in most big American cities in 2016, continuing a worrisome trend for police and criminologists that began last year, even as murder rates in most cities are nowhere near the levels of two years ago.
00:00:52.000 Trump actually took crime seriously during the campaign.
00:00:54.000 During the RNC, he stated, quote, decades of progress made in bringing down crime are now being reversed by this administration's rollback of criminal enforcement.
00:01:02.000 This was smart strategy, as I said at the time.
00:01:05.000 Clinton, by contrast, ran on the notion that mass incarceration was the big problem, that the system was implicitly biased, and that her husband's plans to lower crime, which were actually wildly successful, they had to be dismantled.
00:01:16.000 No wonder she lost.
00:01:17.000 Republicans ought to run on crime regularly across the country.
00:01:20.000 That's how Republicans can get elected in places like California and New York.
00:01:23.000 Remember Richard Reardon and Rudy Giuliani?
00:01:26.000 Well, Trump did.
00:01:27.000 And he did well in states that have seen unrest over policing and crime.
00:01:30.000 Wisconsin, of course, he won.
00:01:31.000 He saw a riot in Milwaukee.
00:01:32.000 Michigan has seen continuing controversy over crime in Detroit.
00:01:36.000 Pennsylvania has seen high rates of crime in Philadelphia.
00:01:38.000 It's telling that Trump isn't talking about one of Republicans' top legislative priorities before his election, criminal justice reform.
00:01:45.000 That's good news, given that notions of mass prison release seem ill-founded in light of America's rising crime problem.
00:01:51.000 Trump sees something a lot of other Republicans don't.
00:01:53.000 Crime matters, and so does safety, and he's going to stand up against both.
00:01:56.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:01:57.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
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00:03:24.000 Okay, so lots going on here in the world that usually there's a slowdown prior to prior to Christmas, but
00:03:30.000 The news seems to continue becoming fast and furious and most of the news seems to be that the left has lost, utterly lost its mind.
00:03:36.000 They are absolutely crazy towns now.
00:03:39.000 The latest evidence that the left have lost their minds, Trump Derangement Syndrome now roams free across the nation.
00:03:44.000 It's like the stand.
00:03:45.000 Somebody says Trump and then the next person says Trump and eventually they're all bleeding through their noses and keeling over.
00:03:50.000 Trump Derangement Syndrome has taken over everything.
00:03:53.000 The latest victim of Trump Derangement Syndrome are these crazy
00:03:57.000 Gay dudes who decided to confront Ivanka Trump at an airport.
00:04:02.000 Now, as somebody who's, you know, has a relative level of notoriety, I see a lot of people at airports who are fans.
00:04:09.000 Like the last few times I've been in an airport, I've seen people who are fans of the show, which is great.
00:04:13.000 And there are sometimes people who disagree and come up and they're generally pretty civil about it.
00:04:17.000 But, you know, it's in public places.
00:04:21.000 It's not the time for you to start screaming at random people who you don't like politically.
00:04:27.000 If I saw Barack Obama at the airport, I would not be tempted to walk up to Barack Obama and start screaming at him for his Iran deal.
00:04:33.000 It just seems like a bad breach of kind of common sense protocol.
00:04:37.000 There are plenty of good venues to confront Barack Obama.
00:04:40.000 At the airport doesn't seem like one of them.
00:04:43.000 It's amazing how basic civility has gone by the wayside.
00:04:46.000 What happened is that the internet has, I think, created this feeling of incivility because you can hide behind anonymity even if your name's out there on the internet.
00:04:54.000 You're not actually speaking to someone face to face, so you can say whatever you want, and that allows people to say things they would never say in person.
00:05:00.000 See, what differentiates me from a lot of other folks is pretty much everything I say on Twitter.
00:05:05.000 I also say directly to human beings.
00:05:07.000 But most of the things that get said on Twitter are things that people don't say directly to other human beings.
00:05:11.000 But as the internet culture becomes more pervasive, those lines start to get blurred.
00:05:15.000 And so instead of people just acting like jackasses on Twitter, and then in real life acting normally and civilly, it's bleeding over.
00:05:23.000 So here's the story today.
00:05:24.000 The story today is that this one guy decided that he was going to accost Ivanka Trump
00:05:30.000 On a JetBlue flight.
00:05:31.000 So according to TMZ, Ivanka was leaving JFK.
00:05:34.000 She was seated in the coach area of the plane.
00:05:36.000 First of all, good for Ivanka Trump flying coach.
00:05:39.000 Like really, good for Ivanka Trump flying coach.
00:05:41.000 That's kind of a neat thing to see.
00:05:42.000 And she doesn't look like glamorous Ivanka there.
00:05:44.000 She looks like a normal lady, which is kind of cool.
00:05:46.000 And she's flying JetBlue coach.
00:05:48.000 And by the way, contrary to common rumor put out by some of my political enemies, I always fly coach.
00:05:54.000 Ivanka is just sitting there.
00:05:56.000 With her kids and with her husband.
00:05:58.000 And this guy rushes up to her and starts yelling, your father is ruining the country!
00:06:04.000 And then starts ranting, why is she on our flight?
00:06:06.000 She should be flying private!
00:06:08.000 Because, why?
00:06:10.000 Why should she be flying private?
00:06:11.000 Why is that necessary?
00:06:12.000 She has to be banished to the private plane?
00:06:14.000 Matthew Lassner is the name of the guy's partner.
00:06:18.000 He says, Ivanka and Jared at JFK T5 flying commercial.
00:06:22.000 My husband chasing them down to harass them.
00:06:24.000 Hashtag banality of evil.
00:06:26.000 Really?
00:06:27.000 Banality of evil?
00:06:28.000 Ivanka Trump?
00:06:28.000 First of all, she's a Democrat.
00:06:29.000 She probably agrees with you on half of your policies.
00:06:31.000 But second of all, banality of evil actually is the idea that a normal person is capable of doing evil things.
00:06:37.000 Well, it seems to me that a kind of evil thing is chasing down random people in the airport, naming where they are if they're prominent, and then cursing at them.
00:06:46.000 That seems unpleasant.
00:06:48.000 And I love the fact that Matthew Lassner, he actually says there, my husband chasing them down to harass them.
00:06:52.000 Not to speak with them, not to ask a question, to harass them.
00:06:55.000 That is the entire goal here, is to harass Ivanka Trump and Jared for no apparent reason.
00:07:00.000 And then, afterward, this guy's partner got tossed off the flight, his husband, I guess, got tossed off the flight.
00:07:07.000 Put that back up for one second.
00:07:08.000 And he then tweeted, Ivanka, just before JetBlue kicked us off our flight, when a fit
00:07:15.000 Flight attendant?
00:07:16.000 Flight attendant.
00:07:17.000 Overheard my husband expressing displeasure about flying with Trumps.
00:07:21.000 And then, he tweeted also, Ivanka and Jared on our flight, my husband expressed displeasure in a calm tone, JetBlue staff overheard, and they kicked us off the plane.
00:07:28.000 Well, that's not what witnesses were saying.
00:07:30.000 Witnesses were saying that they were disruptive of the flight, that they were being jerks, and that they were just cursing at Ivanka for no reason, or at least confronting and harassing Ivanka for no reason.
00:07:40.000 And it's funny what the media run with.
00:07:42.000 So the media, again, they complain about fake news, fake news this and fake news that.
00:07:46.000 And then, they run with a headline that says, these people are tossed from the plane after talking to Ivanka Trump.
00:07:51.000 So they ignore the first tweet, where they actually say the goal is to harass them, and they ignore the other people on the plane who say this was disruptive, and they just say, oh, it was just a talking to.
00:07:59.000 It was just somebody talking to Ivanka Trump.
00:08:01.000 Really, really gross stuff.
00:08:03.000 And again, demonstrative of the fact that there are a lot of people who believe that, for the left, virtue signaling is more important than actual virtue.
00:08:11.000 Virtue signaling Trump's virtue.
00:08:13.000 So signaling to all their friends on Twitter that they confronted Ivanka Trump, these people will be the toast of their cocktail party this evening.
00:08:19.000 That's more important than actually just being decent and say not confronting people in front of their children and yelling at them about their fathers.
00:08:28.000 Which is weird.
00:08:29.000 By the way, this guy apparently was carrying his kid when he did it too.
00:08:31.000 So, nothing like dragging your own child into it as well.
00:08:34.000 And this is not uncommon.
00:08:36.000 It's becoming a bigger and bigger thing.
00:08:37.000 There's some guy named, uh, I guess they call him Monsieur Vogue.
00:08:40.000 His name is Andre Leon Talley.
00:08:43.000 And, uh, Maureen Dowd wrote a piece about him.
00:08:45.000 He is a famous designer.
00:08:48.000 And he's been dressing Melania Trump for a long time.
00:08:52.000 And Melania and Maureen Dowd interviewed this guy and here's what she wrote.
00:08:57.000 She wrote, I have flown here to see if Andre can shed some light on Melania, the sultry enigma of Trump world, the only reserved member of what is shaping up to be the most bellicose takeover in modern times.
00:09:06.000 As everyone else rushes in to blow up the Capitol, as Ivanka shops for houses in Georgetown and office space at the White House, as headlines cascade about how Ivanka will be the real first lady, Melania has virtually disappeared.
00:09:16.000 We see more of her doppelganger on Saturday Night Live than we do the real Slovenian Sphinx, who is hanging back in New York so her 10-year-old son, Baron, can finish the school year.
00:09:24.000 And then she talks to this guy, Andre, and Andre says that he doesn't want to dress Melania anymore.
00:09:33.000 He's not interested in dressing Melania.
00:09:36.000 He says, quote, you make the choice to be in Trump-land or you make the choice to eject yourself from the horror of Trump-land.
00:09:41.000 I've made my choice not to be part of Trump-land.
00:09:44.000 So, I guess that now it's okay.
00:09:45.000 I'm glad to see that the left is now okay with refusing your services to people you don't want to serve.
00:09:49.000 That's good to know.
00:09:51.000 So if you're a Christian baker, you're not allowed to say no to catering a same-sex wedding, but if you're a fashion designer, then you're definitely allowed to say no to Melania Trump for no reason other than you think her husband's kind of a douche.
00:10:02.000 So that's good to know, that now they suddenly believe in free enterprise and your ability to pick your own clientele.
00:10:08.000 That's a nice thing to be aware of.
00:10:10.000 But second of all, again, it just shows sort of the pettiness of these folks.
00:10:13.000 It's not because they have a moral principle, they're not going to dress people with whom they disagree.
00:10:17.000 They dress people with whom they disagree all the time.
00:10:18.000 I assume they have some clients who are Republicans and voted for Trump.
00:10:22.000 But the idea is that he doesn't want his name linked with Melania Trump.
00:10:24.000 Horror of horrors!
00:10:26.000 She might be wearing one of his dresses.
00:10:27.000 First of all, I just have a question.
00:10:29.000 Is the left that vindictive?
00:10:31.000 Really, truly, is the left that vindictive?
00:10:32.000 If there is a right-wing fashion designer, I don't know if there are, if there is a right-wing fashion designer and that right-wing fashion designer dressed Michelle Obama, do you think that right world would go crazy?
00:10:43.000 When anybody, when any conservative go, we've got to punish those people for dressing Michelle Obama.
00:10:49.000 I really, really doubt it.
00:10:50.000 I really doubt it.
00:10:51.000 But apparently these folks are so afraid of the left or so interested in virtue signaling that they decide that it's more important to virtue signal than to
00:10:59.000 Just act with decency and moderation.
00:11:02.000 And again, not the only story.
00:11:05.000 Like I say, Anthony Bourdain, who runs the most overrated show on TV, Parts Unknown, he's a celebrity chef and he goes around eating food in different parts of the world and pretending we're all friends.
00:11:14.000 It's basically, it's a small world except with food that you can't eat but looks good.
00:11:18.000 And he goes around and does this show.
00:11:20.000 He told the foodie-focused website, Eater,
00:11:22.000 He will never eat in restaurateur Alessandro Borgognini's B-O-R-G-O-G-N-O-N-E, you try it, new sushi restaurant at Trump's hotel, adding he has utter and complete contempt for Borgognoni.
00:11:38.000 And then he took a shot at another chef, David Burke, for taking over Jose Andres' planned restaurant at the hotel after Andres pulled out in protest of Trump's comments about Mexican immigrants.
00:11:47.000 And now he's really, really angry with these two chefs because he thinks that their motivation is to get in good with the president and make money.
00:11:54.000 Because that's never motivated anybody on the left, to get in good with Obama and make money.
00:11:57.000 Like Anthony Bourdain doing a show with Obama, that wasn't designed to get in good with Obama and make money.
00:12:02.000 Heaven forbid.
00:12:04.000 He was just doing it because he thought it would be, you know, really great TV.
00:12:07.000 So the left is going nuts.
00:12:09.000 They've decided they can't have anything to do with folks on the right.
00:12:13.000 There's a story the other day that said that the person who is unfriending everybody on Facebook is Democratic women.
00:12:18.000 Democratic women are really pissed, and if they see anybody who voted for Trump or is a Republican, they're unfriending them on Facebook.
00:12:24.000 Which gives the lie to this idea that it's your intolerant John Lithgow from Footloose uncle.
00:12:30.000 Who's the source of all the discomfort in your family?
00:12:33.000 Honestly, I've never seen that.
00:12:35.000 Maybe it exists, but I've never seen it.
00:12:36.000 Maybe it's because I'm a minority in our extended family.
00:12:39.000 We're Republicans and everybody else is a Democrat.
00:12:41.000 But from where I sit, it seems precisely the opposite.
00:12:43.000 It seems like most of the people at Thanksgiving dinner or Christmas dinner who decide to make a trouble, it seems like those people are on the left and they want the fight.
00:12:51.000 Because it makes them feel good.
00:12:52.000 It makes them feel morally superior.
00:12:54.000 Okay, so if they can't come up with stories, so how do they justify this sort of behavior?
00:12:58.000 How does the left justify this sort of behavior, saying that it's okay to treat people this way, to confront Ivanka Trump on a flight?
00:13:05.000 How do they make themselves feel better for doing that?
00:13:08.000 Well, they simply say that they're just hitting first, right?
00:13:12.000 They're trying to retaliate for the evils and the intolerance of people on the Trump side of the aisle.
00:13:16.000 And that's why we've seen the spate of hoaxes.
00:13:19.000 There's been this big spate of hoaxes.
00:13:20.000 So, for example, there's this story that came out yesterday.
00:13:24.000 There was a Mississippi church that was burned, and somebody spray-painted on the side of it, Vote Trump.
00:13:29.000 And here's a picture of what that church looks like.
00:13:32.000 So it's burned out, obviously, and somebody spray-painted Vote Trump on it.
00:13:36.000 And the media, if you recall, made a huge deal out of this.
00:13:39.000 Oh my goodness, it must have been some crazy Trump voter who was trying to intimidate this historically black church.
00:13:44.000 According to the Associated Press, quote,
00:13:46.000 A Mississippi man with a prior criminal record was arrested Wednesday in the burning of an African-American church that was spray-painted with the words, Vote Trump.
00:13:54.000 And the church's bishop said the man is a member of the congregation.
00:13:58.000 Mm-hmm.
00:13:59.000 The state fire marshal said investigators do not believe the fire was politically motivated, but there are signs it may have been done to appear that way.
00:14:05.000 Andrew McClinton, 45, of Leland, Mississippi, is scheduled to make his initial court appearance.
00:14:10.000 He's charged with first-degree arson in a place of worship, according to the Mississippi Department of Public Safety.
00:14:16.000 McClinton, by the way, is a member of the church.
00:14:18.000 He is also black.
00:14:20.000 So everybody was saying that it had to be some white Trump supporter who burned out this church because, as we all know, Trump supporters are evil racists.
00:14:26.000 And therefore, we have to ensure that we have to crack down on the Trump people and be mean to them.
00:14:32.000 Except that was a hoax.
00:14:33.000 Other hoaxes.
00:14:34.000 So we now know that this story at University of Michigan in which this girl claimed that in the days after Trump's victory, she was stalked by an intoxicated guy who ran up to her, forced her to take off her hijab and threatened to light her on fire with a lighter if she didn't.
00:14:50.000 That turns out that that was complete nonsense as well.
00:14:52.000 Ann Arbor police say the whole attack was a sham according to the Daily Caller.
00:14:56.000 Police Lieutenant Matthew Liege announced that officers reviewed many hours of surveillance footage from the area where the supposed attack occurred.
00:15:03.000 Not only were they unable to find any evidence of the attack, they were also unable to find any evidence the student was in the area at the time.
00:15:10.000 The attack also had no eyewitnesses.
00:15:13.000 So that, too, was a hoax.
00:15:15.000 So hoaxing, hoaxing everywhere.
00:15:16.000 And then there's this other hoax that's been getting all sorts of attention.
00:15:19.000 Because here's the thing with the left.
00:15:21.000 If the story's too good to check, they just run with it.
00:15:24.000 So there's this Muslim YouTube hoax artist.
00:15:27.000 I mean, that's what he does.
00:15:27.000 He does hoaxes and pranks named Adam Saleh.
00:15:31.000 And Saleh, yesterday, released this video of himself on Delta, and he was suggesting that he was thrown off the plane because his mom was talking to somebody in Arabic.
00:15:40.000 Here's a little bit of the video he released.
00:15:43.000 Can you please say this to Facebook and Twitter?
00:15:44.000 Guys, we spoke a different language on the plane and now we're getting kicked out.
00:15:48.000 That's insane.
00:15:49.000 Now we're getting kicked out.
00:15:51.000 We're getting kicked out because we spoke a different language.
00:15:55.000 This is 2016.
00:15:55.000 2016, look.
00:15:56.000 Delta Airlines are kicking us out.
00:16:02.000 He claimed that this is what happened, and now it's turning out that the evidence tends to suggest that this was not true.
00:16:09.000 He's a professional hoaxster.
00:16:10.000 He made headlines a few years ago, if you remember, by claiming that he squeezed into a tiny suitcase and flew in the baggage hold from Melbourne to Sydney.
00:16:19.000 And that of course turned out to be absolute nonsense.
00:16:21.000 He's done this, apparently he tried to pull the same prank on a different airline.
00:16:25.000 I guess reports are out today that he was trying to pull this prank on a different airline earlier and the entire media ran with it.
00:16:31.000 The entire media suggested that Delta had thrown him off the flight because he was speaking Arabic or his mom was speaking Arabic.
00:16:40.000 Passengers on the plane, they say that this is nonsense.
00:16:43.000 They say that he was kicked off the plane for other reasons.
00:16:49.000 Apparently, one of the passengers says that this is not correct.
00:16:53.000 So, according to a witness, quote, I was sat two seats away from the internet prankster and his friend.
00:16:56.000 Neither of them was on any phone call.
00:16:58.000 I could hear them talking in plain American English.
00:17:00.000 The YouTube guy was trying to get his friend to shout something in Arabic, which he did a total of four times.
00:17:04.000 He shouted across the plane, and the first two times I thought he was shouting maybe a friend or something.
00:17:09.000 A couple of passengers after the second time said they were making themselves and their young children uncomfortable and could they shut up.
00:17:14.000 They told her to shut up and then he shouted again.
00:17:17.000 They were filming people's reactions on their phone, I assume for some comedy YouTube video, but they were made to delete it.
00:17:22.000 Delta said in a statement, it appears the customers who were removed sought to disrupt the cabin with provocative behavior including shouting.
00:17:27.000 This type of conduct is not welcome on any Delta flight.
00:17:30.000 While one, according to the media reports, is a known prankster who was video recorded and encouraged by his traveling companion, what is paramount to Delta is the safety and comfort of our passengers and employees.
00:17:39.000 It is clear these individuals sought to violate that priority.
00:17:43.000 And Saleh then claimed that what they did was wrong, and we deserve to speak up about this.
00:17:47.000 He said, yes, we're pranksters, and it sounds like the boy who cried wolf, but today you can clearly see it's as real as it gets.
00:17:51.000 Well, no, I can't.
00:17:53.000 No, I can't.
00:17:53.000 I mean, where's the rest of the video?
00:17:55.000 Why does the video start with them being removed from the plane?
00:17:57.000 They're YouTube pranksters.
00:17:59.000 Why is it that half these videos start after the incident, and then the media takes the account as though it was totally cool?
00:18:06.000 They take the accounts as though it's totally and absolutely relevant and true?
00:18:12.000 That's the fake news.
00:18:13.000 That's the real fake news.
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00:19:27.000 Okay, so all these hoaxes have had the predictable effect, and that is they've created this impression that the country is deeply, deeply divided, when the truth is, a lot of these stories are just not true.
00:19:39.000 And it's driving people to do crazier and crazier things.
00:19:41.000 Trump Derangement Syndrome is driven by actual fake news.
00:19:44.000 I just gave you a bunch of examples of actual fake news, and it's driving people to be crazy.
00:19:49.000 Here's another story like this.
00:19:50.000 A group of artists have now come together demanding that Ivanka Trump remove their artwork from her New York City apartment.
00:19:56.000 The artists, who formed the HALT Action Group, have initiated the Dear Ivanka Instagram campaign as a way to protest President-elect Donald Trump through his daughter.
00:20:05.000 So they're asking her to remove all the art from her apartment.
00:20:08.000 Her answer should be, go screw yourself.
00:20:10.000 I bought it.
00:20:11.000 I own it.
00:20:11.000 And you can't ask me to do anything with it.
00:20:14.000 Really obnoxious stuff coming from the left.
00:20:16.000 If you want to continue to polarize America along these lines, then please continue doing what you're doing.
00:20:21.000 Well, as we continue over at dailywire.com, we're going to continue over there.
00:20:24.000 Unfortunately, this brings us to the end of our Facebook live feed.
00:20:27.000 We have a lot more to get to, including Donald Trump's response to the terror attacks.
00:20:31.000 We're going to talk about what I think is actually the big story of the day, which is Trump is now pushing executive action for tariffs, which is crazy towns.
00:20:39.000 And we're going to get to a little bit of Bible talk a little bit later on here.
00:20:42.000 I think so.
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