Trump signs an executive order banning federal funding for overseas abortions and reinstating the so-called "Mexico City policy" originally created by Ronald Reagan. Is this a one-off? Or is this a permanent policy? And why are so many Americans now pro-life? Is it because science has made it impossible for Americans to deny any longer that abortion does not destroy a human life? Or is it because the pro-abortion left wants to end ultrasounds, a technology that allows us to see a fetus's face before birth? Ben Shapiro explains why. Plus, a bizarre piece from The Atlantic arguing that ultrasounds are actually a form of warfare against women, not a tool allowing doctors to identify problems with fetal development as early as possible. Ben Shapiro: The left's war for abortion now takes no prisoners, and science itself must be fought tooth and nail if women are to keep killing the babies in their wombs. This is an epic episode of Good Trump, Bad Trump, because finally, finally being Trump s president, we don t have to speculate any longer about what he's going to do and what he s going to say, because now he s actually doing something about it! And we ll talk about it all on today s episode of The Ben Shapiro Show. Subscribe to Ben Shapiro's new podcast, Good Trump: Bad Trump! Subscribe on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. Use the promo code GoodTrumpism to receive $5 and receive $10 off your first purchase when you shop there. Become a supporter of the show Good Trump or Bad Trump: That s Good Trump is Bad Trump is a Bad Trump. Good Trump Is Good Trump s Bad Trump Is Bad Trump s President is Good, Too Good, Good, Not Bad, Too Bad, Not Great, Not Good, And So Much More! Become a Member of the Good Trump Podcasts Club Good Trump's Bad Trump's Club Good, You'll Get Exclusive Discounted Rate & Reviewed by Bad Trump Will Be Great at 5 Starred, Too Effing Good, No Spanky s Good, Great At That Will Be Good At That Too Good at That Will Help You Win a Reviewed By Bad At That's Good At This Is Good At It Too Good Or Not Bad At This Too Good And They'll See That Will Also Help You Get A Better Place Too Good At Worst at That Too Bad at That? And They Say So Much Better at That
00:00:00.000On Monday, Donald Trump signed an executive order banning federal funding for overseas abortions, reinstating the so-called Mexico City policy originally created by Ronald Reagan.
00:00:27.000More and more Americans are now pro-life.
00:00:29.000As Guy Benson of townhall.com points out, a Numeris poll shows 83% of Americans agree with Trump's actions here.
00:00:36.00052% of Americans want to limit abortion to rare cases.
00:00:39.000Another 22% want to outlaw abortion after the first trimester.
00:00:43.000Under 40% of Americans think abortion is morally acceptable, and there is no gender gap on whether abortion is morally wrong, despite what the Women's March organizers would have Americans believe.
00:01:37.000But according to the pro-abortion left, reality must be ignored.
00:01:40.000Today, The Atlantic ran a bizarre piece by Moira Weigel titled, in Orwellian fashion,
00:01:49.000Which is somewhat like saying how the microscope pushed the idea that cells exist, or how the Hubble telescope pushed the idea that there are stars outside our solar system, or how human eyes pushed the idea that the Atlantic is fully insane.
00:02:26.000Weigel's science denial here is pretty incredible.
00:02:28.000Having seen repeat ultrasounds of both my children, the fetal development is clear and undeniable, and it is nearly impossible to see such images without recognizing that there's a child in there, not some random clump of cells.
00:02:39.000Weigel might talk to an OBGYN or two before declaring ultrasounds vague and uninformative.
00:02:44.000But Weigel goes even further, assuring readers that ultrasounds were primarily a form of warfare against women, rather than a tool allowing doctors to identify problems with fetal development as early as possible.
00:02:55.000This is a direct quote from her article now.
00:02:57.000Army-trained scientists and army-funded laboratories demobilized the technology, turning away from the ocean toward women's bodies.
00:03:04.000Ultrasound made it impossible- made it possible for the male doctor to evaluate the fetus without female interference.
00:04:08.000And he's doing some things that I like and he's doing some things that I don't.
00:04:11.000But we'll talk about all of that first.
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00:05:45.000So that is a safety concern, but it's also
00:06:11.000We're gonna do some good Trump, bad Trump.
00:06:13.000And the reason we do this is because it is very important to note when Donald Trump is doing things that are good, and note when he is doing things that are bad.
00:06:19.000There are lots of people who seem to think that because Donald Trump does some good things, that means you should never critique him when he does bad things or wrong things.
00:06:33.000But what I certainly can do is I can tell you the things he's doing that are good and the things that he's doing that are bad so you are more informed coming away from the Ben Shapiro show every day.
00:06:54.000So, Donald Trump... By the way, I always thought this was going to be the case, that Donald Trump's first hundred days were going to be filled with things that I liked, and then I thought he was going to go a little bit off the rails after that.
00:07:03.000But so far, that prediction is on track.
00:07:05.000So, Donald Trump started off yesterday, as I mentioned, by signing an executive order reinstating the Mexico City policy, which means that your tax dollars now no longer go
00:07:14.000We think we can cut regulations by 75%.
00:07:44.000Have in a certain way better protections.
00:07:48.000But when you want to expand your plant, or when Mark wants to come in and build a big, massive plant, or when Dell wants to come in and do something monstrous and special, you're going to have your approvals really fast.
00:08:05.000And the one thing that surprised me, and then I want to hear what you have to say, but the one thing that surprised me in going around and meeting with a lot of the people at this table, and meeting with a lot of the small business owners,
00:08:17.000If I gave them a choice of this massive tax decrease that we're giving for business, for everybody but for business, or the cutting down of regulation, if I took a vote, I think the regulation wins 100%.
00:09:14.000Trump apparently is now looking to chop down the Environmental Protection Agency to size.
00:09:19.000He apparently has pulled the Center for Disease Control out of some global warming climate change conference.
00:09:25.000I don't know why the CDC is going to a global warming conference in the first place.
00:09:30.000As far as the EPA thing, apparently they've got an agency action plan for the EPA that they're putting out right now, and it's great.
00:09:38.000So they're looking at budget reductions, they're looking at $513 million in cuts to state and tribal assistant grants, $193 million in savings from terminating climate programs,
00:09:49.000$109 million in savings from environment programs and management.
00:09:52.000They're going to stop the Clean Air Act greenhouse gas regulations.
00:09:55.000So this is this idiotic notion that Congress somehow gave the executive branch the power to crack down on carbon emissions.
00:10:03.000So he's going to stop that, which is great.
00:10:05.000He's going to maybe issue an executive order barring the EPA from overruling federal permit decisions unless in clear violation of established law.
00:11:02.000All of this, there's broad consensus among conservatives across the spectrum that this is good, and this is smart, and this is stuff that we care about.
00:11:09.000And then we get to the stuff that Donald Trump actually cares about the most.
00:11:12.000The stuff that Donald Trump actually cares about the most
00:11:18.000And here's the part of the Trump agenda that is helping transform the GOP from a traditionally conservative party based on the Reagan idea of limited government, based on the idea of social conservatism, based on the idea of hawkish foreign policy.
00:11:32.000This is the part of Trump's agenda that really has very little to do with conservatism at all.
00:11:37.000And we start, actually, with something that I think a lot of Trump's most ardent advocates were pushing him for, but he's apparently now no longer going to do.
00:11:45.000So, apparently, Donald Trump... Let's just flash back here for a second.
00:11:49.000Donald Trump promised, and a lot of Republicans pushed Republican legislators to do this in 2014.
00:11:56.000Republicans promised they were going to get rid of Barack Obama's executive amnesties, that they were going to reinstate the idea that if you are here illegally, there is the potential for your deportation.
00:12:04.000Barack Obama signed two executive orders, the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals program, the Deferred Action on Parents of Those Children.
00:12:12.000Those were his two big executive actions with regard to illegal immigration.
00:12:16.000And Donald Trump, lest you forget, promised openly throughout the campaign that on day one he was going to get rid of DACA and DAPA.
00:12:23.000Here was Donald Trump back in September saying exactly that.
00:12:26.000Cancel unconstitutional executive orders and enforce all immigration laws.
00:12:38.000We will immediately terminate President Obama's two illegal executive amnesties in which he defied federal law and the Constitution to give amnesty to approximately 5 million illegal immigrants.
00:13:51.000Politicians will always disappoint you.
00:13:53.000Rich tells the story of how during the few hours he was considering a run for New York City Mayor, he found himself already starting to waffle on principle to a potential voter in the elevator.
00:14:01.000If I were ever so unwise as to run for office, I too would no doubt disappoint those who unwisely voted for me.
00:14:06.000I was fully prepared for the Trump administration to do some things I wouldn't be happy with.
00:14:09.000But I expected the problems to arise in the area of foreign worker visas.
00:14:13.000The president, while running for the nomination, made lots of statements about that.
00:14:38.000ICE, right, the Citizenship and Immigration Services, which handles the two-year renewable amnesty program, could easily have stopped processing DACA applications, both for renewals and first-time applicants, until further notice.
00:15:07.000Right now there are 800 illegal aliens receiving work permits during the first business day of the Trump administration.
00:15:13.000And despite the fact that suspending the DACA program would simply require a memo to the USCIS, it's at least possible that this is a snafu, there wasn't that much of a campaign infrastructure, there's time to do this still, or it could be.
00:15:25.000That Reince Priebus and company were able to convince Donald Trump that it's politically unpopular to get rid of DACA and to target the quote-unquote dreamers and so Trump is leaving that in place.
00:15:39.000So you remember that Donald Trump promised and he's been promising for weeks that they were going to move the Israeli embassy, the embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
00:15:47.000Here is Sean Spicer yesterday doing his press conference basically suggesting that this is not going to happen.
00:15:52.000We are at the early stages in this decision-making process.
00:16:46.000It was dedicated to the working man and this is part of his broader anti-free trade, anti-capitalism.
00:16:54.000Free trade is just part of capitalism, folks.
00:16:56.000If you don't believe that free trade is part of capitalism, I suggest that you boycott every business with which you actually do business because you want to make yourself richer.
00:17:05.000Donald Trump told business leaders today that they have to make their products here or suffer a big border tax is clip 15 if we can play that.
00:17:12.000The one thing I do have to warn you about, when you have a company here, you have a plant here.
00:17:18.000It's going to be in Indiana, or it's in Ohio, or it's in Michigan, or it's in North Carolina, or Pennsylvania.
00:17:27.000Fifty great, wonderful governors to negotiate with.
00:17:31.000So it's not like we're taking away competition.
00:17:34.000But if you go to another country and you decide that you're going to close and get rid of 2,000 people or 5,000 people, I tell you, United Technologies was an example with Carrier, and I got involved, you know, two years after they announced.
00:18:24.000What this ends up doing, China was not a party to the TPP.
00:18:27.000Trump says we're in competition with China.
00:18:29.000Trade makes the people who are involved in trade better off.
00:18:32.000So, instead of us now having a big regional trading bloc in the Pacific,
00:18:37.000Now China is stepping in and China is now trying to create a reverse TPP with all of the countries that we are trying to create a free trade agreement with.
00:18:45.000So we killed our own free trade agreement in favor of bilateral trade agreements which are harder to negotiate and organize in certain ways and don't create these vast
00:18:55.000Instead, now we have to negotiate with Philippines, and now we have to negotiate with Korea, and now we have to negotiate with each one of these places bilaterally.
00:19:02.000They have less interest in doing that than they would in being able to have access to ten markets, just having access to one market.
00:19:10.000Really, you look at what the Chinese newspapers are saying and they are ecstatic about Donald Trump getting rid of TPP.
00:19:15.000The other group of people who are ecstatic about Donald Trump getting rid of TPP with no plan to replace it, really, the other group of people are union leaders.
00:19:23.000Now, I'm old enough to remember when Republicans were skeptical of union leaders like Richard Trumka and the people of the UAW and all these various unions that had signed bad union contracts and helped bankrupt American business.
00:19:34.000I'm old enough to remember when that was a problem.
00:19:37.000But now these union folks are coming out and praising Trump to the skies, and the Republicans are saying, yeah, that's great, now the unions are on our side.
00:19:43.000Well, the question is, what did you have to give up to get the unions on your side?
00:19:47.000What you had to give up was the American consumer.
00:19:49.000What you had to give up was some points of growth.
00:19:52.000What you had to do was sacrifice certain interests to the interests of unions.
00:19:55.000So now we're pandering to unions in the same way the Democrats pander to unions.
00:19:59.000Democrats pander to unions by using the National Labor Relations Board in order to cram down bad deals on companies, and Republicans pander to unions with massive tariffs and with anti-trade regulations that allow unions to make a buck off the American taxpayer without actually creating a better product.
00:20:16.000Here's the union leaders out there yesterday praising Trump.
00:20:19.000Three million of our members in the United States was nothing short of incredible.
00:20:24.000And we will work with him and his administration to help him implement his plans on infrastructure, trade, and energy policy, so that we really do put America back to work in the middle-class jobs that our members and all Americans are demanding.
00:20:40.000And our people are saying, yeah, win, win, win, because all the union leaders are on our side.
00:20:43.000Yeah, except for the fact that these union leaders are what made American business non-competitive in the first place in many ways, which is leading to these tariffs, which are impoverishing American consumers.
00:20:53.000You want to know why Carrier shifted jobs down south?
00:20:55.000It was because of bad union contracts.
00:20:57.000It wasn't because of global competition as much as it was because of those bad union contracts.
00:21:01.000Trump is helping out those unions, but he's not helping out the American consumers.
00:21:05.000I know there are a lot of people on our side who care more about winning than they do about, you know, basic principles, but the fact is that
00:21:11.000Winning requires you to win on behalf of a principle.
00:21:15.000So I'm not sure what principle it is that Trump is standing for on this one.
00:21:19.000Again, the reason that it's good Trump, bad Trump is because he's doing some good stuff and he's doing some bad stuff.
00:21:23.000This is just a thing he's doing that is shifting the Republican Party and the nature of it.
00:21:26.000We'll talk more about the shift in the Republican Party and the nature of the Republican Party.