The Ben Shapiro Show - Ep. 290 - Trump's First 100 Days: How Has He Done?

A woman claims a flight attendant hit her with a stroller while trying to take it away from her and nearly hitting her kid. And now, a woman is suing the airline, American Airlines, for negligence. Ben Shapiro explains why this is a terrible thing to do, and why we should all sue the airline industry for this kind of thing. Plus, a guest who thinks that cultural appropriation is a thing. Ben Shapiro is on The Ben Shapiro Show, wherever you get your news and information, and wherever you listen to your favorite podcaster. You won't want to miss it! Subscribe to the show Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. If you like what you hear here, please HIT SUBSCRIBE and also, consider leaving us a five star rating and a review on Apple Podcasts! The average rating on iTunes is 5 stars, and a rating and review helps spread the word about the show. Thank you so much for all the support we've gotten so far. See all the amazing work you've done so far, and we're looking forward to seeing you in 2020. Stay tuned for our next episode next week, when we'll have a new episode featuring our first guest, a comedian who's going to be on the show! Timestamps: 4:00 - What would you like? 5:30 - What's your favorite part of the show? 6:40 - What are you'd like to complain about? 7:10 - How an airline acts like an airline? 11: What do you think an airline should do better? 13: Which airline is better than a little bit more? 16: What airline is the worst? 17:00 18:20 - How do you would like to see me complain about it? 19:00 -- Which airline should I complain about something better than that? 22:30 -- What airline does you want to be a better than me? 21:00 | What airline has the worst airline service? 27:30 26:40 -- What kind of airline is your biggest airline is a better company? 25:00 + + + 17:10 -- What do I want to complain? 24:40 35:00 & 27: Is this industry better than you're going to pay me a better airline than this? 30:00 // 27:10 32:00 Is this a problem?

00:00:00.000 Two weeks ago, United Airlines got hit with a slew of horrible headlines after airline security forcibly removed a passenger from a flight after he was seated and refused to obey airline orders to vacate the plane.

00:00:10.000 The man, Dr. David Dow, alleges that security broke his nose and knocked out his teeth, among other injuries.

00:00:15.000 The story led to a bevy of narratives about supposed anti-Asian discrimination on airlines, as well as general anger at the airline industry.

00:00:22.000 Well, on Monday, a lawyer named Tom Dimitrio announced on NBC's Today that a female passenger on American Airlines had contacted him about suing the airline.

00:00:30.000 What happened?

00:00:31.000 A video shows the woman crying and carrying her baby, as well as another passenger talking to a flight attendant.

00:00:35.000 The woman claims a flight attendant hit her with a stroller while taking it away from her, nearly hitting her kid, too.

00:00:41.000 American Airlines, seeing what had happened to United, immediately took action to suspend the flight attendant in question and apologized for, quote, the pain we have caused this passenger and her family and to any other customers affected by the incident.

00:00:52.000 According to a Reddit commenter who says he saw the incident, quote,

00:00:55.000 The Argentinian lady and her two children were in the mid to back of the plane.

00:00:59.000 She was somehow able to get her stroller on board and back to near her seat.

00:01:02.000 Since I was near the front, I cannot know what happened.

00:01:04.000 If she tried to put the stroller in the overhead bin or what. 0.89

00:01:06.000 The flight attendant told her she could not have the stroller on the plane and he needs to take it.

00:01:10.000 She refused to let him take it and was to the near point of shouting.

00:01:12.000 The flight attendant shouted up for security very soon on, escalating the situation more.

00:01:17.000 The flight attendant and the woman started making their way to the front of the plane. 0.89

00:01:20.000 I forgot who had the stroller at this point.

00:01:22.000 She had her two kids.

00:01:22.000 She shouted something about being an Argentinian woman and yada yada.

00:01:25.000 It was at this point where things escalated a bit more.

00:01:28.000 The flight attendant and Argentinian woman were at the front of the plane in the crew area next to the front door of the plane. 0.62

00:01:33.000 She was hanging on to the stroller, refusing to let go. 0.59

00:01:35.000 So, here's the problem.

00:01:56.000 What we now have is an attempt to target one of the most unpopular industries in the country.

00:02:00.000 Everyone hates the airlines, the same way most Americans hate their insurance company.

00:02:04.000 Sure, we need the airlines, but we despise them because they control how we fly, they charge us too much, they jack us around, they force us to pay for checked baggage and the like. 0.95

00:02:11.000 We have to deal with pissy flight attendants and idiot TSA agents and airlines that don't seem to care very much about cancelling or delaying our flights. 0.92

00:02:17.000 And so now, individuals see a ripe target. 0.99

00:02:19.000 Here is the truth.

00:02:20.000 David Dow should have gotten off the plane.

00:02:23.000 They had the legal right to remove him from the plane.

00:02:25.000 Should they have changed their process for encouraging people to leave?

00:02:27.000 Of course!

00:02:28.000 But as Mike Rowe rightly said, quote, I don't want to fly across the country in a steel tube filled with people who get to decide which rules they will follow and which they will ignore.

00:02:35.000 I've been on too many flights with too many angry people to worry about the specific circumstances of their outrage or the details of why they took it upon themselves to ignore direct command.

00:02:44.000 A plane is not a democracy.

00:02:45.000 The main cabin is no place to organize a sit-in.

00:02:47.000 The main cabin is a place to follow orders, unquote.

00:02:50.000 The same holds true for this woman on the American Airlines flight.

00:02:53.000 I have two kids under the age of four.

00:02:55.000 We always travel with a double stroller.

00:02:56.000 We have never attempted to put it on the plane, and if we did so and were asked to check the stroller instead, we would obey the command. 0.97

00:03:02.000 Apparently this woman didn't, then allegedly got rowdy before being clocked with the stroller in stupid fashion by a flight attendant. 1.00

00:03:07.000 How is this the sort of behavior we'd like to promulgate as a society? 0.93

00:03:10.000 We're now incentivizing every person on every plane to argue with every annoyance and then sue based on the reaction from the airline.

00:03:17.000 Those costs will then be passed on to other consumers.

00:03:20.000 Enough.

00:03:21.000 We've had politics dominated by hatred for particular industries for years now.

00:03:24.000 We've already destroyed the health insurance industry because we hate it but we need it.

00:03:28.000 Now we'll target the airlines.

00:03:29.000 Here's an idea.

00:03:30.000 If you don't like how an airline acts, choose a different airline.

00:03:33.000 Otherwise, we'll ruin all of the airlines in a fit of pique.

00:03:36.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:03:37.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:03:42.000 Okay, we have tons to get to today.

00:03:43.000 We're going to be having on a guest who thinks that cultural appropriation is completely horrible in just a little while.

00:03:48.000 Plus, I want to go through what Trump promised during his first hundred days and what he's actually done.

00:03:52.000 We're going to go through this in purely factual fashion, see what he has fulfilled and what he has not fulfilled.

00:03:57.000 But first,

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00:05:29.000 Okay, so before we launch into the news of the day, I want to talk about a piece of news that's not of the day, it's of 102 years ago.

00:05:34.000 I want to pay tribute to the Armenian Genocide.

00:05:36.000 So the Armenian Genocide began 102 years ago, April 24th, 1915.

00:05:40.000 People don't know that much about the Armenian Genocide because it hasn't had as much publicity as the Holocaust, because it wasn't as mechanized as the Holocaust.

00:05:46.000 But up to 1.5 million Armenians were murdered by the Turkish Islamist regime.

00:05:51.000 They're called the Young Turks. 0.71

00:05:52.000 They took the place of the Ottoman Empire.

00:05:54.000 They were supposed to be reasonable and nationalist, and instead it turned out that they were Islamic extremists, and they decided on the murder of literally hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children who are Armenian in Turkey.

00:06:05.000 And it was, I mean, the stories, the pictures are just horrific.

00:06:09.000 I mean, you're talking about mass killings, you're talking about mass starvation, forced death marches.

00:06:14.000 There's famous

00:06:15.000 News coverage of them putting boats filled with women and children offshore into the sea and then just deliberately sinking them to kill everybody aboard.

00:06:23.000 Horrific.

00:06:24.000 The excuse that was used by the regime at the time is that these terrible Armenians who are Christian were going to be allied against the central powers in World War I and they wanted to stop that.

00:06:33.000 Still, today, the current Islamist dictator of Turkey refuses to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide.

00:06:38.000 In 2010, Erdogan, who is that dictator, he openly warned he could throw 100,000 Armenian immigrants out of Turkey if they kept talking about the Armenian Genocide because they were undermining the legitimacy of Turkish rule.

00:06:50.000 There was one guy who took the Armenian Genocide particularly seriously.

00:06:53.000 That person was Adolf Hitler.

00:06:55.000 In 1939, when he was dictator of Germany, obviously, he told Nazi officers right before they were about to invade Poland, quote, kill without mercy.

00:07:01.000 He said, who after all speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?

00:07:05.000 The Germans were obviously well aware of the annihilation of the Armenians because they were allied with the Turkish Empire, with the Ottoman Empire.

00:07:12.000 We're good to go.

00:07:27.000 The Germans were well aware of what had happened during the Armenian Genocide.

00:07:30.000 Again, the bottom line is that most genocides are thrown off as some sort of political, just a political tool, and the world tends to ignore it.

00:07:37.000 Most of the world ignored the Armenian Genocide.

00:07:39.000 Most of the world still ignores the Armenian Genocide.

00:07:41.000 I thought it would be

00:07:42.000 You know, not only worthwhile to pay tribute to it, it's a reminder that when we watch genocides happening across the world against Christians, particularly in the Middle East today, the legacy of this is not over.

00:07:51.000 When you ignore Islamic extremism, genocide becomes far easier, whether it's genocide against Yazidis in Iraq or whether it's genocide against Christians in Syria. 0.78

00:07:59.000 Bottom line is that Christians are still under attack in the Middle East by the same people who were participating in this a century ago. 1.00

00:08:06.000 Okay, so I now want to talk about Trump's first 100 days.

00:08:11.000 Trump made a lot of promises about what he's going to do in his first 100 days.

00:08:13.000 He had an entire program that he suggested was going to be his agreement with America.

00:08:19.000 It was a 100-day plan to restore prosperity to our economy, security to our communities, and honesty to our government.

00:08:24.000 You can see an image of what he had tweeted out.

00:08:27.000 We're good to go.

00:08:44.000 Using his first 100 days to cram through whatever he wanted.

00:08:46.000 So when Trump says that it's silly, he's right.

00:08:48.000 But it was Trump himself who decided to hold by this and make all these big promises.

00:08:52.000 Because the big promise underlying everything Trump did in the election cycle was that Donald Trump was going to change the way government worked.

00:08:58.000 He was going to come in, cut the Gordian Knot.

00:09:00.000 Everything was going to be quick and easy and fast.

00:09:03.000 And that's not the way that government works.

00:09:05.000 Chuck Todd asked Reince Priebus about this because Trump had been asked about the 100 days thing.

00:09:09.000 And Trump had said, well, I don't know who decided on this.

00:09:12.000 Somebody decided on this.

00:09:13.000 Meaning somebody decided on this program.

00:09:15.000 So it's Bob the intern, apparently, who came up with this contract with the American voter.

00:09:19.000 But here's Chuck Todd querying Reince Priebus over it, and Reince Priebus trying to run from it.

00:09:23.000 All of them were supposed to be legislative action that was announced.

00:09:28.000 Not necessarily the expectation any of it would be passed.

00:09:31.000 But only one of those legislative priorities has even come close to a vote.

00:09:35.000 Health care.

00:09:36.000 Why does he say it's a ridiculous standard and yet promise all this action before day 100?

00:09:40.000 All right.

00:09:42.000 And Prebis doesn't have a great answer for that.

00:09:43.000 Jonathan Karl over at ABC News is, of course, jumping on the 100-day standard to say that Trump has fallen short.

00:09:48.000 By the standards that he set for himself during the campaign, there is no question that he has fallen dramatically short in the first 100 days.

00:09:57.000 Just take a look at this.

00:09:59.000 Back in October, he offered what he called a contract with the American voter.

00:10:03.000 This is 10 specific promises, 10 pieces of legislation that he promised to introduce and, quote,

00:10:09.000 Fight for their passage within the first 100 days of my administration.

00:10:14.000 Well, George, only one of those has even been introduced.

00:10:18.000 Okay, so stop it there.

00:10:19.000 This is not fully fair.

00:10:20.000 So if you look at Trump's 100-day promises, they're focusing on the legislative portion of it, right?

00:10:24.000 There's the 100-day promises again.

00:10:26.000 So this is the first page.

00:10:28.000 The second page is the one where he hasn't done so well, right?

00:10:30.000 So the second page has all these legislative priorities.

00:10:33.000 He pledges that he's going to introduce these acts.

00:10:35.000 Middle-class tax relief and simplification?

00:10:37.000 No.

00:10:37.000 And the Offshoring Act, which was supposed to be a tariff act, no.

00:10:40.000 American Energy and Infrastructure Act, no.

00:10:42.000 School Choice and Education Opportunity Act, no. 0.87

00:10:45.000 Repeal and Replace Obamacare Act, he tried, it failed.

00:10:48.000 Affordable Child Care and Elder Care Act, no.

00:10:50.000 End Illegal Immigration Act, no.

00:10:52.000 Restoring Community Safety Act, no.

00:10:53.000 Restoring National Security Act, no.

00:10:55.000 Cleanup Corruption in Washington Act, no.

00:10:57.000 So that page, that's right.

00:10:58.000 Those are all his supposed legislative priorities, and this highlights the difference.

00:11:02.000 I'll show you in a second.

00:11:02.000 This highlights the difference between where Trump has been effective and where he has not been effective.

00:11:06.000 He has not been effective at changing how government works, and this is why he is not Reagan.

00:11:10.000 So Reagan, in his first hundred days, pursued some executive actions, but Reagan's big contribution was to spend his first hundred days on the bully pulpit, ripping Democrats down.

00:11:19.000 Remember, he had a Democratic majority in the House.

00:11:21.000 Ripping Democrats down for their failure to pass some sort of tax reform, and he was successful in shifting the debate.

00:11:27.000 Trump has not really shifted the debate on anything, which is why he's been wildly unsuccessful on the legislative front, even though, unlike Reagan, he actually has a Republican Congress and a Republican Senate.

00:11:37.000 Here's where he has fulfilled his promises.

00:11:39.000 That first page.

00:11:39.000 Let's show that first page again.

00:11:40.000 Okay, so the first page, he has a bunch of promises here.

00:11:43.000 So, he pledged he was going to clean up government.

00:11:46.000 So he said he was going to propose a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress.

00:11:51.000 No, he didn't do that.

00:11:52.000 A hiring freeze on federal employees.

00:11:54.000 Yes.

00:11:55.000 He lifted it later, but yes.

00:11:56.000 Third, a requirement that for every new federal regulation, two existing regulations would be eliminated.

00:12:00.000 Yes, he fulfilled that.

00:12:02.000 A five-year ban on White House and congressional officials becoming lobbyists after they leave government service.

00:12:06.000 Yes, he fulfilled that.

00:12:08.000 A lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government, yes, but sort of undercut by the fact that Mike Flynn, who is his national security advisor, is now registered as a foreign agent.

00:12:18.000 Sixth, a complete ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections.

00:12:21.000 No, he hasn't done that yet.

00:12:22.000 So that first section here, you can see it here on the left side of your screen, there are six promises that he made and he kept four of them.

00:12:28.000 Okay, not bad.

00:12:29.000 I'm protecting American workers.

00:12:30.000 He announced that he was going to renegotiate NAFTA or withdraw from the deal.

00:12:34.000 He has announced that.

00:12:35.000 He said he was going to announce withdrawal from TPP.

00:12:38.000 Yes.

00:12:38.000 He said that he was going to direct his Secretary of the Treasury to label China a currency manipulator.

00:12:42.000 No, and not only that, he said he was never going to do that now because they're not manipulating the currency.

00:12:46.000 He said he was going to direct the Secretary of Commerce and U.S.

00:12:49.000 Trade Representative to identify foreign trading abuses.

00:12:51.000 Yes.

00:12:52.000 He's going to lift restrictions on generation of shale oil, natural gas, and clean coal.

00:12:56.000 Yes.

00:12:57.000 Lift the Keystone Pipeline ban.

00:12:58.000 Yes.

00:12:59.000 And cancel billions to the UN climate change programs.

00:13:01.000 Yes.

00:13:02.000 So in this section, he has kept 1, 2, 3, there are 7 promises here, and he has kept 6 of them.

00:13:09.000 Quite good, right?

00:13:09.000 And then there are his promises on the Constitution.

00:13:11.000 He said he was going to cancel every unconstitutional executive action memo and order issued by Obama.

00:13:16.000 No, particularly this is not true with regard to deferred action on childhood arrivals DACA.

00:13:21.000 Second, he said he was going to select a replacement for Scalia.

00:13:24.000 Yes, in spades with Judge Gorsuch.

00:13:26.000 Third, cancel all federal funding to sanctuary cities.

00:13:28.000 He has said he's going to do this and he's made that threat.

00:13:31.000 Fourth, begin removing two million criminal illegal immigrants. 0.80

00:13:34.000 Yes, he's pursuing that.

00:13:35.000 And suspending immigration from terror-prone countries.

00:13:37.000 He's tried to do that, but obviously he's failed in that because of the courts attempting to block that.

00:13:42.000 So, what has he done there?

00:13:44.000 So there were five promises there, and he has kept four of them, essentially.

00:13:47.000 So, in other words, everything that he said he could do that was kind of the smaller things through executive action, he's done all of that.

00:13:53.000 When it comes to legislative efforts, he has not done that.

00:13:55.000 Now, here is the problem with that.

00:13:57.000 The problem with that is that the big things that presidents do are all legislative.

00:14:02.000 The president really does big things in a couple of ways.

00:14:05.000 One is, he shifts the tone and tenor of the political debate.

00:14:08.000 Barack Obama shifted the entire tone and tenor of the American political debate onto race, onto gender, onto polarization of the American system.

00:14:17.000 He did that very successfully.

00:14:18.000 Also, his big accomplishments were legislative, except for DACA, which Trump is not moving off of.

00:14:24.000 So his big legislative accomplishment, of course, is Obamacare.

00:14:27.000 He also came up with sequestration, which cut the military dramatically.

00:14:30.000 All of his big accomplishments were legislative.

00:14:32.000 This is true for every president.

00:14:34.000 Executive orders do not do that much.

00:14:37.000 Executive orders generally, if they're properly used, cannot do that much because the president doesn't have all that much power.

00:14:42.000 So while everybody is saying that Trump kept a lot of these promises, that's true.

00:14:46.000 Good for him.

00:14:47.000 But when it comes to what the president actually does, his role of leadership,

00:14:51.000 Trump is a mixed bag.

00:14:51.000 He has not done anything on the legislative side.

00:14:54.000 He's supposed to roll out his tax plan this week.

00:14:56.000 We'll see how that goes.

00:14:56.000 Hopefully it goes better than repeal and replace.

00:14:58.000 He had said he was going to do repeal and replace this week again.

00:15:01.000 Doesn't look like that's going to happen.

00:15:02.000 That'll probably get kicked down the road. 0.98

00:15:04.000 Maybe Trump pulls out of this tailspin, but he has not used the bully pulpit in order to promulgate his agenda, and you can see that.

00:15:09.000 So, for example, Donald Trump is still maintaining that Mexico is going to pay for the wall.

00:15:14.000 There's no evidence that Mexico is going to pay for this wall.

00:15:17.000 He said, eventually, but at a later date, so we can get started early, Mexico will be paying in some form for the badly needed border wall.

00:15:23.000 So, bottom line, he hedges three times in one tweet about one of his key campaign promises.

00:15:29.000 Eventually, but at a later date, in some form, right?

00:15:31.000 So it's a lot of hedging about a key campaign promise.

00:15:35.000 His homeland security chief, you know, Trump said, it's going to be so easy to stop terrorism.

00:15:39.000 It's not easy to stop terrorism.

00:15:40.000 Trump never should have made that promise.

00:15:42.000 Here's his Homeland Security Chief, this is General John Kelly, talking about how, no, we really don't know what we can do here.

00:15:48.000 There's so many aspects of this terrorist thing.

00:15:49.000 Obviously, you get the homegrown terrorists. 0.89

00:15:52.000 I don't know how to stop that.

00:15:53.000 I don't know how to detect that.

00:15:55.000 Okay, so, again, promise that Trump made that he's not going to be able to fulfill because there's no way to fulfill that promise.

00:16:00.000 Jeff Sessions, the Attorney General, was asked about deporting DREAMers.

00:16:03.000 Another big Obama, another big Trump initiative, this idea we're going to revoke DACA and deport the DREAMers. 0.79

00:16:09.000 No, not so much.

00:16:11.000 The President did say, as I said this week to the Associated Press, that the Dreamers should rest easy.

00:16:15.000 He's not going after the Dreamers.

00:16:16.000 That's his policy.

00:16:18.000 He said, is it the policy of the Justice Department?

00:16:21.000 The Homeland Security has primary jurisdiction there.

00:16:25.000 Their first and strongest priority, no doubt about it, is the criminal element that we have in our country that have come here illegally. 1.00

00:16:33.000 So they're focusing primarily on that.

00:16:36.000 Yes, sir.

00:16:56.000 Bottom line is, mixed messages from Jeff Sessions.

00:16:59.000 Again, this is stuff that should be solved on the legislative level, and Trump has not done what he needs to do on the legislative level yet.

00:17:05.000 So on the executive level, I think Trump's done a lot of the right things in his first 100 days, but people who are declaring him a wild success after 100 days are not right, and people who are declaring him a wild failure after 100 days are not right.

00:17:15.000 Bottom line is, I don't think that he has shifted the debate in the same way that Reagan did.

00:17:18.000 He looks more like Clinton in his first

00:17:21.000 We're good to go.

00:17:41.000 I don't know.

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00:19:16.000 Okay, so the bottom line here is that the thing that Trump says that he is good at, the thing Trump thinks he is good at, which is the PR, is the thing that he's actually worst at.

00:19:24.000 What he is best at is implementing a bunch of things that are inherent in the power of the presidency.

00:19:29.000 He needs to get good at pushing his agenda.

00:19:31.000 If he had discipline, he could be.

00:19:33.000 I still hope he will be, but I think he is drawn by the bright light

00:19:37.000 And that is not a great thing.

00:19:39.000 So, you know, Donald Trump said that, you know, Sean Spicer, who has not been a particularly great press secretary, he should stick around.

00:19:45.000 Why?

00:19:45.000 Because he's getting ratings.

00:19:46.000 He actually said this.

00:19:47.000 He said that Spicer's not going anywhere because he gets ratings.

00:19:50.000 The purpose of the presidency is not to gain attention.

00:19:51.000 You're going to have attention if you're president of the United States.

00:19:54.000 The purpose is to get things done.

00:19:55.000 Mr. President, it's time to get things done.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - April 27, 2017

Ep. 290 - Trump's First 100 Days: How Has He Done?

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