On Mother's Day, Ivanka Trump took the opportunity to tweet about the wage gap between men and women, but instead of recognizing that it doesn't actually exist, she blamed it on pregnancy and having children. Which actually is true, but doesn't speak to innate sexism in the free market. It speaks instead to the fact that those who spend less time in the workplace earn less money. She tweeted out a piece in the New York Times that admitted as much, saying, Today, we must confront that motherhood is now a greater determinant of pay inequality than gender. The Times suggests that public policy must be changed in order to force men to work less, or push employers to cut back hours, or use the government to push paid maternity leave, which is exactly what President Trump has been doing regularly, and which President Trump suggested on Mother s Day, too. President Trump had a busy weekend, and President Trump needs to stop having himself busy weekends, because if you actually want him to succeed, Ann Coulter is actually doing a good job at his job, because he needs to actually be good at it, and at this point, regardless of how anyone voted in the last election cycle, I would like to see him do good things. Ben Shapiro: I'm The Ben Shapiro Show is a show where I talk about things that actually matter, and I'm not just talking about things I care about, I'm actually DOING things that matter, so I'm going to talk about them, so you can actually do them, not only that, and you can do them and I can actually be a good thing, and it's not going to do them! - Ben Shapiro's show is a must listen to it, not just talk about it, you're going to like it, it's going to make you feel good about it. Subscribe to the show, right? Subscribe and review the show and tell me what you think it's great, you'll get a discount code for a chance to win a 14-day free trial of the show? You'll get access to all sorts of awesome stuff like that I'm reading and listening to it on the show next week, and all kinds of other stuff, too! -Ben Shapiro's new book called That 14 Days of the Week by Ben Shapiro is out there! and I'll be giving you a 14 Day Free Trial to get exclusive access to the full 14 Day FREE trial of all that and more!
00:00:00.000On Mother's Day, Ivanka Trump took the opportunity to tweet about the so-called wage gap between men and women.
00:00:05.000But instead of recognizing that it doesn't actually exist, she blamed it on pregnancy and having children.
00:00:09.000Which actually is true, but doesn't speak to innate sexism in the free market.
00:00:13.000It speaks instead to the fact that those who spend less time in the workplace earn less money.
00:00:17.000She tweeted out a piece in the New York Times that admitted as much, quote, Today, on Mother's Day, we must confront that motherhood is now a greater determinant of pay inequality than gender.
00:00:25.000The New York Times piece acknowledges, quote, When men and women finish school and start working, they're paid pretty much equally.
00:00:30.000But a gender pay gap soon appears, and it grows significantly over the next two decades.
00:00:35.000The answer can be found by looking at when the pay gap widens most sharply.
00:00:38.000It's the late 20s to mid 30s, according to two new studies.
00:00:41.000In other words, when many women have children.
00:00:43.000Unmarried women without children continue to earn closer to what men do.
00:00:46.000Naturally, the Times suggests that public policy must be changed in order to force men to work less, or push employers to cut back hours, or use the government to push paid maternity leave, which is exactly what Ivanka Trump has been doing regularly, and which President Trump suggested on Mother's Day, too.
00:01:00.000Trump's Mother's Day message stated, quote, I am committed to working with Congress to help mothers and fathers have paid family leave so that child care is accessible and affordable, and to invest in the comprehensive care that women receive at community health centers.
00:01:12.000Here's the silliest part of all of this.
00:01:13.000And why would we penalize the men in marriages who are helping to support their wives and kids by cutting their pay
00:01:32.000Simply to satisfy the feelings of women who may end up with the same net household pay with or without regulation.
00:01:38.000Imagine for a second a husband earns $60,000 a year, and his wife used to earn $50,000, but now, after their first kid, she works part-time and makes $30,000 a year.
00:01:45.000Would it really benefit the family to push policies that would result in the husband being paid $45,000 and the wife $45,000, just so she can spend more time at work?
00:01:53.000But legislation makes leftists feel good, and Ivanka's a leftist.
00:01:56.000It's sort of disquieting that she has so much power over daddy.
00:02:05.000All right, so starting off the week on an auspicious note, but before we get started with President Trump's weekend activities and all the fun that is to be had there, and the Democrats going completely over the top, which they are doing, they can't stop themselves, and the media declaring a class one natural disaster.
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00:03:42.000Okay, so, President Trump had himself a busy little weekend.
00:03:46.000President Trump needs to stop having himself busy little weekends.
00:03:49.000And the reason I say this is because if you actually want President Trump to succeed, and at this point, regardless of how anyone voted in the last election cycle, he's the President of the United States.
00:03:57.000I would like to see him do good things.
00:03:58.000When he did good things, I celebrated those good things.
00:04:01.000When he nominated Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, I put on a MAGA hat, for goodness sake.
00:04:05.000But it is important that he actually be good at his job.
00:04:18.000Ann Coulter, today, came out and said that this presidency, thus far, is a disaster area.
00:04:23.000And it's hard to argue with that after the last week.
00:04:25.000Because here, we're gonna get, don't worry, we'll get to the Democrats overreaching because they are.
00:04:28.000And how Trump can fix all of this, which he can.
00:04:30.000And we'll get to how Republicans ought to treat Trump and all of that.
00:04:33.000But, it is important to note, if you want Trump to do better, you need to treat Trump the same way that you treat everyone else in your life.
00:04:39.000He needs to be told he is not doing a good job so that he can improve.
00:04:42.000If you keep telling him he is doing a wonderful job when he is not doing a wonderful job, he will keep not doing a wonderful job and thinking he's doing a fantastic, fantastic job.
00:04:50.000Right now, he's blaming everyone around him, apparently, except for himself.
00:04:54.000All of the problems on his table are self-inflicted.
00:05:05.000George W. Bush did not have these kinds of leaks.
00:05:07.000Barack Obama did not have these kinds of leaks.
00:05:09.000And that's because they were well-liked in their own White House.
00:05:11.000They didn't treat their employees as though they were disposable assets.
00:05:15.000And beyond that, they actually staffed up their administration.
00:05:17.000Like today, the Congressional Budget Office tweeted out something about the Independent Counsel Act, about reinvigorating the Independent Counsel Act.
00:05:26.000That's the Congressional Budget Office.
00:05:29.000They're doing that because somebody who's an Obama holdover is trolling.
00:05:31.000You know why there are a bunch of Obama holdovers?
00:05:33.000Because Trump hasn't fired all the Obama holdovers.
00:05:35.000He hasn't filled any of these positions.
00:05:37.000We're more than three months into this administration, and President Trump has not actually filled something like 90% of the vacant positions that have been created.
00:05:45.000You basically have in a lot of these departments the head of the department, a deputy, and no one else.
00:05:49.000Okay, and that means that the people who are from the Obama administration are still there doing what they're doing.
00:05:54.000Trump has to do the normal things that a president is able to do.
00:05:57.000Jonah Goldberg made a very good point about this.
00:05:59.000There's this excuse-making that happens on the right now.
00:07:29.000Like, do you want to be good at being the president?
00:07:32.000Or, would you like to replicate what happened with Richard Nixon, where a member of Richard Nixon's staff testified in front of Congress that there were tapes in the Oval Office, Congress subpoenaed the tapes,
00:08:59.000Dana Perino was the press secretary for Bush.
00:09:01.000She says there is no communications team on Earth that can handle what Trump has been doing.
00:09:05.000Trump is just going out there and doing stuff, and then like 20 minutes later he expects the communications team to have some sort of grand plan on how to handle that.
00:09:12.000And then when they don't, he gets mad at them.
00:09:14.000It is not their fault that he's not allowing them to do their job.
00:09:17.000So he goes out there and announces the Comey firing with less than an hour notice to his communications team.
00:09:21.000They go out there and they craft this entirely implausible thing about how it was the Deputy Attorney General who had recommended the firing, and Trump was just following that recommendation.
00:09:30.000And then Trump, of course, goes on national TV and blows it up.
00:09:33.000And then the secretaries, the press secretaries, go out there and they have to explain all this, and there's no way for them to explain it.
00:09:37.000So you got Sean Spicer literally hiding in the bushes at the White House.
00:09:42.000Like between the bushes and insisting that they turn off the cameras and turn off the lights so that there's not tape of him talking.
00:09:49.000He tweets, he's mad at his own press people.
00:09:52.000He tweets, as a very active president with lots of things happening it is not possible for my surrogates to stand at podium with perfect accuracy.
00:10:46.000Even Barack Obama considered apparently ending press briefings in 2013.
00:10:50.000And I'm old enough to remember when Republicans thought that was a bad thing.
00:10:53.000Now Trump says this, and now we're going to get a week of questions about whether he actually wants to quash press freedoms.
00:10:58.000And then he tweets about the witch hunt of the Russia investigation.
00:11:01.000So he goes on National TV with Lester Holtz, which we talked about last week.
00:11:05.000And he says that he wants the Russia investigation to go forward in the most honest and decent possible manner.
00:11:11.000And then he tweets out, when James Clapper himself and virtually everyone else with knowledge of the witch hunt says there is no collusion, when does it end?
00:11:17.000That doesn't sound like someone who wants to pursue the investigation very hard, does it?
00:11:20.000It sounds like someone who wants to end the investigation.
00:11:22.000So, do I actually think that he's firing people to cover up the investigation?
00:11:25.000No, as I said last week, this is my working theory from day one.
00:11:28.000It has been true then, it is true now, it is all true.
00:11:31.000Okay, my working invest—my working theory from the very first day is the reason that Trump fired Comey is because he got mad, and he acted like a toddler, and he wanted him gone.
00:11:45.000He should have fired him two months ago.
00:11:46.000He should have fired him three months ago.
00:11:48.000He fired him in the middle of this thing, and then what really happened is that Comey was on TV, and he won't go on TV and say that Trump is innocent, and so Trump fired him.
00:11:55.000That's basically what happened here, and then he made up a bunch of excuses as to why that is true.
00:12:45.000And again, I think that... Who was it?
00:12:48.000It was Ramesh Ponnuru over at National Review.
00:12:51.000He had a great piece on this, and what he said was,
00:12:53.000Basically, my theory is correct, that Trump just egotistically fired Comey because he didn't like him, and it has nothing to do with him trying to cover it up.
00:13:00.000The problem is the way that he did it makes it look just like a cover-up, which is really, really dumb.
00:13:06.000So Trump's response to all of this is, of course, to say that it's just that there are a lot of people who are being critical of him, and he hasn't done anything wrong, nothing is easier than being a critic.
00:13:13.000So here is Trump talking about how easy it is to be a critic.
00:13:17.000Nothing is easier or more pathetic than being a critic.
00:13:24.000Because they're people that can't get the job done.
00:13:27.000But the future belongs to the dreamers.
00:13:32.000Okay, so he's angry with all the critics, and this is always the easy out is to go after the critics, and we'll go after the critics in just a second, because I think it's important to point out when people are exaggerating the case.
00:13:43.000But I also think that it's important to be honest about what Trump is doing right now, and why it is insufficient if he wants to get the job of government done.
00:13:49.000I would like to see an actual Obamacare appeal, not the fake Obamacare appeal, like an actual one.
00:13:56.000I would like to see all sorts of good things from this president, but he can't do it if he's too busy trying to extricate his foot from a bear trap that he set and then jumped on with both feet.
00:14:07.000I'm going to explain in a second why Democrats are overreaching and why that actually provides an opportunity for Trump to get out of this in a second.
00:14:12.000Because this isn't the hardest thing to actually get out of.
00:14:16.000Trump's created this because he has character flaws that are deep and abiding.
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00:15:32.000I've said many times on this show that
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00:17:32.000But the Democrats were all too eager to run to a camera, which is really stupid.
00:17:35.000What the Democrats should do is they should pipe down.
00:17:38.000The Democrats should sit there and they should just say, I don't know what Trump is doing, but it looks kind of suspicious, don't you think?
00:17:45.000It's a grand thing in politics, but nobody is capable of it because we now live in hysteria land.
00:17:50.000So here is Senator Mark Warner from West Virginia talking about how this is really just an attempt to quash Comey talking.
00:17:58.000But again, the president and this administration who said there's no there there continues through their actions to indicate that they are afraid of where this investigation may head.
00:18:08.000Let's again step back for a brief moment.
00:18:12.000Yates testify that the acting attorney general who was fired, that the administration did not appropriately react to her concerns about General Flynn.
00:18:22.000We saw the director of the FBI fired literally two days before he was supposed to testify before my committee.
00:18:30.000We then had the president changing his reasoning for why he fired him from saying this was a recommendation
00:18:35.000The acting Attorney General, or Deputy Attorney General, to the fact that he was going to fire him anyway because of Comey's investigation into Russia.
00:20:07.000You leave someone there who Democrats really can't whine about.
00:20:10.000And Democrats are really overstepping.
00:20:11.000There are some Democrats who have been saying,
00:20:13.000Over the past little while, that they're not going to even approve an FBI director until a special investigator is given powers, until a special prosecutor is appointed.
00:20:24.000I mean, what if Trump appoints, like, Barack Obama, the head of the FBI?
00:20:28.000Are they going to try and stop Barack Obama from being the head of the FBI because they want a special prosecutor?
00:20:32.000Who the head of the FBI is going to determine where this goes from here.
00:20:36.000You know, with that said, the Democrats continue to overreach and overreach.
00:20:39.000Here's Chuck Schumer saying that he now doesn't just want Trump investigated, he wants Jeff Sessions, the Attorney General, investigated because Jeff Sessions had recused himself from Trump-Russia and then recommended that Comey be fired.
00:20:49.000I have asked the Inspector General, and the request I've made is not only to look into any interference to thwart the investigation, but whether Attorney General Sessions should have participated in the firing of Comey and should participate in FBI director.
00:21:05.000Attorney General Sessions has a much higher obligation.
00:21:08.000He didn't tell the truth about meeting with the Russians, so he recused himself.
00:21:12.000Now he seems to be violating that recusal.
00:21:15.000That would seem, on its face, to be part of this.
00:21:19.000And look, I called for him to step down when he didn't tell the truth about the Russians, because it's the highest law enforcement officer in the land.
00:21:28.000If the actions of the last week make all the more reason that he should not be
00:21:33.000They didn't call for Loretta Lynch to resign after she got on a plane with Bill Clinton in the middle of an investigation of Hillary Clinton.
00:21:38.000They never called on Eric Holder to resign after he was held in contempt of Congress.
00:21:42.000All of this is a wild overreach, and if Trump solves the problem by appointing someone good at the head of the FBI, Democrats can still look stupid, because they're actually out on a limb here, and Trump can actually saw that branch off behind them, and then all his people can say, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, 3D underwater chess, and all the rest of it, and they will actually be sort of right.
00:21:57.000He'll have accidented himself into a good situation,
00:22:02.000So who his FBI director is matters an awful lot here.
00:22:05.000Well, we're going to talk a little bit more about this.
00:22:06.000We want to talk about the Republican response and what Republicans should do and the media.
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