The Ben Shapiro Show - Ep. 86 - ShamWow Guy For President!

00:00:00.000 We're here again, and it's another day upon which Donald Trump can celebrate victories.

00:00:04.000 We'll talk about how he celebrated those victories.

00:00:07.000 We will also talk about Marco Rubio.

00:00:10.000 Should he stay in?

00:00:11.000 Should he get out?

00:00:12.000 Plus, we'll talk about some things I like and some things I hate.

00:00:15.000 So, as always, a chock-full show.

00:00:17.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:17.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

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00:01:17.000 Okay, so Donald Trump had a big night last night.

00:01:19.000 He wins three out of the four states.

00:01:35.000 Yesterday in the primaries.

00:01:37.000 Doesn't end up winning a huge delegate advantage.

00:01:39.000 He gets 71 delegates.

00:01:40.000 Ted Cruz gets 56 delegates.

00:01:42.000 Donald Trump, as we said yesterday, was somewhere in the mid 400s in terms of delegates.

00:01:46.000 And Cruz is about 100 delegates back.

00:01:49.000 Of the three states, Trump did the best in Mississippi.

00:01:52.000 He did well in Michigan as well.

00:01:54.000 And he eked out a victory in Hawaii.

00:01:56.000 Ted Cruz blew Donald Trump out in Idaho.

00:01:59.000 So, what does all this mean?

00:02:00.000 It means that we get a speech from Donald Trump.

00:02:04.000 But before we get to the speech from Donald Trump, I have to say that there's somebody who just came to mind, and I'll tell you why in just one second.

00:02:09.000 We'll tell you why we're playing these clips back to back in one second.

00:02:14.000 Donald Trump 0.99

00:02:15.000 Basically, the only thing that separates Donald Trump from the ShamWowGuy is that the ShamWowGuy got bit on the tongue by a prostitute. 0.99

00:02:21.000 That's pretty much the only thing that separates them. 0.52

00:02:23.000 Just as a reminder, for those who don't know who the ShamWowGuy is, his name's Vince something.

00:02:28.000 Here's the ShamWowGuy for people who missed it.

00:02:30.000 Hi, it's Vince with ShamWow.

00:02:32.000 You'll be saying wow every time you use this towel.

00:02:35.000 It's like a chamois.

00:02:36.000 It's like a towel.

00:02:37.000 It's like a sponge.

00:02:38.000 A regular towel doesn't work wet. 0.66

00:02:39.000 This works wet or dry.

00:02:41.000 This is for the house, the car, the boat, the RV.

00:02:44.000 ShamWow holds 20 times its weight in liquid.

00:02:47.000 Look at this.

00:02:48.000 It just does the work.

00:02:49.000 Why do you want to work twice as hard?

00:02:50.000 It doesn't drip.

00:02:51.000 Doesn't make a mess.

00:02:52.000 Ring it out.

00:02:53.000 You wash it in the washing machine.

00:02:54.000 It's amazing!

00:02:55.000 Okay, so ShamWowGuy.

00:02:57.000 That was the ShamWowGuy, right?

00:02:59.000 A guy who's basically a television marketing guru. 1.00

00:03:02.000 He's a guy who sells you crap. 0.99

00:03:04.000 Here is the Republican presidential frontrunner last night after winning a bunch of delegates and well on his way to the nomination, Donald Trump. 0.99

00:03:13.000 The ShamWow guy.

00:03:14.000 Here we go.

00:03:14.000 Mitt got up and he really shouldn't have done it.

00:03:16.000 It wasn't, it wasn't becoming, honestly.

00:03:18.000 And he talked about the water company.

00:03:21.000 Well, there's the water company.

00:03:22.000 I mean, we sell water and we have water and it's a very successful, you know, it's a private little water company and I supply the water for all my places and it's good, but it's very good.

00:03:32.000 Trump Steaks.

00:03:32.000 Where are the steaks?

00:03:33.000 Do we have steaks?

00:03:34.000 We have Trump Steaks.

00:03:36.000 He said the steak company.

00:03:39.000 We have Trump Steaks.

00:03:40.000 And by the way,

00:03:41.000 If you want to take one, we'll charge you about, what, 50 bucks a steak.

00:03:45.000 No, I'm only... We have Trump Magazine.

00:03:49.000 Let me see the magazine.

00:04:01.000 He said, Trump Magazine is out.

00:04:03.000 I said, it is?

00:04:04.000 I thought I read one two days ago.

00:04:06.000 This comes out and it's called The Jewel of Palm Beach and it goes to all of my clubs.

00:04:11.000 I've had it for many years.

00:04:13.000 And it's the magazine.

00:04:14.000 It's great.

00:04:14.000 Anybody want one?

00:04:15.000 Here, take one.

00:04:16.000 Club.

00:04:17.000 My club champion.

00:04:19.000 So...

00:04:21.000 And the airline, by the way, I sold the airline.

00:04:23.000 You know, he said, Trump Airline.

00:04:25.000 Well, I sold the airline.

00:04:26.000 And I actually made a great deal.

00:04:28.000 Complicated.

00:04:28.000 And in really terrible times.

00:04:31.000 The economy was horrible.

00:04:32.000 And I made a phenomenal deal.

00:04:34.000 I had the shuttle.

00:04:35.000 And I sold it.

00:04:36.000 Okay, so there's Donald Trump doing the ShamWow routine.

00:04:39.000 There's Trump water.

00:04:40.000 There's Trump wine.

00:04:40.000 There's Trump steaks.

00:04:42.000 And he said he was going to give people Trump steaks.

00:04:44.000 And he's giving away free Trump... Okay.

00:04:46.000 Only one problem.

00:04:47.000 None of these things are real. 1.00

00:04:48.000 Because Donald Trump is a con man. 0.90

00:04:50.000 So, the water that he's handing out there, that Trump water, that is repackaged water from another company that he slapped a Trump label on. 0.96

00:04:56.000 Seriously.

00:04:57.000 Trump Magazine doesn't exist.

00:04:59.000 There's an annual issue from Mar-a-Lago, which is his Mar-a-Lago, his resort down in Florida.

00:05:05.000 They put it out just for that resort.

00:05:06.000 It doesn't exist.

00:05:08.000 Okay, Trump vodka no longer exists.

00:05:09.000 Trump Airlines was sold specifically because Trump Airlines, he was going bankrupt at the time in the Taj Mahal.

00:05:16.000 He had to sell Trump Airlines in order to pay off his debts at the Taj Mahal.

00:05:20.000 Okay, the Trump steaks, right?

00:05:22.000 For sure, he can't fake Trump steaks, right?

00:05:23.000 Except he got it from a company called Bush Brothers, which is a steak company, a butchery down in Florida.

00:05:29.000 He grabbed it, and then he proceeded to take the Trump steaks and wrap them in Trump wrapping.

00:05:36.000 So,

00:05:37.000 There you go.

00:05:37.000 Donald Trump, he's a magical, magical man.

00:05:40.000 And he is the ShamWow guy.

00:05:42.000 It's just, this is your next president of the United States.

00:05:45.000 But don't worry, don't worry.

00:05:46.000 Donald Trump says that it's time to unify, that we have to get it all together.

00:05:50.000 So here is Donald Trump saying it's time to unify.

00:05:54.000 Given your statement to Major about how easy it would be to Hillary Clinton, do you agree that you're going to need to get mainstream American Republican politicians, the establishment as it's been labeled, behind you?

00:06:04.000 And if so, what do you say to them tonight, given so many of them are pouring their money into trying to beat you?

00:06:10.000 I say let's come together, folks.

00:06:12.000 We're gonna win.

00:06:12.000 I say let's come together.

00:06:14.000 Carl, the answer is not 100%, but largely I would say yes.

00:06:18.000 You know, some people you're just not gonna get along with it.

00:06:20.000 It's okay.

00:06:22.000 But largely I would like to do that.

00:06:23.000 And believe it, I am a unifier.

00:06:25.000 I unify.

00:06:26.000 I mean, you look at all of the things I built all over the world.

00:06:29.000 I'm a unifier.

00:06:30.000 I get along with people.

00:06:31.000 I have great relations.

00:06:32.000 I even start getting along with you, right?

00:06:36.000 Huh?

00:06:36.000 Campaign Carl.

00:06:38.000 But no, I get along with people.

00:06:40.000 And I really say this, Carl, I think it's time to unify.

00:06:44.000 We have something special going in the Republican Party, and unfortunately, the people of the party, they call them the elites, or they call them whatever they call them, but those are the people that don't respect it yet.

00:06:56.000 We have millions and millions of people.

00:06:58.000 I discussed it before.

00:06:59.000 We have millions and millions... He's going to bring us all together.

00:07:01.000 He's the great unifier.

00:07:03.000 He unifies us in the way that Adam Sandler movies unify some people.

00:07:07.000 I don't understand for the life of me why anyone likes Adam Sandler movies, but clearly there's a market for them.

00:07:12.000 Clearly there are a lot of people who love watching Adam Sandler hit himself in the head and make tiny little voices and be weird and such.

00:07:20.000 Clearly there's a market for Donald Trump.

00:07:22.000 But let's not pretend here.

00:07:24.000 Donald Trump, you know, he's a strong man.

00:07:26.000 And the real reason so many are resonating to Donald Trump is because they love this sort of stuff.

00:07:31.000 They love the antics.

00:07:32.000 They're granting him all sorts of credibility based on the idea he's going to make great deals for you.

00:07:37.000 He's going to make spectacular deals for you.

00:07:40.000 He's the guy who can bring his businesses back from the dead, for goodness sake.

00:07:43.000 He can bring them back from the dead just for the day, and then they go back to being dead again.

00:07:46.000 He can do anything.

00:07:47.000 And then he can bring us all together.

00:07:49.000 And he doesn't have to make sense.

00:07:50.000 What he says doesn't really have to make sense.

00:07:52.000 Bob Woodward asked Donald Trump directly.

00:07:54.000 You know, you keep talking about you're going to make Mexico pay for a wall.

00:07:57.000 So, are you going to go to war with Mexico to make them do it? 0.81

00:07:58.000 Here's Bob Woodward versus Donald Trump.

00:08:01.000 I want to ask about the wall you're going to get Mexico to build. 0.59

00:08:06.000 We were talking about this earlier, and a number of my colleagues here say you really haven't answered the question how you're going to do that.

00:08:15.000 And you know from business somebody can have a good idea, but how are they going to do it?

00:08:22.000 And can you give us some idea?

00:08:25.000 Okay, look the wall first of all Mexico is not going to build it.

00:08:28.000 We're going to build it, and we're good It's going to be a serious wall It's not going to be a toy wall like we have right now with where cars and trucks drive over it loaded up with drugs And they sell the drugs in our country, and then they go back and you know we get the drugs They get the cash okay, and that's not going to happen.

00:08:43.000 How are you?

00:08:45.000 And the reason they're going to pay in the way they're going to pay Bob is this is

00:08:48.000 We have a trade deficit now with Mexico of $58 billion a year.

00:08:53.000 The wall is going to cost $10 billion to build.

00:08:56.000 That's what it's going to cost.

00:08:58.000 It's going to be a power wall.

00:09:00.000 It's going to cost $10 billion.

00:09:02.000 Now, when you're losing, or essentially losing, but when you're losing $58 billion a year on trade, in addition to that, we give subsidies to Mexico.

00:09:11.000 Believe me, I have all the cards.

00:09:13.000 Now, will a politician be able to do it?

00:09:15.000 No, because they don't know how to negotiate.

00:09:17.000 That's how we have the Iran deal, where we give them $150 billion and other things.

00:09:22.000 But for me, that's 100%, Bob, and you can hold me to it, and you will hold me to it.

00:09:28.000 Okay, but how do you get a sovereign nation that says they don't want to pay, to pay?

00:09:36.000 There are five different ways you can do it.

00:09:40.000 You can do it through not giving them the subsidy that we pay them.

00:09:43.000 You know, we pay Mexico subsidy. 0.93

00:09:45.000 I don't know if you know, but the whole thing is ridiculous. 0.75

00:09:47.000 We're paying everybody subsidy.

00:09:49.000 We actually have a small portion of China where they get a subsidy from us because they haven't ended it for years.

00:09:57.000 We pay subsidy, money coming over the border.

00:10:01.000 There are so many ways that Mexico makes money with us, Bob.

00:10:04.000 There are so many different ways, five in particular, that we will take it out of there if they don't agree to it.

00:10:11.000 I'm sorry to press on this, but how would you grab that money if they say no?

00:10:16.000 Would you be willing to go to war?

00:10:18.000 I mean, this is insanity.

00:10:19.000 This is insanity.

00:10:20.000 I mean, what Trump is saying here, he's saying he's going to get Mexico to pay for it.

00:10:22.000 I guess the implication is that we're going to raise our trade barriers and then we're going to use

00:10:41.000 The money that Mexico bribes us with to lower our trade barriers to pay for the wall.

00:10:46.000 What if Mexico says no is what Woodward is asking.

00:10:48.000 What if they just say stick it?

00:10:50.000 You know, and so what's he going to do then?

00:10:52.000 And Trump says, don't worry, they're not going to want to go to war with us.

00:10:54.000 So he'll threaten them with war if they don't pay for the wall over to like $10 billion.

00:10:57.000 This is the this is the plan now.

00:10:59.000 It's all genius stuff. 0.99

00:11:00.000 I want to take a brief diversion here, a brief digression, to talk for a second about Trump's idiocy with regard to trade. 0.99

00:11:06.000 And you hear it again here. 0.96

00:11:07.000 We talked about this a little bit yesterday, but I want to go through it more comprehensively and more slowly.

00:11:12.000 So there are two groups of people who are backing Donald Trump on the sort of anti-immigrant protectionist front.

00:11:18.000 One is the group of people who say that we need a border.

00:11:21.000 It makes us safe.

00:11:22.000 We can't have people coming across who are criminals.

00:11:24.000 We can't have people coming across who change our culture and don't integrate.

00:11:28.000 I agree with all of that.

00:11:29.000 Then there are the people who are just anti-free trade because they think their jobs are being sent to Mexico.

00:11:34.000 And you've got people like Donald Trump out there saying, we run this vast trade deficit with Mexico, they must be screwing us.

00:11:40.000 China, we run a trade deficit with China, they must be screwing us. 1.00

00:11:43.000 And the only solution is tariffs.

00:11:45.000 So Trump has suggested to the New York Times that you put 45% tariffs on Chinese goods, which is insanity. 0.65

00:11:51.000 Let me explain for a second why tariffs don't work, why protectionism is silly.

00:11:56.000 So, I explained this briefly yesterday, but I want to be a little bit more comprehensive.

00:11:59.000 You've heard Trump talk about how protectionism is great, about how we need to put tariffs on China and tariffs on Mexico.

00:12:07.000 There are four reasons, four reasons, why protectionism is not good.

00:12:11.000 Why protectionism is, in fact, bound to destroy the economy, lose jobs, and make your life worse.

00:12:16.000 First of all, tariffs, as I said yesterday, are an unfair tax.

00:12:19.000 They're an unfair tax.

00:12:21.000 Trade always has two sides.

00:12:22.000 When we say we have a trade deficit with Mexico, what that means is that Americans are buying Mexican goods and Mexicans aren't buying a lot of American goods.

00:12:29.000 Okay, so, so, what happens?

00:12:33.000 Let me ask you this.

00:12:33.000 What do you think happens when we buy a Mexican good?

00:12:36.000 Does that dollar just sit around under somebody's bed in Mexico?

00:12:38.000 The dollar isn't useful.

00:12:39.000 It eventually has to make its way back here.

00:12:41.000 It's in American denominations.

00:12:42.000 They don't use the dollar, right?

00:12:44.000 So what do they do?

00:12:45.000 Eventually, that dollar comes back in the form of investment.

00:12:47.000 They buy land, they invest in our companies.

00:12:50.000 This is why we have a capital surplus when it comes to countries with which we have a trade deficit, because the money has to come back in.

00:12:56.000 But to get back to the tax point,

00:12:59.000 Trump complains about us importing cars, for example.

00:13:02.000 That's because there are people like me and you who buy cars that are imported.

00:13:07.000 And what happens with all the money that these companies get?

00:13:09.000 They build factories in the United States.

00:13:11.000 More of a Honda car is built in the United States than a GM car is built in the United States at this point, because they have factories down south.

00:13:18.000 And the fact is that when you put tariffs on goods coming in, what you're really doing is taxing me.

00:13:23.000 It's a sales tax on me.

00:13:24.000 And you can send that money to the people who are in industries that are being priced out of the market.

00:13:30.000 So, for example, you want to keep manufacturing jobs alive, all you have to do is make me pay twice as much for a car.

00:13:36.000 That's basically a tax.

00:13:37.000 The government is taking my money and forcing me to spend it on some industry that is not competitive and that is dying.

00:13:43.000 And the people this hurts most are the people who are actually at the bottom of the economic scale.

00:13:48.000 You know, to me, it may not make a difference whether I'm spending $35,000 or $30,000 per car, but to the person who's making $30,000 a year, it matters a hell of a lot what that lease payment looks like.

00:13:58.000 Trade redirects money to the most efficient industries, to the people who do it the best, who do it the cheapest, who do it the smartest.

00:14:06.000 Restrictions on trade, by contrast, stop all of that.

00:14:09.000 So it's a regressive tax.

00:14:10.000 Second, tariffs actually destroy jobs.

00:14:12.000 So people like to say that in the manufacturing world, we need our manufacturing jobs back.

00:14:17.000 We need those back, and trade has destroyed the manufacturing base in the country.

00:14:23.000 I'm not somebody who worships at the altar of manufacturing.

00:14:25.000 I don't worship at the altar of any job type.

00:14:28.000 The fact is that there were lots of wheelwrights back in the day who were put out of business by tire companies.

00:14:33.000 There were lots of people who owned wagons, who used to build wagons, who were put out of business by automobiles.

00:14:38.000 Did we weep for them?

00:14:39.000 Did we create subsidies for them?

00:14:40.000 No, of course not.

00:14:42.000 When technology gets better, it puts people out of work, and when trade is good, that puts people out of work too in some industries, but it creates jobs in new industries.

00:14:50.000 Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump say the same thing when it comes to trade.

00:14:53.000 That's why Bernie Sanders, just the other day, he said about Detroit that in 1960 Detroit was a big boom town, and then we opened up the markets and stopped protecting Detroit, and then Detroit fell apart.

00:15:03.000 That's not what happened.

00:15:04.000 What happened is that Detroit was way ahead, the unions started negotiating for outsized wages, the unions started negotiating for better contracts, there were more regulations, the price of making a car went up, and then we were uncompetitive.

00:15:16.000 And at that point, people started buying other types of cars.

00:15:19.000 Of course, because that's how the market works.

00:15:22.000 And then, instead of getting rid of the regulations, or stopping the unions, Detroit didn't do that.

00:15:26.000 They tried to tax the people who were left, and all those people left.

00:15:30.000 So the truth is that if you want to destroy jobs, all you have to do is make industries non-competitive.

00:15:35.000 The way to make industries non-competitive is to protect them.

00:15:37.000 Again, if you really think that tariffs create jobs, all you have to do is make the tariff 100%.

00:15:42.000 Do it on all the goods, everywhere.

00:15:44.000 You know what you'll end up with?

00:15:45.000 A really, really crappy economy.

00:15:47.000 Because now no one can afford to buy anything good.

00:15:49.000 We're all spending twice as much for everything, and we're not earning as much, because no one's buying these things.

00:15:54.000 Because no one has any money to buy these things.

00:15:56.000 The fact is that you want to live in a world where cool stuff is cheap and available.

00:16:00.000 You want to live in a world with the iPhone 6, not a world where we're spending $1,000 for an iPhone 2.

00:16:06.000 By the way, even Steve Jobs said this.

00:16:07.000 He said if there's no outsourcing, there is no iPhone 6.

00:16:10.000 Okay, third reason.

00:16:11.000 We're not damaged by the so-called unfair trade practices of other countries.

00:16:15.000 Both Mitt Romney and Donald Trump is, ah, China's screwing us. 0.72

00:16:17.000 China's cheating us. 0.90

00:16:19.000 China is cheating us when they steal our intellectual property. 1.00

00:16:21.000 That's actual fraud.

00:16:22.000 But, China devaluing its currency, inflating its currency, that doesn't hurt you in any way.

00:16:27.000 It doesn't.

00:16:29.000 In fact, in some ways it helps you.

00:16:30.000 You can buy, for a brief period of time, their goods more cheaply.

00:16:34.000 But if you think inflation helps an economy, if you think inflation makes people's trade deficit greater, that it really helps you with trade, then the Weimar Republic should have been great when people were shoveling around wheelbarrows full of cash. 0.94

00:16:46.000 That's not how it works.

00:16:48.000 Right?

00:16:48.000 Currency is just a piece of exchange.

00:16:50.000 That's all it is.

00:16:50.000 It's just an exchange.

00:16:51.000 It's a measurement.

00:16:52.000 Okay?

00:16:52.000 Saying that inflation changes the underlying math of our trade is like saying that if I'm playing basketball with someone and I decide arbitrarily to change their height.

00:17:02.000 Right?

00:17:02.000 I'm playing with Yao Ming.

00:17:03.000 I'm a 5'9 guy.

00:17:04.000 Yao Ming's 7'2.

00:17:06.000 I decide that I'm gonna change the standard of a foot for Yao Ming. 0.98

00:17:08.000 So now he's 5'9 also.

00:17:09.000 Is he actually 5'9?

00:17:11.000 Of course not!

00:17:12.000 I can call him whatever I want.

00:17:13.000 He's still 7'2.

00:17:14.000 The economy in China is still the economy in China, which is to say it is a low-rent economy with lots and lots of people. 1.00

00:17:20.000 And they produce really cheap products.

00:17:22.000 That's all they do.

00:17:23.000 They're not a sophisticated economy.

00:17:25.000 They're not a powerful economy.

00:17:26.000 They're just really, really big.

00:17:28.000 And the fact is that devaluation doesn't change any of that.

00:17:31.000 It doesn't change anything.

00:17:32.000 Right now, by the way, China is desperately attempting to not inflate their currency, because it turns out they've destroyed all demand in their country for any products through their inflation, and so now they're in a spiral, which is why their stock market has crashed a couple of times in the past year.

00:17:48.000 Finally, everybody is acting... You hear Donald Trump use this trade deficit language.

00:17:53.000 Trade is not a zero-sum game.

00:17:54.000 It's not a zero-sum game.

00:17:55.000 Okay?

00:17:56.000 When I trade something to you, I don't worry about the fact that I spent more money than you did.

00:18:01.000 Right, if I buy a jacket from Macy's, then what I'm going to spend on that jacket... I don't worry about the trade deficit that I now have with Macy's.

00:18:07.000 I wanted the jacket and Macy's wanted my money.

00:18:09.000 I gave them my money.

00:18:09.000 They gave me the jacket.

00:18:10.000 That's not a trade deficit.

00:18:12.000 That's just a trade.

00:18:13.000 Right, so if the idea is that I spent more money than Macy spent on me, that's true, that's called a profit.

00:18:19.000 And you know what'll happen?

00:18:20.000 They'll take that money and they'll spend it on something else.

00:18:22.000 If I go to Japan, and I spend money on a Japanese good, they're gonna have to use that dollar for something else.

00:18:29.000 They can't use the dollar in the Japanese economy, they don't use the dollar.

00:18:32.000 So that money ends up coming back.

00:18:34.000 Thomas Sowell, the economist, he points out if the Japanese sends us lots of cars and we send them lots of dollars, then what do they do?

00:18:41.000 They end up coming here and buying a lot of American assets.

00:18:43.000 This is what happened in the 1980s.

00:18:44.000 Right?

00:18:45.000 Japan was this big, booming economy.

00:18:46.000 It was going to be great.

00:18:48.000 What happened?

00:18:48.000 They took all of their dollars and they bought American real estate.

00:18:51.000 All those dollars ended up back in the American economy.

00:18:53.000 It's called a capital account surplus.

00:18:55.000 It happens.

00:18:56.000 So, none of this has any sense to it, but this is what Trump does.

00:19:00.000 He panders to particular small groups of people with programs that hurt large groups of people who can't really...

00:19:07.000 Focus on why they're being hurt.

00:19:09.000 So this is what, when he's talking about trade, this is what Donald Trump does.

00:19:11.000 This is what Donald Trump does on a regular basis.

00:19:14.000 And it's not smart, but nothing he does is about being smart.

00:19:18.000 It's just about being in control.

00:19:20.000 And that's what this all comes down to.

00:19:21.000 People trust him to make good business deals.

00:19:23.000 He's not a businessman who's very good.

00:19:25.000 He's underperformed the real estate market.

00:19:26.000 He's underperformed the stock market.

00:19:28.000 I keep hearing from people that he's a genius because he's worth so much money.

00:19:31.000 If my financial analyst did as badly with my money as Donald Trump has done with his money, I would fire them ten times over.

00:19:37.000 Donald Trump has underperformed every market in which he's taken part.

00:19:42.000 But, you know, all of this really in the end is about strength, which is why yesterday at a rally, Corey Lewandowski, who's Donald Trump's campaign manager, apparently took

00:19:54.000 Michelle Fields is a reporter for Breitbart and actually physically threw her out of the way. 0.99

00:19:57.000 He apparently physically assaulted her.

00:19:59.000 This is this is sort of what Trump's campaign is.

00:20:02.000 And Trump is doing it himself.

00:20:03.000 You know, there's all these stories about Trump U, about Trump University.

00:20:06.000 Here, for example, is and here's how Donald Trump responds to all of these stories about his his corruption and Trump University.

00:20:11.000 Here's Trump.

00:20:14.000 Quick thing about where you're at with delegates right now.

00:20:17.000 If you are leading, but don't get to 1,200, are you, do you think it's wrong?

00:20:21.000 Actually, this is it.

00:20:21.000 What I need is the Trump naming and threatening former Trump youth students.

00:20:24.000 This is clip five.

00:20:32.000 There's been so much talk by dishonest people about Trump University or Trump Entrepreneur Initiative, and I thought I should set the record straight.

00:20:40.000 Number one, it's something I could have settled numerous times.

00:20:43.000 I just don't believe in settling, especially when you're right.

00:20:46.000 Recently at the Fox debate, they said it had a D- rating from the Better Business Bureau.

00:20:50.000 I said, that's not true.

00:20:52.000 It had an A. They said, no, you're wrong.

00:20:54.000 It has a D-.

00:20:55.000 Well, I turned out to be right.

00:20:56.000 Before the end of the debate, I gave them the A we had sent to us.

00:21:00.000 And here's the A rating from the Better Business Bureau.

00:21:03.000 And they refused to put it on that night.

00:21:05.000 They probably sent it some other time when nobody was listening.

00:21:09.000 So we have an A rating, not a D minus rating.

00:21:11.000 Additionally, I just saw a commercial made by a very dishonest guy, Lightweight Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, who's dying in the polls and dying as a candidate.

00:21:22.000 And he made a commercial with a few people, two of which, and we have the third we're looking for, is Bob Gallo.

00:21:31.000 And here's his report card on the school.

00:21:34.000 And he talks about

00:21:40.000 There's a commercial that was made with this guy Bob.

00:21:43.000 He didn't reveal his last name.

00:21:44.000 Trump is outing him by last name.

00:21:46.000 And I promise you that Trump outing him by last name is a signal to his supporters that they ought to

00:21:51.000 Do something about this.

00:21:52.000 Not violence, but they ought to target him.

00:21:54.000 They ought to harass him.

00:21:55.000 They ought to bother him.

00:21:55.000 This is what Trump does.

00:21:56.000 Trump outs people.

00:21:58.000 Trump hurts people who he perceives to be his enemies.

00:22:00.000 This is why his friends like him.

00:22:01.000 They figure that if he's the enemy of my enemy, he must be my friend.

00:22:04.000 The only problem is at a certain point, what happens when you cross Donald Trump?

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00:22:34.000 I don't know.

00:22:50.000 Okay, so Donald Trump, the point of all of this is to say that Donald Trump is running what really looks like a ShamWow campaign.

00:22:57.000 He's running a ShamWow campaign and he's making promises he can't possibly keep.

00:23:01.000 When he talks about tariffs, when he talks about trade barriers, when he talks about forcing Apple to manufacture phones in this country, it's not going to happen.

00:23:08.000 When he talks about how he's going to force companies to relocate inside the United States,

00:23:12.000 That doesn't happen, okay?

00:23:14.000 The fact is that Donald Trump apparently wants to not only build a wall to keep Mexicans out, he wants to build a wall to keep American businesses in.

00:23:21.000 It didn't work for the Soviet Union, and it won't work for Donald Trump.

00:23:24.000 But the thing that people like about Donald Trump is that he's strong.

00:23:27.000 So Ted Cruz, yesterday he was asked about Donald Trump doing his loyalty pledges, and here is Cruz explaining Trump isn't a king.

00:23:35.000 Senator, could you ever ask your supporters to raise their hands and pledge their support to you, or would you be concerned about the optics of that?

00:23:41.000 Um, you know, I am asking for the support of the grassroots each and every day, but it's not about pledging support to one person.

00:23:53.000 Anyone who thinks that you're making a loyalty oath to some candidate fundamentally misunderstands this process.

00:24:02.000 Listen, no political candidate is going to make America great again.

00:24:07.000 It's not going to be Donald Trump.

00:24:08.000 It's not going to be me.

00:24:09.000 It's not going to be any candidate.

00:24:11.000 Power strong enough to restore this nation as we the people.

00:24:14.000 It is not about us, it is about the people.

00:24:17.000 And so the idea that you would take this loyalty oath, you know what?

00:24:22.000 I raise my hand and I take an oath to you, to the people.

00:24:25.000 That's who's working for whom.

00:24:27.000 Okay, everything Ted Cruz is saying here is exactly right.

00:24:30.000 The only problem is it assumes that people don't want a strongman.

00:24:33.000 And people clearly want a strongman.

00:24:35.000 They want the guy who's going to sell them Trump water and pretend that Trump steaks are still a thing.

00:24:39.000 Trump steaks, by the way, went out of business in 2007.

00:24:41.000 So if he actually was serving Trump steaks, that's a massive Food and Drug Administration violation.

00:24:46.000 I mean, someone is going to die of salmonella if he was actually serving 10-year-old steaks.

00:24:50.000 All of this is to say that one of the advantages Trump has

00:24:53.000 Is that he's tapped into the latent desire for people to have a guy who wins for them.

00:24:58.000 He's not going to do it for you.

00:24:59.000 He's not going to make Mexico pay for the wall.

00:25:03.000 If he raises tariffs, it's going to hurt you.

00:25:05.000 It's going to hurt the economy.

00:25:06.000 It's going to take away jobs. 0.91

00:25:07.000 There's a certain small segment of people who will be helped by Donald Trump, just like there's a certain segment of people who are helped by Hugo Chavez.

00:25:13.000 All of Hugo Chavez's friends were helped by Hugo Chavez.

00:25:16.000 There are certain industries that were helped by Hugo Chavez at the expense of the entire economy.

00:25:20.000 That's Donald Trump in a nutshell.

00:25:22.000 This is why he's not a conservative.

00:25:24.000 Okay, so this brings up another question.

00:25:26.000 Here's how the math works out right now.

00:25:27.000 So Donald Trump, Super Tuesday is coming up quickly.

00:25:30.000 Marco Rubio needs to get out.

00:25:32.000 Rubio needs to get out.

00:25:33.000 So Rubio said yesterday, Trump's not going to get the delegates.

00:25:35.000 Here's Marco Rubio, senator from Florida, explaining that he thinks that Trump is going to come up short.

00:25:41.000 You have to combine forces and take those delegates away from Donald Trump.

00:25:44.000 Yeah, it's just not accurate.

00:25:46.000 Donald Trump is not on pace right now to get the delegates he needs to be the nominee.

00:25:50.000 And if you look at it, over 70, about 70% of Republicans have said they don't want him as the nominee.

00:25:55.000 A significant percentage of Republicans say they will never vote for him if he's the nominee.

00:26:00.000 And that means we lose to Hillary Clinton. 1.00

00:26:02.000 So, he is not on track to have the number of delegates he needs.

00:26:05.000 I think Idaho can play a huge part in that tomorrow.

00:26:07.000 I'm asking everyone to come out and vote for me, Marco Rubio.

00:26:10.000 If I win Idaho, it is going to shake up this race in a major way.

00:26:14.000 It's gonna give us a real boost, and it's gonna give us a chance to overtake him in the long run.

00:26:18.000 Okay, not only did Marco Rubio not win Idaho, he didn't even finish, basically.

00:26:21.000 I mean, he got zero delegates out of Idaho.

00:26:24.000 Rubio needs to get out now.

00:26:25.000 Not because of Florida, folks.

00:26:27.000 Donald Trump is gonna win Florida.

00:26:28.000 But because right now, Illinois is tight.

00:26:31.000 And they have a lot of delegates.

00:26:32.000 Ohio is tight.

00:26:33.000 They have a lot of delegates.

00:26:33.000 Missouri is tight.

00:26:35.000 And they have a lot of delegates.

00:26:36.000 Florida is lost, okay?

00:26:38.000 But if you deprive Trump of those other three states, plus some of the delegates in North Carolina, which is still proportional, then Trump will not have a path to the nomination, and he'll end up with less than 1,237 delegates.

00:26:49.000 Right now, right now, if you look at the kind of magic number, how many delegates are needed to clinch,

00:26:55.000 Right now, Donald Trump needs about 55% of all delegates to clinch.

00:27:01.000 He needs 55% of all delegates.

00:27:02.000 Cruz needs about 61%.

00:27:04.000 Rubio needs 76%.

00:27:05.000 Not gonna happen.

00:27:06.000 Rubio's toast.

00:27:07.000 And Kasich needs 83% of the delegates in order to win.

00:27:10.000 That's not gonna happen either.

00:27:11.000 But you can prevent Trump from getting those 54%.

00:27:14.000 The reason that Rubio's math doesn't work here, when he says Trump's not on pace, is because everything shifts on Super Tuesday.

00:27:21.000 Right now, Trump is winning proportionally 44% of the delegates, right?

00:27:25.000 That's not enough to win.

00:27:26.000 But when it shifts to winner-take-all, he's either going to win 100% or 0% in all of these states, and so the number of delegates he gets is going to raise dramatically.

00:27:35.000 So right now, even if Trump wins Florida,

00:27:38.000 Then he still doesn't get to this number if he loses Ohio and if he loses Missouri and if he doesn't do well in North Carolina.

00:27:46.000 According to, according to, who is this?

00:27:49.000 Sean, sorry, Sean Davis over at The Federalist.

00:27:52.000 He's done this calculation.

00:27:53.000 He says if Trump wins Ohio and Florida, he'll need to win 48% of the remaining delegates.

00:27:58.000 Right now he's winning 44%.

00:28:00.000 So winning Florida and Ohio is a big boost for him, but if he loses Ohio, if he loses Illinois, if he loses Missouri, if he loses North Carolina, it's gonna be very, very difficult for Trump to win the nomination outright, which raises a big question.

00:28:13.000 And here's the big question that it raises.

00:28:15.000 What happens if Donald Trump has the lead in delegate number, but not enough to get the nomination?

00:28:20.000 What if he has the most delegates, but not the nomination?

00:28:23.000 So here's Donald Trump answering that question.

00:28:25.000 He's asked, well, what if you're winning, but not enough to win the nomination?

00:28:29.000 Here's Trump's answer.

00:28:30.000 Quick thing about where you're at with delegates right now.

00:28:32.000 If you are leading, but don't get the 1,200, do you think it's wrong to have a contested convention?

00:28:40.000 Yeah, I sort of do.

00:28:41.000 I think the people that, you know, whoever's leading at the end should sort of get it.

00:28:44.000 I would think so.

00:28:45.000 That's the way democracy works.

00:28:47.000 I don't know that that's going to happen, but I'll tell you there'll be a lot of people that will be very upset if that doesn't happen, because we have really fervent, wonderful people.

00:28:54.000 And I think that would be pretty unfair.

00:28:57.000 Let me ask you about your political path.

00:29:24.000 Is it to win the nomination to Delegates Outright or is it to just deny and get to Cleveland and figure it out there?

00:29:30.000 Look, we're campaigning to win and I will say anytime you hear people talking about a brokered convention...

00:29:36.000 I think that is the fevered talk of the Washington establishment.

00:29:39.000 The Washington establishment is in a panic.

00:29:42.000 They're confused.

00:29:43.000 They don't understand what's happening.

00:29:45.000 And their favorite candidates, the ones that they want to win, are not getting the votes.

00:29:50.000 But if a bunch of Washington dealmakers try to step in at a brokered convention and steal the nomination, I think we will have a manifest uprising.

00:29:58.000 If you want to beat Donald Trump, and I don't think Donald Trump is the right nominee to go up against Hillary Clinton, if you want to beat him,

00:30:06.000 Our campaign is the only campaign that has demonstrated we can do so over and over again.

00:30:10.000 I think there's something illegitimate, though.

00:30:13.000 The question here is why Cruz is saying this, because here's the reality.

00:30:15.000 Cruz is probably not going to win more delegates than Donald Trump.

00:30:18.000 There's a very good shot that Donald Trump ends up with the most delegates, and even if he doesn't win the nomination outright, he has the most delegates.

00:30:24.000 So why is Cruz saying this?

00:30:25.000 One possibility is that Cruz is living in a bit of a fever dream of his own, in which he ends up with the most delegates, but he's afraid that the convention takes it away from him.

00:30:34.000 Possible.

00:30:34.000 It's also possible he doesn't want to look like he's an establishment guy who's just a stop-Trump-at-all-costs guy, because he still thinks that there are Trump people who might vote for him.

00:30:43.000 Possible.

00:30:44.000 Unlikely.

00:30:45.000 Okay, but here's the bottom line.

00:30:46.000 If Trump does not win 1,237 delegates, let's say he gets 1,100 delegates, should he be stopped at the convention?

00:30:53.000 There are a bunch of never-Trump people, like Eric Erickson, who says he'll never vote for Trump, who says, well, if he wins the most delegates, we should still give it to him.

00:31:00.000 Even if it's not the number necessary to win, we should still give him the nomination.

00:31:06.000 Glenn Beck has said much the same thing.

00:31:10.000 I disagree.

00:31:12.000 I'm enough of an anti-Trump guy.

00:31:14.000 This actually makes no sense to me, honestly.

00:31:16.000 It doesn't make any sense to me to say Donald Trump is such a problem for conservatism that if he wins the nomination, I can't vote for him against Hillary Clinton.

00:31:26.000 But if he doesn't get enough votes to win the nomination outright, let's just hand it to him.

00:31:29.000 That doesn't make any sense to me at all.

00:31:31.000 So I guess the normal argument is that it'll tear apart the party if we do that, that it'll make it look illegitimate, that Trump will run third party.

00:31:39.000 I don't care.

00:31:40.000 Okay?

00:31:40.000 Because the fact is the Republican Party has already fallen apart.

00:31:43.000 The Republican establishment is already hated.

00:31:45.000 It doesn't matter.

00:31:46.000 If ever they're going to stand up and do something that's worth doing, it would be stopping Donald Trump.

00:31:51.000 And this idea that Trump is going to go third party?

00:31:53.000 Okay, so he goes third party.

00:31:55.000 Is that worse than Donald Trump taking over the entire Republican Party and putting the Trump brand, the Trump stake imprimatur on conservatism?

00:32:04.000 This is a guy who's pro Planned Parenthood.

00:32:06.000 This is a guy who lies about virtually every position he's ever taken.

00:32:10.000 This is a person who is willing to associate with the lowest elements of the American populace in order to win.

00:32:16.000 Is that something that Republicans are comfortable with?

00:32:18.000 Let's play this out.

00:32:19.000 Let's do the logical game here.

00:32:20.000 Let's play it out for a second.

00:32:22.000 So, let's say that the Republican establishment decides we're going to deprive Trump of the nomination and we're going to hand it to somebody like Mitt Romney.

00:32:29.000 So yeah, there will be a manifest revolt.

00:32:31.000 There will be a revolt.

00:32:32.000 People won't vote for Romney.

00:32:33.000 Trump will go third party.

00:32:35.000 Conservatives will say stick it.

00:32:36.000 They won't go to the polls.

00:32:38.000 Okay.

00:32:39.000 Okay. 0.99

00:32:40.000 And, you know, and then, the establishment deserves to be hated. 0.97

00:32:44.000 Let them do that.

00:32:45.000 Let them stiff the conservatives and the anti-establishment group to put in somebody we know that they like.

00:32:50.000 And then, all their cards are on the table.

00:32:52.000 It's clear.

00:32:52.000 They don't want a conservative, and they don't want somebody who's anti-establishment.

00:32:56.000 Let them reject Cruz and Trump, and then we have clarity.

00:32:59.000 And in four years, if presumably Romney loses, in four years, then we can come back, and we can come back with an anti-establishment conservative candidate.

00:33:08.000 Who's not a liar about all of his policies, like Trump.

00:33:11.000 Okay, let's say that the establishment settles on Cruz.

00:33:13.000 Let's say they come back and they say, well, we hate Cruz and we hate Trump, but Cruz is the only one who's eligible other than Trump, because he's won eight states, so we'll give it to Cruz.

00:33:22.000 Good!

00:33:22.000 So if the Trump people leave, the Trump people leave, but then it's just obvious they're not conservative, because Cruz is certainly conservative.

00:33:28.000 Cruz, his border policy, is significantly more consistent than Trump's, who's been all over the place.

00:33:33.000 And if Cruz loses to Hillary, Trump people will blame the establishment and the conservatives, but they're going to blame us anyway if Trump loses.

00:33:40.000 If Cruz gets the nomination, at least 65% of the voters in the Republican Party who don't want Trump will be justified in their vote for Cruz.

00:33:49.000 Plus, the establishment then can't blame conservatives for what happened since they signed off on it.

00:33:54.000 Finally, the worst case scenario is that they actually do this.

00:33:56.000 They hand the nomination to Donald Trump.

00:33:59.000 I'll upend it over at Hot Air.

00:34:01.000 Who's anti-Trump?

00:34:02.000 He says there are two big risks with this, right?

00:34:06.000 One is you're handing a danger, the possibility that you're handing a dangerous authoritarian a much more viable path to the presidency than he would have as an independent.

00:34:15.000 And second, even if Trump loses, then the GOP is rebranded as, as Philip Klein puts it, the party of open-ended government entitlements, socialized medicine, partial birth abortion, gun control,

00:34:25.000 Private property seizures, trade protectionism, authoritarianism, vulgarity, mindless policy pronouncements, celebrity worship, and white male resentment.

00:34:34.000 Right.

00:34:35.000 Which is the reason why, if you're a Never Trump person, there is no logic to this idea that you should give Trump the nomination if he doesn't have the right number of votes.

00:34:42.000 Here's the deal, Donald.

00:34:43.000 If you want to win, win it.

00:34:44.000 Once you've won it, we can't complain about you winning it.

00:34:47.000 We can say that you're the wrong guy, we cannot show up.

00:34:49.000 If you win it, win it fair and square.

00:34:51.000 If you get less than the number of delegates, there's no crying in baseball.

00:34:54.000 That's not the way that it works.

00:34:56.000 These are the rules and these were known beforehand.

00:34:58.000 Okay, so I've spent the entire show so far talking about the negatives on Donald Trump because I think that he's gonna win the nomination.

00:35:04.000 I do think he'll win the nomination when all of this is said and done.

00:35:07.000 I don't trust presidential candidates to put their ego behind the interests of the country.

00:35:12.000 If I'm relying on presidential candidates to not

00:35:16.000 To put their ego aside, we're going to be waiting quite a while.

00:35:20.000 The one good thing about Donald Trump, and it always has been a good thing, is Donald Trump versus the media.

00:35:24.000 This is the one good thing about Donald Trump.

00:35:26.000 By the way, this is why there's a poll out today that shows Hillary Clinton beating Trump 51-38, just brutalizing Donald Trump.

00:35:32.000 And in a Sanders versus Trump poll, the numbers are even worse.

00:35:36.000 55 to 37?

00:35:38.000 An open socialist over Donald Trump in a poll today?

00:35:40.000 Okay, I still don't believe that it's that easy for the Democrats.

00:35:44.000 I don't believe that it's quite that easy for the Democrats because the media created Donald Trump. 0.73

00:35:48.000 He's their Frankenstein monster.

00:35:49.000 It's gonna be hard to tear him down.

00:35:51.000 It's gonna be hard to tear him down because of stuff like this.

00:35:53.000 Here is Donald Trump versus George Stephanopoulos.

00:35:57.000 Those exit polls out of Michigan show that voters who decided in the last couple days went overwhelmingly for John Kasich, 43%.

00:36:04.000 Only 12% went for you.

00:36:06.000 What does that say to you?

00:36:09.000 Well, it says to me that you're probably the only person negative out of a big win, because I had a tremendous win yesterday.

00:36:15.000 I had a, you know, in Michigan, in Mississippi, I was almost at 50%.

00:36:19.000 And don't forget, that's with four candidates.

00:36:21.000 That's not with two people.

00:36:23.000 That's with four candidates.

00:36:25.000 You know, I see nothing negative about Michigan.

00:36:27.000 The Michigan win was fantastic.

00:36:28.000 It was a monster win.

00:36:30.000 It was a, as you would call it, a massive landslide.

00:36:33.000 Look at where second is.

00:36:35.000 And Kasich wasn't even in second place.

00:36:38.000 He was in third place.

00:36:40.000 A distant third.

00:36:41.000 And he said that if he doesn't win Michigan, he guaranteed Michigan.

00:36:45.000 And he said if he doesn't win Michigan, he's pretty much out.

00:36:48.000 You'll beat him in Ohio?

00:36:49.000 We'll see what he does.

00:36:52.000 I think I will, yeah.

00:36:53.000 I mean, I have amazing relationships to Ohio.

00:36:56.000 Incredible people.

00:36:58.000 And they're like everyone else.

00:37:00.000 So there's Trump slapping around George Stephanopoulos.

00:37:03.000 Again, this is the thing that he does best.

00:37:05.000 And so all of his supporters say, if he'll slap around Stephanopoulos, he'll slap around our enemies.

00:37:10.000 Right.

00:37:10.000 Until you say something he doesn't like.

00:37:12.000 At which point he goes after you.

00:37:14.000 The same thing with Cokie Roberts, by the way.

00:37:15.000 And the media, honestly, one of the reasons for Trump's rise is hatred of the media.

00:37:20.000 And this is legitimate.

00:37:22.000 Fully legitimate. 0.99

00:37:23.000 Here's Cokie Roberts on MSNBC asking Donald Trump maybe the stupidest question in the history of American politics. 0.99

00:37:28.000 Here we go. 0.99

00:37:29.000 Mr. Trump, there have been incidents.

00:37:32.000 Hi, Mr. Trump.

00:37:33.000 There have been incidents of children, of white children, pointing to their darker-skinned classmates and saying, you'll be deported when Donald Trump is president.

00:37:43.000 There have been incidents of white kids at basketball games holding up signs to teams which have Hispanic kids on them, saying, we're going to build a wall to keep you out.

00:37:53.000 Are you proud of that?

00:37:54.000 Is that something you've done in American political and social discourse that you're proud of?

00:38:00.000 Well, I think your question is a very nasty question, and I'm not proud of it because I didn't even hear of it, okay?

00:38:06.000 And I certainly do not like it at all when I hear about it.

00:38:10.000 You're the first one that's told me about that, but I would not be proud of that at all, and that's not what the purpose of it is.

00:38:17.000 We want to make America great again.

00:38:19.000 We want to bring back our industry.

00:38:21.000 We want to bring back our jobs from China. 0.99

00:38:24.000 Here's why Trump is doing well.

00:38:26.000 One of the reasons he's doing well is because he doesn't take guff from people like Cokie Roberts.

00:38:30.000 Cokie Roberts says, how about the children?

00:38:32.000 The children being mean to each other.

00:38:33.000 He said, that's a really nasty question. 0.80

00:38:35.000 What the hell's wrong with you, basically? 0.95

00:38:36.000 Good for him.

00:38:37.000 Good for him.

00:38:37.000 That is the right answer from Donald Trump.

00:38:39.000 Donald Trump is good at this kind of stuff.

00:38:42.000 On the other side of the aisle, on the other side of the aisle,

00:38:45.000 Hillary Clinton is having some problems. 0.97

00:38:47.000 So, last night, the big surprise was not Trump doing so well.

00:38:50.000 The big surprise was actually Hillary Clinton doing so poorly. 1.00

00:38:53.000 Hillary Clinton lost Michigan to Bernie Sanders.

00:38:55.000 She lost 31% of the black vote to Bernie Sanders.

00:38:58.000 She lost 81% of the youth vote to Bernie Sanders.

00:39:02.000 In Donald Trump's parlance, she got schlonged by Bernie Sanders.

00:39:05.000 And it was, you know, she's a very vulnerable candidate.

00:39:08.000 She's a very vulnerable candidate.

00:39:10.000 I don't know that she's most vulnerable to Trump.

00:39:12.000 I'm not sure she's not vulnerable to Trump.

00:39:14.000 I can't predict how a general election will go, because this is such a black swan.

00:39:18.000 You could see a debate that goes something like this.

00:39:20.000 Donald Trump to Hillary Clinton. 1.00

00:39:22.000 Oh, you're a corrupt old bat. 1.00

00:39:23.000 And Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump. 1.00

00:39:25.000 How about Trump you?

00:39:26.000 How about Trump you? 1.00

00:39:27.000 He says, well, you know, your husband rapes people. 0.98

00:39:31.000 And she comes back with, well, you cheated on your wife. 0.99

00:39:33.000 She says, well, and he says, well, but your husband cheats on you regularly.

00:39:36.000 This could actually be the debate.

00:39:37.000 You could see this shaking down.

00:39:39.000 It would be amusing.

00:39:40.000 Yeah, it would be great entertainment.

00:39:41.000 Absolutely.

00:39:42.000 How would it play out?

00:39:43.000 Who knows?

00:39:44.000 It's anybody's ballgame.

00:39:46.000 The reason that Bernie Sanders, by the way, is doing better than than Hillary is against Trump in general election matchups is because Sanders is actually popular and Sanders

00:39:55.000 He's on the attack against Trump.

00:39:57.000 Sanders isn't going to win the nomination, but he sort of gives a preview of what an attack on Donald Trump will look like in a general election.

00:40:02.000 Here it is.

00:40:03.000 But I'll tell you why together, if Trump is their nominee, why we will defeat him.

00:40:11.000 And that is because the American people do not want a president who insults Mexicans and Latin Americans.

00:40:29.000 The American people do not want a president who insults Muslims.

00:40:35.000 One of the largest... Michigan is a very, very Muslim state.

00:40:38.000 That's why the big Jews are here. 1.00

00:40:43.000 The American people do not want a president who insults women. 1.00

00:40:54.000 Who insults African-Americans. 0.92

00:40:57.000 Remember, don't...

00:41:00.000 Please, when you think about Trump, please do not forget that this was a guy who was one of the leaders in this so-called birther effort.

00:41:13.000 You remember that?

00:41:17.000 And that was an intentional effort to try to delegitimize the President of the United States because he was black. 0.76

00:41:28.000 Okay, so you can pause it here. 0.57

00:41:29.000 This is going to be the line of attack on Trump.

00:41:31.000 I don't know how effective it is.

00:41:33.000 Meaning, I don't think Trump is aiming for the minority vote.

00:41:35.000 I think Trump is going to try to get out the dispossessed white vote. 0.74

00:41:39.000 The angry white vote.

00:41:40.000 He's going to try and get them out in massive numbers as a reaction to the so-called political correctness of people like Bernie Sanders.

00:41:46.000 Some of what he's saying, by the way, is politically correct.

00:41:49.000 You know, it's perfectly legitimate to question whether political Islam is a problem. 1.00

00:41:53.000 It's perfectly legitimate to question whether people entering through the southern border are bringing increased levels of crime.

00:41:58.000 All of that is legit.

00:41:59.000 And I think on a debate stage, Trump will say that.

00:42:02.000 And Bill Maher said it over the weekend.

00:42:04.000 I think this is true.

00:42:05.000 If the race is going to be between one party that won't even say Islamic extremism and Donald Trump, Trump may win that race.

00:42:12.000 So before we call the race against Trump, it's worthwhile mentioning that this could be an outlier race.

00:42:17.000 It really could. 0.89

00:42:18.000 So this is, it's an important election, but it's devolving into an absolute clown show, for sure.

00:42:23.000 On both sides, on both sides.

00:42:24.000 Okay, couple of things that I like, and then some things that I hate.

00:42:28.000 So, couple of things that I like.

00:42:29.000 I think I've mentioned, people always ask about history books.

00:42:31.000 I think I've mentioned Modern Times by Paul Johnson before, but another great history book is a book by A.J.

00:42:36.000 Langeth.

00:42:37.000 It's spelled L-A-N-G-G-U-T-H.

00:42:40.000 A.J.

00:42:40.000 Langeth.

00:42:40.000 It's called Patriots, the Men Who Started the American Revolution.

00:42:43.000 And it tells the history of the American Revolution, talks about George Washington and Adams and Sam Adams and Ben Franklin.

00:42:51.000 Sam Adams is probably the greatest non-remembered founder.

00:42:56.000 I mean, Sam Adams was really a driving force in the early days of the Revolution.

00:43:00.000 He was hardcore.

00:43:01.000 I mean, Sam Adams was a hardcore dude.

00:43:03.000 And these guys were not milquetoast.

00:43:05.000 I mean, this was not Mitch McConnell out there.

00:43:06.000 These guys were firebrands, and they were willing to say it how it was. 0.79

00:43:10.000 It's a great book.

00:43:11.000 Patriots by A.J.

00:43:12.000 Langath.

00:43:12.000 Really good writer.

00:43:13.000 Really good book.

00:43:14.000 Okay.

00:43:15.000 Also, something that I thought was kind of funny.

00:43:16.000 Mitt Romney did the mean tweet reading on Jimmy Kimmel last night, and this was kind of funny.

00:43:22.000 Here's Mitt Romney, the failed 2012 candidate.

00:43:26.000 At real Donald Trump, Mitt Romney had his chance and blew it.

00:43:31.000 Lindsey Graham ran for president, got zero capitalized, and quit. 0.99

00:43:36.000 Why are they now spokesmen against me?

00:43:38.000 Sad.

00:43:40.000 Got zero.

00:43:41.000 Got zero.

00:43:42.000 The only people I know who got zero are the ones who paid $25,000 to be at Trump University.

00:43:47.000 They're the ones who got zero.

00:43:53.000 Right?

00:43:53.000 This is from a Trump supporter.

00:43:55.000 Okay.

00:43:56.000 Donald Trump is trying to pull America back from the brink and freaking Mitt Romney is playing with matches in the bathroom.

00:44:05.000 Is there any truth to that?

00:44:07.000 I'm not touching that, I'll tell you that.

00:44:08.000 Okay, alright.

00:44:09.000 Okay. 0.99

00:44:11.000 At Mitt Romney equals loser. 0.99

00:44:14.000 That's true, actually. 0.99

00:44:15.000 I lost.

00:44:18.000 You may not have noticed.

00:44:18.000 Let's see.

00:44:19.000 Who are you anyway?

00:44:20.000 And by the way, where do you buy the shoe polish you wear in your hair?

00:44:26.000 At Trump 2016.

00:44:27.000 I buy it at Costco in bulk.

00:44:34.000 Let's see.

00:44:34.000 I actually met Mitt Romney in a bank a couple of months back.

00:44:38.000 I'm now working on a time machine to go back and punch him in the throat. 0.99

00:44:44.000 Hashtag Trump. 1.00

00:44:47.000 Pick or it didn't happen.

00:44:48.000 One more.

00:44:50.000 Alright, one more.

00:44:52.000 Well, that's a handle.

00:44:53.000 At Cheddar Biscuit.

00:44:56.000 I'd pay good money to watch Mitt Romney crying in a ball pit at a Chuck E. Cheese. 0.99

00:45:05.000 How much?

00:45:06.000 Yeah, how much.

00:45:07.000 That's the right question.

00:45:08.000 Something tells me that Cheddar Biscuit may have had personal experience doing something like that himself.

00:45:13.000 One final question.

00:45:14.000 You've made a lot of money.

00:45:15.000 You've been very successful.

00:45:16.000 How much would you pay Donald Trump to get out of the race?

00:45:21.000 There's not a right price for that.

00:45:23.000 Donald Trump just needs to get out of the race.

00:45:25.000 He said in there that he's sad.

00:45:27.000 Let's make people happy and let's have a candidate we can be proud of.

00:45:31.000 Okay, so, you know, it's something that I sort of like.

00:45:34.000 I can't go full out liking it, but it's, but, you know.

00:45:39.000 All right, Mitt Romney, milk toast.

00:45:41.000 That was the best they could do, trotting out against Trump.

00:45:43.000 Okay, now some stuff.

00:45:44.000 Well, actually, here's one more thing that I like.

00:45:46.000 Yesterday, it turns out the toughest guy in the world was an Orthodox Jew in Israel who was stabbed multiple times by a Palestinian terrorist.

00:45:53.000 He was stabbed in the neck. 0.96

00:45:55.000 He took the knife out of his neck and stabbed the Palestinian terrorist to death. 1.00

00:45:59.000 Thumbs up, way to go. 1.00

00:46:00.000 Okay, things that I hate. 0.88

00:46:02.000 The American State Department is an absolute horror show.

00:46:05.000 So yesterday, an American citizen was murdered, a Vanderbilt University grad student who actually was a veteran, an American veteran in Afghanistan and Iraq, and he was murdered.

00:46:14.000 And this student, his name was Taylor Force, he was a student at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vandy at Vanderbilt University, and he was murdered by a Palestinian terrorist.

00:46:25.000 And here is what the State Department said.

00:46:28.000 This is your U.S.

00:46:28.000 State Department.

00:46:29.000 The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms today's outrageous terrorist attack in Jaffa, Petach Tikva, and Jerusalem, which tragically claimed the life of U.S.

00:46:38.000 citizen Taylor Allen Force and left many others severely injured.

00:46:41.000 We offer our heartfelt condolences.

00:46:44.000 As we have said many times, there is absolutely no justification for terrorism.

00:46:47.000 We continue to encourage all parties to take affirmative steps to reduce tensions and restore calm.

00:46:53.000 All parties. 0.98

00:46:54.000 Last I checked, there was only one party encouraging people to go out and stab American students in the head. 0.99

00:46:59.000 There's only one party doing that.

00:47:02.000 This is why the moral equivalence talk from Donald Trump is disturbing on this note.

00:47:06.000 And it's disturbing, obviously, coming from the Obama administration as well.

00:47:10.000 Weird story of the day comes courtesy of the Wachowski brothers. 0.99

00:47:13.000 You remember the Matrix?

00:47:14.000 A lot of people are big fans of the Matrix.

00:47:17.000 Uh, I think it is a wildly overrated film.

00:47:20.000 I thought so at the time.

00:47:21.000 I thought it was, it was sort of like some of those 1960s Simon and Garfunkel songs, where it was kind of faux deep, but it's not deep at all.

00:47:29.000 It's just you pondering your navel, basically.

00:47:32.000 And then you're supposed to think, oh wow, such wisdom coming from a movie with great special effects.

00:47:36.000 There's no wisdom in the Matrix.

00:47:37.000 Oh, you see behind the Matrix.

00:47:40.000 Neo, it's not the spoon that is bending, it is you.

00:47:42.000 What are you talking about? 1.00

00:47:43.000 This is new age crap. 1.00

00:47:45.000 Anyway. 0.99

00:47:46.000 The movies are overrated.

00:47:47.000 The first one is actually watchable.

00:47:50.000 The last few are... I mean, they're just direct.

00:47:52.000 But, if you didn't know, a couple of years ago, the first Wachowski brother, the older Wachowski brother, came out and said that he is, in fact, transgender.

00:48:03.000 He's a woman, right? 0.94

00:48:04.000 So one of the Wachowski brothers came out and said he's a woman and now calls himself Lana.

00:48:09.000 Now the other Wachowski brother, Andy, is also coming out as a woman and calling himself Lily.

00:48:14.000 So the brothers are now sisters.

00:48:16.000 Lily was approached by a reporter at the UK outlet, the Daily Mail, who asked Lily if she could have my picture taken and tell my story, which was so inspirational.

00:48:25.000 Lily then slammed the Daily Mail's history with transgender issues.

00:48:28.000 And he says, yeah, I'm transgendered and yeah, I've transitioned.

00:48:32.000 So that's weird. 0.95

00:48:34.000 And we're supposed to, we're supposed to pretend now that these are both women as opposed to mentally ill people. 0.86

00:48:40.000 They were both born women.

00:48:41.000 They just didn't know it for 50 years of their lives.

00:48:43.000 And then they realized that they were women despite their genetics, despite their appendages, it turns out.

00:48:48.000 And it has nothing to do with mental illness, of course. 0.99

00:48:50.000 And clearly the best course of action is to take hormone therapy and cut off your genitals. 1.00

00:48:54.000 That is clearly the best course of action at this time. 1.00

00:48:57.000 None of this helps mentally ill people. 1.00

00:48:58.000 None of this helps transgender people. 1.00

00:49:00.000 Political correctness at its finest.

00:49:02.000 Okay, final thing that I dislike.

00:49:04.000 I've ripped on ESPN here as MSNBC with footballs.

00:49:07.000 They continued that reputation today.

00:49:09.000 Mike Ditka, who I was ripping on yesterday, saying he should have run against Obama in 2004, in that Senate race, and then saying that Mike Ditka should have stood up against Donald Trump instead of standing for him.

00:49:24.000 He did an interview, we played it yesterday, in which he endorsed Donald Trump and called Obama the worst president we've ever had.

00:49:29.000 He was just canned from his job.

00:49:33.000 On Sunday night football on ESPN.

00:49:37.000 The big lead reports that they've now hired Matt Hasselbeck to replace Ditka on Sunday NFL countdown.

00:49:43.000 Immediately, the comments that Ditka said about Obama set off speculation about whether he'd be fired, and indeed he was, because this is the way that it works now.

00:49:51.000 If you're Rush Limbaugh and you're hired to do commentary on the football programs, you're fired.

00:49:57.000 If you're Mike Ditka and you have a long history as one of the faces of the NFL, if you say something that doesn't fall in line with the politically correct orthodoxy, then you're fired as well.

00:50:06.000 I can disagree with people without thinking that they ought to be fired.

00:50:09.000 The only reason to fire somebody is if their views are impacting job performance negatively.

00:50:14.000 There's nothing to suggest that Ditka's views were in any way impacting his job performance.

00:50:19.000 He was doing the same thing he's always done.

00:50:20.000 He was one of the more popular figures on ESPN, and now he's basically been kicked to the curb because he had the temerity to suggest what everyone knows, that Barack Obama is a terrible president.

00:50:30.000 Once again, folks, you will be made to care.

00:50:33.000 You can watch your sports.

00:50:34.000 You can watch your entertainment.

00:50:35.000 They will come after you, and they will come after anyone who is in any way mildly conservative.

00:50:40.000 By the way, I have a feeling this is why, for example, Sylvester Stallone didn't win the Oscar for the latest Rocky movie, for Creed, because Sylvester Stallone is pretty openly a Republican.

00:50:50.000 In Hollywood, that's a big no-no, so they didn't give it to him in the end.

00:50:53.000 So, again, the left never stops their program, and there's no reason why we should allow the left to infiltrate the right in the form of Donald Trump.

00:51:02.000 We'll talk about all of this and more tomorrow.

00:51:04.000 Plus, the mailbag is coming up tomorrow.

00:51:05.000 That's always fun.

00:51:06.000 We'll give you our debate preview for whatever it matters.

00:51:08.000 And we'll find out if Marco Rubio is still sticking around.

00:51:11.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:51:11.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

The Ben Shapiro Show - March 09, 2016

Ep. 86 - ShamWow Guy For President!

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