The Ben Shapiro Show - Good Trump, Bad Trump: The Revenge | Ep. 845

00:00:00.000 President Trump pursues positive policies, but his wild statements get the headlines.

00:00:04.000 Joe Biden banks on being boring.

00:00:07.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:07.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:08.000 We have a lot to get to today.

00:00:15.000 The news cycle seems to be getting more fragmentary and more wild.

00:00:18.000 So that means lots of fun for us.

00:00:20.000 So we will jump in in just one moment.

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00:01:30.000 Okay, so, as always, President Trump is an exercise in contradiction.

00:01:37.000 This is a man who contains multitudes, multitudes.

00:01:41.000 So we've been using this model since all the way back in 2015.

00:01:45.000 And it's called the Good Trump, Bad Trump model.

00:01:48.000 In fact, we even had a theme song for Good Trump, Bad Trump.

00:01:52.000 And I think, is it time, guys?

00:01:53.000 Should we bring back Good Trump, Bad Trump?

00:01:55.000 I think the time has come.

00:01:57.000 A little bit of our theme song, please.

00:02:01.000 Good Trump, Bad Trump, which one will we get today?

00:02:06.000 And now, because the President of the United States means that the news cycle is approximately 32 seconds long, we get plenty of both on any given day.

00:02:15.000 Now, we used to have these little stick figure heads, and I'd put up the happy face for Trump, and I'd put up the sad face for Trump, but I didn't tell my producers to get that together, so that's not their fault.

00:02:23.000 That one is on me, and we had a super late night.

00:02:25.000 In any case, we begin with good Trump, because nobody is talking about the good Trump.

00:02:30.000 The good Trump, as usual, is when it comes to policy.

00:02:33.000 So as I have said since President Trump was elected, He has wildly surpassed my expectations in terms of policy.

00:02:39.000 And the president actually has done some good policy things over the last 48, 72 hours.

00:02:44.000 Now, all of that has been obscured, as we will see, by bad Trump.

00:02:47.000 Because people pay a lot more attention to bad Trump than good Trump, because bad Trump is a lot louder.

00:02:52.000 It's just like your kids.

00:02:53.000 When your kids are good, you don't really notice them.

00:02:55.000 When your kids are good, yeah, they're doing their homework, and they're reading books in their room, and they're not slamming their fingers into doors.

00:03:01.000 You know, when they're doing that, you don't really notice them too much.

00:03:04.000 But then when they're bad, then you really notice them a lot.

00:03:06.000 Well, the same thing is true of presidents.

00:03:08.000 So, let's talk about some of the good stuff that President Trump has been doing.

00:03:11.000 So, finally, at long last, the Trump administration on Wednesday unveiled the regulation to allow it to indefinitely detain migrant families who illegally cross the border.

00:03:20.000 I'm not saying it is wonderful to detain people who cross the border.

00:03:23.000 I'm saying it is wonderful that we are changing the rules that created the necessity for family separation.

00:03:28.000 So basically, the choice that was provided under law to the Trump administration, thanks to the so-called Flores Settlement in 1997 as amended by Obama administration regulations in 2015.

00:03:39.000 The rules stated that if somebody came across the border with a family member, with a young child, the child could not be kept in custody with the parents for more than 20 days, which meant that you would have to separate the child from the parents if you wished to arrest the parents, or you would have to catch and release everybody.

00:03:56.000 And this is why you've seen a dramatic skyrocketing number of families crossing the border, because if you're a parent and you want to be released into the general population, You should bring your child.

00:04:04.000 That's the best way to do it.

00:04:05.000 Let's say you got a cousin here.

00:04:06.000 You bring your kid.

00:04:07.000 You figure, okay, my kid will stay with my cousin.

00:04:10.000 And then, after like two weeks, they will probably release me so that I can be with my kid because they don't want the bad optics of separating children from parents.

00:04:18.000 Well, the Trump administration was dealing with that by saying, we're going to arrest everybody and if family separations occur, well, guess what?

00:04:24.000 Them's the wages of being arrested.

00:04:25.000 Everybody else in the United States, when they get arrested, They are separated from their kids.

00:04:30.000 No different when it comes to illegal immigration and people illegally trying to claim, for example, asylum without being properly processed or trying to claim asylum when they are not actually eligible for asylum.

00:04:41.000 Well, there was something that the Trump administration could always have done.

00:04:44.000 It was under consideration for no good reason.

00:04:47.000 It was delayed by the Department of Homeland Security.

00:04:49.000 Now the Trump administration has come forward with a policy and the policy basically says they're going to create humane living conditions, which You need it, right?

00:04:57.000 I mean, that is good.

00:04:58.000 We want kids kept in humane living conditions with their families.

00:05:01.000 That would be the goal.

00:05:02.000 And they can do this by a shift in regulation.

00:05:04.000 The rule replaces a decades-old court agreement that mandates a level of care for migrant children and limits how long the government can hold them in custody.

00:05:11.000 For more than a year, the White House has pressed the Department of Homeland Security to find a way to eliminate the agreement, known as the Flores Settlement, which limits the time children can spend in detention and establishes minimum standards for holding facilities for families and children, according to The New York Times.

00:05:26.000 Immigration hardliners inside the administration say the move is crucial to halting the flow of migrants across the southwestern border, which makes perfect sense. 1.00

00:05:34.000 If it were not true that this were incentivizing families to cross the border, you would have not seen a skyrocketing number of families crossing the border.

00:05:40.000 It would have been the same general population of illegal immigrants coming before, largely non-married men.

00:05:47.000 That's who was crossing the border for a very long time in the United States.

00:05:50.000 And then suddenly in the last few years, after the Obama administration put in place its regulatory response to Flores, the nature of the immigration shifted.

00:05:58.000 And even the mainstream media were acknowledging that they were seeing a wild and crazy upswing in the number of families crossing the border.

00:06:04.000 Why?

00:06:04.000 Because when you change the incentive structure, people's behavior changes.

00:06:09.000 The administration's goal with the new rule is deterrence, and its message to families fleeing Central America is blunt.

00:06:14.000 Come here and we'll lock you up. 1.00

00:06:16.000 Critics say it is the latest in a series of policies by President Trump meant to close off the United States from the rest of the world.

00:06:21.000 No, this is the latest in a series of policies by President Trump to enforce our immigration laws.

00:06:27.000 If you cross the border, you should be held in detention until you are processed, and we should provide the proper methods to keep you in humane conditions.

00:06:34.000 We should provide the proper resources to the courts so that we can process you quickly, and we can deport you if you need deportation, and so that you can be admitted if you deserve asylum. 0.50

00:06:43.000 This entire process should be wildly expedited, and resources must be devoted to the border along these grounds.

00:06:50.000 President Trump said on Wednesday, one of the things that will happen when they realize the borders are closing, the wall is being built, we are building tremendous numbers of miles of wall right now in different locations, it all comes together like a beautiful puzzle.

00:07:00.000 Boom.

00:07:01.000 Like a thousand piece beautiful puzzle of a rhinoceros.

00:07:05.000 Speaking to reporters at the White House, President Trump asserted, the new rule would make it almost impossible for people to come into our country illegally.

00:07:13.000 Well, it would certainly make it more difficult for people to be released into the country illegally.

00:07:17.000 The catch and release programs that the Democrats have been pushing for basically allow people to be released into the country.

00:07:22.000 They show up for their first court hearing and then a second court hearing is set.

00:07:26.000 If they are not processed within a certain amount of time, they actually get an automatic visa.

00:07:30.000 And then people just overstay the visa.

00:07:31.000 And that's how you end up with folks in the United States for 10, 15 years overstaying a visa that they received because the system was too slow.

00:07:39.000 The new regulation does require approval from a federal judge as well.

00:07:43.000 Administration officials said they expected it to be immediately challenged in court once in effect, it would specifically abolish a 20 day limit on detaining families in immigration jails.

00:07:52.000 A cap that President Trump has repeatedly complained has led to the catch and release of families, which, of course, is also true. 0.94

00:07:57.000 Also, as I say, the other half of this regulation, which is good and necessary, is it establishes minimum necessities at detention centers because we don't need more stories of detainee children being kept under aluminum foil wrapping.

00:08:13.000 People who come here should be treated humanely.

00:08:16.000 Many of those people are going to end up becoming American citizens.

00:08:19.000 Even if they weren't, they should be treated humanely, obviously.

00:08:22.000 Kevin McAleenan said what this will do is substantially increase our ability to end the catch-and-release challenges that have fueled the crisis.

00:08:27.000 He's the acting Secretary of Homeland Security.

00:08:29.000 He said the regulation restores integrity to our immigration system, but provide high standards for the care of children.

00:08:36.000 Naturally, people at the ACLU are calling this an attack on children.

00:08:39.000 So just to get this straight, the ACLU believes it's an attack on children to separate them from their parents, but it's also an attack on children to not separate them from their parents.

00:08:47.000 So the only solution, according to the ACLU, is, in fact, catch and release.

00:08:51.000 Combine catch and release with the Democrats' proposal to get rid of criminal penalties for crossing the border illegally, and combine that in turn with the stated Democratic position by most of the major presidential candidates that they would not deport anyone in the United States illegally Who does not have a separate crime on record except for illegal immigration?

00:09:11.000 And suddenly you're talking a full-on open borders regime.

00:09:13.000 I mean that is what the ACLU and so many folks on the left are talking about when they say we're not pro open borders.

00:09:18.000 Then they're going to have to explain how they can simultaneously hold that catch and release should be the generalized policy, that there should be no criminality attached to illegally crossing the border, and that nobody should be deported except If they commit a crime that is not illegally crossing the border.

00:09:36.000 That is an open borders policy.

00:09:37.000 There's no other way to put it.

00:09:38.000 That's not just me saying it.

00:09:40.000 Former Homeland Security Secretary under Barack Obama, Jeh Johnson, said the same thing.

00:09:44.000 So this is a good piece of policy from the Trump administration.

00:09:47.000 And it's not getting a lot of coverage, specifically because it does cut against a lot of the media's narrative when it comes to illegal immigration.

00:09:54.000 The New York Times obviously is covering it, but you haven't seen it too much on CNN or MSNBC.

00:09:59.000 Why?

00:09:59.000 Because these regulations do include provisions about treating everybody humanely.

00:10:05.000 So we'll have to see how the regulations are drawn.

00:10:08.000 But if they do what they are supposed to do here, this is a good piece of policy by the Trump administration.

00:10:13.000 Another good piece of policy by the Trump administration.

00:10:16.000 So the Trump administration has now promulgated regulations surrounding Title 10 funding.

00:10:21.000 And those regulations surrounding Title X funding say that if we give you money for a family planning program, that it can't be used for abortion.

00:10:28.000 And that means that you have to have a separate facility where you're not providing abortions, and we will fund those. 0.99

00:10:33.000 We're not going to provide the facilities where the abortions are happening. 1.00

00:10:37.000 And we are not going to allow you to use the money fungibly.

00:10:40.000 This has been one of the major critiques of Title 10.

00:10:42.000 By conservatives, it is correct.

00:10:43.000 If you sign a giant check to Planned Parenthood and say, we want you to use this for birth control.

00:10:48.000 And then Planned Parenthood says, we'll use it for birth control. 0.68

00:10:51.000 And then they just use it to paint their building.

00:10:54.000 Or they use it to pay their secretaries.

00:10:55.000 That they are actually using the money to pay expenses that alleviate the cost of providing abortions.

00:11:03.000 The taxpayer funding is in fact being used to pay abortions.

00:11:06.000 I mean, the argument is basically that if you and your wife have a joint bank account, and you put all your money in the joint bank account, and your wife goes shopping, you are paying for her shopping.

00:11:13.000 Right?

00:11:14.000 Obviously, this is true.

00:11:15.000 And vice versa, if your wife is the one who's the main breadwinner in your house. 1.00

00:11:19.000 Well, if you are putting money into a slush fund for Planned Parenthood, and Planned Parenthood is performing lots of abortions, you are funding Planned Parenthood's abortions.

00:11:28.000 Well, the Title X rules just changed.

00:11:31.000 The federal government cannot legally pay for most abortions, according to The Atlantic, but it does give money to abortion providers like Planned Parenthood for all sorts of other reproductive health services, especially for low-income women.

00:11:41.000 For years, conservatives have been arguing that money is fungible, and if you cut a check to Planned Parenthood, it will be used for abortion.

00:11:47.000 That's why the Trump administration took aim at Title X, a decades-old family planning program that provides money for low-income women to access birth control, cancer, and STD screenings, breast exams, and more. 0.97

00:11:58.000 Under the new rule, Title X recipients are no longer allowed to provide women with information about where and how they can get an abortion, and they cannot encourage women to seek out the procedure.

00:12:07.000 So if a woman comes in and she says, I want an abortion, they're not allowed to say, well, great idea, you should have one. 1.00

00:12:17.000 They're not allowed to encourage abortion, and that's what Planned Parenthood has been doing. 1.00

00:12:20.000 Planned Parenthood routinely encourages abortion, as opposed to providing a fulsome view of the choices available to a woman legally.

00:12:28.000 That's why Planned Parenthood has long opposed the mandatory use of ultrasound before an abortion takes place, because it turns out that once women tend to see the living baby inside of them, they're much less apt to kill the living baby inside of them.

00:12:42.000 A frequently asked question on the HHS website says that the rule permits, but does not require, non-directive counseling on abortion.

00:12:48.000 Meaning that it doesn't say you have to tell women where they can get an abortion, but it allows you to counsel on abortion.

00:12:54.000 It allows doctors to provide patients with complete factual information about all medical options, but Title X recipients may not encourage a patient to seek an abortion.

00:13:04.000 It does not reduce family planning funding by a single dollar, it's just that basically Planned Parenthood is now withdrawn from Title X funding because they say we're not going to open a separate facility, we are not going to not direct people to have abortions, so we just won't take the $60 million of federal funding that was normally coming our way.

00:13:21.000 On the HHS website, the administration directly calls out Planned Parenthood, which claims to serve 40% of all Title X recipients in the country.

00:13:28.000 The website says, to the extent that Planned Parenthood claims that it must make burdensome changes to comply with the final rule, it is actually choosing to place a higher priority on the ability to refer for abortion instead of continuing to receive federal funds.

00:13:41.000 This is exactly right.

00:13:43.000 This is exactly right.

00:13:44.000 Planned Parenthood cares more about pushing abortion than they do about all other forms of reproductive women's health.

00:13:49.000 Otherwise, they could just split off an organization that doesn't do abortion. 0.69

00:13:52.000 But they're not going to do that because they are an abortion mill. 0.99

00:13:55.000 They've always been an abortion mill. 1.00

00:13:56.000 So good for the Trump administration for pushing that policy forward.

00:14:00.000 Okay, so that is the good Trump.

00:14:02.000 In a second, we are going to get to the bad Trump, because unfortunately, the bad Trump gets a lot more press than the good Trump.

00:14:09.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

00:14:11.000 First, President Trump has, in fact, as I've been talking about, kept a lot of his promises, right?

00:14:15.000 Now, he's effectively succeeded in defunding Planned Parenthood.

00:14:18.000 He's obviously trying to do his best in enforcing our immigration laws.

00:14:22.000 He has passed a massive tax cut.

00:14:23.000 He's moved the embassy to Jerusalem.

00:14:25.000 The president's done a lot of really good things on policy.

00:14:27.000 He's running his re-election campaign, at least in part, on this record.

00:14:30.000 I wish he were running his whole re-election campaign on that record.

00:14:32.000 But he's still chasing after one of his goals, which is to bring down the cost of prescription drug prices.

00:14:36.000 A lot of folks on the left, the press, yes, even some big governments are making that kind of hard for President Trump to actually bring down those prices.

00:14:43.000 The result is that, amazingly, some people in the Trump administration, in the name of claiming victory, want to adopt some of the left's socialistic top-down price control plans, which is not a good idea.

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00:14:58.000 A lot of people have been talking price controls on drugs through Medicare.

00:15:02.000 There's a problem with this.

00:15:03.000 Price controls generally lead to less innovation and less investments.

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00:15:30.000 Okay, so...

00:15:32.000 Now, unfortunately, it is time to get to bad Trump.

00:15:34.000 So there are a bunch of minor stories.

00:15:37.000 I don't know why President Trump feels the necessity to speak out on every issue.

00:15:43.000 As I have said repeatedly for years at this point, I proposed a couple of strategies for President Trump to win re-election.

00:15:49.000 Strategy number one is that the White House creates an alternative Twitter app and they vote it on the president's phone.

00:15:54.000 And the president tweets into the Twitter app.

00:15:57.000 And it just spits back automated messages.

00:16:00.000 MAGA, you're the best.

00:16:01.000 We love you.

00:16:01.000 Hashtag MAGA.

00:16:03.000 And then jiff of Trump on a tank, right?

00:16:06.000 And then Trump just sits there and he's super happy all the time.

00:16:09.000 It goes about his business.

00:16:10.000 We get all the good policies that we're talking about.

00:16:12.000 And nobody ever hears about the stuff that he's tweeting into the Twitter machines.

00:16:15.000 That's solution number one.

00:16:16.000 Solution number two is that we stock the upstairs of the White House with maybe a bunch of reruns of Shark Week, maybe a porn star or two.

00:16:24.000 And then he just hangs out there for a couple of years and he doesn't talk very much in public.

00:16:28.000 And then he's president forever, basically.

00:16:30.000 But the president, because When he is frustrated, he tends to lash out.

00:16:35.000 And he is frustrated at the media.

00:16:36.000 And by the way, his frustration with the media is justified.

00:16:39.000 I'm not saying that he shouldn't be frustrated with the media.

00:16:41.000 He certainly should be frustrated with the media. 1.00

00:16:42.000 They're garbage at their jobs. 0.99

00:16:43.000 We'll get to that in a minute, but... 1.00

00:16:45.000 Trump does not help himself when he creates a feeling of chaos in a time when there should not be great feelings of chaos.

00:16:52.000 We do not have a chaotic foreign policy situation on the horizon right now.

00:16:57.000 We do not have a chaotic domestic economic situation right now.

00:17:01.000 And yet there is this palpable feeling of chaos and it is forwarded by President Trump feeling the necessity every five minutes to sound off on whatever random thing he sees on the news that day.

00:17:12.000 Listen, I love talk radio.

00:17:14.000 I'm on talk radio, right?

00:17:15.000 I enjoy talk radio.

00:17:16.000 But we don't need President Donnie from Queens, you're on line one.

00:17:20.000 We need President Trump to feel like a steady presence in American life.

00:17:24.000 Somebody who is steady and solidifying.

00:17:26.000 I think a lot of women in the suburbs don't feel that. 1.00

00:17:26.000 Do you feel that? 1.00

00:17:28.000 I think the polling is showing that.

00:17:31.000 Well, yesterday, President Trump decided it was time to sound off on a variety of random topics.

00:17:36.000 He decided that he was going to attack Ford Motor Company.

00:17:39.000 Why?

00:17:39.000 What was the point of this?

00:17:41.000 Well, apparently he's angry at Ford Motor Company because Ford Motor has backed a deal with California for stricter fuel economy standards.

00:17:49.000 Now, I don't blame Ford for that.

00:17:51.000 The state of California is creating its own state efficiency standards with regard to cars that can drive in California and are licensed to drive in California.

00:18:01.000 And this means that Ford is figuring, OK, well, it is cheaper for us to produce those cars because California is a huge market.

00:18:08.000 Well, Trump got really mad at this, and he started tweeting out about it.

00:18:10.000 I don't know why.

00:18:11.000 No idea why.

00:18:12.000 Like, is there a point to this?

00:18:13.000 than to produce less fuel-efficient cars, and then have to create special fuel-efficient cars just for California.

00:18:18.000 Well, Trump got really mad at this, and he started tweeting out about it.

00:18:21.000 No idea why.

00:18:21.000 I don't know why.

00:18:22.000 Is there a point to this?

00:18:24.000 Trump tweeted out, Henry Ford would be very disappointed if he saw his modern-day descendants wanting to build a much more expensive car that is far less safe and doesn't work as well because execs don't want to fight California regulators.

00:18:36.000 Car companies should know that when this administration's alternative is no longer available, California will squeeze them to a point of business ruin.

00:18:45.000 Only reason California is now talking to them is because the feds are giving a far better alternative, which is much better for consumers.

00:18:52.000 Now, I may not like California's fuel efficiency standards, but I understand why Ford Motor Company is saying to itself, we can't rely on President Trump loosening fuel efficiency standards for the next 18 months to build out our entire business line.

00:19:06.000 It's possible he won't be president in 18 months.

00:19:09.000 It is also quite possible that even if he is president in 18 months, he has a Democratic Congress or he changes his mind on fuel efficiency.

00:19:16.000 Whatever the truth is on this, the chances that fuel efficiency standards are going to remain low in the United States are extremely low.

00:19:23.000 So if you're the business person over at Ford, This is not a political thing.

00:19:27.000 This is a business thing.

00:19:28.000 If you're the business person over at Ford and you have to put in place the technologies to develop new cars, why would you follow the temporarily loosened standards and fight the state of California when you understand that the long-range goals of the government, more generally speaking, are to crack down on your industry and make fuel efficiency higher rather than lower?

00:19:48.000 Ford is one of four automakers, along with Honda, BMW, and Volkswagen, that reached a voluntary agreement with California on fuel efficiency rules, defying President Trump and his administration's effort to strip the state of the right to fight climate change by setting its own standards.

00:20:01.000 The rules under the California plan are looser than the Obama-era regulations, but stricter than what Trump has proposed.

00:20:06.000 And again, this is because if you're a business, you're going to hedge your bets.

00:20:09.000 When government is this big, you hedge your bets.

00:20:12.000 Trump said that the company founder, Henry Ford, would be very disappointed, Ford said in a statement it is focused on acting to protect the environment while also protecting the affordability of vehicles.

00:20:22.000 Obviously there are a lot of new consumers who actually are sort of concerned about carbon emissions and they are looking for fuel efficiency as well.

00:20:27.000 Turns out it is cheaper many times to get a fuel efficient car over the course of time.

00:20:32.000 They said this agreement with California provides regulatory stability while reducing carbon emissions more than complying with two different standards.

00:20:40.000 That is what I am saying.

00:20:41.000 The business case is, why would we have a standard for California and a standard for the rest of the country, and design our factories to comply with both standards, as opposed to having one uniform standard?

00:20:51.000 There's no evidence that existing fuel economy rules would degrade vehicle performance, as President Trump suggests.

00:20:56.000 It is true that the cars will be lighter.

00:20:59.000 I mean, that is sort of how this works.

00:21:00.000 If you want a more fuel-efficient vehicle, the car can't be quite as heavy.

00:21:03.000 But as we move to lighter cars on the road, pretty much all the cars on the road are lighter.

00:21:08.000 This is why if you have a car from 1970, it looks like a tank right now.

00:21:12.000 Whatever the case may be, is it beneficial for the president to be tweeting out about Henry Ford and creating a news cycle in which he's at war with one of America's iconic motor companies?

00:21:20.000 Is this a great idea in the run-up to an election where he needs to win, hmm, like Michigan?

00:21:24.000 Is that a smart move?

00:21:26.000 Well, if you liked that one, I got another one for you.

00:21:28.000 The president's going to war with Denmark.

00:21:29.000 So that's exciting.

00:21:30.000 I mean, I know that when I woke up a couple of days ago, I thought to myself, you know what?

00:21:36.000 Those, those Danes, we got to do something about Greenland, man. 0.98

00:21:40.000 Greenland!

00:21:41.000 The future of America lies on glaciers.

00:21:45.000 Now listen, I'm fine.

00:21:46.000 I'm all for buying Greenland.

00:21:47.000 You want to buy?

00:21:48.000 And frankly, I don't think it's a big deal that President Trump wanted to buy Greenland.

00:21:51.000 The fact is that the United States bought the U.S.

00:21:53.000 Virgin Islands from Denmark.

00:21:55.000 They were called the Dutch West Indies until we bought them and turned them into the U.S.

00:21:58.000 Virgin Islands.

00:21:59.000 Solid real estate deal.

00:22:00.000 But President Trump has decided that it is imperative that we get into a diplomatic spat when Greenland says it's not for sale.

00:22:10.000 We're now going to have an international issue over whether we buy a giant island that has 56,000 people on it.

00:22:18.000 Like, relocate?

00:22:18.000 What are we going to do?

00:22:21.000 Populations there like what are we talking about doing with Greenland that makes it so all fired important that we're now canceling state visits to Denmark.

00:22:29.000 So President Trump is now in a personal spat with the Prime Minister of Denmark, which is just that's what we needed, right?

00:22:36.000 I mean, I just talked about all the good policy Trump is pursuing.

00:22:38.000 But certainly what makes the American people feel more safe and secure and solid is when the president is in a pissing match with the prime minister of Denmark because of all the cruel, inhumane states on planet Earth that we need to face down and look directly in the eye.

00:22:53.000 Denmark, man.

00:22:55.000 Those Danes. 1.00

00:22:56.000 Can't be trusted.

00:22:57.000 Not in the slightest.

00:22:58.000 Kim Jong-un?

00:22:59.000 Best friends.

00:23:00.000 Prime Minister of Denmark?

00:23:02.000 Screw that person! 0.99

00:23:04.000 President Trump on Wednesday lashed out at the Danish Prime Minister, met Frederiksen, saying the leader of the U.S. 0.98

00:23:09.000 ally had made nasty comments about his interest in having the United States purchase Greenland.

00:23:13.000 Trump announced on Tuesday night he was calling off a planned two-day visit to Copenhagen early next month over Frederiksen's refusal to entertain the sale of Greenland.

00:23:23.000 Apparently Trump tweeted this out.

00:23:25.000 He said, I thought it was not a nice statement, the way she blew me off.

00:23:29.000 She shouldn't treat the United States that way.

00:23:30.000 She said, absurd.

00:23:32.000 That's not the right way.

00:23:32.000 That's not the right word to use.

00:23:34.000 President Trump is an expert in the use of words.

00:23:36.000 He has all of the best words.

00:23:39.000 Is this worthwhile?

00:23:40.000 Honestly, is it worthwhile?

00:23:42.000 I understand he's going to be Trump.

00:23:44.000 We all get it at this point.

00:23:45.000 But is that a good thing for his reelection prospects?

00:23:50.000 Just generally, is it necessary?

00:23:53.000 In a second, we'll talk a little bit more about the bad Trump aspect of bad Trump, and then we'll get to the media treatment, which of course is bizarre and insane and should be an entire line of attack for President Trump going into 2020.

00:24:03.000 We'll get to that in just a second.

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00:25:13.000 Okay, so...

00:25:14.000 As I say, two things I did not think needed to be at the top of the headlines.

00:25:18.000 So I've given you two big headlines for Trump.

00:25:20.000 One, actually promulgating regulations that will cut down on illegal immigration and also will allow children to stay with their parents.

00:25:26.000 After two years of controversy over that, that's a big thing.

00:25:29.000 Thing number two, that's a big thing.

00:25:31.000 Planned Parenthood defunding.

00:25:32.000 Big promise kept.

00:25:34.000 Shouldn't those be the things we're talking about today?

00:25:36.000 Well, instead we're talking about Trump vs. Ford and Trump vs. Denmark over Greenland.

00:25:40.000 Chris Matthews, of course, very upset over this.

00:25:42.000 Chris Matthews says it's unbelievable.

00:25:44.000 President Trump going to Denmark?

00:25:45.000 Coming here in the morning?

00:25:47.000 Coming to the show?

00:25:48.000 All crazy looking?

00:25:49.000 I mean, why are you getting angry at the Danes?

00:25:52.000 Why are you so angry?

00:25:53.000 I mean, I love Hans Christian Andersen.

00:25:55.000 I like the old lady who lived in a shoe. 1.00

00:25:56.000 All sorts of fairy tales I love.

00:25:58.000 I'll tell you what I love most of all.

00:26:00.000 I love coming in here half drunk and talking about President Trump and Bugsy Siegel and making gangster references go.

00:26:06.000 President Trump is picking a fight with a loyal American ally for no apparent reason.

00:26:12.000 He's cancelled a state visit to Denmark, insulted its prime minister, and thrown an historic relationship into chaos.

00:26:19.000 Denmark is a good country.

00:26:21.000 It's pro-American as hell. 0.82

00:26:23.000 It's that now, like, we dream the world would be an hour of any country like our country.

00:26:28.000 And now this guy like Bugsy Siegel walks by, like in a movie, Warren Beatty played the guy, goes, buy a house.

00:26:34.000 I'd like that house.

00:26:35.000 Goes in the house and says, I want to buy your house.

00:26:37.000 Does that say Warren Beatty?

00:26:39.000 Love it.

00:26:40.000 Warren Beatty was terrible.

00:26:42.000 Warren Beatty was great in Shampoo.

00:26:43.000 Wasn't as great in Reds.

00:26:44.000 I liked the message of the movie Reds.

00:26:46.000 Very pro-communist.

00:26:47.000 But I didn't like really Warren Beatty's performance.

00:26:49.000 But this is just like Bugsy Siegel.

00:26:50.000 That was a movie nobody saw, right?

00:26:52.000 It was supposed to be really good.

00:26:53.000 Because Warren Beatty's kind of overrated.

00:26:53.000 Wasn't that good?

00:26:55.000 Kind of liked him in Bulwark.

00:26:57.000 Whatever that movie was.

00:26:57.000 Remember that?

00:26:59.000 Chris Matthews.

00:26:59.000 Remember what he was saying?

00:27:03.000 Sorry, once I get into the Chris Matthews, it's very difficult to get out of the Chris Matthews.

00:27:06.000 In any case, you can see what the media are in it for, right?

00:27:09.000 The media would love a feeling of chaos.

00:27:12.000 This is the Democratic campaign 2020.

00:27:15.000 Democratic campaign strategy 2020. 0.98

00:27:17.000 Trump's crazy. 0.97

00:27:18.000 That's the campaign. 1.00

00:27:19.000 That's the whole campaign.

00:27:20.000 And Democrats are totally into it.

00:27:23.000 And when President Trump gets angry about that, he's not totally wrong.

00:27:26.000 Right.

00:27:26.000 So President Trump yesterday was talking about the economy.

00:27:28.000 And there are, in fact, some economic reports that are not good for the president.

00:27:32.000 There is a report that came out yesterday that said that the United States created half a million fewer jobs since 2018 than previously reported, according to new figures.

00:27:40.000 So we dramatically overestimated the number of jobs that were created.

00:27:44.000 As of 2018 and early 2019, the newly revised figures, according to Market Watch, indicate the economy didn't get a huge boost last year from the Trump tax cuts and higher federal spending.

00:27:55.000 They also signaled that the economy is a bit weaker than previously believed and could give the Federal Reserve even greater reason to cut interest rates in September.

00:28:02.000 I mean, really what it indicates, considering that wages have been going up, is that we may have maxed out the employment market just generally.

00:28:09.000 We didn't create all that many new jobs because innovation remains kind of low, but the jobs that are there, there are a lot of people who, the employers are looking for people to fill those jobs.

00:28:19.000 With that said, the revised numbers downward are really not good for Trump.

00:28:24.000 It's the biggest revision downward since 2009.

00:28:28.000 The annual benchmark revision is much larger, about three times larger than is typically the case.

00:28:32.000 So President Trump is facing that headwind.

00:28:35.000 It is also true that Trump is struggling to figure out exactly how to combat the possibility of an economic slowdown.

00:28:41.000 He says there will be no more payroll tax cuts.

00:28:44.000 So that had been floated by the White House, then unfloated by the White House, then floated by the White House again, apparently.

00:28:49.000 He said the nation already had a strong economy.

00:28:51.000 Trump's been sending mixed signals on all of this.

00:28:54.000 Also, the deficit continues to soar.

00:28:56.000 President Trump has fought all of this by blaming the Federal Reserve.

00:29:00.000 And so President Trump says, you know, the Federal Reserve is to blame.

00:29:02.000 We need to lower the the interest rates.

00:29:05.000 Again, this is not a message of solidity.

00:29:08.000 You want a message that everything's fine, right?

00:29:10.000 That is because everything is basically fine, right?

00:29:12.000 But instead, President Trump is out there saying everything is fine.

00:29:15.000 Also, the Federal Reserve should act like this is a crisis and cut the and cut the interest rates by 100 basis points, which is basically an emergency size Fed rate cut.

00:29:23.000 Here's President Trump yesterday.

00:29:25.000 Jay Powell and the Federal Reserve have totally missed the call.

00:29:28.000 I was right, and just about everybody admits that.

00:29:32.000 He raised interest rates too fast, too furious.

00:29:36.000 And we have a normalized rate.

00:29:38.000 You call it that.

00:29:40.000 And now we have to go the other direction.

00:29:42.000 We'll see if he does it.

00:29:43.000 If he does it, you'll see a rocket ship.

00:29:46.000 You'll see a — if he does it, we have a very strong economy.

00:29:49.000 The Federal Reserve has let us down.

00:29:52.000 They missed the call.

00:29:53.000 They raised them too fast.

00:29:55.000 They raised it too high.

00:29:57.000 And they did quantitative tightening.

00:29:59.000 They shouldn't have done the tightening, and they shouldn't have raised them to the extent — we could have had some raises, but nothing like they did.

00:30:05.000 Too fast, too furious.

00:30:07.000 I went and saw Hobbs and Shaw over the weekend.

00:30:09.000 It was unbelievable.

00:30:10.000 Those people, The Rock, unbelievable.

00:30:14.000 But Trump is not wrong that Democrats are talking down the economy.

00:30:17.000 He's not wrong that the media and Democrats are looking for a dual narrative.

00:30:21.000 One, the economy is not as strong.

00:30:22.000 Two, that Trump is a wild man.

00:30:24.000 Those are the dual narratives that Democrats are pushing.

00:30:27.000 Trump said Democrats are talking down the economy.

00:30:29.000 He is correct.

00:30:30.000 The fake news, of which many of you are members, He's trying to convince the public to have a recession.

00:30:37.000 Let's have a recession.

00:30:39.000 The United States is doing phenomenally well.

00:30:42.000 But one thing I have to do is economically take on China. 0.98

00:30:46.000 Because China has been ripping us off for many years.

00:30:49.000 President Clinton, President Bush, and President Obama and others should have done this long before me.

00:30:56.000 Okay, so Trump is not wrong that they're talking down the economy.

00:30:59.000 By the way, the media are treating it like a great revelation when a president suggests that his political opposition is talking down the economy.

00:31:05.000 Barack Obama said the same thing in 2012.

00:31:07.000 He said that Republicans were talking down the economy when we were in the middle of this very, very weak recovery.

00:31:12.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:32:48.000 We're going to get to why Trump is correct that Democrats are talking down the economy, why that's not a new narrative from a president, and then we'll get to how the media are really pushing hard for the Democratic narrative.

00:32:59.000 You know, my friend Andrew Breitbart used to call it the Democrat media complex.

00:33:03.000 That's what it is.

00:33:04.000 That's what it is.

00:33:05.000 No questions.

00:33:06.000 No doubt.

00:33:07.000 We'll get to that in one second.

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00:34:28.000 Okay, so when President Trump says the Democrats are talking down the economy, he is eminently correct.

00:34:39.000 Obviously, this is true.

00:34:40.000 You know who else says he's right?

00:34:42.000 John Delaney, Democratic presidential candidate, and the only sane person left in the Democratic field.

00:34:47.000 Here's John Delaney saying, yeah, Democrats are cheering on a recession.

00:34:50.000 It feels like some Democrats are cheering on a recession because they want to stick with Trump.

00:34:53.000 I don't want a recession because I don't want these workers in here to face a recession.

00:34:58.000 But I worry that Trump's policies are bringing one on.

00:35:03.000 Now, the media keeps saying about Trump, we're not talking down the economy.

00:35:07.000 How dare he?

00:35:08.000 That's unprecedented.

00:35:09.000 Yeah, sure.

00:35:10.000 Barack Obama, circa 2012, saying the exact same thing.

00:35:13.000 Every president suggests that if the economy is weakening, that it's the opposition talking down the economy.

00:35:18.000 There is going to be a debate going on around the budget in the coming months.

00:35:25.000 Republicans in Congress are sadly trying to cut some of the investments that could spur additional growth.

00:35:33.000 That's the debate that is worthy of the American people.

00:35:38.000 Not fantasy.

00:35:41.000 Not name-calling.

00:35:44.000 Not trying to talk down the American economy.

00:35:49.000 What we have done has made a difference.

00:35:52.000 And that there's a huge gap between the rhetoric that's going on out there and the reality of success.

00:35:57.000 Okay, so Obama's doing exactly the same thing circa 2012 that Donald Trump is doing today, but it's very, very bad when Donald Trump does it, according to the media.

00:36:04.000 And this brings us to the media.

00:36:05.000 Again, the dual narrative that is now being promoted by the media.

00:36:09.000 By and large, it falls into two categories.

00:36:10.000 One, the economy is going to crash.

00:36:12.000 It's going to burn.

00:36:13.000 We're all going to die.

00:36:15.000 Now, there are real signs of a recession that may happen in the next two years sometime.

00:36:15.000 Okay.

00:36:20.000 But right now, the fundamentals of the American economy remain pretty strong despite the downgrading of growth rates from last year.

00:36:27.000 And the fact is that probably sometime in the next four years, there will be a recession because every 10 to 12 years in the United States, we have a recession.

00:36:33.000 We had one in 2000.

00:36:33.000 We had one in 2007, 2008.

00:36:36.000 We had one in 1991.

00:36:37.000 We had one in 1987.

00:36:39.000 We had one in 1980, right?

00:36:41.000 So the recessions are fairly common in American life.

00:36:44.000 It's been a while since we've had one, right?

00:36:46.000 Technically speaking, it has been since 2009 since we have had a recession.

00:36:49.000 We are all the way in 2019.

00:36:50.000 So you would expect that sometime in the next few years, there will be a recession.

00:36:54.000 But the notion that we are on the verge of it because of Trump or something like that is just silly.

00:36:59.000 But that's what the media are pushing at this point.

00:37:01.000 They're pushing that narrative and they're pushing the Trump is wild man narrative.

00:37:05.000 And so, when Trump gets angry at the media, he's not wrong.

00:37:08.000 Now, pushing the Trump is a wild man narrative, the New York Times has an editorial today, and this is so rich, it is beyond believing.

00:37:14.000 The New York Times has an editorial today called, Mr. Trump, stop questioning the loyalty of American Jews.

00:37:19.000 This, of course, follows on the heels of President Trump suggesting that Jews who vote Democrat are disloyal.

00:37:25.000 And as I explained yesterday, there are a couple of ways to read that that are a real problem, and then there's one way to read it that really is not a problem.

00:37:31.000 And the way to read it that's not a problem is that Judaism is a philosophy and a religion and that that philosophy and religion has certain tenets that do not match up with the Democratic Party.

00:37:39.000 I've said that myself.

00:37:40.000 I will continue to say that myself because it happens to be 100% true.

00:37:43.000 Nonetheless, the New York Times suggesting that Trump is the great anti-Semite, the New York Times has spent the last several months defending At peril of its own credibility, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar.

00:37:56.000 When Ilhan Omar said openly anti-Semitic things, the headline from the New York Times was, Ilhan Omar's criticism raises the question, is AIPAC too powerful?

00:38:05.000 So just to get this straight, they're accusing Trump of engaging in dual loyalty smears in order to harm Jews because he's a brutal, vicious anti-Semite who happens to be the most pro-Israel president in American history.

00:38:17.000 And also, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar are wonderful.

00:38:21.000 This is gaslighting of the highest order.

00:38:23.000 If you want to boil down the last 48 hours of Trump controversy, it goes on the Jewish thing. 0.97

00:38:28.000 It goes something like this.

00:38:29.000 Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are openly anti-Semitic. 0.96

00:38:32.000 The media go, oh, those awful Jews in Israel being so mean to Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar. 0.93

00:38:38.000 Trump going, I can't believe the Jews would vote for the party that supports Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar. 0.95

00:38:43.000 And the media going, look at that anti-Semitism.

00:38:46.000 Right, that's the narrative.

00:38:47.000 So spare me, New York Times, spare me.

00:38:50.000 And by the way, spare me all of your talk about purity when it comes to your own publication.

00:38:57.000 Breitbart has a big report today about a New York Times political editor with a years-long history of anti-Semitic and racist comments on his Twitter page.

00:39:04.000 His name is Tom Wright Piersanti.

00:39:06.000 He's been a senior staff editor at the New York Times for more than five years, according to his LinkedIn page, and his Twitter page oversees the newspaper's political coverage.

00:39:14.000 There are a bunch of tweets that he has sent out over the years.

00:39:16.000 In 2010, he sent one out that said, I was going to say crappy Jew year, but one of my resolutions is to be less anti-Semitic. 0.97

00:39:22.000 So happy Jew year, you Jews. 0.99

00:39:25.000 Sounds like a delight.

00:39:27.000 He also, in 2009, tweeted out a picture of a Chabad vehicle that has a menorah on top of it.

00:39:32.000 And he said, who called the Jew police?

00:39:35.000 And so it sounds like a wonderful dude.

00:39:37.000 Now, I will note here, I don't think that he should be fired because I have a basic rule when it comes to American life. 0.96

00:39:42.000 Digging up old crap on people and then using it to destroy their careers is a leftist tactic. 0.93

00:39:47.000 It is a leftist tactic because it doesn't tell you much about what they believe today. 0.97

00:39:51.000 You can't go back in a time machine and change it and delete it.

00:39:53.000 I said this about Ralph Northam.

00:39:54.000 I've said this about Sarah Zhang.

00:39:56.000 I've said it on the right side of the aisle about a bevy of figures.

00:39:59.000 I don't think that it's a good tactic.

00:40:00.000 However, the New York Times standard is not my standard.

00:40:03.000 Their standard is that anybody should be able to be destroyed based on older material.

00:40:07.000 So as a matter of mutually assured destruction, I don't think that it's inappropriate for the right to point this out.

00:40:12.000 I would also say that the New York Times I'm going to take it with a large grain of salt when they start sounding off about anti-Semitism.

00:40:20.000 Anderson Cooper was doing the same thing last night, again, pushing the narrative that everything is crazy inside the administration and Trump's an anti-Semite and it's all too wild.

00:40:28.000 Here is Anderson Cooper blowing up at President Trump and Ivanka Trump in a way he never would have blown up at Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar and in fact did not.

00:40:35.000 Nevertheless, the theme of disloyal American Jews from this president continues.

00:40:39.000 Ivanka Trump must be very proud of her dad tonight, and you could probably just watch for an Ivanka leak in the coming days about how she tried to talk her father, you know, to change that kind of language.

00:40:49.000 It's a classic Ivanka move.

00:40:51.000 The president also today executed a move rarely seen in modern-day politics.

00:40:55.000 He denied something that he confirmed yesterday, which was then denying what the White House had been denying that very same day.

00:41:01.000 It's like a flip-flop flip.

00:41:03.000 It's a move rarely seen because it might make voters think the person doing it is either A, unstable, B, not a genius, or C, truly has no idea what they are saying at any given moment or D, all of the above.

00:41:14.000 That right there is the bottom line.

00:41:15.000 The media are pushing this narrative.

00:41:17.000 Now, I think that this narrative is largely unfair when it comes to policy, but Trump cannot play directly into the teeth of that narrative and hope to win a victory.

00:41:27.000 The whole goal of politics is to make it very hard to vote for your opponent and very easy to vote for you.

00:41:32.000 That is the art of politics.

00:41:33.000 To make it very difficult to vote for Hillary Clinton, but make it very easy to vote for Donald Trump.

00:41:37.000 You want to knock down all the obstacles to people voting for you.

00:41:40.000 That doesn't mean being non-controversial.

00:41:42.000 It means being controversial in very specific ways.

00:41:45.000 Picking out the flaws of your opponent.

00:41:47.000 Pointing those out.

00:41:48.000 Making it difficult for people to get over the hump to vote for that person.

00:41:52.000 But Trump playing into the teeth of this is a mistake, and it's why Joe Biden continues to lead in the Democratic primaries.

00:41:57.000 Joe Biden put out an ad in the last 48 hours, and it is in fact a very good ad from Joe Biden.

00:42:01.000 This doesn't mean Joe Biden's a good candidate.

00:42:03.000 He is not.

00:42:04.000 He is old.

00:42:04.000 He is doddering.

00:42:05.000 He is unstable.

00:42:06.000 He makes mistakes regularly.

00:42:08.000 He's basically half alive at this point.

00:42:10.000 He's cobbled together.

00:42:11.000 Like some sort of bizarre cyborg.

00:42:14.000 He he's like the floating head from Futurama.

00:42:17.000 I mean, it's it's he's a terrible, terrible candidate, but his entire pitch is, look at me, I'm boring. 0.75

00:42:24.000 Joe Biden is banking on you'd rather have somebody dead be president than President Trump.

00:42:29.000 It's the weekend at Bernie's campaign.

00:42:31.000 Just wheel me around and staple that toupee to the top of my head. 0.98

00:42:34.000 And I'm ready to go, man.

00:42:35.000 So Joe Biden's new ad is exactly this.

00:42:37.000 Remember the old days when it wasn't this crazy?

00:42:40.000 It can be like that again with Joe Biden.

00:42:42.000 Here's his ad, ironically entitled Bones, which is a bad name for an ad when you're a thousand years old.

00:42:47.000 Here's Biden's ad.

00:42:48.000 We know in our bones this election is different.

00:42:51.000 The stakes are higher, the threat more serious.

00:42:54.000 We have to beat Donald Trump.

00:42:56.000 And all the polls agree Joe Biden is the strongest Democrat to do the job.

00:43:01.000 No one is more qualified.

00:43:03.000 For eight years, President Obama and Vice President Biden were an administration America could be proud of, our allies could trust, and our kids could look up to.

00:43:12.000 Together, they worked to save the American economy It goes on like this, right?

00:43:16.000 This is a smart tactic from Joe Biden.

00:43:17.000 He's stapling himself to Obama's pate leg.

00:43:19.000 Now, most Republicans, most conservatives are looking at this and going, this is a pretty sepia toned image of the Obama years.

00:43:26.000 I'm not seeing a lot of pictures of Ferguson burning or Baltimore burning, not seeing a lot of pictures of what happened in Dallas with police officers, not seeing the slowest recovery in American history, not seeing us basically in open warfare with many of our key allies, including both Britain as well as Israel.

00:43:43.000 Not seeing any of that.

00:43:44.000 You're not seeing the Iran nuclear deal anywhere in these ads.

00:43:47.000 But this is Biden's pitch.

00:43:48.000 And the media are pushing that pitch by portraying Trump as unstable.

00:43:52.000 And when Trump, when bad Trump takes precedence over good Trump, that's a big problem.

00:43:56.000 It's the reason why Biden is leading.

00:43:58.000 It's also the reason why Cory Booker is going nowhere.

00:44:00.000 So Cory Booker is now overtly trying to make the case that you shouldn't pick the candidate who's a safe bet.

00:44:04.000 He's bound to fail.

00:44:05.000 So here is Mr. Potato Head, Cory Booker.

00:44:07.000 He brought out his angry eyes to talk about why you shouldn't make Joe Biden the nominee.

00:44:12.000 We have never had someone leading in the polls this far out that went on to be the President of the United States.

00:44:17.000 Carter, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama are all considered underdogs at this point, but you know what they can do?

00:44:22.000 They can speak the American spirit.

00:44:24.000 They can excite and energize people.

00:44:25.000 They can get crowds on their feet.

00:44:28.000 We need a candidate that is not the safe bet.

00:44:30.000 We need a candidate that can speak not just to the head, but to the heart and to the gut.

00:44:35.000 The heart and the gut.

00:44:36.000 Yeah.

00:44:37.000 Me.

00:44:38.000 Most mechanized politician in this race.

00:44:41.000 You need me.

00:44:42.000 Robot Cory.

00:44:44.000 I'm a good friend.

00:44:44.000 Imaginary T-Bone.

00:44:46.000 So yeah, that's not going to work.

00:44:48.000 That's not going to work.

00:44:49.000 And you're starting to see some of the Democrats actually understand this.

00:44:53.000 Senator Bernie Sanders, even today, changed how his Medicare for All plan would work.

00:44:58.000 He's now trying to appeal to union workers so that he can overcome Elizabeth Warren's challenge.

00:45:03.000 He announced a key change to his Medicare for All insurance plan on Wednesday, a move meant to assuage fears on the part of organized labor, whose support is being heatedly sought by all of the candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination.

00:45:13.000 Labor representatives had told Sanders his Medicare for All plan was killing their Cadillac plans.

00:45:17.000 So naturally, Bernie is now going to exempt those plans.

00:45:20.000 The change would effectively give organized labor more negotiating power than other consumers who would have under his plans.

00:45:25.000 They get special treatment by forcing employers to pay out any money they save to union members and other benefits.

00:45:31.000 So in other words, if companies have a union and taxpayer dollars now cover Medicare for all, the money over and above that which they are paying in taxes that would have gone to the union members in Cadillac benefits now must be paid through other forms to the union members.

00:45:44.000 So he's going to give special goodies to the union members.

00:45:48.000 And Democrats are now starting to make compromises with their key principles in order to be seen as the safe choice.

00:45:55.000 And what does this suggest?

00:45:56.000 It suggests that President Trump needs to find a way to avoid being seen as the bat bleep loony guy out there in the race. 0.92

00:46:06.000 Because the fact is that Democrats are the ones who are promoting an agenda that is crazy. 0.81

00:46:10.000 I mean, their agenda's crazy.

00:46:11.000 They're promoting an abortion-on-demand, open borders agenda.

00:46:15.000 They're promoting an agenda that would slash America's military to the bone again.

00:46:19.000 They're proposing an agenda that would significantly hamper the growth of America's economy in the name of a non-negotiated climate deal that would not effectively lower the possibility of climate change over the course of the next century, because America's only responsible about 15% of the world's global carbon emissions.

00:46:37.000 Democrats' plans are not workable.

00:46:39.000 They're not workable.

00:46:41.000 And this is why I say, if Trump were smart, what he would do is just point at them.

00:46:46.000 Like Donald Sutherland in Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

00:46:49.000 He would just stand there and point at them.

00:46:50.000 That's all.

00:46:52.000 He cannot appear to be the volatile character in this race because if it's a referendum on Trump's volatility, he's going to lose.

00:46:57.000 If this is a referendum on democratic policy, which is in and of itself unstable and volatile, then Trump has a serious shot at victory.

00:47:04.000 OK, meanwhile, we do have to pay a fond farewell to Jay Inslee.

00:47:09.000 Breaking news, Jay Inslee was running for president of the United States.

00:47:12.000 Not anymore.

00:47:13.000 He has dropped out of the 2020 presidential race.

00:47:15.000 He's going to run for governor of Washington again.

00:47:19.000 His immediate family were the first to know, and also the only people to know, because nobody knew that Jay Inslee was running in the first place.

00:47:24.000 He just kept showing up and shouting about climate change over and over.

00:47:28.000 Jay Inslee is one of America's key heroes.

00:47:31.000 We bid him a fond farewell by playing his theme music.

00:47:34.000 Do we have that?

00:47:37.000 Ah, Jay Inslee.

00:47:40.000 Goodbye, Jay Inslee, who never pulled above 1%.

00:47:43.000 But I love how the New York Times covers this.

00:47:45.000 Governor Jay Inslee of Washington, who mounted a dogged presidential candidacy, raised the alarm about climate change, dropped out of the 2020 race Wednesday after struggling to earn a place in the next Democratic primary debate.

00:47:56.000 Only the New York Times would describe a campaign that failed to garner 1% approval rating.

00:48:03.000 Dogged.

00:48:05.000 Like, I don't remember them calling Marco Rubio's campaign dogged.

00:48:07.000 Do you?

00:48:08.000 Mr. Inslee plans to compete for a different office instead.

00:48:11.000 He's already running for a third term as governor in 2020 in Washington state, even as Seattle declines into horror and irrelevance.

00:48:20.000 While his presidential campaign had advanced the dialogue on climate change, Mr. Inslee said, he had concluded that the electoral obstacles before him were insurmountable.

00:48:28.000 Inslee said in an interview Wednesday night on MSNBC, I'm not going to be the president, so I'm withdrawing tonight from the race.

00:48:34.000 To the great consternation of no one.

00:48:37.000 He said he's not going to endorse any other Democrat.

00:48:39.000 Yeah, I'm sure that the Democrats are just clamoring for the Jay Inslee endorsement.

00:48:43.000 Basically, he wants to be Secretary of the Interior.

00:48:45.000 The announcement came only hours after Inslee released the sixth and final part of a climate plan that ballooned to about 200 pages.

00:48:51.000 Can't imagine why he didn't pick up support.

00:48:54.000 I'm going to help all the other candidates raise their level of ambition on this, Inslee said, adding, we need all of them to raise their game.

00:49:00.000 Inslee was 68 years old.

00:49:02.000 Was there is there like a Democrat running who's not Beto O'Rourke, who is under the age of 93?

00:49:05.000 When will the baby boomers just stop running? 1.00

00:49:09.000 I feel like that would be a good idea.

00:49:11.000 Like Jay Inslee was the young he was the young buck in this race. 0.99

00:49:15.000 He was the young guy in this race. 1.00

00:49:17.000 It is incredible to me that these Democratic candidates are so old.

00:49:22.000 It really is amazing.

00:49:23.000 It's an amazing, amazing thing.

00:49:24.000 And it speaks to a party that is rapidly running out of ideas in a very, very serious way.

00:49:30.000 Meanwhile, I do have to make a quick note here.

00:49:32.000 I think that Elizabeth Warren is multiplying.

00:49:35.000 And it's scaring me.

00:49:36.000 So, yesterday, CNN reported that an Elizabeth Warren doppelganger showed up to one of her events.

00:49:42.000 And the picture is quite frightening.

00:49:44.000 I literally do not know which one of these women is Elizabeth Warren. 0.86

00:49:48.000 They look exactly the same.

00:49:49.000 They have the same haircut.

00:49:50.000 They have the same glasses.

00:49:52.000 They have the same outfit.

00:49:53.000 It's creepy as all hell here with CNN reporting.

00:49:56.000 Meeting her doppelganger is one thing Elizabeth Warren didn't have a plan for. 0.96

00:50:00.000 This is just like being here with family.

00:50:03.000 Yeah, you're twin.

00:50:05.000 Stephanie Oyen has dressed up as Elizabeth Warren for Halloween.

00:50:09.000 So when she got ready to attend Warren's Minnesota rally... I thought I would just put on the blazer and go to the rally and get a couple little giggles.

00:50:16.000 But instead of giggles... People just started turning, oh my God, it's Warren, it's Warren.

00:50:22.000 It was really touching to see the number of people who had tears in their eyes.

00:50:25.000 They had said things like, you're my hero.

00:50:27.000 I felt terrible having to tell them that I wasn't the real Elizabeth Warren.

00:50:31.000 Well, I mean, we don't need more than one.

00:50:33.000 In fact, we don't even need one in the presidential race.

00:50:33.000 Like, really, please.

00:50:35.000 Please, please stop.

00:50:36.000 The Elizabeth Warren spawning problem must stop. 0.94

00:50:38.000 It's like spores.

00:50:39.000 It's just multiplying.

00:50:40.000 Like, this cannot continue.

00:50:42.000 If all of Iowa becomes Elizabeth Warren's, That you can only stand so many women in the local HOA meeting, scolding you about painting your front window sill. 0.99

00:50:54.000 There are only so many people like that you can stand in a particular radius.

00:50:58.000 And Elizabeth Warren is, every one of those people is Elizabeth Warren.

00:51:01.000 Elizabeth Warren is the scold from your HOA. 1.00

00:51:04.000 We can only have so many of those people in a particular radius before the entire earth implodes.

00:51:08.000 That was, that was, this is basically turning into a horror story.

00:51:11.000 I mean, this presidential race.

00:51:14.000 I don't say.

00:51:15.000 It's become too frightening for me.

00:51:16.000 Okay, time for a thing I like and then a quick thing that I hate.

00:51:19.000 So, thing that I like today.

00:51:22.000 So, I just want to talk about this event that we had last night.

00:51:24.000 So, Daily Wire backstage last night.

00:51:26.000 Believe it or not, it was a really good event.

00:51:27.000 I know I was talking it down.

00:51:28.000 I know I sounded unenthusiastic about being there, mainly because I was, but still, it was pretty fun.

00:51:33.000 About 3,000 people showed up to hear Michael Knoll's jabber, nonsensically.

00:51:38.000 And it was pretty great.

00:51:39.000 Now, the only downside was that it ended really late.

00:51:42.000 It ended like 11 o'clock at night.

00:51:44.000 And people were literally falling asleep on the roads.

00:51:46.000 My security that drove me said that he spotted two separate people who had fallen asleep on the road last night.

00:51:53.000 And this reminded me of a story.

00:51:54.000 So it's time for a brief story.

00:51:55.000 I rarely do story time, but this reminded me of a story.

00:51:57.000 And I feel like this story deserves to be told.

00:51:59.000 Because it speaks to the inefficacy of California state government.

00:52:03.000 So, several years ago, I was driving back from Sacramento to Los Angeles.

00:52:07.000 My wife's family is from the Sacramento area.

00:52:09.000 We're driving back from Sacramento to Los Angeles, and I was in the car with my wife and my sister-in-law and my brother-in-law.

00:52:15.000 We're taking their car.

00:52:17.000 We're driving back.

00:52:17.000 There is no air conditioning in the car.

00:52:19.000 It is the middle of summer.

00:52:20.000 It is one o'clock in the morning, and the radio is broken.

00:52:23.000 So I can't even listen to music.

00:52:24.000 We get down close to Los Angeles on the I-5, just getting off the Grapevine, and suddenly the traffic comes to a dead halt.

00:52:30.000 And I mean a dead stop for an hour and a half.

00:52:32.000 Everybody in the car is asleep, really enjoying themselves.

00:52:35.000 I'm sitting behind the wheel, white knuckling it, moving six inches forward every 15 minutes or so.

00:52:40.000 It's really a wonderful, wonderful experience.

00:52:42.000 And after about an hour and a half of this, finally the traffic starts to move again.

00:52:46.000 And as we move forward in the traffic, I look to see what is the crucial piece of work that had to be done at 1.30 in the morning that prevented me from getting to sleep until 3.30.

00:52:57.000 And we start moving and I see that they've blocked off three of the four lanes and nothing is happening.

00:53:04.000 There are no machines.

00:53:05.000 There are no people.

00:53:06.000 They blocked it off presumably so that they could check a box and then tell people they'd been doing work because no work had been done.

00:53:12.000 By this point, I was so frustrated and tired and angry that I rolled down my window and as we rolled forward, I reached out of the car and I picked up a traffic cone and I dumped it in my wife's lap. 0.70

00:53:23.000 And my wife wakes up with a giant orange traffic cone in her lap. 0.99

00:53:27.000 And she turns to me and she says, what the hell is this?

00:53:29.000 And I said, I paid taxes in this state and I get nothing back except I get to sit in traffic for an hour and a half.

00:53:36.000 This cone is mine.

00:53:38.000 I paid for this cone.

00:53:40.000 That cone sits on our property to this day.

00:53:43.000 We've had that cone for seven years.

00:53:44.000 We've moved three times in seven years.

00:53:46.000 That cone has always come with me because that's the only thing I've ever gotten from the state government of California, apparently.

00:53:52.000 So, I don't know why I decided to tell that story, but I hope you enjoyed it as much as I didn't.

00:53:56.000 Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.

00:53:57.000 By the way, that is, I believe, my only criminal.

00:54:03.000 Oh, well.

00:54:04.000 No, I have a very, very bad traffic ticket.

00:54:08.000 I've talked about it on the program before.

00:54:10.000 I got caught doing well over 100 miles an hour.

00:54:12.000 Had my license suspended.

00:54:13.000 Those were my bad boy days, cruising around the i5 in my Honda Civic.

00:54:18.000 In any case, quick thing that I hate.

00:54:20.000 So, Matt Iglesias, the Ralph Wiggum of the internet, had a real take.

00:54:24.000 About weddings the other day.

00:54:25.000 Now, I will admit, as a man, I don't care about weddings.

00:54:29.000 Like, I would have been fine marrying my wife civilly and religiously and doing it in, like, a small room and then having, like, a cake and going home and watching TV.

00:54:29.000 I really don't.

00:54:37.000 Like, that would have been fine.

00:54:38.000 But women dream of the big weddings. 1.00

00:54:40.000 And so, gentlemen in the audience, if you're getting married, stop trying to negotiate with your wife what the wedding is going to be like.

00:54:46.000 Stop it.

00:54:46.000 It's her day.

00:54:47.000 It's not your day.

00:54:47.000 Stop moaning about it.

00:54:49.000 You're being a pansy. 0.99

00:54:50.000 Stop it.

00:54:51.000 Okay.

00:54:53.000 I generally agree with the idea that you shouldn't spend $75,000, $100,000 on a wedding.

00:54:57.000 Take that, put it on a down payment for a house, spend $10,000 on a wedding, do something perfectly serviceable at the local Holiday Inn Express, and it'll be fine.

00:55:07.000 But, Matthew Iglesias has a different take.

00:55:09.000 Because, again, he's the Ralph Wiggum of the internet.

00:55:12.000 He says the government should try to do something.

00:55:14.000 The government should try to do something to discourage expensive weddings and wedding related activities, which seems to cause a lot of stress in people's finances and interpersonal relationships and probably discourage people from getting married.

00:55:25.000 We'd be way better off with the norm of cheaper weddings and the money repurposed for family vacations down the road.

00:55:30.000 OK, I may agree with that last part.

00:55:32.000 And I may agree that you put the money on a down payment.

00:55:35.000 But I love that Matt Iglesias' first move always is the government should do something about it.

00:55:39.000 You know, women who want to have nice weddings, the government should jail you probably. 1.00

00:55:43.000 I feel like the government should punish you if you want to spend money on a nice wedding.

00:55:48.000 Because the government knows better than you how you should get married. 0.78

00:55:51.000 After all, isn't the government famous for promoting marriage by completely destroying the institution over the last 50 years?

00:55:58.000 Man, this is the problem with so many folks on the left.

00:56:00.000 They see something and they get angry at it and they're like, you know what would be an awesome thing?

00:56:03.000 If we had a giant group of people paid for with tax dollars who could point a gun at somebody and make them do what I want.

00:56:09.000 If you don't think that this is a sort of fascistic mindset that the government is supposed to cram down particular understandings of how you do weddings, I don't know what to tell you.

00:56:17.000 If you want the government dictating how you ought to do your wedding, Man, don't live in America because that is not what this country was built for.

00:56:24.000 All right.

00:56:24.000 We'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content.

00:56:26.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - August 22, 2019

Good Trump, Bad Trump: The Revenge | Ep. 845

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