The Ben Shapiro Show - Greta Goes To Gaza!

00:00:00.000 Today on the show, Elon Musk and President Trump go at it over the big, beautiful bill.

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00:00:44.000 So, the big, beautiful bill is reaching fruition in the Senate.

00:00:48.000 What will the final form look like?

00:00:50.000 We don't actually know.

00:00:51.000 At this point, a lot of negotiations happening inside the Republican.

00:00:54.000 Senate caucus.

00:00:55.000 And of course, you have people who are fiscal hawks like Senator Ron Johnson, who's been a guest on the show, talking about the shortcomings of the big, beautiful bill in terms of spending.

00:01:03.000 Obviously, this bill maintains Biden levels of spending.

00:01:06.000 It does not, in fact, cut back to 2019 pre-pandemic levels of spending.

00:01:11.000 And then you have people inside the Republican caucus, like Senator Josh Howley from Missouri, who thinks the bill actually goes too far in cutting spending.

00:01:18.000 The House bill goes too far by putting work requirements on Medicaid.

00:01:22.000 So, as always, you have a fractious Republican caucus, and the question is, what gets through?

00:01:27.000 What's emerging right now inside the Republican Party is a fight between the ideal and the pragmatic.

00:01:33.000 And neither side is actually wrong in this particular fight.

00:01:37.000 So, this has now boiled down to a fight between President Trump and Elon Musk.

00:01:41.000 So Elon, of course, recently left the administration.

00:01:44.000 He had reached the end of the period of time in which he was capable of holding that office without some form of congressional approval.

00:01:51.000 you Over the course of the last couple of days, he put out a tweet saying, quote, I'm sorry, but I just can't stand it anymore.

00:01:59.000 This massive, outrageous, pork-filled congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination.

00:02:03.000 Shame on those who voted for it.

00:02:05.000 You know you did wrong.

00:02:06.000 You know it.

00:02:07.000 So that is open war on the so-called Big Beautiful Bill.

00:02:11.000 Meanwhile, the administration, of course, is pushing forward the Big Beautiful Bill.

00:02:15.000 So there's been some speculation about what caused Elon Musk to lose it on the so-called Big Beautiful Bill.

00:02:20.000 That speculation was handed off to Axios by presumably some members of the administration.

00:02:25.000 According to Axios, Musk and Trump remained friends and allies.

00:02:29.000 Two people in frequent communication with both told Axios, but they said Trump was somewhat irked by Musk's social media sabotage.

00:02:35.000 The sources familiar with the Trump-Musk relationship say there appeared to be four inflection points that led to his caustic attack on President Trump's bill.

00:02:42.000 One, legislation cuts the electric vehicle tax credit that helps carmakers like Musk's Tesla.

00:02:48.000 Two, Musk was working at the White House.

00:02:54.000 Ultimately, White House officials looked at that legally and they said, we can't actually extend you this way.

00:03:04.000 Also, Musk wanted the FAA to use Starlink.

00:03:07.000 And finally, on Saturday night, President Trump abruptly announced that he was withdrawing the nomination of a man named Jared Isaacman, an Elon Musk ally, to be the NASA administrator.

00:03:16.000 And there was some speculation that that was Sort of a slap at Musk by members of the Trump personnel team.

00:03:23.000 That Isaacman, who was only nominated to that position, presumably because he was friends with Musk, was now being smacked because Musk was leaving and it was safe to smack him.

00:03:33.000 That was part of the speculation.

00:03:34.000 The sort of more innocuous explanation is that Isaacman had a history of donations to Democrats.

00:03:41.000 And the White House is very big into the idea of Republican loyalty.

00:03:45.000 Even though, again, many of the people who surround the president were not always fans of the president.

00:03:49.000 Okay, so let's leave aside the speculation about why Musk was attacking the bill and look at the actual content of the attack.

00:03:56.000 So the actual content of the attack suggests that the bill spends too much money.

00:04:02.000 And that's true.

00:04:03.000 The bill does spend too much money.

00:04:05.000 As Senator Johnson has pointed out on this program, the bill maintains Biden levels of spending.

00:04:11.000 It does not cut the spending back to 2019 levels.

00:04:14.000 So, idealistically, should we go back to 2019 spending levels?

00:04:18.000 Absolutely.

00:04:19.000 Even if we did, by the way, go back to 2019 spending levels, we were still on a debt crisis trajectory just a little bit slower.

00:04:25.000 Because in 2019, we were spending about $4 trillion a year.

00:04:28.000 And today we spend $6.5 trillion a year, which is a radical increase, obviously.

00:04:33.000 But it is not as though the underlying issue, which is Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, was going away even if we went back to the 2019 spending trajectory.

00:04:42.000 But on an idealistic level, obviously, this is true.

00:04:44.000 And this is why so many conservatives feel torn about the big, beautiful bill.

00:04:48.000 Because, yes, it does some good things, and it also does some quite bad things, like keeping in place the Biden levels of spending.

00:04:55.000 So then you get to the question of the pragmatic.

00:04:57.000 Idealistically, and on an ideological basis, Senator Johnson is right.

00:05:01.000 Senator Rand Paul is right.

00:05:03.000 Critics like Chip Roy in the House are right.

00:05:06.000 On a pragmatic level, they are wrong.

00:05:09.000 And the reason that they are wrong on a pragmatic level is because Republicans, again, have the slimmest of slim majorities in the House.

00:05:16.000 Do you truly believe that there is a majority in the House to cut spending back to 2019 levels?

00:05:20.000 The answer, of course, is absolutely not.

00:05:22.000 It is controversial enough to make any cuts at all in the House.

00:05:26.000 The same thing is true in the Senate.

00:05:28.000 Republicans have, effectively speaking, a three and a half vote majority.

00:05:32.000 I say and a half because they have 53 votes in the Senate.

00:05:36.000 And J.D. Vance, the vice president, can break a tie.

00:05:39.000 That is a very slim majority, just practically speaking.

00:05:42.000 You figure that if somebody tried to do the Ron Johnson approach and cut back to 2019 levels in this bill, you would get fallout from Josh Howley in Missouri, from Susan Collins in Maine, from Lisa Murkowski in Alaska.

00:05:55.000 You probably get some fallout from other senators in purple states who would feel that their neck was on the line.

00:06:02.000 So you probably lose seven, eight senators if you tried to do the thing that Senator Ron Johnson is trying to do.

00:06:07.000 If politics is the art of the possible, Then the question becomes this.

00:06:10.000 Would you prefer to have the current levels of spending without a tax cut?

00:06:15.000 Or would you prefer to have current levels of spending minus a little bit plus a tax cut?

00:06:22.000 Those are the two choices on the table.

00:06:24.000 And this was the point that was being made by Speaker of the House Mike Johnson when he talked about the mistake that Elon Musk is making in attacking the bill.

00:06:31.000 Here he was.

00:06:33.000 With all due respect, my friend Elon is terribly wrong about the one big beautiful bill.

00:06:39.000 We had a long conversation yesterday.

00:06:40.000 He and I spoke for, I think, more than 20 minutes on the telephone, and I extolled all the virtues of the bill, and he seemed to understand that.

00:06:47.000 Elon is missing it, okay?

00:06:49.000 And it's not personal.

00:06:51.000 For him to come out and pan the whole bill is, to me, just very disappointing, very surprising, in light of the conversation I had with him yesterday.

00:07:00.000 Now, again, it's not a giant shock.

00:07:02.000 The critics of government spending are feeling a little bit frustrated, but welcome to the party, pal.

00:07:08.000 I mean, some of us have been very angry at government spending for literally our entire public careers.

00:07:13.000 So many of the sort of newfound budget hawks, I mean, listen, I'm glad that they're there, but let's be real about this.

00:07:20.000 When Republicans actually had control of Congress, which they gained in 2010, thanks to Barack Obama's radical increase in spending, and then the Tea Party movement came about, and then Obama got shellacked in the midterms.

00:07:31.000 Republicans were never capable of making these sort of significant spending trajectory cuts that would have been necessary to actually fix the problem.

00:07:37.000 The last time Republicans seriously attempted to fix the problems with the federal budget was 2005, when George W. Bush, after his re-elect, attempted to move toward what would be the equivalent of health savings account and Social Security, which was called privatizing Social Security, which effectively said to people who are below a particular age that instead of you receiving a defined benefit package,

00:07:59.000 instead of that, What you would actually do is take the money you would pay to Social Security, they'd put it in an investment account, and then it would be linked to the stock market.

00:08:07.000 If that had happened, by the way, then many of the budgetary problems that we are now looking at would have been solved.

00:08:13.000 But everybody didn't like that because this is the third rail of American politics.

00:08:16.000 And let's be real about this.

00:08:18.000 President Trump ran in 2016 on the principle that he would never touch these things.

00:08:23.000 So I don't know why anyone is acting all shocked and appalled by this.

00:08:26.000 This was part of the MAGA movement.

00:08:28.000 Part of the MAGA movement was big spending.

00:08:30.000 Pretending that part of the MAGA movement was not big spending is silly.

00:08:34.000 So yes, it is great that Elon Musk came in and wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse with Doge.

00:08:39.000 And I'm glad Doge is there.

00:08:40.000 I'm glad the Department of Governmental Efficiency is going line by line through every budget item at all the various departments and looking for places where funds are being misallocated or misspent.

00:08:49.000 That's fine.

00:08:50.000 But that is not going to touch the underlying problem.

00:08:52.000 And again, what you see with President Trump is what you get.

00:08:55.000 President Trump pledged he was not going to touch these major Social benefit programs.

00:09:00.000 So when we talk about President Trump not being a small spender, that's always been true. 0.97

00:09:04.000 And he was a heterodox Republican politician.

00:09:07.000 So I asked our friends and sponsors at Perplexity about this, how much did President Trump expand spending from 2017 to 2019?

00:09:13.000 I didn't want to count the pandemic.

00:09:15.000 And then I asked, how much is the federal government slated to spend in 2025?

00:09:19.000 What percentage of that spending is Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and service on the debt?

00:09:23.000 So to answer the first question, Trump era federal spending expansion from 2017.

00:09:28.000 Through 2019, according to Perplexity, when President Trump took office, the CBO projected deficits would be 2-3% of GDP during his term.

00:09:35.000 The deficit instead reached nearly 4% of GDP in 2018 and 4.6% in 2019, driven largely by the 2017 tax cuts and increased discretionary spending.

00:09:45.000 Over his four years, President Trump signed or enacted $7.8 trillion in new initiatives.

00:09:50.000 By the way, only $2 trillion of that was actually attributable.

00:09:54.000 To the 2017 tax cuts, which means $5.8 trillion was everything else.

00:09:59.000 This year, the federal government is slated to spend $7 trillion.

00:10:04.000 And how's that money being spent?

00:10:06.000 And this is the key.

00:10:06.000 Okay, if you actually want to redo federal spending, you need to look at the entitlement programs.

00:10:11.000 According to Perplexity, the 2025 outlays, Social Security, $1.4 trillion.

00:10:17.000 That is 20% of the federal budget.

00:10:19.000 Medicare.

00:10:20.000 $1 trillion, another 14% of the federal budget.

00:10:23.000 Medicaid and other health, $0.8 trillion, $800 billion.

00:10:27.000 That's 11% of the federal budget.

00:10:29.000 Net interest, almost $1 trillion, 14% of the federal budget.

00:10:33.000 Altogether, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the interest on our debt, almost 60% of our federal budget.

00:10:41.000 Okay, that is a wild, wild statistic.

00:10:44.000 And this is why when people say, well, you can cut on the discretionary spending, cut on defense.

00:10:49.000 That is not the major driver of our national debt.

00:10:51.000 Until the American people get serious about that, ain't nothing going to change.

00:10:54.000 And so this is why I say there is a difference between the ideologically accurate and the pragmatic.

00:10:58.000 And Elon, again, my sympathies are with Elon.

00:11:01.000 He's a man coming from the tech world.

00:11:03.000 Outside of government, he just wants to fix the problem.

00:11:05.000 And this is what you see with a lot of the tech guys who are associated with the Trump administration.

00:11:09.000 All they want is to fix the problem.

00:11:11.000 They come in and they say, I want to fix this the way that I would my company.

00:11:14.000 I want to slash staff.

00:11:15.000 I want to recapitulate.

00:11:18.000 The hiring process.

00:11:19.000 I want to make sure that everybody knows what they do here.

00:11:22.000 And this is exactly what Elon did when he came in.

00:11:24.000 He was literally doing the thing that Steve Jobs used to do at his own company.

00:11:28.000 Steve Jobs famously used to go walk around the office.

00:11:31.000 He'd get in the elevator with somebody.

00:11:33.000 And then he would ask them to define their job.

00:11:34.000 And if they couldn't, he would fire them.

00:11:36.000 And Elon literally tried to do that with the federal government.

00:11:38.000 The problem is the federal government is not, in fact, a private company.

00:11:41.000 It does not work that way.

00:11:42.000 And you can't apply the same actual calculation in how to change it that you would.

00:11:47.000 To a privately held company.

00:11:48.000 It just does not work that way.

00:11:50.000 The way that the federal government actually works is that you have to figure out if there is enough consensus to do a big thing.

00:11:55.000 Right now, Republicans have a consensus to do a big thing with taxes, which is maintain the current tax rate.

00:12:01.000 And they have the consensus to make some relatively small cuts with regard to the future of Medicaid growth.

00:12:09.000 And again, let's be clear about this.

00:12:11.000 This is not a cut to Medicaid.

00:12:12.000 It is a cut to future Medicaid growth.

00:12:14.000 That is what the support is there for.

00:12:16.000 And if politics is the art of the possible, then what is President Trump supposed to do?

00:12:20.000 He can't just magic this thing into existence.

00:12:23.000 And this is one of the great lies about politics generally.

00:12:25.000 Politicians will always tell you they can magic things into existence. 0.95

00:12:28.000 No politician can.

00:12:30.000 We have a system, for better or for worse.

00:12:33.000 In many cases, for better.

00:12:34.000 When it comes to the inability of the American people to actually take debt seriously, certainly for worse, the short-term thinking of the American people will end up biting us directly in the butt when it comes to the national debt.

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00:14:57.000 As Spencer Jacob writes over at the Wall Street Journal, the package of tax and spending measures sent to the Senate, now officially called the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, could act like a budgetary wolf bait.

00:15:07.000 It would add around $3 trillion to debt levels over the next decade compared with existing estimates, and $5 trillion if certain temporary features were made permanent, according to the Committee for Responsible Federal Budget.

00:15:18.000 For perspective, federal interest this fiscal year already will be more than the defense budget and more than Medicaid, disability insurance, and food stamps combined.

00:15:27.000 Moreover, the CBO's estimates assume the bond market will not only tolerate a surge in spending, but become more relaxed about it with lower yields.

00:15:35.000 So what if it turns out that with lower yields, people buy fewer bonds?

00:15:38.000 Well, then you have a vicious cycle.

00:15:40.000 Jamie Dimon said, you're going to see a crack in the bond market if this continues.

00:15:46.000 But the reality is that Americans don't understand a lot of this stuff.

00:15:49.000 Things seem to be going okay.

00:15:51.000 And so we will walk our way off that cliff.

00:15:53.000 And again, I'm a person who's been advocating literally my entire career for restructuring of these entitlement programs, but you're not getting in the bill.

00:16:00.000 So the question is, yes on the bill or no on the bill?

00:16:04.000 President Trump spent his weekend attacking opponents of the bill in the Senate, including Rand Paul.

00:16:09.000 He put out a statement in which he snapped at Senator Paul, quote, Rand votes no on everything, but never has any practical or constructive ideas.

00:16:16.000 His ideas are actually crazy.

00:16:18.000 Losers.

00:16:18.000 The people of Kentucky can't stand him.

00:16:20.000 This is a big growth bill.

00:16:22.000 Now, again, the people of Kentucky certainly can't stand him.

00:16:24.000 They keep re-electing him.

00:16:25.000 I have major disagreements on Senator Paul with a wide variety of issues.

00:16:28.000 I don't disagree with him on this one.

00:16:29.000 But where Trump is right is that Rand Paul does not tend to live.

00:16:33.000 In the world of the pragmatic or the practical.

00:16:36.000 Now, again, I don't think that Senator Paul is to blame for that.

00:16:38.000 I think you do need people in the caucus who are going to try to pull as hard as they can to the right.

00:16:43.000 However, when we, the American public, are considering, would it be better for the bill to pass or not to pass?

00:16:48.000 The real question is, do you want to see all the tax rates increase and the spending remain the same?

00:16:53.000 Which is likely to be what happens.

00:16:56.000 It is hilarious to me that Chuck Schumer, the Senate Minority Leader, he's out there saying that he agrees on the big, beautiful bill that it's a terrible bill.

00:17:03.000 No, he doesn't.

00:17:03.000 He actually doesn't.

00:17:04.000 The thing that he disagrees with is that it cuts spending at all and cuts taxes at all.

00:17:09.000 Remember, if the Democrats were in charge, we would increase taxes and increase spending.

00:17:14.000 Look, I just read you what Musk said.

00:17:17.000 He said people should be ashamed to vote for this bill.

00:17:20.000 I agree with him.

00:17:22.000 For very, very different reasons.

00:17:24.000 So Elon Musk is angry about the bill because it spends too much.

00:17:27.000 Schumer is angry about the bill because it spends too little.

00:17:30.000 Just remember, if Democrats are ever in charge, again, which I'm sure they will be, because politics moves in strange patterns, they will increase taxes radically and increase the spending radically.

00:17:40.000 Now, meanwhile, there are some attempts to, again, cut around the edges, and we need to be clear about what it means when we look at what Doge is doing, what these House rescission bills would do.

00:17:48.000 They are, in fact, cutting, but they're cutting around the edges.

00:17:51.000 So according to Fox News, the House Freedom Caucus is demanding The conservative group, led by Chairman Andy Harris of Maryland, is drawing its line in the sand on Monday with an official position on the coming package, which is expected to call for clawing back government funding for NPR, PBS, and USAID.

00:18:13.000 And that's great.

00:18:14.000 That's fine.

00:18:14.000 We should push the rescission bills forward.

00:18:16.000 We should pass them with alacrity.

00:18:18.000 We should move quickly to do it.

00:18:20.000 That is it.

00:18:21.000 That is a good thing.

00:18:22.000 $9.4 billion ain't going to do it.

00:18:24.000 It isn't.

00:18:26.000 Meanwhile, Russ Vaught, who is the head of OMB, the Office of Management and Budget, he says the White House is weighing options like impoundment to formalize those doge spending cuts.

00:18:36.000 But again, even impoundment of these amounts is not going to radically change the fiscal crisis that America is going to find itself in.

00:18:42.000 That is not President Trump's fault.

00:18:44.000 That's not Republicans' fault.

00:18:45.000 That is the American people's fault. 0.93

00:18:46.000 We are the voters, and we cannot hold two thoughts at once.

00:18:50.000 It is not possible for us.

00:18:52.000 Instead, we say that we like our benefits, but we also want tax cuts, and we also want to make sure that we don't have a debt problem.

00:18:58.000 You can't have all of those things.

00:18:59.000 That's not how it works.

00:19:01.000 But because we refuse to acknowledge reality, any politician who tells us we can have all of those things is likely to succeed.

00:19:07.000 Now, meanwhile, what President Trump is right is that the big, beautiful bill is necessary to maintain growth rates.

00:19:13.000 If we radically increase taxes, which is what the expiration of the Trump tax cuts would effectively do, if that were to happen, The growth curve in the country, the investment, would absolutely collapse.

00:19:24.000 It would be a disaster area.

00:19:25.000 The markets already are pricing in the Big Beautiful Bill.

00:19:28.000 They believe that the Big Beautiful Bill is going to pass.

00:19:32.000 Well, if it doesn't, then you're going to see the markets really, really dumb, especially given the fact that there's already so much turmoil in the markets.

00:19:41.000 According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the OECD, the tariff regime that President Trump We'll be crimping U.S. economic growth this year and also boosting inflation.

00:19:54.000 They said Tuesday they expect GDP to decelerate sharply to 1.6% in 2025 from 2.8% in 2024.

00:20:02.000 They previously expected that we would grow our GDP by 2.2%, but they believe that because of the slowdown in global trade, they are going to see a slowness in growth as well.

00:20:11.000 They also expect that U.S. inflation will pick up.

00:20:13.000 Now, we have seen inflation statistics came out while we were off the air.

00:20:18.000 Those inflation statistics for the last month were the lowest that they've been since basically the beginning of the pandemic.

00:20:24.000 They were 2.1% year on year, which is basically where you want to be.

00:20:27.000 The Federal Reserve is tasked with keeping inflation at 2% annually.

00:20:31.000 So that's where you want to be.

00:20:32.000 So President Trump is saying that the Federal Reserve now needs to lower the interest rates and boost spending by making more liquidity available in the markets.

00:20:41.000 The problem, of course, is that when it comes to the inflation rate, that is in fact a trailing indicator.

00:20:47.000 So, what you may be getting in that lack of inflation is a couple of things.

00:20:52.000 Less demand, which is not driving up prices.

00:20:54.000 And also, you might be getting the fact that the tariff regime has been in and out and up and down.

00:20:59.000 It's the hokey pokey tariff regime.

00:21:00.000 And because of that, the markets are sort of frozen and paralyzed.

00:21:04.000 And they're not radically escalating prices yet.

00:21:07.000 But the idea is that if the tariffs actually kick into full force and effect, that will increase the inflation.

00:21:13.000 And the Federal Reserve isn't going to jump too fast to lower the interest rates.

00:21:17.000 Based on an uncertain economic future.

00:21:21.000 Especially, I mean, President Trump, at the same time that he's tweeting out that Jerome Powell needs to lower the interest rates, is also saying, quote, I like President Xi of China.

00:21:28.000 Always have and always will.

00:21:29.000 But he is very tough, all caps, and extremely hard to make a deal with.

00:21:33.000 Okay, well, are the markets going to be sanguine about that?

00:21:36.000 If the massive tariffs stay on China, is that going to create price inflation?

00:21:41.000 The answer, presumably, is yes.

00:21:42.000 And you combine that with a very, very weak jobs report in May.

00:21:46.000 And what you see right now is an economic freeze-up that is happening because of the amount of uncertainty in the market.

00:21:52.000 So is the Federal Reserve, in the middle of all that uncertainty, going to throw an interest rate decrease in the middle of that?

00:21:59.000 The answer there is no, because the Federal Reserve believes that eventually the markets are going to get unstuck one way or the other.

00:22:04.000 If they wait a couple of months and the inflation stays low and the tariff regime all works itself out, then they can talk about lowering the interest rates.

00:22:11.000 What they are afraid of is that they will lower the interest rates, inject, More liquidity into the economy.

00:22:16.000 And then you will get price inflation that is basically double what they want.

00:22:20.000 They will get inflation based on their injection of liquidity by lowering the interest rates.

00:22:24.000 And you will also get price inflation based on a tariff regime that actually does at some point fully kick in.

00:22:31.000 According to ADP, private sector job creation slowed to a near standstill in May, hitting its lowest level in more than two years as signs emerged of a weakening labor market.

00:22:39.000 Payrolls increased just 37,000 for the month, below the downwardly revised 60,000 in April, and the Dow Jones forecast for 110,000.

00:22:45.000 It is the lowest monthly job total from the ADP count since March of 2023.

00:22:51.000 So again, this doesn't mean that we are in serious trouble here in the United States with regard to our economy.

00:22:56.000 However, it is worth pointing out that, as I've said a thousand times on the show at this point, uncertainty breeds its own form of economic chaos.

00:23:03.000 If you don't know what's coming next, you are very unlikely to hire for the future.

00:23:07.000 By the way, this includes in manufacturing.

00:23:10.000 Goods producing industries lost 2,000 positions for the month.

00:23:13.000 Natural resources and mining are off 5,000, manufacturing down 3,000.

00:23:18.000 And again, that's not a shock either because one of the things that has happened is that the oil prices have dropped so much at this point that people are not actually ramping up oil production in the United States.

00:23:28.000 So what does this mean?

00:23:29.000 This means that the big, beautiful bill better pass because if the big, beautiful bill does not pass, then you've got a real problem on your hands.

00:23:34.000 Remember, folks, in just a minute, We are going to get to the White House and their take on Pride Month, which is wild and kind of awesome.

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00:26:00.000 Meanwhile, we have now entered the month of June, and as we all know, June is the greatest month on the American calendar because it is a month of miracles and happiness and joy, specifically queer joy, because June, of course, is Pride Month, the month when we are all supposed to pretend that the most important thing about any human being Is there sexual orientation? 0.79

00:26:20.000 And that all of America must celebrate this together.

00:26:23.000 That is what Pride Month is all about.

00:26:27.000 Well, I have some Pride Month stories.

00:26:30.000 It's not going the way that many people on the left were hoping Pride Month was going to go.

00:26:36.000 So, for example, the U.S. military has now decided that they are going to rename a ship.

00:26:41.000 There is a Navy ship that is called USS Harvey Milk.

00:26:46.000 That was always an absurdity.

00:26:47.000 An absurdity of absurdities.

00:26:49.000 Harvey Milk was not a member of the military.

00:26:53.000 Harvey Milk had no impact on military policy.

00:26:55.000 Harvey Milk was a San Francisco Board of Supervisors member in the 1970s who was shot to death after 11 months on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and became a sort of martyr for the so-called gay rights cause.

00:27:08.000 He also happened to be a guy who was stupping a 16-year-old boy.

00:27:11.000 So, you know, he was in common parlance committing a crime.

00:27:19.000 He served in the Navy during the Korean War.

00:27:21.000 That's literally his only connection to the military.

00:27:23.000 That was also true of millions of other people who served in World War II or the Korean War or the Vietnam War.

00:27:29.000 The U.S. Navy ship Harvey Milk was originally named in 2016 by Ray Mavis under Barack Obama.

00:27:36.000 The idea that we were naming a Navy ship after a man That's ridiculous.

00:27:57.000 If you're going to name Navy ships, typically you're going to name them after, you know, naval heroes.

00:28:01.000 You're typically going to name them after people who had an impact on military policy.

00:28:06.000 You're going to name them after places.

00:28:10.000 The U.S. Navy ship RuPaul should not be a thing.

00:28:15.000 And it was always ridiculous to suggest that we were going to name our Navy ships after sort of DEI heroes in American life.

00:28:23.000 And yet that is what Barack Obama was all about.

00:28:26.000 It was deliberately silly by the Obama administration.

00:28:28.000 And now that's being walked back by the Trump administration during Pride Month of all times, according to the Washington Post.

00:28:35.000 The Pentagon is planning to strip the name from a Navy ship that honors the gay rights icon Harvey Milk, who, by the way, was also stripping a 16-year-old, which is against the law, and could expand the purge to include other vessels recognizing prominent civil rights figures, defense officials said Tuesday.

00:28:49.000 Deliberations, officials said, are ongoing after a recent order by Hegseth to Navy Secretary John Phelan with the decision to be announced as soon as mid-June to coincide with Pride Month, which President Trump has rejected celebrating because, of course, typically pride is considered a sin.

00:29:02.000 You should not celebrate sin.

00:29:04.000 I know that this word sin has gone out of common usage.

00:29:07.000 I get it.

00:29:08.000 But it is kind of weird that what you're actually celebrating during Pride Month is the sin of pride.

00:29:14.000 In any case, it was unclear when or even if any other Navy vessels honoring civil rights figures could see their titles changed.

00:29:21.000 Sean Parnell, a spokesperson for Hegseth, released a statement acknowledging a review is underway that could result in the renaming of Defense Department installations and resources.

00:29:28.000 In other words, we are no longer going to be painting our bombs with trans pride flags.

00:29:32.000 Which, to me, is a good thing.

00:29:34.000 So in honor of Pride Month, no more U.S. Navy ship Harvey Milk.

00:29:38.000 It is amazing this ever happened in our country, truly.

00:29:42.000 You name a Navy ship after a guy who is mostly famous for just being a gay rights activist in San Francisco.

00:29:51.000 Truly unbelievable.

00:29:52.000 And meanwhile, in other bad news for the advocates of Pride Month, it turns out that Algeria's Imeen Khalif, He was a gold medal winner at the last Paris Olympics in boxing, you may recall.

00:30:07.000 Is a dude.

00:30:09.000 I know, that was perfectly obvious by looking at him.

00:30:12.000 But it turns out that now, Elite's medical report shows that the Algerian boxer was abnormal, stating, quote, chromosome analysis reveals male karyotype.

00:30:22.000 So, XY, in other words. 0.62

00:30:25.000 I know, we were not supposed to notice that, and it was supposed to be a giant shock.

00:30:28.000 But yeah, they covered it up because a man was beating up the ladies. 1.00

00:30:32.000 Speaking of which, California continues to push forward the absurdity of boys racing against girls while pretending to be girls.

00:30:39.000 According to SoapCentral.com, A.B. Hernandez, a transgender high school athlete, has been making waves on social media after winning two events, including the high jump and triple jump at the California State Track and Field Championships as per KCRA.

00:30:51.000 Hernandez is 16 years old and from Jerupa Valley, California, and her recent participation under the new rule change has caused a nationwide controversy.

00:31:00.000 He, I mean his participation as part of the new rule by the California Interscholastic Federation.

00:31:06.000 If a trans athlete earns a top position, the next highest ranking cisgender athlete can also share the placement and also receive a medal as per the Guardian.

00:31:14.000 Yeah, but if you put a dude at the top of the podium, and then you're like, yeah, but we'll put like an extra girl at the bottom of the podium so that she can be like, number four and three are kind of tied. 1.00

00:31:23.000 How does that make the girls feel any better? 1.00

00:31:24.000 They're still standing there below a boy at the top of the podium.

00:31:29.000 Hernandez won first place in the high jump, where she, he, cleared five feet seven inches without any failed attempts.

00:31:36.000 He shared first place with two other athletes, Jalene Wetland and Leilani LaRue.

00:31:41.000 He also won first place in the triple jump and received a gold medal in second place in the long jump.

00:31:49.000 The whole thing is unbelievably silly, of course.

00:31:52.000 There was a plane that was flown over the track and field state championship that read, No Boys in Girls Sports.

00:31:59.000 The Independent Council on Women's Sports and Women Are Real, which is Riley Gaines' group, were the two groups that took credit for flying the banner during the event. 0.86

00:32:06.000 And good for them.

00:32:08.000 Because the American people are not in favor of this.

00:32:10.000 It is not only silly, it is insulting to women and girls and harms girls when they have to compete against boys.

00:32:16.000 Well, some businesses have been getting...

00:32:23.000 Others have not.

00:32:25.000 One of the groups that has not, sadly, is MLB, Major League Baseball.

00:32:30.000 29 of MLB's 30 teams are celebrating Pride Month.

00:32:33.000 They're coming to literally every Major League ballpark, apparently.

00:32:36.000 Not sure why any of that is necessary.

00:32:40.000 The Rangers are the only MLB team that has never waded into the LGBT messaging during Pride Month, according to the Daily Wire.

00:32:47.000 In response to questions about skipping Pride Month events, the team said last year, quote, Our long-standing commitment remains the same, to make everyone feel welcome and included in Rangers baseball, in our ballpark, at every game, and in all we do for both our fans and our employees.

00:32:59.000 We deliver on that promise across our many programs to have a positive impact across our entire community, which is the way that you actually ought to treat your fans, by the way.

00:33:08.000 Six teams changed their official logos on social media to include some version of the Pride flag.

00:33:13.000 Another 11 teams wrote a post acknowledging Pride Month.

00:33:16.000 It is obviously the most lib cities that decided to go ahead and change their entire logos like the Mets, New York, and Baltimore Orioles, and the Washington Nationals, and Philadelphia Phillies, San Francisco, of course, the Giants.

00:33:30.000 None of that is a supergiant shock.

00:33:33.000 However, is this the sort of stuff that is going to drive viewership for the lagging MLB?

00:33:38.000 Absolutely not.

00:33:40.000 The game of classic Americana catering to the most radical social policies is one of the silliest marketing fails I can imagine.

00:33:47.000 Truly a silly marketing fail.

00:33:49.000 And it's failed for everybody.

00:33:50.000 Disney continues its string of layoffs, according to The Daily Wire.

00:33:53.000 According to Reuters, Disney is now preparing to conduct mass layoffs that will affect hundreds I mean, maybe that's because, again, so much of their content has been woke trash for the last 10 years or so.

00:34:11.000 Snow White, of course, was a massive bust. 0.79

00:34:14.000 The live-action remake supposedly cost $115 million based on a $410 million budget.

00:34:21.000 It only earned a worldwide box office gross of $195 million.

00:34:26.000 Major problems with Snow White.

00:34:28.000 The movies that have been doing okay for Disney are, of course, basically remakes of classic Disney without any of the woke involved in it.

00:34:34.000 It's a Lilo and Stitch remake.

00:34:36.000 It's a big business at the box office.

00:34:37.000 No shock there.

00:34:38.000 Well, actually, there's some people on the right side of the aisle who think that the new Lilo and Stitch movie is, in fact, woke.

00:34:43.000 It appears to me to be, if it's woke, it's less woke than Snow White.

00:34:46.000 So by comparison, they're moving in maybe the right direction, a little bit.

00:34:50.000 But it's just indicative of a change in the American mindset.

00:34:52.000 Americans are tired of this stuff.

00:34:54.000 It's one of the reasons why President Trump is in fact president.

00:34:57.000 And it's one of the reasons why President Trump has now authorized his administration to stop parroting the woke propaganda for the month of June.

00:35:04.000 Okay, in a moment, we're going to get to Greta taking a boat to the Gaza Strip.

00:35:08.000 Yes, the most obnoxious person alive going to visit terrorists.

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00:36:18.000 Now, meanwhile, in what has to be not only one of the stupidest stories of the day, but one of the stupidest stories ever, we're still talking about Greta Thunberg.

00:36:28.000 Now, you recall Greta when she was a not particularly cute child and we weren't allowed to make jokes about her not being particularly cute because she was a child.

00:36:35.000 Well, now, She's 22 years old, so I can say whatever the hell I want about her.

00:36:38.000 And she is an obnoxious brat. 1.00

00:36:40.000 She was always an obnoxious brat. 1.00

00:36:42.000 She first heard about climate change in 2011, she says, when she was 8 years old.

00:36:46.000 And at that point, she stopped talking, stopped eating, and lost 22 pounds.

00:36:50.000 That was at like age 11. That is really bad.

00:36:55.000 And we know that her parents were worried about her.

00:36:58.000 They got her some treatment.

00:36:59.000 But apparently, he then took her out of school and decided to put her on camera for literally The rest of her life, which is a weird way of doing treatment.

00:37:08.000 He actually said, quote, she can either sit at home and be really unhappy or protest and be happy.

00:37:13.000 Well, I'm not sure why we are supposed to listen to an unhappy teenager protesting just to make them happy.

00:37:19.000 At least someone's happy.

00:37:20.000 She's spent the last decade or so gallivanting around the globe protesting. 0.99

00:37:25.000 It's like her way of having fun.

00:37:26.000 She started with climate change, where she famously lectured all the adults for not doing enough in her humble opinion.

00:37:32.000 I mean, not humble opinion because she's not humble at all.

00:37:34.000 As I say, truly obnoxious.

00:37:36.000 She said that the adults were not doing enough to stop the world from getting warmer.

00:37:40.000 She didn't have any solutions, but she could yell at the adults. 0.90

00:37:43.000 It was her very obnoxiousness that endeared her to the left-wing media machine in the first place, which, for some odd reason, finds small children saying idiotically reductive garbage to be wise and useful.

00:37:54.000 So, here she was in 2019, yelling at the adults.

00:38:00.000 Oh, my God.

00:38:02.000 You can't get this out of your mind once it's there.

00:38:04.000 It will be implanted in your brain forever, this obnoxious nonsense.

00:38:07.000 How dare you continue to look away and come here saying that you're doing enough when the politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight.

00:38:20.000 You say you hear us and that you understand the urgency.

00:38:26.000 But no matter how sad and angry I am, I do not want to believe that.

00:38:35.000 I mean, who cares?

00:38:36.000 I mean, the fact that this was ever treated as a serious issue is beyond me.

00:38:40.000 But it shows that the left is literally willing to use anyone as their tool, and they particularly like using children, specifically because then, if you say that the child is wrong, like, you're attacking a child.

00:38:49.000 Well, here's the deal.

00:38:50.000 Now she's 22, so I can say whatever I want about her.

00:38:53.000 Okay?

00:38:53.000 She's an adult.

00:38:54.000 She still dresses like a little girl, and she still cosplays as a teenage girl.

00:38:58.000 But now she has graduated to the new leftist radical cause of the day, standing for Hamas in Gaza.

00:39:04.000 So this Swedish truant, who still has not graduated college, is now heading for Gaza in a boat.

00:39:10.000 Yes, she's heading to Gaza in a boat.

00:39:13.000 It's funny.

00:39:15.000 I'm sorry, it's funny.

00:39:16.000 This spoiled Brad, who's never held a real job in her life, and will never need to because she'll just be a professional activist forever, getting herself arrested for no reason. 0.66

00:39:24.000 She's going in a boat. 0.95

00:39:26.000 Yay! 0.99

00:39:27.000 It's like a lonely island.

00:39:28.000 She's on a boat, a boat reminiscent of the terrorist flotilla from 2010, in which friends of Hamas sent a set of ships to Gaza laden with goods that would have immediately have gone to support the terror group.

00:39:40.000 That particular flotilla was offered passage at Ashdod, which is an Israeli port, and they turned it down because they were worried that Israel would confiscate the goods, which Israel would have, because, again, it was illegal.

00:39:51.000 Israel had offered, by the way, to coordinate any aid with the UN, that flotilla, Like they brought weapons on board.

00:39:59.000 They brought water cannons and stuff.

00:40:00.000 And when the Israelis loaded, boarded the ship to stop it, this is back in 2010, some of the people on the ship even grabbed the weapons of the Israelis.

00:40:08.000 Ten Israeli soldiers were wounded.

00:40:09.000 There were nine of the people on the ships who were killed by Israeli troops.

00:40:13.000 They had openly said they wished to die as martyred.

00:40:15.000 So again, that was the terrorist kind of propaganda ship of the time.

00:40:18.000 That was 2010.

00:40:19.000 Well, fast forward 15 years and we're doing the terrorist propaganda ship again.

00:40:22.000 So back to our moronic story.

00:40:24.000 Greta's new pleasure cruise.

00:40:25.000 So, our pippy long-stocking wannabe heroine has now loaded onto the so-called Madeline ship, which is launched by the so-called Freedom Flotilla Coalition.

00:40:34.000 This Freedom Flotilla has not called for the freedom of Palestinians from Hamas ever, or the freedom of actual hostages currently being held in tunnels as they are dying.

00:40:43.000 Anyway, Thunberg has taken the lead, calling to dismantle Zionism.

00:40:47.000 This is her goal, to dismantle Zionism, which just for the record, Here she was just a few months back saying as much to her friends in Stockholm.

00:40:59.000 *Panical singing*

00:41:07.000 So she's chanting crush Zionism here. 0.60

00:41:09.000 That's what she is chanting.

00:41:11.000 And she's so happy.

00:41:12.000 Remember, she garners her happiness from this sort of performative idiocy.

00:41:18.000 Well, she is now joined on the magic boat of stupidity by propagandists from the Qatari news outlet Al Jazeera, as well as an actor from Game of Thrones.

00:41:26.000 Actually, the right actor, it's the Davos Seaworth guy, so at least he's used to being on the water for fake.

00:41:31.000 They say they're trying to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza, even though actually what's happening in Gaza right now is kind of amazing.

00:41:37.000 Israel has taken over the distribution of humanitarian aid along with the Americans, and they're doing it directly, which is very good because people are now being fed in the Gaza Strip.

00:41:45.000 By people who are not Hamas. 0.93

00:41:47.000 One of the big problems with the UN is that they worked for Hamas.

00:41:49.000 And so all the aid that was going in was being hijacked by Hamas. 0.77

00:41:52.000 Hamas was then taking it and either using it themselves or they were selling it back to the Palestinians at inflated rates to pay for their terror tunnels and all the rest.

00:42:00.000 So what's happening right now is that Palestinians are actually beginning to get aid and it's breaking the Hamas strangleholds over the Palestinian population.

00:42:07.000 It's actually creating the possibility of a true Palestinian uprising against Hamas.

00:42:12.000 Hamas centers of distribution. 0.87

00:42:15.000 Warehouses storing flour are now being attacked by Palestinians. 1.00

00:42:18.000 So the Palestinians are now free to actually receive aid without having to worry about Hamas stealing it.

00:42:23.000 So what Greta is doing is actually part of a gigantic propaganda effort launched by the exact same pro-Hamas forces that lied earlier this week by claiming that Israel had shot dozens of people at an aid distribution center.

00:42:35.000 It was a complete and total lie parroted by the left-wing media.

00:42:38.000 It was parroted by the BBC.

00:42:39.000 It was parroted by CNN and the Washington Post.

00:42:41.000 Again, it's all part of a bigger propaganda operation.

00:42:44.000 Here's Greta, who suddenly decided that climate change is so passe and that Hamas is super hot right now. 0.99

00:42:52.000 Woo! 0.99

00:42:53.000 So she said, quote, The world cannot be silent bystanders.

00:42:57.000 This silence and passivity that we are seeing from most of the world is deadly.

00:43:01.000 We are seeing a systematic starvation of two million people.

00:43:05.000 Literally, the Israelis have been shipping in trucks filled with aid to the same people who took hundreds of Israelis, hostages, and murdered.

00:43:13.000 Murdered over a thousand.

00:43:14.000 She says, every single one of us has a moral obligation to do everything we can to fight for a free Palestine.

00:43:21.000 It's obnoxious Swedish brat. 1.00

00:43:23.000 She's so obnoxious. 1.00

00:43:25.000 Again, this is all part of her broader crusade to get herself arrested so she can get attention. 0.52

00:43:29.000 The same kinds of attention she used to get when she was effectively a child actress.

00:43:33.000 But sort of like other child actresses, she can no longer earn a part.

00:43:36.000 And so we have now reached the Britney Spears, Katy Perry desperation point of the Greta Thunberg character arc in which she just does increasingly sordid and idiotic stuff in order to get attention.

00:43:46.000 So here she was a few months ago just getting herself arrested.

00:43:48.000 you You are not alone!

00:44:00.000 Okay, so...

00:44:01.000 You are not alone!

00:44:02.000 This is what these people get off on, is the chanting, and she's wearing the terrorist keffiyeh. 0.85

00:44:06.000 Again, if you airdrop Greta without the keffiyeh into Gaza, You are not alone! 1.00

00:44:11.000 This sort of stuff would be super silly and kind of funny, of course.

00:44:15.000 I mean, listen, I kind of hope, secretly, that this whole thing turns into one of these entertaining reality specials.

00:44:21.000 So, like, the engine breaks, and we get the world's most ridiculous version of Gilligan's Island.

00:44:25.000 The problem is Greta, despite the hair, really can't carry it forward the way Marianne did. 1.00

00:44:29.000 Actually, the whole crew of the USS Minnow has now been replaced by smelly environmentalists who really, really hate Jews.

00:44:35.000 And like the USS Minnow, they may be stuck wherever they land for years at a time.

00:44:40.000 Because none of these people is going to make a radio out of a coconut.

00:44:43.000 I mean, if you think Greta ain't making no radio out of no coconut. 0.93

00:44:46.000 Anyway, the real question here is the same as always.

00:44:49.000 It really is a serious question.

00:44:50.000 Why is it we can almost always identify, actually not almost, just literally always, climate change activists as fans of Hamas, one of the least environmentally friendly groups on the planet?

00:45:00.000 And the answer is simple.

00:45:01.000 It's something called the omni-cause.

00:45:03.000 For the left, there is one giant mush of cause.

00:45:07.000 It doesn't matter if you're talking about trans rights. 0.52

00:45:10.000 Or the environment?

00:45:10.000 Or Hamas?

00:45:11.000 It's all part of the omni-cause.

00:45:13.000 What unites the omni-cause?

00:45:15.000 Well, it's that people hate the system.

00:45:17.000 And by this, they just mean capitalism in the West.

00:45:19.000 That's all.

00:45:20.000 Greta hates capitalism. 0.99

00:45:21.000 She hates the West.

00:45:21.000 That's the end of it.

00:45:23.000 And whether she is attacking the West by siding with Hamas, or whether she's attacking the West by parroting a bunch of random green environmental nonsense, she's been doing this crap since 2019.

00:45:32.000 She released a book in 2019 and somehow incredibly became even more obnoxious. 1.00

00:45:37.000 At some point, we're going to reach the obnoxiousness singularity.

00:45:39.000 With Greta Thunberg, and the world will end.

00:45:42.000 She said in 2019, quote, what we refer to as normal is an extreme system built on the exploitation of people and the planet.

00:45:49.000 It's a system defined by colonialism, imperialism, oppression, genocide, by the so-called global north to accumulate wealth that still shapes our current world order.

00:45:59.000 I mean, notice the language there?

00:46:00.000 She's talking about genocide in 2019.

00:46:02.000 And in 2019, I like the West, generally.

00:46:04.000 So, yes, that's what's happening here.

00:46:06.000 This is a boat full of And that is why they all talk like this at university campuses.

00:46:13.000 And this is why the media support them.

00:46:14.000 Because this is all part of a broader left-wing rubric that says that capitalism is bad and successful people are exploiters.

00:46:21.000 And everybody who is poor and makes bad decisions in life, all those people, all of them, are all exploited by all of those terrible capitalistic Western pigs.

00:46:32.000 Meanwhile, she's a Swedish.

00:46:34.000 So, listen, I wish all of these people a pleasant three-hour tour.

00:46:37.000 And if they land on the shores of some uncharted desert isle, I hope that they land without the kafiyas so they can see how the Hamas locals treat them without their terror, solidarity, insignias. 0.99

00:46:46.000 How Westerners are actually treated when they end up among the actual barbarians that they believe they support. 0.68

00:46:52.000 Meanwhile, again, as I say, this is part of a broader movement that actually is quite dangerous because when the West begins to parrot the absolute lies of terror groups, that has consequences.

00:47:03.000 It does.

00:47:04.000 When you continue to say the word genocide, when a genocide no longer and never has applied in this area, then you are fomenting the same language that leads to a raising of the temperature.

00:47:18.000 And when you raise the temperature this much, people are going to get violent.

00:47:22.000 And this, of course, happened over the course of the weekend in Boulder, Colorado.

00:47:26.000 So in Boulder, Colorado, there's a terrorist suspect who, as it turns out, is a radical Islamist.

00:47:32.000 He was let into the country.

00:47:34.000 He's a 45-year-old Egyptian national.

00:47:36.000 And he was originally let into the country on some sort of asylum claim, which, again, ridiculous.

00:47:44.000 Absolutely insane.

00:47:46.000 So he moved to Colorado Springs three years ago with his wife and five kids.

00:47:50.000 He'd spent 17 years living in Kuwait.

00:47:53.000 And then he claimed asylum.

00:47:55.000 He said that he was only able to live in the United States.

00:48:03.000 The man entered the United States with a tourist visa in 2022.

00:48:07.000 That's a six-month visa.

00:48:08.000 He then overstayed like half a million immigrants do every year. 0.98

00:48:12.000 And then he claimed asylum so he wouldn't be kicked out.

00:48:14.000 And then he was given a work permit while he waited years for his immigration case to work through the system.

00:48:19.000 And as it turns out, this is just a Jew-hating, radical Islamist piece of crap.

00:48:23.000 And what he ended up doing was going to a pro-hostage rally led by some presumably liberal Jews in Boulder, Colorado. 0.87

00:48:30.000 Boulder, Colorado is not known.

00:48:32.000 As a conservative hotbed.

00:48:33.000 And he proceeded to throw Molotov cocktails, injuring 12 people.

00:48:37.000 One pretty seriously.

00:48:39.000 Then he's arrested on scene.

00:48:42.000 So, here is a video of this delightful new American, the asylum refugee.

00:48:48.000 A person that we definitely needed to leave in the country. 0.97

00:48:51.000 He was driving to attack people with Molotov cocktails.

00:48:54.000 And as he was driving, he was speaking in Arabic to a camera.

00:48:56.000 And here is what he had to say.

00:49:02.000 Allah is greater than anything.

00:49:04.000 Allah is greater than the Zionists. 1.00

00:49:05.000 Allah is greater than America and its weapons. 1.00

00:49:07.000 Allah is greater than the F-35 planes. 0.99

00:49:09.000 Allah is greater than everything else.

00:49:13.000 So why do we fear those who are inferior to Allah rather than fear Allah Himself?

00:49:19.000 Do not forget Allah Akbar. 0.91

00:49:20.000 Do not forget that Allah is greater than everything.

00:49:23.000 Not the Zionists, America, Britain, France, or Germany. 0.76

00:49:27.000 And only Allah has the right to be feared. 0.94

00:49:29.000 Allah is the right to be feared. 1.00

00:49:35.000 I say to my mother, my wife, my children, my brothers, my people, I attest before Allah and before you that Allah, his messenger, and jihad for Allah's sake are more beloved to me than you and the whole world are.

00:49:53.000 I think the funniest thing about the Greta Thunbergs of the world is these people say like everything they believe right out loud, right out loud.

00:49:58.000 You don't just hate the Jews. 0.87

00:49:59.000 It's America, Germany, France. 0.81

00:50:03.000 Jihad and murder are more beloved to him than his own family. 0.91

00:50:06.000 Like, this ain't all right out in the open.

00:50:08.000 Nobody ain't hiding nothing.

00:50:09.000 And yet, we're supposed to believe that actually, this is all because of victimization and the exploitation and colonization and all this kind of trash.

00:50:19.000 So, we know exactly who this person is.

00:50:21.000 Another failure of our immigration system. 0.52

00:50:24.000 Remember, it was just last week that Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, was before the United States Senate.

00:50:28.000 Saying we are going to revoke the visas of people who are here as guests who hate the country. 0.89

00:50:33.000 And the Democrats are like, no, you can't do that.

00:50:35.000 And Rubio's like, ah, the hell I can't.

00:50:38.000 The bottom line is if you're coming here to stir up trouble on our campuses, we will deny you a visa.

00:50:43.000 And if you have a visa and we find you, we will revoke it. 1.00

00:50:45.000 And we're going to do more.

00:50:46.000 There are more coming.

00:50:47.000 We're going to continue to revoke the visas of people who are here as guests and are disrupting our higher education facilities. 1.00

00:50:53.000 People are paying money.

00:50:54.000 These kids pay money to go to school, and they have to walk through a bunch of lunatics who are here on student visas.

00:51:01.000 I want to do more.

00:51:02.000 I hope we can find more of these people.

00:51:03.000 In fact, the other day, some guys led a riot.

00:51:06.000 I forgot what university it was.

00:51:08.000 And I asked, please, can you find the arrest records of all the people that were arrested at that riot at that campus?

00:51:13.000 Because if any of them have a visa, we're going to revoke it.

00:51:17.000 Again, the Democrats are really mad about this.

00:51:19.000 How could he say that there are people coming to our campuses and into our country who hate the country?

00:51:23.000 They all love our country.

00:51:24.000 They're all wonderful.

00:51:25.000 No, they're not.

00:51:26.000 No, they're not.

00:51:26.000 And we should be deporting all of the people who believe like this person believed.

00:51:30.000 And if you pretend that there is no evidence, that's not true.

00:51:32.000 He was posting on behalf of the Muslim Brotherhood in 2012.

00:51:35.000 This particular suspect.

00:51:37.000 Well, now Kristi Noem, the Department of Homeland Security head, she says that the Boulder suspect's family has been detained by Eisenmark for removal, which seems like a pretty good solution.

00:51:46.000 Today, the Department of Homeland Security and ICE are taking the family of suspected Boulder, Colorado terrorist and illegal alien Mohamed Salman into ICE custody.

00:51:57.000 Now, Mohamed's despicable actions will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

00:52:02.000 But we're also investigating to what extent his family knew about this horrific attack, if they had any knowledge of it or if they provided support to it.

00:52:13.000 Okay, now again, when it comes to the immigration policy of the administration, it's totally right. 0.59

00:52:16.000 But there are two factors that are now happening.

00:52:18.000 One is the loose immigration policy of the Biden administration and the Obama administration and other administrations has led to a moment where America is chock-filled with people who hate the country.

00:52:28.000 If you want to see the full effects of that, take a look at France, where there are riots in the street constantly by radical Muslims who are just burning stuff all over the place. 0.94

00:52:36.000 You know what we don't need?

00:52:37.000 That in America.

00:52:38.000 We don't need that.

00:52:39.000 And the Trump administration is doing exactly the right thing in stopping all of that.

00:52:44.000 Well, the other thing that's happening is the media's parroting of Hamas propaganda is leading to a radical uptick in left-wing anti-Semitism and left-wing terrorism.

00:52:53.000 It is not a coincidence that this sort of thing is happening on the heels of the murder of two people in Washington, D.C., two Jews in Washington, D.C., one of whom was an American citizen.

00:53:05.000 That's because the media continued.

00:53:07.000 Parrot, literally every piece of propaganda.

00:53:08.000 Again, the thing that's happening right now in Gaza, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which is the distribution of aid designed to get to the people and not to Hamas, is wildly successful.

00:53:19.000 Hamas is attempting to stop it.

00:53:20.000 They want a reversion to the UN handing out the aid.

00:53:23.000 Because if the UN hands out the aid, it keeps Hamas alive. 0.95

00:53:26.000 And so the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has been doing a good job.

00:53:30.000 So what did Hamas do?

00:53:30.000 They just lied.

00:53:31.000 They claimed that Israel had opened fire near a Gaza aid distribution center and killed And it was just a lie.

00:53:39.000 According to officials from the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health, at least 31 people were killed and 170 wounded on Sunday when Israeli forces opened fire on civilians massing near an aid site.

00:53:49.000 Now, question, why would Israel possibly do that? 0.87

00:53:51.000 That'd be the stupidest possible thing they could do, is just start firing indiscriminately at crowds of people gathered to receive aid.

00:53:57.000 Legitimately the dumbest thing in history for them to do if they didn't do it, it turns out.

00:54:01.000 Israel denied it was behind the attack, and then they released drone footage.

00:54:04.000 Of unidentified masked men shooting unarmed civilians near the aid center.

00:54:08.000 And they released contemporaneous footage showing that they had nothing to do with any of this kind of stuff.

00:54:14.000 The Hamas line was not substantiated, in other words.

00:54:17.000 It didn't matter.

00:54:18.000 CNN put out a headline immediately, quote, at least 31 Palestinians killed after Israeli forces opened fire near Gaza Aid Distribution Center.

00:54:25.000 The BBC went with a similar headline, quote, 31 dead after Israeli forces attack near Gaza Aid Center, says Hamas run health ministry.

00:54:34.000 On ABC's Good Morning America, again, they just quoted the Hamas-run health ministry uncritically.

00:54:41.000 The Washington Post had to issue a botched retraction.

00:54:46.000 They updated their story, changing its headline to read, More than 30 killed by gunfire near a U.S. aid site in Gaza.

00:54:52.000 The paper did not add an editor's note explaining why it made wholesale editorial changes to the story.

00:54:59.000 This kind of media coverage?

00:55:00.000 The lie about genocide?

00:55:02.000 The lie that Israel is just indiscriminately shooting people near an aid station.

00:55:06.000 This kind of stuff is Hamas propaganda.

00:55:08.000 It is Hamas propaganda. 0.83

00:55:10.000 Clearly, implicitly, that's what it is.

00:55:16.000 And it's being fomented by a media that, again, agrees with the Greta Thunbergs of the world and actually really despises the West in major ways.

00:55:22.000 Despises capitalism, is far left, believes that the West bears some sort of blood guilt for its success.

00:55:28.000 Caroline Levitt over the White House ripped into the BBC over its report incorrectly.

00:55:33.000 The administration is aware of those reports, and we are currently looking into the veracity of them, because unfortunately, unlike some in the media, we don't take the word of Hamas with total truth.

00:55:46.000 We like to look into it when they speak, unlike the BBC, who had multiple headlines.

00:55:52.000 They wrote, Israeli tank kills 26. Israeli tank kills 21. Israeli gunfire kills 31. Red Cross says 21 people were killed in an aid incident.

00:56:03.000 They had to correct and take down their entire story, saying we reviewed the footage and couldn't find any evidence of anything.

00:56:10.000 Oh, OK.

00:56:11.000 So we're going to look into reports before we confirm them from this podium or before we take action.

00:56:16.000 And I suggest that journalists who actually care about truth do the same to reduce the amount of misinformation that's going around the globe on this front.

00:56:26.000 Good for Caroline Levitt and company.

00:56:28.000 That is exactly right.

00:56:29.000 And of course, the White House knows this because nobody has been more maligned than the White House.

00:56:33.000 On a wide variety of issues, including on immigration.

00:56:35.000 The headline of the weekend, by the way, is this Washington Post headline about immigration.

00:56:39.000 It's an unbelievable headline.

00:56:40.000 Quote, the mysterious drop in fentanyl seizures on the U.S.-Mexico border.

00:56:43.000 The reasons behind the decrease of fentanyl seizures in the U.S. and along the Mexico-U.S.

00:56:48.000 border are complex.

00:56:49.000 That was their headline.

00:56:50.000 It is not a mysterious drop.

00:56:52.000 We told people not to illegally immigrate, and we said we would arrest them if they do. 1.00

00:56:56.000 And then they didn't come.

00:56:58.000 That's why there's a drop in the fentanyl traffic.

00:57:00.000 We actually closed the border.

00:57:02.000 It turns out it was not hard to do.

00:57:05.000 We did an entire series last year called The Divided States of Biden, in which one of the episodes we traveled down to the U.S.-Mexico border, it was wide open because of Joe Biden's policy.

00:57:13.000 We closed it, and the Washington Post says it's mysterious.

00:57:16.000 It's funny.

00:57:16.000 When good things happen for the Trump administration, it's mysterious.

00:57:20.000 Mysterious.

00:57:20.000 We have no idea why.

00:57:22.000 Who could understand?

00:57:24.000 I mean, we know why.

00:57:25.000 So can the White House.

00:57:26.000 The White House responded to this stupidity.

00:57:31.000 How is this mysterious?

00:57:32.000 There is no mystery about why there is a decrease in fentanyl coming into the United States.

00:57:37.000 This administration's strong border policies are the reason there has been a decrease in fentanyl trafficking.

00:57:43.000 His strengthened relationship with Mexican President Sheinbaum and all of the measures he has been taking to deter illegal human and drug trafficking at our United States southern border is the reason.

00:57:55.000 For plummeting fentanyl seizures at the U.S. border.

00:57:58.000 There is nothing mysterious about that, and we'd like to see the Washington Post update their headline accordingly.

00:58:03.000 This is clearly trying to intentionally manipulate the minds of Americans, and I think the American people understand why there's been a fentanyl drop.

00:58:12.000 In our office, responded to this inquiry, we provided a whole host of the reasons that fentanyl seizures at the southern border have dropped and the Washington Post refused to run them, and that's despicable.

00:58:24.000 Of course, that is 100% right.

00:58:26.000 And the Democrats, for some reason, keep wrong-footing themselves on these issues.

00:58:29.000 These are very obvious issues.

00:58:31.000 Don't let people who hate the country into the country.

00:58:33.000 Arrest people trying to get into the country illegally.

00:58:35.000 Maybe keep track of the people who are in the country.

00:58:38.000 New ABC News report breaking two Chinese nationals have been charged with allegedly smuggling into the United States a fungus called Fusarium graminarium, which scientific literature classifies as a potential agro-terrorism weapon, according to the DOJ, on Tuesday.

00:58:53.000 Apparently, these two characters were allegedly receiving Chinese government funding for their research, some of it at the University of Michigan.

00:59:02.000 So they were literally developing a bioweapon, according to the DOJ.

00:59:06.000 So what are the Democrats focused laser-like on?

00:59:09.000 Not threats foreign and domestic, but on going after the people who stopped the threats foreign and domestic.

00:59:14.000 Here's Hakeem Jeffries, the House Minority Leader, threatening to reveal the identities of ICE agents.

00:59:23.000 ICE agent who's engaged in this aggressive overreach and are trying to hide their identities from the American people will be unsuccessful in doing that.

00:59:36.000 This is America.

00:59:38.000 This is not the Soviet Union.

00:59:40.000 We're not behind the Iron Curtain.

00:59:43.000 This is not the 1930s.

00:59:46.000 And every single one of them, no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes, That, in fact, is the law.

00:59:58.000 Unbelievable.

00:59:59.000 That's your focus.

01:00:01.000 The Democrats have a unique capacity.

01:00:03.000 I will say, President Trump, it's amazing.

01:00:07.000 He's like a magnet for iron filings of dumb from the Democrats.

01:00:11.000 Just whatever is the dumbest possible thing they can do, they just immediately rush to it.

01:00:15.000 The most popular part of President Trump's agenda by far is his immigration agenda.

01:00:18.000 By far.

01:00:19.000 It's not close in the polling.

01:00:20.000 And Democrats are like, What if we target ICE agents?

01:00:23.000 What the hell is wrong with you people?

01:00:24.000 Why are you so stupid?

01:00:25.000 I don't understand.

01:00:26.000 Meanwhile, in international news, President Trump is saying the same thing that he's been saying for 10 years and somehow people are surprised.

01:00:31.000 So President Trump has been in the midst of these negotiations with Iran via Steve Whitcoff, the special envoy.

01:00:38.000 Again, I'm unimpressed, shall we say, with Steve Whitcoff's negotiating acumen thus far.

01:00:44.000 But President Trump has now come out and he has said, We will not allow any enrichment of uranium, is what he says on Truth Social.

01:00:53.000 He says, under our potential agreement, we will not allow any enrichment of uranium.

01:00:57.000 Now, the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, had also said that.

01:01:00.000 Steve Witkoff had also said that.

01:01:01.000 But that does apparently contradict a proposal that Witkoff made to Iran on Saturday, the details of which were reported by Axios on Monday.

01:01:10.000 Well, if Witkoff is making proposals that are not what the president wants.

01:01:14.000 Then he is betraying a fundamental promise made by the President of the United States in both terms.

01:01:19.000 President Trump has been very clear on this.

01:01:21.000 No Iranian enrichment.

01:01:23.000 Because we don't trust them, nor should we.

01:01:25.000 There are reports that they are rushing toward a nuclear weapon as fast as possible.

01:01:28.000 The idea that Iran desperately needs nuclear energy for civilian purposes is on its face an absurdity.

01:01:34.000 It is a wildly underdeveloped economy.

01:01:37.000 They have some of the greatest oil resources on planet Earth.

01:01:41.000 What, are they worried about environmental consequences of drilling?

01:01:45.000 Precisely.

01:01:45.000 It's absolute bull and everybody knows it's absolute bull.

01:01:49.000 Iran would like an interim deal whereby they have some sanctions removed just to get beyond the period where they can rearm and close the skies. 0.86

01:01:57.000 The big problem for Iran right now is there's an open window above Iran. 0.98

01:02:00.000 Israel destroyed a lot of their air defense capacity in the last round of fighting between Iran and Israel.

01:02:05.000 And that means that a potential strike on their nuclear facilities is quite real.

01:02:09.000 So Iran has been doing a couple of things.

01:02:10.000 One is they're apparently digging even deeper.

01:02:18.000 They have been delaying.

01:02:23.000 They really want a delay.

01:02:24.000 This is their big deal.

01:02:25.000 Try to run out the clock.

01:02:27.000 Try to simply push the negotiations and push them and push them and push them.

01:02:31.000 Apparently, there was a report earlier this week that the Trump administration would propose an arrangement that would allow Iran to continue enriching uranium at low levels.

01:02:39.000 While the U.S. and other countries work out a more detailed plan intended to block Iran's path to a nuclear weapon, but also give it access to fuel for new nuclear power plants.

01:02:46.000 That is a non-starter.

01:02:47.000 It should be a non-starter for the Trump administration.

01:02:49.000 Again, that was exactly the thing that President Trump was rejecting in that Truth Social post.

01:02:54.000 No enrichment.

01:02:55.000 Why?

01:02:56.000 Because anything less is the JCPOA, what President Trump labeled the worst deal in American history.

01:03:01.000 Anything less is the Barack Obama deal.

01:03:04.000 The JCPOA, the Obama deal, allowed Iran to retain all of its centrifuges and enrich uranium to 3.67 percent.

01:03:11.000 Any proposal that mirrors anything remotely like that is the Obama-Iran deal.

01:03:16.000 It also sunsetted provisions on bomb-making technology so they would have a full-scale nuclear program by 2030.

01:03:24.000 It also ignored Iran's missile program, which they have been steadily developing.

01:03:28.000 It also allowed them to spend all of the sanction relieved money on as many terror groups as they could, which is how they rebuilt their entire terror network from Hezbollah down to the Houthis in Yemen. 0.58

01:03:36.000 All the monitoring was being done by inspectors basically selected by the Iranian regime.

01:03:42.000 Inspectors from the IAEA were forced to petition Iran's mullahs to visit sensitive sites and then wait over two weeks, which obviously is a way of ensuring that Iran could move around whatever materials they were pushing.

01:03:53.000 Thank you.

01:03:55.000 So again, all of this, all of this cannot be imitated by the Trump administration.

01:03:59.000 President Trump Not me, that's President Trump.

01:04:03.000 President Trump has said, correctly, that it would be bad for the world for Iran to have a nuclear weapon. 1.00

01:04:07.000 That is the purpose of these negotiations.

01:04:09.000 If Iran refuses to negotiate along the lines the United States wants, the United States should simply stand back and say, okay, well, we did what we could.

01:04:18.000 And then the Israelis will do what they have to do. 0.53

01:04:21.000 That is the proper solution if these talks go sideways.

01:04:25.000 Now again, the easiest solution, and the probably, Least risky solution if the Iranian talks go sideways, which I assume they will because the Iranian foreign minister keeps tweeting over and over again this morning about how they need their nuclear program.

01:04:42.000 If that continues, the easiest solution would just be to fly one sortie over Iran that takes out their nuclear facilities with B2s. 0.98

01:04:49.000 That would end it.

01:04:50.000 Done.

01:04:51.000 That would not lead to worldwide conflagration.

01:04:53.000 It would not lead to a giant regional war because Iran does not have the resources for that.

01:04:57.000 Who exactly would ally with Iran in such a war?

01:05:00.000 Russia is a little busy, you may have noticed.

01:05:03.000 Russia's had very little interest in defending Iran along any serious lines for the last couple of years, not just because of Ukraine, but because Iran's military is in fact inferior in the region, which is why they've had to use terror proxies. 0.70

01:05:15.000 But if the United States does not wish to participate in such a strike for whatever reason that I think is baseless, then let the Israelis do it. 1.00

01:05:25.000 But don't sign a deal just to sign a deal.

01:05:28.000 Because that would, in fact, violate the stuff that President Trump has been talking about for years and years and years.

01:05:32.000 Speaking of which, the Ukrainians unleashed one of the great military attacks in modern history over the course of the last few days. 0.99

01:05:40.000 They unleashed them in a surprise attack on Sunday.

01:05:42.000 They hit airfields from eastern Siberia all the way to Russia's western border.

01:05:47.000 According to the New York Times, they secretly planted a swarm of drones in Russia.

01:05:51.000 The assaults had several Russian aircraft on fire, stunned the Kremlin, and dealt a strategic and symbolic blow to Moscow's relentless bombing campaign.

01:05:58.000 In Ukraine.

01:05:59.000 So, apparently, Russia's defense ministry said on Sunday that Ukrainian drones had attacked airfields in five regions stretching across five time zones.

01:06:07.000 Murmansk, Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Ryazan, and Amur.

01:06:11.000 Several aircraft caught fire in Murmansk near the border with Norway and also in Irkutsk in eastern Siberia.

01:06:17.000 Ukraine said 117 drones were used in the attacks, causing $7 billion in damage.

01:06:22.000 The SBU said dozens of aircraft were damaged in the strikes.

01:06:27.000 The New York Times verified videos that showed successful strikes at Olenya Air Base in Romansk and Belaya Air Base in Irkutsk.

01:06:33.000 The plan was called Operation Spider's Web.

01:06:36.000 Drones were planted across Russia near military bases, according to the Ukrainians, and then they were all activated simultaneously.

01:06:43.000 The plan began a year and a half ago.

01:06:46.000 And apparently, people who were involved in the attack were withdrawn from Russia before it took place, according to the Ukrainians, and taken to a safer place.

01:06:53.000 And this was all done remotely.

01:06:55.000 Over many months, according to the Ukrainians, dozens of drones were secretly transported into Russia.

01:07:00.000 Their drones were packed onto pallets inside wooden containers with remote-controlled lids, and then they were loaded onto trucks.

01:07:05.000 Ukrainian officials said the crates were rigged to self-destruct after the drones were released.

01:07:09.000 There was no indication the truck drivers knew what they were hauling, according to Ukrainian officials.

01:07:14.000 I mean, it really is an unbelievable operation, very much akin to the Israeli beeper operation.

01:07:19.000 Like, operations have a long tail planned far in advance and show the vulnerability of Russia.

01:07:24.000 By the way, not just Russia.

01:07:26.000 It means the United States really needs to up our own security because this sort of attack could be carried out by, say, Chinese forces.

01:07:32.000 And they're shipping tons of stuff over here all the time.

01:07:35.000 And let's just say that our ports are not particularly secure.

01:07:39.000 Apparently, there are videos showing drones flying less than four miles from the Olenya airbase.

01:07:43.000 The person recording can be heard suggesting the drones had been launched from a truck parked down the road.

01:07:49.000 Ukraine said 41 planes had been hit, about one-third of the strategic cruise missile carriers at Russian airbases across three time zones.

01:07:57.000 The Times obtained radar imagery from a space imaging company.

01:08:00.000 Seven strategic bombers appear to be destroyed, likely four Tupolev Tu-22M and three Tupolev Tu-95 bombers.

01:08:09.000 American and European security officials said they estimated as many as 20 Russian strategic aircraft may have been destroyed or severely damaged.

01:08:16.000 I mean, you know, points for creativity.

01:08:18.000 For the Ukrainians.

01:08:20.000 And one of the goals is demonstrating for the Ukrainians that they are not going to surrender, that they are going to continue to push, and that the best thing that the Russians can do is come to the table, which is, in fact, the proper approach here. 0.58

01:08:31.000 Vladimir Putin has shown zero, zero compunction about continuing the war so far.

01:08:37.000 The Ukrainians are going to have to push him to the table. 1.00

01:08:39.000 That's how it works in a war.

01:08:40.000 You don't get to an armistice unless both sides feel that they've gone about as far as they can go right now.

01:08:44.000 Russia does not feel that.

01:08:46.000 But if Ukraine continues to push, Maybe they will.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - June 04, 2025

Greta Goes To Gaza!

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