The Ben Shapiro Show - Here Comes The BOOM: Trump Exploding Status Quo

00:00:00.000 Well, folks, it's a brand new weekend.

00:00:01.000 That means it's been an exciting weekend in Trump land.

00:00:04.000 So Donald Trump has now become a cultural phenomenon.

00:00:07.000 He always was a cultural phenomenon.

00:00:09.000 All the TV shows in the 1990s make reference to Donald Trump, of course.

00:00:12.000 But for a long period of time, when it came to the politics of Donald Trump, If you were in the middle, if you maybe leaned left, it was just impossible for you to mention that you maybe supported Donald Trump.

00:00:24.000 Well, now that is all over.

00:00:26.000 Donald Trump is a full-fledged cultural phenomenon.

00:00:29.000 He's evident on everything from your NFL games on Sunday to the UFC. Of course, the UFC is very Donald Trump territory.

00:00:35.000 He, of course, has shown up at many UFC fights over the course of the last year.

00:00:39.000 Over the weekend, he entered the latest UFC championship.

00:00:43.000 To a hero's welcome, he was joined by a wide variety of his friends, including a very out-of-place-looking speaker, Mike Johnson.

00:00:50.000 I don't know whether he regularly attends UFC fights, but he's got the rest of his sort of normal crew there, which means Elon Musk and Don Trump Jr.

00:01:00.000 and Joe Rogan and Dana White and Mike Johnson.

00:01:05.000 Honestly, it is a very, very funny thing.

00:01:08.000 So here is what it looked like at UFC the other night.

00:01:11.000 Look, who is now making his way to the world-famous Octagon, flanked by UFC CEO Dana White, 45, soon to be 47, President-elect Donald Trump.

00:01:27.000 At least the people at your home could hear the sound in this room.

00:01:33.000 It is so loud here.

00:01:34.000 It is so loud.

00:01:37.000 As Rogan announcing, as you will see, Donald Trump approaches him, they give him a big hug because, of course, Rogan endorsed him at the very end of the campaign.

00:01:47.000 Now, here's the thing.

00:01:51.000 Folks on the left, they may find this annoying.

00:01:55.000 This is reality.

00:01:58.000 Donald Trump isn't just a president.

00:02:00.000 He is, of course, a rock star.

00:02:01.000 That is what makes him so appealing to, say, low-propensity voters.

00:02:05.000 You don't get 76 million votes in the United States of America as a Republican without being something of a rock star.

00:02:10.000 And there he is, approaching the announcers of UFC, including, of course, Joe Rogan.

00:02:15.000 Big hug for Joe Rogan.

00:02:16.000 And why does that matter?

00:02:25.000 Well, it matters because it used to be that it was just purely uncool to say that you were a Republican or had voted for a Republican.

00:02:32.000 And now, all of a sudden, you're seeing a breakthrough into the pop culture, the idea of not only being a Republican, but it's sort of rebellious and cool.

00:02:38.000 I know, the left can't take it because they were brat and they were cool, but it turns out not so much.

00:02:43.000 Over the weekend, for example, there were a bunch of NFL players who, after scoring touchdowns, proceeded to do the Trump dance, you know, the kind of The kind of strange shimmy that he does on stage.

00:02:53.000 And it wasn't just one player.

00:02:54.000 It was like five separate players on five separate NFL telecasts scoring touchdowns and then doing the Trump dance.

00:03:00.000 Again, all that says is that the attempt to paint him as Adolf Hitler, the attempt to suggest that he is deeply abnormal or that he is so widely hated in the United States that he can't get his agenda must be ruled out of bounds, that obviously is untrue.

00:03:14.000 Now this is leading to despair among some people on the left.

00:03:17.000 So for example, one CNN guest was equating Donald Trump at UFC to Caesar in Rome.

00:03:26.000 I mean, and it really looks like ancient Rome here.

00:03:29.000 This is sort of the conquering Republican Caesar who's going into the Colosseum, and everyone's cheering, and he's got his political gladiators with him.

00:03:37.000 That appearance isn't just about him enjoying the applause.

00:03:41.000 He's sending a message to the Senate, like, not only are you entertained, but these are my people, and are you willing to fight?

00:03:48.000 Because here's who I have.

00:03:50.000 Now, again, the attempt to liken him to Caesar in Rome, what's amazing about that is that you never heard that same sort of language apply to Barack Obama.

00:03:58.000 Barack Obama was constantly part of the celebrity culture.

00:04:01.000 He was constantly ushering people from Hollywood into the Oval Office and then having them perform before him.

00:04:07.000 He did his 2008 Democratic Convention speech on stage with giant pillars and smoke rising from the ground behind him.

00:04:17.000 So the sort of spectacle is not new in American politics.

00:04:19.000 It's just it hasn't been applied to a Republican in our lifetime or probably ever.

00:04:24.000 And that means something because it means that things are changing on a cultural level, on an emotional level in the United States of America.

00:04:31.000 And that means that Donald Trump has an awful lot of steam.

00:04:33.000 And you are seeing that, by the way, with regard to foreign policy.

00:04:37.000 You're also seeing it with regard to business.

00:04:38.000 So on the business level, businesses are already adjusting.

00:04:40.000 According to Axios, President-elect Trump will be a private citizen for another two months, but his impending presidential arrival is already changing the world in ways big and small.

00:04:50.000 So, on the one end, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yel is taking his golf clubs out of storage so he'll be ready if Trump wants to play.

00:04:56.000 On the other, Taiwanese officials are considering massive arms deals to show Trump, who has said the self-governing island should pay us if he wants protection from China, that they're serious about their own defense.

00:05:04.000 Now, that's a good thing.

00:05:06.000 Taiwan increasing its own defense budget is a good thing because, of course, you want Taiwan bristling like a porcupine. 0.99

00:05:12.000 Thus, to get rid of China's interest in conquering the place or incentive to conquer the place. 0.67

00:05:18.000 In the private sector, companies are also changing how they do business.

00:05:21.000 Apparently, the fashion company Steve Madden has revealed it plans to slash China-made products by 40% to 45%, shifting the production elsewhere.

00:05:30.000 That is a good thing.

00:05:31.000 And they're doing that in expectation that Donald Trump is going to increase tariffs against China because China, of course, is a geopolitical enemy of the United States.

00:05:40.000 European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has suggested one way to appease Donald Trump would be to buy more American natural gas.

00:05:46.000 Now again, why is that a bad thing?

00:05:48.000 That's a very, very good thing.

00:05:49.000 The rest of the world is already adjusting to Trump.

00:05:52.000 And that is a good thing.

00:05:53.000 Europe buying more American natural gas isn't just good for America, it's good for Europe.

00:05:57.000 Because otherwise, guess who they're dependent upon?

00:05:59.000 Russia.

00:06:01.000 And if the idea is that you want Europe standing up to Russia, you don't want them dependent on Russian oil and natural gas.

00:06:07.000 Donald Trump was made fun of in his first term for saying this about the Germans.

00:06:10.000 He said that the Germans were dependent on Russian oil and natural gas, and this was making them vulnerable on a security level.

00:06:16.000 And he was mocked.

00:06:17.000 He was laughed at.

00:06:18.000 And of course, he was totally right.

00:06:20.000 Meanwhile, European defense stocks have been shooting up after Trump's win because the Europeans are realizing, hey, maybe we ought to increase our defense spending, which of course is true.

00:06:29.000 There's even a cautious shift underway in Kyiv, where officials are preparing to take part in potential peace talks, according to Axios' Barack Ravid.

00:06:37.000 Now again, this is not a bad thing.

00:06:40.000 Everybody knows that in Ukraine, pressure is going to have to be sufficient to force Russia to the table, but also, Ukraine is going to have to actually come to the table at some point here.

00:06:51.000 Meanwhile, Donald Trump's activity is actually spurring even President Biden to act in more solid ways with regards to Ukraine and Russia.

00:06:57.000 So, there are a lot of people on the right who are seeing the news today with regard to President Biden in Ukraine.

00:07:02.000 And they're saying, he's aiming for World War III. He's upping the game.

00:07:05.000 He's upping the ante.

00:07:06.000 And this is going to escalate things with regard to Russia.

00:07:09.000 I don't think that's the right way to see what Joe Biden is doing.

00:07:11.000 What Joe Biden is fearful of is that Donald Trump is going to cut aid to the Ukrainians.

00:07:15.000 And thus, the Ukraine will collapse in the face of Russia. 0.94

00:07:18.000 That's a misread of Donald Trump.

00:07:20.000 Donald Trump is not going to so cut aid to Ukraine that Vladimir Putin strolls through Kyiv.

00:07:25.000 If there's one thing that President Trump does not want, it is that image.

00:07:28.000 He does not like losing, and that would be him losing.

00:07:31.000 In the same way that Donald Trump did not pull out of Afghanistan ignominiously, even if he wanted to pull out of Afghanistan, he wasn't going to do so.

00:07:37.000 It meant the Taliban taking over Bagram Air Base.

00:07:40.000 So too, when it comes to Ukraine, Donald Trump really does not have an interest in Vladimir Putin dominating Ukraine, which is why what he has spelled out with regard to any plan with regard to Ukraine suggests that Ukraine remains a functioning state Sons, Donbass and Crimea with neutrality, but with enough military capacity to forestall any further Russian aggression.

00:08:04.000 So what's actually happening here is that because Joe Biden sees Donald Trump coming and because Donald Trump has suggested that he's going to force the Ukrainians to the table, which does need to happen, by the way.

00:08:14.000 The United States has so far done two things.

00:08:17.000 Slow walk to aid to Ukraine, meaning they don't actually have the military capacity to pursue some sort of total victory against the Russian.

00:08:23.000 And second, they've not made clear to Vladimir Zelensky what the endgame is.

00:08:27.000 So it's like the worst of both worlds.

00:08:29.000 You haven't made clear your goals and the means are not calibrated to reach those goals.

00:08:32.000 Whenever you do a military action or even aid in support of a military action, there has to be a goal.

00:08:38.000 And then what are the means to reach those goals?

00:08:40.000 Joe Biden did not define a goal in Ukraine other than victory, but he did not specify what victory meant.

00:08:45.000 Did that mean freeing Crimea?

00:08:46.000 If so, you have to give them F-16s.

00:08:48.000 Did it mean freeing Donbass?

00:08:49.000 If so, that means you have to rush them tanks.

00:08:52.000 You have to allow them to attack across Russian supply lines in Russia if you actually want those things to happen.

00:08:58.000 He didn't do any of those things.

00:08:59.000 So, he wasn't defining victory and he wasn't defining the means.

00:09:02.000 Well, now Donald Trump is coming in and he is going to be defining victory as the deal that was spelled out a moment ago.

00:09:08.000 And he's going to calibrate those means to that deal.

00:09:11.000 And so Joe Biden, in advance of that, is accelerating military aid to Ukraine.

00:09:16.000 Which, by the way, is probably good for Trump.

00:09:18.000 That is probably good for Trump.

00:09:19.000 Because the harder Ukraine goes right now, the better the deal will be that they will cut on the other end of this thing. 0.86

00:09:26.000 So apparently, President Biden, according to the New York Times, has now authorized the first use of U.S.-supplied long-range missiles by Ukraine for strikes inside Russia.

00:09:35.000 Those weapons are likely to be initially employed against Russian and North Korean troops in defense of Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region of Western Russia, according to officials.

00:09:42.000 Mr.

00:09:43.000 Biden's decision is a major change in United States policy.

00:09:45.000 The choice has divided his advisors.

00:09:47.000 His shift comes two months before President-elect Trump takes office, having vowed to limit further support for Ukraine.

00:09:54.000 President Vladimir Zelensky of Ukraine did not confirm the permission to strike, but suggested on Sunday more important than lifting the restrictions would be the number of missiles used to strike the Russians.

00:10:02.000 He said, today many in the media are talking about the fact that we have received permission to take appropriate actions, but blows are not inflicted with words.

00:10:08.000 Such things are not announced.

00:10:09.000 The rockets will speak for themselves.

00:10:12.000 Again, he began to ease restrictions on the use of U.S.-supplied weapons on Russian soil, Biden did, after Russia launched a cross-border assault in May in the direction of Kharkiv.

00:10:22.000 Officials said that while Ukrainians were likely to use the missiles first against Russian and North Korean troops that threatened Ukrainian forces in Kursk, Biden could authorize them to use the weapons elsewhere.

00:10:30.000 Some U.S. officials say they fear Ukraine's use of the missiles across the border could prompt Vladimir Putin to retaliate with force against the United States and his coalition partners.

00:10:39.000 That is unlikely in the extreme.

00:10:41.000 Vladimir Putin sees Donald Trump coming down the pike.

00:10:44.000 He knows both that Donald Trump does not want to surrender and also that Donald Trump does not want to prompt a full-scale war.

00:10:49.000 And what that means is that all of this is likely to actually advance a deal.

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00:13:05.000 Again, one of the things that you are not seeing thus far is strong language coming out of President Trump or J.D. Vance condemning Joe Biden for doing any of this.

00:13:13.000 Presumably because a rush of aid to Ukraine in advance of a deal is not necessarily the worst thing in the world.

00:13:19.000 And by the way, the Europeans are coming to grips with this.

00:13:22.000 The Europeans have known for years that this is the way this conflict is going to end.

00:13:26.000 Which is why, according to the Wall Street Journal, President-elect Trump's push for peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine is finding growing acceptance in Europe as one of the biggest aerial bombardments of the war added to growing concern about Ukraine's ability to withstand mounting Russian attacks.

00:13:40.000 Officials in many capitals recognize an off-ramp to the conflict appears increasingly necessary.

00:13:46.000 Apparently, the increased alignment between Europe and the Trump administration over the openness for talks is a sharp turnaround from even six months ago.

00:13:52.000 Back then, European officials looked in dread at the Trump team's pledge to end the war with swift negotiations amid fears the former president would cut a deal with the Kremlin at Ukraine's expense.

00:14:02.000 Now again, I never believed that that was true.

00:14:04.000 In fact, I'd spoken with European leaders who were much more sanguine about Donald Trump than the left-wing press in the United States.

00:14:09.000 They were saying the world was more peaceful, people were more scared of Trump, and the deals that he was cutting looked more solid than anything like what Joe Biden has been doing.

00:14:16.000 The world is already adjusting to the Donald Trump presidency and is getting stronger for that.

00:14:21.000 By the way, it has now been confirmed by Khan 11, which is a channel, a news channel in Israel, that Hamas has been booted out of Qatar.

00:14:28.000 Those top officials are now in Turkey, which should lead the United States as the leading funder of NATO to suggest that either Turkey needs to give up those Hamas officials and broker a release of the hostages being held in Gaza, including several Americans, or Turkey should be booted summarily out of NATO.

00:14:45.000 Benefits, NATO benefits should not be attached to a country that openly sides with terrorist groups.

00:14:50.000 Certainly not a country that has the power to invoke NATO Article 5.

00:14:54.000 That's insane.

00:14:56.000 Meanwhile, President Trump's picks continue to raise hackles on the left, particularly.

00:15:02.000 There's a lot of chaos regarding these picks, and so much of this is personal.

00:15:06.000 Now, a lot of this is political, obviously, but a lot of it is personal as well.

00:15:10.000 Apparently, President Trump has been shifting his take on who he's going to pick as Treasury Secretary.

00:15:16.000 He'd been expected to pick either Howard Letnick, Chief Executive of Cantor Fitzgerald, or Scott Besson, founder of the investment firm Keyscore Capital Management and former money management for George Soros.

00:15:26.000 But apparently, he's been having second thoughts about the top two candidates.

00:15:29.000 He's now slowed the selection process.

00:15:32.000 Apparently, according to Maggie Haberman of the New York Times, who's a frequent recipient of leaks from Trump World, Letnik, who has been running Mr.

00:15:39.000 Trump's transition operation, has gotten on Trump's nerves lately.

00:15:44.000 You do have to love the reality TV aspect to this administration.

00:15:47.000 You know, always, it's like, behind closed doors, there's some catfights going on.

00:15:51.000 Trump has privately expressed frustration that Lutnik has been hanging around him too much, and that he's been manipulating the transition process for his own ends.

00:15:58.000 A person familiar with the process, who spoke on condition of anonymity, described the battle between Lutnik and Besant as a knife fight, with Lutnik as the primary aggressor.

00:16:05.000 Besant is still under consideration, but apparently, Elon Musk is backing Lutnik.

00:16:12.000 So totally unclear which direction he's going to go with regard to Treasury Secretary.

00:16:16.000 There are some other candidates whose names are in the mix.

00:16:18.000 Suffice it to say that the chaos in Trump world is not over.

00:16:23.000 And again, what I've said to people with regard to chaos in Trump world for a very long time is watch the policy that emerges, not the chaos that surrounds the policy.

00:16:31.000 The chaos matters a lot less than the actual hard-nosed policy that emerges from any Trump cabinet or the picks that emerge from Donald Trump himself.

00:16:40.000 And what is the one common denominator among these picks?

00:16:43.000 Well, Speaker Mike Johnson, who again, looked like me at a UFC fight with a bunch of football players.

00:16:48.000 I have sympathy for Speaker Johnson.

00:16:50.000 Here he was explaining to Jake Tapper that while a lot of people may not like these picks, the point of these picks is to shake up the status quo, which obviously is true.

00:17:00.000 With some of these nominees, Gates, Hegseth, RFK Jr., I wonder, does it matter anymore?

00:17:08.000 For Republicans to think of leaders as people who are moral in their personal lives, is that still important to the Republican Party?

00:17:19.000 Sure.

00:17:20.000 It's an important issue for anyone in leadership.

00:17:22.000 This is what I'll say about the nominees that the president has put forward, is that they are persons who will shake up the status quo.

00:17:29.000 And I think what the American people have believed and what they've delivered with the mandate in this election is the demand that we shake up the status quo.

00:17:37.000 It's not working for the American people.

00:17:38.000 So, use the term in the opening about how these are disruptors.

00:17:42.000 They are.

00:17:43.000 I think that's by design.

00:17:44.000 Any president has the right to name their own cabinet, to nominate persons that they think will fulfill their agenda.

00:17:51.000 And the people that are on this list will do that.

00:17:54.000 They will go into the agencies that they're being asked to lead and they will reform them.

00:17:58.000 These agencies need reform.

00:17:59.000 And I think the vast majority of the American people understand that.

00:18:02.000 You can't have status quo appointments in a moment like this.

00:18:06.000 Now, again, he's not wrong about this.

00:18:08.000 And we can argue over the various merits and demerits of these candidates.

00:18:11.000 And I think that each one should be given a full Senate appointment process.

00:18:15.000 I think it is very important, actually, that the American people be introduced to these candidates, know everything about these candidates.

00:18:20.000 After all, these are going to be cabinet secretaries.

00:18:22.000 And with a Republican majority in the Senate, certainly they're owed a fair hearing and they will get a fair hearing in the Senate of the United States.

00:18:29.000 With that said, the thing that is very obvious about all of these picks is that they are meant to shake up the status quo, and that is what is really driving the left nuts.

00:18:36.000 They can say that it's all about Matt Gaetz's various accusations or Pete Hegseth's tattoos.

00:18:42.000 We'll get to all that in a second.

00:18:43.000 But that's not really what it's about, because we know for a fact that if these people were on the left, all of that would be ignored.

00:18:48.000 Willy nilly.

00:18:49.000 It wouldn't matter to them one iota.

00:18:51.000 The one thing that is perfectly obvious, however, is that the big objection is Donald Trump moving fast, not on nominees per se, but moving fast on the policies to be pursued by the nominees.

00:19:01.000 That is the actual goal here, is to obstruct all of that.

00:19:05.000 So, for example...

00:19:07.000 Joe Biden, the rest of the left, they've been touting the so-called green energy revolution.

00:19:11.000 The problem with the green energy revolution, of course, is that it is utterly and completely failing.

00:19:16.000 That doesn't mean that there can't be development of green energy.

00:19:19.000 It can't be electric cars.

00:19:21.000 I own one.

00:19:22.000 But it does mean that the so-called green energy revolution is not going to replace fossil fuels anytime soon.

00:19:29.000 Fossil fuels are too efficient.

00:19:30.000 They're too durable.

00:19:32.000 And the attempt by Joe Biden to cut them off has been a mistake.

00:19:37.000 Well, Joe Biden over the weekend went apparently to Jurassic Park to speak about green energy.

00:19:42.000 Makes sense.

00:19:42.000 He's a dinosaur.

00:19:43.000 So here he was just explaining how green energy can't be walked back.

00:19:48.000 Back home, I signed the most significant climate change law in history, a law that positioned us to cut carbon emissions in half by 2030.

00:20:01.000 This generated $450 billion in new clean energy investments.

00:20:06.000 It's no secret that I'm leaving office in January.

00:20:11.000 I will leave my successor and my country in a strong foundation to build on if they choose to do so.

00:20:19.000 It's true, some may seek to deny or delay the clean energy revolution that's underway in America, but nobody Nobody can reverse it.

00:20:31.000 Nobody.

00:20:32.000 Well, I mean, good luck, because actually somebody can reverse it.

00:20:35.000 That person is President Trump.

00:20:36.000 Not to reverse the so-called green energy revolution, but to actually rely on fossil fuels that are going to actually power the American economy.

00:20:43.000 By the way, after that, my understanding is that they released Joe Biden back into the wild.

00:20:47.000 Nature is healing.

00:20:49.000 So I'm finally glad that they decided to untag the president and let him stagger off into the woods where he prefers to be at the end of his life.

00:20:57.000 In any case, President Trump, for example, is now pushing the shale boom.

00:21:02.000 He selected on Saturday Chris Wright as the nominee for energy secretary.

00:21:05.000 Wright was front and center for the fracking revolution, according to the Wall Street Journal, that reshaped the country as a band of scrappy wildcatters that reinvigorated U.S. oil and gas production to record heights.

00:21:14.000 His $2.8 billion company, Liberty Energy, pumps water and sand underground to frack customers' wells.

00:21:19.000 Selection elevates a pugnacious branch of the oil and gas industry that is skeptical of climate change science and mostly hasn't pledged to build out low-carbon energy businesses, unlike giants ExxonMobil and Chevron.

00:21:29.000 That is a very good thing, okay?

00:21:31.000 The idea that we are going to up the ante on the fracking revolution is great.

00:21:35.000 It has completely reshifted, not just the global balance of power economically, but geopolitically.

00:21:41.000 In terms of military power, in terms of leverage, the energy revolution in the United States has totally shifted the balance of power, and that is a wonderful thing.

00:21:49.000 And Donald Trump is reinvigorating that.

00:21:50.000 The amount of energy production in the United States is going to skyrocket.

00:21:54.000 In an interview with the Wall Street Journal before the election, Wright denounced what he called the hyper-politicization of energy and singled out Democrats saying, quote, they called a war on climate change, making it hard to produce oil and gas.

00:22:04.000 That, of course, is exactly correct.

00:22:06.000 Meanwhile, Wright is going to join the newly formed National Energy Council alongside North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, another staunch Trump supporter hailing from a shale state.

00:22:16.000 This is a revolution in how we are doing energy in this country, which is why the Wall Street Journal editorial board is calling it a U.S. energy renaissance.

00:22:25.000 They say both nominees understand how energy markets work, unlike Joe Biden officials, whose primary goal was to lock up America's fossil fuel resources.

00:22:32.000 Bergam's first charge at Interior will be to roll back the Biden regulations that have hampered resource development.

00:22:39.000 Again, all of this means a booming American economy.

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00:25:11.000 Okay, meanwhile, speaking of blowing things up, Brendan Carr has now been tasked as FCC chairman.

00:25:18.000 That's a great move.

00:25:19.000 Brendan Carr is, of course, a senior Republican among the FCC's five commissioners.

00:25:24.000 And just last week, as we talked about on the show, he announced that he was taking on what he called the censorship cartel, Facebook, Google, Apple, and Microsoft.

00:25:32.000 He pointed out that these people have been coordinating via groups like Garm, for example, and NewsGuard in order to stifle advertising dollars going to alternative sources of information that are not legacy media.

00:25:45.000 President Trump put out a statement on Sunday evening saying, quote, Commissioner Carr is a warrior for free speech and has fought against the regulatory law affair that has stifled Americans freedom and held back our economy.

00:25:54.000 He will end the regulatory onslaught that has been crippling America's job creators and innovators and ensure the FCC delivers for rural America.

00:26:01.000 That, of course, is excellent.

00:26:06.000 As we say, right before his appointment, he sent that letter off to Zuckerberg, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Tim Cook, warning that he believed that they were improperly censoring certain opinions.

00:26:18.000 So, Carr at the head of the FCC is a sea change from the censorial attempts by the Biden administration.

00:26:26.000 So, energy, Trump's going to blow things up.

00:26:29.000 Communications, Trump's going to blow things up.

00:26:31.000 And then, of course, he's going to blow things up over at defense.

00:26:34.000 So as the Wall Street Journal points out, the federal workforce contains 2.3 million jobs.

00:26:41.000 How exactly do those jobs break down?

00:26:45.000 Well, apparently, those 2.3 million jobs are largely in the Department of Veteran Affairs, Homeland Security, Army, Navy, Air Force, Defense.

00:26:54.000 They're about 116,000 in Justice, 108,000 in Treasury, another 92,000 in Agriculture, 91,000 in HHS. Those are the civilian employees only.

00:27:05.000 That excludes active military personnel or reservists of the Army, Navy, and Air Force.

00:27:10.000 President Trump is coming in, pledging to cut an enormous amount of this stuff.

00:27:17.000 Elon Musk and Donald Trump, they have pledged that they want to cut federal spending by at least $2 trillion.

00:27:24.000 And of course, Elon Musk is famous for having come into X and immediately slashing 80% of the workforce.

00:27:32.000 There are rumors that one of the first moves that Trump is going to make upon entering office is to cut literally 100,000 jobs from the federal workforce.

00:27:40.000 I promise you that there are 100,000 jobs that certainly can be cut from the federal workforce without very many people noticing.

00:27:46.000 Out of 2.3 million, there's a lot of dead weight inside the federal employee base.

00:27:51.000 This is precisely the reason that they are very upset about Pete Hexth in defense.

00:27:56.000 They're afraid that he's going to come in and he's going to clean house.

00:28:00.000 So, for example, Senator Alyssa Slotkin, the Senate-elect from the state of Michigan, she suggests that she is very, very upset about the possibility that Pete Hegseth will come in along with an executive order from Donald Trump and set up a board that will overview all of the various political generals that have been in place for a generation.

00:28:17.000 She says, oh no, they might just fire people.

00:28:20.000 Yeah, that's the feature, not the bug.

00:28:21.000 That's a good thing.

00:28:24.000 I think they've been very clear that they're putting together some sort of panel that's going to look at generals, people who have served their nation their entire lives over multiple administrations, Democrat and Republican, in combat.

00:28:36.000 They are now openly talking about dismissing them like some sort of kangaroo court.

00:28:41.000 You can imagine the stress in the Pentagon about that, but also on the future of who we are as a military.

00:28:48.000 Our military and the role of the military is in the Constitution for a reason, and I think we're really at risk of politicizing the military in a way that we can't put the genie back in the bottle.

00:29:00.000 So, we can't put the genie back in the bottle?

00:29:01.000 Hold on.

00:29:02.000 You politicized the military.

00:29:04.000 You on the left had General Mark Milley out there explaining that white rage was the biggest problem in the military.

00:29:09.000 You and the left decided that the American military had to be turned into some sort of experimental laboratory for left-wing social policy.

00:29:16.000 And we needed to fly the Pride Progress flag at military bases.

00:29:20.000 And the best way to recruit soldiers to serve on the front lines is to tell them they might get a sex change operation. 0.88

00:29:27.000 Like, this was your big idea.

00:29:29.000 That wokeness was going to be the centerpiece. 0.99

00:29:31.000 And not only that, you were going to be weak on defense.

00:29:33.000 And what was America's defense apparatus for?

00:29:36.000 It was really only for social engineering.

00:29:38.000 Because, you know, America's mean and bad in the world.

00:29:41.000 Well, Pete Hegseth is not going to do any of that.

00:29:43.000 That's the real reason people are angry at Pete Hegseth.

00:29:46.000 They're finding bad excuses to come after him.

00:29:49.000 So apparently they're very upset at one of his tattoos, at least one of his tattoos.

00:29:53.000 He has two tattoos that are apparently very, very controversial.

00:29:56.000 So one of them is a tattoo on his bicep that shows the Latin words Deus Volt.

00:30:02.000 According to Travis Akers, a naval intelligence officer, he told the Washington Post that when he saw that, he found it was a Christian battle cry from the first crusade in the Middle Ages, meaning God wills it.

00:30:13.000 Though the phrase remains in use among some ordinary Christians, especially Catholics, Akers says his research showed that it had become popular with the Proud Boys, Three Percenters, and other extremist groups that participated in the siege at the Capitol.

00:30:25.000 So apparently, this led this particular naval intelligence officer to actually question whether Pete Hegseth should be included in the military at all.

00:30:39.000 Akers posted the photos to the app known as Twitter, calling the tattoos white supremacist symbols.

00:30:44.000 The tweet was then forwarded to the D.C. National Guard's head of physical security, who soon warned commanding general William Walker the Latin phrase suggested that Hegseth could be, quote, an insider threat.

00:30:53.000 As he was about to be deployed, this is for the last inauguration, Hegseth received a call from his superior officer ordering him to stand down rather than report for duty for the inaugural events, according to an officer later briefed on the events, as well as Hegseth's own accounts in writings and interviews.

00:31:09.000 Hexeth's removal from the mission became a seminal moment in his life.

00:31:12.000 He has cited the episode in asserting that the military in which he'd served in two wars abroad and during riots at home following the death of George Floyd had become dangerously woke.

00:31:20.000 In his telling, guard officials were focused on a cross tattoo on his chest, not the Latin phrase that records and interviews show most concerned military officials.

00:31:28.000 But of course, they're angry at the cross tattoo on his chest as well, which is, of course, a very common symbol, particularly in Catholic circles.

00:31:36.000 This bizarre notion that Hegseth had to be drummed out of the National Guard because of his tattoos based on somebody doing a quick Wikipedia search is kind of insane.

00:31:47.000 Now again, it is really funny that they are acknowledging openly that this is in fact the rallying cry of many Catholics.

00:31:55.000 But then because some extremists use it, that's the thing that's scary.

00:32:00.000 Also apparently, they're upset about his Jerusalem cross.

00:32:06.000 Okay, but the reason that apparently Hegseth got that cross is Christians very often apparently get that cross in order to mark their voyage to Jerusalem.

00:32:15.000 Hegseth went to Israel in 2019.

00:32:17.000 It was made into a prominent Christian symbol by Crusaders in the 11th century.

00:32:22.000 So, I mean, I'm sorry, this is your best shot?

00:32:25.000 Okay, so they have one other shot they're trying against Pete Hegseth.

00:32:28.000 So the Washington Post is reporting that Pete Hegseth paid a woman who accused him of sexual assault as part of a non-disclosure agreement.

00:32:34.000 They maintained their encounter was consensual, according to a statement from his lawyer Saturday and other documents obtained by the Washington Post.

00:32:40.000 Hegseth's attorney, Timothy Parlatore, said that Hegseth was, quote, So, they are now trying to bring up...

00:33:04.000 This particular complaint, there is a complaint filed with the police alleging a sexual assault days after this October 7, 2017 encounter in Monterey, California.

00:33:14.000 But the local DA did not bring charges.

00:33:16.000 Apparently, police investigated the incident.

00:33:18.000 And then she threatened litigation in 2020, so he paid her off.

00:33:21.000 So let me explain.

00:33:23.000 This means nothing.

00:33:24.000 It truly means nothing.

00:33:25.000 The reason for that is that very often when someone threatens a civil suit, the last thing you want is the thing going public.

00:33:31.000 And so you very often end up signing settlement agreements.

00:33:34.000 This is incredibly common in businesses across America.

00:33:37.000 And it's common for very prominent people as well.

00:33:41.000 Now, does that mean that Hegseth acted well here?

00:33:42.000 I don't know.

00:33:43.000 Does it mean that she was the aggressor?

00:33:45.000 I don't know.

00:33:46.000 Nobody knows.

00:33:46.000 And that's the entire point.

00:33:49.000 So, if the idea here is that the accusation alone is tantamount to the crime, well, that's a problem.

00:33:56.000 The same thing, presumably, holds true with regard to Matt Gaetz.

00:33:59.000 But the reason that Trump picked Gaetz, and this is the really underlying thing, the reason he picked Gaetz is obviously to blow things up.

00:34:05.000 That is the goal.

00:34:06.000 And the reason he wants to blow things up we'll get to in just one moment.

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00:34:49.000 Okay, meanwhile, folks, you want to know why President Trump selected Matt Gaetz?

00:34:52.000 There may be interpersonal reasons.

00:34:53.000 The real reason that he selected Matt Gaetz, of course, is because he wants someone who's going to blow things up.

00:34:58.000 That's particularly true at the DOJ, which did indeed target President Trump the first time around.

00:35:04.000 If you want to know how you get Matt Gaetz, the answer is you keep elevating people like Adam Schiff, the representative, I wonder if you are feeling at all,

00:35:32.000 introspective at all, about Trump.

00:35:36.000 That was, according to the Mueller report and according to your Republican colleagues, an overstatement.

00:35:42.000 And I wonder if you think in any way you helped set the table for these disruptors.

00:35:47.000 First of all, it wasn't an overstatement.

00:35:49.000 There is evidence of collusion.

00:35:51.000 The Trump campaign manager was meeting with Russian intelligence and giving them internal polling data, just to give you one example.

00:35:57.000 And the Mueller report sets all this out.

00:36:00.000 It does say, quote, the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities, which doesn't mean that he didn't, you know, that there weren't meetings, but they didn't find evidence.

00:36:11.000 He says that, too.

00:36:12.000 He says the fact that we didn't find proof beyond a reasonable doubt doesn't mean there wasn't evidence of conspiracy or coordination.

00:36:19.000 And it is just incredible.

00:36:20.000 He's still maintaining this.

00:36:21.000 Well, this is precisely how you get Matt Gaetz.

00:36:24.000 This is how you get Matt Gaetz.

00:36:26.000 Here's Reince Priebus, former RNC chair and former chief of staff to Donald Trump, explaining precisely this.

00:36:32.000 He made it very clear to me that the Matt Gaetz pick is not three-dimensional chess to help another nominee get through.

00:36:42.000 That this was what he wanted to have happen.

00:36:46.000 And when Republicans voted in impeachment against Donald Trump, he had a list of who those people were.

00:36:51.000 And almost all of them in the House are gone.

00:36:54.000 A couple quick things, though.

00:36:56.000 Number one, you have to remember, Donald Trump spent the last couple years going in and out of courtrooms, getting Mar-a-Lago raided.

00:37:05.000 I mean, part of the reason why the First Lady, Melania Trump, didn't go to meet with Joe Biden was, hey, you raided my bedroom. 1.00

00:37:12.000 I mean, you want me to have...

00:37:15.000 So he spent that, he feels like he's gone to hell and back ten times.

00:37:19.000 So this is also a big middle finger to the DOJ and the FBI. Now, again, you may not like the nominees, but that is where this is coming from without any sort of doubt at all.

00:37:31.000 And when you have people like Jen Psaki, the former press secretary for Joe Biden and now MSNBC host, criticizing the picks, you know that she's not criticizing the picks because of their supposed personal immorality or personal foibles.

00:37:43.000 You know that's not what this is about.

00:37:44.000 It's about their politics, of course.

00:37:47.000 These are the people who will be advising the president on every crisis that crosses his desk and representing the United States, for some of them, overseas.

00:37:54.000 And they're the people who have an impact also on your daily lives.

00:37:58.000 See, these choices are, on the one hand, cartoonishly outrageous, but when that dust settles, it's not really just about the scandals and the personal lives of these nominees, and there are many.

00:38:09.000 It's about what their positions and their lack of experience could do to our health system, our national security, and the rights we have in this country.

00:38:18.000 That is the thing she's worried about.

00:38:20.000 She says it right there at the end.

00:38:21.000 It's not about all these personal issues.

00:38:23.000 It's not about Matt Gaetz and underage girls.

00:38:24.000 It's not about Pete Hegseth and any accusations against him or his tattoos.

00:38:28.000 It is just that they might do things to blow up the entire system the Democrats have been building on.

00:38:34.000 And counting on and manipulating for decades at this point.

00:38:37.000 That's the point.

00:38:38.000 That's the point.

00:38:39.000 Because the same Jen Psaki, who's criticizing all of Donald Trump's picks, is still maintaining that Democrats should pretend that boys are girls, girls are boys, and they should compete with one another.

00:38:48.000 Here is Jen Psaki doubling down on the trans issues.

00:38:52.000 Another one of the lines that ran over and over again in those ads and throughout right-wing media is this idea that America is faced with a crisis of boys playing and girls sports.

00:39:02.000 Now these ads created this perception that the issues of trans kids playing sports was dominating schools across the country, which is completely false.

00:39:11.000 But if that were actually an issue at thousands of schools across the country, it would be worthy of a debate.

00:39:17.000 But there are just incredibly few examples of transgender girls playing in youth sports.

00:39:23.000 And when we see those examples, there isn't evidence that these kids are a threat to safety or fairness.

00:39:29.000 Hold up.

00:39:29.000 So you're pretending this isn't an issue?

00:39:31.000 Well, then I do want things blown up.

00:39:33.000 And again, what does this mean?

00:39:35.000 It means in terms of policy that the kind of stuff you end up pushing is more sex changes for children. 0.73

00:39:40.000 So, for example, J.B. Pritzker, who's considered one of the future leaders of the Democratic Party, the governor of Illinois.

00:39:45.000 Again, they keep saying that their bench is great.

00:39:48.000 Their bench is not great by any stretch of the imagination.

00:39:50.000 J.B. Pritzker and Gavin Newsomaynit.

00:39:52.000 He tweeted out just this weekend, quote, This Transgender Awareness Week, I want you to know that I see you and have your back as governor.

00:39:58.000 Illinois has enshrined protections for gender-affirming care to meet this moment.

00:40:01.000 And because of that, you will have a home here.

00:40:03.000 Always.

00:40:04.000 First of all, why is every week Transgender Awareness Week?

00:40:07.000 I'm aware.

00:40:08.000 I think we're all aware at this point.

00:40:09.000 How many weeks do you need?

00:40:11.000 My goodness, I keep being informed that there are very few of you and that you have nothing to do with modern American life in any major way.

00:40:16.000 And yet every week is Transgender Awareness Week or Lesbian Awareness Week or Transgender Lesbian Awareness Week.

00:40:22.000 Like, goodness gracious.

00:40:23.000 But this is the party that you guys have built.

00:40:25.000 And this is the state that you wish to create.

00:40:27.000 And then you wonder why the pushback is so strong.

00:40:31.000 I think most people are rooting for a vast change to the size and scope of government, particularly after COVID. Now, one of the things that people haven't talked about is the idea that the 2024 election was really not just a referendum on Joe Biden, it was a referendum on COVID itself.

00:40:44.000 On the way that the entire West treated COVID, locking down entire societies, completely destroying economies, using COVID as an excuse to leverage up, spend oodles of dollars, completely restructure the relationship between individuals and their governments.

00:40:59.000 And people rejected that.

00:41:00.000 They want something different.

00:41:02.000 That actually the COVID regime for many people on the left was the apex of how they wish the world had worked.

00:41:08.000 And it didn't work.

00:41:09.000 And now the blowback is here.

00:41:10.000 Which is why I think a lot of people are rooting for Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk when they say that they are going to dismantle entire government agencies.

00:41:17.000 Here's Vivek vowing just that over the weekend.

00:41:20.000 Are you expecting to close down entire agencies, like President Trump has talked about the Department of Education, for example?

00:41:27.000 Are you going to be closing down departments?

00:41:28.000 We expect mass reductions.

00:41:30.000 We expect certain agencies to be deleted outright.

00:41:32.000 We expect mass reductions in force in areas of the federal government that are bloated.

00:41:37.000 We expect massive cuts among federal contractors and others who are overbilling the federal government.

00:41:41.000 So yes, we expect all of the above.

00:41:44.000 I think people will be surprised by, I think, how quickly we're able to move with some of those changes, given the legal backdrop the Supreme Court has given us.

00:41:51.000 I think a lot of people are rooting for that.

00:41:54.000 Well, last week, as you'll recall, speaking of government overreach and agency corruption, you'll recall the Daily Wire had a blockbuster report about FEMA, that there are managers in FEMA who are telling people to literally avoid houses with Trump signs and flags on them.

00:42:09.000 You remember this?

00:42:10.000 Well, now the House is launching an oversight committee investigation.

00:42:14.000 Last week, we had the opportunity to sit down with James Comer, representative from Kentucky and head of the House Oversight Committee, overseeing that investigation.

00:42:21.000 Here's what it sounded like.

00:42:23.000 Congressman Comer, thanks so much for joining the show.

00:42:24.000 Really appreciate it.

00:42:25.000 My pleasure.

00:42:26.000 So, obviously, we here at The Daily Wire recently exposed this insane story about a FEMA employee telling hurricane relief workers in Florida to avoid homes displaying campaign signs or flags for President Trump.

00:42:37.000 You've now announced at the House Oversight and Accountability Committee that there will be a hearing taking place Tuesday titled Oversight of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to get to the bottom of this.

00:42:47.000 So, where do things stand in your investigation right now, Congressman?

00:42:50.000 Well, we want to hear from the director.

00:42:52.000 We fear that this isn't an isolated incident.

00:42:55.000 We believe this is a pattern.

00:42:57.000 We've spoken with other employees who haven't yet come forward but have provided some information that this is the way FEMA operates, that they do discriminate against Republicans, against conservatives, against people in more prominent neighborhoods.

00:43:16.000 And, you know, it's a situation where this isn't the only agency that we've heard stories about this.

00:43:26.000 You know, throughout the entire Biden-Harris administration, there's been an effort to censor conservatives.

00:43:31.000 There's been a discrimination against Republicans.

00:43:34.000 We've seen a weaponized judiciary, a weaponized media that's coordinating Very closely with the Biden-Harris administration to try to attack conservatives.

00:43:45.000 So we want to know from the FEMA director's own mouth what happened here, and then we'll go from there.

00:43:52.000 But we certainly plan on bringing in that employee. 0.81

00:43:55.000 I know she's given several interviews where she seems very credible in that she didn't think she was doing anything wrong because this is the way they were supposed to operate.

00:44:05.000 Congressman Comer, it really is an amazing expose on sort of the state of the quote-unquote deep state.

00:44:11.000 We were told for years there was no such thing as the deep state.

00:44:13.000 There aren't career employees in these various positions who are doing anything political.

00:44:16.000 That would be totally crazy.

00:44:18.000 And now you see a case like this.

00:44:20.000 How deeply do you think the rot goes throughout the administrative state?

00:44:24.000 I think it's throughout the entire government.

00:44:27.000 I think every government agency, whether it's FEMA, whether it's the EPA, whether it's the FBI, whether it's the Securities and Exchange Commission, I think every agency in the federal government is populated with left-wing activists that have risen to the top.

00:44:47.000 Now, not every federal employee is bad.

00:44:49.000 There are good federal employees.

00:44:50.000 There are good federal employees that are liberal.

00:44:52.000 But I think that what you've seen happen, dating back to the beginning of the Obama administration, through today in the Biden-Harris administration, is that the left-wing activists have risen to the top, they're the career employees, and they have a vendetta.

00:45:08.000 They have an agenda to punish conservatives, to censor conservatives, to do everything they can to enact their left-wing ideologies, whether it's through the Green New Deal or whether it's through censoring conservative speech.

00:45:22.000 So this is just the tip of the iceberg, and it's coming at a perfect time because we're about to see a significant change in Washington, and I believe this So far, Donald Trump's announcing names that are serious about going in and rooting out the deep state actors that have created so much havoc against conservatives.

00:45:43.000 So, Congressman, obviously, big week for Republicans, obviously at the White House level, certainly at the senatorial and congressional level as well.

00:45:50.000 It's been assured that Speaker Johnson will continue to maintain his speakership.

00:45:53.000 He will indeed be leading a Republican majority.

00:45:55.000 It's going to be a very slim Republican majority because there are a couple of seats that are now going to have to be filled by special election because there are several Congress members who have been nominated to fill President Trump's cabinet as well.

00:46:06.000 What do you think are sort of the big priorities for the House, or what should they be going into the new term?

00:46:12.000 Well, first of all, we need to secure the border.

00:46:14.000 I think the American people spoke loud and clear.

00:46:16.000 That's what they want to happen.

00:46:18.000 This can be done through executive order, but we're going to need resources.

00:46:21.000 We're going to need a lot of legislation that will make sure that it's codified what he does.

00:46:31.000 We want it not just We want to deport the criminals that are here illegally, but we also want to create a situation where there's a legal pathway and where people that want to come to the United States, that should come to the United States, can get expedited citizenship. 0.64

00:46:48.000 So we can solve all the problems with a willing administration.

00:46:53.000 Remember, the Biden-Harris Southern border policy was an open border policy.

00:46:58.000 Trump wants to secure the border, but he wants a legal pathway to citizenship.

00:47:02.000 We're going to have the largest deportation in the history of America.

00:47:06.000 We're going to start with all the criminals who were supposed to have been deported already, but weren't because of the pitiful Biden administration.

00:47:14.000 So that's going to be a priority.

00:47:15.000 But then we're going to do what's called budget reconciliation.

00:47:18.000 And the reason budget reconciliation is important is this bill only takes 51 votes to pass the Senate.

00:47:26.000 Remember, to get to 60 votes in the Senate, the way the Democrats stick together is very difficult.

00:47:32.000 But you have a tool called budget reconciliation that you can use one time.

00:47:37.000 And I think that we can enact a lot of good policies within this budget reconciliation bill that'll address energy policy, that'll address lowering inflation, that will...

00:47:50.000 Make the Trump tax cuts permanent.

00:47:52.000 So, you know, eliminating tax on tips, that was a big platform of Trump's administration.

00:47:58.000 We can do all of this on a budget reconciliation bill.

00:48:01.000 So securing the border and passing that major budget reconciliation in the first 100 days should be our priority.

00:48:06.000 Well, Congressman, I know you're swamped just like everybody else.

00:48:08.000 It's drinking out of fire hose these days.

00:48:10.000 Really appreciate the time.

00:48:11.000 And of course, everybody should stay tuned for that big hearing on Tuesday in which Deanne Criswell, the FEMA administrator, is going to be answering some tough questions.

00:48:18.000 Congressman, really appreciate the time.

00:48:20.000 Thanks for having me.

00:48:22.000 All right, guys, coming up, we'll be getting into Pennsylvania Democrats trying to outright steal a Senate election.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - November 18, 2024

Here Comes The BOOM: Trump Exploding Status Quo

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