The Ben Shapiro Show - July 07, 2026


How the Left Spent America's 250th Birthday

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Ben Shapiro
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Zoran Mamdani Abdul El-Sayed George Washington James Baldwin Zoram Amdani Inshallah Sneeko Rashida Tlaib, Congresswoman Zip Recruiter Claire Valdez Donald Trump Mehdi Hassan Zoran Mom Donnie Howard Zinn Elon Musk Zoramamdani
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On the 250th anniversary of July 4th, the United States of America celebrated the birthday of its founding father, George Washington. And yet, on the other side, the mayor of New York City, Zorhan Mamdani, spent the day celebrating America as a nation of hunger, oligarchs, and exploitation.

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00:00:00.000 Folks, this past weekend, America turned 250 years old, which is awesome because that's 250 years of the greatest experiment in human liberty the world has ever seen.
00:00:07.000 Now, you'd hope that even the people who disagree with us on tax policy could set all that aside for one day.
00:00:12.000 You know, one day to just say, this country is awesome.
00:00:15.000 But of course they couldn't do that.
00:00:17.000 Zorhan Mamdani, the mayor of New York City, spent the fourth describing America as a nation of hunger, oligarchs, masked agents, and exploitation.
00:00:23.000 His own wife skipped the celebration entirely and jetted off to a $3,400 Islamic spiritual retreat in Spain.
00:00:30.000 All across the left, the message was the same.
00:00:32.000 The country is a crime scene.
00:00:33.000 Meanwhile, on the other side, Donald Trump stood up and said something pretty simple, which is that America is awesome and you can be a communist or you can be a patriot, but you can't be both of those things.
00:00:42.000 That's the whole divide.
00:00:43.000 One side celebrates America, the other side doesn't like America very much.
00:00:46.000 We've got all of it on tape. 0.90
00:00:48.000 So, Zorhan Mamdani, the mayor of New York, an immigrant to this country who despises America, truly hates it, he decided that on July 4th, he would give an address about how essentially America is trash and the only reason that America is good is because of people like Zorhan Mamdani. 0.87
00:01:04.000 He was speaking from George Washington's desk, which, again, I cannot imagine. 0.98
00:01:09.000 George Washington must be spinning in his grave so fast that we can use him to actually bore a tunnel to China at this point.
00:01:15.000 Here is Zorhan Mamdani.
00:01:18.000 Long before the name New York had ever been spoken, Lenape dugouts crossed these currents.
00:01:24.000 It was on these waters that tall masts crested the horizon, captained by explorers like Verrazano and Hudson, after whom we've named our bridges and rivers.
00:01:34.000 And ever since, Ships full of travelers weary from long journeys have passed through the narrows, the winds of the Atlantic at their backs.
00:01:42.000 When those passengers lifted their heads to glimpse what lies just beyond the waves, what did they see?
00:01:49.000 They saw land, lush and teeming with life.
00:01:53.000 They saw men waiting at the docks to take them into bondage.
00:01:56.000 They saw tenements, rife with squalor.
00:01:59.000 They saw industry rumbling with activity, steam and smoke rising, a city on the move.
00:02:05.000 They saw a towering monument to freedom, her torch glowing.
00:02:09.000 Worldwide welcome.
00:02:11.000 They saw New York City.
00:02:13.000 They saw America.
00:02:16.000 Now, again, notice that description.
00:02:19.000 People who are coming here, they're going to be brought into bondage and all the rest of it.
00:02:22.000 Again, the perspective of July 4th, America, it's a mixed bag.
00:02:25.000 It's a mixed bag.
00:02:27.000 But here's the reality Zoram Dhani despises the country, despises it.
00:02:30.000 He says that basically the story of America is a story of the powerful crushing the powerless.
00:02:35.000 That's really the story of America.
00:02:39.000 The irony is that the story of America.
00:02:41.000 Has so often been written by those who were told by others with power and influence and wealth that they were anything but exceptional.
00:02:51.000 Again, the idea is that America's history, as you know it, is wrong. 0.60
00:02:54.000 The Howard Zinn history, that America is actually evil, is probably right.
00:02:58.000 And again, it's the powerful today who want an America where all are not created equal, says Zorhan Mamdani, who literally is in favor of discriminatory government policy.
00:03:08.000 You each hold a special power, the power to determine what America means.
00:03:14.000 The powerful have always known their answer.
00:03:16.000 America, in their view, is an arena of supremacy where only a select few are allowed freedom, where not all are created equal.
00:03:24.000 America, if you ask them, becomes less the more people it welcomes.
00:03:28.000 America, they will tell you, belongs only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin.
00:03:33.000 The rest of us, they insist, should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit.
00:03:39.000 Well, I mean, you should be grateful for being here, as all of us should be grateful for being here, but that has nothing to do with shade of skin.
00:03:44.000 It has to do with if you were actually grateful to be here, you'd know what made America great, and then you would be grateful for that thing.
00:03:50.000 But Zoramamdani, I mean, this kind of bizarrely Stalinist video of him sitting behind the desk, flanked by a bunch of people of diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds staring off into space, it's very, very strange.
00:04:04.000 What does he actually see America as?
00:04:07.000 He sees America as a horrible place, a horrible place filled with hunger and evil and exploitation and injustice. 1.00
00:04:14.000 And this schmuck is speaking on behalf of America, supposedly. 0.99
00:04:20.000 As we mark 250 years, what do we see? 0.98
00:04:25.000 We see a city of contradictions within a nation of contradictions.
00:04:29.000 We see the wealthiest country in the history of the world, one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more.
00:04:37.000 We see monopolies that dominate every industry and oligarchs who buy elections. 0.84
00:04:43.000 We see massed agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by our undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans. 0.99
00:04:52.000 We see a nation whose immense wealth has been built by those with calloused, dirt streaked hands, those who toil on factory floors and chisel into stone. 0.93
00:05:01.000 And we see a nation that has allowed so much of that wealth to be held instead in the soft hands of a precious few.
00:05:09.000 Yes, we see America in a health insurance industry that exploits the sick, but that is not all we see when we look for America.
00:05:17.000 I mean, he's just a communist.
00:05:19.000 He's just a communist.
00:05:20.000 This idea that somehow Elon Musk is a trillionaire because kids are starving at night.
00:05:26.000 Or that the story of America is a battle between the capitalist monopolist and the people with the hard, calloused hands.
00:05:34.000 I mean, has anyone had softer hands than Zarim Amdani?
00:05:37.000 Seriously, I'm not sure there's a human being on planet Earth with softer hands than Zarim Amdani.
00:05:43.000 And the guy, forget about like hard labor or physical toil using your hands.
00:05:47.000 The dude can't even bench press 135 pounds.
00:05:50.000 Like, you've got to be kidding me.
00:05:52.000 He's the most silver spoon beneficiary of America. 1.00
00:05:55.000 And he's an immigrant. 1.00
00:05:57.000 And he's just deeply ungrateful to America. 1.00
00:05:58.000 But this is how he sees America a place of exploitation, a monopoly, and evil.
00:06:02.000 How much does he love America?
00:06:03.000 Well, his wife clearly loves America.
00:06:05.000 She decided to skip America 250 for an Islamic spiritual wellness retreat in Spain.
00:06:10.000 There's a picture of her at the airport in Spain.
00:06:12.000 So, yeah, I mean, nothing important happening here at home.
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00:07:21.000 According to the New York Post, a Dallas raised, Dubai educated Syrian American artist who has a long history of bashing the U.S. was spotted at Newark International Airport on Monday boarding an eight hour flight to Palma, Majorca's capital city in the Western Mediterranean. 0.97
00:07:34.000 She was headed to a sold out retreat run by the Women's Sanctuary.
00:07:39.000 The Plants of the Quran retreat cost $3,400 in US dollars for guests to attend it.
00:07:43.000 It began Wednesday and runs through Monday and revolves around sacred flora mentioned in Islamic texts through art, botanical workshops, and spiritual reflection, according to the group's website.
00:07:52.000 And then she will help host another sold out retreat for the Women's Sanctuary in Corsica, France.
00:07:56.000 Wow. 1.00
00:07:57.000 I mean, she's clearly a victim of the evil capitalist system. 1.00
00:08:01.000 She is.
00:08:03.000 Well, the good news is that Democrats have decided to embrace every form of this sort of radicalism.
00:08:08.000 Abdul El Sayed is very likely to be the Democratic Senate nominee in Michigan. 0.83
00:08:14.000 He, of course, Is a stand for pretty much every terror group in the Middle East. 0.73
00:08:19.000 And of course, now he is out there comparing a move to ban Sharia law in Oklahoma to the Trail of Tears.
00:08:29.000 That the same exact forces that drove native peoples from their land two centuries ago, destroyed Black Wall Street a century ago, bombed a building decades ago, and tried to ban Sharia law not a decade ago. 0.80
00:08:48.000 That those forces are alive and well today. 0.91
00:08:51.000 And the reason I wanted to go all the way back to the 1830s is because you can't understand a Sharia ban without understanding the Trail of Tears. 0.81
00:09:03.000 You can't understand the efforts to uproot Muslim Americans without understanding the Tulsa Massacre. 0.60
00:09:09.000 You cannot understand the challenges we face today without understanding white supremacy.
00:09:18.000 We have to set it in the context of our history.
00:09:22.000 Again, all victims are the same.
00:09:23.000 This is Abdul El Sayed, the likely Michigan Senate nominee for the Democrats, speaking just a couple of years ago at a Council on American Islamic Relations event.
00:09:30.000 Council on American Islamic Relations, of course, was a group that was originally funded as an offshoot of a Hamas linked group in the United States.
00:09:37.000 So, you know, we're doing great, I suppose, is what we are saying here. 0.97
00:09:43.000 And so the way that the left decided to celebrate July 4th was to talk about how much America sucks. 0.63
00:09:47.000 Mehdi Hassan, straight from Qatar, he quoted James Baldwin, tweeting out, Happy 250th birthday, America.
00:09:54.000 We continue the struggle for a more perfect union.
00:09:56.000 And I continue to agree with James Baldwin.
00:09:58.000 I love America more than any other country in the world.
00:10:00.000 And exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
00:10:03.000 Yeah, that's definitely what you want to say on the 250th anniversary.
00:10:05.000 You should do that on your wife's birthday, by the way.
00:10:07.000 It's always great.
00:10:08.000 On your wife's birthday, you should say, Listen, I love you so much.
00:10:10.000 I definitely, for this reason, insist on the right to criticize you constantly.
00:10:15.000 Perfectly appropriate sentiment on the 250th anniversary of the country.
00:10:20.000 Rashida Tlaib, Congresswoman from Michigan, she had only one tweet over the weekend, and that was F DTE.
00:10:26.000 DTE is the energy provider in Michigan.
00:10:29.000 So that was important.
00:10:31.000 Meanwhile, Claire Valdez, the new congressional candidate from New York, one of these Democratic Socialists of America candidates, on July 4th, she tweeted, The 4th of July, we recommit ourselves to remaking America, to fight for liberation from Palestine to Puerto Rico, for a Green New Deal for the world we deserve.
00:10:52.000 Yes, that's what the founders were fighting for, for Palestine and the Green New Deal.
00:10:56.000 Nailed it.
00:10:59.000 Again, it is just astonishing to me that the left has decided to move in this direction.
00:11:05.000 This is why you need an actual right that is capable of rebutting all of this.
00:11:10.000 But that right also has to not be out of its mind and has to reject evil influences from within.
00:11:15.000 There's an influencer who calls himself Sneeko.
00:11:18.000 He should immediately be ejected from the country.
00:11:20.000 And he says that New York is now the Islamic Republic of New Yorkistan.
00:11:25.000 Remember, he is welcomed into the right wing podcast bro sphere, Sneeko. 0.68
00:11:31.000 Take me! 0.94
00:11:42.000 This is the Islamic Republic of New Yorkistan. 0.99
00:11:46.000 Islam will be in every household. 1.00
00:11:48.000 Inshallah, the whole world is Muslim. 1.00
00:11:51.000 Welcome to Momdani's New York. 1.00
00:11:54.000 You see this city?
00:11:55.000 You see how it looks?
00:11:56.000 Inshallah, your city looks just like this, too.
00:12:01.000 Incredible.
00:12:02.000 Incredible stuff happening here in these United States.
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