The Ben Shapiro Show - HUGE: The Washington Post SURRENDERS…To Reality!

00:00:00.000 Well, folks, woke leftism is totally on the ropes.

00:00:03.000 The Democrats don't know what to do about this, but their entire centralizing philosophy is on the ropes.

00:00:08.000 We're going to get into all of that today, ranging from the Washington Post to the war in Ukraine to how Democrats are responding to everything that President Trump is doing.

00:00:17.000 But we begin today with the Washington Post.

00:00:19.000 So, the Washington Post, Jeff Bezos, he's the owner of the Washington Post.

00:00:23.000 He bought it several years ago.

00:00:24.000 And he said at the time he was not going to get involved in the editorial side of the newspaper.

00:00:28.000 And then the newspaper decided to basically become the repository of the most radical, woke nonsense in all of American media.

00:00:36.000 The Washington Post blew out its credibility more than any other major newspaper in the country.

00:00:41.000 It was the paper of record.

00:00:42.000 It was the paper of Watergate.

00:00:44.000 It was the paper that broke an enormous number of serious scandals about American government.

00:00:50.000 And instead it turned into...

00:00:52.000 Basically, Salon.com. 0.99

00:00:53.000 It was just Jennifer Rubin whining about how Donald Trump was a mean, bad, mean man. 0.97

00:00:58.000 It was Eugene Robinson whining about how America was terrible. 1.00

00:01:01.000 It was all the usual suspects just saying the most radical, stupid things. 0.99

00:01:05.000 And the Washington Post's subscribership began to seriously dip because they weren't making any of the same sort of smart business moves the New York Times made. 0.96

00:01:11.000 The New York Times also became a liberal fan paper, but they also decided to diversify into Wordle.

00:01:17.000 That did not happen with the Washington Post.

00:01:19.000 The Washington Post.

00:01:20.000 Simply kept doubling down on the anti-Trump radical leftism.

00:01:24.000 And the suggestion that boys weren't just girls.

00:01:27.000 Boys had to be girls. 1.00

00:01:29.000 This had to be taught to kids.

00:01:30.000 The idea that all politics could be boiled down to racial and sexual identity.

00:01:35.000 The idea that capitalism was in and of itself bad.

00:01:38.000 Well, there is a new middle in America.

00:01:40.000 And the new middle in America is fairly pro-free market.

00:01:44.000 It's a middle that doesn't like the idea that the American economy is rigged on behalf of white people or rigged on behalf of men.

00:01:50.000 It's an American middle that believes in the American dream and thus believes in the idea, generally speaking, of capitalism.

00:01:56.000 It's also an American middle that, while fairly liberal about what their neighbors do, is not completely liberal about what their neighbors do.

00:02:05.000 Meaning that if their neighbors decide to open a porn shop next door, the answer is no.

00:02:08.000 If their neighbors decide the local public school is going to be teaching genderqueer, the answer...

00:02:12.000 Is no.

00:02:13.000 That's the new middle in America. 0.93

00:02:14.000 I was thinking about this a lot last night.

00:02:16.000 About President Trump and the fact that, as I said during the election cycle, it's not that President Trump is uniquely right-wing.

00:02:22.000 It's that the left in the United States has moved so far away from the center that by occupying the middle, Donald Trump now appears to be right-wing.

00:02:30.000 Because the left has alienated everybody to the right of MSNBC. So, what does that mean?

00:02:36.000 It means that there is now a real market possibility.

00:02:39.000 of newspapers like the Washington Post reorienting.

00:02:41.000 Jeff Bezos is by no stretch of the imagination a traditional Republican.

00:02:45.000 He is not somebody who believes in sort of traditional conservative social values.

00:02:49.000 He's not somebody who, as far as I'm aware, is particularly hawkish on foreign policy.

00:02:54.000 But Jeff Bezos does exist in the business world and in the world of semi-rationality.

00:02:59.000 And so yesterday, Jeff Bezos put out an announcement.

00:03:01.000 His announcement was that he was going to be remaking the Washington Post editorial board.

00:03:06.000 Quote, Today, the internet does that job.

00:03:32.000 I am of America and for America and proud to be so.

00:03:35.000 Our country did not get here by being typical, and a big part of America's success has been freedom in the economic realm and everywhere else.

00:03:41.000 Freedom is ethical.

00:03:42.000 It minimizes coercion and practical.

00:03:44.000 It drives creativity, invention, and prosperity.

00:03:47.000 I offered David Shipley, whom I greatly admire, the opportunity to lead this new chapter.

00:03:50.000 I suggested to him that if the answer wasn't hell yes, then it had to be no.

00:03:54.000 After careful consideration, David decided to step away.

00:03:56.000 This is a significant shift, says Jeff Bezos.

00:03:58.000 Won't be easy.

00:03:59.000 It will require 100% commitment.

00:04:01.000 I respect his decision.

00:04:02.000 We'll be searching for a new opinion editor to own this new direction.

00:04:05.000 I'm confident that free markets and personal liberties are right for America.

00:04:08.000 I also believe these viewpoints are underserved in the current market of ideas and news opinion.

00:04:12.000 I'm excited for us together to fill that void.

00:04:14.000 Jeff.

00:04:15.000 Okay, so that is a sea change, and it is a recognition, a true recognition, that the Washington Post was never one of these places that had a broad spectrum of opinion.

00:04:24.000 The tacit recognition in what Jeff Bezos is saying is, sure, there might have been a time when you could claim that the Washington Post was a place that was sort of a platform for a variety of opinions.

00:04:34.000 Charles Krauthammer and George Will used to write for the Washington Post.

00:04:37.000 And then something changed.

00:04:38.000 And so, once the Washington Post became the exclusive preserve of the radical left on matters economic and social, once it did that, it was no longer a platform.

00:04:49.000 It was now, in the most real sense, a publisher, only of the things that the editorial board wanted to publish.

00:04:55.000 And so he says, listen, if that's going to be the way that it is, then I want it to publish the things I want.

00:05:00.000 I spent $100 million on this newspaper.

00:05:01.000 I own this newspaper.

00:05:02.000 I get to decide what's in this newspaper.

00:05:04.000 And to this, I say, of course, that's true.

00:05:06.000 As the co-founder of a rather major publication, we publish the things on our publication that we think are appropriate.

00:05:13.000 And we don't publish the things that we don't feel are appropriate.

00:05:16.000 So you're not going to find pro-abortion positions at The Daily Wire.

00:05:19.000 You're not.

00:05:20.000 You are not going to find pro-communism positions at The Daily Wire.

00:05:24.000 That's not a thing.

00:05:25.000 You're not going to find pro-sex trafficking or pro-pedophilia positions.

00:05:28.000 There are lots of things you're not going to find at the Daily Wire.

00:05:30.000 And what Jeff Bezos is saying is the same thing.

00:05:32.000 He's saying, this is my newspaper.

00:05:34.000 I bought it.

00:05:34.000 I get to run it.

00:05:35.000 And good for him.

00:05:36.000 Good for him.

00:05:37.000 I think that we are exiting the era, and we have exited the era, of quote-unquote objective journalism.

00:05:41.000 And we've now moved toward the realization that there is no such thing.

00:05:46.000 Now, you can make the case that there are, in fact, journalists who do their best to try to remove their personal bias from situations.

00:05:51.000 However, The notion that, writ large, there is a quote-unquote objective news media was a lie and is a lie.

00:05:58.000 It is untrue.

00:05:59.000 There is a prism of politics through which the news is refracted at every one of these major publications.

00:06:04.000 Everybody knows the Wall Street Journal editorial page.

00:06:07.000 Ops toward the right.

00:06:08.000 And everybody knows the New York Times editorial page.

00:06:10.000 Ops toward the left.

00:06:11.000 For Bezos to say, our editorial page is now going to promote economic and social freedom, for example, that's at least a perspective.

00:06:18.000 Now you know who to call when there is a problem.

00:06:21.000 And the left is absolutely losing it.

00:06:24.000 So as stated, Washington Post opinion section editor David Shipley resigned, suggesting, of course, that this is not what he wanted to stand for.

00:06:35.000 Meanwhile, Post chief economics reporter Jeff Stein posted, quote, massive encroachment by Jeff Bezos into the Washington Post opinion section today.

00:06:42.000 Makes clear dissenting views will not be published or tolerated there.

00:06:45.000 Well, I mean, that's not his responsibility.

00:06:47.000 It's his job to run the paper as he sees fit.

00:06:49.000 He owns it.

00:06:51.000 Turnabout is fair play here, gang.

00:06:53.000 I'm old enough to remember when Twitter was owned by Jack Dorsey and when conservatives said that the standards that were being applied were unfair and that even the standards that Twitter said it was applying were not the standards they were actually applying.

00:07:07.000 People on the left said, well, then build your own.

00:07:09.000 And then Elon Musk bought it.

00:07:10.000 And now they're whining about it.

00:07:12.000 The same thing is true here.

00:07:14.000 And when people complained about the editorial direction of the Washington Post, the left said, well, you know.

00:07:19.000 You don't own the Washington Post.

00:07:20.000 You don't like it.

00:07:20.000 Build your own.

00:07:21.000 So we here at the Daily Wire, we did build our own.

00:07:23.000 Okay, but so Jeff Bezos coming around and saying, okay, well now I'm going to run this thing the way I want to run this thing.

00:07:28.000 That is not only laudable, it is useful.

00:07:32.000 It is highly useful because let's just be transparent about this.

00:07:36.000 Now the Washington Post has a direction.

00:07:38.000 The New York Times always had a direction.

00:07:39.000 It was the lie that killed the mainstream media.

00:07:42.000 It was the lie that killed the legacy media.

00:07:45.000 Jeff Stein, however, the chief economics reporter said, quote, I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side of coverage.

00:07:50.000 But if Bezos tries interfering with the news side, I will be quitting immediately and letting you know.

00:07:53.000 Wow, what a hero.

00:07:54.000 What an absolute hero.

00:07:56.000 Now, again, Bezos says he's not going to interfere on the news side of the business.

00:08:00.000 And I will suggest that the sort of hard line, bright line division between news and opinion is not quite so bright.

00:08:07.000 Again, I think we're more honest about this at Daily Wire.

00:08:09.000 Our news pages lean conservative.

00:08:12.000 Everything is refracted through a system of values.

00:08:14.000 That's us being honest, not us being dishonest.

00:08:17.000 Well, the ex-Washington Post editor Marty Barron, of course, presided over the spotlight scandal that was uncovered by the Washington Post.

00:08:25.000 He went after Jeff Bezos, attacked him for it.

00:08:29.000 He put out a statement suggesting that it was just terrible.

00:08:33.000 He said he was sad and disgusted.

00:08:37.000 He said Bezos argues for personal liberties, but his news organization now will forbid views other than his own in its opinion section.

00:08:42.000 It was only weeks ago the Post described itself as providing coverage for all of America.

00:08:46.000 Now its opinion pages will be open only to some of America, those who think exactly as he does.

00:08:50.000 Again, trying to preserve the lie.

00:08:51.000 It was never for all of America. 0.51

00:08:53.000 The Washington Post was never for all of America.

00:08:55.000 It was a left-wing rag for decades.

00:08:58.000 Barron said, Bezos himself has done personal liberties a disservice by cravenly yielding to a president who shows no respect for liberty, one who aims to use the power of government to bully, threaten, punish, and crush anyone who's not in his camp, especially the press.

00:09:10.000 And then he said, So first of all, if that's true, that would be terrible, right?

00:09:24.000 You don't want actual journalism, conservative or leftist, being held hostage by any president.

00:09:31.000 And it defeats the purpose of journalism.

00:09:32.000 It defeats the purpose of opinion journalism, too.

00:09:35.000 However, there is no evidence to suggest that this is, in fact, the case.

00:09:39.000 And the accusation, by the way, that anybody who does anything non-leftist is motivated by money.

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00:09:52.000 All they think about is money.

00:09:53.000 All they think about is, quote-unquote, income inequality.

00:09:55.000 They never think about the poor.

00:09:57.000 They only think about income inequality.

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00:12:09.000 The same people who claim that the people who are in favor of free markets are greedy are the people who spend all day trying to figure out how to pry money out of people who have actually earned it.

00:12:18.000 So when you see Marty Baron suggesting the only possible reason Jeff Bezos, you know one of the richest people on earth, would be doing this is for money?

00:12:26.000 No, my dude.

00:12:27.000 That is not what is happening here.

00:12:29.000 It is not.

00:12:29.000 Bernie Sanders, of course, one of the greediest leeches in American society, put out a tweet saying, quote, This is what oligarch ownership of the media looks like.

00:12:36.000 The second richest guy in the world, Bezos, owns the Washington Post.

00:12:39.000 He has now declared the editorial page of that paper is going Trump right wing.

00:12:42.000 Surprise, Mr. Musk agrees.

00:12:44.000 We must support independent media.

00:12:46.000 Um, question.

00:12:47.000 It is independent media.

00:12:49.000 Bezos is the owner.

00:12:50.000 It's not owned by the government.

00:12:52.000 Independent media typically means media that is not owned by, you know, the government.

00:12:57.000 That's typically what it means.

00:12:59.000 Also, nothing in Bezos' note actually says that it's going to be pro-Trump.

00:13:03.000 You can be very pro-free market and very pro-liberty, and you can object to some of the things that Trump is doing.

00:13:08.000 The notion that these two things are coincident is because the left has so lost the plot that simply saying you like capitalism and free markets and liberty Apparently, this now makes you Trump-coded.

00:13:18.000 Well, that's your fault, gang.

00:13:20.000 Not anybody else's.

00:13:20.000 Good for Jeff Bezos.

00:13:21.000 I hope he puts his money where his mouth is.

00:13:24.000 I hope that he actually starts hiring columnists.

00:13:26.000 You know, it'd be great.

00:13:26.000 Seriously, it'd be great.

00:13:27.000 If somebody at one of the major newspapers voted for Trump, that would be great.

00:13:32.000 I'm not sure I can name a single op-ed columnist for the New York Times-Washington Post who voted for Trump.

00:13:38.000 Maybe at the New York Times, Ross Douthat voted for Trump.

00:13:41.000 Maybe.

00:13:42.000 No one else did.

00:13:44.000 So, you know, over 50% of the country voted for Trump.

00:13:47.000 It might be nice if the Washington Post actually gave some exposure to those views.

00:13:50.000 That might be good.

00:13:51.000 But this is all part and parcel of a radical sea change that is happening in American politics, again, driven by the Democrats who are totally disconnected from reality. 0.99

00:14:00.000 They're all on blue sky, mentally stroking themselves to left-wing idiocy. 0.98

00:14:06.000 And then they are surprised that everybody is running screaming away from them. 0.97

00:14:10.000 And meanwhile, other big news yesterday, President Trump.

00:14:12.000 Had his first big cabinet meeting.

00:14:15.000 Obviously, a lot of famous people in that cabinet.

00:14:17.000 And while the left is really quite exercised about Donald Trump's cabinet, all these people were individually powerhouses in their own right before they joined the cabinet.

00:14:27.000 Trump had a lot of good things to say in this cabinet meeting.

00:14:30.000 He began, of course, with his sort of signal issue, the border.

00:14:34.000 He said we will be closing the border.

00:14:35.000 He was flanked on one side by his Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, and on the other side by Marco Rubio, his Secretary of State.

00:14:42.000 We're also having tremendous support from Border Patrol, from ICE. The ICE agents have been unbelievable.

00:14:48.000 Border Patrol, their leadership at Border Patrol has been incredible, and they're working very well.

00:14:54.000 And as you know, and I saw you reporting it this morning, actually, we set records on the least number of illegal aliens coming in, migrants coming into our country that we've had.

00:15:08.000 More than 50 years.

00:15:09.000 And we did this all within a period of weeks because we took over a mess.

00:15:14.000 Okay, so he's right about all of that.

00:15:16.000 President Trump also continues to push forward on the layoffs of large numbers of executive branch employees.

00:15:23.000 He said we could fire up to a million people in the executive branch, about three million who work for the executive branch right now.

00:15:29.000 Those million people that haven't responded, though, Elon, they are on the bubble.

00:15:33.000 you know I wouldn't say that we're thrilled about it you know they haven't responded now maybe they don't exist maybe we're paying people that don't exist don't forget we just got here this group just got here but those people are on the bubble as they say you know maybe they're going to be gone maybe they're not around maybe they have other jobs maybe they moved and they're not where they're supposed to be a lot of things could have happened and now

00:16:02.000 One of the sort of big questions here was whether Elon Musk, who's leading Doge, was going to have a seat at the table because he actually does not have an official governmentally approved position at this point.

00:16:10.000 The answer is no.

00:16:11.000 He showed up for the cabinet meeting, but he wasn't given a seat at the table with the other secretaries.

00:16:15.000 Here was Elon Musk suggesting that he was essentially President Trump's tech support.

00:16:19.000 I actually just call myself a humble tech support here because this is actually, as crazy as it sounds, that is almost a literal description of the work that the Doge team is doing.

00:16:33.000 It is helping fix the government computer systems.

00:16:35.000 Many of these systems are extremely old.

00:16:38.000 They don't communicate.

00:16:39.000 There are a lot of mistakes in the systems.

00:16:41.000 The software doesn't work.

00:16:44.000 So we are actually tech support.

00:16:47.000 It's ironic, but it's true.

00:16:53.000 Musk acting as sort of an outside actor is the best version of all of this.

00:16:57.000 Meanwhile, as Politico points out, We're good to go.

00:17:26.000 And so they're talking about laying off a bunch of people. 0.97

00:17:29.000 As President Trump suggested yesterday, he was left with a government that was bloated, fat, and disgusting. 0.89

00:17:33.000 Sort of typically colorful language from the president. 0.99

00:17:37.000 This country has gotten bloated and fat and disgusting and incompetently run. 0.96

00:17:42.000 I think we had the worst president in the history of our country. 0.99

00:17:46.000 He just left office.

00:17:47.000 I think he's a disgrace what he's done to our country by allowing millions of people to come into our country like that. 1.00

00:17:53.000 And all of the other things, the inflation which he caused because of energy and stupid spending, to spend hundreds of millions, trillions and trillions of dollars on the Green News scam, a total scam. 0.95

00:18:08.000 I have the best energy people, the best environmental people in the world around this table, and they can't even believe he got away with it.

00:18:16.000 Okay, meanwhile, other secretaries also spoke up.

00:18:18.000 Secretary of Defense Hegseth is excellent.

00:18:20.000 He said that one of the chief goals that he had as Secretary of Defense was to fully investigate every aspect of the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, one of the most shameful moments in American history.

00:18:30.000 We're doing a complete review of every single aspect of what happened with the botched withdrawal of Afghanistan and plan to have full accountability.

00:18:38.000 It's one of the first things we announced at the Defense Department for that reason, sir.

00:18:44.000 General Raisin Cain, who's on his way in, was not a part of that.

00:18:47.000 Instead, was a part of leading the effort against ISIS by untying the hands of warfighters and finishing the job properly and then bringing our troops home.

00:18:55.000 So we're taking a very different view, obviously, than the previous administration, and there will be full accountability.

00:19:01.000 Howard Lutnick, his Commerce Secretary, all spoke up about President Trump's new proposal for the so-called golden cards, which apparently will be wrapped around chocolate bars and stowed all around the United States in various candy shops.

00:19:12.000 But actually, it's like 5 million bucks and you get a citizenship.

00:19:14.000 Anyway, here is Howard Lutnick explaining.

00:19:17.000 If we sell, just remember, 200,000.

00:19:21.000 There's a line for EB-5 of 250,000 right now.

00:19:25.000 200,000 of these gold green cards is $1 trillion to pay down our debt.

00:19:34.000 And that's why the president is doing it.

00:19:37.000 Because we are going to balance this budget and we are going to pay off the debt.

00:19:41.000 Under President Trump.

00:19:44.000 Okay, now, let's talk about that debt because this is a serious question.

00:19:48.000 The big budget that the House is pushing forward is, in fact, going to add to the national debt.

00:19:54.000 Why is it going to add to the national debt?

00:19:55.000 Well, because by preserving the Trump tax cuts, supposedly there's less tax revenue to the federal government.

00:20:00.000 It's not about the tax cuts.

00:20:01.000 It is about the simple fact that the debt is going to keep going up and to the right because of our embedded...

00:20:06.000 Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid programs.

00:20:08.000 That's all.

00:20:09.000 The means-tested welfare programs, things like SNAP and TAMF and all the various other gigantically bloated programs that funnel literally trillions of dollars a year from one segment of society to another segment of society via the American taxpayer dollars and mostly via debt.

00:20:25.000 That is going to eat the American economy. 0.82

00:20:27.000 It is.

00:20:28.000 And herein lies a bit of the problem.

00:20:30.000 And here is where I think conservatives ought to be wary.

00:20:32.000 Not that President Trump isn't doing amazing things.

00:20:34.000 Not that Doge isn't doing useful things.

00:20:36.000 But the systemic underlying problems of American politics are not going to get solved by either party right now.

00:20:42.000 That is just a fact.

00:20:43.000 President Trump yesterday, he was talking about Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security.

00:20:46.000 He said we're not going to touch them.

00:20:47.000 And we won't.

00:20:48.000 He's right.

00:20:48.000 We're not going to touch them.

00:20:50.000 At the same time, there are consequences to not touching them.

00:20:54.000 Can you guarantee that Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security will not be touched?

00:20:58.000 Yeah, I mean, I have said it so many times, you shouldn't be asking me that question.

00:21:03.000 Okay?

00:21:03.000 This will not be read my lips.

00:21:06.000 It won't be read my lips anymore.

00:21:09.000 We're not going to touch it.

00:21:10.000 Now, we are going to look for fraud.

00:21:12.000 I'm sure you're okay with that, like people that shouldn't be on, people that are illegal aliens and others, criminals in many cases.

00:21:21.000 And that's with Social Security.

00:21:23.000 We have a lot of people.

00:21:23.000 You see that immediately when you see people that are 200 years old that are being sent checks for Social Security.

00:21:30.000 Some of them are actually being sent checks.

00:21:32.000 So we're tracing that down, and I have a feeling that Pam is going to do a very good job with that.

00:21:37.000 But you have a lot of fraud.

00:21:40.000 Okay, so no matter how much fraud you identify in these programs, and literally every dollar of fraud should be cut, it ain't even a drop in the bucket compared to the kind of spending America has done.

00:21:48.000 This is a bloated legacy.

00:21:53.000 Again, one of the things that I've suggested about the Trump administration is that they have to focus laser-like on ensuring increases in productivity, cutting regulations, ensuring ease of economic transaction, right?

00:22:11.000 These are the only things that Trump can do if he's unwilling to touch the actual systemic drivers of America's national debt.

00:22:17.000 And the reality is that without touching those drivers of America's national debt, the debt's just going to keep going in the wrong direction.

00:22:22.000 So when President Trump says that he's going to balance the budget, that is not a real fiscal possibility.

00:22:26.000 You can't do it without touching any of these big programs.

00:22:29.000 So one of those two things is untrue.

00:22:31.000 I'm going to go with balancing the budget.

00:22:33.000 We want to balance a budget.

00:22:35.000 We want to have a balanced budget within a reasonably short period of time, meaning maybe by next year or the year after, but maybe even sooner than that.

00:22:45.000 And we're not even going to do zero base budgeting going back to like the 2019 budget.

00:22:48.000 Let's just be real about this.

00:22:50.000 None of this stuff is going to happen.

00:22:51.000 Both parties are going to spend like drunken sailors until austerity measures are forced into place about five years from now.

00:22:57.000 That is actually what's going to happen in the United States.

00:23:00.000 That train is coming down the tracks.

00:23:01.000 Ain't nobody getting in the way of that train because it's politically dangerous to actually try to stop the train right now.

00:23:06.000 So instead, we'll just run right off that cliff.

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00:24:19.000 Also, victory is in the air and so is the scent of renewal.

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00:25:22.000 Meanwhile, again, the big danger to President Trump's presidency would be...

00:25:27.000 Things like inflation.

00:25:29.000 Inflation is, in fact, going the wrong way in the United States right now.

00:25:32.000 It is not headed in the right direction.

00:25:34.000 The Agriculture Secretary, she suggested yesterday, Brooke Rollins, that they have a five-point plan to bring down the price of eggs.

00:25:40.000 Here's what she had to say.

00:25:42.000 So just this morning, we announced the plan to, first of all, attack the avian flu and how we pull it back out of our poultry producers, but secondly, how we bring the cost of eggs down.

00:25:53.000 So that plan has five parts.

00:25:54.000 The first part is a biosecurity part, and what that means is that how do we lock our poultry barns down?

00:26:01.000 How do we ensure that our egg-laying chickens aren't getting this disease?

00:26:05.000 Secondly, we're going to work to move much more quickly on repopulating the $160 million Okay,

00:26:37.000 so will this have a massive impact on egg prices?

00:26:41.000 It could have some impact.

00:26:42.000 It's going to have a massive impact if the inflationary pressures continue.

00:26:44.000 Again, we've blown too much money into the American economy, and it appears that's not going to stop anytime soon, despite the relatively high interest rates by sort of historical standards.

00:26:54.000 Now, President Trump did announce yesterday that tariffs are back on the table, although he says that they're not going to be kicked back in place on Canada and Mexico until April 2nd.

00:27:03.000 And if he's using this for leverage, I just want to know what's on the other side of the leverage.

00:27:06.000 I'm fine with President Trump using tariffs as leverage.

00:27:08.000 He's done it successfully against the country of Colombia, for example.

00:27:13.000 He's done it against Mexico to get Mexico to pledge to put 10,000 troops on the border.

00:27:16.000 All that's fine.

00:27:17.000 What are the deliverables that we can look forward to from Canada and Mexico that would justify the threat of tariffs?

00:27:23.000 That's all.

00:27:24.000 That's all.

00:27:25.000 Because then maybe Canada delivers and we don't have to do the tariffs.

00:27:28.000 The problem with tariffs, folks, trade wars are not good and they are not easy to win, as a matter of fact.

00:27:33.000 And they are not good for inflation.

00:27:35.000 Because when you restrict supply and demand remains the same, prices go up.

00:27:38.000 This is just basic econ 101. Here's President Trump saying that the tariffs will kick back in place on April 2nd.

00:27:46.000 We've lost millions of people due to fentanyl.

00:27:49.000 It comes mostly from China, but it comes through Mexico and it comes through Canada.

00:27:53.000 And I have to tell you that, you know, on April 2nd, I was going to do it on April 1st, but I'm a little bit superstitious.

00:28:00.000 I made it April 2nd.

00:28:01.000 The tariffs go on.

00:28:03.000 Not all of them, but a lot of them.

00:28:05.000 And I think you're going to see something that's going to be amazing.

00:28:08.000 We've been taken advantage of as a country for a long period of time.

00:28:11.000 We've been tariffed, but we didn't tariff.

00:28:16.000 Okay, now again, reciprocal tariffs as a way of driving down tariffs to get everybody to go weapons down, that's fine with me.

00:28:23.000 But tariffs as sort of an America-strengthening policy do not have a long and storied history.

00:28:28.000 And if you want the Trump administration to be successful, you need the Trump administration to actually keep the economy humming.

00:28:34.000 You need inflation to come down.

00:28:36.000 It's really important.

00:28:37.000 The other thing you need is no distractions.

00:28:38.000 I've said this over and over and over. 1.00

00:28:40.000 What President Trump is doing right now is way too important for there to be stupid distractions. 0.98

00:28:44.000 I bring this up because the big distraction of the day is that grifters extraordinaire, the Tate brothers, are apparently now arriving in Florida. 0.97

00:28:52.000 And this is happening because apparently the Trump administration put significant pressure.

00:28:59.000 Now, I don't need to get into sort of the legal vagaries of what house arrest means in Romania.

00:29:04.000 Does this mean that they're never going to go back to Romania and that it won't be prosecuted?

00:29:08.000 There are criminal allegations in Romania.

00:29:09.000 They're under indictment in Romania for allegations of sex trafficking.

00:29:13.000 One of the allegations apparently includes rape of an underage girl.

00:29:18.000 Put all that aside.

00:29:20.000 Andrew Tate is an American citizen.

00:29:22.000 He was born in the United States.

00:29:23.000 His father was an American citizen.

00:29:25.000 His mom was a British citizen.

00:29:26.000 He's always considered himself more British than American.

00:29:29.000 But the real question is, is it good for America for the Tates to be here? 0.93

00:29:35.000 Now, again, that's not a sort of legalistic question as to whether they should be released from house arrest.

00:29:40.000 I have no actual opinion on release from house arrest for American citizens who are accused of sex trafficking in foreign countries.

00:29:47.000 I'll leave that one to the lawyers.

00:29:49.000 The question is going to be whether it is good for the Trump administration, for example, Detates to go walking around with all these people who are very closely associated with the Trump administration.

00:29:59.000 My suggestion is no.

00:30:00.000 I'm not sure what the popularity rating there would be.

00:30:02.000 My guess is not particularly high.

00:30:04.000 If you want to give a spate of bad headlines to your opponents, make sure that you put people who are self-professed pimps, who literally ran a pornography industry and made millions of dollars off of it, alleged sex traffickers, Radical Muslims who are self-proclaimed terrorist supporters, including supporters of Hamas, running around the United States with some of your closest allies. 0.53

00:30:27.000 If that sounds like a winning proposition, I'm just wondering, where's the political win there?

00:30:32.000 Forget about the morality of it.

00:30:33.000 The morality of it, I've spoken about the Tate brothers before. 0.99

00:30:35.000 I think they're disgusting.

00:30:37.000 I think that they have diagnosed many problems with feminism, and they have diagnosed many problems with left-wing thought that are easily diagnosable, and then all of their solutions are not just wrong. 0.99

00:30:48.000 But prurient and ugly.

00:30:50.000 The question as to why the Trump administration would expend political capital to do this, that's a bizarre one.

00:30:56.000 And again, if you think that the left-wing press is going to hang this around Trump's neck, you got another thing coming.

00:31:02.000 Apparently, Andrew and Tristan have left the country for the United States.

00:31:06.000 They're supposed to arrive early Thursday morning in southern Florida.

00:31:12.000 Apparently, the Romanian prosecutors said in a news release they're still pursuing criminal investigations against the two British-American citizens.

00:31:18.000 And they said they'd been allowed to leave Romania and had to appear before judicial authorities whenever summoned.

00:31:22.000 The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

00:31:27.000 Again, this raises legal questions about when, if they return to Romania at any point, but I really don't care about the Tate brothers. 0.96

00:31:33.000 I do care about the effect on the Trump agenda of association between these kind of scumbags and members of the Trump administration. 0.93

00:31:41.000 That does not seem like a particular win. 0.92

00:31:44.000 In a time when you're going to need political capital to expend on actual serious projects.

00:31:50.000 So from a practical point of view, don't see it.

00:31:52.000 From a moral point of view, I'm just going to say, I don't think that America needs more self-professed pimps who hate marriage, believe that impregnating tons of women is the mark of manhood, who preach support for actual terrorists, have outstanding criminal allegations of sex trafficking, with a proud history of pornography distribution.

00:32:13.000 And make their money today on a grift university that effectively suckers young men into giving them thousands of dollars for basically no return.

00:32:20.000 I don't know.

00:32:21.000 Call me strange.

00:32:22.000 I'm just not sure what the upside is there for anybody involved, and for people who are going to now tout these folks as some sort of heroic characters, which undoubtedly will happen.

00:32:31.000 The right has a massive problem with this.

00:32:33.000 The right has a massive problem with touting grifters as actual heroes now.

00:32:36.000 And this is, shall we say, not salutary to the...

00:32:44.000 Okay, meanwhile, President Trump is doing something pretty phenomenal with regard to Venezuela.

00:32:50.000 So the president announced yesterday that he'd be terminating the Biden-era oil deal with Venezuela.

00:32:55.000 So Biden, in an attempt to lower oil prices before the election, had essentially given concessions to the Venezuelan government, which is, again, a dictatorship, a socialist dictatorship, in order to get the oil prices down.

00:33:08.000 Supposedly, that was contingent on...

00:33:11.000 Venezuela being slightly nicer to the United States.

00:33:13.000 Well, the president made the announcement Wednesday afternoon, claiming Venezuela is transporting violent criminals deported from the United States at a rapid pace.

00:33:21.000 Trump blasted Biden for making the concession agreement with the evil regime of Nicolás Maduro.

00:33:26.000 He said, we are hereby reversing the concessions that crooked Joe Biden gave to Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela on the oil transaction agreement dated November 26, 2022, and also having to do with electoral conditions within Venezuela, which have not been met by the Maduro regime.

00:33:39.000 So, again, that is a positive.

00:33:41.000 He said, the regime has not been transporting the violent criminals they sent back into our country, back to Venezuela, at the rapid pace they'd agreed to.

00:33:48.000 I'm therefore ordering the ineffective and unmet Biden concession agreement be terminated as of the March 1st option to renew.

00:33:53.000 Thank you for your attention to this matter.

00:33:55.000 That, of course, is a good move.

00:33:57.000 Okay, in just a moment, we'll get to the latest negotiations surrounding Ukraine, an important Supreme Court case, plus the actual revival of a segment we used to do called Uncle Ben's Storytime.

00:34:06.000 If you don't remember it, you're going to want to hear it.

00:34:09.000 But first, this is the one you don't want to miss.

00:34:11.000 Tuesday, March 4th, President Trump addresses Congress, 9 p.m.

00:34:14.000 Eastern, laying out his America First vision, tackling immigration reform, economic revival, national security.

00:34:19.000 We're not going to sit this one out.

00:34:20.000 Join us for Backstage Live at 8.30 p.m.

00:34:23.000 Eastern, our pre-show breakdown with the full crew at The Daily Wire.

00:34:25.000 Then, we'll watch the entire speech together live at Daily Wire+.

00:34:28.000 And when Trump is done, we're back with unfiltered, no BS reactions you won't get anywhere else.

00:34:32.000 This is an event shaping America's future, so be there.

00:34:35.000 Watch it all live on Daily Wire Plus this Tuesday night.

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00:34:40.000 Meanwhile, there's a lot of talk about the possible end of the war in Ukraine.

00:34:44.000 Apparently, Vladimir Zelensky is going to show up in the United States, and he's going to be holding a meeting with President Trump, according to The Post.

00:34:53.000 President Trump and President Zelensky offered differing expectations on Wednesday for a high-stakes summit later this week.

00:34:58.000 The Ukrainian leader underscored his need for American assurances about Kyiv's future security.

00:35:02.000 The U.S. president stressed the benefits of a deal to reap Ukraine's vast mineral wealth.

00:35:06.000 Trump said that he and Zelensky would use a hastily arranged meeting at the White House on Friday to finalize that mineral compact his administration has pushed on Kyiv.

00:35:14.000 Now, again, that mineral compact actually is a pretty good deal for Ukraine.

00:35:17.000 It is a mineral compact in which the United States invests in future development.

00:35:22.000 Of rare earth minerals that have yet to be basically identified in Ukraine.

00:35:27.000 Trump told reporters, quote, my number one thing is to get the war stopped.

00:35:29.000 My number two thing is, I don't want to have to pay any more money.

00:35:32.000 Okay, well, I mean, that was always his priority.

00:35:35.000 President Trump also said yesterday, Ukraine will not be joining NATO. That is not a shock.

00:35:39.000 And the sort of possible membership in NATO that had been dangled before Ukraine for years and years and years, that was bad American policy.

00:35:46.000 If you're not going to do it, then don't threaten it.

00:35:48.000 In any case, here was President Trump saying it yesterday.

00:35:52.000 What concessions would you like to see?

00:35:54.000 Oh, I don't want to tell you right now.

00:35:55.000 But I can tell you that NATO you can forget about.

00:36:01.000 I think that's probably the reason the whole thing started.

00:36:04.000 And I think, J.D., we can say that.

00:36:07.000 Do you have a statement on that?

00:36:08.000 You've been very much involved.

00:36:10.000 I gave him the beauty.

00:36:11.000 Great.

00:36:12.000 Gave me the hardest questions here.

00:36:14.000 I mean, look, as the president said, we're not going to do the negotiation in public with the American media.

00:36:19.000 He's going to do it in private with the president of Russia, with the president of Ukraine, and with other leaders.

00:36:26.000 And I think that's how this has to go.

00:36:30.000 So, President Trump did say, I'm not going to make security guarantees beyond very much.

00:36:34.000 We're going to have Europe do that because Europe is their next-door neighbor. 0.98

00:36:36.000 And so the question is whether the Europeans are actually going to pick up the ball.

00:36:40.000 Keir Starmer is also visiting.

00:36:41.000 He is the...

00:36:45.000 He apparently is going to try and convince President Trump to continue to support the war in Ukraine.

00:36:51.000 According to the New York Times, Starmer will face the same balancing act as Emmanuel Macron did without the benefit of years of interactions dating back to 2017. Unlike Macron, Starmer will arrive in the Oval Office armed with a pledge to increase his country's military spending to 2.5% of GDP by 2027 and a 3% within a decade.

00:37:08.000 And Starmer is going to pare back on Britain's overseas development aid.

00:37:12.000 Echoing, actually, some of what President Trump is doing.

00:37:15.000 Apparently, Starmer is going to show strong support for Vladimir Zelensky.

00:37:19.000 He's going to tell President Trump that they shouldn't rush into a peace deal with Vladimir Putin that doesn't establish security guarantees for Ukraine.

00:37:25.000 But again, here is the reality.

00:37:27.000 The Europeans can, in fact, take the lead here.

00:37:29.000 If the Europeans say, listen, we're going to keep funding this forever. 0.75

00:37:32.000 Our economy is 10 times the size of Russia's.

00:37:35.000 We're going to keep funding this.

00:37:36.000 We're going to keep making sure that Ukraine has the hardware.

00:37:38.000 And so, you know, we're part of this equation as well.

00:37:41.000 And this negotiation is basically done.

00:37:43.000 What is it that they are asking the United States for that Trump is unwilling to do at this point that they can't do themselves?

00:37:48.000 That is sort of the big question going forward.

00:37:51.000 Because realistically speaking, if Russia believes that Europe as a whole is going to continue to fund the war, what Putin is gambling on is that basically the entire West just gets tired and he walks into Kiev.

00:38:02.000 But I've yet to see a unified Western belief that that is the next thing that is going to happen right here.

00:38:08.000 Okay, meanwhile, the Supreme Court...

00:38:10.000 of the United States is making a couple of fascinating moves.

00:38:14.000 First, yesterday, John Roberts, Chief Justice, granted the Trump administration's request to put on hold a lower court order that required it to pay an estimated $2 billion in foreign assistance funds for State Department and U.S. aid projects by midnight on Wednesday.

00:38:28.000 So Roberts is getting tired.

00:38:29.000 The Supreme Court is getting very tired of these district court judges who are putting nationwide injunctions on presidential actions, which, of course, is correct.

00:38:36.000 Whether or not the Supreme Court rules with the president in the end, He's saying, listen, that's up to us.

00:38:41.000 It's not up to random district court judge appointed by Joe Biden to shut down the workings of the American government.

00:38:46.000 Meanwhile, the Supreme Court is also now hearing a case about whether, in fact, you can sue for discrimination under anti-discrimination law if you are not a member of a quote-unquote discreet and insular minority.

00:38:59.000 So there's a case from Ohio that was heard where a person named Marlene Ames claims a state agency where she works denied her a promotion and then demoted her because she's heterosexual.

00:39:08.000 Instead, giving both her old job and the one she had sought to gay people. 0.95

00:39:12.000 A federal appeals court in Cincinnati had thrown out Ames' lawsuit, finding she failed to show the background circumstances suggesting the employer was hostile to straight people, a threshold step that wouldn't have been required if the gay employee had claimed discrimination.

00:39:24.000 So, in other words, the law did not require you to show, for example, if you're a gay person suing, that the entire agency was anti-gay.

00:39:31.000 It just had to show discrimination in this particular case.

00:39:34.000 But, the judge in this case...

00:39:36.000 Said you have to show evidence that the entire agency is anti-straight. 1.00

00:39:41.000 But that is stupid. 0.99

00:39:43.000 As Justice Samuel Alito said during oral arguments, that rule was apparently based on an intuition about the way most employers behave. 1.00

00:39:50.000 Maybe it was sound at the time, but it's no longer sound today.

00:39:53.000 Justice Brett Kavanaugh suggested the case could be resolved easily by, quote, a really short opinion that says discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, whether it's because you're gay or because you're straight, is prohibited.

00:40:01.000 And the rules are the same, whichever way that goes.

00:40:05.000 The double standard that is implicit in so much of our discrimination law has been part and parcel of the left-wing reorientation of the United States for decades.

00:40:14.000 Christopher Caldwell wrote an amazing book called The Age of Entitlement all about this, about how anti-discrimination law, particularly parts of the Civil Rights Act, completely restructured the way that American law was done, how regulations were done in the United States.

00:40:27.000 Well, that double standard should not apply.

00:40:29.000 If discrimination is wrong in one direction, it is wrong in all directions.

00:40:32.000 It should be that simple.

00:40:33.000 And the Supreme Court looks like it's going to make that clear as well.

00:40:36.000 Well, joining us online to discuss everything going on at the White House is our Daily Wire White House correspondent, Mary Margaret Olhan.

00:40:41.000 Mary Margaret, thanks for joining the show.

00:40:43.000 Thanks for having me, Ben.

00:40:46.000 It's great to be here.

00:40:47.000 So let's talk about a story that Daily Wire actually broke a little bit earlier this week.

00:40:53.000 There was this big confrontation that happened at a governor's meeting with President Trump, in which President Trump basically told the governor of Maine that federal money was going to go away unless they got on board with the executive order saying that men can't play in women's sports.

00:41:08.000 And then a meltdown occurred.

00:41:09.000 Can you detail exactly what this was?

00:41:13.000 Yes, so on Friday, that was when that governor's meeting was, when President Trump told the governor of Maine to her face that she needed to comply with federal law when it comes to men in women's sports.

00:41:23.000 She didn't like that.

00:41:23.000 She said, we'll see you in court.

00:41:25.000 And Trump told her, yes, we will.

00:41:27.000 And this is an issue, Ben, obviously, where 80% of Americans do not want men in women's sports.

00:41:32.000 It's not a popular issue for Democrats to be pushing.

00:41:35.000 It actually was a major issue in the 2024 election, and for some reason it continues to be a popular Democratic cause.

00:41:43.000 When it comes to the governor of Maine's staff, Maine has very left-leaning Democrat lawmakers.

00:41:49.000 The governor of Maine herself obviously is, but her chief of staff, Jeremy Kennedy.

00:41:54.000 Also is a Democrat who is a former Planned Parenthood worker.

00:41:58.000 He also worked for LGBTQ groups.

00:42:00.000 He's legally married to a man who is also...

00:42:03.000 A former worker for Equality Maine, I believe.

00:42:07.000 So he's literally in bed with a Democrat activist.

00:42:10.000 Now, Jeremy Kennedy, over the weekend, I was told by a White House senior official that he had a meltdown when he was having a conversation with a White House senior official about this very incident, about this very law banning men from women's sports. 0.97

00:42:23.000 And I was told that he cursed at this White House official and said words that I'm not going to say on air, but basically, F-U-U a-hole.

00:42:31.000 And stormed out of the room.

00:42:33.000 Now, the governor of Maine's office has denied this story to me, but I've followed up multiple times.

00:42:38.000 They deny that he cursed, but would not deny that the altercation occurred or that he stormed out of the room.

00:42:43.000 So we're continuing to ask questions on this, but from the looks of it, the Trump administration is really coming after Maine on this issue.

00:42:50.000 They're determined to keep men out of women's sports. 1.00

00:42:52.000 We saw the USDA taking action on this, the Department of Education, and I'm hearing that there's more to come as well.

00:43:00.000 Well, the fallout is obviously going to continue.

00:43:02.000 And meanwhile, the fireworks continue at the White House.

00:43:04.000 So one of the big controversies over the course of the last week or so is the White House Correspondents Association being basically barred from deciding who's in the press pool.

00:43:11.000 For people who don't understand this issue, Mary Margaret, why don't you explain what the press pool is, how it used to be decided, and now what the new sort of regime is?

00:43:20.000 Yes, so of course, I'm a member of the WHCA. I'm allowed to go into the briefing room, ask questions of the president.

00:43:26.000 I'm allowed to attend what they call open press events.

00:43:29.000 Now, for the press pool, those are the people that go in the Oval Office.

00:43:32.000 They're able to have much more access to the president and other events at the White House.

00:43:37.000 A couple days ago, White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt announced that the White House is going to be deciding who's allowed to attend such events or who's allowed to be in the press pool, meaning that new members of the media, or what we call new media, like myself, will potentially be allowed in the Oval Office for certain events.

00:43:54.000 Obviously, Ben, we're delighted to hear that we're going to be able to access the White House in such a manner.

00:43:58.000 We're going to have more access to the president.

00:44:00.000 We're going to have more access to all of these events that we know our audience deeply cares about.

00:44:04.000 But there's been some serious media hysteria over it.

00:44:08.000 Last night, the head of the White House Correspondence Association, Eugene Daniels, announced that he was technically going to blow up the entire system that we have for learning from other reporters what's going on in the White House.

00:44:19.000 So there's a series of emails that reporters will send out.

00:44:22.000 It's called the Pooler, and they'll send out information to help us understand what's going on in the White House.

00:44:28.000 Now, not everyone's on board with this.

00:44:30.000 There's even some reporters who are more left-leaning that have expressed their concerns about not being able to access this information that we formerly had.

00:44:36.000 So, big drama here at the White House today.

00:44:38.000 I know this isn't the end of it, but I have to say, you know, after the last four years of the Biden administration of watching President Biden's very obvious cognitive decline and really not hearing...

00:44:50.000 Anything about that decline from the White House press corps, I'm a little embarrassed by the media hysteria, in particular when you look at how Infrequently, President Biden interacted with the media.

00:45:00.000 How infrequently, former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called on conservative press, like my friends Reagan Reese at The Daily Caller, Deanna Globova at The New York Post.

00:45:10.000 There was very little access for conservative press.

00:45:12.000 And when President Biden did call on reporters, he often had a picture of the reporter in front of him and the very question they were about to ask.

00:45:20.000 So, you know, more drama on this for sure incoming, but the hysteria, I hope, will also calm down because, frankly, it's a little embarrassing.

00:45:29.000 It is pretty embarrassing, especially considering that the head of the WHCA is now going to go work at MSNBC and was supposedly a representative of the unbiased press pool.

00:45:39.000 Mary Margaret, you're doing a great job over at the White House.

00:45:41.000 We'll check in with you soon.

00:45:43.000 Thanks, Ben. 0.79

00:45:45.000 And meanwhile, the left continues to just be incompetent.

00:45:49.000 Michael Moore is somehow still being trotted out as a moral voice at this point.

00:45:53.000 It's kind of amazing.

00:45:54.000 So apparently, Michael Moore put out a Substack post on Tuesday, and he is making the claim that, effectively speaking, we need illegal immigrants everywhere because otherwise you're not going to have the people who are going to stop an asteroid on a path to decimate the Earth.

00:46:13.000 Quote, who's really being removed by ICE tonight?

00:46:15.000 The child who has discovered the cure for cancer in 2046?

00:46:18.000 The 9th grade nerd who would have stopped that asteroid that's going to hit us in 2032. And then he cited the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs, whose dad was born in Syria.

00:46:27.000 He said, we get nothing from that Syrian Muslim who sired a junior, Abdul Fatah, a nothing migrant with a nothing out of wedlock baby, except that nothing baby was soon adopted and given an American name, Steve Jobs. 0.77

00:46:36.000 Yes, that Steve Jobs.

00:46:38.000 I'm grateful for that Muslim migrant baby being born here 70 years ago today.

00:46:44.000 Okay, well, I mean, first of all, Steve Jobs' story is largely about his adoptive family, not about his natural birth.

00:46:50.000 So if you're going to give credit to anybody for Steve Jobs, you really should talk about his adoptive family.

00:46:54.000 That's exactly who Steve Jobs gave the credit to.

00:46:58.000 But if the case is that illegal immigration is somehow similar to legal immigration, I'm just wondering why.

00:47:05.000 Hilariously, in his list of various people who should have been allowed to immigrate because they're making America great, he includes Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib.

00:47:14.000 An actual terrorist supporter.

00:47:16.000 He also includes Linda Sarsour.

00:47:18.000 I don't think you're making the case that you think you're making, Michael.

00:47:21.000 I really, really do not.

00:47:22.000 Meanwhile, at the same time that Michael Moore is trying to make the case for open borders and open immigration, a representative named Marcy Kaptur of Ohio, she is questioning whether Elon Musk is loyal to America.

00:47:35.000 Guys, you're going to have to pick one lane here.

00:47:36.000 Are you going to be xenophobes or are you going to be open borders people?

00:47:38.000 Pick one.

00:47:41.000 Mr. Musk has just been here.

00:47:43.000 22 years.

00:47:44.000 And he's a citizen of three countries.

00:47:46.000 I always ask myself the question, with the damage he's doing here, when push comes to shove, which country is he loyalty to?

00:47:53.000 South Africa?

00:47:55.000 Canada?

00:47:56.000 Or the United States?

00:47:57.000 And he's only been a citizen, I'll say again, 22 years.

00:48:03.000 Only?

00:48:04.000 That's a long time to be a citizen.

00:48:06.000 22 years.

00:48:07.000 I know American-born citizens who've only been a citizen for 21 years.

00:48:10.000 They're 21 years old.

00:48:11.000 What the?

00:48:12.000 Yeah, you're right.

00:48:14.000 Elon is loyal to Canada.

00:48:15.000 Nailed that one, lady. 1.00

00:48:17.000 That's really good.

00:48:18.000 But again, the left has no capacity to stand up to its own radicals.

00:48:21.000 That was made clear yesterday over at Barnard.

00:48:24.000 Barnard College, of course, which is part of Columbia.

00:48:27.000 The New York Post reports dozens of keffiyeh-clad anti-Israel protesters took over a building at Barnard College for several hours Wednesday evening, assaulting a school employee while protesting the expulsions of two students who stormed a Columbia University class in January and threw around flyers loaded with hateful rhetoric.

00:48:41.000 Videos circulating online, posted by Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine, which is in fact a pro-terror group, showed the mass students lining a hallway in Milbank Hall, the oldest building on campus, beating drums and loudly chanting through the microphones.

00:48:54.000 By the way, they did this on the same exact day that in Israel a eulogy was being held for the Bibas family.

00:49:00.000 The Bibas family is the mother and two babies who were murdered point-blank in cold blood, the babies with the bare hands of Hamas.

00:49:08.000 This is the day that the...

00:49:09.000 Pro-Palestinian protesters decided to take over Barnard College.

00:49:14.000 Hundreds of thousands of people showed up in the streets, up to perhaps 10% of the entire Israeli population showed up in the streets to pay tribute to the family of Yarden Bibas.

00:49:21.000 He is the surviving father who was released as a hostage.

00:49:24.000 His wife was murdered by Hamas.

00:49:26.000 Again, his four-year-old and his one-year-old were murdered in the captivity of Hamas, apparently according to autopsies.

00:49:31.000 But the bare hands of Hamas and their bodies were battered with rocks to make it try and look like they were killed in an airstrike.

00:49:36.000 Here is some of Yardin Bibas' eulogy.

00:49:38.000 He's saying it in Hebrew.

00:49:38.000 I'll give you the translation.

00:49:39.000 He said, Sherry, I love you.

00:49:46.000 I will always love you.

00:49:48.000 Shiri, you're everything to me.

00:49:51.000 Shiri, I'm sorry I couldn't protect you all.

00:49:53.000 If only I had known what would happen, I wouldn't have fired.

00:49:58.000 I think about everything we went through together.

00:49:59.000 there are so many beautiful memories I remember Ariel Those are the two kids.

00:50:08.000 I miss those times deeply.

00:50:11.000 Shuki, Ariel, you made me into a father.

00:50:16.000 You transformed us into a family.

00:50:20.000 You taught me what truly matters in life and about responsibility.

00:50:24.000 You taught me so much about myself and I want to thank you.

00:50:28.000 So thank you, my beloved.

00:50:30.000 Okay, so the same day that was happening.

00:50:32.000 These truly evil protesters showed up at Barnard College and took over the hallways in solidarity with pro-Hamas students who were expelled because they are foreign exchange students who actually support terrorism.

00:50:46.000 This led to the Columbia University spokesperson, Christina Miller, offering concessions to the protesters.

00:50:54.000 Again, the absolute incompetence is not incompetence.

00:50:56.000 They're on the side of the protesters.

00:50:58.000 That's all.

00:50:58.000 They are pro-Hamasnics.

00:50:59.000 Half of these administrators are pro-Khamasniks. 0.95

00:51:01.000 Cut the student aid to these universities.

00:51:03.000 Taxpayer dollars should not be flowing to universities that teach pro-terrorism tripe and make room for it.

00:51:09.000 Just gross.

00:51:10.000 The dean is happy to meet with some representatives from your group. 0.96

00:51:16.000 Um...

00:51:17.000 But as she has some conditions and she expects that you'll have some too.

00:51:23.000 So I'm here to kind of report back.

00:51:25.000 She wants the people that she meets with to be unmasked and uncovered.

00:51:32.000 She can offer a listening ear. 0.68

00:51:36.000 And that she says she feels is about what she can offer.

00:51:40.000 So it sounds to me like...

00:51:45.000 Some of these are not things that you are willing to accept as conditions for your meeting with her.

00:51:54.000 If not, I mean, if you would like me to take back some counter-proposals, I would be fine with doing that. 0.99

00:52:02.000 You ridiculous people. 0.98

00:52:04.000 Just kick them out of the building and then expel the people who are foreign exchange students. 1.00

00:52:07.000 It's that simple.

00:52:08.000 But they never will do that because they have to concede to the pro-terror side.

00:52:11.000 They must.

00:52:11.000 It is apparently in their Columbia University contract.

00:52:14.000 Okay, speaking of leftist idiocy, we used to have a segment on the show called Uncle Ben's Storytime, in which we went through some of the wokest children's books in America. 0.97

00:52:22.000 And we've decided, for the hell of it, to bring it back. 0.98

00:52:25.000 So, here, without further ado, Uncle Ben's Storytime.

00:52:32.000 All right, let's see.

00:52:35.000 Girls on the Rise.

00:52:38.000 Oh, yes.

00:52:39.000 By Amanda Gorman, oh no!

00:52:41.000 The loss we carry, a sea we must wade, we've craved the belly.

00:52:47.000 And love is wise.

00:52:49.000 Love is wise?

00:52:51.000 Love is wise.

00:52:52.000 Get it?

00:52:57.000 Who are we?

00:52:59.000 We are girls on the rise.

00:53:00.000 Today, everyone's eyes are on us as we make waves.

00:53:03.000 Pave the way and save the day.

00:53:05.000 Today, we finally...

00:53:07.000 Have a say.

00:53:07.000 How about I just go eat some hay?

00:53:09.000 I can make things out of clay and lay by the bay.

00:53:12.000 I just may.

00:53:17.000 So, um, bad rhyme scheme.

00:53:19.000 A, B, B, C, kind of C, C. Waves, day, and say don't rhyme at all.

00:53:26.000 Like, waves is kind of a near rhyme, kind of.

00:53:28.000 But that's Amanda Gorman, who is truly a terrible poetess.

00:53:34.000 Liberation, freedom, and respect.

00:53:36.000 Apparently these girls just carry big banners in the forest or some such. 1.00

00:53:40.000 We are girls like never before.

00:53:43.000 What do you mean like never before?

00:53:44.000 I don't understand.

00:53:45.000 Like never before.

00:53:46.000 What does that mean?

00:53:48.000 Girls have existed for literally all of human history. 0.99

00:53:50.000 Speaking out more and more.

00:53:51.000 Because when our quiet is broken, the world must hear us roar.

00:53:55.000 That doesn't even make sense.

00:53:57.000 Like, this is terrible poetry.

00:53:59.000 When our quiet is broken?

00:54:01.000 No, when you break your quiet, okay?

00:54:03.000 Like, you have to be the active participant in the sentence if you wish to be the person who is now speaking out.

00:54:09.000 If my quiet is broken, that means I'm reading and my kids come screaming in my ear.

00:54:14.000 That's what happens when my quiet is broken.

00:54:16.000 The world must hear us roar.

00:54:18.000 Again, A-A-B-A. Before more broken roar.

00:54:25.000 Who are we?

00:54:26.000 We are a billion voices, bright and brave.

00:54:28.000 We are light.

00:54:29.000 Standing together in the fight.

00:54:31.000 How has this person won awards?

00:54:33.000 How?

00:54:34.000 Okay, so here we have girl in the hijab. 1.00

00:54:37.000 We have girl with a wheelchair. 1.00

00:54:40.000 We have bird.

00:54:41.000 And a they-she person. 1.00

00:54:43.000 A they-she. 1.00

00:54:44.000 Which, again, makes no sense.

00:54:46.000 Why wouldn't it not be they-them? 0.99

00:54:48.000 You're only plural half the time?

00:54:49.000 What in the actual F? A billion voices, bright and brave.

00:54:53.000 We are light, standing together in the fight.

00:54:56.000 Oh my god.

00:54:57.000 No rhyme.

00:54:59.000 The meter isn't good either.

00:55:01.000 There's no rhythm.

00:55:03.000 We've been here for generations, shining across all nations.

00:55:07.000 I don't understand.

00:55:08.000 You say that you've been here for generations, shining across all nations, but also you're girls like never before.

00:55:13.000 So which is it?

00:55:13.000 Are you historically rooted, or are you like never before?

00:55:16.000 We are different people.

00:55:17.000 Wow!

00:55:18.000 There's a revelation.

00:55:20.000 Each of us a different shape and size, a different wonder, and a different wise.

00:55:25.000 How are you a different wise?

00:55:26.000 That doesn't even make...

00:55:28.000 I keep saying it doesn't make sense, but none of it makes sense.

00:55:30.000 It doesn't make sense.

00:55:32.000 How can you be a different wise?

00:55:34.000 Also, these pictures are bad.

00:55:36.000 Just gonna put that out there.

00:55:38.000 Some of us go...

00:55:39.000 Oh, here we go.

00:55:39.000 Some of us go by she, and some of us go by they.

00:55:41.000 Well, how do you know that the they's are she's? 0.95

00:55:44.000 You're gonna have to define this.

00:55:45.000 But no matter our names, or from where we came, in our hearts, we are the same.

00:55:49.000 We are a power, a movement, pretty powerful.

00:55:56.000 Pretty powerful.

00:55:58.000 Wow, because you see it's like a pun because they're pretty and powerful.

00:56:00.000 They're pretty powerful.

00:56:02.000 And some of them are they's. 0.86

00:56:04.000 And this looks like the most tendentious dinner of all time.

00:56:09.000 Also just a teapot.

00:56:11.000 I don't understand.

00:56:12.000 No cold beverages at this particular dinner.

00:56:15.000 We are beautiful, not because of how we may appear, but how we look straight into the face of fear.

00:56:24.000 And apparently the face of fear is just...

00:56:26.000 Eyes.

00:56:26.000 Just eyes.

00:56:27.000 I didn't realize that.

00:56:28.000 Not like a big scary monster, just like randomly floating eyes, like the Cheshire Cat, but with eyes.

00:56:33.000 We are beautiful, not because of how we may appear.

00:56:35.000 Yeah, I'm getting that.

00:56:36.000 But how we look straight into the face of fear, that's what...

00:56:39.000 And everybody's really pissed off, right?

00:56:42.000 Super mad.

00:56:43.000 This they-she person is making an awful lot of appearances. 1.00

00:56:45.000 Like, this person's in every picture.

00:56:46.000 Gotta make sure they-she, all of her appears. 1.00

00:56:50.000 Yes, being a girl takes a brave heart.

00:56:53.000 Sometimes we might feel scared.

00:56:54.000 Lost and in the dark.

00:56:56.000 Some days it feels too hard to stand up on our own.

00:57:00.000 Once again, rhyme scheme because it's poetry.

00:57:03.000 Heart, scared, dark, hard, own.

00:57:07.000 Do you want any of those rhyme?

00:57:08.000 Any?

00:57:09.000 What is the meter?

00:57:10.000 Sometimes we might feel scared, lost and in the dark.

00:57:13.000 So she's trying to, the line is too long, so she's trying to rhyme heart and dark.

00:57:18.000 They she is having problems.

00:57:19.000 They she is over in the bushes for no reason. 1.00

00:57:22.000 Yeah, I don't know what's happening in the bushes.

00:57:25.000 They're first at, like, a dinner party, and then they're just wandering around the forest all by themselves.

00:57:29.000 But here's the thing.

00:57:30.000 When one girl stands up, she is never alone.

00:57:33.000 Well, I mean, never?

00:57:35.000 Ever?

00:57:36.000 What about when they're in the bathroom?

00:57:38.000 I feel like sometimes you're alone when you stand up.

00:57:41.000 But here's the thing.

00:57:42.000 This person went to Harvard and graduated cum laude.

00:57:44.000 And then was a poetess at the Biden inauguration in 2021. Oh, boy.

00:57:51.000 The wages of DEI. We are like wings, lifting each other up, making each other strong.

00:57:57.000 Wings don't lift each other up. 0.72

00:57:58.000 None of this makes sense.

00:58:00.000 That's not what wings do.

00:58:01.000 Wings lift the body of the thing that the wings are on.

00:58:04.000 Think of a plane.

00:58:05.000 Does one wing lift the other wing?

00:58:07.000 No!

00:58:08.000 That is not how that works.

00:58:09.000 It doesn't work that way for animals.

00:58:10.000 It doesn't work that way for airplanes.

00:58:12.000 Like some basic physical knowledge would be good here.

00:58:14.000 We are like wings lifting.

00:58:15.000 Make a metaphor that makes sense.

00:58:17.000 Make it make sense.

00:58:18.000 And again, great rhyme scheme there.

00:58:19.000 Wings up strong.

00:58:21.000 Wow.

00:58:22.000 Solid stuff right there.

00:58:24.000 When a girl writes what's wrong, she brings others along. 0.99

00:58:27.000 It rhymes.

00:58:28.000 There we go.

00:58:28.000 See that?

00:58:29.000 You could do it.

00:58:29.000 Wrong and along.

00:58:30.000 Good.

00:58:31.000 We might have our own voices, but we're singing the same song.

00:58:33.000 Three of them rhyme.

00:58:34.000 Wow.

00:58:35.000 It's an A-A-B-A. Wrong along voices and song.

00:58:38.000 Wow.

00:58:39.000 That was like the best page yet.

00:58:40.000 And we've got the full diversity contingent here.

00:58:43.000 We have, you know, Storm over here with the white streak in the hair.

00:58:46.000 And then we've got some lady playing a giant drum. 1.00

00:58:50.000 And another lady wearing gym shorts and playing a guitar. 1.00

00:58:53.000 And some person with giant arms playing the triangle.

00:58:57.000 And this person has the wingspan of Giannis.

00:58:59.000 And that person could definitely block a 16-foot jumper. 1.00

00:59:03.000 And then we have Legless Lady over here. 1.00

00:59:07.000 Because everyone must be represented, including those with only one leg. 0.99

00:59:10.000 Do you hear it?

00:59:11.000 Are spunk and spirit?

00:59:13.000 I hear it in spirit!

00:59:14.000 Ah!

00:59:15.000 There it is!

00:59:16.000 And then...

00:59:17.000 Apparently what you hear and spunk and spirit just look like random shapes.

00:59:20.000 So cool.

00:59:22.000 Oh boy, here we go.

00:59:24.000 We are gutsy.

00:59:25.000 We are gorgeous.

00:59:26.000 Gleaming, giving, and gifted.

00:59:28.000 Glorious, glitter, and grit.

00:59:30.000 Galumphing. 0.93

00:59:31.000 G! This page brought to you by the letter G. Gutsy, gorgeous, gleaming, giving, gifted.

00:59:36.000 Glorious, glitter, and grit.

00:59:38.000 It's so truly awful.

00:59:40.000 It's truly awful.

00:59:41.000 Glorious, glitter, and grit.

00:59:43.000 Why glorious glitter?

00:59:44.000 I mean, you'd better off with gleaming glitter.

00:59:46.000 Because theoretically glitter could gleam, but it doesn't matter.

00:59:50.000 It's so bad.

00:59:51.000 And then over here we have my body, my mind, my liberation.

00:59:56.000 And again, that lady has some giant arms. 1.00

00:59:58.000 I don't know why all the women in this book have misshapen arms. 1.00

01:00:01.000 It's kind of strange to me.

01:00:02.000 We have some woman wearing a press outfit. 1.00

01:00:05.000 We've got what appears to be an Olympian, but the medals are tiny.

01:00:08.000 We have a tennis player, a gymnast over here, one mother with a baby.

01:00:12.000 That's nice.

01:00:12.000 So apparently there is like one mom among all the women.

01:00:15.000 That's exciting.

01:00:15.000 Good news.

01:00:18.000 We are girl.

01:00:22.000 No, it's not plural.

01:00:24.000 We are girl.

01:00:25.000 Capital G girl. 0.81

01:00:26.000 Singular platonic girl. 0.99

01:00:28.000 Glowing and growing.

01:00:30.000 Ah, glowing and growing.

01:00:32.000 Knowing where the wind is blowing.

01:00:34.000 We are where change is going.

01:00:39.000 Where is it going?

01:00:40.000 To girl? 0.56

01:00:41.000 Where is change going?

01:00:43.000 What is the object of the change?

01:00:45.000 We are where change...

01:00:46.000 Change doesn't go anywhere.

01:00:48.000 That's not how change operates.

01:00:50.000 Again, this is not how words work.

01:00:52.000 Where is the change going?

01:00:54.000 Have you ever used that phrase ever?

01:00:55.000 Where is the change going?

01:00:57.000 You've never used that unless you're talking about receiving change from a restaurant or a cashier or something.

01:01:02.000 We are where change is going.

01:01:04.000 That doesn't...

01:01:05.000 These words are meaningless.

01:01:07.000 They're like the sort of Chomskyan sentences that have form but no content.

01:01:10.000 We are girl.

01:01:12.000 We girl.

01:01:15.000 We all win when one girl tries, when she defies, with her rallying cries, tried and true.

01:01:20.000 See, you had all the momentum going with like the tries, defies, and cries.

01:01:25.000 And then it just falls apart with tried and true.

01:01:26.000 Because tried and true is a meaningless statement at the end of that particular phrase.

01:01:30.000 And you have defeated the purpose of a line that is going to...

01:01:33.000 And by the way, that's an easy one to rhyme.

01:01:36.000 Tries, defies, cries, flies.

01:01:40.000 Justifies, dies.

01:01:41.000 Surprise!

01:01:42.000 We have so many people doing...

01:01:43.000 Every single picture is a quilt, basically.

01:01:48.000 There's another one, Rise.

01:01:49.000 She could have used Rise there, right?

01:01:50.000 She uses Rise on this page, right?

01:01:52.000 What?

01:01:52.000 Cries, Rise?

01:01:53.000 Nope, nope, nope.

01:01:54.000 We're saving it for here, where it makes no sense.

01:01:56.000 Because when one girl is on the rise, it means everyone else is too.

01:01:59.000 Any girl?

01:02:00.000 Like anyone?

01:02:01.000 How about, like, just like Maxwell?

01:02:04.000 When she was on the rise, was everybody else also on the rise?

01:02:07.000 I feel like not.

01:02:08.000 Liberation. 0.83

01:02:09.000 Freedom, respect, and giant, giant-ass flowers. 0.65

01:02:12.000 Whoa. 0.94

01:02:13.000 Apparently these girls are tiny. 1.00

01:02:15.000 So apparently all their self-esteem could not make them larger than, you know, like a flower.

01:02:19.000 Is that the end of this horrific book?

01:02:22.000 It is.

01:02:23.000 But there is a dedication at the end.

01:02:25.000 From Amanda Gorman, to all my sisters, rising, radiant, and revolutionary.

01:02:32.000 And from Love is Wise, for all of us folks, growing, dreaming liberation, and shaping change.

01:02:38.000 Wow.

01:02:39.000 I'm sure that there are so many parents who will love this book for their child. 0.99

01:02:45.000 And your child will be stupider for having been read this book. 0.97

01:02:49.000 And may God have mercy on your soul. 0.99

01:02:51.000 Thank you so much to Amanda Gorman, literally the most overrated poet in the history of poetry.

01:02:55.000 In the history of poetry.

01:02:57.000 And I'm not even a poetry person.

01:02:59.000 And whoa.

01:03:03.000 Is this worse than Anti-Racist Baby?

01:03:04.000 I mean, in terms of content, it's not as bad as Anti-Racist Baby because Anti-Racist Baby is, like, overtly racist.

01:03:09.000 Ironic.

01:03:09.000 But in terms of, like, the actual aesthetic quality, Anti-Racist Baby is in many ways less bad than this book by a professional poetess.

01:03:19.000 Woo! 0.99

01:03:19.000 What a stinker. 0.99

01:03:24.000 All righty, guys. 0.95

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The Ben Shapiro Show - February 27, 2025

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