The Ben Shapiro Show - June 19, 2026


Inside the Absolute Circus of the Obama Library Opening


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Former President Barack Obama opens his new presidential center in Chicago, and it looks like a trash bin. Also, Michelle Obama teaches people about immigration, and Gavin Newsom says he teared up because he just misses Barack Obama so much.

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00:00:00.000 Obama, the racial divider in chief, opened his truly hideous presidential center on the south side of Chicago yesterday. 0.85
00:00:05.000 He spent his time reprising his more perfect union speech. 0.60
00:00:08.000 He was preaching unity and hope.
00:00:10.000 And of course, Michelle showed up as well to lecture people on immigration because of course she did.
00:00:14.000 Plus, Gavin Newsom said he teared up because he just misses Barack Obama so much.
00:00:18.000 And Joe Biden wandered around like a Roomba. 0.90
00:00:21.000 At least we don't have to pretend these Democrats aren't crazy anymore. 0.72
00:00:23.000 Former President Barack Obama opened his monstrosity of a library. 0.99
00:00:27.000 And this thing looks like a trash bin. 0.92
00:00:29.000 I mean, it actually looks like a trash bin.
00:00:30.000 I don't mean That there's like trash everywhere.
00:00:32.000 I mean, it's nice and clean and also looks like a trash bin.
00:00:36.000 It is a hideous structure that rises from the area around the lake in Chicago.
00:00:42.000 And it kind of looks like the transporter that the gigantic machine used by the Jawas in episode four of Star Wars.
00:00:52.000 And I think that that is probably the best analogy.
00:00:59.000 Well, President Obama showed up, President Trump did not.
00:01:03.000 And basically, the entire opening was a subtweet of President Trump, obviously.
00:01:08.000 This meant that Barack and Michelle were on the publicity tour.
00:01:12.000 And Barack Obama announced that his next chapter is fun.
00:01:14.000 Richard said it's fun.
00:01:16.000 And Michelle's next chapter is me, which I thought her last chapter was me and the one before that, and pretty much all the chapters, actually.
00:01:24.000 One word to describe your next chapter.
00:01:26.000 One word.
00:01:28.000 Fun.
00:01:31.000 Me.
00:01:34.000 That's what you call drop the mic.
00:01:39.000 Oh, me, me.
00:01:41.000 The next chat, I feel like all the chapters were Michelle.
00:01:43.000 Have you ever read her book?
00:01:44.000 I mean, like everything is about Michelle.
00:01:48.000 The big thing, though, is that Barack Obama has been masquerading for his entire career as a man who cares about common American values.
00:01:55.000 As I've said before, the disappointment of Barack Obama as a politician and a human being is that in 2008, he ran as the great unifier.
00:02:01.000 And by 2012, he was running as the great disunifier.
00:02:04.000 He was running as a man who divided Americans based on race, based on sexual orientation.
00:02:08.000 Based on political acumen.
00:02:11.000 And then he would proclaim that only if you were good, true, and decent, and maybe victimized, could you join in the Project of America.
00:02:19.000 Now he is back to I'm a unifier.
00:02:20.000 Donald Trump is the divider, listening to this unbelievably divisive politician.
00:02:25.000 He was just subtle about it.
00:02:26.000 He was good at it.
00:02:27.000 President Trump is not a uniter.
00:02:29.000 He obviously is quite divisive.
00:02:31.000 But he also says all the quiet parts out loud.
00:02:32.000 Barack Obama's entire shtick for years was that he would pretend that he was trying to unify while saying some of the most divisive stuff in American history.
00:02:41.000 Here he was.
00:02:42.000 Yesterday.
00:02:45.000 And they are not Republican or Democratic values.
00:02:49.000 They're American values we can all share regardless of party.
00:02:53.000 Values every president here today, as different as we are, has tried our best to uphold.
00:03:00.000 Values that John McCain and Mitt Romney believed in no less than I did.
00:03:07.000 It is our greatest inheritance, the story of America at its best, because.
00:03:14.000 It reflects a basic faith in the decency of our fellow citizens and the possibility that despite all of our differences, we can see each other and understand one another.
00:03:29.000 Okay, this guy destroyed John McCain and then he proceeded to destroy Mitt Romney as a human being.
00:03:34.000 Listening to him talk about the values we hold in common with John McCain, he suggested that John McCain was just George W. Bush, part three.
00:03:41.000 He went after Mitt Romney and suggested his super PACs said, That Mitt Romney was a person who was getting people killed of cancer because of his terrible record in the capital markets.
00:03:51.000 His campaign pushed out propaganda about Mitt Romney forcibly cutting the hair of gay kids when he was a teenager and strapping a dog to the top of his car. 0.94
00:03:58.000 His vice president went out there proclaiming that Mitt Romney wanted to re enslave black people.
00:04:03.000 Listening to Barack Obama talk about divisiveness and how he wants to stop it, it's like O.J. Simpson's book, If I Did It.
00:04:11.000 You did it, dude.
00:04:12.000 He continued along these lines.
00:04:15.000 Deep in our gut, we want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away.
00:04:31.000 I believe this because I've seen it all across our country.
00:04:36.000 In cities that have worked together to reclaim their streets from crime, in rural communities that have rebuilt their economy, in businesses that are finding new ways to make housing affordable, in those ordinary people in the Twin Cities who brave frigid temperatures, risk their own safety, standing shoulder to shoulder.
00:05:01.000 To look out for their neighbors and sometimes look out for strangers because they knew that was the right thing to do.
00:05:11.000 We want to be best friends with each other again.
00:05:13.000 We're going to be best friends, not you.
00:05:14.000 Not you, Bob.
00:05:15.000 Step back.
00:05:16.000 And Barack Obama is a great unifier. 0.99
00:05:17.000 It was always pathetic. 0.99
00:05:19.000 And again, this is why Trump shattered. 0.97
00:05:20.000 He really did sort of shatter the bizarre media consensus that everybody had to be friends.
00:05:26.000 This is one of my points of great, great irritation with George W. Bush.
00:05:31.000 There are a lot of things that I think have been.
00:05:33.000 You know, directed at George W. Bush incorrectly.
00:05:36.000 I think that many of the ways people talk about the war in Iraq are rather disgusting, actually, and what George W. Bush did during that war.
00:05:43.000 With that said, these sort of were all in solidarity, the Bushes acting as though they were chummy with the Obamas while the Obamas divided the country.
00:05:54.000 It was hard to stomach, for sure.
00:05:55.000 And the fact that Donald Trump really didn't do that, I think it was sort of a breath of fresh air in that sense.
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00:07:13.000 Now, what is Barack Obama really seeking?
00:07:15.000 He's seeking complexity around the American narrative.
00:07:17.000 You know, complexity. 0.99
00:07:18.000 By complexity, he means America kind of sucks mostly. 0.99
00:07:22.000 And if you slap an American flag on top of the America sucks message, then that's complexity. 0.99
00:07:28.000 I think it's complicated.
00:07:30.000 As I said, I think it's possible to celebrate the founders and appreciate what they did as well as look objectively and Critically, at how their values strayed very far from what they professed.
00:07:49.000 I think it's impossible to say that there were populists in rural America and the South and white America that really did believe in equality and justice for white folks and helped to make progress in giving more people opportunity and not ignore the fact that.
00:08:14.000 That was to the exclusion of others.
00:08:16.000 And that's the kind of complexity that I hope people get a little bit of a sense of.
00:08:27.000 Now, again, American history is indeed complex.
00:08:30.000 But the question is whether America is fundamentally good with complexity or fundamentally bad with complexity.
00:08:35.000 And Barack Obama gives, shall we say, different messages on that matter all the time.
00:08:39.000 All the time.
00:08:40.000 But when he's doing his big, soaring speeches like he did at the opening of the Obama Presidential Center, then it's all back to 2008 Obama, right?
00:08:47.000 No red states, no blue states, just the United States.
00:08:50.000 No more perfect union.
00:08:52.000 And all of this.
00:08:54.000 Now, if he had not spent years dividing Americans on the basis of race, If he had not spent years weakening America on foreign policy in dramatic ways, if he had not spent years pretending at moderation while acting as a radical, that would have helped a lot.
00:09:09.000 It's just, it's pretty stomach churning to listen to a figure as divisive as Barack Obama was, pretending that he was actually some sort of great unifier.
00:09:21.000 Then Michelle Obama, by the way, spoke and, of course, used the opportunity to talk about immigration and such.
00:09:29.000 The immigrants proving what it truly means to be a dreamer. 0.52
00:09:35.000 These folks, these folks aren't Americans, too. 0.61
00:09:42.000 They are America.
00:09:44.000 They are the beating heart of this country.
00:09:47.000 They are us, and we are them.
00:09:51.000 And to ignore this simple truth, to refuse to respect the contributions and experiences of people who aren't exactly like us.
00:10:02.000 Y'all put us all at risk.
00:10:06.000 Failing to see the humanity in all people puts us all on a slippery slope.
00:10:12.000 And once that slide starts, there's no telling where it stops.
00:10:19.000 I mean, I think that we have some rights to judge who's an American who's not like by whether they're Americans or not. 0.88
00:10:23.000 That seems like a pretty good way of doing it. 0.93
00:10:25.000 But again, this is the game.
00:10:28.000 You know, smear a bunch of radicalism in the language of moderation. 0.94
00:10:31.000 Michelle's much worse at it than Barack.
00:10:32.000 Barack is great at it. 0.95
00:10:33.000 Michelle is pretty mediocre at it.
00:10:35.000 But, you know, A good time was had by all.
00:10:36.000 Kamala showed up to dance, which is everyone's worst nightmare.
00:10:39.000 That's always irritating. 1.00
00:10:46.000 No, don't dance, Kamala. 0.90
00:10:48.000 Don't do it.
00:10:53.000 Not great, Bob.
00:10:54.000 Meanwhile, Gavin Newsom talked about how he was tearing up, man.
00:10:58.000 Gavin Newsom tearing up.
00:11:00.000 Meryl Streep of politics over here.
00:11:04.000 In contrast, today, I mean, I walked up, a couple of people said, When they walked upstairs, they said they were crying the whole time.
00:11:12.000 And I looked at them, I said, I'm good.
00:11:15.000 Got up there, literally started tearing up.
00:11:17.000 And I think everybody feels that spirit and that pride that we've been missing.
00:11:20.000 And we didn't even realize how much we've been missing it.
00:11:22.000 And we've been missing it because of the business.
00:11:24.000 We've been missing it because we have people that, frankly, are unworthy of their positions.
00:11:31.000 And there we saw on stage people that were worthy of what our founding fathers lived and died for.
00:11:38.000 Mm, mm, got to tear up.
00:11:40.000 Got to tear up. 0.86
00:11:40.000 Valerie Jarrett, by the way, she actually. 0.86
00:11:44.000 Delivered, I mean, again, look at this horrific building.
00:11:47.000 My goodness, the land trawler from episode four.
00:11:52.000 Valerie Jarrett delivered a land acknowledgement at the opening, which, again, if you're going to acknowledge it, you should just give it back, man.
00:12:01.000 We'd also like to take a moment to recognize the original inhabitants of the land upon which we are gathered today.
00:12:08.000 We honor the Anishinaabe, the Council of Three Fires, the Ojibwe, the Odawa, and the Potawatomi nations.
00:12:19.000 Well, I mean, you could just give it back then. 0.86
00:12:21.000 That's a thing you could do.
00:12:22.000 And no Obama event would be complete without Joe Biden wandering around like a Roomba, left alone on stage.
00:12:28.000 I mean, he was doing this when he was president.
00:12:30.000 The nice thing is, we don't have to pretend that he's sentient anymore.
00:12:33.000 Like, it was pretty wild that for a couple of years there, we had to pretend everything was going great for old Joe.
00:12:38.000 Here's what it looked like.
00:12:38.000 You had to feel bad for him at this point, honestly.
00:12:47.000 There he is just standing there, waving, and nobody knows what he's doing.
00:12:51.000 Joe, why are you still there?
00:12:54.000 Oh, no.
00:12:57.000 Oh, no.
00:12:59.000 If you ever want a reminder why Donald Trump was reelected, that would be the reminder.
00:13:06.000 He's still there.
00:13:07.000 He's still wandering.
00:13:09.000 What's he doing?
00:13:10.000 No one knows.
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