The Ben Shapiro Show - Let Trump COOK

00:00:00.000 So yesterday, President Trump said he doesn't care about the American economy, at least according to the left-wing media and the entire septic tank that is social media. 0.99

00:00:09.000 Now, you probably believe that he said that if you are a retarded person.

00:00:13.000 But if you're a non-retarded person, you probably speak Trump fluently at this point. 0.97

00:00:18.000 It's been 10 years of this. 0.93

00:00:18.000 I do. 0.93

00:00:19.000 And I'll explain just what President Trump was saying in a moment.

00:00:22.000 Plus, we'll get to why Democrats are flailing in the midterms despite President Trump's rocky numbers on the economy, the latest on Iran, and some cultural matters.

00:00:30.000 This is the Ben Shapiro show.

00:00:35.000 All right, so here was the clip that launched a thousand non think pieces.

00:00:42.000 Because again, in order to really be upset with President Trump about this, you have to take him out of context.

00:00:48.000 The president was being asked about the impact of the financial situation in the United States with regard to his thinking on the Iran war.

00:00:55.000 And here is how the president responded To what extent are Americans' financial situations motivating you to make a deal?

00:01:06.000 Not even a little bit.

00:01:07.000 The only thing that matters when I'm talking about Iran, they can't have a nuclear weapon.

00:01:12.000 I don't think about Americans' financial situation.

00:01:14.000 I don't think about anybody.

00:01:15.000 I think about one thing. 0.90

00:01:17.000 We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.

00:01:19.000 That's all.

00:01:20.000 So, in context, it is perfectly obvious what the president is saying.

00:01:23.000 And as per our usual arrangement, he's being taken out of context. 0.75

00:01:26.000 The president is saying, with regard to a deal with Iran, he will not be pressured into making a crappy deal with Iran that allows them to have a nuclear weapon.

00:01:34.000 By the fact that we have some inflation in the United States. 0.64

00:01:37.000 This, by the way, is what is called political courage because the reality is that every conflict in which the United States is involved does have an economic impact here at home.

00:01:46.000 Imagine if FDR in the middle of World War II had been asked about the economic impact of shipping millions of young men, work age men, across the country and across the world to fight.

00:01:58.000 And if somebody had asked him, how does it impact your thinking about whether we ought to cut a deal with the Nazis, the economic impact?

00:02:04.000 If he said, well, you know, I think about that every day.

00:02:06.000 I think about it all the time.

00:02:07.000 I think about, you know, how people are suffering here at home.

00:02:10.000 And so it makes me want to cut a deal.

00:02:12.000 The whole point that President Trump is making right here is that Iran has to understand we are not going to quit the fight until they fight no more.

00:02:21.000 That is it.

00:02:22.000 Until they give up their nukes or until they are so harmed that they cannot build nuclear weapons anymore, this fight is not over.

00:02:28.000 And he is not going to be deterred by the media focus on the economy.

00:02:32.000 Because what the president also understands is that the stock market continues to do really well.

00:02:37.000 The last employment.

00:02:38.000 Report that came out this week was quite good.

00:02:40.000 And whatever is happening right now, economically speaking, because of the Iran war, is temporary because there will be an end to it.

00:02:46.000 The impatience that the media are showing is not real.

00:02:49.000 It is not because they are truly impatient about the economic situation of Americans.

00:02:53.000 It's because they wish for President Trump and America to lose the war. 0.79

00:02:57.000 And the way to make President Trump lose the war is to convince the Iranians to hold out. 0.81

00:03:00.000 And the way to convince the Iranians to hold out is if they believe President Trump is going to cave.

00:03:05.000 So, in that quote, when the president says that he is not thinking about Americans' economic situations, he literally prefaces it.

00:03:12.000 And ends the statement by saying he is talking about Iran and nuclear weapons.

00:03:16.000 Of course, the president cares about the economy.

00:03:19.000 Of course, the president cares about inflation.

00:03:22.000 That is why he is pursuing a wide variety of economic measures, ranging from the good, namely his attempts to deregulate AI and ensure that we have continued economic growth there, to what I consider to be not the very good things like, for example, regulations on home building.

00:03:38.000 But there is no doubt the president cares about the economy.

00:03:40.000 He's just saying over and over and over, as he should, that we will not be deterred.

00:03:45.000 From denuclearizing Iran by the economic situation here at home, which is precisely what he has to say.

00:03:50.000 Because when the president talks, there are lots of people listening Americans and, yes, Iranians. 0.97

00:03:55.000 And right now, the Iranians are being intransigent because they believe they can outlast the president. 1.00

00:03:59.000 And the president, over and over and over again again, this is political bravery, what we're watching right now. 0.95

00:04:04.000 The president, over and over and over again, is saying, I will outlast you.

00:04:09.000 And that's what he has to say.

00:04:09.000 I will outlast you.

00:04:11.000 Now, one of the things that's quite fascinating is that the economic statistics right now are obviously not cutting in favor of the president.

00:04:19.000 Here, for example, is a graph.

00:04:23.000 Of the consumer price index change from one year ago.

00:04:27.000 And as you see, obviously it jumped.

00:04:30.000 The core CPI didn't jump very much, meaning excluding food and energy prices.

00:04:34.000 But if you include food and energy prices, then it jumped to about 3.8% year over year, which is the highest that it has been since approximately 2023.

00:04:43.000 Not great, obviously.

00:04:44.000 And when you look at the poll statistics, Americans are not feeling very sanguine about the economy.

00:04:50.000 A brand new poll is out from CNN.

00:04:54.000 Asking which political party do Americans think would do a better job of dealing with a wide variety of issues?

00:05:00.000 And here's what the poll found.

00:05:01.000 On health care, 43% of Americans say the Democrats, 33% say neither, 24% say the Republicans.

00:05:09.000 And helping the middle class, 40% say the Democrats, 27% say the Republicans.

00:05:13.000 On income and equality, 39% Democrats, 22% Republicans.

00:05:17.000 Cost of living, 37% Democrats, 28% Republicans.

00:05:21.000 On the economy more broadly, fairly evenly split, 35% for the Democrats, 33% for the Republicans, 32% neither.

00:05:28.000 On inflation, again, fairly even split, 33% Democrats, 28% Republicans, 39%.

00:05:33.000 Neither.

00:05:34.000 On taxes, Republicans outdo Democrats 35 to 32.

00:05:38.000 And on the stock market, Republicans crush the Democrats 38 to 21.

00:05:41.000 Okay, so again, these stats there tend to favor the Democrats overall.

00:05:48.000 On healthcare, helping the middle class, inflation, Democrats are favored.

00:05:52.000 On taxes in the stock market, Republicans are favored.

00:05:54.000 Okay, then the poll asked, generally speaking, Do you believe that the following issues either have a positive impact, a negative impact, or no impact on your financial situation?

00:06:06.000 On the war in Iran, 75% of Americans say there's been a negative impact on their financial situation compared to 8% who say a positive effect, which, again, understandable, the gas prices are up.

00:06:18.000 The implementation of higher tariffs on foreign goods, 65%, two thirds of Americans say negative impact on their personal economic situation.

00:06:26.000 46% of Americans say the increasing use of AI has a negative effect on their financial situation.

00:06:31.000 Which is kind of an astonishing statement, considering that it is only AI growth that is holding up job creation, productivity increases, and stock market increases.

00:06:40.000 But there's been a lot of propaganda against AI these days and a lot of uncertainty about what AI is going to do.

00:06:47.000 41% of Americans say that the set of recent changes to tax law have had a negative impact on their financial situation, compared to 25% who say that they think it's been good for them, the tax changes.

00:06:59.000 And 35% say there's been a negative impact.

00:07:02.000 On their financial situation compared to 25% who say positive.

00:07:05.000 So, bottom line is people are in a very bad mood about the economy, generally speaking.

00:07:09.000 And Democrats, of course, are trying to take advantage of this.

00:07:12.000 Zorhan Mamdani, our Islamist and socialist mayor of New York, he put out a tweet saying, Inflation is at a three year high.

00:07:19.000 Everything costs more groceries, gas, healthcare, a plane ticket.

00:07:22.000 The math is simple.

00:07:23.000 Every American dollar spent overseas on war is a dollar that could have been spent here at home to pay for a dignified life.

00:07:28.000 It's time we change the equation.

00:07:29.000 Again, this is just nonsense. 1.00

00:07:31.000 It is nonsense for dumb people. 1.00

00:07:33.000 The idea. 1.00

00:07:34.000 That a dollar spent abroad is the reason we are not spending a dollar at home is incredibly stupid. 1.00

00:07:39.000 American government spends oodles of dollars here at home, like lots and lots and lots of dollars. 0.99

00:07:44.000 The New York City government is bankrupt because they spend so many dollars here at home.

00:07:49.000 The cost of the war in Iran is a drop in the bucket compared to domestic spending.

00:07:53.000 In just a moment, we'll get to why Democrats seem unable to pull away in the congressional elections.

00:07:57.000 We'll also get to the latest on Iran.

00:07:59.000 And I have a bit of a heterodox take on the latest turn that euphoria on HBO seems to be taking in some weird, interesting ways.

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00:09:28.000 Representative Roh Khanna, who again thinks he's going to run for president, put out a tweet: If we were not at war, the Fed would have cut rates two to three times this year.

00:09:34.000 Now it will likely be zero.

00:09:36.000 Okay, first of all, that's not true.

00:09:37.000 If we were not at war, the Fed probably would have left the rates where they are.

00:09:40.000 Americans are paying more for their mortgages, more for credit cards, more for student debt, and more for food and gas, all because Trump went along with Netanyahu's Iran war.

00:09:46.000 Again, got to sneak some of that anti-Semitic conspiracyzing in there.

00:09:50.000 The idea being that, of course, Netanyahu talked Trump into the war as opposed to Trump having any level of agency.

00:09:55.000 Okay, well, here is the question.

00:09:59.000 With all of this being the case, you know, with the propaganda out there that the president doesn't care about the economy, with the poll numbers that suggest that Americans are not super happy with the economy, and that Americans have problems with our foreign policy, with our domestic policy, why are Democrats in Congress unable to pull away from Republicans?

00:10:17.000 Because that is the actual big hidden story here.

00:10:17.000 What is happening?

00:10:20.000 Harry Enton at CNN points out that right now, the question of whether Democrats even win back the House, which they clearly should, is up for grabs.

00:10:28.000 Remember, It is an off year election.

00:10:31.000 Every off year election favors the party out of power.

00:10:33.000 But Democrats are having a tough time clearing the bar, Harry Enton explains.

00:10:39.000 Democrats in the National House vote margin.

00:10:41.000 According to my estimate, what they need for control with redistricting in terms of the national popular vote is somewhere of a win between three and four points.

00:10:49.000 What's CNN's current poll with no clear leader?

00:10:52.000 It's a three point advantage.

00:10:53.000 If this were, in fact, the actual result come election day, the race for Congress, the race for the House, Would be basically a toss up.

00:11:01.000 And that is why the redistricting efforts that have been happening are so important.

00:11:05.000 Because before the redistricting happened, Democrats essentially just needed to win the National House popular vote in order to win control of the House of Representatives.

00:11:13.000 But now, with the redistricting, their ladder, they have to climb ever higher, and a three point win may very well not do it.

00:11:21.000 This is well within the realm of possibilities.

00:11:24.000 It could be Democrats take back the House.

00:11:25.000 You know, if Democrats outperform the CNN poll by a few points, they take it back.

00:11:29.000 But they could underperform as well, and now it would be big time trouble.

00:11:33.000 As I said at the At the start here, this game is most certainly not over.

00:11:37.000 Republicans very much in the race.

00:11:40.000 The real question here, though, is why are Democrats only leading by three points?

00:11:44.000 Remember, Republicans are in control of Congress and the Senate and the presidency, and the president is riding at about 40% in the approval ratings.

00:11:51.000 Why are Democrats unable to pull away?

00:11:54.000 The answer is actually pretty obvious.

00:11:56.000 The state of the economy right now is temporary, but socialism and support for terrorism, those are forever.

00:12:01.000 And the Democratic Party moves ever further to the left.

00:12:04.000 A brand new poll is now out from Atlas Intel, and it shows for the first time Alexandra Ocasio Cortez surging to first place in the Democratic primary polling.

00:12:15.000 And this is an astonishing story. 0.99

00:12:17.000 The fact that the idiot congresswoman from New York, who has achieved zero true things in Congress and whose entire persona is being the lady who says like a lot and doesn't understand basic economics while weeping over the funding of Iron Dome in Israel, that lady is currently leading her first 2028 poll. 0.98

00:12:37.000 According to this poll, right now she leads with 26% of the Democratic primary base. 0.99

00:12:44.000 Pete Buttigieg, Clocking in second at 22%, Gavin Newsom at 21%, Kamala Harris at 13%, everyone else way down there, way down there.

00:12:54.000 So, a few headlines there.

00:12:55.000 One, Kamala Harris falling off. 0.98

00:12:56.000 She's falling off pretty quickly. 0.99

00:12:57.000 Unclear whether she's even going to make it to the starting gate.

00:13:00.000 Pete Buttigieg overperforming in this particular poll. 1.00

00:13:03.000 They must have oversampled white liberal ladies. 1.00

00:13:06.000 But Alexandra Ocasio Cortez out in front, I've been saying for a while, I think that people are selling her stock too low.

00:13:11.000 I think that the Democrats are aiming for the far left and they are hitting it.

00:13:16.000 And you can see, That everything that used to be a bug for Democrats is now a feature.

00:13:19.000 Being too radical for the crowd is now a feature.

00:13:21.000 Being Graham Platner is now a feature in Maine.

00:13:24.000 The guy with the Totenkopf, the SS tattoo. 0.84

00:13:29.000 That guy, that's a feature. 0.85

00:13:31.000 Zorhan Mamdani being pro terrorist, that's a feature. 0.92

00:13:34.000 And apparently, the Democratic nominee in Michigan is going to be El Sayed, which is insane. 0.91

00:13:45.000 Right? 0.93

00:13:46.000 The fact that Abdul Rahman Mohammed El Sayed is going to almost certainly be. 0.92

00:13:51.000 The Democratic nominee in Michigan demonstrates how far the left has moved. 0.98

00:13:56.000 They are now openly embracing people who stand terrorism, love it, into it.

00:14:01.000 Remember, El Sayed was caught on tape saying he would not condemn people who are in favor of Ayatollah Khomeini. 0.58

00:14:08.000 This is a person who's expressed support for terrorist groups, El Sayed.

00:14:13.000 And that is a feature, not a bug, in the modern Democratic Party. 0.93

00:14:17.000 That made him do better, according to.

00:14:22.000 A brand new story from this polling data.

00:14:27.000 After endorsements from U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders and controversial podcaster Hassan Piker, Abdul El Sayed has surged into a nine percentage point lead over Haley Stevens and State Senator Mallory McMorrow in the race for the Democratic nomination.

00:14:42.000 Earlier polls had shown the other two in a lead and El Sayed just a few points behind.

00:14:47.000 Jon Favreau over at the Pod Save America crew, a person who spends his days trying to legitimize radicals.

00:14:54.000 He responded to the new polling on X.

00:14:56.000 He called it a third way bump.

00:14:58.000 And then Ben Rhodes came back.

00:14:59.000 Of course, remember Ben Rhodes, a foreign policy advisor to Barack Obama, whose literal nickname in the White House was Hamas, not a joke, jumped on X to say, You mean voters don't take direction from Washington think tanks and Wall Street Journal op eds?

00:15:13.000 Now, listen, there are a lot of problems with El Sayed, including, according to Politico, the fact that he calls himself a physician and yet he has never been granted a medical license.

00:15:26.000 So that's awkward.

00:15:28.000 He has a doctorate in public health from Oxford University.

00:15:30.000 He worked as an assistant professor of epidemiology at Columbia, but he never practiced medicine.

00:15:35.000 He still calls himself a doctor.

00:15:37.000 But again, the real drawback on him is that he is pretty in love with radical Islamic terrorism and campaigns with people who also are pretty in love with radical Islamic terrorism.

00:15:48.000 And it turns out, in the end, Americans don't like this stuff very much.

00:15:52.000 They don't like this stuff very much.

00:15:53.000 When Americans see video from Brooklyn of girls getting punched in the head by Hamasniks, they don't like it all that much. 0.98

00:16:00.000 They're not all that fond of it. 0.80

00:16:03.000 Zar Mamdani, as mayor of New York, has allowed to blossom.

00:16:07.000 Radical pro Hamas and pro Hezbollah rallies in the center of the city and also into the suburbs.

00:16:11.000 There's video that emerged a couple of days ago of pro Hamas marchers going to houses in the middle of Brooklyn in order to protest, and one Jewish girl gets punched in the face by one of these protesters who's located in a car.

00:16:25.000 Here's some of the footage.

00:16:36.000 You can see all the Kamasniks here with their kathias on.

00:16:39.000 I mean, people literally assaulting Jews in a neighborhood for being Jewish.

00:16:45.000 And this apparently is what Democrats are into.

00:16:46.000 Remember, Momdani says the right to protest is sacrosanct, which is why he allowed this sort of thing in the first place.

00:16:51.000 Well, by the way, condemning anti radical Islam protesters outside the mayoral mansion at the same event where a radical Muslim tried to throw an IED into the crowd.

00:17:00.000 Meanwhile, Zarn Momdani and his radical take on economics, these have become the leading points of the spear for the Democratic Party.

00:17:09.000 Momdani.

00:17:11.000 Is celebrating that he balanced the budget without instituting property taxes on everyone.

00:17:15.000 What he actually did is he just lied about it.

00:17:17.000 He does what Democrats everywhere do.

00:17:18.000 He tried to kick the can down the road.

00:17:21.000 So he is pretending that he's going to gain $500 million in revenue from the new pied-a-terre tax on luxury second homes, and that he is going to pick up $3.163 billion through state authorization of other savings measures, including $2.3 billion in pension restructuring, which means just kicking the can down the road and making the costs appear much later.

00:17:42.000 Again, this is.

00:17:46.000 It's him lying about the budget, but here we are.

00:17:48.000 He's going to pretend that he actually is doing a masterful economic job here.

00:17:52.000 We inherited a $12 billion budget deficit.

00:17:55.000 We are speaking about a fiscal crisis at the scale greater than the Great Recession.

00:17:59.000 Was the Great Recession?

00:18:00.000 Great Recession.

00:18:01.000 Many said the only way out of this was slashing services and passing an austerity budget.

00:18:05.000 We rejected that.

00:18:06.000 After months of painstaking work, that deficit is now zero.

00:18:10.000 Our city is now on firm financial ground.

00:18:12.000 We achieved this in two major ways increasing revenue and support.

00:18:15.000 From Albany and cutting waste and finding savings here in New York City.

00:18:19.000 Thanks to Governor Hochul, State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart Cousins, Assembly Speaker Carl Hastie, and months of organizing from New Yorkers, we tax the rich.

00:18:28.000 That tax alone will raise half a billion dollars per year.

00:18:31.000 And that's not all.

00:18:31.000 Thanks to Governor Hochul and our partners in Albany, we finally got a better deal for New York City.

00:18:35.000 We're getting billions more from the state to help tackle the gap.

00:18:38.000 So they are getting the state to sign a track to them.

00:18:41.000 You may notice that there is a $12 billion gap, and he says the Pieter Terra tax is going to cover $500 million.

00:18:46.000 I noticed $500 million is a lot less than $12 billion.

00:18:48.000 Where's the rest coming from?

00:18:50.000 Well, according to the Citizens Budget Commission President Andrew Ryan, quote, the executive budget closes over half the gap with short term strategies rather than a full scale effort to shrink spending that doesn't deliver for New Yorkers.

00:19:02.000 A pension gimmick and temporary plugs exacerbate fiscal problems rather than solve them.

00:19:06.000 So, in other words, they're lying, as per the usual arrangement.

00:19:09.000 Meanwhile, over in California, same sort of thing happening.

00:19:13.000 So, California is emptying out its key industries tech, Hollywood.

00:19:17.000 It is very, very difficult to make TV or movies in Hollywood anymore.

00:19:20.000 There are gigantic sound stages in Hollywood that are now completely empty because of the cost of doing business in Hollywood.

00:19:27.000 And as for tech, tech founders are leaving California every single day, buying gigantic places here in Miami.

00:19:35.000 So, what exactly is keeping California afloat?

00:19:38.000 Well, it's healthcare jobs.

00:19:40.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, hiring for health and social assistance jobs in the Golden State grew 25% in the four year period from March 2022 to March 2026.

00:19:49.000 These are often low paying jobs in roles like senior care.

00:19:52.000 Hey, cool.

00:19:53.000 You lost a job in Hollywood, you can take care of a senior.

00:19:55.000 Exciting things happening in the Golden State.

00:19:58.000 Without those sectors, according to the Wall Street Journal, the state hosting the nation's high tech and entertainment hubs would have lost jobs over that same period.

00:20:06.000 So, Democrats are doing a wonderful job on economics.

00:20:09.000 Wonder why Americans are a little bit uneasy about handing the reins back to the Democrats. 1.00

00:20:13.000 All right, coming up, California continues to be governed by idiots. 1.00

00:20:15.000 Plus, we'll get to some interesting Hollywood news. 1.00

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00:21:28.000 Meanwhile, the next governor of California right now is likely to be Xavier Becerra, who.

00:21:36.000 Is so bad at this that he has been relegated to asking interviewers to ask him easier questions.

00:21:41.000 He's on KTLA, which is a station out in LA.

00:21:44.000 By the way, this is a profile piece.

00:21:46.000 This is not a gotcha piece, right?

00:21:48.000 Well, look, I think these questions are fair.

00:21:51.000 It's in order to learn about you as a candidate.

00:21:53.000 So, one is about the profile.

00:21:55.000 I don't know how you define profile, but I'd like to begin the interview.

00:21:58.000 The way I describe profile is you talk about all the things that I've done, things I want to do, and along with some tough questions.

00:22:05.000 But not only tough questions.

00:22:07.000 Oh, yeah, That is not great, Bob.

00:22:11.000 Woo!

00:22:12.000 You know that you're a bad candidate when you're sitting there asking the interviewer to be nice to you.

00:22:16.000 And she's like, well, can we just start the interview?

00:22:17.000 And he's like, nope.

00:22:18.000 I need to explain to you what her profile is.

00:22:21.000 By the way, one of those tough questions might be the fact that Xavier Becerra, while he was Health and Human Services Secretary, he presided over the losing of a bunch of minors because immigration services was basically releasing minors to unrelated adults.

00:22:37.000 And Becerra tried to claim that he had nothing to do with it.

00:22:40.000 During your time as HDS Secretary, a New York Times investigation found the health department couldn't find some 85,000 children it had released.

00:22:48.000 That's not accurate.

00:22:49.000 What you just read is not accurate.

00:22:51.000 First, that's what I'll say, because it was never the case that we could not find kids.

00:22:56.000 You're essentially, I don't know if you got those talking points from Donald Trump.

00:23:00.000 It's from a New York Times article.

00:23:01.000 That's not what the New York Times article said.

00:23:03.000 The New York Times said that individuals, the children, and their sponsors did not respond to calls, they didn't say we couldn't find kids.

00:23:11.000 Working overnight in slaughterhouses, replacing roofs, operating machineries and factories, children as young as 14 years old.

00:23:20.000 That part occurred after these children had left the care of the Department of Health and Human Services.

00:23:25.000 You let these children go into those individual sponsors in their responsibilities.

00:23:30.000 Some of these kids, probably because they needed to earn some money, started working in places that were very exploitive.

00:23:37.000 Oh, they needed some money.

00:23:39.000 They started working in places, but you had nothing to do with that.

00:23:41.000 Yeah.

00:23:43.000 That's who California is going to hire as its governor. 0.94

00:23:46.000 Slow clap for the Californians. 0.99

00:23:47.000 Does the rest of the country want a piece of that?

00:23:49.000 Well, some people have doubts.

00:23:51.000 Well, Democrats, given the fact that they're not particularly popular on either foreign or domestic policy, they're now being relegated to doing what they do best, playing the race card.

00:23:58.000 Representative Rokhana is now claiming that South Carolina is denying black people the right to serve in Congress.

00:24:04.000 Quote South Carolina, where the first shot of the Civil War was fired, where 40% of those enslaved came through the Charleston port, is today engaged in an ugly recidivism to draw maps that will deny a black person the chance to serve in Congress.

00:24:15.000 The stakes could not be higher.

00:24:17.000 Our political fight is not on a playground, but a moral battleground.

00:24:20.000 We must stand for black representation across the South.

00:24:24.000 Just going to point out at this point that one of the senators from South Carolina is Tim Scott, who is black.

00:24:31.000 And he has been in either Congress or the Senate since 2011.

00:24:35.000 But he's a black Republican, so apparently he doesn't count.

00:24:38.000 You know, Bakari Sellers. 0.78

00:24:39.000 And again, I like Bakari, he's a nice guy, but this is a pretty wild take here on CNN, suggesting that nothing has changed in America between 1896 and 2026, which is strange since both he and another black host are on the air discussing it.

00:24:55.000 If somebody fell asleep in 1896 and woke up today in 2026, They would simply say the only difference is now Negroes have a TV show and we wear nice suits. 0.64

00:25:07.000 They swapped out Klan hoods for Brooks Brothers suits. 0.52

00:25:11.000 And that is the problem. 0.50

00:25:13.000 I mean, Plessy v. Ferguson was 7 1, and it gave birth to 50 years of Jim Crow.

00:25:19.000 What we have with this court right now, what we're seeing, is watching people who have fought and died and bled so that we would have access to the ballot box, so that we would have access to our voices being heard in Congress, being ripped away.

00:25:36.000 If a black person from 1896 woke up in 2026, the first thing they would say is, This is wild.

00:25:42.000 You mean we had a black president already?

00:25:45.000 Like for two terms?

00:25:46.000 And we have a bunch of black congresspeople? 1.00

00:25:49.000 And we have a bunch of black senators?

00:25:51.000 And the TV is filled with prominent black people? 0.84

00:25:55.000 And also we have magical machines that allow you to order anything to your door at the press of a button? 0.53

00:25:58.000 What's happening right now?

00:26:00.000 Yes, 1896 is similar to 2026 in crazy land.

00:26:05.000 So that's what the Democrats have to sell is, again, racial grievance.

00:26:09.000 They can sell socialism, I suppose.

00:26:11.000 Bad economic policy, kicking in the can down the road, and of course, hatred of the United States when it comes to foreign policy.

00:26:19.000 Which brings us to the latest on foreign policy.

00:26:22.000 The President of the United States has made very, very clear that if Iran will not give up the ghost on its nuclear program, more is to come from the United States military, according to NBC News.

00:26:33.000 The U.S. military is officially considering renaming the war with Iran Operation Sledgehammer if the current ceasefire collapses and President Trump decides to restart major combat operations.

00:26:42.000 Now, again, one of the reasons for that is that if he does that, it is a separate operation, and the War Powers Act may be avoided in certain ways.

00:26:48.000 Also, I kind of love that name.

00:26:49.000 Operation Sledgehammer, I'm into.

00:26:50.000 Epic Fury was kind of great, but it did feel like a 1980s video game.

00:26:54.000 Sledgehammer is a good military name. 0.98

00:26:56.000 And I would assume the first step of Sledgehammer would be to blow up the Iranian energy facilities and put them on their final footing. 0.98

00:27:03.000 Meanwhile, the president is still claiming that a lot of good things are going to happen with regard to China and Iran. 0.52

00:27:09.000 Here's the president yesterday.

00:27:12.000 What is your message?

00:27:13.000 To President Xi as it relates to the Iran war?

00:27:16.000 Well, I think number one, we're going to have a long talk about it.

00:27:20.000 I think he's been relatively good, to be honest with you.

00:27:24.000 You look at the blockade, no problem.

00:27:27.000 They get a lot of their oil from that area.

00:27:29.000 We've had no problem.

00:27:30.000 And he's been a friend of mine.

00:27:32.000 He's been somebody that we get along with.

00:27:35.000 And I think you're going to see that good things are going to happen.

00:27:39.000 This is going to be a very exciting trip.

00:27:41.000 A lot of good things are going to happen.

00:27:43.000 The President of the United States took off for China yesterday.

00:27:45.000 Meanwhile, General Dan Kane was testifying before Congress.

00:27:48.000 And as he points out, the military is just one part of what we are doing in Iran.

00:27:53.000 With a hat tip towards Secretary Besant, Secretary Rubio, and the rest of the interagency, the totality of total pressure, which the military element is just one component on, is what the regime in Iran is feeling right now.

00:28:10.000 And I think there's no shortage of ability to hold that pressure.

00:28:15.000 The decision on for how long to hold that pressure is, of course, a political one.

00:28:20.000 And within our civilian leadership.

00:28:22.000 But I would highlight that they are absolutely feeling that pressure, not just from the blockade, as the Secretary talked about, but the continuation of sanctions that Treasury and others have put on there.

00:28:36.000 And we retain a range of military options. 1.00

00:28:38.000 Meanwhile, the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, says that Iran has been trying a North Korea strategy, which, of course, is right. 0.98

00:28:44.000 They're trying to speed run to a nuclear weapon to make themselves immune to some sort of regime change or regime behavior change so they can foster terrorism all over the region. 1.00

00:28:54.000 The core of it is the nuclear weapons issue. 0.70

00:28:58.000 Those other factors are always a factor. 0.90

00:29:00.000 Understanding that Iran has effectively tried to use the North Korea strategy with such overwhelming capabilities conventionally that no one would dare prevent them from pursuing a nuclear weapon. 0.90

00:29:11.000 And it took President Trump to have the courage to make that historic decision. 0.90

00:29:15.000 Hegseth also explained the $29 billion budget that has been spent on this war.

00:29:19.000 He says that's just for the arsenal of freedom.

00:29:22.000 President Trump's War Department has begun to turn the lights back on.

00:29:26.000 In manufacturing towns across this country to forge a lethal arsenal of freedom.

00:29:32.000 Where our critical supply chains are threatened, the Department of War has acted decisively to inject capital, stimulate production, and prevent adversarial exploitation.

00:29:42.000 We are firing up the American economic engine at every level of the defense industrial base.

00:29:48.000 Every policy we pursue, every budgetary item we request serves to ensure that this department remains laser focused on increasing lethality and survivability of our fighting force from the front lines.

00:29:59.000 It is also worth noting, by the way, that when everybody talks about how this was in Israel's interest, the Saudis apparently launched actual military strikes against Iran.

00:30:08.000 So did UAE in the middle of the war.

00:30:10.000 This is according to Reuters.

00:30:12.000 According to two Western officials briefed on the matter and two Iranian officials, the Saudi attacks marked the first time the kingdom is known to have directly carried out military action on Iranian soil.

00:30:21.000 The attacks were launched by the Saudi Air Force.

00:30:23.000 They were assessed to have been carried out in late March.

00:30:26.000 And again, UAE allegedly did the same.

00:30:29.000 That is the second Gulf country, according to the Times of Israel, to join the United States and Israel in their war against the Islamic Republic.

00:30:35.000 Bloomberg reported on Tuesday the UAE carried out strikes both before and after the April 8th ceasefire.

00:30:41.000 One of those strikes, which was a response to the April 5th Iran attack on the Emirati Baruch petrochemical site, was coordinated with Israel.

00:30:49.000 That coordination has been reaching extraordinary heights between the UAE and Israel, by the way. 0.85

00:30:53.000 One of the funniest things is Iran trying to market its way out of all of this.

00:30:57.000 So, Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson, a person named Ismail Bakai, Put out a very, very long tweet saying that what this is all about is a struggle for the future of humankind and appealing to Western leftists and, of course, members of the woke right or the new left to join him in fighting on behalf of humankind.

00:31:17.000 Quote, to every decent human being, regardless of religion, ethnicity, nationality, race, or any other distinction, to Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, Buddhists, and all others of faith, and to those who follow no formal religion but hold deeply to the universal values of peace, justice, and human dignity.

00:31:32.000 The U.S. Israel launched this war of aggression on February 28, 2026, for a second time in less than a year, while Iran and the U.S. were engaged in diplomatic negotiations.

00:31:41.000 This is not merely a war over land, resources, or geopolitics.

00:31:44.000 This is a war that will determine the very meaning of good and evil in our time and for the future.

00:31:48.000 What has been unleashed upon our peace loving nation is not just another conflict.

00:31:52.000 On one side stand those who delight in violating every law of war and basic human decency, those who murder for sport, who slaughter children to torment their families, who fire newest missiles at women's sports halls simply to test their destructive power.

00:32:04.000 This is a war between those who boast of torpedoing unarmed vessels for more fun and those who go to extraordinary lengths to protect innocent lives. 0.99

00:32:11.000 If you believe this, I have to say, your head is so far up your ass if you believe this, it's coming out your face again. 0.98

00:32:17.000 And there are people who will believe this, or at least will parrot it because they love the Iranian propaganda. 0.99

00:32:22.000 But the fact that Iran has been relegated to claiming that it cares about innocent life while fostering the vast majority of terrorism in the region over the course of the last 50 odd years is insane. 0.64

00:32:33.000 Totally, totally crazy.

00:32:35.000 That Iran is the human rights loving party in this particular conflict?

00:32:39.000 Absolutely nuts. 0.97

00:32:41.000 Absolutely nuts. 0.85

00:32:42.000 He concludes Do we accept a rule, a world ruled by modern slave masters? 0.99

00:32:47.000 Arrogant, domineering, and unaccountable, who govern through coercion, lies, and extortion.

00:32:51.000 They literally murdered 42,000 of their own citizens for protesting them. 0.96

00:32:55.000 They went out in the streets and they murdered them while presiding over the worst tyranny on planet Earth.

00:33:02.000 It's unbelievable.

00:33:05.000 Humanity's conscience is not yet dead.

00:33:07.000 But in times like these, silence is complicity with evil.

00:33:10.000 Being lectured by the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs about morality and complicity with evil and terrorism and disdain of innocent life.

00:33:18.000 Yeah, that's a hell of a take.

00:33:20.000 That is a hell of a take.

00:33:21.000 Well, the president of the United States put out a statement pointing out that there are a lot of people in the West who seem to sympathize with the Iranians on all of this.

00:33:28.000 Quote When the fake news says the Iranian enemy is doing well militarily against us, it's virtual treason in that it is such a false and even preposterous statement. 0.86

00:33:36.000 They are aiding and abetting the enemy.

00:33:38.000 All it does is give Iran false hope when none should exist. 0.99

00:33:40.000 These are American cowards rooting against our country. 0.93

00:33:43.000 Fact check true. 0.95

00:33:44.000 Iran had 159 ships in their navy.

00:33:46.000 Every single ship is now resting at the bottom of the sea.

00:33:48.000 They have no Navy, their Air Force is gone, all technology is gone, their leaders are no longer with us, and the country is in economic disaster. 0.99

00:33:54.000 Only losers, ingrates, and fools are able to make a case against America, President Trump. 0.99

00:33:58.000 He is not wrong. 0.99

00:34:00.000 The Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, went up against Chris Coons of Delaware, not one of our brighter Congress people, pointing out that actually he has no clue what's going on.

00:34:12.000 My concern, Mr. Secretary, is that you've achieved a series of tactical successes, but are on the verge of a strategic loss.

00:34:20.000 Because we are now negotiating. 0.99

00:34:22.000 Just think it's so foolish. 0.91

00:34:23.000 Here we are in a committee in the United States Senate, 74 days in, and you're talking about strategic loss. 0.98

00:34:28.000 We have the ability to feed a 47 year threat of a pursuit of a nuclear weapon.

00:34:33.000 We have more leverage than we've ever had.

00:34:35.000 We've had incredible battlefield successes.

00:34:37.000 And you're talking about a strategic loss?

00:34:40.000 Mr. Secretary.

00:34:41.000 Mr. Secretary.

00:34:43.000 This is how you undercut the threats that could otherwise and are otherwise being made.

00:34:46.000 I am not your enemy. 0.93

00:34:48.000 Again, the fact that Coons is doing this routine. 0.96

00:34:51.000 Is demonstrative of a left that wants America to lose. 0.52

00:34:54.000 They would love nothing better than for America to lose because they want America's power in the world diminished.

00:34:58.000 They hate President Trump and they would rather have an Iranian government with a nuclear weapon killing tens of thousands of its own citizens in the streets and with the permanent capacity to shut down things like the Strait of Hormuz while spreading terrorism across the world than for President Trump to win.

00:35:11.000 It's that simple. 0.56

00:35:12.000 Coming up, the Department of Homeland Security making some strong moves on both immigration and counterterrorism first.

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00:36:24.000 Meanwhile, the DHS is not giving up on its attempts to shut down threats to the United States.

00:36:30.000 The Daily Wire's Jenny Taylor has an excellent piece of reporting today talking about how the DHS is going after foreign student fraud.

00:36:37.000 We talked about this a little bit on yesterday's show.

00:36:39.000 We talked about the importance.

00:36:42.000 Of stopping the importation of people who hate the country by sending them to American universities.

00:36:47.000 Well, according to Jenny, reporting for Daily Wire, Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced Tuesday that operational practical training program known as OPT has become a magnet for fraud, with foreign students claiming employment from highly suspect employers.

00:37:01.000 Activist Director Todd Lyons described the controversy at a press conference, noting the program allows foreign students to work in their area of study for up to one year while attending school.

00:37:10.000 But it turns out a lot of these foreign students are not actually working, they're just having money funneled to them.

00:37:17.000 According to DHS, they found empty buildings with locked doors where hundreds of foreign students were said to be working.

00:37:23.000 In some cases, multiple employers claimed the same address.

00:37:25.000 None of them actually had a lease there.

00:37:27.000 Some small homes were listed as work sites for hundreds of foreign students.

00:37:31.000 There were no employees present.

00:37:33.000 Other alleged employers claimed to have offshore HR and payroll personnel.

00:37:37.000 Many of the employers had tax liens, civil lawsuit collections, and breaches of contract on their record.

00:37:42.000 Well, why exactly is all of this happening?

00:37:46.000 Well, because again, That operational practical training program very often is designed as a pipeline to get people to commit visa fraud.

00:37:53.000 According to the Daily Wire in Houston, agents found an alleged pay to stay visa fraud scheme in which a company was charging students under the table to help them fraudulently maintain visa status.

00:38:03.000 One OPT employer in New Jersey claiming to support more than 150 foreign students who couldn't answer federal investigators' basic questions about who they were or what they were hired to do.

00:38:13.000 The investigators encountered only one student at the site who revealed that he had not worked for the listed company in over a year and was instead being trained by a company.

00:38:21.000 Based in India.

00:38:23.000 Well, the good news is that because of the visa clampdown, U.S. colleges are dropping students like flies. 0.99

00:38:29.000 20% drop in foreign students over the visa clampdown.

00:38:35.000 U.S. International Education Group, National Association for Foreign Student Affairs, points out that foreign enrollment in graduate programs dropped by an average of 24%.

00:38:44.000 Some 62% of schools reported lower foreign enrollment in both undergrad and graduate programs compared to spring 2025. 1.00

00:38:51.000 That seems totally appropriate. 1.00

00:38:53.000 That does.

00:38:54.000 You know, the people who are coming here to study, you want to study, you want to come here, you want to join the American project, get a visa, become a citizen, help contribute to the American economy, become a great part of the American dream.

00:39:04.000 Great. 0.85

00:39:05.000 If you are coming here to study from China and to pick up our national security secrets, to understand our science, to take advantage of what we have to offer, and then you go back and work with our enemies, well, you can go. 0.98

00:39:16.000 We don't need you here. 0.91

00:39:19.000 The U.S. counterterrorism strategy, by the way, also being corrected.

00:39:22.000 Since we are talking about regulatory policy here and the Trump administration winning.

00:39:29.000 According to the new U.S. counterterrorism strategy, they are setting the record straight on domestic terror threats.

00:39:33.000 They're correcting a false record that has been crafted by the legacy media, claiming that only the political right is responsible for political violence.

00:39:41.000 That, of course, is a lie.

00:39:43.000 The new strategy says Our nation has not been well served by its IC, intelligence community, which has been mired in old ways of looking at threats or has been actively weaponized by its leadership as a political tool.

00:39:53.000 Whether plotting against conservative Catholics attending traditional mass in Virginia, parents standing up for their children at school board meetings, members of Congress, or President Trump and his associates, this administration will continue to prohibit the IC from being used politically against innocent Americans.

00:40:07.000 As real threats were ignored or underplayed, Americans have witnessed the politically motivated killings of Christians and conservatives committed by violent left wing extremists, including the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

00:40:17.000 In addition to cartels and Islamist terror groups, our national counterterrorism activities will also prioritize the rapid identification and neutralization.

00:40:25.000 Of violent secular political groups whose ideology is anti American, radically pro transgender, and anarchist.

00:40:31.000 The goals of the new counterterrorism strategy, by the way, include new and evolving collaboration between nation states and groups like cartels, new and deepening alliances between the far left and Islamists, i.e., the Red Green Alliance.

00:40:43.000 That's what you're seeing march in Brooklyn punching girls on the street.

00:40:47.000 New and evolving alliances between established terror groups like Al Shabaab and the Houthis, and exploitation of new weapons like drones by cartels and jihadists. 0.97

00:40:55.000 All of that is quite good.

00:40:57.000 Okay, again, on the regulatory front, the other big news on the regulatory front yesterday, aside from this excellent new counterterrorism strategy, is the ouster of Marty McCary over at FDA.

00:41:07.000 Again, Marty is a friend of the program.

00:41:10.000 He was somebody who appeared regularly during COVID to give us updates.

00:41:15.000 President Trump thanked Dr. McCary for having done what he called a great job at the FDA.

00:41:19.000 He was a hard worker, respected by all, and will go on to have an outstanding career in medicine.

00:41:23.000 A person named Kyle Diamantis will be put in the acting position.

00:41:27.000 And McCary's resignation.

00:41:29.000 Comment read like this Dear President Trump, please accept my resignation effective today.

00:41:35.000 During my tenure, I announced 50 major FDA reforms.

00:41:38.000 Joe Biden's FDA had none.

00:41:39.000 I'm extremely proud we reduced drug review times from a year to one to two months, wrote new guidance to advance psychedelics, introduced a new plausible mechanism pathway for rare disease drugs, and changed estrogen labels to tell women the truth about menopausal hormone replacement.

00:41:52.000 It's been the honor of a lifetime to serve as your FDA commissioner.

00:41:54.000 I am forever grateful.

00:41:55.000 There are some controversies, obviously, surrounding McCary's departure.

00:42:00.000 There are some pro life people.

00:42:02.000 Who wanted the FDA to restrict telehealth prescription for the abortion pill mefepristone, which again, I think is a fair argument.

00:42:12.000 Also, he was pressured by President Trump to authorize flavored vapes, even though he raised concerns about the products.

00:42:19.000 And again, I would side with Dr. McCary on that one.

00:42:23.000 And he was criticized by certain biopharmaceutical companies, arguing that McCary's agency was inconsistent in its review of their medicine.

00:42:29.000 So McCary has been replaced.

00:42:32.000 And meanwhile, on the cultural front, I have to give a shout out to Billy Bob Thornton of Landman.

00:42:37.000 So, Billy Bob Thornton said, you know, something actually smart for a celebrity.

00:42:41.000 He said, I don't know about politics, so I'm not going to comment on them.

00:42:44.000 I mean, slow clap for Billy Bob Thornton right there.

00:42:47.000 I mean, that's a rarity.

00:42:48.000 Here we go.

00:42:50.000 So, if you could be open and share who you are, how you feel, how you cope, that's definitely going to do something.

00:42:58.000 That, I think, to me is way more important than an actor or actress or musician.

00:43:06.000 Telling people, like you said, who to vote for because it's like, I mean, some guy's on the fence, you know, and it's like, well, Dash Riprock said it on the Golden Globe, so I'm voting for, you know, it's like, we, I mean, I don't know anything about politics.

00:43:21.000 I have no idea.

00:43:22.000 I mean, and if, and the stuff that I believe about it, I don't want to force it down somebody else's throat because I'm not an expert on that.

00:43:30.000 Again, good for him.

00:43:31.000 Good for him.

00:43:32.000 Hollywood would be much better off if people were to stick to their land of expertise, entertaining people, being good at acting.

00:43:38.000 The view, of course, was very upset with Billy Bob Thornton because.

00:43:40.000 All must bow.

00:43:42.000 All must bow the knee before the left wing goddess.

00:43:46.000 Imagine bragging about how uninformed you are.

00:43:49.000 Well, I think he's saying more.

00:43:49.000 You know?

00:43:49.000 Yeah.

00:43:51.000 It's like I'm not an expert.

00:43:52.000 So my opinion.

00:43:53.000 No, I don't know anything about politics.

00:43:55.000 You're an American citizen.

00:43:56.000 Don't you want some people to read the paper?

00:43:58.000 I actually do think you have an obligation.

00:44:00.000 I think we are at a crisis point in this country.

00:44:03.000 I think democracy is participatory.

00:44:06.000 I think when you have a platform, that means you have an outsized voice.

00:44:10.000 And when you have a platform, I think that you have a responsibility to speak up about what's going on in this country.

00:44:17.000 In my view, silence is complicity.

00:44:19.000 And every minute.

00:44:22.000 You see, Billy Bob Thornton did something terrible.

00:44:24.000 He said he wasn't an expert on something and therefore wasn't going to talk about it.

00:44:28.000 But you must talk about it.

00:44:29.000 You must say the things that Sonny Hostin wants you to say.

00:44:32.000 If you don't say the things Sonny Hostin wants you to say, then you are a Trumpian.

00:44:35.000 That means that you are complicit in everything that is going on.

00:44:37.000 We don't even know how Billy Bob Thornton voted.

00:44:39.000 He may well have voted Democrat.

00:44:40.000 We don't know.

00:44:41.000 But the fact that he won't say, he must say, say the words, Billy Bob Thornton.

00:44:45.000 And if you won't, you're going to be condemned by the harpies of the view for not saying the things they want you to say.

00:44:53.000 Do they ever just, you know, sit back and breathe for a second?

00:44:55.000 Just like take a breath.

00:44:56.000 It's okay.

00:44:57.000 Billy Bob Thornton doesn't have to be an expert on politics.

00:44:59.000 You have everybody else in Hollywood who thinks there's an expert on politics. 0.82

00:45:02.000 I mean, like Javier Bardem is busy wearing Palestinian flags around. 0.90

00:45:06.000 Isn't that enough for you?

00:45:07.000 You already have an enormous segment of Hollywood that speaks out consistently about politics.

00:45:12.000 By the way, it has not had any market impact on the electoral direction of the country.

00:45:16.000 But if Billy Bob won't say it, then Billy Bob is bad.

00:45:19.000 Hey, in other news, kind of surprising news.

00:45:21.000 So HBO's Euphoria, which is a very explicit show, a lot of explicit material on that show, but it's doing some interesting things.

00:45:29.000 Some interesting things.

00:45:30.000 So, there's a clip that is making the rounds of Sidney Sweeney's character, who in season three is playing a woman, Cassie Howard, who is really insecure and she becomes an OnlyFans model.

00:45:42.000 Her storylines are usually about seeking attention and approval and validation and all this.

00:45:46.000 And her husband is short on cash and so she joins OnlyFans.

00:45:50.000 And there are a couple things that are happening here.

00:45:53.000 One is this clip.

00:45:54.000 So, there's a clip that's going around and it's pretty funny.

00:45:58.000 It's Cassie who is appearing on a podcast.

00:46:03.000 It's.

00:46:04.000 Hard not to laugh at this.

00:46:07.000 I just feel like American men have been treated like second-class citizens.

00:46:10.000 You know what? 1.00

00:46:11.000 I think I agree with you there. 0.82

00:46:12.000 Why is it that women hate men these days? 0.81

00:46:15.000 Well, in the past, men used to be hunters and gatherers and protectors.

00:46:20.000 But now they're being forced to walk around on their tippy toes.

00:46:21.000 I mean, it's not natural.

00:46:23.000 Men should be free.

00:46:24.000 They should be able to speak their mind, voice their desires.

00:46:27.000 You think they're being too restricted by society.

00:46:29.000 Like if a man today were to say that he wants a girlfriend that can cook or clean, he might as well be screaming the N-word.

00:46:35.000 Okay.

00:46:37.000 Well, you sound like a Democrat. 0.99

00:46:38.000 I'm not retarded. 1.00

00:46:41.000 Okay. 0.98

00:46:42.000 I laughed.

00:46:43.000 It's funny.

00:46:43.000 Okay.

00:46:44.000 But there's something else that's happening on the show.

00:46:44.000 Okay.

00:46:46.000 And it's actually kind of subversive, like subversively important.

00:46:49.000 So, Sidney Sweeney is playing this OnlyFans model.

00:46:51.000 You've seen a lot of people critiquing that online.

00:46:54.000 And again, the show is quite explicit.

00:46:56.000 The question is is the show condemning OnlyFans or is it saying that it's great?

00:47:01.000 It's pretty clear that the show is taking the radically subversive position that OnlyFans is awful and robs you of your soul.

00:47:07.000 That is what's actually happening on the show.

00:47:09.000 I'm not just reading that into the show.

00:47:11.000 That's a thing that is happening on the show.

00:47:14.000 According to the post millennial, sex workers are very angry at the Sidney Sweeney OnlyFans turn.

00:47:20.000 Quote In the climate we're in, that they dressed her up as a baby to make pornographic OnlyFans content was beyond troubling and again serves to perpetuate stereotypes that sex workers have no moral compass and that they will do anything for money, explained one sex worker.

00:47:33.000 Well, yes, that would be the point.

00:47:35.000 And there's always this untrue stigma that somehow sex work is synonymous with sex trafficking and abuse.

00:47:40.000 And they just said, let's make a joke of it.

00:47:41.000 That is so funny.

00:47:42.000 I'm not laughing.

00:47:43.000 Well, I mean, it's not about you laughing.

00:47:45.000 It's about the truth that OnlyFans robs you of your soul.

00:47:48.000 So, the show's creator, Sam Levinson, did an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, and he explained a lot of these scenes.

00:47:54.000 And of course, you've seen a lot of them trending on X. Quote, Cassie has got her doghouse and her little dog ears in the nose, and that has its own humor.

00:48:02.000 But what makes the scene is the fact that her housekeeper is the one filming it.

00:48:05.000 What we wanted to find is the other layer of absurdity that we're able to tie into it.

00:48:09.000 So, we're not too inside of her fantasy or illusion.

00:48:12.000 The gag is to jump out to break the wall.

00:48:14.000 And he continued, quote, Some of these scenes we only lit with these ring lights that she would use.

00:48:18.000 When you're inside, it's a beautiful glowing front light.

00:48:20.000 But then you jump out of it, and it's just a pool of light, and everything surrounding it is dark.

00:48:24.000 It's just gnarly and jarring.

00:48:26.000 We wanted to capture what she's trying to show the audience and be inside of it, but then also pull back wider and see how depressing it is.

00:48:33.000 Do you understand how crazily subversive that is?

00:48:36.000 What Sam Levinson is doing right there?

00:48:38.000 By pointing out that the fantasy of OnlyFans is not remotely the reality, and that's actually depressing and lonely and sad and exploitative of people who are damaged.

00:48:48.000 That's one of the most subversive things that Hollywood has done in the recent past.

00:48:52.000 Again, there are certain shows out there that overtly sort of appeal to the right.

00:48:56.000 Obviously, Taylor Sheridan's shows do this sometimes.

00:48:59.000 What Levinson is doing is something significantly more subtle and I think more effective, particularly with young women with whom this show is very, very popular.

00:49:07.000 Pointing out the emptiness of the OnlyFans lifestyle, I mean, that is a subversive, subversive move from HBO's euphoria.

00:49:14.000 All righty, folks, the show is continuing for our members right now.

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00:49:27.000 Martin Luther King Jr. is an American icon, widely considered one of the greatest Americans who ever lived.

00:49:33.000 A man who had a vision for a colorblind society, a post-racial America.

00:49:39.000 He had a dream. 0.57

00:49:40.000 It's just not the dream you thought it was.

00:49:42.000 Were his true aims a colorblind society or something far more radical?

00:49:47.000 Who bankrolled him?

00:49:48.000 What unfolded behind the scenes in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963?

00:49:53.000 Was civil disobedience actually peaceful?

00:49:57.000 We wanted to show you a clip. of the I Have a Dream speech.

00:50:00.000 But according to our lawyers, we can't.

00:50:02.000 In fact, King's family has made a lot of money suing media outlets.

00:50:05.000 They want to silence critics like us.

00:50:08.000 What they're doing makes it very difficult to judge Martin Luther King Jr., not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character.

00:50:15.000 Is America today stronger, more unified, and racially equal than before King's rise?

00:50:21.000 These questions demand answers, and as Americans, we are entitled to a full accounting of the Civil Rights Movement and its consequences.

00:50:28.000 King's movement fundamentally transformed our country and our system of government.

00:50:32.000 I speak as a citizen of the world.

00:50:34.000 Each day the war goes on, the hatred increases, though the cause of evil prospers.

00:50:41.000 The first part of our two part special on the civil rights movement A New Constitution, available now on Daily Wire Plus.

The Ben Shapiro Show - May 13, 2026

Let Trump COOK

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