The Ben Shapiro Show - August 18, 2026


Oval Office Showdown: Trump vs. CNN


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Length

8 minutes

Words per minute

181.23

Word count

1,625

Sentence count

135

Harmful content

Misogyny

3

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Toxicity

20

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Hate speech

1

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00:00:00.000 A video of a lifeguard rescue in California went viral and sparked a seriously stupid media frenzy when President Trump brought that teenage hero to the Oval Office. 0.97
00:00:07.000 Not because of the kids sitting there, but because journalists were journalisming so hard that CNN had to come out and defend one of the reporters. 0.92
00:00:13.000 Plus, John Ossoff in Georgia did his best Trump impression at a rally and sent the journalismers into another frenzy when he basically suggested that Trump was nailing one of his aides.
00:00:22.000 Here we go.
00:00:24.000 So, yesterday, the President of the United States had to the Oval Office a lifeguard hero.
00:00:29.000 So, you'll remember this lifeguard hero from A tape from Seabright State Beach in California.
00:00:37.000 The person, it is, was a 16 year old lifeguard who ended up saving some folks.
00:00:43.000 Here is what the video looked like for those who missed it.
00:01:05.000 Brutal lanes.
00:01:12.000 As you can see, he's really sort of fighting the water there.
00:01:15.000 I mean, that's a significant riptide.
00:01:22.000 The kid was already pretty limp, according to the lifeguard.
00:01:27.000 Again, very scary story.
00:01:29.000 This video went totally viral.
00:01:32.000 This is lifeguard Ryder Williams.
00:01:34.000 And, you know, he told his story.
00:01:36.000 He said that essentially he was unable to pull him out because he was limp.
00:01:38.000 The waves were pushing so hard, there were two to three more waves.
00:01:41.000 And then another lifeguard named Aaron Bonin entered the water.
00:01:43.000 To help him, there were bystanders who tried to jump in and help, and he told them to get back to shore because otherwise they would have gotten caught in the riptide.
00:01:50.000 So now, Lifeguard Ryder showed up at the White House, and the president was there with him.
00:01:57.000 It's an honor to be with Ryder Williams, who is a 16 year old lifeguard, California, the Santa Cruz area.
00:02:08.000 And I understand he was a winner right from the time they first saw him as a lifeguard.
00:02:13.000 A lot of training, a lot of work.
00:02:15.000 And he saved this young gentleman.
00:02:18.000 Who I had a long talk with, I said, Would you have made it without him?
00:02:22.000 And you said, Not really, right?
00:02:24.000 Not really.
00:02:24.000 It was trouble.
00:02:26.000 Honestly, this is one of the things that I like about President Trump.
00:02:29.000 He definitely has that common man touch, right?
00:02:30.000 He's doing this routine.
00:02:31.000 He does this a lot where somebody will do a thing that's pretty cool in sort of the viral world.
00:02:36.000 Somebody performing kind of an everyday hero task, and the president will have them over to the White House and he will feed them and he'll honor it.
00:02:42.000 Like that's a cool thing.
00:02:43.000 It is a nice thing for the president of the United States.
00:02:45.000 I know we're not supposed to acknowledge when the president does those kinds of things, but he does.
00:02:49.000 He does that sort of thing.
00:02:50.000 On the regular.
00:02:51.000 And this must have been quite an experience for the lifeguard.
00:02:53.000 That's pretty cool.
00:02:54.000 The Oval Office is kind of an amazing place.
00:02:55.000 And that is a very, very neat story.
00:02:58.000 Now, speaking of people who are struggling in the water, John Assoff is the Georgia Senate candidate.
00:03:03.000 He's going to win, but he is now struggling to break free of the DSA riptide as he goes for that 2028 Democratic nomination.
00:03:11.000 And he's figuring that maybe his best strategy is to jump aboard the buoy that he thinks is Donald Trump.
00:03:16.000 We'll get to more on this in a moment.
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00:04:23.000 There are a lot of Democrats right now who want to run for president, and what they've discovered is that speaking in kind of normal, platitudinous tones isn't going to do it.
00:04:31.000 You have to say something insulting about President Trump.
00:04:33.000 It's the only way.
00:04:35.000 So, John Ossoff at a rally in Atlanta decided to basically imply that the President of the United States is sleeping with his aide.
00:04:41.000 I mean, that's what he's doing here, right?
00:04:42.000 And then the idea, it's all bait.
00:04:44.000 Everything is bait all day long, right?
00:04:45.000 He's going to say that, and then someone's going to say he ought to apologize.
00:04:48.000 And then someone's going to say, why should he apologize? 1.00
00:04:50.000 Trump says that kind of crap all the time. 1.00
00:04:52.000 Again, as I say, I thought the dumbest time was five years ago. 1.00
00:04:56.000 Wrong I was. 0.97
00:04:57.000 Here's John Ossoff.
00:05:00.000 And while the sailors on the Lincoln fight his war, while he fruitlessly drains our munitions and oil reserves, the president sleeps through his meetings.
00:05:15.000 He golfs and trades stocks.
00:05:18.000 See, he doesn't want to do the job.
00:05:22.000 He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the Emir of Qatar. 0.99
00:05:35.000 Okay, so again, he's implying that the president is having sex with his aide. 0.96
00:05:38.000 Let's just be clear, that's what he's doing. 0.74
00:05:40.000 So, the White House was asked about these comments, and the president was unhappy.
00:05:47.000 Mr. President, has already John Ossoff said you'd rather travel with your aide, Natalie Harp, and build the ballroom than do your job as president?
00:05:53.000 What is your response, John Ossoff?
00:05:56.000 You mean Pee Wee Herman?
00:05:58.000 Pee Wee Herman look alike?
00:06:00.000 No, I would much rather do other things.
00:06:05.000 I think the president, listen, I'm with the president on this one, but I think that he needs a better nickname for John Ossoff than Pee Wee Herman.
00:06:11.000 I don't think the Pee Wee Herman thing is great.
00:06:14.000 He can do better.
00:06:14.000 The president's very, very good at insult comedy.
00:06:16.000 He's like Triumph the insult comic dog, but the president, he can do better than that.
00:06:20.000 And then the White House put out a statement. 0.98
00:06:24.000 Someday your children will come across your disgusting and inhumane question. 0.98
00:06:27.000 They'll be sickened and embarrassed to have a parent be so callous and bitten fib. 0.99
00:06:29.000 It's quite troubling.
00:06:31.000 I don't know, man.
00:06:32.000 Meh.
00:06:33.000 Are we going to do the umbrage thing?
00:06:36.000 I felt like we're beyond umbrage at this point.
00:06:39.000 Well, then CNN put out its own umbrage ridden tweet.
00:06:43.000 Righteous indignation all around.
00:06:45.000 Drink. 0.99
00:06:46.000 So here is a CNN quote Kristen Holmes is one of the most respected and accomplished journalists covering the White House.
00:06:50.000 This afternoon, she did her job and asked the President of the United States a tough, relevant, and newsworthy question on behalf of the American people.
00:06:57.000 I love when journalists just pat themselves on the back for asking normal questions.
00:07:00.000 It's great.
00:07:01.000 Personal attacks on journalists for asking questions are beneath the office and inconsistent with the principles of a free press.
00:07:08.000 I'm so tired.
00:07:09.000 I'm so exhausted, not just because I have a newborn, but also I'm just exhausted by all you people.
00:07:14.000 Can you just stop? 0.98
00:07:15.000 Can you just calm your asses down? 0.98
00:07:17.000 Seriously. 0.99
00:07:19.000 Everybody needs to just take a chill pill.
00:07:21.000 It's absurd.
00:07:22.000 Yeah, again. 0.98
00:07:24.000 Just when you think things can't get stupider, they definitely do. 0.97
00:07:27.000 So I saw it. 0.97
00:07:27.000 All righty. 0.97
00:07:28.000 So now you have to.
00:07:29.000 That's the way this works.
00:07:30.000 So apparently Justin Trudeau is dancing on tape again.
00:07:36.000 And this man was the prime minister of Canada.
00:07:39.000 Great.
00:07:40.000 Job, everyone.
00:07:41.000 It's awesome.
00:07:42.000 And now he's dating Katy Perry, making them the most obnoxious couple in recent memory.
00:07:46.000 Oh, here, let's see.
00:07:47.000 Okay, so we are rating politicians dancing, right?
00:07:50.000 We already did Jacob Fry over in Minneapolis, and I gave him like a five out of 10 because I thought that his dancing was not like the worst I'd ever seen.
00:07:57.000 It's time for some Justin Trudeau.
00:07:58.000 How does he rank in the politician dancing competition?
00:08:08.000 In the home hardware on set zero.
00:08:12.000 This is zero.
00:08:14.000 He somehow moves even more awkwardly than Taylor Swift.
00:08:19.000 And he's holding a plunger in order to cure what he did to Canada.
00:08:28.000 And then there's Katy Perry nodding along, also not Nance, but she gets paid to dance. 0.94
00:08:37.000 Not the most obnoxious people that you know. 1.00
00:08:42.000 If these people live next door to you, you would move. 0.90
00:08:45.000 They're terrible. 0.99
00:08:46.000 Great job, Canada.
00:08:47.000 You're doing great.
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