The Ben Shapiro Show - PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH: Triumphant Trump ENDS Israel-Iran War!

00:00:00.000 A ton coming up on today's show.

00:00:02.000 President Trump's massive foreign policy triumph, a ceasefire now achieved between Iran and Israel, ending what he calls the 12-day war, massive victory for Israel, massive victory for America, biggest victory for President Trump.

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00:00:45.000 So President Trump has done one of the most magnificent things that I've seen any president do.

00:00:51.000 As we'll get to a little bit later on in the show, there are a lot of warnings that he was about to enter us into World War III. 0.99

00:00:57.000 I always thought that that was idiotic, and I will tell you how idiotic I thought that was in just a little while. 0.98

00:01:02.000 But late last night, President Trump announced via Truth Social that a ceasefire had been reached. 0.99

00:01:09.000 He said, quote, congratulations to everyone.

00:01:11.000 It has been fully agreed by and between Israel and Iran that there will be a complete and total ceasefire in approximately six hours from now when Israel and Iran have wound down and completed their in-progress final missions for 12 hours, at which point the war will be considered ended.

00:01:23.000 Officially, Iran will start the ceasefire, and upon the 12th hour, Israel will start the ceasefire.

00:01:28.000 And upon the 24th hour, an official end to the 12-day war will be saluted by the world.

00:01:32.000 During each ceasefire, the other side will remain peaceful and respectful.

00:01:35.000 On the assumption that everything works as it should, which it will, I would like to congratulate both countries, Israel and Iran, on having the stamina, courage, and intelligence to end what should be called the 12-day war.

00:01:44.000 This is a war that could have gone on for years and destroyed the entire Middle East, but it didn't and never will. 0.58

00:01:49.000 God bless Israel.

00:01:50.000 God bless Iran.

00:01:50.000 God bless the Middle East.

00:01:51.000 God bless the United States of America and God bless the world.

00:01:54.000 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America.

00:01:57.000 So let's begin with this.

00:01:58.000 President Trump has achieved in the last week and a half, the complete destruction of the Iranian nuclear capacity.

00:02:06.000 Israel, with American backing, has achieved the large-scale destruction of Iran's ballistic missile capacity, its ballistic missile launchers.

00:02:13.000 Israel, on its own, destroyed the entire top layer of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Iran, the IRGC.

00:02:22.000 Israel took out the top nuclear scientists.

00:02:24.000 So, worst-case scenario, what you are talking about here, along with President Trump's authorization, his courageous authorization of that B-2 strike on Fordo, what you are talking about is setting back the Iranian nuclear regime by a decade, maybe more, maybe permanently, because even if they still have some leftover remnants of their nuclear machinery, even if they somehow still have some enriched uranium they've squirreled away somewhere, they can't actually enrich it more.

00:02:53.000 They don't have the centrifuges to do it. 0.99

00:02:54.000 They don't have the factories to do it. 0.91

00:02:55.000 They don't have the scientific know-how to do it.

00:02:57.000 All of that is gone.

00:02:59.000 And the United States achieved all of that without losing a single soldier, not one.

00:03:05.000 That is a piece of magnificent statecraft, truly magnificent statecraft by the President of the United States.

00:03:11.000 The 12-day war is indeed over.

00:03:13.000 Now, there are a bunch of sparks last night.

00:03:16.000 We need to go through the timeline to explain exactly what happened here.

00:03:20.000 But here is the bottom line.

00:03:22.000 The bottom line is that Israel achieved its goal. 0.86

00:03:25.000 It had a dual goal to prevent the nuclearization of Iran and to massively degrade its ballistic missile capacity.

00:03:31.000 Both of those goals were achieved.

00:03:33.000 I've been talking for days about the fact that Israel is actually running out of targets.

00:03:36.000 So the fact that this war has now come to a close, apparently, that was going to happen anyway.

00:03:41.000 Israel is always going to have to draw it to a close. 0.93

00:03:43.000 Meanwhile, Iran desperately needed this war to come to a close because the regime was on its last legs.

00:03:49.000 And for the United States, the goals were achieved.

00:03:53.000 I don't know what else to call that, but a masterstroke by the president of the United States.

00:03:57.000 That's what this was.

00:03:59.000 So that doesn't mean there weren't some sparks again last night.

00:04:02.000 So last night, Iran decided that it would be a brilliant idea to fire some missiles at Al-Udaid Air Base in Qatar.

00:04:10.000 So it turns out that that was all pre-coordinated with the United States via Qatar.

00:04:16.000 Again, that's not exactly shocking.

00:04:17.000 If you go back to 2020, the president of the United States then, Donald Trump, killed Qasem Soleimani, the head of the terrorist regime that was spreading its tentacles all over the Middle East in Iran.

00:04:28.000 And the Iranians basically pre-coordinated with the Americans some sort of symbolic strike that was really directed at domestic consumption. 0.57

00:04:35.000 Fire off a couple of missiles at an Iraqi airbase and then call it a day.

00:04:39.000 Well, the same thing happened last night.

00:04:41.000 Iran issued this attack on this Qatari airbase, the U.S. base in Qatar.

00:04:48.000 And then they announced that they were basically done.

00:04:52.000 They said that they had released the number of missiles equal to the number of bombs the United States used in its strike on Saturday.

00:04:59.000 The statement put out by Iran said the base that was targeted in the attack by the powerful Iranian forces was far from urban facilities and residential areas in Qatar.

00:05:07.000 This action did not pose any threat to our friendly and brotherly country, Qatar and its noble people, which, by the way, shows you exactly where Qatar is, that Iran fires missiles at an American airbase in Qatar and then apologizes to Qatar.

00:05:18.000 Pretty incredible stuff.

00:05:20.000 Now, the IRGC, of course, released a statement claiming they had launched a devastating and powerful missile attack against al-Udaid and said that they would not leave any attack on their territorial integrity, sovereignty, and national security unanswered under any circumstances. 0.98

00:05:33.000 That, of course, is complete crap. 0.99

00:05:35.000 It is crap from beginning to end. 0.99

00:05:36.000 According to the New York Times, quote, three Iranian officials familiar with the plans said Iran gave advanced notice attacks were coming as a way to minimize casualties. 0.99

00:05:44.000 The officials said Iran symbolically needed to strike back at the United States, but at the same time, carried out in a way that allowed all sides an exit ram.

00:05:51.000 They described it as a similar strategy to 2020, when Iran gave Iraq heads up before firing ballistic missiles at an American base in Iraq following the assassination of its top general.

00:06:01.000 So again, that was perfectly predictable.

00:06:03.000 In fact, some people predicted it publicly.

00:06:06.000 I know, you listen to the show.

00:06:07.000 Okay, meanwhile, President Trump then went ahead and posted on Truth Social talking about how essentially the Iranians had told him in advance that this was going to happen.

00:06:18.000 Quote, Iran has officially responded to our obliteration of their nuclear facilities with a very weak response, which we expected and have very effectively countered.

00:06:26.000 There have been 14 missiles fired, 13 were knocked down, one was set free because it was Headed in a non-threatening direction.

00:06:31.000 I am pleased to report that no Americans were harmed and hardly any damage was done.

00:06:35.000 Most importantly, they've gotten it all out of their system, and there will hopefully be no further hate.

00:06:40.000 I want to thank Iran for giving us early notice, which made it possible for no lives to be lost and nobody to be injured.

00:06:44.000 Perhaps Iran can now proceed to peace and harmony in the region, and I will enthusiastically encourage Israel to do the same.

00:06:49.000 Thank you for your attention to this matter.

00:06:51.000 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States.

00:06:53.000 That's Trump just dunking on them, saying, you guys have nothing, nothing.

00:06:56.000 You don't have the capacity to hurt us. 0.95

00:06:58.000 If you tried it, we would wipe you out.

00:07:00.000 Meaning the top levels of the Iranian government, Ayatollah Khomeini, would just be in pieces if Iran had actually attempted to attack American air bases, for example, around the region in a serious way.

00:07:12.000 And honestly, it was all for domestic consumption for the Iranian government, which seems to be possibly on its last legs.

00:07:18.000 Iran's supreme leader actually shared a flyer showing an American flag burning with the caption, quote, we did not violate anyone, and we absolutely do not accept being violated by anyone, nor will we submit to any act of aggression.

00:07:28.000 This is the logic of the Iranian nation.

00:07:32.000 Sure, sure, Madud.

00:07:34.000 How little did anybody care about this attack?

00:07:37.000 The oil market actually declined.

00:07:40.000 Okay, the price of oil went down as the attack was happening because nobody believes that the Iranians were serious about attempting to fire back against the United States or to close, for example, the Straits of Hormuz.

00:07:52.000 I pointed out a couple of days ago on the show again.

00:07:55.000 China is the party most damaged by the closing of the Straits of Hormuz.

00:07:59.000 And in fact, China had actually called on everybody to not close the Straits of Hormuz.

00:08:04.000 Wink, wink, Iran. 1.00

00:08:06.000 So Iran really had very few cards to play here.

00:08:09.000 They were firing something symbolically to demonstrate they weren't dead, essentially.

00:08:13.000 But that's about all they had.

00:08:15.000 We'll get to more of this in a moment.

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00:09:18.000 Well, you're at it.

00:09:18.000 Also, even Russia was backtracking.

00:09:21.000 So you recall that a few days ago, Russia made some sort of outlandish claim about how they might transfer or somebody might transfer a nuclear weapon to the Iranians.

00:09:30.000 And then President Trump's like, not so fast.

00:09:32.000 He put out a long statement on Truth Social saying, did I hear former President Medvedev from Russia casually throwing around the N-word nuclear and saying that he and other countries would supply nuclear warheads to Iran?

00:09:41.000 Did he really just say that?

00:09:42.000 Or is it a figment of my imagination?

00:09:45.000 And then he said, by the way, if anyone thinks our hardware was great over the weekend, far and away, the strongest and best equipment we have, 20 years advanced over the pack, is our nuclear submarines.

00:09:52.000 They're the most powerful lethal weapons ever built.

00:09:55.000 And they just launched 30 tomahawks.

00:09:56.000 All 30 hit their mark perfectly.

00:09:58.000 So in addition to our great fighter pilots, thank you to captain and crew.

00:10:01.000 And Dmitry Medvedev then walked it back and said, Russia has no intention of supplying nuclear weapons to Iran.

00:10:07.000 Yeah, we know, Madud.

00:10:09.000 We know.

00:10:11.000 Okay, so bottom line is all the pieces were in place by late yesterday afternoon for a ceasefire.

00:10:18.000 Israel had already exhausted its list of main targets.

00:10:21.000 And there are always a few more apples to pick off the target tree in Iran.

00:10:25.000 But Israel has been nonstop flying sorties for nearly two weeks over Iranian airspace.

00:10:31.000 So they've hit the vast majority of what they were looking for.

00:10:34.000 They have degraded probably 75% of the ballistic missile capacity of Iran.

00:10:37.000 They've destroyed probably 75% of their ballistic missile launchers.

00:10:42.000 They, along with the United States, thanks to President Trump's brave decision on Fordo, took out the Iranian nuclear facilities.

00:10:48.000 Israel has killed virtually every top nuclear scientist in Iran.

00:10:52.000 They have killed the top members of the IRGC.

00:10:54.000 Again, this is a triumph by Israel and by the United States, and it's particularly a triumph by President Trump, who was able to achieve every American goal held in this particular area without a single American casualty. 0.70

00:11:07.000 Zero.

00:11:08.000 That's astonishing.

00:11:10.000 Astonishing.

00:11:11.000 Zero American casualties to degrade the nuclear capacity of a country that has been vowing nuclearization for decades.

00:11:19.000 So President Trump, as we say, late last night, he came out and he announced that it was time for peace.

00:11:26.000 And then he followed up his statement about the ceasefire, quote, Israel and Iran came to me almost simultaneously and said, peace.

00:11:32.000 I knew the time was now.

00:11:33.000 The world and the Middle East are the real winners. 1.00

00:11:35.000 Both nations will see tremendous love, peace, and prosperity in their futures.

00:11:38.000 They have so much to gain and yet so much to lose if they stray from the road of righteousness and truth.

00:11:42.000 The future for Israel and Iran is unlimited and filled with great promise.

00:11:44.000 God bless you both.

00:11:45.000 Now, he's softening the blow on Iran.

00:11:47.000 The future for the Iranian regime is not particularly bright because, again, the Ayatollahs have run their country horrifyingly poorly, and they will continue to make bad decisions. 1.00

00:11:56.000 And of course, if they attempt renuclearization, there will be activity by Western powers to stop that, particularly Israel.

00:12:02.000 If you think that Israel's Mossad agents on the ground are simply going to go to sleep for the next 10 years, wrong you are.

00:12:07.000 But the destruction of the Iranian nuclear capacity may in fact be permanent in the same way that when Israel destroyed the Osirak reactor back in 1981, that turned into the permanent end of Osam Hussein's nuclear ambitions.

00:12:18.000 President Trump also said, quote, we couldn't have made today's deal without the talent and courage of our great B2 pilots and all those associated with that operation.

00:12:25.000 In a certain and very ironic way, that perfect hit late in the evening brought everyone together and the deal was made.

00:12:31.000 And of course, he's right, because effectively, Iran had nothing to negotiate with at that point.

00:12:36.000 Okay, now, there was a bit of a tete-tete between Israel, Iran, and the United States that broke out as of Tuesday morning.

00:12:46.000 So here's what happened.

00:12:47.000 Just before the ceasefire went into place, Iran fired a barrage of ballistic missiles into Israel.

00:12:53.000 One of those ballistic missiles struck an apartment building in Beersheba, which is in the south of Israel.

00:13:00.000 Apparently, there are at least seven people who have been killed, 86 wounded, because this is what Iran does. 1.00

00:13:06.000 Israel, just before the ceasefire, took out a bunch of IRGC leaders at their headquarters.

00:13:12.000 Iran took out a bunch of elderly women and children at a Beersheva apartment complex.

00:13:17.000 That was essentially how this war always was fought by Iran.

00:13:21.000 Then time for the ceasefire came, and Israel stopped.

00:13:24.000 And Iran didn't. 0.87

00:13:25.000 Iran instead sent a couple of missiles into northern Israel after the ceasefire, basically because this is what they always do. 1.00

00:13:31.000 This is not a shock.

00:13:32.000 Again, when Israel essentially wiped out Hezbollah in southern Lebanon back in October of 2024, and then a ceasefire was declared, Hezbollah attempted a few actions violating the ceasefire just to see if they could get away with it.

00:13:46.000 And so this is what Iran was doing. 0.64

00:13:47.000 And so Israel prepared to fire back.

00:13:51.000 President Trump then went on Truth Social and said, Israel, do not drop those bombs.

00:13:55.000 If you do it, it is a major violation.

00:13:57.000 Bring your pilots home now. 1.00

00:13:58.000 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States.

00:14:00.000 And then he had this rather heated exchange with a reporter talking about how upset he was that Israel and Iran were still firing at each other, essentially.

00:14:12.000 They violated it, but Israel violated it too. 0.78

00:14:14.000 Are you questioning is Israel a committee?

00:14:16.000 Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I've never seen before.

00:14:22.000 The biggest load that we've seen.

00:14:24.000 I'm not happy with Israel. 0.99

00:14:26.000 You know, when I say, okay, now you have 12 hours, you don't go out in the first hour and just drop everything you have on them.

00:14:32.000 So I'm not happy with them.

00:14:34.000 I'm not happy with Iran either. 0.99

00:14:36.000 But I'm really unhappy if Israel's going out this morning because of one rocket that didn't land, that was shot, perhaps by mistake, that didn't land.

00:14:44.000 I'm not happy about that.

00:14:48.000 You know what?

00:14:49.000 We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the f ⁇ they're doing.

00:14:56.000 Do you understand that?

00:14:57.000 Okay, and then President Trump walks away.

00:14:59.000 Now, there are a lot of people on every side who are very upset with President Trump about this.

00:15:03.000 I am not.

00:15:04.000 And the reason I am not is because I think that he is attempting to enforce his ceasefire.

00:15:08.000 End of story.

00:15:08.000 That's what this is.

00:15:09.000 The president is saying, everybody, if it's weapons down, it's weapons down.

00:15:14.000 And in fact, the way that this actually ended up materializing is, according to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's office, the ceasefire was set to begin at 7 a.m.

00:15:23.000 At 3 a.m., Israel carried out a powerful strike in the heart of Tehran, hitting regime targets and eliminating hundreds of Basij members and Iranian security forces.

00:15:30.000 Shortly before the ceasefire took effect, Iran launched a barrage of missiles, one of which tragically claimed the lives of four Israeli civilians in Beersheba.

00:15:37.000 At 7 a.m., the ceasefire officially came into effect.

00:15:40.000 At 7.06 a.m., Iran fired one missile at Israeli territory, and at 10.25 a.m., it launched two more missiles.

00:15:46.000 The missiles were either intercepted or landed in open areas, causing no damage or casualties.

00:15:50.000 In response to these violations, the Israeli Air Force destroyed a radar system near Tehran.

00:15:54.000 Following a phone call between President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu, Israel refrained from launching further strikes.

00:15:59.000 In the conversation, President Trump expressed a deep appreciation for Israel, stating it had achieved all of its war objectives and voiced his confidence in the stability of the ceasefire.

00:16:08.000 Hey, so President Trump was just saying to everybody, guys, stop, stop, like, stop it.

00:16:12.000 Now we're done.

00:16:13.000 Now it's done.

00:16:14.000 Okay, and by the way, I don't think it's bad for Israel, for President Trump to be seen basically yanking Israel's chain there, because what that's saying to Iran is if it were not for President Trump telling the Israelis to stop, then those bombs would still be falling on your head.

00:16:28.000 So you cut that out right now.

00:16:31.000 That is the way I think that President Trump means that to be read.

00:16:34.000 And I think that's the way that it will be read by Iran.

00:16:37.000 In fact, President Trump then came out within a couple of hours and put on Truth Social, Iran will never rebuild their nuclear facilities. 0.80

00:16:45.000 Now, that is despite the fact that Tehran is openly vowing to restore its nuclear facilities.

00:16:51.000 According to Iran's nuclear chief, Mohammed Aslami, quote, the plan is to prevent interruptions in the process of production and services.

00:16:59.000 Iran is assessing its damage to the nuclear industry following Israel's intensive 12-days campaign against it.

00:17:05.000 And he says that arrangements are going to be made for its restoration.

00:17:09.000 Now, again, if President Trump identifies Iran rebuilding its nuclear facilities, he's going to do something.

00:17:14.000 And by the way, Israel will do something.

00:17:16.000 They're not going to sit idly by while Iran rebuilds any sort of nuclear capacity.

00:17:20.000 But here's the bottom line.

00:17:21.000 Once again, President Trump handled this situation better than any president of my lifetime.

00:17:28.000 If you had told me at the beginning of this war that Israel would be able to do what it has done, that America with effectively one B-2 sortie would have been able to cripple Iran's major nuclear facility at Fordo and also finish off Natans and Isfahan, which, by the way, is what I suggested from the beginning of the war. 0.77

00:17:48.000 We were talking about the possibility of America getting in.

00:17:50.000 I kept saying one B-2 flight is basically all that America would be required to do.

00:17:56.000 And that would be it.

00:17:58.000 And then we would get to the end of the war.

00:18:00.000 And that was true because President Trump lives in the world of reality.

00:18:04.000 I can't say it enough.

00:18:04.000 He lives in the world of reality.

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00:20:18.000 President Trump was never, ever going to get us into a nation-building project in Iran.

00:20:23.000 That was never.

00:20:24.000 Have you met President Trump?

00:20:25.000 Have you watched him for the last 10 years?

00:20:26.000 What unbelievable lack of faith it shows in President Trump for people to suggest that Trump, of all people, was going to get us into World War III on a nation-building exercise in the Middle East. 1.00

00:20:35.000 Are you out of your damned mind? 0.98

00:20:36.000 And I think that it's actually worthwhile to replay the footage of the people who said this sort of stuff, because perhaps you should take their opinions with a grain of salt. 1.00

00:20:46.000 Perhaps you should not take them quite so seriously when they claim that they know what the hell they're talking about.

00:20:51.000 If you got this one this wrong, that does raise some questions about just how seriously we ought to take you on matters of the factual.

00:21:00.000 Here is just a small slice of some of the people who claimed that this entire situation, that Israel bombing the Iranian nuclear facilities or American support for that, or America doing a B-2 raid, that that was somehow going to lead to World War III.

00:21:13.000 Just a few of these folks.

00:21:15.000 A war with Iran is a world war. 0.99

00:21:18.000 This is not 2002.

00:21:21.000 Iran is now part of a coalition that includes the biggest economies in the world and the largest militaries in the world.

00:21:28.000 So a war with Iran means a war in effect or, you know, by proxy, but still a war with Russia, China, Turkey, and a lot of the rest of the world.

00:21:38.000 So that's a world war.

00:21:40.000 It's not just as simple as we're going to take out their nuclear facilities.

00:21:43.000 Okay.

00:21:44.000 How are you going to do that?

00:21:45.000 In the next 200 days, the next 200 days are some of the most perilous times for the American Republic in its history.

00:21:52.000 Because if we don't get this sorted, we're going to be drawn in totally into a conflict as a combatant.

00:21:57.000 And if it's not Ukraine, it's Israel or someone else.

00:22:02.000 There's so many.

00:22:03.000 Our foreign policy is so suborned, so much not in America's interest, so much used by the military industrial state or particular lobbies in favor of particular places.

00:22:21.000 We could be yanked into war for absolutely no consequential reasons whatsoever.

00:22:29.000 This war, which we do not need to fight, which is not in our interest, has the potential to be devastating to our country, let alone the region.

00:22:38.000 What is the moral relativism in any of that?

00:22:41.000 Do you think that we are moving toward war with Iran?

00:22:45.000 Yes, I do.

00:22:46.000 And it looks like the chosen destination is indeed Armageddon.

00:22:51.000 There doesn't seem to be any real appreciation for the implications for us and frankly for Europe and the world, as well as the Middle East.

00:23:00.000 Whatever you put the risk at here, which if this thing keeps escalating, the risk of this going to a real ground war, another war in the war on terrorism, let me be very clear when I say this.

00:23:10.000 I don't know that America will survive this.

00:23:12.000 We went into the terror wars in a much stronger place than we're going into this one.

00:23:17.000 And this is a much tougher opponent than Saddam Hussein or Muammadafi. 0.96

00:23:22.000 We didn't go into the terror wars $37 trillion in debt.

00:23:25.000 We didn't go into the terror wars with the cultural and political and racial divides.

00:23:29.000 We have mass protests in the streets right now over Donald Trump trying to enforce his immigration policy.

00:23:35.000 This is going to be, this has the potential to be an utter disaster.

00:23:40.000 America cannot have a war with Iran, by the way.

00:23:45.000 It would lead to a regional war.

00:23:49.000 It would be costly, bloody, threatening.

00:23:53.000 I'm really afraid that my country is going to be further weakened by this.

00:23:57.000 I think we're going to see the end of American empire, obviously.

00:24:00.000 Other nations would like to see that.

00:24:02.000 And this is a perfect way to scuttle the USS America on the shoals of Iran. 0.87

00:24:07.000 These are the people who kept telling you it was going to be World War III.

00:24:09.000 And there are lots of them, lots and lots of people who are telling you it was going to be World War III.

00:24:13.000 Now, I just want you to note the complete and utter disconnect from reality, utter disconnect from reality.

00:24:18.000 Last night, as Iran was firing its obviously pre-coordinated strike on all U-Day airbase, reported by everyone, coordinated.

00:24:28.000 A vanity project in an attempt to prop up the Ayatollahs, Tucker Carlson took to the airwaves to lament the great tragedy that was befalling Qatar.

00:24:39.000 And notice the hand-wringing.

00:24:40.000 Notice the sackcloth and ashes.

00:24:42.000 Notice the hand to the heart here.

00:24:44.000 Notice the deep and abiding pain he feels, apparently, at missiles that didn't hit Qatar.

00:24:50.000 And notice that he did not express any of that same pain I noticed on this broadcast about a jihadi suicide bomber killing 20 Christians at an Orthodox church in Syria the same day, or any of that same sympathy for the victims of October 7th.

00:25:05.000 It's just sort of fascinating.

00:25:06.000 He also, by the way, says that Qatar only put al-Udaid airbase in Qatar out of the goodness of their heart.

00:25:11.000 They're just that nice.

00:25:13.000 They're just that kind.

00:25:14.000 Here is Tucker's response to what was effectively just the final gasp of Iran before the end of the war.

00:25:23.000 It's so distressing.

00:25:24.000 It's so distressing.

00:25:26.000 Who could have seen this coming?

00:25:27.000 I know.

00:25:27.000 Who could have seen it coming?

00:25:30.000 Well, I'll just say, I just want to say it should go without saying, but I mean, I'm praying for the success of whatever America does because I'm praying for America.

00:25:39.000 But I'm concerned.

00:25:41.000 And I hope that people who have audiences will be responsible.

00:25:45.000 And just remember, like, life is short.

00:25:48.000 You're going to have to give an account.

00:25:50.000 Try to be honest.

00:25:51.000 Try to be humane.

00:25:52.000 Try to care about other people.

00:25:54.000 I don't know.

00:25:57.000 People should be honest, you see, and humane and care about other people.

00:26:01.000 Because clearly, that's Tucker Carlson.

00:26:04.000 So honest.

00:26:05.000 So humane. 0.98

00:26:06.000 You know, all leaders kill people. 1.00

00:26:08.000 All leaders kill people. 0.84

00:26:10.000 so honest, so humane, so truthful with his audience.

00:26:15.000 I'm just going to read to you a few of Tucker Carlson's tweets about what he said would happen, not once, but over and over and over again, what he said would happen.

00:26:23.000 Quote, it's worth pointing out a strike on the Iranian nuclear sites will almost certainly result in thousands of American deaths at bases throughout the Middle East and cost the United States tens of billions of dollars.

00:26:34.000 The cost of future acts of terrorism on American soil may be even higher.

00:26:37.000 Those aren't guesses.

00:26:38.000 Those are the Pentagon's own estimates.

00:26:39.000 A bombing campaign against Iran will set off a war and it will be America's war. 0.74

00:26:43.000 Don't let the propagandists lie to you.

00:26:46.000 Tucker Carlson, March 17th, 2025.

00:26:50.000 Or how about this one?

00:26:51.000 Quote, whatever you think of tariffs, it's clear that now is the worst possible time for the United States to participate in a military strike on Iran.

00:26:57.000 We can't afford it.

00:26:58.000 Thousands of Americans would die.

00:27:00.000 We'd lose the war that follows.

00:27:01.000 Nothing would be more destructive to our country.

00:27:03.000 And yet we're closer than ever thanks to unrelenting pressure from neocons, because obviously President Trump is the neocon.

00:27:09.000 He's the one who made the call.

00:27:10.000 This is suicidal.

00:27:12.000 Anyone advocating for conflict with Iran is not an ally of the United States, but an enemy.

00:27:18.000 So anyone advocating for a strike on the Iranian nuclear facilities or for just getting out of the way and letting Israel do it is an enemy of the United States, according to Tucker Carlson.

00:27:26.000 April 7th, 2025.

00:27:30.000 Tucker Carlson, June 5th, 2025.

00:27:33.000 Quote, Mark Levin was at the White House today lobbying for war with Iran.

00:27:36.000 To be clear, Levin has no plans to fight in this or any other war.

00:27:39.000 He's demanding that American troops do it.

00:27:41.000 We need to stop Iran from building nuclear weapons. 0.97

00:27:43.000 He and like-minded IELogs in Washington are now arguing. 0.96

00:27:45.000 They're just weeks away.

00:27:46.000 If this sounds familiar, it's because the same people have been making the same claim since at least the 1990s.

00:27:52.000 It's a lie.

00:27:53.000 In fact, there is zero credible intelligence that suggests Iran is anywhere near building a bomb or has plans to.

00:27:58.000 None.

00:27:59.000 Okay, he said this the same week that the IAEI came out and said that actually they're violating all of their nuclear obligations. 0.93

00:28:04.000 Anyone who claims otherwise is ignorant or dishonest. 0.78

00:28:07.000 I assume he means the president of the United States. 0.95

00:28:09.000 If the U.S. government knew Iran was weeks from possessing a nuclear weapon, we'd be at war already. 0.58

00:28:13.000 Iran knows this, which is why they aren't building one.

00:28:16.000 Iran also knows it's unwise to give up its weapons programs entirely.

00:28:19.000 Well, do they have one or not?

00:28:20.000 Muammar Gaddafi tried that and wound up sodomized with a bayonet.

00:28:23.000 As soon as Gaddafi disarmed, NATO killed him.

00:28:25.000 Iran's leaders saw that happen.

00:28:26.000 They learned the obvious lesson.

00:28:28.000 So first of all, NATO didn't kill him.

00:28:30.000 Members of the Libyan population killed him.

00:28:32.000 I opposed the NATO action against Gaddafi for the record.

00:28:36.000 And so here is where he goes with this.

00:28:39.000 Quote, it goes without saying, there are very few Trump voters who'd support a regime change war in Iran.

00:28:44.000 Donald Trump has argued loudly against reckless lunacy like this.

00:28:47.000 Trump ran for president as a peace candidate.

00:28:49.000 That's what made him different from a conventional Republican.

00:28:51.000 It's why he won.

00:28:52.000 A war with Iran would amount to a profound betrayal of his supporters.

00:28:55.000 It would end his presidency.

00:28:57.000 Okay, Tucker Carlson saying that Donald Trump, if he decided on an airstrike on the Iranian nuclear facilities, that would amount to a profound betrayal of his supporters and would end his presidency.

00:29:07.000 That may explain why so many of Trump's enemies are advocating for it.

00:29:10.000 And then there's the question of the war itself, says Tucker Carlson.

00:29:12.000 Iran may not have nukes, but it has a fearsome arsenal of ballistic missiles, many of which are aimed at U.S. military installations in the Gulf, as well as at our allies and at critical energy infrastructure.

00:29:21.000 The first week of a war with Iran could easily kill thousands of Americans.

00:29:25.000 It could also collapse our economy as surging oil prices trigger unmanageable inflation.

00:29:29.000 Consider the effects of $30 gasoline.

00:29:32.000 Okay, I'm just going to say that today, the average price of gas in the United States is $3.22.

00:29:40.000 It is actually down slightly from where it has been.

00:29:43.000 So has a word of this come true?

00:29:44.000 Even close?

00:29:45.000 No, but don't worry, there's more.

00:29:46.000 The second week of the war could be even worse.

00:29:48.000 Wait, that would have been this week, the second week of the war.

00:29:50.000 Iran isn't Iraq or Libya or even North Korea.

00:29:52.000 While it's often described as a rogue state, Iran has powerful allies.

00:29:56.000 It's now part of a global bloc called BRICS, which represents the majority of the world's landmass population, economy, and military power.

00:30:02.000 Okay, so just to point out, BRICS is an economic alliance.

00:30:06.000 It is not a military alliance.

00:30:08.000 And his idea, apparently, is that Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, among others, would have come to the defense of Iran.

00:30:15.000 This is what he was saying.

00:30:16.000 I pointed it out weeks ago when he said it.

00:30:18.000 Quote, Iran has extensive military ties with Russia.

00:30:20.000 It tells the overwhelming majority of its oil exports to China.

00:30:23.000 Iran isn't alone.

00:30:24.000 An attack on Iran could very easily become a world war.

00:30:27.000 We'd lose.

00:30:29.000 Did you notice all the losing?

00:30:30.000 I didn't either because we didn't.

00:30:32.000 Because we didn't.

00:30:33.000 Because this is not the world of reality.

00:30:34.000 And by the way, it is obviously a rip against the president of the United States who decided that he was not going to follow in the footsteps of this complete and utter tomfoolery.

00:30:46.000 And then he says, the one thing that people like Mark Levin don't want is a peaceful solution to the problem of Iran, despite the obvious benefits to the United States.

00:30:54.000 They denounce anyone who advocates for a deal as a traitor and a bigot.

00:30:57.000 They'll say or do whatever it takes.

00:30:59.000 They have no limits.

00:30:59.000 These are scary people.

00:31:02.000 Okay, that was Tucker Carlson, June 5th.

00:31:04.000 Did any of that remotely come true?

00:31:07.000 Don't worry, there's more.

00:31:08.000 Quote, the real divide isn't between people who support Israel and people who support Iran or the Palestinians.

00:31:13.000 The real divide is between those who casually encourage violence and those who seek to prevent it, between warmongers and peacemakers.

00:31:18.000 Who are the warmongers?

00:31:20.000 They would include anyone who's calling Donald Trump today to demand airstrikes and other direct U.S. military involvement in a war with Iran.

00:31:26.000 So apparently you're a warmonger if you did what President Trump did or if you encouraged him to do the thing that he did.

00:31:32.000 Not full-scale nationbuilding, not full-scale Iraq-style invasion, not any of that.

00:31:38.000 If you told President Trump or if you said that President Trump should do the thing that he did, again, the bravest action I've seen from a president of the United States and the most successful foreign policy move of my lifetime.

00:31:49.000 If you said that, according to Tucker Carlson, you hated the United States, you were actually an enemy of the American people.

00:31:58.000 Now, as I said yesterday on the program, there are reasons you could theoretically steal man for opposing President Trump's strikes.

00:32:06.000 Maybe there are some thorough constitutionalists who just want all American foreign policy action approved by Congress.

00:32:12.000 Sure.

00:32:13.000 Fine.

00:32:14.000 They're wrong on this score in terms of their interpretation of Article II power, but fine.

00:32:19.000 Maybe there are some people who were truly pragmatically worried about a replay of the Iraq war. 0.99

00:32:25.000 I think it's unbelievably dumb.

00:32:26.000 I don't see any indicators that an Iraq war was on the horizon or that President Trump of all humans who campaigned against the Iraq war was going to enter America into one. 0.97

00:32:35.000 But then there's a third group that I mentioned yesterday.

00:32:38.000 People for whom intervention against the Iranian nuclear facilities was itself a supposed betrayal of MAGA.

00:32:44.000 In other words, they would rather Iran have gone nuclear than that America fly a B-2 sortie at exorbitantly low risk to take out Fordo.

00:32:54.000 People who declared that it was a betrayal of MAGA to do this, like Tucker Carlson.

00:33:00.000 Now, all those people seem very surprised by the outcome of the 12-day war.

00:33:04.000 I'm not accusing these people of being in the pay of foreign powers.

00:33:08.000 I think they're promoting ideological poison all on their own. 0.97

00:33:11.000 And whether these folks slather a layer of pseudo-patriotic paint on top of their neo-isolationist, Howard Zinn, blame America trash, that's irrelevant.

00:33:21.000 If the guest list for your program looks like the reading list from the Democratic Socialists of America or National Students for Justice in Palestine, that's because you agree with them. 0.73

00:33:30.000 And everybody should know that you agree with them.

00:33:32.000 Just say it because you do.

00:33:34.000 America is a free country, thank God.

00:33:36.000 Everybody's allowed to say what they want and you're allowed to consume it if you choose.

00:33:39.000 Even RuPaul has an audience.

00:33:41.000 Now, meanwhile, of course, it's not just the Horseshoe Theory Right that was very critical of President Trump.

00:33:44.000 It was, of course, the radical left.

00:33:46.000 Now, a lot of news has been breaking.

00:33:48.000 So we did record part of the show a little bit earlier before all of the breaking news. 0.66

00:33:53.000 The Democrats have decided to full-scale embrace their radical insane people.

00:33:59.000 One of those people is Mahmoud Khalil.

00:34:00.000 You remember Mahmoud Khalil.

00:34:03.000 He was picked up and was prepared for deportation by the Trump administration.

00:34:09.000 He, of course, had a green card, and then he claimed that his support for radical terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, well, he actually had a right to do all of that.

00:34:19.000 Well, Judge ordered that he be released.

00:34:21.000 The first thing that he did, this wonderful addition to American life, he didn't go back to being a productive citizen because he wasn't a productive citizen in the first place.

00:34:28.000 He's not even a citizen.

00:34:29.000 Mahmoud Khalil instead went directly back to Columbia University to protest while wearing a Palestinian flag on the day after the president of the United States authorized the taking out of the Iranian nuclear facilities.

00:34:43.000 And he was celebrated.

00:34:44.000 The left was so excited because that's what they believe America needs more of, people who love terrorists and who support terrorist regimes.

00:34:52.000 Colombia, Colombia, you won't hide.

00:34:57.000 Colombia, Colombia, you can hide. 0.74

00:35:03.000 You're supporting genocide. 0.91

00:35:05.000 You're supporting genocide. 0.71

00:35:07.000 You're supporting...

00:35:08.000 I'm so glad that we released this person back into the public as opposed to deporting him to a country that is more in line with his viewpoints.

00:35:17.000 We definitely need to import more people like Mahmoud Khalil. 0.88

00:35:20.000 Now, we should remember that he's a Syrian-born Palestinian.

00:35:23.000 He came to the country in 2022 as a guest, according to Hussein Abakar Mansour, writing for the Free Press, ostensibly to study at Columbia University.

00:35:30.000 While here, he spent his time organizing campus protests in support of Hamas and Hezbollah, both officially designated by the United States as foreign terrorist organizations.

00:35:39.000 In these riots, buildings were vandalized, windows smashed, classes disrupted, students threatened with physical harm.

00:35:45.000 Of course, had Mahmoud Khalil told the truth about why he was in the United States in the first place when he was applying for a visa, he never would have been let in.

00:35:52.000 The Trump administration decided to revoke his green card.

00:35:56.000 He served as the negotiator for the Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a student organization that cheered for the total eradication of Western civilization. 0.88

00:36:05.000 Now, again, this is the left celebrating people like Mahmoud Khalil.

00:36:12.000 And it is the left that has made room in its coalition for groups like the National Students for Justice in Palestine.

00:36:19.000 They released a statement on the bombing of the Iranian nuclear sites.

00:36:22.000 And here's what the statement says.

00:36:23.000 Quote, we must be clear, nuclear development is neither a crime nor the reason for the U.S.'s war against Iran.

00:36:29.000 The U.S. Empire cannot permit the continued existence of a country that dares to stand against Zionism and imperialism. 0.90

00:36:36.000 And they called for the end of the United States.

00:36:39.000 Quote, for nearly 50 years, the United States and its Zionist vassal state have attempted to dismantle the sovereign state of Iran since the start of the joint U.S.-Zionist genocide in Gaza.

00:36:48.000 Now, again, it's not a genocide in Gaza by any stretch of the imagination.

00:36:51.000 Right now, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is handing out literally tons of food every single day, and Hamas is shooting members of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in order to try and stop them from disintermediating Hamas, which was stealing all the aid.

00:37:05.000 According to the Students for Justice in Palestine, the Zionist entity has taken every opportunity to escalate these attacks on Iran's government, infrastructure, and civilians, most recently slaughtering over 400 Iranians and injuring thousands more in the past week alone.

00:37:16.000 That's the slaughter, not Iran willy-nilly shooting ballistic missiles into populated areas, Israel doing targeted strikes on military facilities.

00:37:29.000 And the Students for Justice in Palestine then suggested that the proper solution would essentially be the destruction of the United States.

00:37:40.000 They said, quote, the domestic repression against immigrant communities and political activity in the U.S. parallels the country's increasingly hostile and erratic global stance.

00:37:47.000 War crimes against Iran and the rapid militarization and expansion of the police state are both expressions of the same condition in empire in crisis.

00:37:55.000 We reaffirm our commitment to the struggle against Zionism and the global struggle against imperialism from Gaza to Tehran.

00:38:02.000 Okay, so why do I bring up National Students for Justice in Palestine?

00:38:05.000 Because the current possible frontrunner in the race for New York City mayor is a person named Zoran Mamdani.

00:38:14.000 Zoran Mamdani was a founder of a local chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine because that's who he is.

00:38:23.000 He co-founded his school's chapter while at college at Bodolem.

00:38:27.000 For years, according to National Review, Mamdani has been a vocal supporter of the boycott divestment and sanctions movement designed to academically and intellectually isolate Israelis and Zionist Jews from Western scientific discourse.

00:38:39.000 In 2017, he recorded a rap song sending his love to the Holy Land Five, those would be the leaders of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, convicted in 2008 of providing material support for terrorism to Hamas.

00:38:53.000 And when October 7th happened, he called for ending the occupation and dismantling apartheid.

00:38:57.000 Nothing about the actual victims of October 7th.

00:38:59.000 This is the Person who, according to the brand new Emerson polling, is the front runner in the ranked choice voting in the New York Democratic primary tracking.

00:39:09.000 Again, according to Emerson, the final Emerson College polling, Hill Survey of New York City Democratic Mayor primary, which happens today, finds former Governor Andrew Cuomo leading with 35% support, followed closely by Zorn Mamdani at 32%.

00:39:24.000 Comptroller Brad Lander, who got himself arrested over immigration to try and grab some headlines, is at 13%.

00:39:30.000 However, when you actually complete the ranked choice voting, and again, the way ranked choice voting works is that you have a list of candidates and you actually list them in order of preference.

00:39:40.000 And if your top candidate is, say, Brad Lander and your second candidate is Zorin Mamdani and Lander gets knocked out in the first round, then your vote now counts for Mamdani.

00:39:49.000 So the ranked choice voting simulation over eight rounds ends with Mamdani at 52% and Cuomo at 48%.

00:39:57.000 Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling, says, quote, over five months, Mamdani's support has surged from 1 to 32% while Cuomo finishes near where he began.

00:40:06.000 In the ranked choice simulation, Mam Dani gauge 18 points compared to Cuomo's 12, putting him ahead in the final round for the first time in an Emerson poll.

00:40:14.000 Voters who have already cast their ballots during New York City's early voting period break for Mam Dani.

00:40:18.000 He currently holds a 10-point lead over Cuomo, 41% to 31%.

00:40:23.000 In contrast, among those who plan to vote on election day or have not yet voted at the time of the survey, Cuomo leads with 36%, followed by Mamdani at 31%.

00:40:32.000 This is how psychotic Democrats have become.

00:40:34.000 This is a Democratic primary, of course.

00:40:36.000 The current mayor, Eric Adams, is not running as a Democrat.

00:40:39.000 He is running as an independent.

00:40:42.000 Zoran Mamdani is as radical as it is possible to be.

00:40:45.000 He's a full-scale communist.

00:40:47.000 I say that advisedly.

00:40:49.000 The word communist has a meaning.

00:40:50.000 This is a man who has taken full-scale nationalization of the groceries positions.

00:40:57.000 And when it comes to the Middle East, again, I say President Trump has made it so the Democrats will now embrace legitimately the worst people on earth. 0.94

00:41:05.000 Zor Mamdani is one of these people, and he has nothing but love for all the enemies of the United States. 0.71

00:41:14.000 So how did he respond to the news that President Trump had struck the Iranian nuclear facilities?

00:41:18.000 Quote, these actions are the results of a political establishment that would rather spend trillions of dollars on weapons than lift millions out of poverty, launch endless wars while silencing calls for peace and fearmonger about outsiders while billionaires hollow out our democracy from within.

00:41:33.000 Andrew Cuomo, by contrast, said, quote, Iran cannot have a nuclear capability.

00:41:36.000 That's number one.

00:41:37.000 It's dangerous, not only for the region, it's dangerous internationally.

00:41:40.000 It's dangerous for the United States.

00:41:44.000 So again, that is a rather large contrast.

00:41:47.000 And Mamdani is the one with the vast bulk of the momentum at this point.

00:41:54.000 So who the hell is Zoran Mamdani?

00:41:57.000 Well, originally, he was a failed rapper.

00:42:00.000 I speak here advisedly since I am, of course, a very successful rapper.

00:42:03.000 But Zoran Mamdani is a failed rapper.

00:42:06.000 He went by Mr. Cardamom when he was cutting his rap.

00:42:09.000 Here is one of his early rap videos.

00:42:11.000 And Democrats in New York believe this person should be mayor, this spoiled brat, beneficiary of America at every possible level, who believes that America is deeply evil, exploitative, and genocidal in its pursuit of foreign policy.

00:42:26.000 This one should become mayor of New York. 0.91

00:42:29.000 This one should become mayor of New York. 0.91

00:42:54.000 Thank you.

00:42:56.000 I mean, so that's not good.

00:42:57.000 He should not be mayor just because he made that video.

00:43:00.000 But that was not his only video.

00:43:02.000 also rapped about, you know, all the crazy things he supports.

00:43:07.000 Outro Music.

00:43:19.000 No ban, no wall.

00:43:20.000 Build it up.

00:43:21.000 We'll make it fall.

00:43:22.000 And there he was expressing his love for the Holy Land Five, who are, of course, terrorist supporters convicted in federal court.

00:43:30.000 Remember, this is the city that experienced 9-11.

00:43:32.000 This is a city where 3,000 Americans were murdered by Islamic terrorists, and now they want to elect to the mayoralty. 0.99

00:43:38.000 Democrats do, apparently, according to the polling data.

00:43:40.000 They would like to elect a person who has sympathy for terrorism, like tremendous sympathy for terrorism.

00:43:46.000 But that's not the only reason that he's not.

00:43:49.000 He also openly says that he is fighting for socialism.

00:43:54.000 Where we have to make it very clear that people cannot eat words.

00:43:59.000 People need to have actual food.

00:44:00.000 People need to have actual houses to live in.

00:44:02.000 People need to have actual schools that they can go to.

00:44:04.000 And I think it's so critical that this journey into understanding the way in which we should relate to power, this journey in understanding that it is socialism that we are fighting for, is a journey that should begin as soon as possible for every single person in this country and in this world.

00:44:18.000 Socialism they're fighting for.

00:44:19.000 It's deep thoughts like you can't eat words.

00:44:21.000 That does lead to nationalization and government control of the means of production and generally the slaughter of millions of people.

00:44:30.000 So probably that person should be mayor.

00:44:32.000 Also, the kind of person who should be mayor is the kind of person who believes that the New York Police Department should be removed from high crime areas, a contention he made just a couple of years ago.

00:44:41.000 If you're having an argument with someone and there's a risk of it escalating, who is better positioned to de-escalate it?

00:44:47.000 Someone who is well-known in the community, or someone who has been trained specifically in de-escalation, or a stranger who has a gun?

00:44:55.000 And we see so many situations where encounters with police, the police arrive, and all of a sudden the tension rises even astronomically.

00:45:04.000 The answer is to try and find a non-carceral solution.

00:45:08.000 Absolutely.

00:45:09.000 Community service, something where they learn from their mistakes, there's a sense of accountability and growth, all these kinds of things, which for many people in this country, especially black people, are not offered the same opportunity.

00:45:22.000 Are you for defunding the police?

00:45:25.000 Are you for a serious reform that people can see on the ground?

00:45:29.000 I am in favor of defunding the police.

00:45:33.000 And they would make this one mayor.

00:45:34.000 He wants to defund the police.

00:45:36.000 Don't worry, it gets worse.

00:45:37.000 Again, unbelievable, except that it's all too believable.

00:45:40.000 The young Democrats, the most rabid Democrats out there, believe that the traditional Democratic Party has not done enough to push the country in a wild leftward direction.

00:45:49.000 They believe that Joe Biden was actually too right-wing, that Kamala Harris was too moderate, that what you need is full-scale transing of the children, full-scale support for terrorist organizations, at least rhetorically, a cutoff to all of America's allies on the foreign policy front, that you need to undercut the police and make it absolutely unlivable to live in America's major cities, that universities should essentially just be breeding grounds for radicalism.

00:46:12.000 Here was Zoran Mamdani, again, your polling frontrunner in the New York City Democratic primary for mayor, defending the Columbia University protesters who were tearing up the campus.

00:46:22.000 I think these students have actually forced many of us to reckon with what's happening there, because for too many Americans, this has been something that is actually getting out of view.

00:46:31.000 An example is that when students renamed the hall in Columbia from Hamilton Hall to Hind Hall, they were honoring a six-year-old Palestinian girl who was killed in her car watching as her parents had been killed by the Israeli military prior.

00:46:45.000 And for so many Americans, that was a name that they hadn't heard until these students made it one.

00:46:50.000 So apparently, according to him, the Columbia University students, as they illegally took over the quad and broke windows and took over libraries and prevented people from actually being able to learn at the campuses, they were doing an amazing job.

00:47:02.000 And by the way, if it were up to him, there wouldn't be any police to respond to calls to stop the criminality anyway.

00:47:08.000 In fact, he believed that the New York City Police Department and the IDF share tactics of oppression.

00:47:16.000 It's also that our city and state governments have partnerships with Israeli municipalities and the state, and that we can hold our governments accountable by really going after those partnerships and really spotlighting them and with the goal of dismantling them.

00:47:37.000 I think that when I think of partnerships, I think of how the NYPD and the IDF have had a relationship for many years, a relationship that has meant tactics of oppression crossing from one country to the other. 0.53

00:47:53.000 I mean, this is the kind of person, again, it beggars the imagination, but it really doesn't.

00:47:58.000 Because, of course, Democrats have elected Mayor Brandon Johnson in Chicago.

00:48:01.000 You have the 9% approval rating, who has decided that police work is actually just too much for him.

00:48:07.000 And so instead, he'll let the city completely fall apart.

00:48:09.000 Democrats elected in Los Angeles, Karen Bass, who's presided over not one massive fire, but two, given the riots that broke into conflagration just a couple of weeks ago. 0.95

00:48:19.000 Democrats continue in major cities around America to at least put their money where their mouth is.

00:48:23.000 And so, you know, I got to hand it to him.

00:48:24.000 At least they're doing the thing.

00:48:26.000 Really, if they want to live by this radical credo, you know, at least they are, at least they're doing it.

00:48:34.000 You know, I have a basic rule, and it's the same as H.L. Menkin's.

00:48:37.000 Democracy is the theory that people get what they deserve, get what they vote for, good and hard.

00:48:41.000 And so if the people of New York want this, you know what?

00:48:44.000 Good.

00:48:44.000 I think they ought to feel it.

00:48:45.000 I'm kind of rooting for Zorin Mamdani, to be honest with you, because if Democrats wish to embrace all of this, well, then let them.

00:48:52.000 And listen, I have a lot of friends who live in New York.

00:48:54.000 I know there are a lot of people who are just trying to earn a living, have a good life in New York.

00:48:58.000 Maybe it's time to leave.

00:49:00.000 When you're surrounded by nuts, maybe it's time to leave.

00:49:03.000 How nuts is Zorin Mamdani?

00:49:04.000 He literally called for city-owned grocery stores because he believes that it's the profit motive that is quote-unquote starving Americans. 0.90

00:49:12.000 It's just psychotic stuff.

00:49:14.000 We will redirect city funds from corporate supermarkets to city-owned grocery stores whose mission is lower prices, not price gouging.

00:49:23.000 These stores will operate without a profit motive or having to pay property taxes or rent and will pass on those savings to you.

00:49:30.000 What in the world?

00:49:31.000 I mean, first of all, is he selling a used car?

00:49:33.000 Pass on those savings to you.

00:49:36.000 The profit motive in American grocery stores is what has created the vast bevy of goods at American grocery stores.

00:49:44.000 Quite famously, when Khrushchev came to the United States in the 1950s and he met with Richard Nixon, who is the vice president of the United States, and he saw the wide bevy and variety of goods that were available for Americans, he was stunned.

00:50:00.000 And that was true for every Soviet who came to the United States. 0.96

00:50:03.000 Cuban emigres who escaped the Cuban oppression under Castro would go to grocery stores and be blown away at the kinds of things that are available.

00:50:12.000 But Zoro Mamdani somehow thinks that that is the bug, not the feature of American public life.

00:50:18.000 He's also the kind of person who yells at Tom Homan over immigration.

00:50:21.000 This is what Democrats want.

00:50:23.000 If this is what Democrats want, they should get it.

00:50:27.000 How many more do you want?

00:50:29.000 How many more do you know?

00:50:31.000 How many more do you know, Tommy?

00:50:34.000 Do you believe in the First Amendment?

00:50:36.000 Do you believe in the First Amendment, Tom Homan? 0.99

00:50:39.000 Just absolute performative trash. 0.99

00:50:41.000 But again, he saves his best performances for when he's called an anti-Semite because, of course, he is. 0.99

00:50:45.000 Here he was just the other day, shedding crocodile tears over being called an anti-Semite after suggesting that the state of Israel should be disestablished as a Jewish state. 0.98

00:50:55.000 I get messages that say the only good Muslim is a dead Muslim. 0.96

00:51:01.000 I get threats on my life, on the people that I love. 0.99

00:51:11.000 And I try not to talk about it.

00:51:14.000 Because the function of racism, as Tony Morrison said, is distraction.

00:51:18.000 My focus has always been on making this a city that's affordable, on making this a city that every New Yorker sees themselves in.

00:51:25.000 And it takes a toll.

00:51:30.000 Because this is a city that every single person deserves to be in.

00:51:33.000 It's a city that we all belong to.

00:51:35.000 And the thing that's made me proudest in this campaign is that the strength of our movement is built on our ability to have built something across Jewish and Muslim workers, across the workers of all faiths, of all backgrounds, in all boroughs.

00:51:52.000 And anti-Semitism is such a real issue in the city.

00:51:57.000 And it has been hard to see it weaponized by candidates who do not seem to have any sincere interest in tackling it, but rather in using it as a pretext to make political points.

00:52:11.000 it's just that if you're worried about anti-Semitism, it's a pretext to make political points, he says.

00:52:15.000 Again, I'm kind of rooting for you guys.

00:52:17.000 New Yorkers, I'm rooting for you.

00:52:18.000 Today, today's your big day.

00:52:19.000 New York Democrats, it's your day to finally go hole hog.

00:52:23.000 I know you tried with Bill de Blasio.

00:52:24.000 I know.

00:52:24.000 And he was so terrible that you had to swing back the other way with Mayor Eric Adams.

00:52:28.000 But this is your moment.

00:52:29.000 This is time for you to seize this city and turn it entirely red.

00:52:34.000 Finally live out your principles.

00:52:35.000 Drive every taxpaying citizen from the city of New York.

00:52:39.000 Completely destroy all of the real estate values in the city.

00:52:43.000 Force gigantic businesses out of your city.

00:52:45.000 See how it goes for you.

00:52:46.000 Turn your city into Detroit.

00:52:48.000 See if we down here in Florida care.

00:52:49.000 I'm spending a lot of money buying up all the luxury real estate because I know that the prices are going to be going up as you guys squeeze everyone with half a brain out of your city.

00:52:58.000 Ron DeSantis, for what it's worth, tweeted something very similar yesterday.

00:53:03.000 Governor DeSantis tweeted out, quote, just when he thought Palm Beach real estate couldn't go any higher.

00:53:07.000 Yep.

00:53:08.000 It can be a lot of businesses relocating to Florida.

00:53:12.000 That is for sure.

00:53:13.000 And again, Mom Dani, Mahmoud Khalil, just indicative of so much that's going on internationally across the left, across Europe.

00:53:23.000 Thousands of Europeans took to the streets to protest in favor of Iran because of course they did.

00:53:28.000 This is what they do.

00:53:29.000 Here is what it looked like outside The Hague, protesting the American strike on the Iranian nuclear facilities.

00:53:34.000 Again, these are people who are protesting, somebody trying to stop them from being killed.

00:53:38.000 President Trump is trying to stop the Iranians who have sleeper cells buried, particularly in Europe, from gaining a nuclear weapon. 0.99

00:53:45.000 And here are the idiot Europeans protesting by the tens of thousands ahead of the NATO summit in the Dutch city in The Hague. 1.00

00:53:53.000 Hey, hey, hey, hey. 1.00

00:54:01.000 There are signs reading, stop the attack on Iran, dismantle Israel.

00:54:05.000 Yes, because Israel is the grave threat to Europe, obviously. 0.98

00:54:09.000 Of course, there are signs reading Donald Trump is a terrorist.

00:54:13.000 Lots of support for the Iranians. 0.99

00:54:15.000 Again, all it takes for the left to just come out and embrace a radical Islamic dictatorship that hangs gay people from cranes. 0.99

00:54:22.000 All it takes for that to happen is for President Trump to bomb it. 0.99

00:54:25.000 That's all that it requires. 0.66

00:54:27.000 It's totally insane.

00:54:29.000 It's totally insane.

00:54:30.000 But you know what?

00:54:32.000 Points for honesty.

00:54:33.000 Points for honesty for this entire crew.

00:54:38.000 And this sort of attitude is quite widespread in Europe, of course.

00:54:43.000 I was in Rome this week meeting with the Pope.

00:54:45.000 There were some fairly major protests in Rome, once again, against Israel, against America.

00:54:51.000 Lots of anti-Semitic graffiti all around the city.

00:54:54.000 Not a giant shock because too many Europeans have decided that civilizational suicide is actually some form of moral good sense.

00:55:04.000 And if New Yorkers decide to do the same thing this week, well, I suppose more power to them, but they're going to learn the hard way that actually the city doesn't operate without the actual productive members of society who you are driving out before you.

00:55:17.000 Already coming up, we're going to jump into that.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - June 24, 2025

PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH: Triumphant Trump ENDS Israel-Iran War!

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