The Ben Shapiro Show - Team Trump Gets Ready To TAKE OVER

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00:00:16.000 So in just a little while, we're going to be joined by the brand new senator from the state of Montana, Tim Sheehy.

00:00:21.000 The privilege of joining him on the campaign trail during the campaign.

00:00:24.000 That dude is amazing.

00:00:25.000 He's just terrific.

00:00:26.000 We're going to have him on in a little while.

00:00:28.000 But let's begin with more winning because let's be real.

00:00:31.000 Again, I am unaccustomed to this level of optimism.

00:00:34.000 It's giving me a bit of indigestion.

00:00:36.000 I got to be honest with you.

00:00:36.000 Maybe it's the lack of sleep.

00:00:37.000 Maybe it's the fact that I could only eat vegan food when I was in Tennessee.

00:00:41.000 But whatever the rationale, maybe Pepto-Bismol fixes the optimism.

00:00:45.000 I don't know what the story is.

00:00:47.000 Bottom line is, I'm a little optimistic because President Trump keeps making good decisions. 0.99

00:00:51.000 It's almost as though all the myths that we were told about how Donald Trump was going to come into office and then immediately staff up complete idiots around himself. 0.99

00:00:58.000 It's almost as though those were untrue. 1.00

00:01:00.000 We're told that by the most intelligent people.

00:01:02.000 After all, Donald Trump had fired people like General James Mattis.

00:01:06.000 After all, Donald Trump had been at odds with so many members of his prior administration.

00:01:10.000 There would be no one left.

00:01:12.000 He would be forced to dip into the bottom of the barrel.

00:01:14.000 And thus far, I see precisely zero evidence that that is indeed the case.

00:01:18.000 The people who are apparently doing the staffing on a wide variety of issues include people like the vice president of the United States, elect J.D. Vance.

00:01:26.000 Don Jr. is on that team.

00:01:28.000 Eric is on that.

00:01:28.000 Eric Trump is on that team.

00:01:30.000 You also have a bunch of Trump world insiders like Susie Wiles, like people like Brian Hook is involved in the foreign policy team.

00:01:37.000 In other words, the people who are going to go into the Trump administration are not going to be jokers.

00:01:41.000 They're going to be very serious people with a very serious portfolio.

00:01:45.000 As mentioned, Donald Trump late yesterday announced that he would be tamping the campaign co-manager Susie Wiles as the White House chief of staff.

00:01:52.000 Susie Wiles is a very serious person.

00:01:53.000 She's well-respected on all sides of the political spectrum inside the Republican Party.

00:01:57.000 Jeb Bush has endorsed.

00:01:58.000 Everyone from Jeb Bush all the way to Donald Trump has endorsed Susie Wiles as Chief of Staff. 0.63

00:02:01.000 She's a very serious politico.

00:02:03.000 She obviously worked not only with Trump, but with Rick Scott down here when he was governor of Florida, with Governor DeSantis.

00:02:08.000 When he was running for governor of Florida, then she went back into the Trump campaign.

00:02:11.000 She is wily, she is savvy, and she is... 0.96

00:02:15.000 Knife sharp.

00:02:16.000 I mean, she is really a solid political fighter. 0.99

00:02:20.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Susie Wiles, who led President Trump's presidential run, will become his White House chief of staff when he retakes the presidency next year, the campaign said on Thursday, making her the first woman to hold that role in American history.

00:02:30.000 Remember that time when he wouldn't surround himself with strong women, according to Mark Cuban?

00:02:34.000 Yeah, I feel like he's, um, I feel like she's a woman.

00:02:37.000 I don't know.

00:02:38.000 Just going to put that out there.

00:02:39.000 Trump said in a statement, Again, she keeps her cars real close to the vest.

00:03:02.000 She's incredibly savvy. 0.92

00:03:04.000 And she is not the type of person who is going to take kindly to people who do not have Team Trump's best interests at heart.

00:03:12.000 So that is an excellent pick by President Trump.

00:03:15.000 Again, she's well-respected on pretty much every side of the Republican political spectrum.

00:03:20.000 Now, the question as to how she negotiates in Congress, that one is still open. 0.97

00:03:24.000 Usually the chief of staff has a lot of congressional negotiations.

00:03:26.000 The good news for her is that while she doesn't have tons of experience at doing that, because, again, she was campaign manager in 2016 and 2020 in part, and she didn't really involve herself in legislative affairs, she will be negotiating with Mike Johnson in the House.

00:03:39.000 In the Senate, the Senate leadership battle is still wide open at this point.

00:03:43.000 There's a lot of speculation about who is going to take over as the Senate majority leader because Mitch McConnell has announced he's going to step down.

00:03:50.000 There's some rumors that Rick Scott, for example, is trying to run for it.

00:03:54.000 Those are more than rumors he does want the Senate majority leadership position.

00:03:56.000 There are some members of the base who are very hot on Rick Scott, so he's a possibility.

00:04:00.000 John Thune is a very solid possibility.

00:04:02.000 Most of the more established members of the U.S. Senate are probably going to back Thune or John Cornyn.

00:04:07.000 Honestly, any of those people will be perfectly capable of negotiating with President Trump, and will do a fine job in that role.

00:04:13.000 Okay, meanwhile, President-elect Trump and his senior advisors are privately assembling shortlists of candidates for top jobs in the incoming administration.

00:04:20.000 Apparently, Trump's transition team, according to the Wall Street Journal, is being led by co-chair Howard Lutnick, who is, of course, involved in the campaign.

00:04:26.000 He's overseeing personnel.

00:04:27.000 He's put together spreadsheets with names for the former president to consider.

00:04:32.000 Among the people who are being considered national security advisor, the names that are coming up are Richard Grinnell, Rick Grinnell.

00:04:38.000 We all know him, obviously.

00:04:39.000 He was Trump's former ambassador to Germany and acting director of national intelligence.

00:04:43.000 Rick would do an amazing job in that role.

00:04:45.000 Other potential candidates include Keith Kellogg, an octogenarian retired three-star army general and former NSA to Vice President Mike Pence, former Defense Department official Elbridge Colby, and Robert O'Brien, who was the last NSA under Donald Trump.

00:04:59.000 Some of the people mentioned for Treasury Secretary include Scott Besant, KeyScore Group founder, as well as billionaire investor John Paulson.

00:05:06.000 Secretary of State, a few of the possibilities mentioned are Senator Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, as well as Senator Marco Rubio of Florida.

00:05:15.000 Both of those would be excellent picks.

00:05:17.000 Other potential candidates include O'Brien, Grinnell, and former senior State Department official Brian Hook, who is largely seen as the person compiling lists on who precisely should go into the foreign policy establishment.

00:05:28.000 We'll get to Brian Hook in just a moment because he's been speaking publicly about what the administration's Iran policy is, and it is already bearing fruit.

00:05:34.000 They haven't even taken office yet, and action is already happening to bring down conflict in the Middle East.

00:05:41.000 As far as Secretary of Defense, some names that have been thrown out.

00:05:43.000 Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

00:05:46.000 Trump did give him a shout-out, as you'll recall, Wednesday morning in his victory speech in Florida.

00:05:50.000 Also, Republican Representative John Ratcliffe, who has served as Trump's DNI, is being put forward as a possible DOD head or CIA head.

00:05:59.000 Mike Waltz, a congressman from Florida.

00:06:02.000 He also is being considered as a possible DOD leader.

00:06:05.000 Homeland Security, we're hearing Chad Wolf, who'd be great.

00:06:08.000 We're hearing Tom Homan, who would be great.

00:06:09.000 The bottom line is all of these names are good.

00:06:12.000 Legitimately, all of these names would be not just acceptable, but excellent.

00:06:16.000 And the markets are picking up on this.

00:06:18.000 Washington is open for business, as Axios puts it.

00:06:21.000 Mark Andreessen, an investor who backed President Trump in this race, he tweeted out this morning that he believes that we are going to be seeing unprecedented economic growth.

00:06:31.000 He He says, quote, America is an economic coiled spring.

00:06:33.000 We should be growing at least 4% annually, ideally 6% to 8%.

00:06:36.000 Growth has been brutally suppressed since before I was born.

00:06:39.000 There is so much to build.

00:06:40.000 The payoff for all Americans will be incredible.

00:06:42.000 That is the mood in the business community.

00:06:44.000 As Axios reports, buckle up, President-elect Trump plans fast action on a business-friendly agenda of tax cuts, deregulation, and expanded energy production, his advisors tell us.

00:06:54.000 By the way, all of this stuff does have a downward effect on inflation, because when you have more productivity, that means more supply, and that then keeps up with demand, and then the prices drop.

00:07:04.000 Deregulation means more investment.

00:07:06.000 It means economic growth.

00:07:07.000 It means more innovation.

00:07:09.000 According to Axios, Trump plans to load his White House and cabinet with business and tech-friendly executives and stretch the powers of the presidency to force quick changes.

00:07:18.000 Behind the scenes, Trump advisors believe they wasted early opportunities to grow the economy in his first term because they didn't know how to staff.

00:07:25.000 See, this is the nice thing.

00:07:26.000 Trump term two, they know exactly who they have to fire.

00:07:29.000 Trump is going to take office with a triumvirate.

00:07:31.000 He'll have the House.

00:07:32.000 He'll have the Senate.

00:07:33.000 He's going to fill his top ranks with actual business leaders.

00:07:38.000 The courts are largely going to support him.

00:07:40.000 The people picking staff include...

00:07:42.000 My goodness.

00:07:46.000 What a team that's going to be.

00:07:47.000 You want to talk about growing the economy?

00:07:48.000 You want to talk about a productivity explosion?

00:07:50.000 You want to talk about people who know how to build businesses and how markets work?

00:07:54.000 You're not going to do better than that group of people.

00:07:57.000 Honestly, they're all great.

00:08:00.000 Meanwhile...

00:08:02.000 The other power players are Howard Lutnick, chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, and Linda McMahon, who headed the Small Business Administration during Trump's first term.

00:08:10.000 You're watching a bunch of CEOs come out, basically celebrating Trump's win.

00:08:16.000 Jeff Bezos congratulated him, obviously.

00:08:20.000 He wasn't the only one.

00:08:22.000 You're starting to see business people get real enthusiastic about what is coming down the pike, and they should be.

00:08:29.000 Meanwhile, some of the supposed regulators, the more extreme regulators, they're going to be gone.

00:08:35.000 So, for example, Gary Gensler, who's been awful.

00:08:38.000 He's the head of the Securities and Exchanges Commission.

00:08:40.000 He's been focused largely on preventing business from making investment.

00:08:46.000 Wall Street executives are happy to see him go.

00:08:47.000 He is going to be tossed out immediately.

00:08:50.000 Some of the possibilities to replace him would be Dan Gallagher, Chief Legal Officer at Robinhood and previous SEC Commissioner.

00:08:58.000 Meanwhile, over at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which is Elizabeth Warren's Orwellian institution to crack down on the markets, Trump is going to install a new leader at the CFPB. One name that has been floated is Todd Zwicky, a law professor at George Mason University.

00:09:17.000 The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, FDIC. The chairman resigned in May.

00:09:23.000 Now, the Trump administration is poised to loosen the reins somewhat at the FDIC to allow banks to actually do their business.

00:09:30.000 And it is going to be a boom time in American life.

00:09:32.000 Everybody who's in business knows it.

00:09:34.000 Meanwhile, Elon Musk is going to go in there and he's going to start cutting.

00:09:38.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, lessons from the Elon Musk School of Management shed light on how the billionaire will go about slashing government spending in a new Trump White House.

00:09:47.000 We know, for example, that when Elon Musk took over X, he fired 80% of the workforce.

00:09:52.000 Increasing efficiency is something that Elon Musk is very much familiar with.

00:09:57.000 Now again, he's not gonna be able to cut trillions of dollars from the budget.

00:10:00.000 But there will be a rare window of opportunity to pursue spending cuts for sure.

00:10:05.000 And Musk is going to go through.

00:10:07.000 And a lot of these government contracts were done on a no-bid basis.

00:10:10.000 You could see him reopen all of that and bring down costs solely on that basis as well.

00:10:14.000 Meanwhile, federal workers are preparing for cuts and they're preparing for the possibility of forced relocation because Donald Trump is talking about taking many of these departments and moving them outside of Washington, D.C., which is great.

00:10:25.000 Gets rid of the entire swamp entirely.

00:10:29.000 So what you would see, presumably, is like the Department of Agriculture would move out.

00:10:33.000 You would see other departments moved out of Washington, D.C. Schedule F would strip job protections from many career federal employees in policy roles.

00:10:43.000 So get ready.

00:10:44.000 Trump's a-coming.

00:10:46.000 And the boom is coming as well.

00:10:48.000 As the Wall Street Journal says, Wall Street has rarely been more excited by an election.

00:10:52.000 U.S. stocks' capitalization rose by $1.62 trillion on Wednesday, their fifth best one-day showing ever following Donald Trump's decisive election victory.

00:11:01.000 Investors are celebrating, said Jack Ablin, the chief investment officer at Crescent Capital in Chicago.

00:11:06.000 The enthusiasm is especially heated in a few areas.

00:11:09.000 Banks and other financial companies climbed.

00:11:11.000 Investors expect regulatory scrutiny will ease.

00:11:14.000 Some also expect more deal-making.

00:11:16.000 All of this is going to change.

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00:13:57.000 Now, when it comes to foreign policy as well, foreign policy is going to be a very different look.

00:14:05.000 Already, Team Trump is announcing a maximum pressure campaign against Iran, which of course is the proper strategy against Iran. 1.00

00:14:12.000 They're going to dramatically increase sanctions on Iran.

00:14:14.000 They're going to throttle its oil sales as part of an aggressive strategy to undercut Tehran's support of violent media proxies and its nuclear program, according to people briefed on President Trump's early plans.

00:14:24.000 When he takes office on January 20th, Trump's approach to Iran is likely to be colored by the knowledge that its agents tried to assassinate him and former top national security aides after they left office.

00:14:33.000 Plus, Iran is believing to be seeking revenge for the 2020 Trump drone strike that killed Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran's covert paramilitary operations.

00:14:41.000 People tend to take that stuff personally, said Mick Mulroy, a top Pentagon official for the Mideast in Trump's first term.

00:14:47.000 If he's going to be hawkish on any particular country designated major adversaries, it is, in fact, Iran.

00:14:52.000 They're going to choke off Iran's oil income.

00:14:54.000 They're going to diplomatically isolate Iran.

00:14:57.000 Brian Hook, who oversaw Iran policy at the State Department in Trump's first term, is now in charge of the Trump transition for the State Department, said Thursday the president-elect had no interest in seeking to overthrow Iran's rulers.

00:15:07.000 But, of course, what he means by that is that the conditions are going to be made ripe for the Iranian people to do what they should do and overthrow Iran's rulers.

00:15:15.000 Here is Brian Hook, again, former top State Department official.

00:15:18.000 He's going to be in charge, apparently, of not just Iran policy, but staffing of the State Department.

00:15:22.000 That place needs to be cleaned out stem to stern. 1.00

00:15:25.000 It is rife with foreign policy dolts. 0.81

00:15:28.000 And Brian Hook needs to go in there with a chainsaw and just start cutting people.

00:15:31.000 Here's Brian Hook explaining about foreign policy.

00:15:36.000 But in my personal experience, I know that when we deter the Iranian regime, you have the countries that you described who are on the front lines of Iranian aggression doing everything they can to be a part of that deterring Iran. 0.79

00:15:52.000 President Trump has no interest in regime change.

00:15:55.000 The future of Iran will be decided by the Iranian people.

00:15:58.000 We've said that repeatedly over four years.

00:16:01.000 But what President Trump did say in Riyadh was that he would isolate Iran diplomatically and weaken them economically so that they can't fund all of the violence that's going with the Houthis in Yemen, Hamas, Hezbollah, PIJ, and these proxies that run around Iraq and Syria today, all of whom destabilize Israel and our Gulf partners.

00:16:25.000 He, of course, is exactly correct about all of that.

00:16:27.000 Now, the anchor over at CNN then asks about, well, how are you going to do the Abraham Accords when the Saudis have said that they want a Palestinian state?

00:16:34.000 And Brian Hook properly says, hey, we provided a peace plan when we were in office.

00:16:38.000 It was the Jared Kushner peace plan.

00:16:39.000 And it provided a Palestinian state possibility after a bunch of conditions.

00:16:43.000 And we were ready to move forward with that.

00:16:45.000 That's the plan we're going to use moving forward here.

00:16:48.000 If you look at the really important work that Jared Kushner did when he was essentially leading so much of the diplomacy in the Middle East, he put forward a political and economic vision for peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians that many Arab governments officially said was a credible, good faith effort, and they called for both sides to come to the table.

00:17:13.000 That plan, which Israel endorsed, Had a path to a two-state solution.

00:17:19.000 This war, the October 7th attack by Hamas, has really not put anybody in much of a mood to be talking about this subject, because obviously Hamas doesn't believe in a two-state solution, nor do they want a ceasefire.

00:17:32.000 And after what Hamas did on October 7th, there are many Israelis right now who are focused on other things, specifically keeping them safe from this kind of evil terrorism that they endured on October 7th.

00:17:46.000 That is a realistic view of the situation.

00:17:48.000 And let us be real about something.

00:17:50.000 The reason that the Saudi foreign minister has been talking about the Palestinian state so much is because Joe Biden has been talking about the Palestinian state so much.

00:17:57.000 It's not possible for the Saudi kingdom to be anti-Palestinian state more than the Americans.

00:18:03.000 Well, the reality is, do you think the Saudis want a Palestinian state that will be sponsored, funded, giant terror apparatus against Saudi?

00:18:10.000 Because Iran would be funding that.

00:18:12.000 That would be an Iranian proxy state.

00:18:14.000 You think Saudi wants that? 0.98

00:18:15.000 You think anyone in the region wants that except for Iran? 0.94

00:18:17.000 The answer, of course, is no.

00:18:19.000 You know how I know that?

00:18:20.000 Because Jordan is 70% Palestinian. 0.94

00:18:21.000 Anytime they want, they could have a Palestinian state by holding an election.

00:18:24.000 You know why they won't?

00:18:25.000 Because the minute they do hold an election, every member of the Hashemite dynasty will be hanging from a crane. 0.99

00:18:29.000 That is the reason.

00:18:31.000 By the way, the Biden administration, on their way out there, doing precisely what you would think, they've set the world on fire.

00:18:37.000 They did, particularly in the Middle East.

00:18:38.000 They set the world on fire.

00:18:40.000 You can tell that the stark difference between the Trump administration 2.0 and the Biden administration, I mean, it is astonishing.

00:18:47.000 It's truly amazing.

00:18:48.000 So Trump wins.

00:18:50.000 Within one day, within one day, Qatar, which is a cutout for the Iranian regime, Qatar sort of plays this weird middle-of-the-road path with regard to Iran, where they share oil fields with Iran, so they're very friendly with Iran, but they then try to present themselves as negotiators with the West, which is why you'll see Qatar Airways that is advertised in Western stadiums and all the rest of this sort of stuff.

00:19:10.000 Well, Qatar, knowing that Trump is coming in...

00:19:12.000 Has apparently, according to Khan News, which is Israeli's public broadcast system, has now notified Hamas officials staying in Qatar.

00:19:18.000 They are no longer welcome and they must immediately make preparations to depart.

00:19:24.000 That's all it took was Donald Trump winning.

00:19:27.000 He didn't have to do anything.

00:19:29.000 And Qatar was like, oh man, he's going to come in. 0.99

00:19:31.000 He's going to punish us for being friendly with Hamas, isn't he? 0.99

00:19:33.000 Probably should kick these people to the curb. 0.99

00:19:36.000 It just shows you what a change the Trump administration is from the Biden administration. 0.97

00:19:41.000 What's the Biden administration doing?

00:19:42.000 Well, meanwhile, according to the Washington Free Beacon, just before Tuesday's presidential election, the Biden-Harris administration quietly waived mandatory terrorism sanctions on the embattled Palestinian government, even as it determined the government's leaders are paying imprisoned terrorists and fomenting violence in breach of American law.

00:19:58.000 The State Department, in a non-public notice to Congress, determined that the Palestinian Authority and Palestine Liberation Organization are not complying with agreements to curb terrorism against Israel and to end their so-called pay-to-slave program, which hands money to imprison terrorists for killing Jews.

00:20:12.000 Those violations should trigger American sanctions, but the Biden-Harris administration used its executive power to waive the sanctions.

00:20:19.000 So they are removing sanctions from the terror-sponsoring Palestine Liberation Organization and Palestinian Authority. 0.97

00:20:27.000 The State Department told Congress, quote, And not coincidentally, it turns out the Biden administration's willingness to humor all of the stupidity and garbage trotted out by Hamas and its media allies has real consequences. 0.98

00:20:52.000 So, last night, there was a pogrom over in Amsterdam. 0.99

00:20:57.000 So while you have complete mentally ill people like Jen Rubin over at the Washington Post declaring that Donald Trump, the most pro-Israel president in American history, who won a giant chunk of Jews in New York, in New Jersey, in Florida, in Pennsylvania, in Michigan, while she declares that he's Hitler, actual little Hitlers are running around in the streets of Amsterdam beating up Jews. 0.87

00:21:21.000 That's exactly what happened last night in Amsterdam. 0.93

00:21:23.000 So what happened is that there was a soccer match Between a soccer team called Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax, which is a national team in Amsterdam, based in Amsterdam.

00:21:36.000 And on the way in, apparently, some of the Israeli fans were shouting rude things about, I guess there was some sort of scrum in which Israelis and Palestinian advocates were shouting at each other, and some Palestinian flags, which had been put out there in order to tick off the Israelis, were torn down.

00:21:52.000 None of that's good.

00:21:53.000 What is an actual pogrom is what happened after the match.

00:21:55.000 So after the match, apparently Israelis and Jews walk out of the match.

00:21:59.000 They're not protected by police outside the stadium.

00:22:02.000 And from what I am told by people who are on the ground, there were bands of young radical Muslims at basically every street corner waiting for people to attack them.

00:22:13.000 And so you end up with film like this in Amsterdam.

00:22:18.000 Hey, what are you doing?

00:22:21.000 They're literally running after people in the streets and attacking them in the streets of Amsterdam.

00:22:28.000 So it went on for like an hour and a half with almost no police response.

00:22:31.000 You can see there a Jewish man presumably being kicked in the street.

00:22:42.000 Where are you going?

00:22:47.000 Sagiv Barzani, according to the Wall Street Journal, a fan who attended the game, said that he and other Israelis fell to the ground as they tried to escape the attackers.

00:22:54.000 A planned demonstration against the Israeli team had been moved away from the stadium.

00:22:57.000 Protesters still tried to go there and then clashed with police.

00:22:59.000 After the game, according to Barzani, his head was stomped on as people chanted, Free Palestine.

00:23:04.000 One fan was being punched in the face, another one being cut in the face with a key.

00:23:08.000 Everyone was running like crazy.

00:23:08.000 I thought I was going to die.

00:23:09.000 People were being thrown into the canals of Amsterdam.

00:23:14.000 People were punching and kicking people, including in Amsterdam's Central Dam Square.

00:23:18.000 One clip filmed from inside a car driving on the sidewalk showed it hitting a pedestrian who rolls over it and onto the ground as a voice is heard saying, drive over him.

00:23:25.000 Another video showed a man trying to offer his money to assailants who screamed, for the children and free Palestine now.

00:23:33.000 So again, just wonderful behavior here by the pro-Khamasniks who have now spread throughout the West. 1.00

00:23:42.000 When you're running around the streets beating up Jews, that's what you call a pogrom.

00:23:45.000 That is legitimately the definition of a pogrom at this point.

00:23:49.000 It was so bad that the king of the Netherlands, Willem Alexander, called up the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog, and apologized.

00:23:58.000 He said, quote, we failed the Jewish community of the Netherlands during World War II, and last night we failed again.

00:24:02.000 Early this morning, Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof updated the president on all actions being taken and added his strong condemnation of the incidents.

00:24:10.000 Meanwhile, Gert Wilders, who of course has been the big winner of the last election in the Netherlands, he said, He also added, That this is the consequence of what happens when you allow unchecked radical Islamic immigration into your country. 0.92

00:24:41.000 He says they governed for 10 years and looked the other way for 10 years.

00:24:44.000 We're not allowed to talk about Islam as a source of anti-Semitism.

00:24:47.000 They did not dare to kick criminals out of the country.

00:24:49.000 And now we have a Jew hunt in Amsterdam. 0.94

00:24:52.000 Well, I mean, those are the wages of propaganda that was winked at and nodded at by the Biden administration, by a West that decided unfettered immigration from areas that hate the West was a genius idea, that softness on terrorism was actually going to be a benefit to the West.

00:25:08.000 That's just some of the wages.

00:25:09.000 All that's about to come to a screeching halt under Trump 2.0, because what the United States does has radical ramifications for the rest of the world.

00:25:19.000 In just a moment, We'll get to the situation over in the Senate.

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00:28:03.000 Alrighty, so, meanwhile, The Senate of the United States, one of the big questions was going to be if the Democrats took over, whether they're going to kill the filibuster.

00:28:12.000 And Mitch McConnell came out yesterday and said, listen, we have a system of laws in this country and customs in this country, and we're not going to kill the filibuster.

00:28:19.000 Remember, these are the people who are supposed to be the threat to the system.

00:28:22.000 We were told democracy is ending, according to the left.

00:28:25.000 Well, it seems like when you're in the majority and then you say you're going to uphold the filibuster, that's a pretty good indicator that perhaps actually democracy is not ending.

00:28:34.000 I think one of the most gratifying results of the Senate becoming Republican, the filibuster will stand.

00:28:44.000 There won't be any new states admitted that give a partisan advantage to the other side.

00:28:51.000 And we'll quit beating up the Supreme Court every time we don't like a decision to make.

00:28:58.000 He is right about that.

00:29:00.000 Again, your institutions of American life are safe.

00:29:03.000 They are safe.

00:29:04.000 This is very good.

00:29:05.000 It means that we are going to have predictable government for the first time in quite a long time.

00:29:10.000 Because I do not think that the Trump administration has any intentions of overrunning their appointed executive authority under the Constitution.

00:29:18.000 Meanwhile, John Thune, who's a real possibility for a Senate majority leader since Mitch McConnell is stepping down.

00:29:23.000 Right now, the sort of inside scuttlebutt suggests that it's between Thune, who would be good.

00:29:28.000 I know there are a lot of people out there who are suggesting that he would be terrible.

00:29:30.000 And by the way, they're kind of using Mitch McConnell as an example of what a bad majority leader looks like.

00:29:34.000 Hate to break it to you, Mitch McConnell is the most effective Senate majority leader in Republican history.

00:29:39.000 You like the Supreme Court the way it is, right?

00:29:41.000 You like what President Trump did during his first term?

00:29:44.000 Almost none of that is possible without Mitch McConnell being an incredibly effective leader.

00:29:48.000 That's not the same thing as necessarily going on TV a lot and being charismatic.

00:29:53.000 You don't have to be Newt Gingrich to be an effective Senate majority leader.

00:29:55.000 You have to wheel, you have to deal, you have to manipulate.

00:29:57.000 I mean, that's what it is.

00:29:58.000 John Thune is a possibility.

00:29:59.000 John Cornyn is a possibility.

00:30:01.000 Rick Scott, as I say, is running for it.

00:30:02.000 Here is John Thune yesterday.

00:30:05.000 I think going into it, if you look at the polls, obviously everybody expected a tight race, but it was a very convincing, resounding win for President Trump and literally up and down the ballot.

00:30:18.000 We outperformed 2020 in 48 states and across all demographic groups and actually did better in 2300 counties around the country.

00:30:31.000 than we did four years ago.

00:30:33.000 So this was, I think, an example that the American people said enough is enough with the Biden-Harris agenda.

00:30:40.000 They're ready for a different direction for the country.

00:30:45.000 He's right, obviously.

00:30:46.000 The scaremongering that is coming from the news industry is truly amazing.

00:30:50.000 So, you have a piece from the Washington Post titled, Trump Win Complicates Biden's Lane Duck Foreign Policy. 0.97

00:30:55.000 Well, I mean, his foreign policy is trash, so I would certainly hope so. 0.92

00:30:58.000 Meanwhile, the Washington Post says, 50 world leaders meet to strategize on how to deal with Trump. 0.98

00:31:03.000 Well, I don't know.

00:31:04.000 Maybe they ought to form their own robust foreign policies, as opposed to just living off American largesse.

00:31:09.000 Maybe they should stop kowtowing.

00:31:11.000 If they don't want to kowtow to the Russians, don't kowtow to the Russians. 0.99

00:31:15.000 If you schmucks had actually done what you were supposed to before the Ukraine war, none of this would have happened. 0.98

00:31:19.000 Instead, Germany decided to power its entire economy on unicorn farts and Russian oil. 0.99

00:31:24.000 That seems to be the predictable response is that Russia feels like it has leverage over Europe.

00:31:31.000 Maybe Donald Trump will force you guys back into the realm of reality.

00:31:35.000 According to the Washington Post, although they'd been preparing for months for a possible Trump comeback, European policymakers were facing the reality the continent is nowhere near Trump-proof, a realization made more stark this week by the collapse of the coalition government in Germany, Europe's largest economy and political heavyweight.

00:31:49.000 While German politics are effectively paralyzed, and while European economies are struggling, policymakers acknowledge there's only so much leaders on the continent can do to deter Trump from launching a trade war, to reduce their dependence on the U.S. security umbrella, or to maintain American backing for Ukraine.

00:32:02.000 So maybe they should do it themselves.

00:32:04.000 I know, what a concept.

00:32:05.000 What a concept.

00:32:06.000 By the way, I know many European leaders, secretly, quietly, a lot of the European leaders, not the big ones who you hear about, you know, not the Emmanuel Macrons, the other European leaders, the ones who actually live under Russian threat, many of them are ecstatic that Trump was elected because they think that Joe Biden is a weakling because he is.

00:32:22.000 Well, joining us on the line is the brand newly elected senator from the state of Montana, replacing the execrable John Tester.

00:32:28.000 Tim Sheehy joins us on the line.

00:32:30.000 Tim, congrats on your big win.

00:32:33.000 Thanks, and thank you for your help up here.

00:32:35.000 You know, for those of you who don't know, Ben came up and did a fantastic event for us in Kalispell in the final weeks of the election, and it was events like that that really helped people crystallize what's at stake, because we had to save this country, and we did, and from coast to coast, all socioeconomic classes, all races, colors, creeds, a mandate was delivered that America wants to put America first again, and that's what we're going to do.

00:32:57.000 So, Tim, obviously, you beat Tester pretty soundly here.

00:33:01.000 You ended up flipping the seat by some 60,000 votes, 50,000, 60,000 votes.

00:33:05.000 In a state like Montana that doesn't have a giant population, that is a solid margin.

00:33:09.000 You beat him 53 to 45, essentially.

00:33:12.000 Those are big numbers.

00:33:13.000 The state of Montana has been a red state.

00:33:15.000 They've been hesitant to kick out John Tester because he's been masquerading for a long time as sort of a populist blue-collar guy.

00:33:21.000 And I think that's one of the stories of this election, is that people who masquerade got tossed out of office.

00:33:27.000 Yeah, the Democrat Party, as I've been saying, the D on the ballot no longer stands for Democrat, it stands for deception.

00:33:32.000 You know, this campaign ran by the Democrats up and down the ticket from Kamala Harris all the way to the bottom were campaigns of deception.

00:33:39.000 I mean, as you will know, at the same time Kamala Harris was running commercials that were pro-Israel and places that would help her and pro-Palestine and pro-Hamas and places that were not.

00:33:48.000 You had Bob Casey and John Tester and Slocken and all these others running campaigns talking about how they were Close to Trump, supported Trump's policies.

00:33:55.000 Meanwhile, their voting record belied that and showed the truth that they have been 100% supporters of the Biden-Harris-Obama regime.

00:34:03.000 So the deception collapsed.

00:34:05.000 People were tired of the mainstream media complex.

00:34:07.000 Another podcaster I love, Sean Ryan, who's a former SEAL like me, and he did a fantastic video in the wake of Joe Rogan's podcast with President Trump.

00:34:16.000 Three-hour marathon where no stone was left unturned.

00:34:19.000 Where he said, what we just saw was the collapse of the credibility of the legacy media complex that has been manufacturing lies and false narratives that have been manipulating the voters of America for 50 years.

00:34:30.000 And like John Thune just said in that audio clip you played, Americans said enough is enough.

00:34:35.000 We're tired of narrative.

00:34:36.000 We're tired of misconstrued facts.

00:34:38.000 The truth is the truth.

00:34:39.000 And mass illegal migration, unchecked inflation, Disastrous foreign policy decisions are bad.

00:34:46.000 They're bad for our businesses.

00:34:47.000 They're bad for our families.

00:34:48.000 They're bad for our communities.

00:34:49.000 And we are going to put our interests first.

00:34:52.000 And as you heard me say at our rally, you know, it's been a key part of my message.

00:34:55.000 It's not too much to expect for the American people to expect from their government that they've elected and that they pay for every day with more and more burdensome taxes.

00:35:04.000 It's not too much for them to expect that that government should do what's best for them first.

00:35:09.000 And that has not been what's happened the last three and a half years, and we're going to fix it.

00:35:14.000 Tim, one of the things that has happened is, as you say, people have not put America first.

00:35:17.000 When America is strong, America ends up first, and the rest of the world benefits from that.

00:35:22.000 That is the message of President Trump's first term.

00:35:24.000 I think that's what you're going to see in his second term as well.

00:35:25.000 The business community is ecstatic.

00:35:27.000 They are over the moon about President Trump being elected.

00:35:30.000 I mean, every business person that I know is just excited.

00:35:32.000 It means that you're going to have a stable, solid ground to work upon.

00:35:36.000 One of the big problems under Biden and under the Democrats is that they can just rip the carpet right out underneath you.

00:35:41.000 Any time you are trying to build a business.

00:35:44.000 I mean, they can just destroy your business willy-nilly.

00:35:46.000 Meanwhile, Trump is talking to deregulation.

00:35:48.000 The Senate is going to be involved, and I assume making the Trump tax cuts permanent, maybe going even further.

00:35:53.000 It's going to be open.

00:35:54.000 America is going to be open for business here.

00:35:56.000 That's exactly right.

00:35:57.000 And the business leaders, a lot of whom have you alluded to, it's kind of like the European leaders.

00:36:02.000 You know, they've been afraid to come out and stick their neck out.

00:36:04.000 Thank God for Elon Musk making an unequivocal endorsement saying, I'm one of the most successful business leaders in America.

00:36:10.000 And I can tell you without hesitation, without question, without qualification, that Donald Trump and the conservative policies he's championing are good for business, they're good for my employees, and we need to put them in the driver's seat.

00:36:21.000 Because what we've seen in the last three and a half years, it really was a more extreme extension of the Obama policies from 08 through 16, which is anti-business, which is more regulation, which is take your fate and instead of owning it yourself, hand it to the government and hope that they do better.

00:36:38.000 Take your financial fate.

00:36:40.000 Take the fate of your business.

00:36:41.000 Take the fate of your family and abdicate it and hand it to government bureaucrats who have no accountability.

00:36:47.000 They have no experience.

00:36:49.000 I mean, look at Lena Kahn, who's our FEC chair, who functionally has zero business experience of any kind. 1.00

00:36:54.000 She's an academic who wrote a bunch of papers, and they've put her on the bridge of the American economy, the most powerful economy in the history of the world, and she's done terrible, terrible things with it.

00:37:04.000 And the number one Most important single axiom of the American economy that frankly is what set America apart since day one.

00:37:12.000 America's magic has never been our government or our military.

00:37:15.000 It's been the fact that we were the first country in history to have been based on the entrepreneurial spirit, the achievements of the individual, and the unleashing of the power of the individual.

00:37:25.000 And that's realized through a free market economy and ultimately through small business.

00:37:31.000 And what we've seen is a war On small business, a war on ingenuity, a war on hard work, and that's going to end.

00:37:37.000 Donald Trump is going to get full support from the Senate.

00:37:40.000 It's very clear that, you know, what the Senate needs to be It's not a rubber stamp for Donald Trump, but an engine for him, an engine to help him get these things done.

00:37:49.000 Instead of just responding to his policy desires, we need to be a partner with his White House and with his appointees to ensure that we aren't just clearing the path for a bunch of executive orders that can get undone by the next president like we've been seeing these last few administrations.

00:38:03.000 We need to pass laws that enshrine these priorities in law that can't simply be undone by the next administration, like securing the Borg.

00:38:10.000 Enough of this executive order to secure the border back and forth.

00:38:13.000 We need to pass a law that will withstand judicial review at every step of the way to ensure that our border is secure so we can protect the lives and livelihoods of our people.

00:38:26.000 Tim Sheehy, one of the things that's amazing about you, you are an energetic dude.

00:38:29.000 I mean, that is a long campaign, and I can sense that you are raring to go.

00:38:31.000 You're going to get in Congress.

00:38:32.000 And as you say, you know, Senate needs to be an engine, needs to be moving fast because, you know, you never know what the next election is going to bring, which means you've got a two-year period to do an enormous amount of things.

00:38:41.000 And I know you're going to be a leader in doing that.

00:38:44.000 Senator-elect Tim Sheehy from Montana, again, congratulations, and we'll see you in D.C. Thanks, man.

00:38:49.000 Let's get it done.

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00:39:41.000 As you can sense, whenever we are optimistic here on the right, the left is very upset.

00:39:45.000 Listen, I understand if you had misconceptions about Donald Trump.

00:39:48.000 If you think that it's just going to be the end of the world, I get you being upset.

00:39:51.000 Seriously, we're making a lot of fun.

00:39:53.000 The people I'm trying to make fun of are not like normal American citizens who may have been misinformed or who may have a different belief system.

00:39:59.000 The people I'm making fun of are the people at the top of the heap.

00:40:03.000 The people I'm making fun of are the people at the top of the economic heap who should know better, who do know better, and who are lying.

00:40:09.000 When they say that this is going to be Hitler, when they say that it's going to be brown shirts, when they say it's the end of America, none of that is true, and they know it's not true.

00:40:15.000 And you can tell they know that it's not true.

00:40:18.000 Those people, I don't even think that it's okay to laugh at them.

00:40:22.000 I think it's a duty to laugh at them.

00:40:24.000 Because if you're a person who's deliberately misinforming the American public, we should laugh at you.

00:40:29.000 And frankly, I think we should encourage you in your downward spiral if that downward spiral means that you lose more.

00:40:35.000 Speaking of people who just keep losing, Joy Reid, who is not a repository of Joy, she is out there blaming Latinos, of course, because Donald Trump won, according to some exit polls, 46% of the entire Latino vote.

00:40:48.000 So that means that Joy Reid, because she's higher on the intersectional hierarchy than Latinos, she gets to say whatever she wants about Latino people now.

00:40:56.000 Also Latino men, who despite the utter disrespect shown by Trump and his promise to deport some of your mixed class, mixed status families, most of them voted in a 55% majority to make the deportations happen.

00:41:12.000 Y'all voted with Stephen Miller and David Duke and against your own sisters who chose Kamala Harris with 60% of their votes.

00:41:20.000 So you own everything that happens to your mixed status families and to your wives, sisters, and abuelas from here on in. 0.97

00:41:31.000 Man, just keep going with this.

00:41:33.000 Seriously, just keep going with this.

00:41:34.000 Really, keep doubling down on this, Joy Reid.

00:41:36.000 I really love it.

00:41:37.000 More identity politics, more blaming Americans.

00:41:39.000 Sunny Hostin joins the crew.

00:41:41.000 She is also blaming Latino men. 0.95

00:41:42.000 Now she says they're sexist. 0.97

00:41:43.000 That's the real problem.

00:41:46.000 Latinos in Texas, a district that's 97% Latino, went 75 percentage points for Donald Trump.

00:41:53.000 Why?

00:41:53.000 Misogyny.

00:41:54.000 No, it's on the border.

00:41:56.000 The border crisis is on their doorstep.

00:41:58.000 And they were begging people to care about it for years.

00:42:00.000 We need to take some lessons.

00:42:02.000 The lessons are not misogyny.

00:42:02.000 That's what that was.

00:42:04.000 Knock, knock. 0.93

00:42:04.000 Who's there? 0.93

00:42:05.000 Oh my gosh, it's whoopee.

00:42:08.000 Oh my goodness, these folks.

00:42:11.000 So, wow.

00:42:12.000 Meanwhile, former vice chair of the DNC, Agrees. 0.87

00:42:16.000 This is Michael Blake saying that Americans are racist.

00:42:18.000 Just keep doing this. 0.88

00:42:19.000 More.

00:42:19.000 Please.

00:42:20.000 Pour it on.

00:42:21.000 Pour it on. 0.95

00:42:21.000 Keep calling Americans racist. 0.95

00:42:22.000 Keep calling Latino men sexist. 0.99

00:42:24.000 Please do it. 0.99

00:42:24.000 Keep just yelling at the American people about how terrible they are for not having elected this absolute nothing burger of a candidate on a terrible agenda that Americans hate. 0.99

00:42:32.000 Please keep telling Americans how they're the worst people ever. 0.52

00:42:34.000 That's a way to victory.

00:42:35.000 Do it.

00:42:36.000 Do it.

00:42:39.000 Democrats, we have to be very clear of calling them on who they is.

00:42:43.000 Donald Trump is a white supremacist who has a Project 2025 agenda that wants to implement that.

00:42:48.000 And anyone who voted for those policies need to be clearly counted on that.

00:42:53.000 When you see what happened on Tuesday, it was...

00:42:57.000 In particular, white men and white women who unfortunately decided to not vote for the vice president, yet they elected black women in the Supreme Court in Michigan, yet we had victories in Ruben Gallego's no win in Arizona, yet we had victories in North Carolina.

00:43:12.000 It was the fear of a black and South Asian woman that we have to speak about. 0.96

00:43:18.000 And if we're not clear about race, gender, and class, we are ignoring the truth of what's happening in the country right now.

00:43:25.000 I mean, can I just point out that white people actually voted for Trump at a lower clip than they voted for him in 2020?

00:43:31.000 That's actually what happened.

00:43:32.000 The only constituency where Trump actually lost ground, he lost one point with white voters in 2024.

00:43:37.000 And then he blew her out.

00:43:39.000 Why?

00:43:40.000 Because a bunch of people who weren't supposed to vote for him voted for him.

00:43:44.000 But please, keep going with this.

00:43:46.000 How about Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez?

00:43:48.000 You know, former bartender.

00:43:51.000 Coyote Ugly over here.

00:43:52.000 Here she is, explaining how it's all misogyny and sexism that is responsible for Kamala Harris' loss. 0.97

00:43:59.000 The fact of the matter is, this race may not have been decided by any one individual factor, but misogyny is very, very real in this country.

00:44:10.000 As another widely known woman of color in office, I knew that Sexism and racism were real, but it was not until I got subjected to a national stage that I actually was shocked at how bad it is.

00:44:32.000 You know, you grow up with it, but there is something about being on the receiving line or just nationally exposed to millions of eyeballs at once That you feel that fire hose and you actually understand how deeply ingrained it is.

00:44:51.000 And it is not partisan.

00:44:53.000 It transcends.

00:45:00.000 More tears.

00:45:01.000 I require more tears.

00:45:01.000 More.

00:45:03.000 More.

00:45:03.000 Okay, so I have some more tears for you.

00:45:05.000 How about professor and New York Times columnist Tressie McMillian-Copham urging Dems to double down on identity politics, like on Comedy Central, because it's been working so well, they need more of it.

00:45:16.000 Please be my guest.

00:45:18.000 Please keep going.

00:45:19.000 Please.

00:45:21.000 As Donald Trump has proven, what he has proven and the way he has won has proven is that every voter has an identity.

00:45:28.000 Every voter has an identity.

00:45:29.000 And he tapped into one of the most powerful of American identities.

00:45:33.000 He tapped into white identity. 0.55

00:45:35.000 Right.

00:45:35.000 And he said, you don't need to be ashamed of this identity.

00:45:38.000 I'm going to give it a name and I'm going to make you feel good about it.

00:45:41.000 And you don't have to sacrifice a thing.

00:45:44.000 Donald Trump played identity politics like a fiddle.

00:45:47.000 So when you say that the Democrats lose because we play identity politics, it simply isn't true.

00:45:53.000 This is about whose identities win when you appeal to them.

00:45:57.000 That means you should double down on the identities of your base.

00:46:03.000 Oh, please keep doing this.

00:46:04.000 By the way, Trump did not run on identity politics.

00:46:06.000 He ran on the reverse.

00:46:07.000 You guys ran on the idea that everybody's a member of a race or a class.

00:46:10.000 Donald Trump ran on the idea that everybody wants American opportunity and you should leave us the hell alone.

00:46:15.000 That's what he ran on.

00:46:16.000 But again, I just, I keep the, you know, keep going down this rabbit hole, please.

00:46:20.000 It'll be great.

00:46:21.000 I think that that'll be excellent.

00:46:23.000 Meanwhile, the actual tears are breaking out.

00:46:26.000 Apparently Harvard professors have been canceling class, which is exciting because probably the kids are learning more not being in class than being in class.

00:46:33.000 According to the Harvard Crimson, students awoke to a somber campus following Donald Trump's re-election to the presidency early Wednesday.

00:46:39.000 My heart dropped a little bit, one student said.

00:46:43.000 Apparently, professors have decided to cancel some classes.

00:46:46.000 They encourage students to process in the aftermath of the election, adjusting course requirements in kind.

00:46:52.000 Courses like Sociology 1156, Statistics for Social Sciences, and Applied Math 22A, Solving and Optimizing, as well as several general education courses, including the Ancient Greek Hero and Popular Culture in Modern China, canceled their classes Wednesday, made attendance optional, or extended assignment deadlines. - or extended assignment deadlines. - Man, you know, one of the more fun experiences of my life actually, I remember the 2004 election.

00:47:15.000 I was at Harvard Law School during the 2004 election.

00:47:17.000 I remember that night, John Kerry, who was from Massachusetts, of course, he had set up his victory party just a few stops away on the line.

00:47:28.000 And I remember everybody was prepping for a Kerry victory, and then, of course, he lost.

00:47:32.000 And the next day was just a joy.

00:47:34.000 It was just wonderful.

00:47:35.000 I was walking around campus, having voted for George W. in 2004, and And everybody was so upset and down.

00:47:41.000 All I thought to myself was, it'll be okay.

00:47:43.000 It'll be okay.

00:47:44.000 And y'all seem real...

00:47:45.000 You know what?

00:47:47.000 I hope that the people at Harvard continue to spiral the toilet because frankly, my alma mater is not in good shape.

00:47:52.000 Anyway, meanwhile, again, it is fun to watch the celebs.

00:47:57.000 The celebs are also freaking out.

00:47:58.000 Over at the New York Times, my goodness.

00:48:00.000 They're going to need some serious opiates over there. 1.00

00:48:05.000 The New York Times had all the members of their editorial page Talk about the worst version of a Trump administration.

00:48:11.000 What a nightmare it would be.

00:48:13.000 They apparently took it from inside some sort of pantry somewhere without any makeup, looking like an outtake from 10 Cloverfield Lane.

00:48:23.000 Here is Ezra Klein and the rest of the photogenic crew at the New York Times explaining how everyone will die and the earth will explode in a ball of fire because Donald Trump is going to win.

00:48:34.000 The worst version of a Donald Trump administration is very, very bad.

00:48:38.000 One that is not only extremist, but also effective in that extremism.

00:48:43.000 Emboldened by a series of Supreme Court rulings, perhaps bolstered by support in both houses of Congress, Trump will fulfill his promise to be a dictator on day one.

00:48:55.000 He sends troops into neighborhoods like my own to try to round up undocumented immigrants.

00:49:04.000 Then he sets up a network of camps.

00:49:07.000 Mass deportations.

00:49:08.000 It would likely plunge the United States into something like a recession.

00:49:12.000 His tariffs, likewise, promise to spike prices for most Americans and cause costs to go up dramatically.

00:49:19.000 That version of Trump could result in abandoning Ukraine to advancing Russian armies.

00:49:25.000 Could result in extraordinarily erratic foreign policy in the Middle East.

00:49:28.000 I mean, Donald Trump often talked about things like bombing Mexico to deal with drug cartels.

00:49:32.000 People stopped him from doing that.

00:49:34.000 But there's not going to be any adults in the room this time.

00:49:37.000 The worst version of a Trump administration that seeks various forms of retribution against Trump's enemies, real and perceived, uses the power given to him to harass and undermine this political opposition.

00:49:53.000 This leads to substantial resistance, mass protest, and also drives his enemies into a cycle of radicalization, intensifying That was Ross Douthat.

00:50:10.000 He's the only one who talks about the left here.

00:50:15.000 or using our existing institutions will reverse the consolidation of power.

00:50:21.000 They are democracy ending if really manifest in the ways that he and other conservatives have discussed them.

00:50:31.000 And I have a great fear that that's exactly what's going to happen over the next four years.

00:50:35.000 Thank you.

00:50:37.000 Wow.

00:50:37.000 Well, your fears, you know, I feast upon them.

00:50:40.000 I feast upon them because the things that you're saying are ridiculous. 1.00

00:50:44.000 Ridiculous. 0.99

00:50:45.000 I mean, some of them I hope happen. 0.97

00:50:47.000 Frankly, I hope that President Trump makes our enemies fearful.

00:50:50.000 I hope that President Trump restores the constitutional order by firing a bunch of people in the executive branch.

00:50:56.000 But most of that stuff is just you guys, you know, getting high off your own farts in the car.

00:51:01.000 So perhaps you ought to take a second look at your life right now.

00:51:04.000 You got everything wrong in this election.

00:51:05.000 Maybe you're getting that wrong, too.

00:51:06.000 It's funny.

00:51:07.000 They make all these mistakes, and then they never actually take in the mistakes that they've made.

00:51:10.000 It's really incredible.

00:51:12.000 Nicole Wallace over on MSNBC, she has announced that she is deleting her Twitter.

00:51:15.000 Well, don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split, you lady. 0.99

00:51:20.000 I have this sort of insatiable interest in every bit of wisdom you can impart, and as a journalist, I hear you about girding ourselves for this moment.

00:51:31.000 As a human, I deleted Twitter today as an act of self-preservation, and because I was no longer able to find the things I was interested in, I'm seeing a lot of things that I'm not.

00:51:43.000 Hmm.

00:51:44.000 Well, a sad story for all of you.

00:51:47.000 Again, as they shed their tears, Donald Trump is moving forward.

00:51:51.000 This is an administration that is going to staff up.

00:51:54.000 From what I see, the staffing decisions look good.

00:51:57.000 It looks like an administration wants to hit the ground running because Trump's done this before.

00:52:02.000 And again, I'm unaccustomed to this sort of optimism.

00:52:05.000 I'm just not used to it, folks.

00:52:06.000 I'm going to have to take the weekend to rest up and recover and then come back with my A-game because frankly, I'm short on sleep, but I'm high on life because it was a good week and hopefully next week will be just as good.

00:52:19.000 In just a moment, we're going to get to the resistance.

00:52:21.000 Yes, Democrats are trying to figure out how they resist.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - November 08, 2024

Team Trump Gets Ready To TAKE OVER

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