The Ben Shapiro Show - The Ongoing INSANITY of The Met Gala

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00:00:36.000 We begin today with the Met Gala.

00:00:38.000 So, I know, you don't think the Met Gala is all that important.

00:00:41.000 I don't either.

00:00:42.000 But it is very important to the cultural glitterati.

00:00:45.000 The people who make culture.

00:00:47.000 So the theme of this year's Met Gala is superfine, tailoring black style.

00:00:51.000 And clearly, when this thing was originally thought about, people thought Kamala Harris was going to be president of the United States. 0.54

00:00:56.000 That is the reason why they did it.

00:00:58.000 This way.

00:00:59.000 Last October is when they announced this.

00:01:01.000 And it was designed as a celebration party for the nation's second black president, Kamala Harris.

00:01:06.000 And then she lost.

00:01:08.000 And so now we are in this weird nether region in which the left continues to whine that Kamala Harris should have won the election, even though she lost pretty clearly and evidently.

00:01:17.000 And the rest of the world wonders why people are dressed up in bizarre outfits paying homage to something or other.

00:01:24.000 According to the New York Times.

00:01:26.000 Last October, when the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute announced its next fashion show superfine, tailoring black style, the political landscape looked very different.

00:01:34.000 Kamala Harris, the first female vice president and first black woman ever to top a major party ticket, was in the final weeks of her campaign before the White House.

00:01:41.000 The show, the culmination of five years of work by Andrew Bolton, the Costume Institute's curator in charge to diversify the department's holdings and shows in the wake of the racial reckoning brought about by George Floyd's murder, seemed long overdue.

00:01:52.000 Yes, there was nothing that was longer overdue than a fashion show about black fashion.

00:01:58.000 Super, super overdue.

00:01:59.000 That is why George Floyd died.

00:02:02.000 It was for the Met Gala to have extraordinarily rich and famous people wear bizarre outfits.

00:02:08.000 Worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

00:02:10.000 Clearly, that is what was necessary.

00:02:12.000 However, according to the New York Times, on Monday, when the Met Gala opens, the starry guest at its signature gala, the splashiest party of the year, it did so in a very different world.

00:02:21.000 One in which the federal government has functionally declared war on diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as programming related to race, especially in cultural institutions.

00:02:30.000 So, a bunch of big names did not show up to the Met Gala who historically had.

00:02:34.000 That includes people like Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos.

00:02:37.000 But the resistance showed up in force.

00:02:40.000 Now, the theme of this year's Met Gala, according to the Metropolitan Museum, was, again, superfine, tailoring black style.

00:02:48.000 And this was based on an exhibit at the Met Museum that, quote, explores the importance of style to the formation of black identities in the Atlantic diaspora, particularly in the United States and Europe.

00:02:57.000 Through a presentation of garments and accessories, paintings, photographs, decorative art, and more, from the 18th century to today, the exhibition interprets the concept of Dandyism as boasts an aesthetic.

00:03:07.000 And a strategy that allowed for new social and political possibilities.

00:03:11.000 So the goal here is to, I suppose, recreate the mood of outfits that were worn by black people in resistance to white supremacy.

00:03:21.000 According to the Met Museum, together, these characteristics demonstrate how one's self-presentation is a mode of distinction and resistance within a society impacted by race, gender, class, and sexuality.

00:03:32.000 So you will notice that this is not sort of...

00:03:36.000 Typical sartorial splendor for black people of the past. 1.00

00:03:41.000 And in fact, if you watch movies and shows that are made about the early 20th century, there was a form of black fashion, and it is actually quite cool.

00:03:49.000 I mean, a lot of the stuff that people were wearing in the early 20th century, pretty neat.

00:03:53.000 However, that is not what this was.

00:03:56.000 Because in order to prop up the sort of intersectional ideology that suggests...

00:04:03.000 That being black is equivalent to being gay, is equivalent to being transgender, is equivalent to being transgressive in virtually all of its forms. 0.73

00:04:10.000 That is how it came out over at the Met Gala.

00:04:12.000 Now, we should always point out that the Met Gala is a bit of Marie Antoinette in the modern American landscape.

00:04:19.000 Every year, a bunch of very rich and very famous people get enormous attention for wearing some of the most bizarre crap imaginable.

00:04:26.000 And then we are told that they are brave and groundbreaking for doing so.

00:04:30.000 Well, the rest of the country tries to, you know, just pay its bills.

00:04:34.000 This year, obviously, it was race-directed. 0.57

00:04:37.000 And this is the backlash that the left is going to have to confront.

00:04:42.000 Because in reality, politically, the American people are tired of DEI.

00:04:45.000 They're tired of it.

00:04:46.000 They don't like it.

00:04:46.000 It was one of the main reasons why Democrats lost in the last election cycle.

00:04:50.000 Americans are extraordinarily tired of thinking tribally along racial lines.

00:04:54.000 And that's manifesting itself in a lot of ways.

00:04:57.000 Mostly positive, a few negative.

00:04:59.000 When it comes to the Met Gala, however, again, you have the world's most rich, most famous people who are focusing in on racial differentiation.

00:05:06.000 It does come with some awkwardness because a bunch of white people went to the Met Gala.

00:05:09.000 And so you do wonder if this runs into charges of cultural appropriation.

00:05:13.000 So many of the DEI traps about race are catch-22s.

00:05:17.000 So on the one hand, for example, there will be a suggestion that if a historically black area has a lot of investment and people drive up the real estate prices, this is gentrification and wrecking the neighborhood.

00:05:27.000 If white people move out of that area, then that is presumably white flight. 0.64

00:05:31.000 And the same thing holds true when it comes to things like fashion.

00:05:34.000 If white people pay tribute to black people through fashion, then that is cultural appropriation.

00:05:39.000 And if they don't, then that is neglecting the impact of black fashion on America and the West and all the rest. 0.94

00:05:45.000 Okay, but let's just put it this way.

00:05:47.000 If the future of the Democratic Party is re-embracing DEI and re-embracing it through a sort of ephete fashionista sensibility, Good luck to the Democrats.

00:05:58.000 This is precisely the kind of crap that most Americans are ready to end.

00:06:02.000 This is not a reversion to normality.

00:06:04.000 It's a reversion to bizarreness.

00:06:06.000 We'll get to more on this in a moment.

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00:08:29.000 So let's go through some of the things that were being warned.

00:08:32.000 At the Met Gala.

00:08:34.000 So we begin with a person named Coleman Domingo.

00:08:37.000 Here he is wearing what appears to be a giant shower curtain topped by the breastplate from Gladiator.

00:08:44.000 And somehow this is super fine black fashion.

00:08:46.000 At least his second outfit.

00:08:47.000 He took that off and then he wore a second outfit that appears to be some sort of tribute to, again, early 20th century black fashion.

00:08:55.000 He's got kind of a checkered coat and baggy pants.

00:09:00.000 That was not...

00:09:01.000 The worst outfit, for sure.

00:09:02.000 Bad Bunny showed up.

00:09:04.000 This is the name that his mother gave him, Bad Bunny.

00:09:06.000 His original name.

00:09:07.000 He came out of his mother and his mother said, I shall call him Bad Bunny.

00:09:09.000 And he showed up wearing a kind of normal, cool suit, but then carrying a luggage bag, which I don't particularly understand.

00:09:19.000 A singer named Doshi showed up as well.

00:09:22.000 I have no idea who this person is.

00:09:24.000 And she showed up wearing what appears to be a romper, like a child's romper from the early...

00:09:30.000 20th century.

00:09:31.000 So that was rather bizarre.

00:09:33.000 Chapel Rhone showed up as well.

00:09:35.000 It was not a particularly good...

00:09:36.000 Does Chapel Rhone have any good looks? 1.00

00:09:38.000 Chapel Rhone is...

00:09:40.000 This is...

00:09:41.000 Wow.

00:09:43.000 What is this supposed to be?

00:09:44.000 It's supposed to be like a riff on James Brown circa 1969.

00:09:48.000 Chapel Rhone.

00:09:50.000 These are the people that you should emulate.

00:09:52.000 These are your cultural guideposts and landmarks.

00:09:56.000 Cardi B was there.

00:09:59.000 Being Cardi B. She apparently just picked up a velvet rug and decided to wear that around. 0.94

00:10:09.000 Again, the disconnect between the celebrity class and the rest of America is nowhere more obvious than when it comes to the Met Gala.

00:10:17.000 And the willingness of the celebrity class, which again, exists in its own class.

00:10:20.000 Cardi B has much more in common with Tom Cruise than she does with a black person working long hours at a factory in Baltimore or something. 1.00

00:10:28.000 The class differentiation at the Met Gala is the thing that sets it apart, and the attempt to cross-cut the class differentiation by reference to race is a giant failure.

00:10:37.000 It's a giant failure.

00:10:38.000 It's why the Democratic Party has failed, because they moved away from their sort of class-conscious soft Marxism, the populism of the Bernie Sanders, and they moved toward a racial Marxism that is incredibly divisive and most people find off-putting and annoying.

00:10:54.000 Again, these outfits are bizarre and ridiculous.

00:10:57.000 Okay, here's Gayle King straight from the moon. 1.00

00:10:58.000 So Gayle King is one of the lady astronauts who's not an astronaut who was put on Blue Origin and then the rocket came back to Earth for better or for worse.

00:11:06.000 And she showed up wearing what appears to be a purple gown merged with a jellyfish in some way.

00:11:16.000 And again, look, I can make fun of the Met Gala all day long because it's ridiculous.

00:11:20.000 I mean, Colin Kaepernick showed up.

00:11:21.000 Colin Kaepernick has not been relevant in American discourse for well over a decade at this point.

00:11:26.000 Colin Kaepernick, who became famous by being a second-rate quarterback who lost his job and then decided that he hated America, is still somehow getting invites to some of the most important cultural events of the season.

00:11:37.000 He showed up wearing a sort of purplish outfit with a cape.

00:11:45.000 Andre 3000.

00:11:47.000 I don't know who that is.

00:11:47.000 I don't know what happened to the first 2,999 Andres.

00:11:51.000 It's like Mickey 17. He showed up wearing a piano on his back, which, I mean, feels a little inconvenient.

00:11:59.000 If you are feeling the solidarity, the racial solidarity here, raise your hand, because I'm just wondering what that is.

00:12:07.000 What is that supposed to be?

00:12:10.000 Doja Cat, who, again, is named after marijuana and a cat.

00:12:14.000 Was there as well?

00:12:16.000 I don't even know what this is.

00:12:18.000 She appears to be wearing no pants, a jacket, and I can't even see her hair properly here.

00:12:25.000 But it's a look.

00:12:25.000 It's a look.

00:12:26.000 And to me more, fresh off her Oscar loss, was there as well.

00:12:30.000 Again, there's a bit of awkwardness to white people attempting to cosplay in black fashion. 0.74

00:12:35.000 What is this, a sort of Cleopatra outfit? 0.51

00:12:39.000 It's all terrible.

00:12:40.000 It's all terrible.

00:12:41.000 And again, shows the wild disconnect between a party that claims to stand for the lower classes and what they actually wish to do in their spare time.

00:12:48.000 And this brings us to an article from The New Yorker.

00:12:51.000 This article from New Yorker magazine is an article about the living rooms of the rich and famous.

00:12:56.000 Quote, This is the effete liberalism that cosplays as radical, but actually is just ridiculous.

00:13:17.000 Going all the way back to this sort of mentality in the 1960s, written about by Tom Wolfe in famous essays like Radical Chic, in which Leonard Bernstein, the conductor for the New York Philharmonic, had the Black Panthers over to his apartment where they talked about killing Whitey and how the Jews were bad, and then he sat there and clapped.

00:13:33.000 This is kind of the New Yorker's mentality.

00:13:37.000 And that happens to be the mentality of the upper echelons of the Democratic Party.

00:13:40.000 So they put out, the New Yorker, these pictures of prominent Democrats in their living rooms.

00:13:45.000 And I have to say, just absolutely absurd.

00:13:49.000 We begin with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who apparently sits on couches and knits. 1.00

00:13:56.000 This is what we are supposed to believe, is that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spends her evenings knitting on her couch in East Elmhurst, flanked by a bulldog.

00:14:06.000 Oh boy.

00:14:08.000 Woman of the people there.

00:14:09.000 AOC.

00:14:11.000 Just...

00:14:12.000 The childless energy in many of these photos is extraordinarily strong.

00:14:16.000 These apartments are immaculate.

00:14:18.000 There are no children anywhere to be seen in any of the photos.

00:14:21.000 There are like a couple of people who had their kids as sort of a prop there.

00:14:25.000 So you have AOC.

00:14:27.000 And then we have, of course, Alex Soros and Huma Abedin.

00:14:30.000 The new power couple.

00:14:31.000 Because Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner didn't happen.

00:14:34.000 Fell apart.

00:14:35.000 And Huma Abedin and Hillary Clinton never publicly happened.

00:14:37.000 Alex Soros, investor.

00:14:39.000 And Huma Abedin.

00:14:40.000 So Alex Soros is George Soros' heir.

00:14:42.000 And it's definitely straight.

00:14:43.000 This is the straightest pose you will ever see with Huma Abedin.

00:14:46.000 They look so happy together in this particular photo.

00:14:50.000 Glaring into the camera.

00:14:52.000 High above the New York City skyline where Alex Soros hosts every Democratic politician.

00:14:56.000 Attempting to garner that blue collar.

00:14:58.000 This is just blue collar appeal.

00:15:01.000 I mean, look at the blue-collar appeal of Huma Abedin trying desperately not to hold the hand of Alex Soros as he crosses his legs in the most masculine fashion possible and glares angrily into the camera.

00:15:15.000 What a charming couple of political influencers in Democrat world.

00:15:19.000 Well, if you don't appreciate that, maybe you will appreciate Ella Emhoff.

00:15:23.000 So Ella Emhoff is the long-forgotten daughter of Doug Emhoff, who is the wonderful, First husband candidate.

00:15:33.000 You'll recall him from such hits as Yes, I May Have Punched My Girlfriend in Public, and also I'm the world's best Jew who doesn't know what Jews do. 1.00

00:15:43.000 Ella Emhoff is his daughter, and apparently in her spare time she stands on Ottomans in very crowded apartment quarters, flanked by stacks of books she undoubtedly has not read.

00:15:56.000 In an outfit that...

00:15:58.000 It's sort of a mix.

00:15:59.000 The bottom half of the outfit is effectively Ella Emhoff wearing what a Wisconsin father would wear before he goes to bed every evening, namely gym shorts and long socks.

00:16:08.000 And she's got the calves, as someone observed online, of a hockey player. 0.99

00:16:11.000 And then a tank top while she holds a dog.

00:16:14.000 And again, looks deeply unhappy.

00:16:16.000 None of the people...

00:16:17.000 You're in your living room.

00:16:18.000 You're supposed to be relaxing.

00:16:18.000 Why do you all look so unhappy?

00:16:20.000 Seriously, like the living room, you're supposed to be having a good time, no?

00:16:22.000 And all these Democrats look so unbelievably grumpy as they sit in their...

00:16:27.000 Decent apartments in New York City being upset about life.

00:16:32.000 And then finally, Al Sharpton.

00:16:34.000 So my favorite game to play when it comes to political celebrities is do they have a picture of them in a picture of them?

00:16:42.000 Anthony Fauci famously had this.

00:16:44.000 During the pandemic, you could tell that he was the villain because the villain has a giant portrait of the villain behind him.

00:16:49.000 Like Biff in Back to the Future 2. So Al Sharpton poses in his apartment in his socks.

00:16:55.000 This is how you know they're casual.

00:16:57.000 A vest and a shirt and a tie and dress pants.

00:17:01.000 And he's hanging around in his socks on the Upper East Side next to what appears to be like a playpen for a child, but there's no child anywhere to be found.

00:17:11.000 So I don't know if Al Sharpton is using the playpen or what.

00:17:13.000 And then behind him, a picture of Al Sharpton.

00:17:16.000 This is your racial fighter, Democrats.

00:17:19.000 This is the person to whom Democratic political candidates have to come to pay obeisance.

00:17:25.000 Really solid stuff here from the Democratic Party.

00:17:28.000 And then they wonder why blue-collar has moved away from them.

00:17:31.000 Why blue-collar workers of every stripe have moved away from the Democratic Party.

00:17:35.000 This would be the reason.

00:17:36.000 Because the actual morality that drives the Democratic Party is this snooty elitism that sneers at people who don't have the same aesthetic tastes that they do.

00:17:45.000 And listen, I don't have the same aesthetic tastes as many Americans.

00:17:48.000 I listen to classical music.

00:17:50.000 I like to dress decently.

00:17:53.000 I wear suits on Saturdays.

00:17:55.000 I'm an Orthodox Jew, right?

00:17:56.000 My aesthetic cultural tastes are not necessarily the same as a blue-collar worker from Wisconsin.

00:18:01.000 But that doesn't mean that they're necessarily better than the blue-collar worker from Wisconsin.

00:18:05.000 But what reeks from all of these pictures is just a disdain for normie Americans.

00:18:11.000 This is why Donald Trump is president.

00:18:13.000 So I pray that Democrats keep on doing this sort of stuff.

00:18:16.000 Met galas and New Yorker spreads all the way up to Wazoo.

00:18:18.000 I hope they just continue this.

00:18:19.000 Forever.

00:18:20.000 And this is one of the reasons why the Trump crusade against our colleges and universities is being well-received by the American public.

00:18:27.000 The reality is that these universities are churning out not elites.

00:18:32.000 Every society has elites.

00:18:33.000 Elite just means people who are good at a particular thing.

00:18:37.000 They're elite athletes.

00:18:38.000 That means that they are very good at being athletes.

00:18:40.000 They're elite artists.

00:18:41.000 That means they're very good at making their art.

00:18:43.000 There's a difference between elites and elitists.

00:18:45.000 Elitists are people who believe they are better than everybody else.

00:18:48.000 Because either they are elite or they think that they are elite.

00:18:51.000 Well, the Democratic Party is replete with this sort of elitism, this idea that their moral standards are better than everybody else's, specifically in rejection to traditionalist religion, for example.

00:19:01.000 And Harvard University churns out these types.

00:19:04.000 So I went to Harvard Law School, and I remember the very first day, orientation at Harvard Law School.

00:19:10.000 I've told this story before.

00:19:12.000 We all crowd, class of about 400, 500 people, we all crowd.

00:19:16.000 Into a room at Harvard University.

00:19:18.000 It's one of these rich, mahogany rooms.

00:19:21.000 Beautiful auditorium.

00:19:23.000 And the dean of the law school, Elena Kagan, who's now in the Supreme Court, walks up.

00:19:27.000 And she explains in the room, to everybody in the room, that these are the elite.

00:19:32.000 These are the people who are going to be making the decisions for the rest of the world.

00:19:36.000 She says, effectively, you are going to rule the world.

00:19:38.000 We have so many, Harvard Law School is the source of this many Supreme Court justices.

00:19:42.000 Harvard Law School is the source of this many CEOs.

00:19:44.000 Harvard Law School is the source of all that is good and positive in the world, and those people are going to rule.

00:19:49.000 So if you're here, the competition is over.

00:19:50.000 This is something she actually said.

00:19:52.000 She's trying to explain that the law school is not a place of sort of dog-eat-dog competition, a la the paper chase back in the 1970s.

00:19:58.000 Instead, it was a place where the elites come to congregate and to mingle and to make the connections that are going to form the future of America.

00:20:06.000 Well, it is precisely this sort of mentality that the Trump administration is saying is inappropriate at these colleges and universities.

00:20:13.000 Now, that in and of itself is not a violation of the law.

00:20:16.000 You want to be elitist at a university?

00:20:17.000 You certainly can do that.

00:20:18.000 However, the elitist morality that is being crammed down propaganda-wise at these universities...

00:20:23.000 And the willingness in the name of elitist intersectionality to overlook the Civil Rights Act, for example, that is punishable by law.

00:20:30.000 And so yesterday, the Trump administration announced they will not be providing Harvard University with any new federal grants.

00:20:36.000 That is what Education Secretary Linda McMahon told the school Monday in the latest escalation of a continuing battle between the government and the country's most prominent university, according to the Wall Street Journal.

00:20:46.000 McMahon took aim at Harvard students, its academic rigor, and its faculty, accusing the university of violating federal law.

00:20:53.000 And losing its privileges to partner with the federal government.

00:20:57.000 McMahon says Harvard has made a mockery of this country's higher education system.

00:21:01.000 Which, of course, is true. 0.88

00:21:03.000 She says the Ivy League University will cease to be a publicly funded institution.

00:21:07.000 McMahon said, hey, you have a $53 billion endowment, so why don't you tap your alumni?

00:21:11.000 Which, of course, is right.

00:21:12.000 There's no reason why federal taxpayer dollars should be subsidizing a university to the tune of billions of dollars in federal funds.

00:21:19.000 McMahon says at best, a university should fulfill the highest ideals of our nation and enlighten the thousands of hopeful students who walk through its magnificent gates.

00:21:27.000 The letter accuses Harvard of violating the Supreme Court ruling in 2023, banning affirmative action, saying it continues to engage in ugly racism in its undergraduate and graduate schools and even within the Harvard Law Review itself.

00:21:40.000 That, of course, is a reference to a study showing that Harvard Law Review was wildly oversampling minority students at the top echelons of the Harvard Law Review.

00:21:50.000 Meanwhile, Alan Garber, who is the president of the university, said the university has appreciated being able to conduct scientific research at the behest of the federal government, but knows the funds have strings attached.

00:22:01.000 Garber said, we think it's an honor to be able to perform work for the federal government addressing national priorities, but he is not going to cave to the administration, and so the battle will continue.

00:22:10.000 The administration is also saying that the 501c3 status for Harvard should be revoked.

00:22:15.000 Now, the question is whether they've actually violated the 501c3.

00:22:18.000 Charitable donation statute.

00:22:20.000 So 501c3 organizations are non-profits.

00:22:22.000 If you give to a 501c3, that is tax deductible.

00:22:25.000 Revoking Harvard University's 501c3 status would mean that if somebody gives a multi-million dollar donation to Harvard University, they do not get a tax write-off in the same way that they would not get a tax write-off if they decided to buy a yacht or something.

00:22:37.000 Well, the 501c3 laws were in fact weaponized by the Obama administration during his term.

00:22:44.000 Lois Lerner at the IRS used 501c3 statutes to crack down on every right of center 501c3.

00:22:52.000 And now President Trump is basically doing that in reverse, except he may have a better legal basis for doing it.

00:22:58.000 Good piece by Iris Stoll over at the Wall Street Journal talking about whether it is legally acceptable to go after the 501c3 status of a place like Harvard University.

00:23:09.000 He says that according to the law, It's been very unclear how to interpret that law.

00:23:34.000 Basically, the idea here is that Harvard University has become a propaganda outlet for particular types of politics.

00:23:41.000 And so the Obama administration, again, tried to apply 501c3 law in this way against any supposedly conservative-oriented group.

00:23:50.000 The Trump administration is saying, if it's good for the goose, it's good for the gander.

00:23:55.000 And it seems to me that if there is to be some sort of bipartisan offer up here, then that should be to rewrite the 501c3 law to become significantly clear about what is prohibited and what is not prohibited, because this law seems to be weaponized.

00:24:08.000 By alternative administrations against whoever is in violation of their sort of political priors.

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00:26:31.000 Meanwhile, the Trump administration is telling universities...

00:26:36.000 That the government will be shutting off federal student loan spigots for specific schools if too many of their former students have lapsed on their payments.

00:26:43.000 This, by the way, is a wonderful policy.

00:26:44.000 This is absolutely, in unsullied fashion, a good policy.

00:26:49.000 The reality is that federal student loans to students that push them into majors that are completely non-compensatory on the other end.

00:26:58.000 You go and you get a degree in queer studies at Harvard University and there's no way you're going to be paying back your student loans. 0.63

00:27:04.000 There's no reason the federal taxpayer should be subsidizing all of that.

00:27:09.000 Monday's warning, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, is a planking a broader strategy to accelerate repayment.

00:27:14.000 Education Secretary Linda McMahon said, as we begin to help defaulted borrowers back into repayment, we must also fix a broken higher education finance system that has put upward pressure on tuition rates without ensuring that colleges and universities are delivering a high-value degree to students.

00:27:27.000 And this, of course, makes perfect sense because the great acceleration Of the number of people going to colleges and universities has not been a boom for the country as a whole.

00:27:39.000 It is based on a fundamental category error.

00:27:42.000 Yes, people who go to college in 1970 are earning more than people who go to high school in 1970.

00:27:46.000 But the solution to that is not everybody goes to college.

00:27:48.000 It should be people who are going to college for a reason should go to college.

00:27:51.000 If you just put upward pressure on the number of people going to college and you say getting a degree in nonsense from your local university is...

00:28:00.000 In and of itself worthwhile, sponsored by the taxpayer, what you will end with is massive student debt, people in hock to these universities for long periods of time, and universities continuing to increase their tuition.

00:28:09.000 So these are all good moves by the Trump administration.

00:28:12.000 And again, the reason why the American people are going to stand behind this stuff is because of the bizarre elitism exhibited by institutions like Harvard University, which again is of a piece.

00:28:22.000 It's the same cultural piece as the Met Gala or the New Yorker.

00:28:24.000 These are all cultural institutions that shape.

00:28:27.000 How people at the quote-unquote top echelons of society think.

00:28:30.000 I know.

00:28:31.000 I went to them.

00:28:32.000 And there's no question that they lead people who go to these places and integrate into these systems to believe that they ought to operate oversized power against the rest of the public.

00:28:43.000 When it comes to federal student loan debt and all the rest, one of the big questions is where is that money going?

00:28:49.000 And what are people majoring in based on the loans that they are taking?

00:28:53.000 So I asked our friends and sponsors at Perplexity that question.

00:28:56.000 What are the college majors of students who receive federal student loan aid by percentage?

00:29:00.000 And unbelievably enough, there is no good federal data on this, which is insane.

00:29:04.000 That's crazy.

00:29:05.000 How is it that there's no good federal data on, you know, what are the majors of the people to whom you're lending money?

00:29:11.000 That would be the number one question in the private loan sphere that you would be asking.

00:29:15.000 If you're a loan officer and someone came in and wanted some sort of loan to go to college, you would ask them right off the bat, what are you majoring in?

00:29:21.000 Because if they're majoring in music, then probably you're going to think more carefully than if they are majoring in, say, pre-law or in psychobiology or something, some sort of field that is likely to lead them to a career that will allow them to pay off the loan.

00:29:34.000 According to Perplexity, there's limited direct data on the precise percentage of students in each college major who receive federal student loan aid.

00:29:42.000 However, available sources provide insight into the distribution of student loan debt by major and general pattern of aid usage across feature of study.

00:29:48.000 So in terms of distribution by major, Apparently, majors such as health professions, business, education, and social sciences tend to have higher numbers of students taking on federal loans, reflecting both enrollment size and also program costs.

00:30:02.000 Well, that's not great.

00:30:03.000 The reality is if you're an education major, what are the chances that as an education major you're going to be paying off that student loan debt in anything like a reasonable amount of time?

00:30:12.000 Or you're a sociology major.

00:30:13.000 How fast are you going to pay off that student loan debt?

00:30:15.000 How is it that the federal government doesn't even know where that money is going?

00:30:21.000 That's totally crazy.

00:30:23.000 Obviously, this is something the Department of Education should immediately investigate.

00:30:26.000 What are the majors of the people receiving federal student loan aid?

00:30:29.000 What do they get for their money?

00:30:31.000 Or more importantly, what do we, the taxpayers, get for our subsidization of those loans?

00:30:35.000 And now again, as I've said before, the Trump administration is doing deeply important work on everything from DEI to going after the colleges and universities.

00:30:42.000 They're doing deep work in the cultural sphere.

00:30:44.000 All of this is laudatory and excellent.

00:30:47.000 All of it goes by the wayside if the economy tanks.

00:30:50.000 So, it is unclear at this point, as we've said, what the result of President Trump's tariff war is going to be.

00:30:56.000 Scott Besson, the Treasury Secretary, is almost single-handedly holding up the stock market at this point.

00:31:01.000 As I said before, President Trump should basically just put tariff and tax policy in the hands of Scott Besson, the Treasury Secretary, and let him talk, and everything will be well.

00:31:09.000 And he should also fire Peter Navarro, who is truly a dodder and a fool when it comes to trade policy.

00:31:15.000 Firing Peter Navarro would shore up the economic health of the country.

00:31:19.000 In extraordinary ways, investors would put their money back in knowing that there was solidity.

00:31:23.000 De-dollarization might itself slow or stop.

00:31:27.000 People are withdrawing money from the American system right now, investors, because they are unsure of what comes next.

00:31:32.000 And they are also afraid that if the economy tanks, you will get a populist left-wing party in power that will then completely destroy the investment environment for everybody who actually wants innovation in the United States.

00:31:43.000 So there has to be a recalibrated policy.

00:31:45.000 Scott Besson has a piece in the Wall Street Journal.

00:31:48.000 Talking about President Trump's three steps to economic growth.

00:31:52.000 And basically he says we need time.

00:31:55.000 So he says that there are essentially three things that need to be pursued.

00:32:00.000 One is renegotiating global trade.

00:32:02.000 He says tariffs are an effective tool for balancing international commerce.

00:32:04.000 They reduce trade barriers in other countries, opening more markets to American producers, while also bringing back thousands of manufacturing jobs.

00:32:11.000 Now, again, notice the language that Besant is using.

00:32:14.000 It's the language that I've been using about tariffs, which is tariffs.

00:32:17.000 Are good if they are used as a tool to get other countries to lower their tariffs.

00:32:20.000 They are not in and of themselves a good.

00:32:22.000 And then he says economic security is national security.

00:32:25.000 We need to shore up our supply chains.

00:32:27.000 That, of course, is true. 0.83

00:32:28.000 So the way Besant is talking about tariffs is a way the markets understand.

00:32:32.000 And then he says we need to pass a reenactment, a renewal of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

00:32:37.000 We have to make it permanent and adopt the president's new tax priorities.

00:32:40.000 That, of course, is absolutely true.

00:32:42.000 And we must deregulate the economy.

00:32:44.000 And all of this is right.

00:32:45.000 And if Besant gets his way, The economy is going to boom.

00:32:48.000 You will get the Trump boom that was promised.

00:32:51.000 However, President Trump still seems to be making the suggestion that patience is the thing that is called for here, and conflict continues to exist in the administration over the proper role of tariffs in all of this.

00:33:04.000 According to Politico, President Trump and his top aides have settled on a decidedly non-Trumpian message for American businesses and consumers panicked by his trade war.

00:33:12.000 Be patient.

00:33:13.000 However, the problem is that There are long-tail effects to policy.

00:33:17.000 If you slap a trade war on everybody and then people stop shipping, it takes months to iron all of that out.

00:33:23.000 The supply line problems that were developed in 2020 thanks to COVID took at least two years to actually iron out on the other end.

00:33:30.000 It is a real problem.

00:33:32.000 While the Treasury Secretary was asked yesterday if China is coming to the table, and he is still not being particularly clear on whether China is coming to the table.

00:33:39.000 China basically wants the United States to come to the table first.

00:33:42.000 They want to humiliate the United States.

00:33:44.000 President Trump doesn't actually want to do that at this point.

00:33:48.000 But, as Besson says, the current tariff rates against China, as currently created, and without any of the preconditional work necessary to actually go after China on trade in that way, they're unsustainable.

00:33:58.000 That's not me saying that.

00:33:59.000 That's President Trump's Treasury Secretary.

00:34:02.000 So they need to make more gestures?

00:34:06.000 What is it that you're looking for, and is that happening?

00:34:08.000 Is there a negotiation about the negotiation?

00:34:11.000 Yeah, we'll see over the coming weeks.

00:34:14.000 And we'll see what President Trump wants to accept.

00:34:17.000 Right.

00:34:17.000 I mean, have they offered anything on the fentanyl, for instance, precursor ingredients?

00:34:22.000 Only what they have said publicly.

00:34:26.000 Okay, so he's basically saying China has not called.

00:34:29.000 So there's no trade deal with China that is in the works.

00:34:31.000 As far as these other trade deals, I mean, okay, fine.

00:34:33.000 So if he cut a trade deal with Namibia, great. 0.67

00:34:35.000 Or Ethiopia, all right. 0.98

00:34:37.000 But the reality is that there are certain key countries that we should be getting to an off-ramp with.

00:34:42.000 Mark Carney, the newly elected Prime Minister of Canada, because President Trump could not stop attacking Canada and helped to sink the candidacy of Pierre Polyev, who actually did win the highest vote percentage in Canada for the Conservative Party since about 2011.

00:34:58.000 The problem is that all the libs came home to Mark Carney after Justin Trudeau resigned and President Trump attacked Canada over and over and over.

00:35:05.000 Mark Carney is showing up at the White House to negotiate tariffs.

00:35:09.000 The United States should not be in a tariff with Canada.

00:35:12.000 President Trump negotiated the USMCA that we were operating on before we decided to randomly tariff Canada.

00:35:18.000 Howard Lutnick, there's sort of an inverse correlation between Howard Lutnick's appearances on TV and stock market success.

00:35:25.000 He's sort of the opposite of Besant.

00:35:26.000 Every time the Secretary of Commerce speaks on TV, the stock market freaks out.

00:35:29.000 Every time Besant talks, the stock market gets better.

00:35:31.000 That is not a coincidence.

00:35:32.000 Here was Howard Lutnik enthusiastically endorsing tariffs.

00:35:37.000 India's at the table really doing extraordinary things that no one else has ever done.

00:35:42.000 Donald Trump will change the way...

00:35:45.000 Trade is done.

00:35:46.000 You know, it used to be two years to do a little deal.

00:35:49.000 Now we're doing gigantic deals in 90 days.

00:35:51.000 So he's going to open these markets in a way the markets have never been opened before.

00:35:55.000 He's going to help America grow in a way that it hasn't grown before.

00:36:01.000 Okay, well, that is all dependent on finding an off-ramp.

00:36:05.000 Ludnick himself says that he feels very good about the tariffs and everything that's going on.

00:36:09.000 I feel really, really good.

00:36:12.000 Remember, he came out, the president came out with tariffs that were pretty high.

00:36:17.000 And then he said, look, I'll drop it down to 10%.

00:36:20.000 Tell me what you're going to do for America.

00:36:23.000 It's not fair.

00:36:24.000 We have $1.2 trillion trade deficit.

00:36:28.000 And what people don't really think about much is if you knock that down 25% and at a $900 billion trade deficit, that's 1% GDP for the United States of America.

00:36:40.000 I mean, in what sense?

00:36:43.000 In what sense?

00:36:45.000 The idea that if you eliminate all trade deficits in the United States, that means endless economic growth is unsupportable by the actual statistical reality.

00:36:52.000 And again, I'm worried about this because I want President Trump's agenda to succeed.

00:36:56.000 President Trump is doing many, many important things all across the globe.

00:37:00.000 Economic downturn, I'm going to keep beating this drum until the policy changes.

00:37:04.000 Already, the policy has changed some.

00:37:06.000 Remember, between Liberation Day and when President Trump decided, That he was going to back off many of the biggest tariffs in his Liberation Day sort of framework.

00:37:15.000 There was a massive stock market drop.

00:37:17.000 And then he tweeted, the stock market recovered some.

00:37:20.000 And so we're down maybe 3%, 4% from where we were in the S&P 500 and in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

00:37:28.000 But that was reliant on people making clear that that policy was not well calibrated.

00:37:34.000 Well, things need to change because otherwise Democrats will have a lot to run on.

00:37:40.000 NBC's Kristen Welker was grilling, Representative Byron Donalds from Florida, about President Trump's language regarding tariffs and the economy.

00:37:46.000 And she said, kids should have fewer dolls is actually a very good argument.

00:37:51.000 I have to get your reaction to the president effectively saying that kids should have two dolls and not 30 dolls.

00:37:59.000 They should have fewer pencils.

00:38:01.000 Do you think that's the right argument for the president to be making about his tariff policy?

00:38:05.000 Look, I think the argument the president is making is that overall, if you look at where we are...

00:38:10.000 But when it comes to goods...

00:38:36.000 Prices are coming down.

00:38:37.000 If people make purchasing decisions on what they're going to do with their own resources, those are their personal choices.

00:38:44.000 Okay, so again, that is him avoiding the actual question, which is, if there's restriction of supply, is that going to affect the American people?

00:38:50.000 And I hope that everything that Donald's is saying comes true.

00:38:53.000 I hope that everything that Ludnick is saying comes true.

00:38:55.000 I hope that we get an economic boom like we've never seen in this country.

00:38:58.000 Good policy is the thing that makes economic booms possible.

00:39:02.000 And there is a reason why just yesterday, Ford dropped its first quarter profit estimate by 64% and suspended its outlook for the rest of the year based on uncertainty.

00:39:11.000 The market's That is what's holding up the economy.

00:39:18.000 If it goes the wrong way, then that all changes.

00:39:21.000 Already, meanwhile, the President Trump trollery train continues and the left does not really know what to do about it.

00:39:27.000 So President Trump is now talking about reopening Alcatraz.

00:39:30.000 Okay, like, it's funny.

00:39:32.000 It's not a thing that's going to happen.

00:39:34.000 I promise you, we're not reopening Alcatraz and then just sending random criminals to Alcatraz.

00:39:39.000 But the left, they're like a cat with a laser pointer.

00:39:42.000 President Trump controls the laser pointer and they just jump around like crazy trying to follow the laser pointer.

00:39:46.000 Or he could just recognize that President Trump says a lot of stuff.

00:39:49.000 He says a lot of bleep, as I've said before. 0.99

00:39:51.000 Here's President Trump on Alcatraz.

00:39:53.000 Nobody's ever escaped from Alcatraz and just represented something strong having to do with law and order.

00:40:00.000 We need law and order in this country.

00:40:02.000 And so we're going to look at it.

00:40:05.000 Some of the people up here are going to be working very hard on that.

00:40:08.000 And we had a little conversation.

00:40:11.000 I think it's going to be very interesting.

00:40:12.000 We'll see if we can bring it back in large form and a lot.

00:40:17.000 But I think it represents something.

00:40:19.000 Right now it's a big hulk that's sitting there rusting and rotting.

00:40:24.000 Very, you look at it, it's sort of, you saw that picture that was put out.

00:40:29.000 It's sort of amazing.

00:40:31.000 But it sort of represents something that's both horrible and beautiful and strong and miserable, weak.

00:40:40.000 It's got a lot of qualities that are interesting.

00:40:46.000 I'm sorry, it's hilarious.

00:40:47.000 There's nothing I can do about the fact that the dude's funny, people.

00:40:50.000 It's not my fault.

00:40:51.000 He's funny.

00:40:51.000 I'm sorry.

00:40:52.000 He just described Alcatraz as horrible, beautiful, strong, miserable, and weak, which is just a grab bag of adjectives.

00:41:00.000 I don't even know what to make of that.

00:41:01.000 Horrible, beautiful, strong and weak.

00:41:04.000 Miserable.

00:41:05.000 And interesting.

00:41:07.000 Okay.

00:41:08.000 Alright.

00:41:08.000 Like, if you guys want to make a big deal over that, I suppose that you can.

00:41:11.000 Then, President Trump was asked about his tweeting out of an AI picture of himself as Pope.

00:41:16.000 And President Trump's like, are you kidding me?

00:41:18.000 Like, am I allowed to make a joke now or not allowed to make a joke?

00:41:20.000 How does this work?

00:41:22.000 Some Catholics were not so happy about the image of you looking like the Pope.

00:41:27.000 Oh, I see.

00:41:28.000 You mean they can't take a joke?

00:41:30.000 You don't mean the Catholics.

00:41:31.000 You mean the fake news media.

00:41:33.000 The Catholics loved it.

00:41:34.000 I had nothing to do with it.

00:41:37.000 Somebody made up a picture of me dressed like the Pope, and they put it out on the Internet.

00:41:41.000 That's not me that did it.

00:41:43.000 I have no idea where it came from.

00:41:44.000 Maybe it was AI, but I know nothing about it.

00:41:48.000 I just saw it last evening.

00:41:51.000 Actually, my wife thought it was cute.

00:41:53.000 She said, isn't that nice?

00:41:55.000 Actually, I would not be able to be married, though.

00:41:59.000 That would be a lot.

00:42:01.000 To the best of my knowledge, popes aren't big on getting married, are they?

00:42:06.000 Not that we know of, no.

00:42:07.000 I think it's the fake news media that, you know, they...

00:42:10.000 They're fakers.

00:42:11.000 The fact that it was put out on the White House account, even though it was AI generated, it was a joke, it was a meme, does it at all diminish the substance of the official White House account to have it go out on that particular show?

00:42:23.000 Give me a break.

00:42:25.000 It was just, somebody did it in fun.

00:42:28.000 It's fine.

00:42:28.000 You have to have a little fun, don't you?

00:42:32.000 Really, really, guys.

00:42:34.000 That is correct.

00:42:35.000 And again, I'm not going to hear about how President Trump's insulting the Catholics from the party of Gretchen Whitmer and bizarre lesbian communion scenes with Doritos and the party of transgendering the children and same-sex marriage.

00:42:47.000 Like, nope, an on-demand abortion. 0.70

00:42:49.000 Nope, nope, you don't get anything to say about this.

00:42:51.000 Meanwhile, in global news.

00:42:53.000 So, as I mentioned on Sunday, I flew out of Israel on a Lufthansa flight.

00:42:57.000 I believe it was the last Lufthansa flight to leave before, just outside the airport, a Houthi missile fell.

00:43:02.000 The Houthis are, of course, a wonderful, generous group of Islamic terrorists backed by the Iranians with this delightful slogan. 1.00

00:43:09.000 Quote, God is the greatest.

00:43:11.000 Death to America, death to Israel. 1.00

00:43:12.000 Curse me upon the Jews. 1.00

00:43:13.000 Victory to Islam. 1.00

00:43:14.000 Which is not particularly catchy and a little bit long for a slogan, hard to chant, but is in fact a pretty solid expression of their motivating ideology.

00:43:22.000 They have pledged they are going to try to continue to bomb Israel's airport so as to stop incoming and outgoing traffic.

00:43:28.000 So this morning...

00:43:30.000 Israel decided that they were not going to be having any of that.

00:43:33.000 And Israeli warplanes then carried out a massive attack on the Sana 'a International Airport and essentially leveled it.

00:43:40.000 They said, okay, you're going to attack the Ben-Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv.

00:43:44.000 Well, then you just won't have an airport anymore.

00:43:46.000 And that came shortly after they had sent another strike to the port in Hodeidah, basically destroying that as well.

00:43:55.000 They destroyed a bunch of infrastructure at the port of Hodeidah, which is sort of an importation point for weaponry.

00:44:00.000 Again, the Houthis are just an Iranian arm. 0.60

00:44:03.000 That's something President Trump himself has said.

00:44:05.000 This is perfectly appropriate.

00:44:06.000 Apparently, the IAF, the Israeli Air Force, coordinated this with the Americans.

00:44:09.000 The Americans did not take part in this particular airstrike.

00:44:12.000 Israel did it themselves. 1.00

00:44:14.000 So that is a perfectly appropriate response to people firing missiles at your airport. 0.98

00:44:18.000 Meanwhile, Israel is now unleashing a strategy in Gaza, which is something they should have done all along. 1.00

00:44:23.000 Israel is saying they are going to retain complete security control of the Gaza Strip, and they are going to stay indefinitely, which, of course, there is no alternative that has been offered that is anything remotely plausible or credible.

00:44:34.000 They are going to continue to ensure that food does not flow into Hamas. 0.53

00:44:38.000 Hamas has been stealing the food in the Gaza Strip for a very long period of time, and Israel is going to take direct control over the handouts of food.

00:44:45.000 Why?

00:44:45.000 Because Israel has AI technologies that allow them to actually determine, based on their information, who is a terrorist and who is not.

00:44:51.000 And if the IADF is actually handing out the food, then it is significantly more likely that food ends up in the hands of civilians, as opposed to Hamas, which just works directly with the UN and all other food agencies that were working in the Gaza Strip.

00:45:03.000 According to the Washington Post, Prime Minister Netanyahu on Monday described intensified operations in Gaza.

00:45:09.000 He said that the population is going to be moved south.

00:45:12.000 So that Israel can actually control the territory. 0.94

00:45:15.000 The northern part of the Gaza Strip was the chief point from which the attacks of October 7th were launched and where most of the rockets were being fired from during the years between 2005 and 2023.

00:45:25.000 The plan will require tens of thousands of reservists to be called up in the coming weeks.

00:45:30.000 And there will be sterile zones secured by elements of the IDF.

00:45:33.000 Meanwhile, Hamas will be fought in these cities.

00:45:36.000 one of the big failures of the IDF plan so far have been these sort of incursions and pullouts and incursions and pullouts in the Gaza Strip with the hope that Hamas would deal with Israel with regard to the hostages.

00:45:47.000 Netanyahu did say that this is basically the last chance for Hamas to give up the hostages, including American Idon Alexander.

00:45:53.000 I know Idon Alexander's parents.

00:45:55.000 I brought them to meet President Trump during the campaign.

00:45:59.000 President Trump was asked to We're going to help the people of Gaza get some food.

00:46:07.000 People are starving and we're going to help them get some food.

00:46:11.000 A lot of people are making it very, very bad.

00:46:14.000 If you look, Hamas is making it impossible because they're taking everything that's brought in.

00:46:19.000 But we're going to help the people of Gaza because they're being treated very badly by Hamas.

00:46:27.000 That is exactly right.

00:46:29.000 And in reality, people who are in a war zone and have been governed by terrorists for 20 years, at their original choice, by the way, and many of whom are deeply sympathetic to the terrorists.

00:46:39.000 There are protests in Gaza sometimes against Hamas.

00:46:42.000 Hamas then shoots those people.

00:46:43.000 There have been zero protests calling for the freeing of the hostages, which is the thing that would actually end the war.

00:46:48.000 If Hamas's leadership went into exile, and if the hostages were free, they would end the war.

00:46:52.000 No one so far as I can tell who has been on the side of the Palestinians in this conflict has actually said that out loud, even though that is clearly the case.

00:47:02.000 So that is the latest on the Middle East.

00:47:04.000 Meanwhile, Democrats continue.

00:47:07.000 To try out Jasmine Crockett as the hot new fresh face of the Democratic Party. 1.00

00:47:10.000 Jasmine Crockett, of course, a congresswoman from Texas.

00:47:14.000 And she has basically decided that speaking in the most colorful tones is going to win her political support.

00:47:19.000 Again, it's not a bad bet.

00:47:20.000 And the fact that Cory Booker's bizarre rantings on the floor of the Senate to no apparent purpose, Mr. Potato Head popping in the angry eyes, just ranting nonsensically and very intensely about President Trump being angry about things.

00:47:34.000 It made him much more prominent.

00:47:35.000 Jasmine Crockett seems to have gotten some momentum for herself doing the same thing. 1.00

00:47:39.000 So she was very upset because President Trump suggested that she has low IQ.

00:47:43.000 And I've got to admit, when I see her activities and when I watch her talk, she does not strike me as a particularly high IQ person.

00:47:51.000 I don't think that she's over in the corner solving Rubik's Cubes and figuring out how quadratic equations apply to physics or anything like that.

00:47:58.000 Here she was saying that actually it's wrong to call her low IQ. 0.85

00:48:03.000 I'm not sure that it's, like, deeply a morally wrong thing to say that a person who appears to be kind of stupid is stupid, especially when that person is advocating for some of the worst policies for the American government possible.

00:48:17.000 So the idea that you are now taking the Constitution and as I said at the DNC putting it through a paper shredder is a problem.

00:48:26.000 And I think that this should not be partisan.

00:48:28.000 This should be right versus wrong.

00:48:30.000 A lot of the things that this administration is doing, they don't have anything to do with partisanship.

00:48:35.000 This is right versus wrong.

00:48:36.000 And right now they are consistently wrong.

00:48:41.000 Okay.

00:48:41.000 All righty.

00:48:42.000 By the way, she then suggested to students that if people are opposing you, you might want to use a chair against them.

00:48:49.000 This apparently is the mark of brilliance inside the Democratic Party.

00:48:52.000 Here she was.

00:48:54.000 There are people that are going to tell you that there is not a table in which there is a seat for you, but I am here to remind you of Montgomery and those folding chairs.

00:49:04.000 Let me tell you that we know how to use a chair, whether we pulling it up or we doing something else with it.

00:49:15.000 Let me be the first one to tell you that I know that y 'all are ready to put your boots on.

00:49:27.000 Yeah, guys, apparently it's evil to say that she's stupid, but it's not evil to tell people that if they oppose them politically, you should pick up a chair and use it.

00:49:34.000 Sounds great.

00:49:35.000 In a moment, the show continues with our discussion of the Georgia Senate race and bad news for Republicans over there.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - May 06, 2025

The Ongoing INSANITY of The Met Gala

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