The Ben Shapiro Show - August 12, 2026


Trump Escaped Turkey in a Catering Truck


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00:00:00.000 So, the White House press pool got hoodwinked by the Secret Service in true Mission Impossible style, and they're pretty mad about it.
00:00:06.000 The weird part is that in the midst of all the outrage, no one is pointing out the obvious. 0.86
00:00:09.000 Iran is trying to kill President Trump. 0.64
00:00:11.000 I know we've been told by all the best people that that's not trying to happen.
00:00:14.000 It's not going to happen.
00:00:15.000 In fact, no one would even try it, but actually, it is a thing that happened in all of our lives. 0.79
00:00:20.000 It's not unusual for the Democrats and the media to gloss over the fact that the Islamic regime, out to get the president of the United States, the terrorist hugging on the left these days is off the charts from Cenk Uyghur to Abdulrahman El Sayed in Michigan. 0.69
00:00:33.000 Reporters are very, very angry because they found out that the administration claims that President Trump departed Turkey on July 8th on the old Air Force One. 0.69
00:00:40.000 You remember this.
00:00:41.000 He was supposed to go on the Qatari Air Force One.
00:00:43.000 And then instead, he went on the old Air Force One. 0.95
00:00:47.000 Well, because there's a pretty live Iranian threat. 1.00
00:00:47.000 Why? 1.00
00:00:51.000 So in Ankara, Trump boarded the old Air Force One jumbo jet in view of television cameras.
00:00:54.000 And then he was actually shuttled to an even smaller plane, an Air Force C 32A, via an airport catering truck, typically used to load meals and other supplies pre flight.
00:01:04.000 So that made that Air Force One a decoy with media and some White House staff aboard.
00:01:10.000 So apparently the reporters are mad.
00:01:12.000 Jake Tapper says the U.S. Secret Service thought the threat against the president was strong enough to surreptitiously remove him from Air Force One and then proceeded to let the plane full of White House staffers and reporters take off and fly back to the U.S.
00:01:22.000 Well, it turns out that that's actually Secret Service's job is to protect the president.
00:01:25.000 That's like their chief job.
00:01:27.000 That is their chief job.
00:01:29.000 So then Jake Tapper replied obviously the life of the president is paramount, and previous White Houses have used deception to protect the president's life.
00:01:35.000 But no officials I've spoken to have ever before heard of using an Air Force One full of White House staff and journalists as a decoy during an imminent threat.
00:01:41.000 Well, again, the focus was not on keeping them there as a decoy.
00:01:46.000 The focus was on moving the president to a safer airplane without, you know, letting the enemy know that.
00:01:53.000 That would be the big thing right there.
00:01:55.000 Manhattan Institute's Jesse Arms on CNN pointing all of this out.
00:02:00.000 Let's not forget that the bad guys are the terrorists trying to kill the president in this equation.
00:02:04.000 Yes, which we would benefit from actually calling that out.
00:02:09.000 Yes, I think that we probably would.
00:02:13.000 And here is some of the tape from July 8th in Ankara.
00:02:16.000 This was the shot that took place last month.
00:02:19.000 Trump boarded the old Air Force One jumbo jet leaving the NATO summit in Turkey.
00:02:23.000 The Washington Post reporting because of an Iranian threat, the president was shuttled away in an airport catering truck.
00:02:30.000 Those are typically used to move meals and other supplies on board pre flight.
00:02:34.000 Fox has not been able to independently confirm that the president was actually on a catering truck.
00:02:39.000 But according to the Post, the president was then taken to a different, smaller plane, an Air Force C 32A.
00:02:49.000 So, again, did the Secret Service do anything?
00:02:51.000 Again, it is their job to keep the president safe.
00:02:53.000 That is their job right there.
00:02:55.000 And all the complaints, yeah, meh, meh.
00:02:58.000 All right.
00:02:59.000 Meanwhile, again, the radical left is so ensconced with anti Americanism at this point, it really is quite astonishing.
00:03:06.000 It turns out that Abdul El Sayed, the Democratic Senate nominee for Michigan, it turns out that he just hates it.
00:03:12.000 Obviously, he hates America, like in every way.
00:03:14.000 He pulled down hundreds of videos, by the way, from YouTube.
00:03:18.000 In one of those videos from July 2024, which is not long ago, he asked his YouTube viewers whether America could please find another way to celebrate the 4th of July.
00:03:26.000 And he said that it was just terrible.
00:03:28.000 He also argued in some of these videos that the southern border was not among Americans' five biggest concerns and floated replacing the Second Amendment with a constitutional right to health care.
00:03:42.000 So, um, Yeah, here he was on the sordid history of manifest destiny and the slave trade and how America is terrible.
00:03:49.000 August 11th.
00:03:51.000 You think about all the wars that we fight abroad, all of the sordid history of oppressing other people in the name of this American idea, right? 0.54
00:04:00.000 Whether it was, quote, manifest destiny and destroying Native Americans, or it was the transatlantic slave trade where, you know, folks who, quote, founded this country on the backs of Native folks that they destroyed, then captured people, enslaved them, and had them work their fields. 0.93
00:04:21.000 Because they thought it was their right, right? 0.56
00:04:23.000 And all of this, like a lot of these narratives, you kind of see echoed in the ethos of football.
00:04:30.000 Oh my God.
00:04:31.000 In the ethos of football, colonialism, imperialism, that's America.
00:04:35.000 And football is bad because of it.
00:04:37.000 The evils of football is one of the videos he deleted.
00:04:41.000 No wonder.
00:04:41.000 This is the person Democrats want to run.
00:04:43.000 This America hating person who should not be here.
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00:05:51.000 Okay, but of course, it's not just Abdul Al Sayyad, it's also Zorhan Mamdani.
00:05:55.000 Zar Mamdani, who was happy to celebrate Pakistan's Independence Day, is a radicalized Muslim country. 0.93
00:06:02.000 He's happy about that. 1.00
00:06:05.000 Senator John Kennedy correctly points out that Zar Mamdani, El Sayed, AOC, that they want to beat up America. 1.00
00:06:11.000 They just don't like America very much. 1.00
00:06:12.000 I mean, yes, this would be the thing. 0.98
00:06:16.000 The people now in charge of the Democratic Party want to beat the crap out of America. 0.97
00:06:24.000 It's that simple. 1.00
00:06:27.000 You know, get rid of all the millionaires. 0.80
00:06:30.000 I don't mean that literally, but tax them into oblivion.
00:06:33.000 Open the borders, open the prisons, defund the police, defund the ICE.
00:06:40.000 And again, he is right about that.
00:06:42.000 This is just a reality.
00:06:43.000 The anti American wing of the Democratic Party is live, but it's not just the anti American wing of the Democratic Party, of course.
00:06:48.000 That horseshoe is live and real.
00:06:51.000 Chank Wegar on the Jerry Springer of online TV, Piers Morgan, every time I say that, he gets very, very upset.
00:06:58.000 Like, truly, truly upset.
00:07:01.000 And here is Cenk Uyghur explaining the truth, which is that he and Hassan Piker and Tucker Carlson are basically all the same at this point.
00:07:10.000 We have Tucker Carlson and we have Hassan Piker.
00:07:13.000 They don't agree on a lot of things.
00:07:14.000 And I don't agree with Tucker Carlson's LGBTQ issues.
00:07:18.000 I don't agree with Hassan on the Mao comments. 0.73
00:07:20.000 But we're in the anti war coalition. 0.74
00:07:22.000 Let's stick together. 0.91
00:07:23.000 Let's get Israel out of our government, defund it, end the wars, get money out of politics. 0.91
00:07:30.000 And then we can go back to these nonsense fights that don't matter. 0.65
00:07:35.000 Again, what he wants actually is the third world in American politics.
00:07:41.000 So, yeah, the anti American wing is very live, it is very real, and it is very, very problematic.
00:07:48.000 This takes us to the latest with regard to the war in Iran.
00:07:48.000 Okay.
00:07:51.000 Again, nobody kind of knows what the hell is happening over there.
00:07:53.000 The president is tweeting all sorts of sort of different ideas. 1.00
00:07:56.000 The president suggests that Iran should pay war damages, which of course is true. 0.99
00:07:59.000 Since they are demanding war damages from us, he's saying, uh, no, the other way around. 0.97
00:08:04.000 He says, it's an interesting idea because now I am likewise demanding compensation from Iran for all of the people they've killed and gravely wounded with their roadside bombs in many conflicts for which they are famous, as led initially by General Soleimani, including the families of those killed on the USS Cole and thousands of others killed in combat.
00:08:20.000 Additionally, compensation should be paid to the families of the hundreds of thousands of innocent protesters Iran has killed over the last 50 years, not to mention the 52,000 that have been killed in the last five months.
00:08:28.000 I've instructed my representatives to put this firmly into any and all future negotiations.
00:08:32.000 Thank you for your attention to this matter.
00:08:35.000 So, one reporter asked the president what exactly are the next steps.
00:08:38.000 The president said, You'll find out.
00:08:39.000 Well, I assume that at some point here we will. 0.92
00:08:42.000 You said this last round of talks was Iran's last chance before decapitation. 0.88
00:08:47.000 So, what now?
00:08:48.000 What comes next?
00:08:49.000 You'll find out.
00:08:50.000 Are you still, our massive escalation is that?
00:08:52.000 Still on the table?
00:08:53.000 Well, we have that certainly, that ability if we want to do that.
00:08:56.000 Yeah, you'll find out.
00:08:59.000 So, you know, we will find out, I would hope.
00:09:01.000 The president says that we are currently in control of the strait, 100%. 0.99
00:09:05.000 Obviously, Iran is still exerting tremendous control over the strait.
00:09:08.000 They're attempting to hit shipping inside the strait of Hormuz, here's the president.
00:09:13.000 The only one that has control of the strait of Hormuz right now is the United States Navy.
00:09:18.000 We have a blockade that's been infallible, it's a steel wall, and we let people in that we want to let in, and those people come in and They've been coming in and they're going out, so it's actually open now. 1.00
00:09:30.000 We do not let them go into Iran. 0.99
00:09:32.000 They're not admitted into the strait to go to Iran. 1.00
00:09:36.000 But it's open for others now.
00:09:39.000 A little bit complex because they will, on occasion, drop a mine and we find the mines.
00:09:45.000 You know, we've mine swept the entire strait, as you probably maybe heard, maybe you didn't hear.
00:09:52.000 But we control the strait 100%.
00:09:59.000 Again, we will find out what comes next, but something should come next year because, you know, tapping them on indefinitely, unless we believe it's going to hurt their economy badly enough for them to crumble, you know, at some point there's going to have to come to some sort of conclusion.
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