The Ben Shapiro Show - TRUMP IS BACK!!!

00:00:00.000 Well, folks, as you can hear, my voice is totally gone.

00:00:02.000 This is the result of the revelry and joy that's been happening in Washington, D.C. over the course of the last 48 hours.

00:00:09.000 Donald J. Trump is president of the United States.

00:00:12.000 Again, he was officially sworn in yesterday.

00:00:15.000 If you watch our live coverage, of course, you know that.

00:00:17.000 But he got to work right away.

00:00:19.000 We're going to go through everything that happened yesterday.

00:00:21.000 And boy, a lot of stuff happened yesterday.

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00:00:34.000 So, yesterday, as I say, lots of revelry.

00:00:37.000 And that meant staying up till all hours of the night.

00:00:41.000 Hanging out with a joyous crew of people from all over the country.

00:00:45.000 Just excited to believe and feel that their country is back again.

00:00:50.000 And that is because Joe Biden is gone.

00:00:52.000 And Donald Trump is the 47th President of the United States.

00:00:56.000 It all kicked off yesterday when President Trump arrived at the White House.

00:00:59.000 And Joe Biden had to welcome him home.

00:01:01.000 It was what that moment looked and sounded like.

00:01:04.000 Welcome home to President Trump as he got out of the beast.

00:01:16.000 We just helped him with Trump too.

00:01:18.000 Secret Service car walking up the steps with Melania to greet Joe and Jill.

00:01:23.000 Jill, who looked as though she was absolutely dyspeptic throughout the entire day.

00:01:28.000 Not a shock.

00:01:29.000 But that must have been a hell of a moment for Joe Biden to have been just the interregnum between two Trump terms and then shifted the ceremony over to the U.S. Capitol building.

00:01:39.000 That is where the inauguration took place.

00:01:41.000 It was originally scheduled to take place outside.

00:01:43.000 It was extraordinarily cold yesterday in Washington, D.C.

00:01:46.000 As President Trump was introduced to the crowd inside the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, USA chants broke out for the then president-elect, now president of the United States.

00:01:57.000 Thank you.

00:02:27.000 is a hell of a moment.

00:02:29.000 And a reminder, as we'll discuss in a moment, that Donald Trump's return to office is not the same as when other presidents get elected.

00:02:37.000 And the reason for that is that his return to office is not just a referendum on Joe Biden.

00:02:43.000 It is a referendum on Donald Trump.

00:02:44.000 I've said for many election cycles, usually an election is a referendum on one candidate or the other candidate.

00:02:52.000 This is maybe the only election of my lifetime where it was a referendum on both.

00:02:55.000 And that is because, of course, Donald Trump, He has been the candidate before, twice.

00:02:59.000 He has won once.

00:03:00.000 And because of that, the American people didn't come up with somebody brand new.

00:03:05.000 The American people were not interested in something brand new.

00:03:08.000 They went back to Trump.

00:03:10.000 Understand that this was a justification of President Trump's first term.

00:03:15.000 It was an understanding by the American people that Donald Trump's policies are the best for the country.

00:03:23.000 I said yesterday on the broadcast.

00:03:25.000 That usually, in American politics, you tend to see something like a Hegelian synthesis.

00:03:30.000 The philosopher George Hegel once suggested, very famously, that in politics, in philosophy, in history, you have very often a thesis, meaning a proposition put forth, and then an antithesis, the opposite.

00:03:45.000 And those two go to war, and what you end up with is a synthesis, sort of a halfway in between.

00:03:50.000 That didn't happen this time.

00:03:52.000 Donald Trump was the thesis.

00:03:53.000 Joe Biden was the anti-Trump.

00:03:56.000 And the American people said, we are going back to the thesis.

00:03:58.000 It is an utter and complete repudiation of everything Joe Biden.

00:04:02.000 And it is, in fact, a justification of President Trump's policies.

00:04:07.000 It is an absolute endorsement of President Trump's policies by the American people.

00:04:15.000 And that's going to make a huge difference, as you can see, because Trump is acting with alacrity.

00:04:18.000 So, yesterday, J.D. Vance, the now Vice President of the United States, was sworn in.

00:04:23.000 And I have to say, it was such a sweet scene.

00:04:24.000 Really, really sweet.

00:04:26.000 So J.D. has a beautiful family.

00:04:28.000 His wife Usha, she was holding one of his kids.

00:04:31.000 His kid had like three Band-Aids on her, which if you have a toddler, understand is kind of the norm. 0.96

00:04:37.000 Having a young family be sworn in this way with actual children.

00:04:41.000 This is like a restoration of norms election, believe it or not.

00:04:44.000 Joe Biden was abnormal.

00:04:47.000 This is the revenge of the normies.

00:04:48.000 I said this the entire election cycle.

00:04:49.000 And the revenge of the normies took place.

00:04:51.000 J.D. Vance is a normie.

00:04:52.000 Here was J.D. Vance, your Vice President of the United States being sworn in yesterday by John Roberts.

00:04:58.000 Please raise your right hand and repeat after me.

00:05:03.000 I, James David Vance, do solemnly swear.

00:05:07.000 I, James David Vance, do solemnly swear.

00:05:10.000 That I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

00:05:25.000 That I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same.

00:05:32.000 That I take this obligation freely.

00:05:36.000 Without any mental reservation.

00:05:41.000 Or purpose of evasion.

00:05:44.000 And that I will well and faithfully discharge.

00:05:50.000 The duties of the office.

00:05:53.000 On which I'm about to enter.

00:05:56.000 So help me God.

00:05:59.000 Congratulations, Mr. Vice President.

00:06:03.000 In the beautiful seat of the Capitol, that is Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who again would not be on the Supreme Court except for the stalwart work of Mitch McConnell, as well as the stalwart work of President Donald J. Trump, who stuck with him when Democrats launched horrible attacks against Kavanaugh, swearing in J.D. Vance, who took enough slings and arrows of his own right there.

00:06:21.000 And then, of course, it was time for the President-elect of the United States to become the President of the United States.

00:06:26.000 Donald J. Trump taking the oath of office as president of the United States for the second time, this time being sworn in by John Roberts, who, by the way, has a terrible record of swearing in presidents.

00:06:35.000 He didn't wait for Melania to arrive with the family Bible.

00:06:39.000 So that was his second time screwing up the inauguration.

00:06:42.000 He actually screwed up the inauguration of Barack Obama so badly they had to do it in the back room.

00:06:46.000 Not a shock to me since I didn't think he's a very good justice.

00:06:49.000 In any case, here he was swearing in Donald John Trump as your 47th president of the United States.

00:06:58.000 Please raise your right hand and repeat after me.

00:06:58.000 I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear.

00:07:01.000 I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States and will, to the best of my ability, and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect, and defend preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.

00:07:25.000 The Constitution of the United States.

00:07:27.000 So help me God.

00:07:28.000 So help me God.

00:07:29.000 Congratulations.

00:07:30.000 And with that, Donald Trump was the 47th president of the United States.

00:07:39.000 He then proceeded to give his inaugural address.

00:07:41.000 His inaugural address was kind of astonishing.

00:07:43.000 It was much shorter than he typically goes.

00:07:45.000 We had an over-under going on in the studio.

00:07:47.000 I was suggesting that President Trump...

00:07:50.000 I've seen President Trump speak a thousand times.

00:07:52.000 I've been at his events in person.

00:07:54.000 And President Trump likes to go.

00:07:56.000 I thought that he was going to go for 75 minutes.

00:07:59.000 Instead, he went for 29 very pointed minutes.

00:08:03.000 Very pointed minutes.

00:08:04.000 The speech started off with him suggesting the American people have spoken.

00:08:07.000 And then a new golden age was here.

00:08:09.000 Here was the President of the United States in his second inaugural address.

00:08:14.000 Many people thought...

00:08:16.000 It was impossible for me to stage such a historic political comeback.

00:08:21.000 But as you see today, here I am.

00:08:23.000 The American people have spoken.

00:08:27.000 I stand before you now as proof that you should never believe that something is impossible to do.

00:08:34.000 In America, the impossible is what we do best.

00:08:39.000 And this was the message that President Trump was spreading throughout his inaugural address.

00:08:43.000 Now, the media focused in on the first half of the address in which he basically listed out all the reasons why the last four years have been a disaster with Joe Biden sitting right there.

00:08:51.000 It must have been super awkward for President Biden and the actual president, Jill Biden, to have all of their failings listed off.

00:08:58.000 But once again, the reason that Donald Trump is justified in doing this is his election is a repudiation of Joe Biden.

00:09:05.000 There is no other way to read it.

00:09:06.000 There's no other way to read it.

00:09:08.000 was elected to stop Donald Trump by the left.

00:09:11.000 And then the American people immediately reversed themselves and realized what a gigantic mistake they had made and put back in place the person that Joe Biden had defeated in the 2020 election.

00:09:20.000 That is a complete repudiation of Joe Biden.

00:09:24.000 Period.

00:09:24.000 End of story.

00:09:25.000 We have to more from President Trump's second inaugural address in a second.

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00:11:36.000 And honestly, I thought that the speech was aspirational.

00:11:41.000 I thought that it was uplifting.

00:11:42.000 It had a lot of pragmatic suggestions about what he's going to do.

00:11:46.000 But there was to the whole thing a positive American can-do attitude that's been missing for probably my entire adult lifetime in American politics.

00:11:55.000 American politicians have not talked in totally aspirational terms about the things America is capable of doing for a very, very long time.

00:12:03.000 Probably not during my lifetime.

00:12:04.000 Honestly, I must have.

00:12:05.000 I was a child when Ronald Reagan left office.

00:12:07.000 That was probably the last time there was this sort of optimism in the United States.

00:12:11.000 There was President Trump saying the obvious thing, which is so true.

00:12:15.000 I mean, I said it directly to President Trump, that his life was spared by God to make America great again.

00:12:20.000 There is no other way to read.

00:12:22.000 The near assassination of Donald Trump on stage live in front of a crowd when God, if not literally, almost literally, reached his hand down and turned Donald Trump's head a fraction of a degree and prevented his brains from splattering all over the stage.

00:12:36.000 There's no other way to read that than what President Trump says right here.

00:12:40.000 Those who wish to stop our cause have tried to take my freedom and indeed to take my life.

00:12:49.000 Just a few months ago in a beautiful Pennsylvania field, an assassin's bullet ripped through my ear.

00:12:57.000 But I felt then and believe even more so now that my life was saved for a reason.

00:13:03.000 I was saved by God to make America great again.

00:13:10.000 That, I think, is absolutely correct.

00:13:13.000 And that is his job now.

00:13:15.000 So again, there are many aspirational and memorable moments from the inaugural address.

00:13:18.000 The most aspirational and memorable is when he talked about America's manifest destiny.

00:13:22.000 And he talked about the idea that America was going to expand her territory.

00:13:25.000 We're going to plant an American flag on Mars, he said.

00:13:28.000 This, of course, must have excited Elon to no end.

00:13:30.000 As we will see, it absolutely did.

00:13:32.000 Here is President Trump yesterday in his second inaugural address.

00:13:36.000 And we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts.

00:13:41.000 to plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars.

00:13:46.000 Again, he then talked about the possibility of taking back control of the Panama Canal, saying we did not build that canal so the Chinese can control it.

00:14:09.000 That would be a repudiation of Jimmy Carter, who handed over the Panama Canal to Panama despite American efforts to build the Panama Canal.

00:14:16.000 He talked about peace in the world.

00:14:17.000 He said he's going to be a peacemaker and a unifier, which involves, as we say, peace through strength, the threat of force, the credible threat of force that establishes peace in the world along with the diplomacy that is the softer side, the velvet glove in which lies the iron fist here as President Trump.

00:14:35.000 My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier.

00:14:41.000 That's what I want to be, a peacemaker and a unifier.

00:14:44.000 I'm pleased to say that as of yesterday, one day before I assumed office, the hostages in the Middle East are coming back home to their families.

00:14:57.000 Now, President Trump was asked yesterday about the hostage deal.

00:15:00.000 He said, listen, I don't think Hamas is trustworthy.

00:15:02.000 He said, I'd be shocked if they get to phase two.

00:15:04.000 That, of course, was my suggestion the other day when the hostage deal became public, was that President Trump said to Israel the thing that Joe Biden would not, which is if you have to go back in, you go back in and you go back in hard.

00:15:14.000 President Trump also spoke at length about bringing back free speech.

00:15:18.000 Again, all of the taboos have now been shattered with regard to sort of the left's politically correct wall that they had built, saying that a boy can be a girl or else.

00:15:27.000 That is gone.

00:15:28.000 That is gone.

00:15:29.000 It is an amazing thing that the president of the United States, as we'll see, had to sign an executive order.

00:15:33.000 To establish that one plus one equals two.

00:15:35.000 That boys are not girls and girls are not boys. 0.99

00:15:38.000 It is amazing that you have to have the President of the United States talk about a return of free speech.

00:15:42.000 But that was made necessary by the left and by Joe Biden.

00:15:46.000 Here was President Trump yesterday.

00:15:48.000 After years and years of illegal and unconstitutional federal efforts to restrict free expression, I will also sign an executive order to immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free speech to America.

00:16:07.000 President Trump, of course, as I just suggested, also said, listen, there are two genders in the United States of America, as there have been for all of human history everywhere.

00:16:17.000 I will also end the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life.

00:16:26.000 We will forge a society that is colorblind and merit-based. 0.53

00:16:33.000 As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female.

00:16:46.000 That line was probably the biggest applause line of the entire inaugural speech, which demonstrates how far the left has gone completely off the rails.

00:16:54.000 Off the rails.

00:16:54.000 President Trump, of course, talked about the border in his inaugural address.

00:16:57.000 This was his key issue in 2015-2016.

00:17:01.000 It remains his key issue 10 full years later because the left decided to open the border wide.

00:17:06.000 Here was the President of the United States yesterday.

00:17:09.000 First, I will declare a national emergency at our southern border.

00:17:15.000 All illegal entry will immediately be halted and we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came.

00:17:28.000 We will reinstate my remain in Mexico policy.

00:17:39.000 I will end the practice of catch and release.

00:17:47.000 And I will send troops to the southern border to repel the disastrous invasion of our country.

00:17:57.000 That, of course, is what he was elected to do.

00:18:00.000 So, President Trump concluded his inaugural address with some glowing remarks about the future of American innovation, all of which was very inspiring.

00:18:07.000 And then there was, I think, a great cultural moment.

00:18:09.000 Carrie Underwood had been asked to come sing America the Beautiful, and the audio went out.

00:18:13.000 And Carrie Underwood, who's a very talented person, just turned.

00:18:16.000 To the people who are handling the audio and said, give me the microphone and I'll just do it solo.

00:18:20.000 I'll just do it acapella.

00:18:21.000 And she started to sing.

00:18:23.000 And Carrie Underwood's a very talented person.

00:18:24.000 It was a pretty great moment.

00:18:26.000 You know the words, help me out here.

00:18:32.000 Yeah.

00:18:34.000 Oh, beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties for purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain.

00:19:02.000 America, America, God shed his grace on thee, and crown thy good with and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea.

00:19:29.000 I mean, that's a great moment.

00:19:34.000 That's a great moment.

00:19:35.000 And again, if you're not feeling more optimistic this morning, you're doing it wrong.

00:19:38.000 Even people who did not vote for Donald Trump understand that what we just went through over the past four years was a terrible, historically bad presidency.

00:19:45.000 And that's the other side of this.

00:19:47.000 The moment.

00:19:48.000 And we were sitting overlooking the U.S. Capitol building yesterday while broadcasting.

00:19:52.000 The moment that the helicopter took off that was carrying Joe Biden out of American public life forever was one of the better moments of my life.

00:20:01.000 It was truly a wonderful thing to see this terrible old man go.

00:20:06.000 He's been an awful president of the United States.

00:20:09.000 Here's footage of President Trump escorting Joe Biden to the helicopter, as I said on the show, the last time an American helicopter left a disaster this big.

00:20:17.000 Meaning what Joe Biden is leaving behind him was Vietnam.

00:20:20.000 Here was President Trump escorting former President Joe Biden to his helicopter where he saw him off.

00:20:37.000 Bye.

00:20:39.000 Catch you later.

00:20:40.000 And man, the minute that he walked up the Marine One stairs for the final time, you could feel the burden being lifted from American hearts.

00:20:58.000 Truly, truly.

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00:23:32.000 On his way out, by the way, Joe Biden did more incalculable damage to the office.

00:23:36.000 So he pardoned a wide series of people, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, who not only was involved in gain-of-function research in Wuhan, but also was involved in a deliberate smearing and cover-up of the new head of the NIH, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who was promoting actual good public policy during the pandemic, opposed by Dr. Fauci.

00:23:56.000 He also issued preemptive pardons for January...

00:24:00.000 Sixth committee members, whether or not they lied about the evidence they had in their possession.

00:24:04.000 General Mark Milley, who presided over the most humiliating withdrawal that America has ever experienced in Afghanistan.

00:24:10.000 He then proceeded to issue a blanket pardon to all members of his own family, suggesting, of course, that he had to do that to stop President Trump.

00:24:19.000 This is always the excuse.

00:24:20.000 This is always the excuse.

00:24:22.000 I have to do the bad thing so the other side won't do the bad thing when they get the power.

00:24:26.000 And the reality is Joe Biden just wanted to do the bad thing.

00:24:29.000 He always wanted to do the bad thing.

00:24:30.000 The Biden family was, in fact, the Biden crime family.

00:24:33.000 They've been clearing cash off Joe Biden's name for nigh on five decades at this point.

00:24:37.000 Joe Biden had to pardon them.

00:24:39.000 He had to.

00:24:40.000 Not because he knew that they were innocent, but because he knew that there were crimes committed by members of his family.

00:24:47.000 That is the real reason.

00:24:48.000 In fact, here was Joseph R. Biden, former president of the United States, back when he was president in December 2020. Saying there would be a bad precedent to issue preemptive pardons.

00:25:01.000 President Trump is reportedly considering a wave of preemptive pardons.

00:25:06.000 Does this concern you?

00:25:08.000 All these preemptive pardons?

00:25:11.000 Well, it concerns me in terms of what kind of precedent it sets and how the rest of the world looks at us as a nation of laws and justice.

00:25:24.000 You're not going to see in our administration that kind of approach to pardons.

00:25:31.000 Nor are you going to see in our administration the approach to making policy by tweets.

00:25:37.000 You know, it's just going to be a totally different way in which we approach the justice system.

00:25:42.000 Unbelievable.

00:25:43.000 That's what he had to say when he was president-elect in December 2020. He approached the justice system as a tool of revenge and then pardoned every member of his family he could find.

00:25:52.000 Absolutely astonishing.

00:25:53.000 By the way, in December of 2020, Joy Reid of MSNBC asked Adam Schiff, now the senator from California, if he had ever heard of an innocent person getting a preemptive pardon.

00:26:05.000 Adam Schiff said no.

00:26:06.000 Adam Schiff is one of the people who received a preemptive pardon from Joe Biden on his way out of office.

00:26:13.000 Have you ever heard of somebody getting a preemptive pardon who was innocent of all crime?

00:26:19.000 Who's just an innocent person?

00:26:20.000 Have you ever heard of that, just somebody getting a blanket pardon and they're an innocent person?

00:26:25.000 But no, you know, I think that in the cases, the very few cases where there have been prospective pardons, such as, you know, Ford pardoning Nixon for whatever he may have done during the presidency.

00:26:38.000 There was some idea of the potential criminal liability facing Richard Nixon.

00:26:43.000 You know, here it's an effort not only to prospectively pardon people for things they have not yet been charged with and may never be charged with, but also it's the president's own family.

00:26:56.000 It's people that have been covering up for the president in addition to his own family.

00:27:03.000 He said all the things in December 2020, and then Joe Biden did all the things.

00:27:07.000 And by the way, if you like the proper workings of American government, once that glass is broken, you cannot unbreak the glass.

00:27:13.000 Joe Biden broke the glass.

00:27:14.000 I promise you, every president on his way out is now going to do this.

00:27:17.000 Because Joe Biden not only broke the glass of using the DOJ to go after his political opponents for electoral reasons, he then pardoned his entire family.

00:27:25.000 That glass is now broken.

00:27:27.000 Well, he's gone.

00:27:28.000 President Trump is in.

00:27:29.000 Yesterday, President Trump signed a bunch of executive orders from an arena, and then he threw the pens into the crowd, which was hysterical and typically Trumpian.

00:27:37.000 That was after he had danced with the village people.

00:27:41.000 What can you say, man?

00:27:42.000 What can you say?

00:27:43.000 This is America.

00:27:44.000 This is America.

00:27:45.000 And then President Trump walked into the Oval Office.

00:27:48.000 He was asked by the press, how do you feel today?

00:27:50.000 Mr. President said, it's one of the better feelings I've ever had.

00:27:53.000 Well, the feeling is mutual, Mr. President.

00:27:56.000 Mr. President, what was it like walking into the Oval Office this evening?

00:28:00.000 Oh, what a great feeling.

00:28:03.000 One of the better feelings I've ever had.

00:28:06.000 Do you like this town better now than in 2017?

00:28:10.000 Well, we're very experienced now.

00:28:13.000 You would say nobody's ever had experience like I have.

00:28:17.000 I've dealt with some very good people.

00:28:19.000 I've dealt with some very bad people.

00:28:21.000 And I know who the bad ones are and the good ones are.

00:28:23.000 You know, don't forget, I was very successful in primarily the real estate business.

00:28:29.000 And people used to say, who's worse, a politician or a vicious real estate developer?

00:28:36.000 And I'd always say, you know, the real estate developer is far worse.

00:28:40.000 But after about three months and getting to know scum like Adam Schiff and other people like that, I said, no, actually, real estate people are quite nice by comparison.

00:28:51.000 So, President Trump back in office and he was moving and moving fast.

00:28:57.000 So, the first thing that President Trump did is he issued recensions of 78. Biden-era executive actions.

00:29:05.000 That was his very first thing.

00:29:07.000 He said, I'm just pulling it all back.

00:29:09.000 Everything Joe Biden did is gone.

00:29:10.000 And by the way, that is the mandate.

00:29:13.000 The mandate is everything Joe Biden did undo all those things.

00:29:16.000 He was awful.

00:29:17.000 There's no other, I'm going to keep repeating this until I'm blue in the face.

00:29:19.000 There's no other way to read the election.

00:29:22.000 Donald Trump was president.

00:29:23.000 Joe Biden defeated him.

00:29:25.000 And then the American people said, oops, nope.

00:29:28.000 And took the old one and put him back in.

00:29:31.000 To put this in personal terms, Imagine how bad your second wife has to be in order for you to dump her to go back to your first wife. 0.97

00:29:37.000 That is what America just did with President Trump and President Biden.

00:29:43.000 And that means that President Trump has a mandate to get rid of all the trash that Joe Biden did.

00:29:49.000 So, the very first executive order issued by the President of the United States was a revocation of 78 executive orders issued by Joe Biden.

00:29:58.000 That, by the way, is his number one job.

00:30:00.000 Stop and reverse all the trash that Joe Biden did.

00:30:04.000 He then proceeded to issue a wide series of executive orders.

00:30:08.000 These were ready to go day one.

00:30:09.000 Again, this is a very different administration.

00:30:11.000 Donald Trump understands that not only does he have a mandate, he has a short period of time to get it done.

00:30:15.000 He basically has 18 months to get what he wants to get done done.

00:30:19.000 He's going to do a lot of it via executive action because, unfortunately, that's now the way our government works since the legislature is half a vestigial organ of government.

00:30:26.000 Also, thanks to the rules of the House and the Senate, Very unlikely that the president is going to be able to pass more than one or two to, at maximum, big bills over the course of the first 18 months before we get into re-elect time for many members of Congress for the midterms.

00:30:42.000 Well, number one on his list was a very controversial move, but you knew it was coming, which was a pardon for nearly all of the 1,500 January 6th protesters slash writers.

00:30:53.000 Now, many of those people were unjustifiably, unjustifiably convicted, held in prison, Under indictment, I have personal friends, people we work with, who are at the January 6th protest, who trespassed in the Capitol, and then were investigated and hit years later by the DOJ for all of this.

00:31:14.000 One of them gave me a big hug last night in celebration at having been pardoned.

00:31:17.000 He's on the pardon list from President Trump.

00:31:21.000 Now listen, I think that if you beat up a cop, then you should go to jail.

00:31:24.000 With that said, this was a promise that Donald Trump made.

00:31:28.000 He was obviously going to do it.

00:31:29.000 Do I think it is good that people who beat up cops are going free?

00:31:32.000 I do not.

00:31:33.000 Do I think that all the other people, and there are many other people, we're talking hundreds, if not over a thousand other people, were in jail for reasons that were unjustifiable?

00:31:41.000 Do I think that those people should have been in jail?

00:31:43.000 No.

00:31:44.000 Which is, of course, what J.D. Vance said last week.

00:31:46.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Trump's sweeping clemency delivered on his polarizing campaign pledge to pardon supporters who joined in what federal judges and prosecutors have called an attack on American democracy.

00:31:56.000 The new president made the announcement after arriving at the White House, effectively wiping away four years of prosecutions, including more than 1,100 convictions.

00:32:03.000 Now, by the way, prosecutors called this the largest investigation in U.S. history.

00:32:08.000 That's insane.

00:32:09.000 I'm sorry, that's crazy.

00:32:11.000 January 6th, I think, was awful.

00:32:13.000 I think it was bad for the country.

00:32:14.000 I also think that to expend the resources to make that the largest investigation in American history after a summer where half of America burned during BLM summer was insanity, is insanity. 0.78

00:32:25.000 I'm not going to agree with all those pardons.

00:32:28.000 I'm going to agree with a lot of those pardons.

00:32:30.000 And Joe Biden literally pardoned, literally commuted the sentences of 37 out of 40 people on death row two weeks ago.

00:32:41.000 So no, am I going to lose massive sleep over turnabout being fair play on this one?

00:32:45.000 I'm not going to lose massive sleep, although I do not think that it is a wonderful thing if people beat up cops and then get to go free.

00:32:51.000 And meanwhile, the...

00:32:54.000 Other executive orders came flowing freely.

00:32:57.000 Those included an executive order to designate drug cartels foreign terrorist organizations.

00:33:03.000 President Trump was asked about the possibility, by the way, that we might unleash SEAL Team 6 on members of the drug cartel.

00:33:10.000 And he kind of half-joked that, well, you know, you never know.

00:33:12.000 According to the Associated Press, President Trump signed an executive order on Monday saying the United States would designate drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations in a mood.

00:33:20.000 That could push a militarized agenda for the border in Latin America. 0.64

00:33:24.000 The order highlighted Mexican drug cartels and other Latin American criminal groups, like Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and Salvadoran gang Mara Salvatrucha, that's MS-13.

00:33:34.000 The order didn't list the groups by name, but cabinet secretaries will recommend groups for designation as terrorist organizations in the next 14 days.

00:33:41.000 This is beyond time for this.

00:33:44.000 These are, in fact, terrorist groups.

00:33:45.000 I've been down to the border.

00:33:46.000 I've watched as the drug cartels overwatched.

00:33:48.000 The American border with their own drones.

00:33:51.000 This all has to end.

00:33:53.000 It has to end.

00:33:54.000 President Trump also put back in place the remain in Mexico policy.

00:33:59.000 That is a policy that says that if you come to the United States border and you apply for asylum, claiming that you're a victim of persecution in your home country, that instead of you being admitted to the United States with a court date months later, so you can disappear into the interior.

00:34:12.000 Instead, you wait in Mexico for us to actually process your claim.

00:34:15.000 That went back into place yesterday.

00:34:17.000 The CBP1 app, which is a phone app that sets all of these sort of appointments up and facilitates the entry of people who are claiming asylum into the country, that was shut down yesterday.

00:34:30.000 Barriers went back up along the border.

00:34:33.000 The Trump wall is most certainly going to happen during the course of this second term for the president.

00:34:38.000 And President Trump issued an executive order that will have to be adjudicated in court.

00:34:42.000 Revoking what's called birthright citizenship.

00:34:44.000 We'll get into that and the legal vagaries surrounding it in one second.

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00:35:33.000 Okay, meanwhile, President Trump's most controversial executive order yesterday was an executive order directed at ending birthright citizenship.

00:35:39.000 Birthright citizenship.

00:35:41.000 Is the notion under American law that if you are in the United States illegally, legally, temporarily, if you drop a baby in the United States, that baby is an American citizen.

00:35:51.000 That's what birthright citizenship means.

00:35:52.000 So if you're an illegal immigrant and you have a baby in the United States, that baby, even if you are not here legally, becomes an American citizen automatically.

00:35:59.000 That is a misread of the law.

00:36:01.000 It is clearly a misread of the Constitution of the United States.

00:36:05.000 The actual provision, which is the 14th Amendment, says, quote, All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.

00:36:17.000 So it is true that if you are a citizen, wife is a citizen, you have a baby, baby's a citizen. 0.52

00:36:24.000 But there is an extra phrase in that provision of the 14th Amendment.

00:36:28.000 That extra phrase is and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, right?

00:36:31.000 If you just want to say all persons born in the United States are American citizens, just say it. 1.00

00:36:34.000 That's not what the Constitution says.

00:36:36.000 It says born or naturalized.

00:36:37.000 And subject to the jurisdiction thereof.

00:36:39.000 What is this meant to exclude?

00:36:41.000 It's meant to exclude people who are foreign citizens who are not here permanently.

00:36:45.000 That's what it is meant to exclude.

00:36:47.000 Illegal immigrants, people here on temporary visas or work visas, people who are here as ambassadors, and subject to the jurisdiction of their home country. 0.90

00:36:55.000 That's what it means.

00:36:56.000 Because subject to the jurisdiction doesn't just mean that if you hit somebody with a car, you go to jail in America.

00:37:01.000 It means that you, in fact, are here on a permanent status.

00:37:05.000 Then, if you have a baby, your baby, Is an American citizen.

00:37:09.000 But if not, then not.

00:37:11.000 And that is precisely what the White House is now claiming.

00:37:14.000 They say the 14th Amendment has always excluded from birthright citizenship persons who were born in the United States but not subject to the jurisdiction thereof.

00:37:21.000 Among the categories of individuals born in the U.S. and not subject to the jurisdiction thereof, the privilege of U.S. citizenship does not automatically extend to persons born in the United States when, for example, that person's mother was unlawfully present in the U.S. and the father was not a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person's birth, or when that person's mother's presence that person's mother was unlawfully present in the U.S. and the father was not a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of

00:37:43.000 Such has been not limited to visiting the United States under auspices of the visa waiver program or visiting on a student work or tourist visa and the father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person's birth.

00:37:55.000 Now, again, this is not going to be retroactive.

00:37:59.000 It's It doesn't make people not citizens anymore.

00:38:02.000 What it does do is say, prospectively, this is how the law will be interpreted.

00:38:05.000 This is going to be adjudicated all the way up to the Supreme Court.

00:38:08.000 And this is a proper interpretation of the law.

00:38:10.000 It just is.

00:38:11.000 There is nothing particularly shocking about this.

00:38:15.000 What is shocking is the idea that if you get caught in New York on a stopover flight from, say, Haiti to Canada, and in the airport you give birth, your kid is now an American citizen.

00:38:25.000 That's a bizarre, bizarre idea.

00:38:27.000 And certainly was not intended by the people who wrote the 14th Amendment.

00:38:30.000 The 14th Amendment.

00:38:31.000 It was designed to ensure that black Americans, that slaves, former slaves, were citizens of the United States because they were born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof. 0.86

00:38:41.000 There was no other jurisdiction to which they were subject.

00:38:44.000 That is what the 14th Amendment was designed to do, extend all of the privileges and immunities of citizenship to the former slaves. 0.76

00:38:51.000 That's what the 14th Amendment was. 0.72

00:38:52.000 Extending that to people who fly through LAX and drop a baby, that is not what it was for, just legally speaking.

00:38:59.000 So, we'll see how that's adjudicated at the Supreme Court level.

00:39:02.000 It's an audacious move by the Trump administration.

00:39:05.000 They also issued an executive order to end DEI. That, of course, is deeply necessary.

00:39:11.000 President Trump had actually spoken about that in his speech, in his inaugural.

00:39:14.000 He talked about the end of DEI and the return of the meritocracy, which is a huge issue for him.

00:39:19.000 The executive order reads, the Biden administration forced illegal and immoral discrimination programs going by the name Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion into virtually all aspects of the federal government.

00:39:28.000 In areas ranging from airline safety to the military.

00:39:32.000 And then they say, well, this is gone.

00:39:34.000 That ends today.

00:39:36.000 Americans deserve a government committed to serving every person with equal dignity and respect and to expanding precious taxpayer resources on making America great.

00:39:43.000 That is exactly correct.

00:39:45.000 We are also going to no longer spend our money on the World Health Organization, a Chinese-controlled, ridiculous organization that allowed the COVID pandemic to spread globally. 1.00

00:39:57.000 President Trump turned to an aide as he began to sign the executive order, and he said, that's a big one.

00:40:01.000 The text of the executive order cites the organization's mishandling of COVID-19.

00:40:07.000 Absolutely appropriate.

00:40:08.000 The WHO is a sham, just like most of these international organizations, and a joke, and we should not be funding it.

00:40:15.000 President Trump issued an executive order to target the weaponization of government as well.

00:40:21.000 Investigation was initiated into Trump's executive order, quote, The executive order, creating the Elon Musk-led Department of Governmental Efficiency, was also Pushed forward.

00:40:51.000 There'll be lawsuits in an attempt to stop that.

00:40:53.000 It's not fully governmental.

00:40:54.000 I doubt that those lawsuits will hold any water in the end.

00:40:58.000 Now, there are a couple executive orders that I particularly like.

00:41:02.000 The one extending the TikTok ban is not something I'm fond of.

00:41:06.000 I'm not sure precisely why President Trump is pushing the extension of the TikTok ban, other than what I'm hoping is that he wants a deal.

00:41:15.000 He wants it.

00:41:15.000 This is what he does.

00:41:16.000 Carrots and sticks.

00:41:17.000 The stick is, I'm not going to extend the TikTok ban.

00:41:19.000 Unless you cut a deal to divest yourself of Chinese ownership? 0.87

00:41:22.000 That is the optimistic view.

00:41:25.000 A document posted on the White House website said that Trump was instructing the AG not to enforce the ban for a period of 75 days from today to allow my administration an opportunity to determine the appropriate course forward in an orderly way that protects national security while avoiding an abrupt shutdown of a communications platform used by millions of Americans.

00:41:42.000 Now, if this ends with Chinese control of TikTok, that will be a mistake by President Trump.

00:41:47.000 I'm very hopeful that that's not how.

00:41:49.000 This will, in fact, end.

00:41:52.000 President Trump, on the staffing side, is doing some pretty impressive things.

00:41:57.000 He froze civilian hiring in the federal government.

00:42:00.000 He's imposing extra scrutiny on IRS hiring.

00:42:04.000 The freeze will lift for every agency except the IRS at a certain point.

00:42:09.000 It's a 90-day freeze, while the Office of Management and Budget and DOGE write a plan to shrink the federal workforce.

00:42:15.000 Totally appropriate.

00:42:16.000 He also, more importantly, They passed a rule designed to prevent Trump from reinstating Schedule F. President

00:42:47.000 Trump is going to reinstate that with the Supreme Court the way that it is.

00:42:50.000 I would be shocked if this is not upheld as well it should be.

00:42:54.000 Also, President Trump said all the federal workers have to go back to work, which is pretty amazing since only 6% of federal workers show up to work in person at this point.

00:43:04.000 The cush jobs are over.

00:43:05.000 If you are working for the federal government, you work for the taxpayer, go to work.

00:43:10.000 Go to work.

00:43:12.000 On the most fun side, President Trump...

00:43:15.000 Issued an executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America, and to rename Mount Denali in Alaska back to its American name, Mount McKinley.

00:43:25.000 Lisa Murkowski was upset about the renaming of the Gulf of America and Mount McKinley in particular.

00:43:33.000 She's upset about Mount McKinley because she's from Alaska.

00:43:36.000 And she put up a post being very, I strongly disagree.

00:43:40.000 With the president's decision on Denali, our nation's tallest mountain, which has been called Denali for thousands of years, must continue to be known by the rightful name bestowed by Alaska's Hayukon Athabaskans, who have stewarded the land since time immemorial.

00:43:52.000 Wrong.

00:43:53.000 We own it.

00:43:54.000 We can call it whatever we damned well please.

00:43:57.000 President Trump, later today, is expected to announce a massive infrastructure project.

00:44:00.000 We can only hope that it will be the incorporation of Greenland into the United States.

00:44:04.000 On the foreign policy front, President Trump initiated a 90-day review into all foreign aid.

00:44:08.000 Saying that if it does not align with America's purposes, it will not be reinstated.

00:44:12.000 That is presumably directed at the UNRWA, the UN Relief and Works Agency, which is just a front group for Hamas. 0.89

00:44:20.000 President Trump also on the foreign policy front killed the sanctions that Joe Biden had put on people, Jews, living in Judea and Samaria.

00:44:27.000 So overall, a massive slate of actions from President Trump, a massively important slate of actions from President Trump.

00:44:38.000 It is a new day, man.

00:44:39.000 It is a new day.

00:44:41.000 All right, you guys, coming up, we'll get into more of the left-wing media just not having a solid day.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - January 21, 2025

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