The Ben Shapiro Show - July 27, 2026


Trump Roasts Tapper, Collins, and Omar — AND Katy Perry Melts Down Over a Song


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00:00:00.000 After the last White House Correspondence Center, you remember, ended with an assassination attempt from an Epstein crazed conspiracy theorist, the media glitterati finally assembled in D.C. to congratulate each other for their awful work.
00:00:10.000 I have thoughts on Trump's roast of the media.
00:00:12.000 I will rank which jokes were my favorite, as well as the stupid Dylan Mulvaney, Caitlin Collins controversy.
00:00:17.000 And as an added bonus, we get to Katy Perry's hypocrisy playing G.I. Jane in a music video back in 2012, but now she's upset with the Trump administration for using her music in a TikTok about the military over the weekend.
00:00:28.000 The media saved most of their ire over the weekend.
00:00:30.000 For the president of the United States, who attended the replacement White House Correspondence Dinner.
00:00:34.000 You'll recall the first White House Correspondence Dinner was broken up when somebody tried to assassinate the president.
00:00:39.000 Well, this one didn't go nearly as poorly.
00:00:42.000 As I had the president's performance, it wasn't like top notch Trump.
00:00:44.000 I've seen top notch Trump before.
00:00:46.000 He got some good shots in, he got some funny jokes, but it was kind of buried in an avalanche of, you know, stuff.
00:00:54.000 He went on for a while.
00:00:56.000 But there are a couple of solid jokes here.
00:00:58.000 One of his most solid jokes came at the expense of my friend Barry Weiss.
00:01:02.000 Here was President Trump.
00:01:06.000 Under my administration, a once feared and powerful regime that relentlessly attacked America has finally been toppled.
00:01:13.000 Their former leaders have been removed, and they're now being run by a gay dictator facing internal divisions.
00:01:21.000 But I, for one, wish Barry Weiss all the best at CBS News.
00:01:29.000 Yeah, it's a good joke.
00:01:31.000 Be honest, it's a good joke.
00:01:32.000 So, first of all, he is calling the dictator of Iran gay, but also, That's a good joke.
00:01:37.000 Trump also joked about gunshots and Nicki Minaj at the previous White House Correspondence Center.
00:01:43.000 After hearing the gunshots, many people yelled, Get down, get down, which caused Nicki Minaj to start twerking.
00:01:53.000 Do you believe it?
00:01:54.000 Get down.
00:01:56.000 She's the only one that really understood what that meant.
00:02:01.000 Okay.
00:02:03.000 Not one of his better ones.
00:02:03.000 We'll evaluate.
00:02:04.000 Okay.
00:02:04.000 Joke number one.
00:02:06.000 Nine out of ten.
00:02:07.000 Joke number two, three out of ten.
00:02:08.000 Okay, President Trump also joked about a fourth term.
00:02:14.000 I want to save your ratings.
00:02:16.000 I'm pleased to announce my intention to, and this is somewhat of a scoop, my intention to run for a fourth term as President of the United States.
00:02:30.000 I will be doing that.
00:02:31.000 I will be having an official, in fact, I think I have, yeah.
00:02:38.000 I won three times.
00:02:40.000 Now I'm going to do it again.
00:02:45.000 Thank you.
00:02:47.000 I'm going to do it again.
00:02:48.000 It should be easy.
00:02:49.000 I'm getting very good at running for president.
00:02:54.000 Okay.
00:02:54.000 Again, like one out of 10 on that one because he's made that joke before.
00:02:57.000 It's an oldie and not very goodie.
00:02:59.000 President Trump did drag Jake Tapper of CNN for his alleged delay on reporting Joe Biden's cognitive decline.
00:03:08.000 But some people say that Jake Tapper is a great investigative reporter in D.C., and that's why, after moderating our debate, it only took him one year to break the story that Joe Biden might possibly have suffered from cognitive decline.
00:03:24.000 It took him one year.
00:03:25.000 He wrote a book about how great he was mentally, not too good.
00:03:30.000 Okay, again, not a joke, just an accurate take there from the president of the United States.
00:03:34.000 The president also went after Ilhan Omar's World War 11 failures of the past.
00:03:40.000 You remember that she.
00:03:41.000 Does not know how to apparently read Roman numerals.
00:03:45.000 So he made a joke about it.
00:03:48.000 It's becoming such a horrible and dangerous location that Ilan Omar, one of my favorites, and her brother are thinking about moving together, very much in love.
00:04:00.000 A video has surfaced recently of Ilan giving a speech referring to World War II as World War 11.
00:04:10.000 And the Yusher about that, she still thought she got it right.
00:04:15.000 But I'm not surprised because she's a low IQ person and she's also a very dishonest person.
00:04:21.000 She ought to get the hell out of our country.
00:04:23.000 She shouldn't be here.
00:04:24.000 She shouldn't be in our country.
00:04:26.000 She also calls her brother husband number one.
00:04:34.000 Yeah, I like that he's like, he has to take time out from the joke to just smack the crap out of her.
00:04:39.000 Like he's just in the middle of the joke.
00:04:41.000 He's like, I'm just going to go into how much I hate Ilhan Omar, which I think made it funnier.
00:04:45.000 I will admit, I think the delivery made that joke, which wasn't a great joke, funnier.
00:04:48.000 So that's like a five out of 10.
00:04:50.000 And then he went after Gavin Newsom.
00:04:51.000 This one, I kind of liked.
00:04:55.000 And it's traditional that at least one or two potential presidential hopefuls attend the correspondence dinner, but many of them seem to have really chickened out.
00:05:06.000 I was disappointed that Gavin Newsom didn't show up.
00:05:11.000 He should be here.
00:05:11.000 He didn't show up.
00:05:13.000 But I heard that he recently said that we will lose our country if we don't fight fire with fire.
00:05:21.000 And to be fair, there's only one thing we know about Gavin, and that's that he definitely doesn't want to fight.
00:05:27.000 He's got a lot of water and never uses.
00:05:27.000 Fire with water.
00:05:31.000 Okay.
00:05:32.000 That's a good joke.
00:05:33.000 Okay.
00:05:33.000 That's a good joke.
00:05:34.000 So, best two jokes so far obviously, the Barry Weiss joke and also the Gavin Newsom joke.
00:05:39.000 Okay.
00:05:39.000 But there is one that set the media aflame.
00:05:41.000 The media were just rageful about this joke.
00:05:45.000 They were horrified by this joke.
00:05:47.000 So, the president loves to pick on Caitlyn Collins of CNN.
00:05:50.000 He's constantly calling on her just to rag on her.
00:05:52.000 Well, he did that again, but he did so with a comparison that the media are losing their minds over.
00:05:58.000 Here was the president at the White House Correspondents Association dinner.
00:06:03.000 But I want to personally congratulate CNN's Caitlin Collins on receiving her award.
00:06:11.000 It was all about me.
00:06:12.000 It's a fake, she shouldn't get the award.
00:06:14.000 It was a fake, but I didn't mind.
00:06:15.000 I said, Caitlin, congratulations.
00:06:18.000 But it was fake, there's no question about it.
00:06:20.000 But she's a young, attractive woman.
00:06:23.000 She never smiles.
00:06:24.000 I said, Caitlin, do you ever smile?
00:06:27.000 Smile.
00:06:28.000 You have a nice position, you're at CNN Fake News.
00:06:32.000 You should be a happy person.
00:06:34.000 So smile, Caitlin.
00:06:35.000 Just smile.
00:06:35.000 But we attack, and I thought Caitlin had really made it big with a major new sponsorship.
00:06:43.000 But then I informed her that it wasn't her on the Bud Light can, it was Dylan Mulvaney.
00:06:52.000 Okay, so this apparently was.
00:06:56.000 How could he?
00:06:57.000 How could he?
00:06:59.000 CNN put out a statement.
00:07:02.000 Condemning the president comparing Caitlin Collins to Dylan Mulvaney.
00:07:06.000 Dylan Mulvaney, of course, is a man who believes he is a woman.
00:07:10.000 Mark Thompson said, We stand by our journalists and the integrity and fair mindedness with which the CNN team reports the news.
00:07:15.000 Honest, accurate journalism may sometimes irritate politicians, but our right to report and present that reporting to the public without government interference is fully protected by the U.S. Constitution.
00:07:23.000 CNN will continue to exercise this right.
00:07:25.000 I'm not aware of anything in the joke that actually had anything to do with Caitlin Collins not being able to ask questions.
00:07:30.000 She still is.
00:07:33.000 And then the president put out an AI photo of Caitlin Collins as Dylan Mulvaney in that famous Bud Light influencer deal.
00:07:43.000 Dylan Mulvaney then responded, I am free in a way they will never have the privilege to experience.
00:07:48.000 I mean, I hope I never have the experience of Dylan Mulvaney.
00:07:52.000 Like, I don't know.
00:07:53.000 I feel like I'm sort of attached to my appendages.
00:07:56.000 They feel useful to me.
00:07:57.000 Anyway, and they want to use their power to take away my freedom.
00:08:00.000 What they don't understand is my freedom has zero contingency on what they can provide for me because my freedom is fully dependent on the moment I acknowledge my real authentic self in everyday sense.
00:08:08.000 And sharing that with the world is just icing on the cake.
00:08:11.000 But they don't want me to be able to share that because it would mean young people realizing if someone like me can be themselves and find success and freedom.
00:08:18.000 They can find success and freedom for themselves too.
00:08:19.000 Yeah, nailed it.
00:08:21.000 Yeah, okay.
00:08:21.000 So, first, I just have to ask a question.
00:08:23.000 Why was that joke offensive?
00:08:24.000 Why was anyone offended by that joke?
00:08:26.000 I've been told by the entire legacy media that Dylan Mulvaney is not just a woman.
00:08:29.000 Dylan Mulvaney is a beautiful woman.
00:08:31.000 So, what is offensive about that joke?
00:08:34.000 What is insulting about that joke?
00:08:35.000 You're going to say it?
00:08:37.000 You're going to say Dylan Mulvaney's a dude?
00:08:37.000 You're going to say it?
00:08:39.000 That's why it's an insulting joke.
00:08:41.000 That's just a dude dressed up as a lady.
00:08:42.000 You're going to say it, guys?
00:08:44.000 Are you?
00:08:45.000 Didn't think so.
00:08:48.000 Well, There are some sort of awkward juxtapositions at the White House Correspondence Dinner.
00:08:53.000 Kristen Welker of MSNBC, she was seen laughing with Stephen Miller at the White House Correspondence Dinner.
00:09:01.000 Again, let's be real about that.
00:09:02.000 In Washington, D.C., most people know each other.
00:09:04.000 It's a fairly small town.
00:09:05.000 So this is really not a shock.
00:09:16.000 We can't quit.
00:09:16.000 I mean, they're just smiling and laughing at each other, you know, treating each other like humans.
00:09:20.000 It turns out that when all is said and done, people tend to treat each other like humans when they're in person with one another.
00:09:25.000 The president was laughing and shaking hands with the same Wall Street Journal reporters who originally had pushed the Trump Epstein story.
00:09:30.000 He sued the Wall Street Journal for this story, by the way.
00:09:35.000 Trump quickly filed a $20 billion lawsuit against the journal, revealing reporter Khadija Safdar's home address.
00:09:45.000 Her family had to be relocated.
00:09:48.000 The Journal was kicked off of Air Force One, but the reporters continue to file revelatory stories.
00:09:55.000 Please welcome the winners of the Catherine Graham Award from The Wall Street Journal.
00:10:14.000 Okay, it's a little funny.
00:10:15.000 Okay.
00:10:15.000 That might have been the funniest moment is that he has to congratulate the reporters who he hates so much.
00:10:19.000 And he doesn't care.
00:10:21.000 So he's just doing it.
00:10:21.000 It's kind of funny.
00:10:22.000 Okay.
00:10:23.000 Other kind of celebrity political.
00:10:24.000 So Katy Perry, who is just parodic at this point.
00:10:28.000 She's just a parody of herself.
00:10:30.000 And if you chart the life of Katy Perry, the seven degrees of Katy Perry is insane.
00:10:34.000 That's an insane seven degrees of Katy Perry, just in terms of her love life, right?
00:10:38.000 She was married to Russell Brandt.
00:10:40.000 And now she is dating Justin Trudeau.
00:10:42.000 Just that right there.
00:10:43.000 That Venn diagram is super duper weird.
00:10:45.000 I mean, if you connect Russell Brand going the other way, you end up with like Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes.
00:10:51.000 And if you go the Justin Trudeau route, you end up with like full communism.
00:10:55.000 So it's like the full horseshoe via Katy Perry.
00:10:58.000 It is wild stuff.
00:11:00.000 In any case, Katy Perry over the weekend said she was very upset that the White House used her song Firework on their TikTok account as a backing track for video footage of military strikes.
00:11:11.000 She said, I did not approve this.
00:11:12.000 I was not asked, and I absolutely do not condone it.
00:11:15.000 To see a message of self worth.
00:11:17.000 An upliftment weaponized to soundtrack destruction and violence is a complete violation of everything my song stands for.
00:11:21.000 Well, lady, you already gave up the rights to your catalog for $225 million.
00:11:26.000 I mean, that's kind of like your fault.
00:11:28.000 Like, if you wanted to control it, then you could have not sold the rights to that stuff.
00:11:33.000 And of course, it turns out that her part of me music video featured Marines from Camp Pendleton back in 2012.
00:11:45.000 Oh, better times, man.
00:11:50.000 Better times.
00:11:51.000 Katy Perry, like with the military.
00:11:55.000 Man, remember when she was younger and more talented?
00:11:59.000 Yeah.
00:12:00.000 Oh, well.
00:12:03.000 By the way, her charging the beach there.
00:12:04.000 It's like Elliot Page in The Odyssey.
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