The Ben Shapiro Show - Trump’s HOME RUN State of the Union!

00:00:00.000 Well, folks, last night was an incredible night in the United States Capitol.

00:00:04.000 President Trump gave an astonishing, just terrific speech at the joint session of Congress that quasi-State of the Union address.

00:00:11.000 We're going to break it all down.

00:00:11.000 I was in the room for it, which was really inexperienced.

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00:00:38.000 So, last night was amazing.

00:00:40.000 A couple days before President Trump's quasi-State of the Union address, we were invited by Speaker of the House Mike Johnson to join him in the Speaker's box at this address to a joint session of Congress.

00:00:51.000 By we, I mean me and Matt Walsh.

00:00:53.000 And it was truly a terrific experience.

00:00:56.000 In our row was our friend Riley Gaines, who of course has taken such a lead on the trans in sports issue.

00:01:02.000 Tom Homan, the border czar, was also just a few seats down.

00:01:05.000 We had the opportunity to sit with Tom Homan a little bit beforehand for the backstage live episode.

00:01:10.000 You should take a listen to that and hear what Tom has to say about the status of the American southern border.

00:01:16.000 The enthusiasm was tremendous.

00:01:18.000 Before the actual address to the joint session of Congress, there was sort of a big...

00:01:22.000 Meet and greet inside the speaker's office and in the hallways surrounding.

00:01:26.000 A lot of cabinet secretaries stopped by, so I got a chance to say hello to many of the cabinet secretaries we've had on the show, many of whom you know and I know.

00:01:33.000 And it's great.

00:01:34.000 I mean, this administration is just filled with terrific people.

00:01:36.000 Everybody from the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, to the treasury secretary, Scott Besson, to the commerce secretary, Howard Blutnick, was there.

00:01:42.000 And really, it's an amazing team.

00:01:44.000 It's an amazing team that President Trump has put together.

00:01:48.000 Being in the chambers...

00:01:49.000 Of the Congress for the speech was definitely an interesting experience.

00:01:53.000 And I say interesting because the contrast could not be starker between the enthusiasm on the Republican side of the aisle, the excitement, the feeling that America is on the upsurge on the Republican side of the aisle, and the absolute murderous depression in which Democrats have now sunk themselves.

00:02:09.000 And you could feel it.

00:02:10.000 It was not even as though there was an animated sort of point of resistance for Democrats.

00:02:15.000 As they filed into the chamber.

00:02:17.000 They looked like a bunch of depressed college students who had just finished debating philosophy and smoking pot in their dorm rooms.

00:02:23.000 That's what it felt like.

00:02:24.000 It was an amazing thing.

00:02:25.000 And it was just dead on one side of the aisle.

00:02:27.000 Not just because they've lost the election and now they no longer control Congress or the Senate or the White House, but also because they cannot find the thing to attack President Trump over.

00:02:36.000 And so what they decided to bring were campus tactics.

00:02:39.000 It was like a Columbia University tentafada, but on the floor of Congress.

00:02:44.000 You had a bunch of...

00:02:45.000 Members of the squad who showed up wearing pink, supposedly to protest the idea that Trump hates women or something.

00:02:50.000 Well, by the way, they refused, as we will see, to applaud for a woman who was brutally injured by a man spiking a volleyball at her.

00:02:58.000 And the Democrats refused to applaud, but they were wearing pink for women.

00:03:02.000 Some of them had on kind of hideous jackets that had Black Lives Matter regalia upon them. 0.96

00:03:07.000 You had a bunch of Democrats who showed up with little placards and signs, which was sort of a leftover from a Rashida Tlaib thing that she did. 0.89

00:03:14.000 The congresswoman from Michigan, the pro-terror congresswoman from Michigan, who herself showed up a couple of years ago at a speech, or a year ago at a speech, holding one of those little placards.

00:03:24.000 It was incredibly memeable.

00:03:25.000 It looked as though she was their Brazilian steakhouse waiting for them to bring the next round of flat iron steak. 0.93

00:03:31.000 And so apparently all Democrats thought that was a genius idea.

00:03:34.000 A bunch of them did that as well.

00:03:36.000 The Democrats acted like puerile, spoiled children with no point of opposition.

00:03:40.000 It felt terrible for them.

00:03:42.000 Truly.

00:03:43.000 It wasn't even an organized opposition.

00:03:45.000 This is a party that is out of control on the Democratic side of the aisle.

00:03:48.000 The Republicans are in lockstep with regard to the Trump agenda.

00:03:51.000 The Democrats have no capacity whatsoever to even get together in opposition.

00:03:56.000 You have Nancy Pelosi, who is down there, looking fairly sober, and she was not one of the people screaming at President Trump, for example.

00:04:03.000 And she herself has been demonstrative in the past.

00:04:05.000 I mean, you remember when President Trump was president the first time, and he gave a State of the Union address, and she literally tore it up on camera.

00:04:12.000 In performative fashion, she was actually the adult in the room on the Democratic side of the aisle last night.

00:04:16.000 Hakeem Jeffries was basically a non-entity on the floor.

00:04:19.000 The people who were getting all the attention were members of the squad.

00:04:22.000 Some members of the Senate, Bernie Sanders, performatively kind of walked out, looking real old, walked out about 15 minutes before the end of the speech.

00:04:29.000 It was a bad look for Democrats.

00:04:30.000 And meanwhile, President Trump was taking the 80% side of every 80-20 issue it was possible to take in this speech, and Democrats were wrong-footed the entire speech.

00:04:40.000 Which is the reason, by the way, that by every available poll statistic, a large majority of people who watched the speech liked what President Trump had to say.

00:04:49.000 According to CBS News, the party identification of speech watchers who were polled, 51% were Republican, 27% were Independent, and 20% were Democrat.

00:04:59.000 Among speech watchers, the approval rating was 76%, which means pretty much all the Republicans and pretty much all the Independents approved of the speech.

00:05:08.000 One of the things President Trump did during the speech that I think was quite clever, and again, we're going to go through it in detail.

00:05:13.000 So if you missed it last night, we'll go through the highlights.

00:05:15.000 We'll go through the bizarre Democratic opposition.

00:05:18.000 In some ways, my guess is it was better to watch it on TV. So some of this I'll be watching for the first time with you on TV because I got to see it live.

00:05:25.000 But the truth is that some of it probably played even better on TV than it did in the room because Democrats were so loud and obnoxious.

00:05:32.000 In many cases, it was very difficult to hear actually what President Trump was saying on the microphone, the sound system.

00:05:37.000 It's not unbelievable in the room.

00:05:39.000 But what President Trump did, just in terms of content, is he spent nearly the entire speech on domestic policy, which is smart.

00:05:46.000 The American people care much more about domestic policy than they do about foreign policy.

00:05:49.000 Now listen, I care deeply about foreign policy because I think that foreign policy affects Americans.

00:05:54.000 We spoke about this just a couple of days ago with regard to, for example, the use of the United States dollar as the world's reserve currency.

00:06:00.000 It has a massive impact on how Americans live, even if we don't think about it a lot.

00:06:04.000 But what President Trump understands, Unnate, kind of gut level, is that Americans care.

00:06:10.000 When he says America first, what most Americans hear is not 1930s isolationism.

00:06:14.000 What most Americans hear is not some sort of racist buzzword.

00:06:18.000 What they hear is that American citizens should be taken care of first, as a first priority.

00:06:23.000 And that is inarguable.

00:06:25.000 Of course, that is 100% true.

00:06:27.000 And so the entire speech last night was directed at this thing.

00:06:29.000 And President Trump kept picking, again, the issues where he is clearly the winner.

00:06:34.000 The two biggest issues that he mentioned over and over last night, illegal immigration and boys are not girls. 1.00

00:06:38.000 These are 80-20 issues in the American public mind.

00:06:41.000 Even Democrats understand that the Joe Biden open border was totally unworkable and, in fact, was a deliberately evil attempt to open America's southern border and endanger America's economy and endanger her citizens.

00:06:53.000 There is literally no excuse you can think of that is good enough to explain why he opened the border, a non-nefarious excuse for why he opened the border.

00:07:00.000 And Americans know that, so President Trump spent an awful lot of time on that.

00:07:03.000 Last night, President Trump also spent an awful lot of time on the basic proposition that boys are not girls.

00:07:08.000 And I have to say, I have a lot of friends who are Democrats, and I keep asking them the same question.

00:07:12.000 You know, you guys, you lost the last election.

00:07:14.000 You didn't get totally blown out.

00:07:16.000 Republicans only have a very slim majority in the House, a very slim majority in the Senate.

00:07:19.000 And President Trump won all the swing states, but it's not as though he won 360 electoral votes or something.

00:07:24.000 Didn't win a 49-state landslide. 0.98

00:07:27.000 So why do you guys keep holding on to an issue in which you guys prove that you are insane? 0.71

00:07:32.000 You guys keep saying on the trans issue, it's a small issue.

00:07:34.000 Why do you guys keep talking?

00:07:35.000 Who cares?

00:07:36.000 It's a tiny percent of the pot.

00:07:38.000 Here is the thing.

00:07:39.000 When you pick an issue and say a totally loony thing about that issue, it implicates your views on all the other issues.

00:07:46.000 If I am interviewing to be your accountant, and we have a great interview, and all of it is going just fine, and then I drop the idea very seriously that birds are not real, that birds are a mythical creature, and actually all birds are robots.

00:08:00.000 Even if I mention that for 30 seconds out of our two-hour interview, are you hiring me?

00:08:04.000 The answer, of course, is no, because you now know that I'm insane.

00:08:07.000 So if Democrats choose to take the insane side of what is a clear issue, then they are going to lose.

00:08:11.000 And President Trump knows that, and he hammered it home time and time again last night.

00:08:15.000 By the way, again, kudos to the people who are sitting next to me in the speaker's box, Matt Walsh and Riley Gaines, two people who have fought endlessly on this particular issue.

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00:10:29.000 So I want to get into the actual speech.

00:10:31.000 So President Trump comes into the chamber.

00:10:33.000 Obviously, Republicans are ecstatic because America is back.

00:10:37.000 And that was the feeling.

00:10:39.000 Here is the opening of President Trump's very optimistic speech about the future of the country.

00:10:43.000 Members of the United States Congress, thank you very much.

00:10:49.000 And to my fellow citizens, America is back.

00:10:58.000 Six weeks ago, I stood beneath the dome of this Capitol and proclaimed the dawn of the golden age of America.

00:11:09.000 From that moment on, it has been nothing but swift and unrelenting action to usher in the greatest and most successful era in the history of our country.

00:11:21.000 We have accomplished more in 43 days than most administrations accomplished in four years or eight years.

00:11:29.000 And we are just getting started. - Yeah!

00:11:34.000 And again, you can see President Trump is in such a great mood.

00:11:37.000 You can see it in the hand motions.

00:11:38.000 I will say that it is a little tiring being in there for like an hour and 45 minutes during the speech.

00:11:43.000 And, you know, you're standing up and sitting down and standing up and sitting down.

00:11:46.000 You get your squats in.

00:11:47.000 I will say that.

00:11:48.000 Your hands get a little tired from all of the applauding.

00:11:50.000 I've done more applauding last night than I think I've done probably in my entire life combined, mainly because I don't applaud for things all that often.

00:11:56.000 But it was amazing.

00:11:58.000 And again, the feeling in the room on the right side of the aisle was absolute enthusiasm.

00:12:02.000 We're back, baby.

00:12:03.000 We're going to do this thing.

00:12:04.000 And on the left side of the aisle, it looked as though everyone had just taken a cyanide pill.

00:12:09.000 I mean, really, it was that bad for the Democrats.

00:12:11.000 And so, it was in that moment that a hero for the Democrats arose.

00:12:16.000 That hero's name is Representative Al Green.

00:12:20.000 Representative Al Green from Houston, Texas, is an old man.

00:12:25.000 I mean, there's no other way to put it.

00:12:28.000 Representative Al Green is a 77-year-old man.

00:12:30.000 He walks with a cane.

00:12:32.000 And he decided that it would be a wise move to get up at the beginning of the speech and start yelling at the President of the United States and never stop yelling at the President of the United States.

00:12:41.000 Now, we'd spoken with Speaker Johnson before.

00:12:43.000 He had expected all sorts of antics from the Democrats.

00:12:45.000 Some of those materialized.

00:12:46.000 Some of those did not.

00:12:47.000 There were rumors Democrats were going to bring empty egg cartons and wave them at President Trump because the price of the eggs is too high.

00:12:52.000 A phenomenon that started, of course, under Joe Biden.

00:12:55.000 Been too high for a while.

00:12:57.000 There was some talk.

00:12:57.000 The Democrats were going to chant.

00:12:59.000 They were going to yell.

00:13:00.000 They were going to bring props.

00:13:00.000 All of the rest of it.

00:13:02.000 He did say that he thought there was a very good shot.

00:13:05.000 He was going to have to pound the gavel on the table and then invoke congressional rules of order to bring some sort of order back to the situation.

00:13:13.000 Well, Al Green decided that he was going to be the man who stood up.

00:13:16.000 He was going to be the guy who stood up in the breach.

00:13:18.000 Now, Al Green is also one of the people who, as we'll see, has been calling for president's impeachment from literally the first day that President Trump became president again.

00:13:27.000 He is a leader of the resistance, but like the old guard of the resistance. 0.99

00:13:32.000 And he started shouting at President Trump, bizarrely enough, about a topic that is really stupid. 0.93

00:13:39.000 One of the things about Trump that befuddles Democrats is that many of the key issues that they have yelled at Republicans about are not Trump's issues. 0.97

00:13:44.000 So, for example, last night, Democrats were holding up these little signs that saved Medicaid.

00:13:49.000 President Trump said he's not going to cut Medicaid.

00:13:51.000 Or save Medicare.

00:13:52.000 Or save Social Security.

00:13:53.000 President Trump, to my chagrin, has said that he doesn't want to touch any of those large-scale entitlement programs.

00:13:59.000 So this totally falls flat.

00:14:01.000 So President Trump says, I have a mandate.

00:14:03.000 I won the seven swing states.

00:14:04.000 We have Congress.

00:14:06.000 Democrats have been rejected across the board.

00:14:08.000 And Al Green starts yelling at him that he does not have a mandate to change the entitlement programs, a thing that Trump himself has said he does not want to do.

00:14:18.000 I mean, if that is your resistance playbook, I just don't understand.

00:14:22.000 It doesn't make any sense.

00:14:23.000 And, by the way, the optic of the man who's going to lead the resistance is a 77-year-old man waving his cane at the president of the United States.

00:14:30.000 Not a great optic, my dude.

00:14:32.000 If you're going to get somebody to do this, get one of your hot, fresh-faced new people to do it.

00:14:39.000 Go get yourself an Ilhan Omar or an AOC or Rashida Tlaib or a Nayana Press.

00:14:45.000 Get somebody who's got some juice.

00:14:49.000 Al Green, this was your move, guys?

00:14:52.000 And then he yelled long enough that he had to be taken out by the sergeant-at-arms.

00:14:55.000 Here's how it looked.

00:14:58.000 Mr. Green, take your seat.

00:14:59.000 Take your seat, sir.

00:15:02.000 Take your seat.

00:15:06.000 Finding that members continue to engage in willful and concerted disruption of proper decorum, the chair now directs the sergeant-at-arms to restore order.

00:15:16.000 Remove this gentleman from the chamber.

00:15:27.000 And look at the other Democrats.

00:15:28.000 The Democrats are sitting there, and even they are like, there's nothing we can do about this.

00:15:32.000 Now, you can imagine a scenario where Democrats had actually planned a quote-unquote act of resistance, where Trump said something, and they knew he was going to say it.

00:15:39.000 And then one of them got up and shouted at the president, had to be removed, and the rest of the Democrats walked out as a show of solidarity.

00:15:45.000 That at least would be an interesting optical move.

00:15:47.000 But Democrats' move was, Al Green was going to yell at the president from the outset about a dumb topic that President Trump is not even taking on. 0.69

00:15:54.000 And then they were all going to sit there looking half-depressed. 0.51

00:15:57.000 Like, cheers to you guys.

00:15:59.000 I mean, just optically genius.

00:16:00.000 And then Al Green leaves the chamber and proceeds to say that he's initiating impeachment against President Trump.

00:16:06.000 I'm sure it's gonna go well, man, dude.

00:16:08.000 Is that the only thing that you're protesting?

00:16:10.000 No, I have other things I'm protesting.

00:16:12.000 And I'm also working on my articles of impeachment.

00:16:15.000 This president is unfit.

00:16:17.000 He should not hold the office.

00:16:19.000 34 felony convictions, two times impeached.

00:16:24.000 Okay, so you're going for another impeachment.

00:16:26.000 Congrats to you.

00:16:27.000 This is the face of your Democratic Party.

00:16:28.000 I can't imagine why you guys are doing so poorly.

00:16:31.000 So, back to the speech.

00:16:32.000 President Trump announces, correctly, that he has been the most active president in the first month of his administration of any president in modern history.

00:16:39.000 This, of course, is absolutely true. 0.78

00:16:41.000 Over the past six weeks, I have signed nearly 100 executive orders and taken more than 400 executive actions, a record.

00:16:51.000 To restore common sense, safety, optimism, and wealth all across our wonderful land.

00:16:57.000 The people elected me to do the job, and I'm doing it.

00:17:01.000 In fact, it has been stated by many that the first month of our presidency, it's our presidency, is the most successful in the history of our nation.

00:17:14.000 And what makes it even more impressive is that, do you know who number two is?

00:17:20.000 George Washington.

00:17:21.000 How about that?

00:17:23.000 I don't know about that list, but we'll take it.

00:17:28.000 Again, Democrats freaked out about it.

00:17:30.000 He mentioned George Washington.

00:17:32.000 How could he?

00:17:34.000 It's a self-deprecating joke at the end, right?

00:17:36.000 I don't know about that list, but we'll take it.

00:17:38.000 Okay.

00:17:39.000 Come on.

00:17:40.000 So, President Trump then did something incredibly smart.

00:17:43.000 So again, the entire speech, I think, was great.

00:17:46.000 It's fascinating how the State of the Union has evolved over the course of time.

00:17:50.000 So I'm old enough to remember when it was a big deal in 2009, when President Obama was trying to push Obamacare, and a representative named Joe Wilson from South Carolina got up and shouted at the president and said, you lie.

00:18:05.000 By the way, he was correct.

00:18:06.000 Obama was, in fact, lying.

00:18:07.000 And this was a national scandal.

00:18:09.000 How could this one guy get up and yell at Barack Obama?

00:18:12.000 Just absolutely awful.

00:18:14.000 How could something like this happen?

00:18:15.000 And then in 2010, there was another controversy because President Obama said something overtly false about the Supreme Court, and Justice Samuel Alito, who's in the audience, was caught on tape kind of shaking his head.

00:18:25.000 How dare he?

00:18:26.000 Oh, my God.

00:18:27.000 Oh, the decorum. 0.99

00:18:28.000 The media apparently have no such qualms about Democrats acting like complete jackass, yelling, screaming, acting like just spoiled brat kids on a college campus in the middle of a Tuesday, blocking classes for the other students. 0.97

00:18:41.000 They have no problem with that. 0.99

00:18:42.000 I mean, the entire time, Democrats are just heckling Trump.

00:18:45.000 What Trump did, very smart, right off the top, President Trump says, listen, I'm not going to play this game where the cameras cut back and you see one side of the chamber standing and one side of the chamber sitting and you figure the president is just too divisive.

00:18:58.000 I'm just going to point out right now, nothing I do or say or can do or can say will ever get these people clapping.

00:19:04.000 Now, this is a smart tactic.

00:19:06.000 It's actually a tactic that I frequently use in debate, which is you call out the favorite tactic of the opposition and it takes the bat right out of their hands.

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00:21:19.000 So what Trump is doing here is he's saying, listen, I dare you not to clap.

00:21:23.000 And in fact, half the night was devoted to things that if you are a sentient, decent human being, you have to clap for.

00:21:29.000 I don't care if you're a Democrat or if you're a Republican.

00:21:31.000 If you don't clap, as we'll see, for a 13-year-old Brain cancer survivor becoming an honorary member of the Secret Service.

00:21:38.000 Really?

00:21:40.000 You're not going to clap for that?

00:21:41.000 But this is the whole setup.

00:21:42.000 So Trump basically double-dog dares Democrats not to clap for things.

00:21:47.000 They're never going to clap for anything that I do.

00:21:49.000 I'm going to say a bunch of super popular stuff right now.

00:21:51.000 And watch, Democrats won't even clap.

00:21:52.000 And that's why you can't vote for them in the future.

00:21:54.000 That's why they don't deserve power.

00:21:56.000 Very smart move from the President of the United States right here.

00:21:59.000 This is my fifth such speech to Congress.

00:22:03.000 And once again, I look at the Democrats in front of me and I realize there is absolutely nothing I can say to make them happy or to make them stand or smile or applaud.

00:22:15.000 Nothing I can do.

00:22:16.000 I could find a cure to the most devastating disease, a disease that would wipe out entire nations or announce the answers to the greatest economy in history or the stoppage of crime to the lowest levels ever recorded.

00:22:33.000 And these people sitting right here will not clap, will not stand and certainly will not cheer for these astronomical achievements.

00:22:43.000 They won't do it no matter what.

00:22:45.000 Five, five times I've been up here.

00:22:47.000 It's very sad.

00:22:49.000 And it just shouldn't be this way.

00:22:52.000 So Democrats sitting before me for just this one night, why not join us in celebrating so many incredible wins for America? - Monica.

00:23:05.000 For the good of our nation, let's work together and let's truly make America great again.

00:23:12.000 And he was doing this all night, by the way, this sort of hand motion where he points out at the Democrats, he's like, you guys, you're not even, I see you, I see you not, you know, clapping for the obvious, obvious things.

00:23:21.000 And then he says a bunch of obvious things.

00:23:23.000 This is one of the themes.

00:23:25.000 And so this was sort of a combination of Trump saying obvious, excellent things, and also the Oprah Winfrey show, because he did something different, President Trump did, as we'll see, during this address, than what other presidents do when they pick people out of the audience.

00:23:38.000 So that's a mainstay of State of the Union address, really since Ronald Reagan, who was also a performer, obviously.

00:23:44.000 Reagan pioneered the use of people in the audience, where he would say, and there's Barbara, and Barbara's a hairdresser who's had to overcome.

00:23:50.000 The problems of licensing in her state.

00:23:52.000 Stand up, Barbara. 1.00

00:23:53.000 And everybody cheers for Barbara.

00:23:54.000 So President Trump did something different during the speech, which is he actually did things.

00:23:58.000 It's kind of like the open Winfrey show.

00:23:59.000 Hey, look under your seat.

00:24:00.000 There's something awesome.

00:24:02.000 There really was a sort of presenter vibe.

00:24:05.000 He held up an executive order in the middle of the speech, handed him by the vice president, establishing and renaming a park in honor of a young girl who was killed by illegal immigrants.

00:24:16.000 Or he called out somebody in the audience.

00:24:20.000 Who had just received an acceptance to West Point.

00:24:23.000 And all of these are sort of like nice, warm moments.

00:24:26.000 It's President Trump taking it to the next level, which of course is what he's good at.

00:24:28.000 President Trump originally was an extraordinarily successful TV personality.

00:24:32.000 That's one of the big reasons he's President of the United States today.

00:24:35.000 And Democrats couldn't even clap for stuff like that.

00:24:37.000 So here's an example.

00:24:38.000 So yesterday, President Trump says there are only two genders.

00:24:41.000 And this, of course, is an issue near and dear to our heart here at The Daily Wire.

00:24:45.000 I'm not sure there's any company on Earth that has fought harder on this particular issue.

00:24:48.000 As I told you, We fought that every step of the way.

00:25:14.000 So obviously, Matt Walsh has been a lion on this issue.

00:25:16.000 We're also sitting next to Riley Gaines.

00:25:19.000 Worked with Riley in the past on this, and Riley herself has done amazing work on this.

00:25:22.000 The three of us were sitting together, and so we were out of our seats for a huge amount of this.

00:25:26.000 There was a point in the speech where President Trump was talking about two genders, men being banned from women's sports, and then he paid tribute to a young woman named Peyton McNabb.

00:25:38.000 Now, I don't care where you are on this particular issue.

00:25:41.000 Peyton McNabb is a young woman, as we will see.

00:25:44.000 President Trump's going to talk about it.

00:25:45.000 Who got hit in the face with a volleyball, hit by a very large male.

00:25:49.000 And sustained actual serious brain damage because of it.

00:25:53.000 And Democrats could not clap in support of her.

00:25:56.000 Because it was attached to the baseline logical motion that men should not hit volleyballs in the faces of women.

00:26:02.000 Democrats could not get on board for that.

00:26:04.000 So, here we go.

00:26:04.000 We have removed the poison of critical race theory from our public schools.

00:26:11.000 And I signed an order making it the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders. 0.99

00:26:19.000 Male and female.

00:26:22.000 I also signed an executive order to ban men from playing in women's sports. 0.93

00:26:31.000 Three years ago, Peyton McNabb was an all-star high school athlete, one of the best, preparing for a future in college sports.

00:26:40.000 But when her girls' volleyball match was invaded by a male, he smashed the ball so hard in Peyton's face, causing traumatic brain injury, partially paralyzing her right side and ending her athletic career. 0.85

00:26:56.000 It was a shot like she's never seen before.

00:27:01.000 She's never seen anything like it.

00:27:02.000 Peyton is here tonight.

00:27:04.000 in the gallery and Peyton from now on schools will kick the men off the girls team or they will lose all federal funding.

00:27:14.000 Hey, now Democrats didn't stand for this.

00:27:23.000 Democrats didn't even cheer for this.

00:27:25.000 Why?

00:27:26.000 Because they want men to play in women's sports. 1.00

00:27:28.000 These are 80-20 issues Trump takes the right side of, and then Democrats don't know what to do with it.

00:27:32.000 President Trump also bragged on Doge, Talked about the creation of Doge.

00:27:36.000 Doge is highly popular with the American people.

00:27:38.000 Despite all attempts to turn Doge into some sort of wedge issue for Americans, Americans want an investigation into waste, fraud, and abuse at the governmental level.

00:27:47.000 Democrats have focused their ire on Elon, but the brilliance of what Trump has done with Elon is that Elon can take it.

00:27:53.000 What does Elon care?

00:27:53.000 He's the richest man on earth.

00:27:55.000 What does he care?

00:27:57.000 Okay, so he's a little more unpopular with the people.

00:27:59.000 Good news, he's not actually an elected official, Elon Musk.

00:28:03.000 And it was really funny.

00:28:04.000 There's a point here where Trump was saying, we are putting the power back in the hands of the people, taking it away from the unelected bureaucracy.

00:28:09.000 And Democrats started pointing up at Musk.

00:28:11.000 Well, he's unelected.

00:28:13.000 He's literally trying to cut the bureaucracy.

00:28:16.000 You understand?

00:28:17.000 You're making an argument that he shouldn't cut the bureaucracy because he's a bureaucrat cutting the bureaucracy.

00:28:23.000 No, that is not going to wash.

00:28:24.000 Here's President Trump on doge.

00:28:26.000 To further combat inflation, we will not only be reducing the cost of energy, but we'll be ending the flagrant waste of taxpayer dollars.

00:28:35.000 And to that end, I have created the brand new Department of Government Efficiency.

00:28:41.000 Goj! 1.00

00:28:42.000 Perhaps you've heard of it.

00:28:44.000 Perhaps.

00:28:45.000 Which is headed by Elon Musk, who is in the gallery tonight.

00:28:58.000 Thank you, Elon.

00:28:59.000 He's working very hard.

00:29:00.000 He didn't need this.

00:29:02.000 He didn't need this.

00:29:03.000 Thank you very much.

00:29:05.000 We appreciate it.

00:29:06.000 Everybody here, even this side appreciates it, I believe.

00:29:11.000 They just don't want to admit that.

00:29:14.000 Just listen to some of the appalling waste we have already identified.

00:29:20.000 $22 billion from HHS to provide free housing and cars for illegal aliens.

00:29:29.000 $45 million for diversity, equity, and inclusion scholarships in Burma.

00:29:35.000 $40 million to improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants.

00:29:42.000 Nobody knows what that is.

00:29:46.000 $8 million to promote LGBTQI +, in the African nation of Lesotho, which nobody has ever heard of.

00:29:57.000 $60 million for indigenous peoples and Afro-Colombian empowerment in Central America.

00:30:06.000 $60 million.

00:30:07.000 $8 million for making mice transgender. 0.94

00:30:14.000 This is real.

00:30:18.000 By the way, this was my favorite part of the speech.

00:30:20.000 By far.

00:30:20.000 It was just a comedy routine.

00:30:21.000 It was just a comedy routine.

00:30:22.000 I mean, just listing off this stuff.

00:30:24.000 And by the way, those asides are for sure not in the teleprompter.

00:30:28.000 Those little asides are like, Lesotho, and no one even knows what that is.

00:30:34.000 It's true.

00:30:35.000 Now Democrats are like, I know where Lesotho is.

00:30:38.000 The president should know where Lesotho is.

00:30:41.000 And the president's like, no one knows.

00:30:42.000 And Americans are like, I don't know. 0.96

00:30:44.000 That's true.

00:30:46.000 By the way, the way that he does, he's such a comedian.

00:30:49.000 Okay, I think it is worth noting here, Donald Trump is an amazing performer.

00:30:52.000 Like, an amazing performer.

00:30:53.000 He has two special gifts as a politician.

00:30:55.000 I've seen both of these in action in person.

00:30:58.000 One is, he's amazing in a room.

00:31:00.000 Like, truly incredible in a room.

00:31:01.000 This is an underrated skill.

00:31:03.000 Many politicians don't have it.

00:31:04.000 He talks to people.

00:31:05.000 He actually likes people.

00:31:07.000 He's a people person.

00:31:08.000 And so, working a room, he's amazing.

00:31:09.000 His other skill is that he's funny as hell.

00:31:12.000 He really is funny.

00:31:13.000 And so, he has comedic timing.

00:31:15.000 And he can't teach comedic timing.

00:31:16.000 It's either a thing you got or a thing you don't.

00:31:18.000 And so, the way that he even reads off these inanities is hilarious, right?

00:31:23.000 He says, we're paying for voter transparency in Botswana.

00:31:31.000 He pauses, and the pause, the ellipses, is before in Botswana.

00:31:37.000 He's saying, we're paying $60 million for voter transparency in Botswana.

00:31:42.000 Right?

00:31:43.000 So you have a moment where you're like, okay, that doesn't sound that bad. 0.99

00:31:45.000 And they say, in Botswana, oh my god, that's ridiculous. 0.97

00:31:47.000 Right? 0.98

00:31:48.000 That's great comedic timing.

00:31:49.000 And he did this for a long time in the speech, and it was really funny.

00:31:52.000 And what's smart about this is that the total sort of bottom line cuts that he's talking about are not a gigantic percentage of the American budget.

00:32:00.000 I mean, let's be clear about this.

00:32:01.000 I've said this a thousand times.

00:32:02.000 I will say it a thousand more.

00:32:04.000 In order to get America's debt problem under control, you're going to have to touch the third rail of American politics.

00:32:08.000 No one wants to do that.

00:32:09.000 But...

00:32:10.000 What President Trump was doing last night was incredibly smart politically because Americans have two simultaneous positions.

00:32:16.000 One, they don't want cuts to any of these major welfare programs.

00:32:20.000 And two, they want cuts.

00:32:21.000 So what he's doing is he's identifying cuts, but not touching the things that Americans actually don't want touched, which is smart.

00:32:27.000 And just as a political matter, it's incredibly smart and, by the way, extraordinarily funny.

00:32:31.000 And Democrats are sitting there all sour-faced, like, how do you not laugh at this?

00:32:34.000 Like, are you in favor of teaching guinea pigs how to... 0.66

00:32:38.000 Transgender themselves in Romania?

00:32:41.000 Is that a thing that you're huge on?

00:32:43.000 Is it super-duper important or what?

00:32:45.000 And then President Trump got into a litany of talk about waste and fraud in Social Security.

00:32:49.000 Now, at this point, I'll point out, it was very funny.

00:32:53.000 I do want to point out that we are not actually paying 360-year-olds their Social Security benefits.

00:32:58.000 That's not actually what's going on. 0.98

00:32:59.000 Basically, we have an incredibly stupid system for processing Social Security payments. 0.69

00:33:05.000 In which all the listings are really, really old, and there's a default date that you list somebody's age at if you don't actually know their age that goes back to 1875 or something. 0.96

00:33:14.000 There's actually been an audit of Social Security.

00:33:16.000 There are people who are fraudulently obtaining Social Security, but it is not tens of millions of people who are obtaining fraudulent Social Security. 0.99

00:33:22.000 It was, however, a reminder that America's government is filled with kind of inanities and stupidities. 0.97

00:33:27.000 So here was President Trump talking about waste and fraud in Social Security. 0.99

00:33:32.000 1.3 million people from ages.

00:33:35.000 150 to 159 and over 130,000 people, according to the social security databases, are age over 160 years old.

00:33:52.000 We have a healthier country than I thought, Bobby.

00:33:57.000 That was a funny line.

00:33:58.000 It was a funny line.

00:33:59.000 Well, meanwhile, there were some actual controversial sections of the speech.

00:34:02.000 The most controversial section of President Trump's speech was not anything about illegal immigration.

00:34:06.000 It was nothing about foreign policy.

00:34:07.000 It was none of those sort of hot buttons.

00:34:09.000 It was the economy.

00:34:09.000 So, as I've been saying for a while, I am concerned that the stock market right now is overvalued.

00:34:14.000 The stock market is currently running at an outrageous P.E. ratio.

00:34:16.000 It's the price-to-earnings ratio, typically when you're valuating a company, when you're trying to determine how valuable a company is.

00:34:23.000 The earnings, unless it has some sort of tremendous growth potential.

00:34:27.000 Has to be demonstrated in the stock price.

00:34:29.000 And a sort of typical metric that's been used for decades is a metric first put forth by Benjamin Graham, who was a sort of mentor to Warren Buffett, that suggested that the price-to-earnings ratio on a company should be somewhere at the upper end in the 16 to 18 ratio.

00:34:45.000 Right now, the entire Dow Jones Industrial Average is trading at a 28 ratio.

00:34:50.000 That's way too high.

00:34:51.000 The so-called Magnificent 7 stocks, that'd be stocks like NVIDIA and Amazon and Apple.

00:34:56.000 They are trading at a PE ratio that exceeds 55. Certain stocks like Tesla are trading at a PE ratio that is almost 200. Now, it may be that Tesla justifies that stock valuation by suddenly leaping forward in AI in new and unbelievable ways and totally revolutionizing the way, for example, shipping is done in the United States.

00:35:14.000 I think that's one of the promises that Elon is trying to make with Tesla.

00:35:16.000 However, it seems that the stock market is currently inflated.

00:35:21.000 Inflation itself remains stubbornly high.

00:35:24.000 In other words, there are vulnerabilities in the American economy.

00:35:26.000 For sure, for sure.

00:35:28.000 And we've been talking about this for, at this point, several months.

00:35:31.000 And if you go back to the Biden administration longer than that, I think there's some systemic vulnerabilities in the American economy.

00:35:37.000 So, President Trump is trying to do some stuff about that.

00:35:40.000 One of the things he's been trying to do, which is radically revise how regulations are done, excellent.

00:35:44.000 Unleash doge to get rid of the waste fraud and abuse.

00:35:47.000 Great.

00:35:48.000 Increase productivity by, for example, unleashing America's energy resources, which you talked about last night.

00:35:53.000 Fantastic.

00:35:54.000 And then there are tariffs.

00:35:55.000 President Trump has talked a lot about tariffs.

00:35:57.000 And last night he talked a lot about tariffs.

00:36:00.000 And he's using the phrase retaliatory tariffs.

00:36:02.000 And there's sort of two sets of tariffs that he's talked about.

00:36:04.000 One is the set of tariffs that went into place this week on Canada and Mexico.

00:36:08.000 And already there is some sound that those tariffs are going to be revised pretty quickly because Canada and Mexico are going to make concessions with regard to, say, fentanyl or with regard to border security that will allow the United States to then lower our tariffs.

00:36:21.000 The other thing that President Trump has talked about are reciprocal tariffs.

00:36:24.000 Reciprocal tariffs are the idea, as President Trump explained last night, that if a country is tariffing our goods at 20%, we should retaliate by tariffing their goods at 20%.

00:36:32.000 We are a far larger market than they are.

00:36:35.000 Now, if the goal of that is to leverage their tariffs down, totally in favor.

00:36:40.000 That's great.

00:36:41.000 We should, in fact, use our market power in order to flex on those countries and force them to lower their tariffs.

00:36:46.000 If, however, the idea is...

00:36:48.000 That tariffs are in and of themselves an economic good for the United States?

00:36:51.000 That is generally untrue.

00:36:53.000 Tariffs are very good for the industries that are protected, at least for a moment.

00:36:57.000 And then, when those tariffs are removed, those industries tend to be bloated and problematic.

00:37:01.000 This is what happened to the American auto industry in the 1950s and 60s.

00:37:04.000 We had high tariffs on foreign autos.

00:37:07.000 We signed incredibly lucrative union contracts within our auto companies.

00:37:11.000 Our cars became too expensive and not good enough.

00:37:14.000 And then, when we opened up any of those tariffs, And we allowed, for example, Japanese cars like Toyota into the market.

00:37:20.000 Suddenly, the American auto manufacturing sector just took a nosedive.

00:37:24.000 Tariffs tend to protect bloated industries.

00:37:27.000 And so the only purpose for tariffs that I think is legitimate is in order to get other people to lower their tariffs or as a matter of national security.

00:37:35.000 You're trying to protect industries that even if they're bloated, you need them shored in the United States. 1.00

00:37:40.000 President Trump has sort of a different take on tariffs.

00:37:43.000 He seems to suggest over and over and over that tariffs are actually a net benefit to the American economy overall.

00:37:49.000 It's just good for the American economy, tariffs. 0.79

00:37:52.000 The evidence suggests that that is not in fact the case because Americans are both producers and consumers.

00:37:56.000 So again, what that means is that if you're in an industry protected by a tariff because other countries now have to, the American consumer now has to pay an inflated rate for, say, a Japanese car as opposed to an American car, that's good for an American car manufacturer for the domestic market.

00:38:10.000 It is very bad for the American consumer who now has to pay a higher price.

00:38:13.000 And every American is both a producer and a consumer.

00:38:16.000 And so if you're not in the industry that is positively affected by the tariff, then you're just getting hurt as a consumer.

00:38:23.000 And overall, if there are lots of tariffs, then everybody gets hurt more as a consumer.

00:38:27.000 You end up with a restricted supply of a product while the demand remains similar.

00:38:31.000 And that is a recipe for actual inflation.

00:38:33.000 Now, President Trump was talking about tariffs last night.

00:38:35.000 He laid out a very commonsensical case.

00:38:38.000 For reciprocal tariffs, again, the question for me on a going-forward basis, and we'll get more into this, is whether the emphasis in the phrase reciprocal tariffs is on the word reciprocal, meaning you lower yours and we'll lower ours, you raise yours and we'll raise ours, which again, that's a great way to leverage other countries, or if the emphasis is on tariffs, like tariffs are in and of themselves a positive, beneficial good.

00:38:57.000 As I've said before, I think President Trump likes to make the case that tariffs are a positive, beneficial good, but he also could be doing that as leverage.

00:39:03.000 He does this all the time.

00:39:04.000 He could be saying, listen, I love...

00:39:05.000 I love tariffs so much.

00:39:06.000 I love them.

00:39:06.000 They're unbelievable.

00:39:07.000 I'm totally willing to do it because I love them anyway.

00:39:09.000 You're gonna have to convince me not to do it.

00:39:10.000 That's a good piece of leverage.

00:39:12.000 Here's President Trump last night on tariffs.

00:39:14.000 By the way, we're gonna have growth in the auto industry like nobody's ever seen.

00:39:17.000 Plants are opening up all over the place.

00:39:19.000 Deals are being made.

00:39:20.000 Never seen.

00:39:21.000 That's a combination of the election win and tariffs.

00:39:24.000 It's a beautiful word, isn't it?

00:39:27.000 That, along with our other policies, will allow our auto industry to absolutely boom.

00:39:33.000 It's gonna boom.

00:39:36.000 So, again, that may be true in the short term.

00:39:39.000 I don't think that's true in the long term.

00:39:41.000 In the short term, it's good politics.

00:39:43.000 Most presidents do engage in some sort of protective trade barriers around key industries in which they are seeking to win votes.

00:39:49.000 That's a long-standing policy going all the way back to Ronald Reagan and before.

00:39:52.000 However, it remains to be seen whether that is going to have a large negative impact on the economy if, in fact, a durable set of high tariffs are to become a regular part of the American political landscape.

00:40:05.000 This is the thing that I fear most.

00:40:07.000 President Trump requires a strong economy.

00:40:08.000 Now, the thing I know about President Trump also is he doesn't like a weak economy.

00:40:11.000 So if it turns out that the stock market takes a dump, I don't think he's going to keep sticking with the thing that is negatively affecting his presidency.

00:40:17.000 He's not stubborn when it comes to actual results.

00:40:20.000 He lives in the world of reality.

00:40:21.000 So he is not the kind of person who just keeps banging his head against a wall, seeking to achieve a different result from the same action over and over and over.

00:40:28.000 Okay, back to the other portions of the speech.

00:40:30.000 And one of the key messages of the speech is Democrats...

00:40:33.000 Can't clap for anything, right?

00:40:34.000 He said it right at the top.

00:40:35.000 So, for example, President Trump announced that we had captured an ISIS terrorist who was responsible for the Abbey Gate massacre.

00:40:42.000 It is worth noting at this point that Joe Biden's complete unwillingness to even reach out to and meet the families of those murdered at Abbey Gate is one of the signal blots on a not only unremarkable but insultingly terrible political career for the former president of the United States.

00:40:57.000 President Trump announced at the State of the Union.

00:41:01.000 The capture of one of the terrorists responsible.

00:41:03.000 And Democrats sat on their hands.

00:41:06.000 America is once again standing strong against the forces of radical Islamic terrorism. 0.95

00:41:12.000 Three and a half years ago, ISIS terrorists killed 13 American service members and countless others in the Abbey Gate bombing during the disastrous and incompetent withdrawal from Afghanistan.

00:41:26.000 Not that they were withdrawing.

00:41:28.000 It was the way they withdrew.

00:41:30.000 Perhaps the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country.

00:41:34.000 Tonight I am pleased to announce that we have just apprehended the top terrorist responsible for that atrocity, and he is right now on his way here to face the swift sword of American justice.

00:41:52.000 That's a great thing, right?

00:41:54.000 Well, not for the Democrats.

00:41:55.000 Again, I was sitting right above the Democratic side.

00:41:57.000 The speaker's box is on the Democratic side of the aisle.

00:41:59.000 And so I'm looking right down at Democrats who are all on their phones, texting, taking selfies, exploring X, maybe doing some illicit...

00:42:07.000 In any case, they wouldn't get up and cheer for that.

00:42:11.000 I mean, that's just a win for America. 0.90

00:42:12.000 I don't understand.

00:42:13.000 If a terrorist gets captured, that is good for America, is it not? 0.68

00:42:16.000 Or how about if I were to tell you that President Trump brought home a man who was essentially held hostage by the Russians for 14 years and that he was in attendance?

00:42:24.000 Would they clap then?

00:42:25.000 If you want to end wars, you have to talk to both sides.

00:42:30.000 Nearly four years ago, amid rising tensions, a history teacher named Mark Fogel was detained in Russia and sentenced to 14 years in a penal colony.

00:42:42.000 Rough stuff.

00:42:43.000 The previous administration barely lifted a finger to help him.

00:42:48.000 They knew he was innocent, but they had no idea where to begin.

00:42:52.000 But last summer, I promised his 95-year-old mother, Malfin, that we would bring her boy safely back home.

00:43:01.000 Well, After 22 days in office, I did just that.

00:43:05.000 And they are here tonight.

00:43:07.000 So, again, Democrats, where were they?

00:43:16.000 They were sitting on their hands.

00:43:18.000 Hey, how about if I told you that the President of the United States called out a young man who wants to go to West Point.

00:43:27.000 And told him in the room that he had been admitted to West Point.

00:43:29.000 Again, Trump took it to the next level.

00:43:31.000 As I say, most of the call-outs are typically not anything beyond we're going to call you out and give you a hand.

00:43:36.000 President Trump actually sort of handed out prizes in the room.

00:43:38.000 This is a great moment.

00:43:39.000 Democrats couldn't cheer for it.

00:43:42.000 Jason is a senior in high school, a six-letter varsity athlete, a really good athlete, they say.

00:43:48.000 A brilliant student with a 4.46, that's good, GPA. And his greatest dream is to attend the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

00:44:00.000 And Jason, that's a very big deal getting in.

00:44:04.000 That's a hard one to get into.

00:44:05.000 But I'm pleased to inform you that your application has been accepted.

00:44:11.000 You will soon be joining the Court of Kinna.

00:44:14.000 Did Democrats stand for that one?

00:44:31.000 Nope.

00:44:31.000 And then he has a high five from this next person.

00:44:34.000 It was actually a little bit earlier in the speech that the moment of the night came.

00:44:38.000 So President Trump called out a young 13-year-old boy.

00:44:43.000 And this 13-year-old boy had brain cancer several years ago.

00:44:46.000 He had scars on his head from where he had surgery.

00:44:48.000 And this boy has wanted to join NYPD, so they made him sort of an honorary member of NYPD. And then President Trump called in the new head of the Secret Service.

00:44:57.000 Sean Curran.

00:44:58.000 And Curran, of course, is one of the agents who was protecting Trump on a terrible day in Butler, Pennsylvania last year when the president nearly had his head blown off on live television.

00:45:06.000 And the president makes this kid an honorary member of Secret Service.

00:45:10.000 It was great.

00:45:11.000 It's like a wonderful moment.

00:45:12.000 I don't care who you are.

00:45:13.000 It's just fun and wonderful and charming and delightful.

00:45:16.000 And there was literally one Democrat, one, who stood up and clapped.

00:45:20.000 If you can't clap for the cancer kid, I don't know what's wrong with you people.

00:45:23.000 I honest to God don't know what's wrong with you people. 0.92

00:45:25.000 You have a screw loose.

00:45:26.000 I mean, just on a pragmatic level, put aside this sort of moral and empathetic level.

00:45:30.000 On a pragmatic level, a politically pragmatic level, what are you thinking?

00:45:34.000 What in the world are you thinking?

00:45:35.000 Do you like the split screen of you guys sitting on your hands?

00:45:38.000 Well, a young black kid who has survived brain cancer is given a Secret Service membership and gives a hug to the head of the Secret Service.

00:45:47.000 I'm sorry, this is like American as apple pie.

00:45:50.000 It's like one of the most American things I've ever seen in my life.

00:45:52.000 All it required was a yellow glow put on by a sepia light and an upswelling of music and a giant American flag unfurled in the background.

00:46:01.000 It's like all that all that it needed.

00:46:03.000 Right.

00:46:03.000 This is like Americana times a million.

00:46:05.000 And you guys are sitting there on your hands, looking like you're sucking on lemons. 0.99

00:46:10.000 It's unbelievable. 0.94

00:46:10.000 Here was the president last night. 0.94

00:46:13.000 Joining us at the gallery tonight is a young man who truly loves our police.

00:46:19.000 His name is DJ Daniel.

00:46:20.000 He is 13 years old, and he has always dreamed of becoming a police officer.

00:46:27.000 But in 2018, DJ was diagnosed with brain cancer.

00:46:32.000 The doctors gave him five months at most to live.

00:46:36.000 That was more than six years ago.

00:46:39.000 Since that time, DJ and his dad have been on a quest to make his dream come true, and DJ has been sworn in.

00:46:48.000 As an honorary law enforcement officer, actually a number of times, the police love him, the police departments love him.

00:46:57.000 And tonight, DJ, we're going to do you the biggest honor of them all.

00:47:01.000 I am asking our new Secret Service director, Sean Curran, to officially make you an agent of the United States Secret Service.

00:47:29.000 and then his dad holds him up, right?

00:47:33.000 And then he ended up giving Shankaran a hug.

00:47:35.000 And one Democrat applauded. 0.96

00:47:37.000 What the hell is wrong with you people? 1.00

00:47:38.000 Are you insane? 1.00

00:47:39.000 Have you lost your ever-loving minds? 1.00

00:47:41.000 You're so unlikable. 1.00

00:47:42.000 You're so terrible. 1.00

00:47:43.000 Like an aggregation of all the most annoying human beings on literally planet Earth. 1.00

00:47:49.000 That's who you are. 0.89

00:47:50.000 And you made that absolutely clear last night over and over and over again.

00:47:54.000 Over and over and over again.

00:47:56.000 And the president of the United States called out the family of Lakin Riley.

00:47:59.000 Of course, we all know Lakin Riley's name.

00:48:01.000 She was a University of Georgia student who was murdered by illegal immigrants. 1.00

00:48:04.000 He called out her family in the crowd.

00:48:07.000 Again, Democrats sitting on their hands.

00:48:09.000 No applause.

00:48:10.000 Just unreal.

00:48:12.000 Lakin was stolen from us by a savage illegal alien gang member who was arrested while trespassing across Biden's open southern border.

00:48:23.000 And then set loose into the United States under the heartless policies of that failed administration.

00:48:29.000 It was indeed a failed administration.

00:48:32.000 He had then been arrested and released in a Democrat-run sanctuary city, a disaster, before ending the life of this beautiful young angel.

00:48:44.000 With us this evening are Laken's beloved mother, Allison, and her sister, Lauren.

00:48:50.000 Last year, I told Laken's grieving parents that we would ensure their daughter would not have died in vain.

00:48:58.000 That's why the very first bill I signed into law as your 47th president mandates the detention of all dangerous criminal aliens who threaten public safety.

00:49:11.000 It's a very strong, powerful act.

00:49:13.000 It's called the Laken-Riley Act.

00:49:17.000 So Allison and Lauren, America will never, ever forget our beautiful Laken-Hope-Riley.

00:49:26.000 And again, big applause in the chamber, except from the Democrats.

00:49:29.000 It was amazing.

00:49:32.000 President Trump, there were so many great moments last night, truly.

00:49:37.000 And it was an amazing pleasure to be in the chamber, a real honor, because it was a historic moment.

00:49:40.000 It really feels like America is on the upswing.

00:49:42.000 When President Trump speaks in tones of optimism, there's a reason for that.

00:49:45.000 I will say, it was very funny in the room when President Trump was talking about the Panama Canal and Greenland.

00:49:52.000 Like, highly enjoyable.

00:49:53.000 First of all, Secretary Rubio has already gone down and visited Panama.

00:49:56.000 And Panama has already pledged they are going to get rid of Chinese ownership at both ends of the Panama Canal.

00:50:01.000 We've talked about this on the show.

00:50:02.000 There are several problems with the Panama Canal.

00:50:04.000 The biggest problem is that you have two Chinese-owned companies that basically... 1.00

00:50:08.000 Have stations at the end of each side of the Panama Canal?

00:50:12.000 And should they decide to, for example, just obstruct the canal in either direction, that is a massive threat to America's naval might on both sides of the North and South American continent.

00:50:24.000 It's a real problem.

00:50:25.000 And so Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, had already negotiated an end to that.

00:50:29.000 He also already negotiated a win for the United States in lowering fees for the transit of American naval military ships through the Panama Canal.

00:50:37.000 President Trump then says, in front of Rubio and the entire crowd, we're taking the entire canal.

00:50:41.000 And you can see that, shall I say, the Secretary of State seems a little surprised.

00:50:46.000 He too had a surprise under his seat, as it turned out.

00:50:49.000 The Panama Canal was built by Americans for Americans, not for others. 0.94

00:50:55.000 But others could use it.

00:50:57.000 But it was built at tremendous cost of American blood and treasure.

00:51:01.000 38,000 workers died building the Panama Canal.

00:51:06.000 They died of malaria.

00:51:08.000 They died of snake bites and mosquitoes.

00:51:10.000 Not a nice place to work.

00:51:12.000 They paid them very highly to go there, knowing there was a 25% chance that they would die.

00:51:19.000 The most expensive project also that was ever built in our country's history, if you bring it up to modern-day costs.

00:51:27.000 It was given away by the Carter administration for $1, but that agreement has been violated very severely.

00:51:35.000 We didn't give it to China.

00:51:37.000 We gave it to Panama, and we're taking it back. 1.00

00:51:42.000 And then President Trump would go on to also claim Greenland.

00:51:45.000 And it was very funny.

00:51:46.000 At one point, he says, they'll have the ability to join us if they want, become a state, but we'll get it one way or another.

00:51:54.000 The invasion of Greenland is imminent.

00:51:57.000 There were two really actually important moments last night, two quite important moments, I think.

00:52:02.000 That the single most important moment came when he was talking about illegal immigration.

00:52:05.000 Because this is where President Trump, I talked about this yesterday on the show, this is where President Trump has experienced his biggest success.

00:52:11.000 He has lowered the illegal immigration rates of the United States by 97%.

00:52:16.000 97%.

00:52:18.000 That's an astonishing number.

00:52:20.000 And again, we spoke with the Borasar, Tom Homan, who is straight from central casting as a law enforcement bulldog. 0.75

00:52:26.000 And we talked about that with him yesterday on the Backstage Live.

00:52:28.000 You should give it a listen.

00:52:30.000 Here is the president saying the obvious.

00:52:32.000 Joe Biden left the border open.

00:52:35.000 It was Joe Biden.

00:52:36.000 It was not Congress.

00:52:38.000 It was not anybody else.

00:52:38.000 It was Joseph R. Biden.

00:52:42.000 I thought this was the takeaway of the night.

00:52:44.000 Here was the president of the United States last night.

00:52:46.000 The media and our friends in the Democrat Party kept saying we needed new legislation.

00:52:52.000 We must have legislation to secure the border.

00:52:55.000 But it turned out that all we really needed...

00:52:59.000 Was a new president.

00:53:01.000 Joe Biden didn't just open our borders.

00:53:04.000 He flew illegal aliens over them to overwhelm our schools, hospitals and communities throughout the country. 1.00

00:53:11.000 Entire towns like Aurora, Colorado and Springfield, Ohio, buckled under the weight of the migrant occupation and corruption like nobody's ever seen before. 0.98

00:53:22.000 Beautiful towns destroyed.

00:53:24.000 Now, just as I promised in my inaugural address, We are achieving the great liberation of America.

00:53:34.000 Again, this is like his moment when he said, we didn't need a new piece of legislation.

00:53:38.000 We need a new president.

00:53:40.000 That's the whole ballgame.

00:53:41.000 It's the whole ballgame.

00:53:43.000 When people look back on this historical era, they wonder how President Trump was reelected.

00:53:46.000 There are many reasons why President Trump was reelected.

00:53:48.000 Obviously, he's a unique political figure.

00:53:50.000 He is sort of a colossus bestriding the American political scene.

00:53:53.000 There's just no other way to see it.

00:53:54.000 What he's done is historic here.

00:53:56.000 But...

00:53:56.000 Joe Biden's signal failures on two particular issues led to his party being out of power.

00:54:05.000 Those two issues were illegal immigration.

00:54:07.000 He left the border wide open, wide open.

00:54:09.000 And inflation.

00:54:11.000 Those were the two big issues.

00:54:12.000 And then there was a third issue lurking in the background of everybody's mind.

00:54:15.000 That was really sort of the ghost in the machine of American politics.

00:54:19.000 And that was the just patent insanity of saying that boys can be girls.

00:54:22.000 Those were the issues.

00:54:23.000 And Trump is on the right side of those issues.

00:54:25.000 He is.

00:54:26.000 And now, there was one moment where Democrats actually applauded.

00:54:29.000 What was that one moment?

00:54:30.000 When Trump talked about how the United States has spent the last few years funding Ukraine in its war with Russia to defend against Russian predation. 0.94

00:54:38.000 Now, I will say, I think it was very smart of Vladimir Zelensky to finally back off the idiotic line that he took on Friday trying to force President Trump to say things he didn't want to say. 0.72

00:54:47.000 Zelensky issued a letter yesterday before the State of the Union address in which he essentially said, thanks to the United States for all of the aid. 0.87

00:54:55.000 That he wanted to sign the Red Earth Minerals deal, that he's looking forward to moving toward peace.

00:54:59.000 These are all things Zelensky could have said on Friday and should have said on Friday, but I'm glad that he said them yesterday.

00:55:03.000 Because again, the off-ramp is clear here.

00:55:06.000 The question is not really whether Ukraine will get there.

00:55:08.000 It's really whether Russia will get there.

00:55:10.000 President Trump is trying his hardest to get Russia there.

00:55:13.000 President Trump talked about funding Ukraine.

00:55:15.000 And the Democrats, the only time they applauded all night, not for the cancer kid, not for the young woman with...

00:55:22.000 Brain injury, traumatic brain injury from being pulverized by a volleyball hit by a man.

00:55:26.000 Not for the man who got into West Point.

00:55:29.000 Not for the family of the 12-year-old girl who was murdered by illegal immigrants and now a national park is going to be named after. 0.92

00:55:36.000 Not for any of those people.

00:55:37.000 They cheered for Ukraine.

00:55:38.000 Now, the only reason they're cheering on Ukraine is because they believe that President Trump's a Russian tool.

00:55:42.000 That's the only reason they care.

00:55:44.000 Because I'm old enough to remember in 2012, when one Mitt Romney was running against Barack Obama and said that our largest geopolitical opponent was Russia, And Barack Obama said to him in open debate, the 1980s called and they want their foreign policy back. 0.87

00:55:56.000 So you guys are just liars.

00:55:57.000 I don't believe you at all, at all. 0.92

00:55:59.000 But they actually unfurled Ukraine flags.

00:56:01.000 They shared for Ukraine.

00:56:03.000 And again, I want Ukraine to beat Russia. 0.78

00:56:07.000 I would love for that to happen.

00:56:08.000 I'm also realistic about what a final settlement looks like here.

00:56:11.000 This led to perhaps the funniest moment of the night.

00:56:14.000 We got a big laugh in the room where President Trump is talking about the war and Elizabeth Warren.

00:56:20.000 Decides to clap very loudly.

00:56:22.000 And she was in the front row of the Democratic side of the aisle.

00:56:25.000 And here's how it went.

00:56:27.000 A lot of things are happening in the Middle East.

00:56:29.000 People have been talking about that so much lately with everything going on with Ukraine and Russia.

00:56:35.000 But a lot of things are happening in the Middle East.

00:56:38.000 It's a rough neighborhood, actually.

00:56:40.000 I'm also working tirelessly to end the savage conflict in Ukraine.

00:56:45.000 Millions of Ukrainians and Russians have been needlessly killed.

00:56:49.000 We're wounded in this horrific and brutal conflict with no end in sight.

00:56:54.000 The United States has sent hundreds of billions of dollars to support Ukraine's defense with no security.

00:57:04.000 With no anything.

00:57:06.000 Do you want to keep it going for another five years?

00:57:22.000 Yeah, you would say Pocahontas says yes.

00:57:26.000 Oh my gosh, just wrong footing them just wrong footing them from beginning to end an amazing performance by the president of the United States last night.

00:57:47.000 He closed.

00:57:48.000 With some pretty inspirational talk.

00:57:50.000 Talk that I've been saying for a while.

00:57:53.000 The United States is a country of pioneers.

00:57:56.000 And President Trump, I thought that the closing of the speech is one of the best closings of any of his speeches I've heard.

00:58:01.000 We stand on the shoulders of these pioneers who won and built the modern age.

00:58:06.000 These workers who poured their sweat into the skylines of our cities.

00:58:11.000 These warriors who shed their blood on fields of battle and gave everything they had.

00:58:17.000 For our rights and for our freedom.

00:58:20.000 Now it is our time to take up the righteous cause of American liberty.

00:58:25.000 And it is our turn to take America's destiny into our own hands and begin the most thrilling days in the history of our country.

00:58:35.000 This will be our greatest era.

00:58:38.000 With God's help over the next four years, we are going to lead this nation even higher.

00:58:44.000 And we are going to forge the freest, most advanced, most dynamic, and most dominant civilization ever to exist on the face of this earth.

00:58:57.000 Again, this is all just great stuff.

00:58:59.000 And the entire night was just Trump wrong-fitting Democrats.

00:59:01.000 And even Democrats kind of recognized this.

00:59:03.000 So in the aftermath, not only was there great polling data suggesting that the American people really liked the speech overall, but even Democrats on the cable news channels were freaking out about the lackluster Democratic So Jake Tapper properly pointed out the Democrats just seemed to absolutely demoralize the whole night.

00:59:19.000 They did.

00:59:19.000 I was in the room.

00:59:20.000 I was watching them the whole night.

00:59:23.000 They looked as though they just wanted to crawl in a hole.

00:59:26.000 They looked like they couldn't believe they had to be there.

00:59:28.000 And they had no unified point of opposition.

00:59:31.000 Truly amazing stuff.

00:59:34.000 You can really sense, John King, you can really sense...

00:59:39.000 Republicans with a pep in their step and Democrats rather demoralized.

00:59:46.000 The Democrats, not to be cliche about it, but they are in disarray.

00:59:50.000 They do not know how to be the opposition force.

00:59:58.000 I mean, that is right.

00:59:59.000 That is totally right by Jake Tapper right there.

01:00:01.000 And by the way, neither do some of the hoes. 1.00

01:00:03.000 So, last night, in one of the more disgusting moments...

01:00:06.000 Actually, MSNBC host Nicole Wallace. 0.83

01:00:09.000 She was talking about DJ Daniel, who's a 13-year-old cancer survivor.

01:00:13.000 And after expressing her warm feelings for him, she then somehow turned it into a referendum on January 6th.

01:00:19.000 I hope he lives...

01:00:22.000 And the life he wants to live.

01:00:23.000 He wants to be a cop.

01:00:24.000 He knows what he wants to do.

01:00:25.000 And maybe when you have childhood cancer, that crystallizes for you.

01:00:29.000 And I hope he has a long life as a law enforcement officer.

01:00:33.000 But I hope he never has to defend the United States Capitol against Donald Trump's supporters.

01:00:37.000 And if he does, I hope he isn't one of the six who loses his life to suicide.

01:00:42.000 And I hope he isn't one who has to testify against the people who carried out acts of seditious conspiracy and then lived to see Donald Trump pardon those people.

01:00:52.000 Unbelievable.

01:00:53.000 That's your take?

01:00:54.000 That's it?

01:00:54.000 Really, that's where you went with that?

01:00:57.000 Really, you guys, you're doing an amazing job.

01:00:59.000 You know, Rachel Maddow flipped out, which, you know, is her usual mode. 1.00

01:01:03.000 You never know whether she's going to laugh, whether she's going to cry, Rachel Maddow.

01:01:05.000 I think that's kind of her resting, confused face.

01:01:08.000 Here we go.

01:01:09.000 For the record, and this is disgusting, the president made a spectacle out of praising a young man who thus far survived pediatric cancer.

01:01:21.000 As if the president had something to do with that.

01:01:24.000 This was in the midst of him praising Doge.

01:01:27.000 The Doge cuts, among other things, have cut off funding for ongoing research into pediatric cancer.

01:01:34.000 Really?

01:01:35.000 Calm down.

01:01:36.000 It's fine.

01:01:37.000 He wanted to be there.

01:01:39.000 The kid got to become a Secret Service agent.

01:01:41.000 Like, it was good.

01:01:42.000 It'll be alright, guys.

01:01:43.000 You'll survive.

01:01:44.000 Even Stephen Colbert was mocking the Democrats for their feeble response. 1.00

01:01:47.000 He was celebrating Al Green because Stephen Colbert is such an idiot. 1.00

01:01:49.000 But here was Stephen Colbert basically being, why can't you all be Al Green? 1.00

01:01:53.000 Okay.

01:01:54.000 Alright.

01:01:54.000 It's a take.

01:01:57.000 The man barked out one appalling claim after another.

01:02:00.000 But don't you worry.

01:02:01.000 The Democrats came ready to fight back with their little paddles. 0.95

01:02:05.000 Okay?

01:02:07.000 That is how you save democracy, by quietly dissenting or bidding on an antique tea set.

01:02:14.000 It was hard to tell what was going on.

01:02:17.000 I'm just kidding.

01:02:18.000 That was very cool, Democrats.

01:02:19.000 In fact, I made my own sign.

01:02:21.000 And there's Stephen Colbert holding up a sign that says, try doing something.

01:02:32.000 Well, they can't do anything because they lose.

01:02:35.000 Apparently, President Trump's strategy here is, I win, you lose.

01:02:39.000 And Democrats buying right into it. 0.90

01:02:41.000 So slow clap for the genius Democrats.

01:02:43.000 Really an amazing job.

01:02:45.000 Already coming up, we're going to get into the Democratic response, the official response to President Trump's State of the Union address.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - March 05, 2025

Trump’s HOME RUN State of the Union!

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