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00:03:09.000There is just the hard left and Antifa.
00:03:11.000But in any case, he went after what he called the alt-left, which I assume means Antifa.
00:03:15.000He talked about Confederate statues being removed.
00:03:18.000He talked about whether what happened on Friday night and Saturday was bad, and then he also talked about the people who were present at the rally.
00:03:29.000He was asked specifically about the alt-right, and so he talked about those four things.
00:03:33.000And so we'll go through all of those four.
00:03:35.000Now, I will say, as just a prefatory note, the fact that the left has decided that everything that he said yesterday was false, and the right has decided that everything that he said yesterday was true, is really discomforting to me.
00:03:47.000Okay, he said some things yesterday that were true, and then he said a good many things that I think were actually immoral.
00:03:52.000And we'll talk about all of them, but I think that it is necessary to go through in detail what exactly he said, so we can tease out what he said was true and what he said was false.
00:04:41.000I watched those very closely, much more closely than you people watched it.
00:04:45.000And you have, you had a group on one side that was bad, and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent.
00:04:53.000And nobody wants to say that, but I'll say it right now.
00:04:56.000You had a group, you had a group on the other side that came charging in without a permit, and they were very, very violent.
00:05:03.000Okay, so the fact that Trump put so much focus on what he called the alt-left here, and I assume he means Antifa when he talks about them, had the left up in arms.
00:05:10.000They're saying, why aren't you focusing more on the white supremacist rally and the fact that a white supremacist actually was responsible for murder, rammed a car into 20 people.
00:05:20.000Why are you focusing so much on the alt-left?
00:05:23.000I think that it is perfectly appropriate for the President of the United States to talk about the violence of Antifa, which has been violent in Seattle.
00:05:29.000They were violent in Seattle again yesterday.
00:05:40.000And here's Antifa getting into it with the police.
00:05:46.000Okay, so Antifa has been violent and consistently violent for a long time now, and what I'm seeing from the left is an attempt by the left to pretend that Antifa are the great heroes of this story, that Antifa are standing up to tyranny, that Antifa are standing up to the alt-right, and therefore
00:06:09.000That Antifa is somehow a good force, that something good is happening with Antifa.
00:06:13.000And you're seeing this from the left almost universally this morning.
00:06:16.000It's a huge mistake by the left, okay?
00:06:33.000Okay, again, it is true that some of the protesters who were there to protest the white supremacists were there and are in completely morally different universes, but Antifa is not in a completely morally different universe.
00:06:43.000Antifa is a violent communist anarchist group that's been making violent trouble all around the country.
00:06:48.000And then you had members of the press who are mimicking this talking point.
00:06:51.000Hendrickson, John Hendrickson is a writer at Esquire.
00:07:03.000Those were American soldiers who were fighting armed Nazis who were engaged in violence and the takeover of a sovereign nation.
00:07:09.000I assume that if the alt-right white supremacist neo-Nazis had actually, in armed fashion, taken over Charlottesville, that we'd have sent the armed forces, not Antifa.
00:07:18.000The alt-left is much more akin to, as I said yesterday, the red mobs who were fighting the brown shirts in 1932 Germany and actually led to the increase in the vote share for Hitler's Nazi party because people got sick of watching the reds fight the browns and they sided with the browns over the reds.
00:07:34.000But he's not the only one making this comparison.
00:07:37.000He tweets out, watching Save It Private Ryan, a movie about a group of very aggressive alt-left protesters invading a beach without a permit.
00:07:46.000It's about a group of American soldiers who are invading sovereign French territory in order to oust the Nazis, who are an actual fighting force.
00:07:55.000To compare people who are not behaving violently in Charlottesville to people who are behaving violently on the beaches of France, and to compare people who are American soldiers to alt-left protesters who, by the way, would never join the American army in a thousand years, to compare those people is just asinine.
00:08:43.000The vast majority of anti-fascist organizing is nonviolent, but their willingness to physically defend themselves and others from white supremacist violence and preemptively shut down fascist organizing efforts before they turn deadly distinguishes them from liberal anti-racists.
00:08:56.000Anti-fascists argue that after the horrors of chattel slavery and the Holocaust, physical violence against white supremacists is both ethically justifiable and strategically effective.
00:09:05.000The history of anti-fascist demands that we take seriously the violence of white supremacists.
00:09:09.000The days of just ignoring them are over.
00:09:10.000And he says European anti-fascists fought Hitler, and they fought Stalin, and they fought, uh, well, he didn't say they fought Stalin, actually, because that would be actually incorrect.
00:09:18.000They fought Mussolini, he says they fought Franco.
00:09:22.000The anti-fascist forces who fought Hitler and Franco and Mussolini, they all lost.
00:09:26.000Okay, and the reason, one of the reasons they all lost is because they actually made those movements more popular.
00:09:30.000By going out there and engaging in street fights in Weimar in 1930, 31, 32, 230 people were killed in street clashes between the Brownshirts and the Reds in 1932.
00:09:39.000That led to the rise of the Brownshirts.
00:09:42.000It led, people wanted a restoration of order.
00:09:45.000So backing the so-called Antifa groups is really bad.
00:10:45.000More of what he said about the statues, and then I want to get to what I think was the heart of his press conference, which really wasn't that.
00:10:50.000The heart of the press conference was him doing a soft defense of the alt-right and really giving the alt-right what they wanted.
00:10:55.000I know that a lot of people on the right are angry with me for saying this, but that's the way I see it, and I will explain in full context why that is in just a second.
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00:11:45.000Okay, so moving on in President Trump's presser.
00:11:47.000So we start off with his comments about Antifa, which I think are eminently correct and totally fine.
00:12:14.000He was talking about the movement from the left to tear down statues.
00:12:17.000Now, as I said yesterday, I think that there's a very solid case for taking Confederate war memorials and moving them into private museums, moving them into private hands.
00:12:26.000You know, the idea that black people should have to pay taxes for the upkeep of statues of people who were attempting to keep them in slavery.
00:12:34.000I understand that argument perfectly well, and I sympathize to a large degree with that argument.
00:12:38.000I also think, like Condoleezza Rice has said,
00:12:40.000That ripping away historic monuments actually prevents people from discussing history openly.
00:12:46.000Woodrow Wilson, off the name of buildings at Princeton, prevents us from having honest discussions.
00:12:50.000Like, if I would walk with my child past a Confederate war monument, it would give me an opportunity to say, look, here's the history of the country, here's how far we've come, here's what the Civil War was all about, and here's why the Confederacy deserved to lose.
00:13:01.000So, you know, the truth is that when you drive through a city, the vast majority of war memorials are things people walk right by.
00:13:08.000They've been made flashpoints by two separate groups of people.
00:13:11.000Black Lives Matter, which has decided that these Confederate memorials are somehow the... the...
00:13:16.000Gas in the tank for racists, and racists themselves who have, in retaliation, have used the Confederate War Memorials as gathering points, which is really negative and problematic.
00:13:26.000Here is President Trump, though, saying, here's his bigger problem, is that the left isn't just focusing on Confederate War Memorials.
00:13:32.000There is a campaign among people on the left to go after memorials to Thomas Jefferson, the writer of the Declaration of Independence, and George Washington, who is the slave owner.
00:13:40.000And what he says here is also eminently correct.
00:14:13.000Okay, so what he says there, I think, is at least arguably correct.
00:14:17.000I think what he says there, you can make a distinction, I think, logically, pretty easily, between Robert E. Lee and George Washington.
00:14:22.000Robert E. Lee fought on the side of a rebel army attempting to destroy the Union in an attempt to uphold slavery.
00:14:29.000And George Washington was the great preserver of the union.
00:14:31.000So there's a pretty strong distinction there.
00:14:33.000But the case that he's making is not wrong, considering the left has actively made the case against keeping up statues of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, right?
00:14:41.000At University of Mizzou, there was a big protest attempting to do all of this.
00:14:45.000There's a big protest attempting to get rid of a statue of Thomas Jefferson at University of Missouri, led by the Black Lives Matter movement.
00:14:51.000So Trump isn't wrong on this particular
00:14:55.000And the right is jumping on the two points that I've talked about to say that everything Trump said was correct.
00:14:59.000Right, what he said about Antifa is right, and condemning both sides, that's fine, and the statue stuff, he's right.
00:15:33.000He said also there are a lot of good people who showed up at these rallies and then he also said that he didn't know what the alt-right was.
00:15:38.000Somebody asked him specifically about the alt-right and he said he didn't know what it was.
00:15:42.000We're going to play all of these clips and you're going to see that Donald Trump provided the alt-right most what it wanted.
00:15:46.000The alt-right wants to be known not as a white supremacist group.
00:15:49.000They want their face to the public to be we're just defending Western civilization, not white supremacism, even if they are actual white supremacists.
00:15:56.000And they want the President of the United States to lend them credence, as though they're a bunch of very fine people?
00:16:02.000Okay, we talked on Monday about exactly what the alt-right is.
00:16:04.000The alt-right's basic creed is that Western civilization is inherently bound up with ethnicity and race, and that white people were the builders of Western civilization, and therefore people of other races and cultures cannot adapt.
00:16:15.000That is the basic argument of the alt-right.
00:16:18.000Trump knows that, because his chief strategist at the White House is Steve Bannon, who helped promulgate the alt-right, and said that Breitbart was, in fact, a platform for the alt-right to wrecked quote from Steve Bannon.
00:16:29.000But Trump played stupid, and in doing so, he gave the alt-right what they wanted.
00:16:41.000The left is saying everything he said about Antifa is wrong, and the right is saying everything that he said about Antifa is right, and therefore he's right, or therefore he's wrong.
00:16:48.000No, he's right about Antifa, and he's totally wrong about the alt-right, and even granting them a smidgen of credibility is morally disgusting.
00:16:55.000Okay, and that's what he did yesterday.
00:16:57.000To pretend otherwise is to ignore that when Barack Obama did the same thing to Black Lives Matter, the right went nuts.
00:18:06.000Everyone knew all the facts virtually immediately.
00:18:07.000Antifa got violent, and then an alt-right protester drove a car into a crowd of people who included a bunch of innocent non-Antifa people, and the alt-right people were violent as well.
00:18:18.000Okay, so he says he had to wait for the facts.
00:18:20.000First of all, you know that's a tell, okay?
00:18:22.000Trump has never, ever in his entire life had to wait for the facts.
00:18:25.000This is a guy who spends a year proclaiming that Barack Obama, without evidence, was born in Kenya.
00:18:29.000This is a guy who goes out preemptively and declares Muslim terrorist attacks before all the facts are in.
00:18:35.000Some of that is not a huge problem, but to pretend that he is the considerate arbiter of the facts is just a joke, okay?
00:18:41.000That is not a good excuse from President Trump.
00:18:57.000When I was a Claremont Fellow, Eliana Johnson, who writes for the Washington Post, she reported that Trump had a statement exactly the same as the one on Monday on his desk on Saturday.
00:19:06.000He was standing with it right there, and he went off script and decided not to say it.
00:19:10.000Okay, so there's another reason that Trump didn't want to do this, and that's because Trump is happy to pander to the alt-right.
00:19:15.000He was always happy to pander to the alt-right.
00:19:16.000During the campaign, he pandered to the alt-right.
00:19:18.000He continued to pander to the alt-right because he thinks that they're his biggest supporters and they're nice to him, so he has to soft-pedal them.
00:19:49.000Okay, it invited speakers like Mike Ennick, who hosts a podcast called The Daily Show-Up.
00:19:53.000Augustus Invictus, an alt-right figure who once said, I have prophesied for years I was born for a great war, that if I had not witnessed the coming of the Second American Civil War, I would begin it myself.
00:20:02.000And Christopher Cantwell, who calls himself a fascist, along with Johnny Monoxide, who calls himself fashy.
00:20:08.000The march's organizer, Jason Kessler, described the views of the people who showed up.
00:20:13.000He said, you don't give a damn about white people.
00:20:14.000You people are implementing policies which are displacing us in our home countries, and we will not be allowed to survive.
00:20:20.000The goal of this rally was extraordinarily clear, so much so that Gavin McInnes, the head of the Proud Boys, and a guy with whom I've been friendly, Gavin said, I will not go to this rally because it's infused with white supremacists and neo-Nazis.
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00:22:51.000Okay, so as I say, he went out of his way not to condemn the alt-right.
00:22:56.000And then, here's the part that a lot of his allies are relying on.
00:22:59.000He says that he's condemned neo-Nazis and white supremacists, but here's what he says.
00:23:59.000You had people in that group, excuse me, excuse me, I saw the same pictures as you did.
00:24:04.000You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.
00:24:16.000Okay, so, again, this is really quite despicable when you look at the actual tape.
00:24:21.000Okay, so here is the tape of the protests.
00:24:23.000Okay, this is what the protests that he is talking about were filled with very fine people.
00:24:27.000This is the tape of the protests, so this would be, uh, clip three.
00:24:29.000This is what that actually looked like.
00:25:48.000So, number one, you see that Friday night, that was not a lot of good people.
00:25:50.000There weren't some very fine people marching.
00:25:52.000And by the way, if you find yourself in a march, just a tip to people, if you find yourself in a march where people start shouting, Jews will not replace us, maybe you should leave.
00:26:00.000If you're not a piece of garbage, maybe you should leave.
00:26:02.000Why is it that even the people who are alt-right friendly, even people who ally with the alt-right from time to time, looked at this Unite the Right event and decided not to show?
00:26:25.000Okay, also important to notice on this tape, the guy who's wiping his face off here is a guy named Christopher Caldwell, open racist, says that he wishes President Trump were more racist, and he's very upset that President Trump would allow his daughter to marry a Jew.
00:27:13.000We'll kill these people if we have to.
00:27:20.000It's a Christopher Conlon fellow who you see saying that he'll kill people if he has to, but, again, this is why Antifa's activities are really bad, okay?
00:27:26.000Antifa is just granting credibility to the alt-right, saying, oh, we're just here for defensive purposes.
00:27:31.000We're just here for defensive purposes.
00:27:32.000Okay, so, a lot of... Sorry, almost cursed there.
00:27:36.000A lot of really crappy people on both sides, okay?
00:28:04.000That is really, really gross, and you can see why people are reacting so negatively to it.
00:28:09.000The President of the United States has a moral responsibility to say not only that white supremacists and neo-Nazis are terrible and believe terrible things, but that the alt-right is terrible, particularly because they claim him as an ally.
00:28:24.000It becomes more incumbent on you to disassociate from them if you want to disassociate from them.
00:28:30.000If somebody says publicly, like today, for example, a stupid example, Martin Shkreli, who's like the weird pharmaceutical bro guy, who's now in jail for fraud, he tweeted something out about how he wanted to run for president and make me his vice president.
00:28:41.000And I immediately tweeted out, if elected I will not serve, if nominated I will not run.
00:28:49.000That's not somebody who I'm interested in being associated with, and that's a funny, ridiculous example, but if you have an entire movement of people who believe what Christopher Caldwell believes, but are just a little quieter about it, and they claim that you support them as President of the United States, why don't you do what Ronald Reagan did and just denounce them and say, I don't want your support!
00:29:09.000But apparently Steve Bannon over the weekend was telling Trump that he couldn't alienate a lot of these people because if he did then he'd lose his base.
00:29:14.000The truth is that it would actually alienate Bannon's base but not Trump's base.
00:29:19.000Trump is the President of the United States.
00:29:21.000He has a responsibility to stand up for everyone in the United States.
00:29:25.000And Steve Bannon's base is not that large.
00:29:27.000Steve Bannon's base is very alt-right driven.
00:29:29.000There are a lot of people on the alt-right who like Bannon and see him as their great protector.
00:29:32.000And that's why Bannon is motivated to protect the alt-right.
00:29:35.000Trump is motivated to protect them not because he's a racist or a neo-nazi, but because Trump is motivated to sound off in favor of any or at least protect anybody who is ever nice to him.
00:29:44.000And this is creating a real rift on the right that I'm going to talk about in just a minute.
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00:31:10.000Okay, so all of this has created a rift on the right.
00:31:12.000There's no rift on the left, because the left is fully willing to go all the way with Antifa.
00:31:16.000Because of the left, because of the left's willingness to go all the way with Antifa, there's a reactionary side to the right that says, okay, well, the alt-right isn't that bad.
00:31:24.000Like, what Trump said yesterday wasn't that bad.
00:31:27.000There wasn't anything morally wrong with it.
00:31:28.000And you see, people are so hesitant to alienate sort of the hardcore alt-right
00:31:33.000Trump support base and that's not that's a small percentage of Trump supporters by the way the vast majority of Trump supporters are not alt-right supporters a very small group of people but people are so hesitant to alienate that they are hesitant to condemn in moral terms what the president did yesterday and what he did was immoral yesterday it was an immoral thing the president did yesterday by pretending he didn't know what the alt-right was and then suggesting that there were very fine people who showed up for that rally on Friday night
00:31:57.000And then suggesting that not all those people were white supremacists and putting this sort of equal focus on what he called the alt-left with the alt-right.
00:32:08.000Again, the alt-left, the Antifa groups are evil, but it was an alt-right guy who murdered someone on Saturday.
00:32:13.000It was an alt-right guy who drove a car into a crowd and murdered a woman and killed and hurt 19 other people.
00:32:20.000There's plenty of time to discuss the evils of Antifa.
00:32:22.000There's plenty of time to discuss the evils of leftist violence.
00:32:27.000You know, yesterday, it's fine to mention Antifa's violent.
00:32:31.000It is not fine to either equate the activities of the two at these particular rallies, or to suggest that the alt-right was not a part of this.
00:32:39.000It's what the alt-right could have wished for.
00:32:41.000Both Richard Spencer and David Duke celebrated President Trump's statements yesterday.
00:32:45.000If I were President Trump, I wouldn't want David Duke or Richard Spencer celebrating me for any reason under the sun.
00:32:50.000In any case, this has broken out into an intellectual fight on the right.
00:32:53.000Laura Ingraham, who of course has been a very, very strong supporter of President Trump's throughout the campaign and was talked about as press secretary when she was on Fox News, and she said, well, the big problem is that this doesn't forward the president's policy agenda.
00:33:06.000I always like to think about it this way.
00:33:08.000Is he advancing his agenda with what happened this afternoon?
00:33:11.000And I will say, when you had Gary Cohn up there talking about, they're going to hit the ground running on tax reform.
00:33:30.000I think he could have been more specific, clearly, on Saturday.
00:33:32.000But when he said, we must love each other, show affection for each other, unite together and condemn the hatred, bigotry of the violence that we saw, that was so great yesterday.
00:33:41.000I think today, he's really torched about people conflating Trump's support with white nationalists.
00:33:50.000You can see it and hear it in his responses, and I understand that.
00:33:54.000But he's not there to win every debating point.
00:33:57.000People want to see a calm president in the storm.
00:34:01.000I think today, I think he made some points that were factually right.
00:34:04.000There was violence on both sides in that event on Saturday.
00:34:08.000Anyone who's watched the video could see it.
00:34:10.000Okay, what she says there is not all wrong, but it is also a massive misdirect.
00:34:15.000And that's what Krauthammer immediately comes back and says to her.
00:34:18.000He says, you know, that is that it's really a cop-out.
00:34:20.000To say that what Trump did yesterday was wrong because it distracts from his agenda is a real cop-out.
00:34:24.000What he did wrong yesterday was wrong.
00:34:27.000I mean, it was a morally wrong thing to do.
00:34:29.000So Krauthammer says that, and then Ingram immediately comes back by doing this, this
00:34:32.000Tired, boring talking point, where she says that anybody who's dissatisfied with anything Trump does is just because they hate Trump personally.
00:34:38.000I am so bored with this bullcrap, I can't even tell you.
00:34:41.000The fact is, I want the same things that Laura Ingraham wants in terms of policy at least 70% of the way.
00:34:46.000The idea that I'm sitting here rooting for Trump to fail is nonsense.
00:37:05.000Now, the media is not helping any of this, of course, because the media have decided not just to condemn Trump for doing what he is obviously doing, pandering to the alt-right, but they have decided that it is important to call him an actual Nazi.
00:37:15.000So Jimmy Kimmel suggested that President Trump cuts eyeholes out of his bedsheets.
00:37:22.000It's another disturbing Monday in America.
00:37:26.000You know, we went into the weekend worrying about Kim Jong-un starting a war.
00:37:30.000We came out of it wondering if our president is cutting eyeholes out of his bedsheets.
00:37:34.000You know, um, as you know, this weekend in Virginia, the worst people in the United States went to the hardware store, bought tiki torches, lit them up, and marched in Charlottesville.
00:37:44.000A non-violent protester was killed by a white supremacist, and so the president, who is the president, by the way, went on television to say this.
00:37:52.000We condemn in the strongest possible term- Okay, you can see it.
00:37:55.000You don't have to go on with Kimmel, but you can see that Kimmel
00:38:22.000It showed a guy who was small-minded, intemperate, and sending dog whistles to white supremacists and neo-Nazis, which is why they have thanked him for his comments.
00:38:36.000He was bleaching their white robes and he was shining their shields with his remarks today.
00:38:42.000And he may say he condemned them, but that's not the way anybody in America read that.
00:38:47.000So the idea from Axelrod is of course that Trump isn't doing this for political gain, he's doing this because he actually sympathizes with white supremacism.
00:38:54.000Okay, I don't think that's what's going on with Trump.
00:38:56.000And this is one of the things that's bothered me about the leftist take on all of this.
00:39:17.000They can't just stick to the truth of what's going on.
00:39:19.000They have to declare not only that Trump is a Nazi, but that everyone who supports him is a Nazi, that everybody on the right is a Nazi, and that Antifa is a group of glorious World War II allies who are fighting the bad guys.
00:39:41.000The left is embracing the radical left, and the right, in response, is increasingly winking and nodding at the radical right.
00:39:47.000And I don't even think that the alt-right is right, but I think that they are Trump supporters in the main, because they see in Trump an ally against the SJWs and against political correctness.
00:40:01.000At the very least, can we start with no violence?
00:40:03.000Can we start with Antifa should be arrested when they commit acts of violence?
00:40:06.000And then we'll talk about how everybody in the United States needs to condemn, including the President of the United States, needs to come out and cut out the cancer that is the alt-right.
00:40:18.000And the fact that the president won't do that, it's so disheartening.
00:40:22.000Some days it's very hard to do the show because it's so disheartening when you see the moral emptiness on both sides of the political aisle for partisan gain.
00:40:40.000You know, in spite of my conservatism, I think all this stuff is terrible.
00:40:43.000I think because of my conservatism, I think all this stuff is terrible.
00:40:45.000Conservatives believe in individual liberty and individual value.
00:40:48.000We believe in the idea that human beings were made in God's image, each and every one of us.
00:40:52.000We believe in the idea of respect and tolerance for other people's views.
00:40:57.000We believe in the idea that the best views will win.
00:41:00.000We believe in the idea that the government shouldn't get involved in this stuff because we believe all the things I just mentioned.
00:41:04.000And if we are willing to wink and nod at all of these bad things in order to advance our agenda on either side, then we're just part of the problem and we're making the country a lot worse place.
00:41:22.000Over the weekend I had a chance to read a highly recommended book called The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak.
00:41:27.000This is a book about World War I, and it's about a guy who grows up very young in the United States, and then he moves back to Czechoslovakia, or what becomes Czechoslovakia, and ends up joining up with the Austro-Hungarian army in World War I. It's a very beautifully written novel.
00:41:45.000It's very reminiscent of Farewell to Arms by Hemingway.
00:41:50.000And it's already being counted as sort of a World at One classic.
00:41:52.000He apparently wrote a sequel that I'm looking forward to reading about the Vietnam War.
00:41:55.000It's called The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak, good piece of fiction, and it reminds us that despite our partisan fights, you know, there are certain human values that we should hold dear together.
00:42:07.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:42:14.000So, I've been focusing a lot on sports TV lately because it seems like everything is becoming more and more politicized, and so Stephen A. Smith has come in for some heavy criticism on the show recently.
00:42:22.000Yesterday, Stephen A. Smith suggested that the race of a protester grants that protester legitimacy or illegitimacy.
00:42:29.000Here is Stephen A. Smith suggesting that white people should never be able to tell black people not to protest.
00:42:35.000No white person has the right to tell black folks when you should protest about something.
00:42:42.000Because usually protest that emanates from the black community is due in large part because of the transgressions exacted against that community by those who don't happen to be black.
00:42:55.000And then you wonder why there's an alt-right?
00:42:57.000Then you wonder why there's a white identity politics?
00:42:59.000White people can never tell black people not to protest for any reason.
00:43:02.000So what about when white people say the same thing?
00:43:03.000What about when the alt-right says the same thing?
00:43:05.000What about when the alt-right, white identity, disgusting human beings say, well, black people can't tell us not to protest.
00:43:10.000After all, there are policies like affirmative action.
00:43:14.000How can they tell us that we're not the victims?
00:43:16.000This is what's wrong with the country, but this is happening in the mainstream.
00:43:19.000That's not a march around a Robert E. Lee statue in the middle of Virginia.
00:43:37.000On August 15th, Iran's president warned it could restart its nuclear program within hours or days if the Trump administration continues its confrontational policy toward the Islamic Republic.
00:43:46.000I thought that we were guaranteed that Iran was now going to be non-nuclear.
00:43:50.000I thought that everything was going to be hunky-dory now.
00:43:53.000Yeah, no, it turns out that when you deal with evil people, when you cut deals with evil people, you end up with the crap in your lap, and that's basically what's happened here.
00:44:00.000Okay, so time for a very quick Bible study, a little bit of inspirational uplift in the middle of a very dark week.
00:44:06.000So, as I mentioned, every week we've been going through not the Torah, but the Haftorah.
00:44:17.000We do that because back in Roman times, Jews were not allowed to read from the Torah.
00:44:21.000They were barred from reading from the Torah.
00:44:22.000So instead, they started reading references from the prophets and the writings that people could easily cross-reference to the Torah itself.
00:44:46.000The idea that eventually there will be a messianic era in which the kingdom of David will shine forth.
00:44:53.000The part that I think is really interesting here is where he says, We tend to think about the messianic age a lot as the idea that good will rule and command.
00:45:12.000It's not just about who controls the levers of power.
00:45:14.000We are all witnesses to good and evil.
00:45:16.000We all are going to be called on by God to testify when our time comes as to whether we stood up or whether we stood with or whether we stood against.
00:45:35.000If we don't witness evil and speak out about it, if we're not able to testify even on our own behalves as to what we think about bad things that are happening, then we don't deserve the messianic era, let alone good in the afterlife or even good on this planet.
00:45:46.000I think that as people who are delegated a certain
00:45:49.000Responsibility by God, and by our fellow man.
00:45:53.000We have to stand up to evil when we see it, and we have to call it out when we see it.