The Ben Shapiro Show - February 05, 2020


Trump’s Victory Lap | Ep. 947

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criminal justice reform Rashida Tlaib State of the Union walkout
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Donald Trump State Nancy Pelosi Rush Limbaugh Charles McGee Ronald Reagan Rashida Tlaib Barack Obama Joseph Goebbels Ilhan Omar Brett Kavanaugh Nicolas Maduro Juan Guaido Qasem Soleimani Ben Jacobs Paul Ryan Colin Kaepernick Bernie Sanders Jonathan Alter Adam Carolla Hunter Biden and 34 more
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Trump delivers a triumphant State of the Union address, Nancy Pelosi breaches protocol, and Democrats continue to panic over their 2020 candidates. Ben Shapiro's show is sponsored by ExpressVPN's Stop Putting Your Online Data at Risk. Get protected at ExpressVPN.com. That's ExpressVPN, that's Slash Ben. Now, you may have noticed that we are like one month into the year and it's sheer chaos out there. We've watched near conflict in the Middle East, we've watched an impeachment effort go down the tubes, and we ve watched everybody worried about coronavirus. Wouldn't it be a good time to diversify your investments into precious metals? Like, wouldn't that be a smart thing to do? Like, global instability, particularly in places like China, can actually impact currency trading on a pretty significant level. And we're also blowing out the debt and the deficit, which means that at a certain point the bill is going to come due. I'm not saying take all your money and put it in gold and bury it in the backyard. I trust them. I've been working with them for years. I wouldn't recommend them if I didn't trust them, but there's no obligation to take that first step. You have nothing to lose to take the first step, right? Text Ben to 474747 during the month of January when you open an IRA in Precious Metals. You will get a signed copy of my book, The Right Side of History, for FREE! And, when you do open that IRA in precious metals, you get a Signed copy of the right side of history. For FREE, you have to be a supporter of the show, I m working with Ben Shapiro! - Ben Shapiro - The Ben Shapiro Show Subscribe to Ben Shapiro s newest book, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fucking Thing by Ben Shapiro: How to Be a Good Person by Meghan McCain: How To Be a Badass in the White House Is a Good Thing by Me And How To Deal With It Better Than I Can Be A Good Person By Me And I Can Read More Than That And I Don t Get It Better That Than That By Me By Ben Shapiro And I Have Nothing To Say Than That by Him And I Get It And He Can Read It And I Say It Well And I Do It Well By Him And He Gushes About It & I Can Say It And More And I Gives It Well

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00:00:00.000 Trump gives a triumphant State of the Union address, Nancy Pelosi breaches protocol, and Democrats continue to panic over their 2020 candidates.
00:00:07.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:00:07.000 This is the Ben Shapiro Show.
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00:00:23.000 Now, you may have noticed that we are like one month into the year and it's sheer chaos out there.
00:00:27.000 Cats and dogs living together.
00:00:29.000 The end of the world.
00:00:30.000 We've watched near conflict in the Middle East.
00:00:32.000 We've watched an impeachment effort go down the tubes.
00:00:35.000 We've watched everybody worried about coronavirus.
00:00:37.000 Wouldn't it be a good time to diversify your investments just a little bit into precious metals?
00:00:40.000 Like, wouldn't that be a smart thing to do?
00:00:42.000 I mean, global instability, particularly in places like China, can actually impact currency trading on a pretty significant level.
00:00:48.000 And we're also blowing out the debt and the deficit, which means that at a certain point, the bill is going to come due.
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00:01:54.000 So, last night.
00:01:56.000 Last night.
00:01:57.000 Was a night.
00:01:58.000 A President Trump Has had himself quite a week.
00:02:01.000 Very big week for the President of the United States.
00:02:03.000 And last night, the Democrats blew it in a massive, massive way.
00:02:08.000 They really did.
00:02:08.000 Let me just explain what the Democrats' week has gone like.
00:02:12.000 Because Trump is just the flip side of that, right?
00:02:14.000 If the Democrats have a bad week, that means that Trump had a pretty good week.
00:02:16.000 So here is what the Democrats have done over the last week.
00:02:20.000 Over the last week alone. 0.99
00:02:21.000 It's been a crap week for them. 0.99
00:02:23.000 I mean, seriously. 0.99
00:02:25.000 So, first, there was the Democrats' bump in Iowa.
00:02:28.000 Remember that was going to happen?
00:02:29.000 They were going to get big publicity?
00:02:30.000 Democrats' bump in Iowa?
00:02:35.000 Remember that?
00:02:35.000 Yeah.
00:02:36.000 Then, there was the Democrats' impeachment effort.
00:02:39.000 Remember how that was going to go great for them?
00:02:40.000 They were going to impeach the President of the United States.
00:02:42.000 Remember that?
00:02:43.000 And it was going to give them a big bump?
00:02:44.000 Because everyone was going to see how corrupt Trump was?
00:02:47.000 Well, today, they're taking that final impeachment vote in the Senate.
00:02:51.000 The vote to convict.
00:02:51.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:02:55.000 And then, the Democrats were making the case that, listen, even if you like the economy, even if you like things that are going on in foreign policy, the President of the United States is a petty child. 0.95
00:03:04.000 He's a petty, tyrannical child. 0.90
00:03:06.000 It's all chaos inside the White House. 0.98
00:03:08.000 We are the adults in the room.
00:03:09.000 That's what we are.
00:03:09.000 Right?
00:03:10.000 We're the adults in the room.
00:03:12.000 And you can trust us with power.
00:03:13.000 Because number one, we know how to handle things, not like the Iowa caucuses or anything. 0.93
00:03:17.000 And also, we are not going to be petty and mean-spirited and ridiculous. 0.88
00:03:21.000 We're not going to act like small children in any way. 0.89
00:03:24.000 So the Democrats looking like adults, right?
00:03:26.000 That was going to be their campaign, was that they were going to restore honor and dignity and decency to the White House.
00:03:31.000 And then last night, they just...
00:03:35.000 And you know what all that adds up to?
00:03:38.000 The Democrats' 2020 chances.
00:03:39.000 I've been fairly bearish on the Trump chances for re-election until 2020.
00:03:44.000 I said I'd put him at no better than 50-50.
00:03:46.000 If Donald Trump of last night shows up, not only is he going to win, he's going to win big.
00:03:51.000 Now, obviously, we say this after every Donald Trump State of the Union address, which is today is the moment Trump finally arrived.
00:03:58.000 But the reality is that Trump is at his strongest point of his presidency.
00:04:01.000 He's at forty nine percent in the Gallup poll approval rating, which is the highest point of his presidency.
00:04:06.000 63% of Americans say that they like the economy and they like how President Trump handles the economy, more importantly. 0.96
00:04:13.000 And Democrats are looking wilder, more radical, more ridiculous, more petty, more thin-skinned, more childish every single day. 0.97
00:04:20.000 So you know last night, you know what it looked like? 0.92
00:04:22.000 It looked like this is what they are doing with their 2020 chances, the Democrats' 2020 chances.
00:04:28.000 This is a real bad week for Democrats, a real bad week for Democrats.
00:04:33.000 So President Trump strolls on into the Congress last night.
00:04:37.000 He is still under impeachment, theoretically, because today is the day that they're going to finish this whole thing.
00:04:43.000 There are going to be no more than 48 votes, presumably, for the actual conviction of the president here.
00:04:48.000 So they didn't get a single Republican vote anywhere along the line.
00:04:52.000 And this whole thing started with Nancy Pelosi being awful.
00:04:56.000 So people were ripping on Trump because supposedly Trump snubbed her handshake.
00:05:00.000 We'll analyze that in one second because, listen, first of all, I wouldn't put it past Trump to snub her handshake.
00:05:04.000 Second of all, I'm not sure that I would blame Trump snubbing her handshake after what she does here, right?
00:05:09.000 People want to pretend that Donald Trump is the only petty, vengeful, thin-skinned man in Washington, D.C.?
00:05:14.000 I'd like to welcome you to Congress. 1.00
00:05:16.000 I'd like to welcome you to American politics, where people are vengeful and petty and idiotic and thin-skinned. 0.99
00:05:20.000 Like, if you spend any time on the Hill, you'll recognize one of the great disappointments in life. 0.99
00:05:24.000 Adam Carolla used to say this, the godfather of podcasting.
00:05:28.000 Adam Carolla used to say this.
00:05:29.000 He used to say, one of the great disappointments in life is that when you're a kid, And you sit around, you look at all the adults.
00:05:33.000 They all have cars.
00:05:34.000 They all have houses.
00:05:35.000 They all have spouses.
00:05:37.000 And you think to yourself, man, the adults are really smart, man.
00:05:40.000 They must know things.
00:05:41.000 And then you grow up and you become an adult. 1.00
00:05:43.000 And all the people that you were in class with who were picking their boogers and sticking them under the desk, all those kids are adults and they're morons. 1.00
00:05:49.000 Okay, this is the great disappointment of American politics. 0.99
00:05:51.000 If you're somebody who is deeply invested in American politics, it turns out that politicians are just like all other human beings. 1.00
00:05:57.000 Namely, they are venal, and they are stupid, and they are idiotic, and they are thin-skinned, and they are childish. 1.00
00:06:02.000 And Nancy Pelosi is no exception. 1.00
00:06:03.000 Queen slaying! 1.00
00:06:04.000 It turns out she is just as ridiculous and petty and vengeful as the man that all the left loves to hate, right? 1.00
00:06:10.000 They've got the orange man bad. 1.00
00:06:11.000 He's a child and all of this stuff.
00:06:13.000 And is President Trump thin-skinned?
00:06:15.000 Of course!
00:06:16.000 Of course!
00:06:17.000 I mean, if you want the news that President Trump is the most dignified president ever to enter the office, you're gonna have to go somewhere else because that ain't true.
00:06:23.000 But I'll tell you something.
00:06:24.000 Nancy Pelosi is nowhere near dignified. 0.68
00:06:28.000 She is nowhere near decent. 0.99
00:06:30.000 Nancy Pelosi is terrible. 0.85
00:06:31.000 So this thing opens, right?
00:06:32.000 What starts the controversy, truly starts the controversy, is the fact that Nancy Pelosi, in announcing the President of the United States, doesn't use the traditional honorific.
00:06:40.000 So traditionally, the Speaker of the House says, it is my great honor and grit and duty.
00:06:48.000 There's like an actual formula that you use when you are the Speaker of the House.
00:06:52.000 Instead, she just says, here's the president.
00:06:53.000 She just kind of drops.
00:06:54.000 Here's the president.
00:06:55.000 And so here she is saying that yesterday.
00:06:57.000 Members of Congress, the President of the United States.
00:07:04.000 Right.
00:07:04.000 So she doesn't bother with the traditional honorific.
00:07:06.000 Okay.
00:07:06.000 Okay, now what the left was all upset about is Trump supposedly snubbing her handshake.
00:07:10.000 Now, the actual quote-unquote snub, it's unclear whether this actually happened.
00:07:15.000 You'll watch the whole thing.
00:07:16.000 I don't want to do this like this is a Bruder film, but I think that it's important to actually note what happened here.
00:07:20.000 So you'll see that Trump hands copies of his speeches to... The copies of the speech will come in handy later.
00:07:25.000 He hands them to Pence.
00:07:26.000 He hands them to Pelosi.
00:07:27.000 And then he doesn't shake Pence's hand, and then he's already turning away by the time she offers her hand to shake, and he sort of turns away.
00:07:35.000 First of all, she's impeaching him.
00:07:36.000 So frankly, I don't care.
00:07:37.000 You know, I know people get very upset about this sort of thing.
00:07:39.000 Oh, it's so terrible.
00:07:40.000 I don't think it's that terrible that she didn't use the honorific, except that it's more traditional.
00:07:44.000 I don't think that it's that terrible that he didn't shake her hand.
00:07:47.000 I actually prefer honesty in politics to all of the pomp and ceremony. 0.99
00:07:50.000 I think that the State of the Union address is a bag of crap, usually, but I will just point out that Nancy Pelosi is a vengeful, vengeful human being. 1.00
00:07:59.000 And all of the... You remember that time that Nancy Pelosi was asked specifically about whether she hated Donald Trump? 0.99
00:08:05.000 You remember this?
00:08:06.000 She was asked about whether she hated Donald Trump and she got very angry at a reporter.
00:08:10.000 I don't hate Donald Trump.
00:08:11.000 I'm a Catholic.
00:08:11.000 How dare you?
00:08:13.000 Sure, sure you don't.
00:08:15.000 Okay, so then the speech, that was the opener.
00:08:17.000 So at the opener, you already know that the gap is very wide.
00:08:21.000 And then Trump proceeds to give what is one of the two best speeches of his presidency.
00:08:25.000 The other great speech of his presidency was the speech that he gave over in Europe, where he talked about defensive Western civilization.
00:08:30.000 The left hated that one too.
00:08:31.000 His speech last night, by the immediate poll numbers, was approved by some 76% of Americans, including 82% of independents.
00:08:38.000 This is a very, very good speech.
00:08:40.000 It was well written.
00:08:41.000 It was well organized.
00:08:42.000 President Trump does the thing that all presidents do since Reagan.
00:08:45.000 You know, the thing where you shout out somebody in the top row of the back of the Congress and you honor them.
00:08:51.000 And it's like, the price is right.
00:08:52.000 You know, come on down!
00:08:54.000 Presidents have been doing this since Reagan started this tradition back in the 80s.
00:08:58.000 And usually it's really boring and kind of forced.
00:09:02.000 Trump does this amazingly well because President Trump is a TV guy, right?
00:09:06.000 President Trump understands how TV works, and so he showed instead of telling.
00:09:11.000 And President Trump picks great guests, and then he actually does cool and fun things.
00:09:15.000 That's okay, you're allowed to do cool and fun things during the State of the Union Address, but...
00:09:20.000 We're going to get into all of the details of the State of the Union Address because if this is his re-elect campaign, he's going to womp whoever the Democrats put up.
00:09:25.000 It ain't going to matter.
00:09:26.000 It could be Sanders, it could be Biden, it won't matter.
00:09:28.000 If this Trump showed up, if this Trump showed up full-time, this guy would be at 55% in the approval ratings and this thing would be over.
00:09:34.000 With this economy, with this foreign policy, this thing would be over.
00:09:38.000 It would be done.
00:09:39.000 We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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00:10:56.000 Okay, so we're going to get into the content of Trump's speech.
00:10:59.000 A note, Donald Trump was so good last night, okay?
00:11:02.000 This was like, I've had good Trump, bad Trump, right?
00:11:05.000 We had a jingle, we played it for years.
00:11:08.000 This was excellent Trump.
00:11:08.000 This was like top-notch, peak Trump in his element, right?
00:11:12.000 Speaking in front of a crowd.
00:11:14.000 Yes, speaking off teleprompter.
00:11:15.000 It is no sin to speak off the teleprompter.
00:11:17.000 The speech was well-written.
00:11:18.000 It was well-organized, as I keep saying.
00:11:20.000 And he also is great at pointing out particular Americans who are unifying in who they are, right?
00:11:28.000 It was just wonderful.
00:11:29.000 All of this means that if this Trump showed up, if he showed up full time, just imagine for a second, just in your mind's eye, imagine this Trump, instead of the Trump who sits and toilet rage tweets, imagine, right, like he's sitting in the bathroom, just mini Michael Bloomberg, instead of that, imagine you got this every day.
00:11:45.000 If you got this every day, Donald Trump would be Ronald Reagan.
00:11:48.000 If he got this every day, Donald Trump would be Ronald Reagan and he'd be winning Reagan-like victories.
00:11:52.000 Which means, there's good news and there's bad news.
00:11:54.000 The good news is that Trump's peak is pretty high.
00:11:57.000 That he's got a lot of room to grow if he became this.
00:12:00.000 I know, it's like falling on deaf ears, it's so irritating.
00:12:03.000 But, if he were this all the time, he'd be almost unstoppable.
00:12:07.000 If Donald Trump is not this, and he loses, that's on no one except Donald Trump.
00:12:12.000 Because if you have the potential to hit .350 in the major leagues, and instead you decide to go out partying every night, and jump drunk the next morning, and then bat with a hangover, and you end up batting .260, that is not on your batting coach, that is not on the opposing pitchers, that is on you.
00:12:29.000 So, this means that Trump bears the heavy load of responsibility of being best Trump.
00:12:34.000 Okay?
00:12:34.000 The Trump that we saw last night, Republicans, conservatives, and the Americans, all Americans, regardless of your political orientation, would like to see every day.
00:12:41.000 And if you were like this?
00:12:43.000 Not only his positions, but he himself would be personally more popular.
00:12:46.000 Why?
00:12:46.000 Because what we saw last night was really peak stuff.
00:12:49.000 It was excellent.
00:12:49.000 OK, so Trump begins his speech and he begins with the theme.
00:12:52.000 The theme is the great American comeback.
00:12:55.000 And this is indeed the theme of his presidency is that like Ronald Reagan, he has brought America back from the brink that under Barack Obama, the economy had been growing, but an extraordinarily slow rate than under Barack Obama.
00:13:06.000 America was less respected around the world.
00:13:08.000 And who cares about respect?
00:13:09.000 America was less powerful around the world.
00:13:11.000 America was was Less muscular around the world and that the American people were less confident in themselves, that they had lost faith in the ability of the country to stand for good things.
00:13:23.000 And so Trump says, listen, I'm here for the great American comeback and my economic record proves it.
00:13:27.000 And he spends the first like 25 minutes of the speech just listing off economic stats, which is great.
00:13:32.000 It is smart politics.
00:13:33.000 It is true.
00:13:34.000 And if all he did was tweet one sentence from this speech every day from now until the election, if that's all he tweeted, he would win re-election.
00:13:41.000 Because this is his main pitch, right?
00:13:44.000 His pitch in 2016 was, Hillary Clinton's the worst. 0.98
00:13:47.000 She's terrible. 0.89
00:13:48.000 And that was enough to get him through.
00:13:49.000 But now that you're president, you gotta run on your record.
00:13:51.000 The good news for Trump is the guy's got a great record. 0.66
00:13:53.000 If you looked at just his accomplishments and not all the crap that he says all the time, this is what conservatives and Republicans would have Americans do, right?
00:14:01.000 Whenever you talk to conservatives and Republicans, they're always like, yeah, we know what he is. 0.90
00:14:05.000 We don't like the tweets, but look what he's doing.
00:14:07.000 Three years ago, we launched the Great American Comeback.
00:14:09.000 OK, well, if Trump stopped doing all the silly stuff and instead did this, then that's all you would get. 0.73
00:14:14.000 Right. 0.90
00:14:14.000 You would just get the good record. 0.90
00:14:15.000 So here was President Trump talking about the great American comeback.
00:14:17.000 Three years ago, we launched the great American comeback.
00:14:23.000 Tonight, I stand before you to share the incredible results.
00:14:27.000 Jobs are booming.
00:14:30.000 Incomes are soaring.
00:14:32.000 Poverty is plummeting.
00:14:35.000 Crime is falling.
00:14:37.000 Confidence is surging.
00:14:39.000 And our country is thriving and highly respected again.
00:14:46.000 America's enemies are on the run.
00:14:50.000 America's fortunes are on the rise, and America's future is blazing bright.
00:14:57.000 Okay, and that's true.
00:14:58.000 Okay, the economy is on the rise.
00:15:00.000 Our fortunes are on the rise internationally.
00:15:03.000 In terms of policy, this has been a very, very good presidency on everything except spending.
00:15:08.000 This has been a very, very good presidency.
00:15:10.000 And then Trump continues to pump the economy, which again, is the point where he should be putting pressure.
00:15:14.000 Presidents who are incumbent with strong economies do not lose re-election.
00:15:17.000 Here is President Trump pushing on that button.
00:15:20.000 The years of economic decay are over.
00:15:23.000 The days of our country being used, taken advantage of, and even scorned by other nations are long behind us.
00:15:34.000 Gone, too, are the broken promises, jobless recoveries, Tired platitudes and constant excuses for the depletion of American wealth, power, and prestige.
00:15:47.000 Okay, that's a Reagan-esque line.
00:15:48.000 I don't know who wrote the speech, but this is excellent.
00:15:50.000 The reason that that's excellent is because that characterization of the Obama administration, which is what it is, right?
00:15:54.000 The jobless recovery, the tired platitudes, which is what Obama was full of, and the constant excuses for why America couldn't be greater than this, right?
00:16:03.000 That's good stuff.
00:16:04.000 That is Ronald Reagan basically saying to Jimmy Carter, the days of malaise are done.
00:16:08.000 Excellent stuff from President Trump.
00:16:10.000 Excellent stuff from his speech writers.
00:16:12.000 And then, President Trump again pushes on this button.
00:16:15.000 And this was the constant push, right?
00:16:16.000 This was the smartest part of his speech.
00:16:18.000 The first 25 minutes, as I say, of the speech were completely unifying because most Americans are seeing their wages rise.
00:16:23.000 Most Americans are seeing the best economy that we have had in half a century.
00:16:26.000 Most Americans are feeling very positive about the trajectory of the economy.
00:16:31.000 So why the hell wouldn't you brag about that?
00:16:32.000 Here is Trump continuing along these lines.
00:16:36.000 In just three short years, we have shattered the mentality of American decline, and we have rejected the downsizing of Americans' destiny.
00:16:50.000 We have totally rejected the downsizing.
00:16:54.000 We're moving forward at a pace that was unimaginable just a short time ago, and we are never, ever going back.
00:17:04.000 So again, this is the strongest point for President Trump, and he continues to push us.
00:17:10.000 Now, one of the things that this does, by pushing on the economy and pushing on it hard for 25 minutes, is there are a bunch of cutaways during this part of the State of the Union, and Democrats would not stand for any of it.
00:17:19.000 They wouldn't stand for any of it.
00:17:22.000 Now, I'll be honest with you, I don't remember during Obama's State of the Union address when he would talk about the economic recovery and jobless rates being down, whether Republicans stood or not.
00:17:30.000 All I know is that this doesn't look great.
00:17:31.000 When Trump spent 20 minutes talking about African American jobless rate, lowest it's ever been.
00:17:36.000 Teenage jobless rate, lowest it's ever been.
00:17:38.000 Latino jobless rate, lowest it's ever been.
00:17:41.000 Female jobless rate, lowest it's ever been. 1.00
00:17:43.000 And all of them are sitting there like, Bad look.
00:17:46.000 Bad look!
00:17:47.000 Right, at a certain point you might want to cheer good news for the country.
00:17:50.000 Sure, it's good news for Trump.
00:17:51.000 It's also good news for the country.
00:17:52.000 Right, isn't it?
00:17:54.000 And sitting there and acting as though it's bad news for the country when good things are happening does look pretty divisive.
00:18:01.000 Now, what Democrats say is that the divisions in our country aren't really about the performance of the country on the economy or anything like that.
00:18:07.000 The divisions are purely about Trump, which is why what Trump did last night in giving what was a well-spoken, dignified address to the American people completely undercuts the Democrats' argument.
00:18:17.000 And when they act like children, it really undercuts their argument, because if their argument is the only disunifying Part of the American experiment right now is Donald Trump.
00:18:27.000 And then Trump gets up there and gives a unifying speech and acts like an adult. 1.00
00:18:29.000 And they act like damned children. 1.00
00:18:31.000 That's a horrible pitch. 1.00
00:18:32.000 It's a horrible pitch.
00:18:33.000 It's bad politics to the max.
00:18:35.000 Really bad politics for the Democrats.
00:18:37.000 We'll get to more of President Trump's barn burner of a State of the Union address in just one second.
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00:20:07.000 Okay, so President Trump goes on.
00:20:09.000 He brags about the economy.
00:20:10.000 He talks about that since his election, we've created 7 million new jobs, 5 million more than the government experts projected during the previous administration.
00:20:17.000 He talks about the low unemployment rate.
00:20:18.000 He talks about the net worth of bottom half of wage earners increasing by 47%, three times faster than the increase for the top 1%.
00:20:25.000 I mean, it's this whole litany of good news.
00:20:26.000 And the Democrats will not stand up.
00:20:28.000 Not only will they not stand up, they're really upset about it, and they grow increasingly upset as the speech goes on.
00:20:34.000 Now, Trump leads with all the most unifying stuff, right?
00:20:36.000 All the most unifying stuff is, here's the good news for the country, and the Democrats cannot stand it.
00:20:41.000 Horrible look for them, because then, by the time that Trump gets to his actual policy proposals, many of which are very controversial, by the time he gets to that, and Democrats are walking out, first of all, not all Americans are watching by that point, Second of all, the Democrats wouldn't stand for even the good things.
00:20:55.000 Why do we care that they're walking out for the stuff they don't like, that they actively dislike?
00:20:59.000 If you won't stand up, you have no credibility.
00:21:02.000 If you want to have credibility, if you're a Democrat, and you want to have credibility to say that what Trump just said is so awful that I'm really upset about it, you can't sit down while he says the good part.
00:21:11.000 You have to stand up for the good part, and then when he says the bad part, then you walk out.
00:21:13.000 It just is a matter of optics.
00:21:15.000 But Democrats don't understand optics, apparently.
00:21:17.000 So instead, they sit down for all the good news.
00:21:19.000 So, example.
00:21:20.000 Here's President Trump, this is clip six.
00:21:22.000 Here's President Trump talking about that net worth of bottom half of wage earners, which is the best news for President Trump, right, is that the Democrats keep complaining that all of the growth is going to the people at the top, and that is not true.
00:21:33.000 An enormous amount of growth is going to the people at the lower end of the economic spectrum, because as it turns out, capitalism is a fantastic engine.
00:21:39.000 Here's President Trump.
00:21:41.000 Since my election, the net worth of the bottom half of wage earners has increased by 47%, three times faster than the increase for the top 1%.
00:21:53.000 After decades of flat and falling incomes, wages are rising fast, and wonderfully, they are rising fastest for low-income workers who have seen a 16% pay increase since my election.
00:22:07.000 This is a blue-collar boom.
00:22:11.000 Reobedient household income is now at the highest level ever recorded.
00:22:18.000 Okay, this is all great news, and the Democrats are sitting there sucking lemons.
00:22:20.000 I mean, every lemon in the Grove.
00:22:22.000 It's amazing.
00:22:23.000 They've somehow turned lemonade into lemons.
00:22:25.000 And they are sucking on those lemons.
00:22:27.000 And they are sour-faced.
00:22:28.000 And they are angry.
00:22:29.000 And they are upset.
00:22:31.000 Right.
00:22:31.000 And then President Trump moved into the more controversial parts of his speech.
00:22:35.000 Now, what was great about the speech?
00:22:36.000 Many things great about the speech.
00:22:38.000 One of the things that was great about this speech was that President Trump did, as I say, he front loaded all the unifying stuff and Democrats refused to even cheer for their own unification.
00:22:47.000 And then he moved into subtle critiques of the Democrats via popular policies, which is excellent, excellent politics.
00:22:54.000 So, right before he gets into all the controversial parts, he talks about criminal justice reform, a policy I don't like, by the way.
00:22:59.000 I think criminal justice reform is based on the basic lie that there's mass incarceration in the country based on race, that the police are going and rounding up black and brown people for no reason, and that this is just the repeal of the 13th Amendment, in effect, and all of that.
00:23:13.000 I don't believe any of that.
00:23:13.000 I think it's mythical.
00:23:14.000 I think people who commit crimes should go to jail.
00:23:16.000 And I think that releasing people early from prison who go to jail typically has a pretty steep downside in terms of the recidivism rate.
00:23:23.000 And we've seen that here in the state of California.
00:23:24.000 But that is one of Trump's bipartisan, his bipartisan bills, the criminal justice reform passed by Democrats.
00:23:29.000 What was amazing about this is even when Trump announced criminal justice reform and talked about it in the State of the Union address, Democrats still had a rough time clapping for it.
00:23:37.000 So Nancy Pelosi was like slow to get to her feet on criminal justice reform, for example. 1.00
00:23:41.000 But here was President Trump finishing up the sort of unifying portion of his speeches of the first 35 minutes is clip seven.
00:23:47.000 Our roaring economy has, for the first time ever, given many former prisoners the ability to get a great job and a fresh start.
00:23:57.000 This second chance at life is made possible because we passed landmark criminal justice reform into law.
00:24:04.000 Everybody said that criminal justice reform couldn't be done, but I got it done, and the people in this room got it done.
00:24:12.000 Right, okay, and the Democrats, look, there you can see Pence in the background clapping, and Pelosi refuses to clap for a bill that she helped sponsor.
00:24:20.000 Right, look, you can see Pence starts clapping.
00:24:21.000 Now, eventually, she realizes what's going on.
00:24:23.000 I don't know if she was distracted or what.
00:24:25.000 Eventually, she realizes what's going on and that she's not supposed to be sour for this part, and she starts clapping.
00:24:28.000 But that is a bad optic.
00:24:29.000 Look, he is complimenting the people in the room, and the Democrats are like, won't take the compliment.
00:24:33.000 Trump said a nice thing.
00:24:34.000 Can't do that.
00:24:35.000 Okay, then Trump got into the subtle critique of the Democrats.
00:24:38.000 In this part, truly, whoever structured this speech, it's quite brilliant.
00:24:42.000 Because the way that he criticizes the Democrats is by not criticizing the Democrats directly, at least during this portion of the speech.
00:24:48.000 As the speech goes on, he gets harsher and harsher in his criticism of the Democrats.
00:24:51.000 So he begins by pointing out that he has brought to the room Juan Guaido, who's the legitimate leader of Venezuela, who has been barred from the leadership of Venezuela by the socialist dictator, Nicolas Maduro, in critiquing Maduro.
00:25:05.000 Trump is subtly critiquing all the Democrats who have refused to side with Guaido.
00:25:08.000 That would include people like Ilhan Omar and Bernie Sanders, people who have suggested that Maduro should remain in power or that Maduro isn't a dictator or any of that kind of stuff because at root they are socialists.
00:25:17.000 So here's President Trump pointing out Juan Guaido in the audience.
00:25:20.000 Again, Trump is fantastic at the game show aspect of the State of the Union, right?
00:25:24.000 The part where he says, okay, this person up in the rafters and everybody cheers.
00:25:27.000 We've seen this before where he brought in the refugee from North Korea who brought his crutches.
00:25:31.000 I mean, he's great at picking guests for the State of the Union.
00:25:34.000 Many other presidents have not been.
00:25:35.000 I remember when George W. Bush brought the lady who like founded Baby Einstein or something. 0.98
00:25:38.000 Like Trump is great at this because he's a TV guy.
00:25:41.000 He understands how TV works.
00:25:43.000 So here he is paying tribute to Juan Guaido.
00:25:47.000 The United States is leading a 59 nation diplomatic coalition against the socialist dictator of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro.
00:25:58.000 Maduro is an illegitimate ruler, a tyrant who brutalizes his people, but Maduro's grip on tyranny will be smashed and broken.
00:26:09.000 Here this evening is a very brave man who carries with him the hopes, dreams, and aspirations of all Venezuelans.
00:26:18.000 Joining us in the gallery is the true and legitimate president of Venezuela, Juan Guaido.
00:26:25.000 Mr. President, please take this message back to your camera.
00:26:30.000 Please take this message back that all Americans are united with the Venezuelan people in their righteous struggle for freedom.
00:26:45.000 Socialism destroys nations, but always remember freedom unifies the soul.
00:26:52.000 Okay, the fact that Trump is now...
00:26:54.000 Contrasting socialism in Venezuela with freedom, right?
00:26:57.000 That is a message to the Democrats because guess who their frontrunner is right now?
00:27:00.000 A self-declared socialist.
00:27:02.000 A self-declared socialist who skipped the State of the Union address to go rally in New Hampshire, his base, where he's going to talk about the glories of socialism, which by the way has about a 19% approval rating among Americans.
00:27:12.000 So that's smart politicking by the president.
00:27:15.000 Then, again, he's great at this.
00:27:17.000 He brought forth Charles McGee.
00:27:18.000 So he talks about how this young 13-year-old, whose name is Ian, wants to join Space Force, which, by the way, all for Space Force, man.
00:27:26.000 Space Force is fantastic.
00:27:28.000 First thing, we need to build the Death Star.
00:27:30.000 But he calls out Charles McGee.
00:27:32.000 Charles McGee is Tuskegee Airmen.
00:27:34.000 Now, I've had Tuskegee Airmen on the radio show.
00:27:37.000 Amazing, unbelievable people, and not only a tribute to America, but a tribute to black Americans in particular who went and fought for a country that was actively discriminating against them, but recognizing that even as they were fighting for the country that was actively discriminating against them, that the promises of the Declaration and the Constitution would eventually be upheld and justified, and that America was and is a great force for good in the world.
00:28:00.000 The fact that the Tuskegee Airmen were willing to fight for America and Colin Kaepernick today isn't willing to not kneel for the national anthem is in fact a repudiation of a lot of the race-based politics that are happening right now.
00:28:12.000 Because let me tell you, if black Americans in 1943 were willing to go and shoot down Nazi fighters over Berlin at a time when they came back to the United States and were immediately shoveled into segregation, What does that say about the lack of gratitude, respect, and courage of people like Colin Kaepernick?
00:28:30.000 And that's what a large part of this is about, as you'll see.
00:28:33.000 Here's President Trump calling out Charles McGee.
00:28:35.000 Now, this is reported by Ben Jacobs, who I believe is a reporter at NBC News.
00:28:39.000 Ben Jacobs reported that Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib did not even stand for Charles McGee, which is unbelievable if that's true.
00:28:46.000 Again, that's not me reporting that, it's Ben Jacobs reporting that.
00:28:48.000 Here is President Trump calling out Charles McGee.
00:28:51.000 Charles McGee was born in Cleveland, Ohio, one century ago.
00:28:57.000 Charles is one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, the first black fighter pilots, and he also happens to be Ian's great-grandfather.
00:29:10.000 After more than 130 combat missions in World War II, he came back home to a country still struggling for civil rights and went on to serve America in Korea and Vietnam.
00:29:24.000 On December 7th, Charles celebrated his 100th birthday.
00:29:29.000 A few weeks ago, I signed a bill promoting Charles McGee to Brigadier General And earlier today, I pinned the stars on his shoulders in the Oval Office.
00:29:41.000 General McGee, our nation salutes you.
00:29:45.000 Thank you, sir.
00:29:45.000 I mean, that's awesome stuff, right?
00:29:47.000 That's just, that's super cool.
00:29:48.000 It is, it is fantastic.
00:29:50.000 It also leads Trump into a little, a little bit of the speech where he talks about the history of the United States and he kind of subtly bashes Congress for impeaching him, right?
00:29:58.000 He never mentioned impeachment the whole night.
00:29:59.000 This was his only subtle reference to impeachment.
00:30:01.000 And again, a smart reference here, because if you're not watching, you're not going to catch it.
00:30:05.000 Here is Trump mentioning to Congress, guys, you know what?
00:30:08.000 We've had priorities before, and those priorities don't generally include impeaching people for non-impeachable conduct.
00:30:13.000 From the pilgrims to the founders, from the soldiers at Valley Forge to the marchers at Selma, and from President Lincoln to the Reverend Martin Luther King, Americans have always rejected limits on our children's future.
00:30:30.000 Members of Congress, we must never forget That the only victories that matter in Washington are victories that deliver for the American people.
00:30:40.000 The people are the heart of our country.
00:30:43.000 Their dreams are the soul of our country.
00:30:46.000 And their love is what powers and sustains our country.
00:30:51.000 We must always remember that our job is to put America first.
00:30:57.000 Okay, again, smart politics because the converse would be, don't put America first.
00:31:01.000 And also, when he says the only victories that are worth winning are the ones that win for the people of the country, he's basically saying it's not a political victory to impeach people on the basis of nonsense, right?
00:31:11.000 That is the underlying tone there, right?
00:31:12.000 That is the reference.
00:31:13.000 We're going to get to more from President Trump's quite brilliant State of the Union address.
00:31:17.000 He goes hard after the Democrats in just a second.
00:31:20.000 And we'll get to Nancy Pelosi's insane display.
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00:31:29.000 That's just her constituents in San Francisco. 0.99
00:31:31.000 I mean that she is.
00:31:32.000 I just mean that she is.
00:31:34.000 Politically mad to think that this is a good move.
00:31:37.000 We'll get to that in just one second.
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00:32:39.000 Okay, so then the president goes on the attacks.
00:32:47.000 So he spent the first, I don't know, two-thirds of the speech not going on attack, saying very unifying things, talking about his vision for America, and the Democrats refused to clap.
00:32:55.000 Then he goes on the attack.
00:32:56.000 And this is the part where Democrats start getting up and walking out.
00:32:59.000 So, President Trump starts attacking Democrats for the fact that they want to take over the healthcare system, and Democrats are very mad about this.
00:33:04.000 They literally start getting up and walking out, which is a bad look.
00:33:07.000 And by the way, The Democrats throughout this speech were acting childish and disrespectful.
00:33:11.000 It wasn't just Nancy Pelosi at the end tearing up the speech, as we'll see. 0.99
00:33:14.000 It was Democrats throughout acting ridiculous.
00:33:16.000 So Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, during the speech, clip 36, Democrats were actually sitting there and playing on their phones, which by the way is against House rules, right? 0.81
00:33:24.000 You're not supposed to be sitting and playing on your phone during the State of the Union address.
00:33:28.000 Now, the Democrats will say, well, yeah, well, Republicans were playing with fidget spinners during the impeachment stuff.
00:33:33.000 Yeah, that's true.
00:33:34.000 But your case is that you're the adults in the room.
00:33:36.000 Trump's making the State of the Union address, which is not quite the same as, you know, 37 hours of useless testimony on impeachment. 0.99
00:33:43.000 But even if it were, if your case is that you're better than the other side, you know, it's real dumb. 0.96
00:33:47.000 Sitting there and looking like you have nothing but scorn for the process itself. 0.97
00:33:51.000 Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, you can actually see it here.
00:33:53.000 Can we see it visually?
00:33:54.000 We don't have to play the whole clip.
00:33:56.000 Just fast forward to the part where you can see them playing with fidget spinners.
00:34:00.000 There it is.
00:34:00.000 So you can see Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, they're actually laughing and yucking it up.
00:34:05.000 And they are looking at their phone.
00:34:08.000 She was tweeting throughout the speech.
00:34:09.000 And she was tweeting throughout the speech, which, again, is against House rules.
00:34:12.000 If you are trying to look like the adults in the room, you don't look like the adults in the room.
00:34:14.000 You look childish and petty. 0.93
00:34:15.000 Okay, so back to President Trump. 0.96
00:34:17.000 He goes on attack against the Democrats.
00:34:18.000 This is clip 12.
00:34:19.000 And he talks about his own healthcare plans.
00:34:23.000 And then he makes a promise that I think is very dumb, which is that he's never gonna change Medicare and Social Security, basically. 0.85
00:34:28.000 But then he goes on real attack against the Democrats. 0.91
00:34:30.000 He says, listen, I don't wanna steal your healthcare plan.
00:34:32.000 The Democrats do.
00:34:33.000 This is true.
00:34:34.000 I've also made an ironclad pledge to American families.
00:34:38.000 We will always protect patients with pre-existing conditions.
00:34:43.000 And we will always protect your Medicare.
00:34:45.000 And we will always protect your Social Security.
00:34:49.000 Always.
00:34:50.000 But as we work to improve Americans' healthcare, there are those who want to take away your healthcare, take away your doctor, and abolish private insurance entirely.
00:35:04.000 132 lawmakers in this room have endorsed legislation to impose a socialist takeover of our health care system, wiping out the private health insurance plans of 180 million very happy Americans.
00:35:20.000 To those watching at home tonight, I want you to know we will never let socialism destroy American health care.
00:35:31.000 Okay, that is 100% true.
00:35:33.000 There are 132 lawmakers who got behind Bernie's Medicare for All plan, which does abolish private healthcare insurance.
00:35:40.000 It does.
00:35:41.000 And most Americans, the vast majority of Americans, do have private plans through their employers.
00:35:44.000 So...
00:35:45.000 What he's saying there is true, and it's an effective line of attack, and Bernie will get clobbered with it.
00:35:50.000 Most Americans do not want their health plan disappearing.
00:35:52.000 They do not, and they are not interested in having their gold-plated health care from their employer replaced with a crap Medicare program, a Medicare-for-all program.
00:36:00.000 By the way, even seniors have supplemental Medicare, right?
00:36:03.000 They have Medicare Part D. They generally are buying supplemental health insurance in order to supplement their Medicare.
00:36:08.000 And then, Trump goes off on illegal immigration.
00:36:12.000 What's hilarious about this particular portion of the speech is that I'm old enough to remember when Barack Obama claimed that he didn't want illegal immigrants covered by Obamacare.
00:36:19.000 And Joe Wilson, who is a congressman from, I believe, South Carolina, yelled out in the middle of the State of the Union, you lie.
00:36:23.000 And this became a massive controversy, huge controversy.
00:36:26.000 Because Obama said, no, I'm not looking to cover illegal immigrants.
00:36:29.000 I don't, I never said that.
00:36:30.000 I don't want to do it.
00:36:31.000 Now the Democrats are real open about this.
00:36:33.000 I mean, there was an actual question asked at one of the debates whether their healthcare plans would cover illegal immigrants, and every single hand went up.
00:36:39.000 And then hilariously, the fact checker's like, no, they don't want it to be free.
00:36:43.000 Medicare isn't free, you pay taxes.
00:36:44.000 It's like, oh my God, that's not the point.
00:36:45.000 The point is, if you want a government-sponsored program to cover illegal immigrants who are not paying their fair share of taxes, meaning because they're not legal. 0.77
00:36:53.000 Some are paying taxes, but they're not paying income tax, presumably.
00:36:56.000 And if they are, it's very few of them.
00:36:58.000 If that's the case, then you're seeking to have taxpayers pay for illegal immigrants' healthcare. 0.70
00:37:03.000 Trump really goes off on that, this is clip 13.
00:37:05.000 Over 130 legislators in this chamber have endorsed legislation that would bankrupt our nation by providing free taxpayer-funded healthcare to millions of illegal aliens, forcing taxpayers to subsidize free care for anyone in the world who unlawfully crosses our borders. 0.99
00:37:27.000 These proposals would raid the Medicare benefits of our seniors and that our seniors depend on, while acting as a powerful lure for illegal immigration. 0.78
00:37:39.000 That is what is happening in California and other states.
00:37:42.000 Their systems are totally out of control, costing taxpayers vast and unaffordable amounts of money.
00:37:49.000 If forcing American taxpayers to provide unlimited free healthcare to illegal aliens sounds fair to you, then stand with the radical left. 0.89
00:37:59.000 But if you believe that we should defend American patients and American seniors, then stand with me and pass legislation to prohibit free government healthcare for illegal aliens. 1.00
00:38:11.000 Okay, so, again, that is gonna be a pretty telling point, and every Democrat has endorsed the opposite.
00:38:15.000 So, Trump did go on attack here.
00:38:17.000 Many of the Democrats started to walk out at this point.
00:38:20.000 You saw Tim Ryan, Congressman Tim Ryan, saying, I'm walking out now, because this is all lies, and it's all terrible, and it's all awful, and all the rest of this.
00:38:25.000 But, again, that is an effective political attack by President Trump.
00:38:28.000 And there are a bunch of political points that Trump made, and Democrats couldn't even get behind it.
00:38:31.000 Like, they didn't stand up for the killing of Baghdadi, of al-Baghdadi.
00:38:36.000 They were upset when he mentioned the killing of Qasem Soleimani.
00:38:40.000 To the to the actual state of the union, the I believe is the brother of the or the wife of a sergeant who was killed by Qasem Soleimani.
00:38:51.000 And then he mentioned Soleimani's death.
00:38:52.000 And the Democrats were very upset about all of this.
00:38:56.000 Again, this is just bad optics for the Democrats, which is the point of the State of the Union is to create good optics for yourself, bad optics for your political opponents.
00:39:03.000 The best optics for President Trump is the Democrats, many of them had already walked out.
00:39:07.000 And then Trump did what is the best TV moment that has ever been had in the State of the Union addresses be Clip 22.
00:39:12.000 And President Trump Okay, yes, of course it's gimmicky, but it's not gimmicky when it's honest and true and fantastic.
00:39:19.000 member of the armed services, and he reunited the family live on camera during the State of the Union, which is just great TV.
00:39:25.000 Okay, yes, of course, it's gimmicky, but it's not gimmicky when it's honest and true and fantastic.
00:39:29.000 Here is what that looked like.
00:39:31.000 How can you not get chills from that, right?
00:39:54.000 I mean, it's just fantastic stuff.
00:39:56.000 Okay, so, he finishes up the speech, and this was the most important part of the speech.
00:39:59.000 People are going to ignore it, but it was the most important part of the speech.
00:40:03.000 It's clip 21.
00:40:04.000 So he is, he is, he is... I'm sorry, this is clip 23 by the new numbering.
00:40:08.000 So he is talking about the history of the United States, and this is the great difference between how many people view America, including most Democrats, and how a fraction of the Democratic Party that it sees control the Democratic Party sees America.
00:40:18.000 I've talked about this extensively on the show.
00:40:20.000 The Democratic Party, the new Democratic Party, sees America as the 1619 Project.
00:40:23.000 America is inherently bad.
00:40:25.000 It's rooted in genocide. 0.99
00:40:25.000 It's rooted in racism. 0.99
00:40:26.000 It's rooted in evil.
00:40:27.000 It's rooted in slavery.
00:40:29.000 America was born on the back of human evil.
00:40:31.000 And thus, everything that has been good from America has been a fruit of the poisonous tree. 0.78
00:40:35.000 President Trump provides a contrary vision, and that is, America's been a pretty damned great place.
00:40:39.000 And yes, we haven't always lived up to our original commitments, but the story of America is us broadening those commitments to encompass the people they should have, and expanding those commitments outward to people who don't even live in this country. 0.64
00:40:49.000 Freeing continents from tyranny and slavery.
00:40:52.000 Freeing people all over the world.
00:40:54.000 creating the greatest economic engine in the history of humankind.
00:40:56.000 That is the vision of America that Trump spells out here, and Democrats oppose this.
00:40:59.000 So again, this is smart politics.
00:41:01.000 Here's President Trump.
00:41:02.000 He's implicitly repudiating the Democrats' Howard Zinn view of the United States.
00:41:06.000 Here's President Trump.
00:41:07.000 This clip 23.
00:41:08.000 This is the place where the pilgrims landed at Plymouth and where Texas patriots made their last stand at the Alamo.
00:41:17.000 The beautiful, beautiful Alamo.
00:41:20.000 The American nation was carved out of the vast frontier by the toughest, strongest, fiercest, and most determined men and women ever to walk on the face of the Earth.
00:41:32.000 Our ancestors braved the unknown, tamed the wilderness, settled the Wild West, lifted millions from poverty, disease, and hunger, Vanquished tyranny and fascism, ushered the world to new heights of science and medicine, laid down the railroads, Doug out the canals, raised up the skyscrapers.
00:41:55.000 And ladies and gentlemen, our ancestors built the most exceptional republic ever to exist in all of human history.
00:42:05.000 And we are making it greater than ever before.
00:42:10.000 The Democrats sit for that, right?
00:42:13.000 The Democrats sit for that.
00:42:14.000 He gives this really great description of what America has been.
00:42:19.000 House built-in Democrats can't stand.
00:42:21.000 Now, maybe they don't stand because at the very end he says, we're making it greater than ever, so they think they're cheering for Trump.
00:42:25.000 But why exactly can't you cheer for the fact that America is a freaking phenomenal place?
00:42:29.000 It really is. 0.98
00:42:30.000 And if your campaign is America sucks, and his campaign is America is great, you're gonna lose. 0.99
00:42:35.000 You are, you're gonna lose. 0.98
00:42:36.000 Okay, so Nancy Pelosi concludes this really bad night for Democrats by making it a worse night for Democrats. 0.99
00:42:41.000 She's trying to signal to her entire base that she disapproves of this.
00:42:45.000 Now, you remember last time around, she gave the little clap and then people were like, oh, look at that, that queen slaying because she's mocking President Trump. 0.97
00:42:52.000 Oh, and then she was like, I wasn't mocking President Trump.
00:42:55.000 Okay, now she's like, now she's like, okay, I'm going to make this explicit. 0.98
00:42:58.000 So she's been waiting the whole speech to get to this moment because in very produced fashion, she obviously gets up and she rips up the speech because this is such trash. 0.99
00:43:08.000 It's trash. 0.98
00:43:09.000 Here's Nancy Pelosi as the speech concludes, standing up and tearing the speech in half on camera to make clear her disdain for the president of the United States. 1.00
00:43:18.000 Thank you.
00:43:19.000 God bless you.
00:43:20.000 And God bless America.
00:43:22.000 Thank you very much.
00:43:23.000 Thank you.
00:43:34.000 She's tearing up the speech, page by page, over and over.
00:43:37.000 Right, not just once, not just twice.
00:43:39.000 Three times, because it's too thick a speech for her tiny hands to actually grasp and rip. 1.00
00:43:43.000 Because she hates Trump so much.
00:43:45.000 Because afterward, she's asked specifically about why she tore up the speech.
00:43:48.000 Right, which again, is a petty move.
00:43:50.000 Imagine for just one second that Paul Ryan, during Barack Obama's State of the Union address, he'd gotten up at the end and ripped it.
00:43:56.000 Can you imagine the end? 0.92
00:43:58.000 It would have been, what a racist Paul Ryan is. 0.90
00:44:00.000 He's the President of the United States. 0.65
00:44:01.000 You don't rip up the State of the Union address that he just gave, no matter how much you disagree.
00:44:05.000 You have time to give a Democratic response to this thing later, or a Republican response in the case of Paul Ryan.
00:44:09.000 Why would you rip up the speech?
00:44:10.000 Nancy Pelosi does it.
00:44:11.000 Slay, Queen! 1.00
00:44:12.000 She's wearing white like the suffragettes! 1.00
00:44:14.000 Wow!
00:44:15.000 Slay, Queen! 1.00
00:44:15.000 So afterward, she is asked about this. 1.00
00:44:17.000 And Nancy Pelosi says, Why don't you rip the speech up, Madam Speaker? 1.00
00:44:19.000 I don't know, wipe your ass? 0.99
00:44:20.000 Like, what exactly did you want to do with it that was different? 0.99
00:44:23.000 It's just here is Nancy Pelosi explaining her reaction to ripping up the speech.
00:44:29.000 This is clip 31.
00:44:29.000 Why did you rip the speech up, Madam Speaker?
00:44:33.000 Because it was the courteous thing to do, considering the ultimate.
00:44:37.000 It was the courteous thing to do because it should have been treated much worse.
00:44:41.000 Which parts of it?
00:44:42.000 The part where he was paying tribute to the Tuskegee Airmen?
00:44:44.000 Or the part where he was talking about killing Soleimani?
00:44:46.000 Or the part where he was reuniting a family?
00:44:48.000 Or the part where he was giving a cancer-ridden conservative icon, Rush Limbaugh, the Medal of Freedom, in the gallery?
00:44:54.000 Which part of it was the most offensive to you, Speaker Pelosi?
00:44:57.000 It's a bad look.
00:44:58.000 Seriously, it's a bad look for Democrats. 1.00
00:45:00.000 It makes you look foolish. 1.00
00:45:00.000 It makes you look petty. 1.00
00:45:02.000 And that's exactly what she doesn't want to look like. 0.99
00:45:03.000 If her entire pitch is that Donald Trump is petty and foolish and vengeful, then why would you want to do the exact same thing? 0.98
00:45:09.000 If your entire pitch has been sober solemnity, we are sober and we're sad and we're solemn, right? 0.96
00:45:13.000 This has been her entire shtick while she's handing out gold pens at the Capitol building, after signing the impeachment documents, and talking about saving the Republic while joking with Bill Maher.
00:45:21.000 Like...
00:45:22.000 Democrats have no leg to stand on.
00:45:24.000 They're totally undercutting themselves.
00:45:26.000 Truly undercutting themselves.
00:45:27.000 Their case against Trump was several-fold. 0.99
00:45:29.000 One, President Trump is corrupt. 0.98
00:45:32.000 And then you get... But then they're saying, like, Hunter Biden is fine. 0.97
00:45:34.000 Then you get the Democrats saying, no, no, he's incompetent.
00:45:37.000 And then you get the Iowa caucuses. 0.96
00:45:38.000 And then you get, President Trump is divisive and petty.
00:45:40.000 So your choice is to hand out gold pens during impeachment, grin broadly, and then tear up his speech after the State of the Union address? 0.98
00:45:47.000 Like, it's dumb politics on a high level. 0.92
00:45:49.000 Listen, She can do whatever she wants. 0.93
00:45:51.000 I'm not one who believes that we should, you know, always respect the institutions in this way.
00:45:56.000 Like, it's fine.
00:45:56.000 I don't care.
00:45:57.000 I really don't. 1.00
00:45:58.000 What I do think is that this is moronic. 0.99
00:46:00.000 Like, I'm not upset at Nancy Pelosi for doing it. 0.99
00:46:01.000 I'm actually kind of happy she did it because it demonstrates full scale that she is not what she says she is.
00:46:05.000 Nancy Pelosi has pretended for years that she is the detective, right?
00:46:09.000 I've described before, I've said President Trump is not the murderer, he is the coroner.
00:46:12.000 That when President Trump is standing over a dead body, and the dead body is American politics, and all of the niceties of American politics, people are like, well, he murdered American politics.
00:46:20.000 And I've said before, no, no, no, he just declared it dead.
00:46:22.000 American politics is already in serious trouble, and Trump hasn't fixed it, but he declared it dead.
00:46:27.000 Nancy Pelosi has been pretending she's the detective, right?
00:46:30.000 She's pretending that she's the detective.
00:46:32.000 But Nancy Pelosi has been in Washington, D.C.
00:46:34.000 nearly as long as I've been alive.
00:46:35.000 And Nancy Pelosi, Is the is the butler.
00:46:38.000 OK, she's not the detective.
00:46:39.000 She's not the person who is tracking down the murderer.
00:46:42.000 She's not the person who is tracking down all of this, who is fixing the problem.
00:46:46.000 She's not the person who's going to correct American politics by catching the murderer and putting them behind bars.
00:46:50.000 She's the butler. 0.99
00:46:51.000 OK, she's the person who this is this is a heel turn for Nancy Pelosi in the WWE lexicon, right? 1.00
00:46:58.000 This is the heel turn.
00:46:59.000 She went from being the suffragette hero to revealing Beneath the pasteboard mask, she's been revealing exactly what she is, which is she is one of the reasons that American politics has fallen apart. 0.93
00:47:10.000 And what she did last night was just her demonstrating full scale what exactly she is.
00:47:16.000 So good on Nancy Pelosi.
00:47:17.000 Thanks for taking off the mask.
00:47:18.000 I'm glad we all got to see that.
00:47:20.000 OK, time for a very quick thing I like and then a very quick thing that I hate.
00:47:24.000 So quick thing that I like.
00:47:26.000 I didn't comment on President Trump in the State of the Union.
00:47:29.000 Giving the Medal of Freedom to Rush Limbaugh.
00:47:30.000 This is great because it really isn't just him giving the Medal of Freedom to Rush Limbaugh.
00:47:34.000 It's really him giving the Medal of Freedom to all the Americans that Rush Limbaugh has been talking to for years.
00:47:38.000 Rush has always been the guy who's speaking to the Americans who were left out and demeaned by the mainstream media, right?
00:47:44.000 That really is what Rush is.
00:47:45.000 Talk radio did not exist.
00:47:47.000 The AM band was a nothing until Rush Limbaugh reinvigorated the AM band.
00:47:52.000 But not only did he reinvigorate the AM brand, he gave Republicans and conservatives, a place to get their news that wasn't dramatically biased against them, that didn't hate them, that didn't scorn them.
00:48:01.000 Rush Limbaugh birthed the conservative commentary industry.
00:48:04.000 Without Rush Limbaugh, there wouldn't be this show.
00:48:06.000 The show wouldn't exist without Rush Limbaugh.
00:48:08.000 Shows like this would not exist without Rush Limbaugh.
00:48:10.000 We wouldn't be able to talk to millions of people without Rush Limbaugh.
00:48:13.000 And so Rush, being awarded this, a guy from Cape Girardeau, Missouri, which is where he is from, it's kind of a little town near St.
00:48:20.000 Louis, the fact that Rush is given a medal of freedom after being basically, I mean, he'll tell you himself, basically a ne'er-do-well for most of his young life.
00:48:29.000 He's like a scout for the Kansas City Royals.
00:48:31.000 He's like a gopher for the Kansas City Royals.
00:48:32.000 And then he started doing like nighttime talk radio.
00:48:35.000 Then he was doing local radio in Sacramento and suddenly becomes this giant in American conservatism.
00:48:41.000 This guy who represents tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions of Americans in terms of their viewpoint.
00:48:46.000 This guy who was just diagnosed with stage four lung cancer, which Unfortunately, prognosis is really not good for stage four lung cancer.
00:48:55.000 He's brought to the State of the Union.
00:48:56.000 He's honored.
00:48:57.000 He's given the Medal of Freedom.
00:48:58.000 It was a great moment.
00:48:59.000 It was President Trump acknowledging the people who brought him to the presidency.
00:49:02.000 It was President Trump acknowledging the people who had been forgotten and scorned and disdained by the media.
00:49:08.000 The same people that Russia's been talking to for years.
00:49:10.000 I thought it was a wonderful moment.
00:49:11.000 The Democrats, of course, are very upset about this.
00:49:13.000 The same Democrats who are very happy with Teddy Kennedy, a man who left a woman to drown under a fricking bridge.
00:49:19.000 They were happy when he got the Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama.
00:49:22.000 They were very, very upset that Rush Limbaugh should get the Medal of Freedom. 0.97
00:49:26.000 Rush should presumably leave a woman to die. 0.66
00:49:28.000 Maybe that would get them the Medal of Freedom in the Democratic lexicon.
00:49:31.000 It's pretty amazing.
00:49:32.000 But in any case, he was given the Medal of Freedom last night.
00:49:34.000 It was a pretty great moment.
00:49:37.000 Rush, in recognition of all that you have done for our nation, the millions of people a day That you speak to and that you inspire and all of the incredible work that you have done for charity.
00:49:53.000 I am proud to announce tonight that you will be receiving our country's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
00:50:06.000 I will now ask the First Lady of the United States to present you with the honor, please.
00:50:13.000 It's a pretty fantastic moment.
00:50:23.000 Rush, obviously, you know, he was having trouble hearing, which is pretty obvious.
00:50:27.000 In echoey rooms, he's had ear problems.
00:50:30.000 He has cochlear implants.
00:50:31.000 He's had that for years.
00:50:33.000 Obviously, emotional and in tears, as he should be.
00:50:36.000 I mean, it's... The fact that the media have...
00:50:43.000 Been what they are is the reason why Rush Limbaugh was important to the country and is important to the country and will continue to be important to the country.
00:50:49.000 He's had an impact on generations.
00:50:50.000 So that was a wonderful, wonderful moment and good for the President of the United States for paying tribute to an iconic conservative who has shaped so many minds and hearts over the course of years.
00:51:00.000 Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
00:51:02.000 So as I say, the Democratic response to the State of the Union is over the top and insane.
00:51:10.000 Like, insane.
00:51:11.000 It's a wildly popular State of the Union.
00:51:12.000 It's the best Trump has been. 0.85
00:51:15.000 If he could keep this up, which I doubt, because within 12 hours he'll be tweeting something dumb, but if he could keep this up, he'd wallop the Democrats.
00:51:24.000 If this were full-time Trump as opposed to very part-time Trump, The Democrats would be in a lot more serious trouble even than they are.
00:51:31.000 Well, the Democrats were very upset.
00:51:32.000 Members of the media were super upset about all of this.
00:51:35.000 Jonathan Alter from Newsweek, he compared President Trump's State of the Union to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.
00:51:42.000 Okay, just a quick point.
00:51:43.000 Joseph Goebbels was like a Nazi, and he was propagandizing on behalf of the genocide of Jews.
00:51:48.000 You might wanna stay away from the Goebbels comparisons when you're talking about the President of the United States giving what was, by all accounts, a fairly measured and generally well-precedented State of the Union address.
00:51:58.000 Even if you don't believe that he was spitting out the facts the way Huffington Post wanted him to spit out the facts, even if you believe that he was quote-unquote lying the way that Democrats keep claiming, that's something that presidents do during the State of the Union all the time.
00:52:11.000 It's a political speech, of course.
00:52:12.000 To compare it to Joseph Goebbels is patently insane, but this is what the media have done.
00:52:15.000 Trump has driven them out of their gourds. 0.99
00:52:17.000 The gourd has a hole in it and their brains are falling out. 1.00
00:52:19.000 They're crazy. 1.00
00:52:21.000 They've lost it. 0.99
00:52:21.000 Here's Jonathan Alter losing it. 0.99
00:52:23.000 He is a master marketer, and he understands, as Mark Twain said, that a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on.
00:52:34.000 And it's one thing to lie in tweets and, you know, people are absorbing them at different times and it goes through the news cycle.
00:52:41.000 But when you're doing it repeatedly in real time, and part of it is Goebbels, the big lie.
00:52:49.000 The big lie?
00:52:49.000 Really?
00:52:50.000 It's Goebbels, the big lie?
00:52:53.000 Seriously?
00:52:54.000 Come on, gang.
00:52:56.000 And then I did love Rashida Tlaib's reaction.
00:52:56.000 Come on.
00:52:59.000 So she walked out of the State of the Union.
00:53:01.000 Why did she walk out of the State of the Union? 1.00
00:53:02.000 She walked out because the president mentioned Brett Kavanaugh.
00:53:05.000 Which was very... You can't mention Brett Kavanaugh, according to Rashida Tlaib.
00:53:08.000 Now, you should have mentioned Hamas.
00:53:09.000 That would have pleased her more.
00:53:11.000 Because Rashida Tlaib likes Hamas more than she likes Brett Kavanaugh.
00:53:14.000 Which says something about the Democratic Party.
00:53:15.000 Here she was with Rachel Maddow, tut-tutting the State of the Union.
00:53:19.000 You were among the several Democratic lawmakers who actually walked out of the president's speech before it was done tonight.
00:53:26.000 Tell me about that decision and what was the tipping point for you?
00:53:29.000 I think, you know, even the mention of Brett Kavanaugh for me is a trigger.
00:53:33.000 Just as a woman in America, the fact that he, you know, rightfully was accused and having an incredibly strong woman come before the public and the world and tell her story of sexual assault by this person that was appointed to the Supreme Court is just alone that I couldn't stand still and not do anything about it.
00:53:54.000 It was utterly spontaneous, guys.
00:53:55.000 She hadn't planned anything.
00:53:58.000 I never thought I would say this.
00:53:59.000 I long for the decorum of AOC.
00:54:01.000 Seriously, like, at least AOC did what she should do. 0.97
00:54:05.000 She said, listen, I'm not gonna show up.
00:54:07.000 I'm gonna go home, I'm gonna cook something in the Instant Pot, mix a few drinks, and do some Instagramming.
00:54:11.000 Like, at least that's respectful enough to the process.
00:54:13.000 I'm saying, listen, I know that I'm not gonna like what I hear, but I'm not gonna stage this walkout and do this very childish thing where I go there and rip things up and play on my phone while the whole thing's going on.
00:54:22.000 I'm just not gonna be there.
00:54:24.000 Props to AOC.
00:54:24.000 Seriously, that's an actual quasi-mature thing to do.
00:54:28.000 It's not like perfectly mature, but it's quasi-mature.
00:54:30.000 I'll tell you what's not mature is playing on your phone while you're yucking it up with Ilhan Omar and then you leave because Brett Kavanaugh was mentioned. 0.99
00:54:37.000 Go to hell. 1.00
00:54:37.000 Seriously, it's just ridiculous. 1.00
00:54:39.000 The whole thing is ridiculous. 0.98
00:54:39.000 It's ridiculous. 0.98
00:54:40.000 But you know what? 0.95
00:54:42.000 When they show you who they are, believe them.
00:54:46.000 They're fond of quoting the Maya Angelou quote.
00:54:48.000 All right, when Rashida Tlaib shows you who she is, believe her.
00:54:50.000 So this is who the Democrats are. 0.94
00:54:52.000 They're immature.
00:54:53.000 And if their case is that they are the adults in the room, they did not prove it last night where they looked incredibly childish and Trump looked very, very presidential.
00:55:00.000 Now again, can Trump stay there?
00:55:02.000 Well, let's see, what time is it?
00:55:04.000 Like, probably not.
00:55:06.000 And when I say probably, I mean no, because the president was then on Twitter immediately after the speech just retweeting all of these anti-Nancy Pelosi memes.
00:55:13.000 Just let it sit, Mr. President.
00:55:15.000 Seriously, just let it sit.
00:55:17.000 What did last night prove?
00:55:18.000 It proved that if anything, even if you say that Trump's going to go back to being Trump, which he will, even if you say that, what you really saw last night is that the Democrats are not a difference in kind.
00:55:30.000 They are just socialists who are also children. 0.94
00:55:32.000 So if their rip on Trump is that he's a thin-skinned, orange man, bad child, You didn't prove that you guys were anything but thin-skinned and childish and ridiculous last night when you walk out of speeches early before we pay tribute to members of the military, tear up speeches, refuse to use the traditional honorifics, play with your phone during the State of the Union address. 1.00
00:55:49.000 You made yourself look like asses. 1.00
00:55:51.000 And you know what? 1.00
00:55:52.000 Good.
00:55:52.000 Because the American people should see that the choice in 2020, there is no quote-unquote dignified candidate On the ballot, you're just gonna have a choice between socialists who are undignified and somebody who's not a socialist and who kind of likes America, who is not supremely dignified.
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