Relive the best moments from The Ben Shapiro Show, The Sunday Special, and The Search, featuring future leaders of President Trump’s next administration! This compilation showcases highlights from past episodes, revealing the expertise, vision, and principles behind those nominated for key cabinet positions in Trump’s next administration. - - - Today’s Sponsor: Birch Gold - Text "BEN" to 989898, or go to https://birchgold.com/ben, for your no-cost, no-obligation, FREE information kit.
Chapter 1: What are the highlights from Trump's cabinet interviews?
Well, folks, we had a lot of interviews, a lot of sit-downs with a wide variety of picks for President Trump's cabinet. And today, we're going to go through some of the best moments from The Ben Shapiro Show, the Sunday special on The Search, featuring leaders of the next Trump administration. Here's some of what it sounds like. Here's some of my conversation with Vice President-elect J.D. Vance.
I really think that Trump's major appeal more than anything else is something that he has said many times, which is they don't hate you because they hate me. They hate me because they hate you. And I think that's right for so many Americans.
Yeah, I think that's very smart. And it extends further. It's not just about criticism of them personally, which I do think a lot of people feel to their core. It's also about the things that they hold dear, right? This wasn't true when Bill Clinton was running for political office. It wasn't true, by the way, when Barack Obama was running for political office.
Actually, one of my favorite lines to give in speeches is that I give a paraphrased line from a Barack Obama speech in 2007 or 2008 when he was running for president, where it's basically, you know, the quote goes something like, you know, I really don't like it when people bring non-American flags to protest in America.
When I see a guy waving a Mexican flag in American protest, I get a flash of resentment. And, you know, you give that speech to college-educated audiences in 2017, 2018, and you see people shift in their chairs. They're like, oh, where is this going? This guy's a little uncomfortable. And then you say, well, Barack Obama said that like, you know, eight years ago, 10 years ago.
And they're like, oh, wow, that's surprising. And it just goes to show how different it is that people are talking about these issues. But to go back to this sort of people feel insulted personally, but they also feel insulted, I think, about core parts of their identity. So my grandparents, again, classic blue dog Democrats, but when you talk to them about World War II,
and they were kids in World War II. My grandma's older siblings and her father were in the Navy. My grandfather didn't fight in the war. He just missed the sort of age cutoff. I think he was 16 when the war ended. They would get teary-eyed. It was this incredibly proud moment of American history, and that moment was important to them as people.
Their identity as Americans who felt that their country was good was really important to them. And of course, there are all kinds of things that America has done wrong. You sort of have to issue that caveat. But people like, you know, they recognize that there are a lot of things wrong with their family. They still love their family. They still think things are good.
The American nation is, in a lot of sense, a sort of extended family for a lot of people. They care about its history. They're proud of its history.
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Chapter 2: Why do Americans feel insulted about their identity?
You know, Donald Trump's shock troops are the guy you went to synagogue with or the guy I went to church with who decided not to join the military, but instead now is working for the power company or doing construction, but otherwise would have joined. And they go to church and they have families and kids and they're productive and they work hard and they're good, honest people. And I...
layout in the book, those types of guys I went to school with in high school, some of which probably would have been toxic males if they hadn't been forged through the military. And then they wounded in combat, silver stars, like just amazing guys. Or they were just patriotic and they were kind of wimps.
But they went into the military and then they served 20 years and now they're lieutenant colonels and they're large and in charge and military forged them too. Right now we're not recruiting either of those groups. So you recruit those groups with a different ethos of the entire military, you could be back in the game.
Moving on to a conversation I had with Trump's UN ambassador nominee, Elise Stefanik.
There's nothing racist about wanting a secure border. There's nothing racist about opposing mass amnesty. And Democrats are the party that's been advocating very publicly for decades now that they want. One of the reasons that they want to pursue amnesty for illegal immigrants, giving them the right to vote, is to have a permanent liberal election majority.
And I want to quote the Center of American Progress in 2013 said, quote, Supporting real immigration reform that contains a pathway to citizenship for our nation's 11 million undocumented immigrants is the only way to maintain electoral strength in the future. That's from Center for the American Progress. They say this explicitly every day. They have for two decades.
For me to call and put up an ad saying we want border security and we want to oppose amnesty, that's where mainstream Americans are. There's nothing racist about that statement. You know what this really is, Ben? As you pointed out, Republicans are winning across the board. We are growing our base. We are growing supporters of the Republican Party.
We have earned historic support among Hispanic voters, among African-American voters, among Asian-American voters. And on the issue of immigration, on the issue of securing our borders, on the issue of opposing amnesty, Republicans are winning by double-digit margins because the American people don't want these failed open border policies. Democrats are going to lose. They are getting desperate.
They are doing smears to anyone and anything. And they are just again, this is what they have said themselves, that they believe that again, look at Politico.
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