Ep. 2297 - Will ANYONE Fight The Radicalization?

The Ben Shapiro Show

The Daily Wire

News Commentary, News

4.4 • 152.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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President Trump gives Charlie Kirk a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom; Democrats continue to embrace radicalism while Republicans debate whether to also embrace radicalism; and President Trump’s “Peace Through Strength” policy continues. Click here to join the member-exclusive portion of my show: https://bit.ly/3WDjgHE Ep.2297 - - - Facts Don’t Care About Your Feelings - - - DailyWire+: Finally, Friendly Fire is here! No moderator, no safe words. TONIGHT at 7pm ET Join us now during our exclusive Deal of the Decade. Get everything for $7 a month. Not as fans. As fighters. Go to DailyWire.com/Subscribe to join now. Get your Ben Shapiro merch here: https://bit.ly/3TAu2cw - - - Today's Sponsors: Perplexity - Ask anything at https://pplx.ai/benshapiro and try out their new AI-powered web browser Comet at https://comet.perplexity.ai/. ExpressVPN - Go to https://expressvpn.com/ben and find out how you can get 4 months of ExpressVPN free! PureTalk - Switch to PureTalk and start saving today! Visit https://PureTalk.com/SHAPIRO Legacybox - Visit https://legacybox.com/SHAPIRO to get 50% off today. Bambee - Right now, get one month of Bambee for just ONE DOLLAR! Go to https://Bambee.com and type in 'Ben Shapiro' under Podcast to schedule your first call with an HR Manager RIGHT NOW! PrizePicks - Visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/BEN and use code BEN and get $50 in lineups when you play your first $5 lineup! Dose - Save 35% on your first month subscription by going to https://dosedaily.co/SHAPIRO or entering SHAPIRO at checkout. - - - Socials: Follow on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3cXUn53 Follow on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3QtuibJ Follow on Facebook: https://bit.ly/3TTirqd Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3RPyBiB - - - Privacy Policy: https://www.dailywire.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.7	Coming up on today's Ben Shapiro show, President Trump honors Charlie Kirk with a posthumous
0:34.5	Medal of Presidential Freedom. Plus, we get to a supposed
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1:11.8	with code fall 40 at DailyWire.com. Well, folks, President Trump is back in the United States,
1:17.2	and on his first day back in the United States, which was Tuesday, he did something incredibly
1:22.0	moving. He posthumously awarded America's highest civilian honor to our friend, Charlie Kirk,
1:26.9	who of course was assassinated
1:28.4	just a few weeks ago. Erica Kirk talked as well. Here was the president of the United States,
1:34.1	granting that extraordinary honor to Charlie. He was assassinated in the prime of his life for
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