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The Ben Shapiro Show

Ep. 2337 - President Trump Pushes The Affordability "RESET" Button

The Ben Shapiro Show

The Daily Wire

News Commentary, News

4.4152.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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0:00.0

President Trump delivers a prime time address on affordability, but did it make a dent?

0:04.5

Plus, Heritage Americans or Cretal Americans, it's a debate breaking out on the right first.

0:09.7

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0:57.6

Well, President Trump last night, attempted a reset of the first year of his presidency.

1:02.2

Not really a reset in the sense that he's not actually sort of redoing his policy,

1:06.4

but a narrative reset, an attempt to seize the narrative away from a left,

1:10.5

which keeps saying

1:11.2

the word affordability after the victory of Zorn Mamdani in that New York mayoral election.

1:16.3

He's trying to seize back the narrative.

1:18.4

And last night, he successfully did that in one sense and unsuccessfully in another sense.

1:24.1

Yes, Americans are now talking about affordability.

1:26.8

Yes, the president of the United States did address that head on in the speech. No, Americans are now talking about affordability. Yes, the presidents of the United States

1:28.3

did address that head on in the speech. No, it wasn't an amazing performance. And all those

1:33.2

things can be true at one. So first, you sort of have to set the scene. The president has been

1:37.2

experiencing historically low approval ratings. The president obviously is looking forward to

1:42.3

the midterm elections, and Republicans are not

1:44.4

in amazing shape in the midterm elections.

1:45.9

They're down on the generic congressional ballot by a significant amount at this point.

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