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The Ben Shapiro Show

Ep. 2375 - CHECKMATE: Omar, Tlaib HUMILIATE Themselves, Trump SOARS at SOTU

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🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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President Trump draws a stark contrast with the Democrats at the State of the Union; Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are the new faces of the Democratic Party, and that’s an awful thing for the Democrats; and the media meltdown over Trump’s big night. Ep. 2375 - - - Click here to join the member-exclusive portion of my show: https://dwplus.watch/BenShapiroMemberExclusive - - - Facts Don’t Care About Your Feelings - - - Today's Sponsor: ZipRecruiter - Try ZipRecruiter FOR FREE: https://ZipRecruiter.com/DAILYWIRE - - - DailyWire+: Become a Daily Wire Member and watch all of our content ad-free: https://www.dailywire.com/subscribe 💘 Season 2 of 'Ben After Dark' is available here: https://dwplus.watch/BenAfterDark 🍿 The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin is now streaming exclusively on DailyWire+ https://dwplus.watch/ThePendragon 📘 My book "Lions and Scavengers: The True Story of America (and Her Critics)" is available here: https://dwplus.shop/LionsandScavengers 👕 Get your Ben Shapiro merch here: https://dwplus.shop/BenShapiroMerch - - - 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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0:00.0

President Trump draws a stark contrast with the Democrats at the State of the Union, and man, is it ugly for the Democrats? Ilhan Omar, Rashida Talib, just terrible. Plus, the media have a total meltdown over President Trump's very successful State of the Union address. First, last night we brought you live coverage of the State of the Union. We were there all night long. Everybody from Cabot Phillips to me, to Andrew Klaven, to Matt Walsh, Michael Knowles, and Isabel Brown were actually in the chamber.

0:24.1

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0:38.5

President Trump's State of the Union address last night went a whopping length, one hour and

0:43.0

48 minutes, but it was the moments that mattered most because President Trump humiliated the

0:47.7

Democrats. He humiliated them. Or more precisely, they humiliated themselves. So the content of

0:53.6

President Trump's speech was not really the centerpiece of President

0:56.7

Trump's speech.

0:58.1

President Trump, as I've said many, many times before, is a politician who does one thing

1:02.2

very well and one thing not so well.

1:04.1

What he is great at doing is making it hard to vote for his political opponents.

1:09.0

He makes it very hard to vote for his political opponents.

1:10.8

He is excellent at shredding the people who face him down. But when it comes to making himself

1:16.6

more popular, that's more difficult. And so where Trump shines is in those moments when he can

1:21.6

put in stark relief his own agenda and the agenda of the people who oppose him. This is where

1:27.3

Trump is just masterful.

1:28.9

And last night, he did something that I've never seen a president do before during a state of the

1:33.7

union address or really ever in a public address. And that was he used the Democrats opposition to him,

1:40.2

their anger at him against them. He really jiu-jitsued them in a masterful way. See, he knew, President Trump knew, for a fact, that when he went to him, their anger at him against them. He really jiu-jitsued them in a masterful way. See, he knew, President Trump knew, for a fact that when he went into this address, when he gave the state of the union address, that we would see the same spectacle that we've seen before in many years past, that he would say something. Republicans would stand up and cheer, and Democrats would sit there and do nothing. They would sit

2:01.1

on their hands at the very least. And in recent years, of course, Democrats have done more than that.

2:05.9

Last year, during his faux state of the union address, where I was in the chamber, Democrats

2:09.8

dressed in white. They all color coordinated to demonstrate that President Trump hated women

2:14.8

or some such nonsense. They yelled at President Trump from the gallery.

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