President Trump gives an uncomfortable press conference to say the least.

The left decides that Antifa are the same as World War II allies, and the media decides that everything is Hitler.

I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro Show.

Okay, so we're going to go through in detail President Trump's unnecessary and ridiculous press conference yesterday. He said a couple of things that were true, and then he did something that I thought was just morally egregious. And we're going to talk about all of it in the most fair-minded way that I think that we can. We're going to go through all of the evidence on what President Trump said, and we're going to talk about the media response to all of it. So get ready for a very, very full show.

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conference.

He was not asked to do the press conference for anyone. No one wanted him to do the press conference. His own people didn't want him to do a press conference, but Trump obviously had something on his mind and he wanted to say it. And so he said to the press, here, now I'm going to take questions. So he began, he basically, to sum up the press conference, he spoke about a few different topics. He spoke about what he called the alt-left, which would be Antifa, presumably, alt-left is a term, I believe, coined by Sean Hannity, as sort of a counter to the alt-right. I've never liked the term alt-left because it sort of legitimizes alt-right.

There is no alt-left.

There is just the hard left in Antifa.

But in any case, he went after what he called the alt-left, which I assume means Antifa.

He talked about Confederate statues being removed. He talked about whether what happened on Friday night and Saturday was bad.

And then he also talked about the people who were present at the rally.

He was asked specifically about the alt-right.

And so he talked about those four things.

And so we'll go through all of those four.

Now, I will say as just a prefatory note, the fact that the left has decided that everything that he said yesterday was false and the right has decided that everything that he said yesterday was true is really

Discomfiting to me. It's a serious problem for me. Okay, he said some things yesterday that were true and then he said a good many things that I think were actually immoral

And we'll talk about all of them, but I think that it is necessary to go through in detail what exactly he said

so we can tease out what he said was true and what he said was false. So he started off by ripping

Antifa. Here is what the president had to say about Antifa. What about the alt left that came

charging at the, as you say, the alt-right? Do they have any semblance of guilt?

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