Hey there, we're back from University of Utah,

and President Trump is actually nominating some good judges.

Plus, did he just defeat the NFL?

And is that good for America or just good for President Trump?

We'll talk about it.

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

Well, we do have a big mailbag coming up today, and I've looked at the questions, and some of them are just a doozy. Some of them are pretty amazing. So we'll get to all of your questions today in the mailbag. If you were a subscriber, you too could have been part of the mailbag, and your life would have been that much richer. But if you're not, I guess you'll just have to listen to everybody else's problems be solved while you wallow through your own. We'll get to all of that in just a little while. Plus, President Trump is actually winning the battle against the NFL. We're going to talk about what it means for him to win, whether that is the country winning or just Trump winning. What are the costs and the benefits of that happening? Because a lot of people on the right are very excited that it seems like the right is finally winning the culture war. I'm not sure that the right was losing this particular aspect of the

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So to recapitulate what exactly happened here, for those who have been in sleep in a cave for the last couple of weeks, President Trump said that Colin Kaepernick was an SOB and that owners should fire players who kneel on the sidelines for the national anthem. Now, if you or I said that, we're private citizens. The president of the United States is the president of the United States. Governmental actors should not be telling private actors how to do their business. It's just bad policy. It is not good for the country. If the shoe were on the other foot and Barack Obama were telling people on the right that they should be fired by their left-leaning employers,

we would be justifiably angry. Okay, but what Trump wasn't wrong about is that it's nasty to

Neil for the National Anthem. It is nasty to Neil for the National Anthem in 2017.

We're not talking about in 1961 in the middle of Jim Crow. Even then, the smartest civil

rights leaders, people like Martin Luther King, knew that the smart thing to do would be to, and the

right thing to do, would be to claim the mantle of the national anthem and the star spangled banner,

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