Well, it is one hell of Wednesday morning.

A lot of news happening.

Matt Lauer fired for sexual misconduct.

North Korea fires a historic missile,

and President Trump fires at the Democrat.

I'm Ben Shapiro.

This is the Ben Shapiro show.

Okay, so we have a lot to get to today.

As I say, Matt Lauer is firing, obviously, at the top of the news. President Trump is trolling everyone this morning. We'll talk about what good trollery looks like and what bad trollery looks like. And President Trump did some of both over the past 24 hours. I want to look at the news cycle, which should be an amazing news cycle for President Trump. I mean, here's the fact of the matter. Right now you are looking at a historically good news cycle for President Trump. I'll explain all of that in just a second.

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the guy that women loved and trusted, and he was very friendly and everybody liked him.

Yeah, it turns out that he's a bit of a duchbag.

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