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The Ben Shapiro Show

Ep. 453 - Is Trump Racist?

The Ben Shapiro Show

The Daily Wire

News, News Commentary

4.4152.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The media focus in on Trump’s alleged racism, #MeToo goes off the rails, Trump allegedly paid off a porn star, and Hawaii comes under fake nuclear attack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Is Donald Trump a racist? We will talk about it.

0:02.0

Plus, the Me Too movement goes completely off the rails,

0:05.0

and Hawaii apparently almost got nuked, or not really, but things went wrong.

0:08.0

We'll talk about that as well.

0:10.0

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

0:16.0

So, today is a day that America celebrates a great man's birthday. Mine. No, I'm just joking. It's Martin Luther King Day.

0:23.6

It is also my birthday, but of course today is Martin Luther King Day,

0:26.6

and I have some Martin Luther King Day recommendations a little bit later in the show.

0:29.6

I also want to get to everything Trump-related, the fact that Hawaii is not under nuclear assault,

0:35.6

as well as this crazy story that somebody put forward about Aziz Ansari, the comedian, he's really obnoxious, Azizan Sari, but the implication that Aziz Ansari is some sort of incipient rapist and that we all have to lump him in with the rest of the Me Too movement. The Me Too movement is really going overboard at this point, something I have feared for a while. I'll talk about all of that. First, I want to say thank you to our new sponsors over at LegalZoom. So, right now, you're thinking about starting new business, or you're thinking about having to do a will, or you think about having to an estate plan. Well, Legal Zoom is for you. Plus, if you need legal advice, legal zoom is for you. They can help make this a memorable year before all the distractions take hold, this is the year you finally get serious

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So go to legalzoom.com today, and again, use that special promo code, Ben, at checkout, and get a discount as well. All righty. So, over the weekend, the media have decided that President Trump's a racist. Now, that's no different from any other weekend. Every weekend, the media decide that President Trump is racist. Now, some weekends,

2:34.9

they have more material than others to call President Trump a racist. Now, let me start with this.

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I want to start by talking about what makes someone a racist. What makes someone racist? So,

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I think there are a few different ways to look at this. One is a person whose entire worldview

2:49.2

is inherently racist. So this would be like the Richard Spencer group of people, people who think that black people

2:53.7

are innately inferior, more prone to criminality, have lower IQs, but not that that has

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