Kanye visits the White House. The press lose their mind and we check the mailbag. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

So Elon Musk's theory is that we are all living inside a computer simulation. This all isn't real.

Yesterday, he had some pretty good evidence for his theory because Kanye West and Donald Trump were in the Oval Office.

And Donald Trump is president and Kanye West was visiting. and that was a thing that happened in real life. And we'll talk about all of those things. First, I have a couple of reminders for you. First of all, tune in today, 2 p.m. Eastern, 11 a.m. Pacific for another special live stream of another kingdom, season two, episodes one and two. Episode one will be free in its entirety. Only the first 15 minutes of the second episode will be available to watch on Facebook and YouTube. To be able to watch all of episode 2 and every other episode in the new season of Another Kingdom, you have to become a Daily Wire subscriber. All you have to do is click on the link in the description. Also, reminder, Sunday is the final episode of the Ben Shapiro election special on Fox News. We've been blowing out the ratings and we hope that you will see our final episode. It's gonna be awesome. We have lots of great material, so go check that out. It's 8 p.m. Eastern on Fox News on Sunday, lots of good stuff gonna be on that show. So go check that out. And also, before we get to the news, I first need to remind you that

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That I appreciate.

And when Kanye wears around the MAGA hat and he says that this basically is me just

saying to the world, I can think for myself, that's a message that I like and appreciate

and think is actually deeply important.

Because even if it's coming from a guy who I don't think is world's most knowledgeable

about politics, that's not a message that requires you to be all that knowledgeable about politics, saying, I like to get more information, I like to think for myself, and I'm not going to be the person you think I ought to be simply based on the color of my skin. Deeply, deeply, deeply important message from Kanye West. So Kanye has been, what's funny is all the people on the left who are very upset at Kanye.

Like, oh, well, what's Kanye actually doing except shilling for Trump?

Kim Kardashian got a woman freed from prison. What have you done lately?

I didn't even agree with Trump's decision on that, on Alice Marie Johnson, who was leading a drug ring, it turns out.

But she was pardoned by President Trump because Kanye West and Kim Kardashian

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