President Trump announces a precipitous Syria pullout. The Trump wall remains mythical,

and we explore whether feminists will allow girls to be girls. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

Oh man, we do have a lot to get to today. The president has been busy and not in a particularly good way.

Unfortunately, we'll get to all of that in just one second.

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There's really no nice way to put this.

The president's agenda in the last week has been just awful.

It has just been awful. I mean, everything he has done has been something that you would have expected from the Obama administration, not something that you would have expected from the Trump administration.

So as you know, I was Luke cold on criminal justice reform from the very beginning. I remain

Luke cold on criminal justice reform. Maybe it'll work out. Maybe it won't. It should not have been a top

Republican priority to rewrite the law, to give people greater discretion to let violent criminals

and nonviolent criminals out of prison. If you want to rewrite the laws in congressional fashion

to actually lower the penalties

for particular crimes, go ahead and do that. But simply getting rid of mandatory minimums or

ensuring that wardens can let people out of jail if they deem them to be nonviolent. I have some real

problems with that ideologically, even though I like a lot of the people who sponsor the bill

and are appreciators of the bill.

But that is the least of President Trump's concerns this week. I mean, in other minor concerns, the President, and it's not minor, the President issued an executive order banning bump stocks. Now, as you know, I've said on the program, I'm in favor of banning bump stocks. That does not mean the President has the power under the Constitution of the United States to simply issue an executive order, getting rid of bump stocks, you need a piece of legislation to do that.

So if you want a pass a piece, has the power under the Constitution of the United States to simply issue an executive order

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