Welcome back. President Trump has himself a merry little Christmas. Mitt Romney decides to go after President Trump and his first day on the job, and Louis C.K. gets clobbered by the Social Justice Warriors. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

Well, welcome back. I hope that you had a wonderful Christmas and wonderful New Year's. I know that I did. And I could not be more excited to be back here with you. I know. Sounds like I don't want to be here. But that's not true.

I actually do want to be here. I want to be here with you. We're going to get through this next year together because it's going to be one heck of a ride. We have a lot of news to fill you in on. A lot happened over the last week and a half.

Some of it humorous.

Some of it tragic.

There'll be laughs.

There'll be smiles.

There'll be crying.

There'll be tears.

There'll be a lot going on in just a second.

But first, let's talk about the national debt. $1.2 trillion. That's how much was added to the national debt in fiscal year 2018. Economists say that by the end of 2019, we will be spending more on the interest on our national debt than we spend on Medicare and by 2023, more than we spend on the military. As balloon payments become due, you should be asking yourself, what exactly is the impact on the U.S. dollar going to be? And what is that impact going to be on your investment? So what's your plan? Can you afford another hits your retirement? Like the last downturn when the S&P dropped 50%? Can you really afford the sort of volatility we've been seeing in the stock market lately? Well, a hedge against inflation and a hedge against uncertainty is precious metals. Gold is a safe haven against uncertainty. My savings plan is diversified. Yours should be too. I don't mean take all your money out of the stock market and dump it in gold. I mean, take some of your money and put it in precious metals. It is responsible to be diversified. The company I trust with precious metal purchases is Birch Gold Group.

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And there's a lot of debate already about whether 2019 is going to be 2018, part two,

The Revenge, or whether it's going to be part one of 2020. Pretty obviously it's going to be

part one of 2020 because everybody is already running for president. Everybody is already

trying to figure out whether President Trump is even going to stick around to run again for president.

The answer is probably yes. But President Trump had himself a merry little Christmas.

He spent the Christmas of his life in the White House by himself, basically waiting out the government shutdown and tweeting furiously from the Oval Office.

So he had himself a lot of fun. He was there for Christmas. He was there for New Year's. And that led him to send out a bunch of tweets, a bunch of videos, talking about what he's done so far. Now, all of that is fine. The President has accomplished a great many things in his first couple of years in office. Remember, he's only been in office for a little under two years, which is incredible. So for President Trump, it's sort of like there's Trump years and then there's regular years. So in regular years, it's only been like a couple of years of President Trump's presidency. In Trump years, it's been at least 200 years of President Trump's presidency. Time has warped completely. President Trump has actually been president since 1733 in regular years, but in Trump years,

he's only been president for like two years. So there's that. But President Trump listed his

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