President Trump gives his big primetime address on the border.

Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer look like members of the undead,

and Jim Costa, journalism's all over everyone.

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

A lot to get to today.

So the presidents of the United States gave a very, very big address last night.

We'll go through all of it. We'll go through all of the responses from the Democrats.

We'll go through the media's responses as well.

So many things to go through today. We'll get to all of those in just a second. But first, let me ask you a question. When you watched some of the responses to the president's address last night, did it make you want to die? Well, if you would die, would there be someone there to pay for your funeral?

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the dominoes set up in a row. It was time for him to make his big address to the American

people explaining why the government was shut down, why it was important to

build a border wall. The president's address has to be kind of examined in two contexts. One is for the

content and the other is for the presentation. The content was fine. The content basically covered the

things that the president needed to cover, although I would say that he focused a little too

heavy-handedly

on the blood and gore aspects of illegal immigration, as opposed to what I would have focused on,

which is the utter incompetence and foolishness of Democrats who say that no border wall is necessary.

That's where I would have put all my focus. The president talked about it some, but he didn't talk about it enough.

And the other place that I would have put a lot of focus is on the minimal cost of the wall. I think that the president should have opened up his speech last night. I said this yesterday on the show. I think he should have opened up his speech last night by listing off all of the spending priorities for Democrats. They've spent $5 billion on this, and they've spent $5 billion on that, They spent $5 billion on the National Endowment for the Arts, where people are paid to smear themselves with chocolate in front of cameras for Art Nouveau. But they won't spend $5 billion on a border fence that would permanently make easier the lives of the Border Patrol agents who are simply trying to enforce the law. That's where I would have put the focus. Instead, the president went pretty heavy. And I think that's a reflection of Stephen Miller, his speechwriter, who writes a lot on these particular issues. In terms of the content, though, overall, it was fine. Whenever the president sticks to teleprompter, he's actually more convincing than when he does rally Trump. Rally Trump is really good for the base. But teleprompter Trump is actually better for the vast swath of Americans who just need to hear the message.

And they need to hear the message unfiltered without the media acting as an intermediary.

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