President Trump prepares for the State of the Union Address,

Stacey Abrams prepares for her response,

and Virginia Democrats continue their slow motion implosion.

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

Man, who is excited for the State of the Union address tonight?

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Well, it turns out that not only have we moved into a temporary studio while we build out our

beautiful, new magnificent studios, but also there are huge leaks in here that happen every time

it rains.

So as we prepare for the state of the Union address, we are also smelling the decomposing

corpses of people that our producer Senya murdered earlier and then

stacked up behind the curtains behind all the soundstage boards and everything. So, you know,

it's a little depressing to be contemplating your own mortality while smelling the mold coming off

the corpses as you prepare for the state of the union address. So that's my mood this morning

as I prepared for the state of the union address. President Trump, of course, is supposed to give the state of the union address tonight at long last. The government shutdown did have its good aspects. One of those aspects was no state of the union address. Now, I know there are some people who get super pumped up about the state of the union. They love the pump. They love the circumstance. They are into it, man. They are just excited as can be about the state of the union address. They cannot wait for President Trump to go out there and say a bunch of words that no one's going to remember five minutes after he said them. Quick quiz. Do you remember anything from President Trump's State of the Union address last year? I do, but only because I do this professionally. I remember a couple of things. One, there was the North Korean guy who was picking up his crutches. And second, there was the soldier's wife who he paid tribute to while some Democrats stood for a second and then sat down, right? But those were both controversial. I don't remember a single thing that he said. I remember the people that he used for the props, because this is what we've been doing since Ronald Reagan, where the president points up into the raptors, and he goes, and now let me tell you the story

of Bob. And then everyone points to Bob. And it was like, yeah, Bob, woo! So we're going to get a lot of

that tonight. And that's why we treat this thing like it is an entertainment vehicle. And one of the

big questions is, who's going to bring whom as guests? Which guests are going to show up? So here are the people who President Trump is bringing for his guests at the State of the Union at the Capitol Building tomorrow. The guests are going to include Deborah Bissell, Heather Armstrong, and Madison Armstrong. These are family members of Gerald and Sharon David who were killed by an illegal immigrant. So President Trump, I'm sure, is going to talk about illegal immigrant crime and how

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