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The Ben Shapiro Show

Ep. 817 - President Leeroy Jenkins

The Ben Shapiro Show

The Daily Wire

News, News Commentary

4.4152.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Democratic piranhas tear each other apart, Trump jumps into the water, and ICE concerns hit fever pitch. Date: 07-15-2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Democratic piranhas tear each other apart so President Trump decides, hey, why not jump into the water?

0:05.2

And ice concerns hit fever pitch. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

0:14.6

Well, the first rule of politics is don't stop your enemy when they're in middle of making a mistake.

0:19.6

But President Trump breaks all the

0:21.2

rules, man. That's just the way he rolls. I know that there may not be a lot of World of Warcraft

0:26.2

fans here in the Ben Shapiro show audience, but I do need to make a reference that requires explanation.

0:33.1

So there is a game, an online game called World of Warcraft. It is a multiplayer game, apparently. I'm not a World of Warcraft player myself. And all of it is a game, an online game called World of Warcraft. It is a multiplayer game, apparently.

0:38.6

I'm not a World of Warcraft player myself. And there's one very famous meme that has come

0:45.2

from World of Warcraft in which a bunch of people who are all playing World of Warcraft together

0:49.8

are sitting around planning their next move. And one of the players is away from his computer

0:54.8

preparing himself a plate of chicken. He comes back and they are all still preparing their plan.

1:00.5

And he decides to randomly charge directly into the middle of a firefight, thus killing everyone,

1:05.5

while shouting Leroy Jenkins. Well, this is President Trump. And the news cycle this weekend could have been, the Democrats

1:15.0

tearing each other apart. The news cycle could have been this weekend, people attempting to

1:19.6

raid an ice facility and one guy getting killed while attempting to destroy an ice facility.

1:25.0

All of that could have been the news cycle this weekend. Instead, the news cycle was Leroy Jenkins, the president of the United States deciding to tweet xenophobic nonsense

1:34.1

in the middle of a democratic infight. And to do so in such a way that the Democrats were able

1:40.8

to unite against him. This is so intensely stupid. It is almost impossible

1:45.3

to overstate how stupid this is. On a political level, on a moral level, it is idiocy of the highest

1:51.6

order. Now, does this mean that the people whom President Trump is attacking are suddenly

1:56.2

godsends, that they are wonders to the United States? No, that's the point. The point is that a targeted,

2:01.4

a targeted political attack on Ilhan Omar would be well taken. She's a terrible Congressperson with

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