Zohran Mamdani Just Accidentally Made the Perfect Republican Ad
The Rubin Report
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🗓️ 17 July 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" talks to Ben Ferguson and Link Lauren about the backlash over Zohran Mamdani's bizarre viral World Cup viewing party at Rikers Island prison and why it may be a sneak peek of his prison reform agenda and his plans to close Rikers; Bill Maher putting NPR's Steve Inskeep in his place with his brutally honest take on the self-righteous elitism of liberals and Democrats; CNN's Abby Phillip having to break up an argument over illegal immigrants being deported by ICE between "The View's" Ana Navarro and Lydia Moynihan; Border Czar Tom Homan telling Fox News' Laura Ingraham why he fears that ICE deportations will get far more violent and deadly as long as Democratic rhetoric keeps encouraging people to fight back and resist ICE raids; Palantir CEO Alex Karp telling The Free Press' Bari Weiss how progressives used to be against illegal immigration because it lowered the wages of the poor and lower middle class, and how Democrats reversing course on this major issue may be the death of their party; gay cruise attendees being surprised when the Muslim country of Turkey refused to let them dock at its port; and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, humanoids of the interwebs. |
| 0:10.4 | I'm Dave Rubin. |
| 0:11.3 | This is The Rubin Report. |
| 0:13.1 | It's time for another Friday roundtable extravaganza on this Friday, July 17th, 2026. |
| 0:19.1 | And joining me is the host of the Ben Ferguson show, Ben Ferguson, |
| 0:23.0 | and the host of Spot On with Link Lauren, Link Lauren. Gentlemen, how are you on this fine |
| 0:30.2 | Friday? Are you ready to deal with... Happy Friday, my friend. Thanks for having me. |
| 0:34.4 | Another week of insanity. It never ends. You know, here we go. |
| 0:38.5 | All right. |
| 0:38.9 | I told you we're tight on time today. |
| 0:40.7 | So we're just going to dive right in. There's a lot of good stuff for you guys today. I wanted to start with this thing. We wanted to cover it yesterday, but it was so idiotic. We couldn't even fit it into my show in a sensible way. But New York every day, it's just more and more nonsense. |
| 0:55.2 | And this, I almost thought this |
| 0:56.6 | was AI, but it is not. The Kami jihadi running that place, Zohan Mamdami, went to Rikers |
| 1:04.4 | Island to watch the World Cup with a bunch of inmates. And we talked about 66. |
| 1:11.6 | You have one star in a week. |
| 1:12.6 | You can see it there. |
| 1:13.6 | The city of human is this. |
| 1:17.6 | You guys were for? |
| 1:19.6 | You know, I hope that this shares with people who are incarcerated here on Rikers that |
| 1:26.6 | they too are part of New York City. |
| 1:28.6 | The World Cup has been a magical moment for the entire city. |
| 1:31.5 | These are New Yorkers, |
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