Donald Trump (17:56)

I also strongly believe that the Gaza Strip, which has been a symbol of death and destruction for so many decades and so bad for the people anywhere near it, and especially those who live there. And frankly, who's been really very unlucky. It's been very unlucky. It's been an unlucky place for a long time. Being in its presence just has not been good. And it should not go through a process of rebuilding and occupation by the same people that have really stood there and fought for it and lived there and died there and lived a miserable existence there. Instead, we should go to other countries of interest with humanitarian hearts. And there are many of them that want to do this and build various domains that will ultimately be occupied by the 1.8 million Palestinians living in Gaza, ending the death and destruction and, frankly, bad luck. This can be paid for by neighboring countries of great wealth. It could be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12. It could be numerous sites or it could be one large site. But the people will be able to live in comfort and peace and we'll get. We'll make sure something really spectacular is done. They're going to have peace. They're not going to be shot at and killed and destroyed like this civilization of. Of wonderful people has had to endure. The only reason the Palestinians want to go back to Gaza is they have no alternative. It's right now a demolition site. This is just a demolition site. Virtually every building is down. They're living under fallen concrete that's very dangerous and very precarious. They instead can occupy all of a beautiful area with homes and safety, and they can live out their lives in peace and harmony instead of having to go back and do it again. The US Will take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it, too. We'll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site. Level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings. Level it out. Create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area. Do a real job. Do something different. Just can't go back. If you go back, it's going to end up the same way it has for 100 years. I'm hopeful that this ceasefire could be the beginning of a larger and more enduring peace that will end the bloodshed and killing once and for all.

Ben Shapiro (20:42)

So everybody who. Who is against this, I have a question. What is your alternative? Seriously, I'd love to hear it. Alternatives, anyone? Maybe the alternative that will be put forward by the Arab states is, okay, we don't want this. So now we're gonna go in and we'll volunteer to clean it up, in which case, President Trump gets a win. But the alternative cannot be continued. Hamas rule, because that is not going to happen. And just imagine for a second if. Wait for it. President Trump was actually right, since he has been right on the Middle east many times before. Imagine if this actually became an economic development zone where there were, in fact, hotels, where there were, in fact casinos, where there were houses and schools. I know a crazy idea that a beautiful piece of beachfront property might actually be a beautiful piece of beachfront property, as opposed to a giant terror hellhole. But is anyone else thinking differently about this? 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Speaking of opportunity, download the CFO's guide to AI and machine learning at netsuite.com Shapiro the guide is free to you at netsuite.com Shapiro that's netsuite.com Shapiro so he was asked about his plan for the Palestinians. And what he said is, listen, if you want to leave, you should be able to leave. And guess what? If you're a terror supporter, there's no reason you have a right to stay. So the plan is that if you want to go, you should be able to go elsewhere. And guess what? You know this bizarre idea that people need to be trapped in this zone. There's polling data, by the way, showing that a huge percentage of Palestinians, if they could get out, would want to. Here is President Trump saying, listen, population movement is the constant of human history. There is no right to live in a terror hellhole. Backing Hamas, building terror tunnels and basically driving millions of people into despair, poverty and death. There's no, there's no right to that. And if people want to live there, they can live there. And if they don't want to live there, they can't live there. But there's going to be a rebuilding time. So let's get real about this. Kaitlan Collins was very upset about this because, again, conventional wisdom is you have to keep millions of people suffering in an area dominated by terrorism so that, what, a terror state can be built and threaten its neighbors? Here's President Trump saying, no, I have a different idea.

Kaitlan Collins (24:54)

Just to follow up on what you were saying about the Gazans leaving Gaza, going to other countries. One, where exactly are you suggesting that they should go? And two, are you saying they should return after it's rebuilt? And if not, who do you envision living there?

Donald Trump (25:08)

I envision the world people living there. The world people. I think you'll make that into an international, unbelievable place. I think the potential in the Gaza Strip is unbelievable. And I think the entire world, representatives from all over the world will be there and they'll. And they'll live there. Palestinians also. Palestinians will live there. Many people will live there. But they've tried the other, and they've tried it for decades and decades and decades, decades. It's not going to work. It didn't work. It will never work. And you have to learn from history. History has, you know, just can't let it keep repeating itself. We have an opportunity to do something that could be phenomenal. And I don't want to be cute, I don't want to be a wise guy, but the Riviera of the Middle east, this could be something that could be so bad, people go in the meantime, Mr. President, but more, more importantly than that is the people that have been absolutely destroyed, that live there now can live in peace in a much better situation because they're living in hell. And those people will now be able to live in peace. We'll make sure that it's done world class. It'll be wonderful for the people, Palestinians, Palestinians mostly, we're talking about. And I have a feeling that despite them saying no, I have a feeling, feeling that the king in Jordan and that the general president, but that the general in Egypt will open their hearts and will give us the kind of land that we need to get this done and people can live in harmony and in peace.

Ben Shapiro (26:46)

Again. What is your alternative? You got one, let's hear it. President Trump was asked about resettling 1.7 million people, and here was his answer.

Unnamed Reporter (26:57)

How many people are you thinking about?

Donald Trump (27:00)

All of them. I mean, we're talking about probably a million seven people. Million seven, maybe a million eight. But I think all of them, I think they'll be resettled in areas where they can live a beautiful life and not be worried about dying every day.

Ben Shapiro (27:15)

Okay, now I have a question. Is it more humanitarian to keep people in rubble? Is that the humanitarian thing to do, to keep them in rubble and poverty with no workable economy? Because guess what? Israel is not allowing work visas from the Gaza Strip. That is not a thing that is going to happen under current situations or anytime in the future so long as the status quo ante is returned to. So what exactly is the alternative plan? All the people who are. Oh, my God, how. Let them cook. Let him cook. President Trump says, listen, we'll make it nice for people to live elsewhere. Why would they want to live in hell? Exactly.

Unnamed Speaker (27:49)

Would Palestinians have the right to return.

Ben Shapiro (27:51)

To Gaza if they left while the rebuilding was happening?

Donald Trump (27:54)

It would be my hope that we could do so something really nice, really good where they wouldn't want to return. Why would they want to return? The place has been hell. It's been one of the meanest, one of the meanest, toughest places on earth. If we can build something for them in one of the countries and it could be Jordan and it could be Egypt, it could be other countries and you could build four or five or six areas. It doesn't have to be one area, but you take certain areas and you build really good quality housing, like a beautiful town, like someplace where they can live and not die.

Ben Shapiro (28:32)

Okay, again, the question would be the alternative. What is the conventional wisdom's been tried for 80 years, gang and guess what? It has ended in nothing but death, despair, war, terrorism, the training of young kids to become future terrorists. That's what it has ended in. Hey, so President Trump says, you know, what's the United States role in all this? Why is he a long term ownership position is what President Trump has to say. Now. Again, there are a lot of details that have to be filled in. There has to be a plan that's filled in. And again, this could be a negotiating gambit in order to get the Arab states to actually say, we don't want what Trump is talking about. So we are going to get involved in the rebuilding and guarantee the security of the Gaza Strip. This could be a lot of different things. What it isn't is the conventional things that have already been tried and have failed 100,000 times over the course of the years. I saw a tweet last night from one of these conventional wisdom fools saying, well, why don't we just say that the people in Gaza get to stay in Gaza and live side by side in peace with the Israelis? Oh, I don't know. Maybe reality intervened. Maybe reality should at some point clock people in the head. It turns out it clocked the Israelis in the head on October 7th. And here is President Trump talking about his plans.

Kaitlan Collins (29:41)

You are talking tonight about the United States taking over a sovereign territory. What authority would allow you to do that? Are you talking about a permanent occupation there? Redevelopment? And Mr. Prime Minister, do you see this idea as a way to expand the boundaries of Israel and to have a longer peace, even though the Israeli people know how important that land is to you and, and your citizens, just as the space is inherited by the Palestinians as well?

Donald Trump (30:13)

I do see a long term ownership position and I see it bringing great stability to that part of the Middle east and maybe the entire Middle East. And everybody I've spoken to, this was not a decision made lightly. Everybody I've spoken to loves the idea of the United States owning that, that piece of land, developing and creating thousands of jobs with something that will be magnificent in a really magnificent area that nobody would know. Nobody can look, because all they see is death and destruction and rubble and demolished buildings falling all over. It's just a terrible, terrible sight. I've studied it, I've studied this very closely over a lot of months and I've seen it from every different angle. And it's a very, very dangerous place to be and it's only going to get worse. And I think this is an idea that's gotten tremendous and I'm Talking about from the highest level of leadership gotten tremendous praise. And if the United States can help to bring stability and peace in the Middle east, we'll do that. Bibi, I mentioned again tonight our three goals. And the third goal is to make sure that Gaza never poses a threat to Israel again. President Trump is taking it to a much higher level. He sees a different, he sees a different future for that piece of land that has been the focus of so much terrorism, so many attacks against us, so many, so many trials and so many tribulations. He has a different idea and I think it's worth paying attention to this. We're talking about it. He's exploring it with his people, with his staff. I think it's something that could change history and it's worthwhile really pursuing this avenue again.

Ben Shapiro (32:10)

It is hilarious to me that Trump says I want to turn this area into a thriving center of commerce on a turn into a Riviera on the Middle East. And people are saying, how could you be so cruel to the Palestinians? Your alternatives, please. Your conventional wisdom has. I'm just going to say it over and over and over cuz it's true, it's true. You keep saying the same thing over and over and over like a fool or a madman and then nothing changes. The place keeps being a terror ridden hellhole. And your response to the possible changing of that area into something that could actually be good is that you're upset about it in some way like that. That's, that's your first response? I have a feeling that maybe you might have a slightly different agenda. President Trump made some other announcements at this press conference. He announced that the United States would be ending its support for the awful and evil UN Human Rights Council and the UN Refugee Works Agency, which is a corrupt tool of Hamas.

Donald Trump (33:06)

I ended the last administration's de facto arms embargo on over $1 billion in military assistance for Israel. And I'm also pleased to announce that this afternoon the United States withdrew from the anti semitic UN Human Rights Council and ended all of the support for the UN Relief and Works Agency which funneled money to Hamas and which was very disloyal to humanity. Today I also took action to restore our maximum pressure policy on the Iranian region regime. And we will once again enforce the most aggressive possible sanctions, drive Iranian oil exports to zero and diminish the regime's capacity to fund terror throughout the region and throughout the world.

Ben Shapiro (33:52)

So again, this is correct. The conventional wisdom that you have to keep funding evil institutions to do evil things with American Taxpayer dollars is pretty incredible. President Trump also had some comments about getting the rest of the hostages out. What he said is, listen, Hamas should move on to a phase two here, because what's going to come if they don't is not going to be pleasant.

Donald Trump (34:14)

We're working very hard to get all the hostages. That word is all. And we are working very hard. So far, it's been moving along fairly rapidly, pretty much on schedule. It's, I'd love to have them all out at one time, but we're taking them out, out. And tomorrow more are being released and over the days, more. And then we'll go into a phase two. But we'd like to get all of the hostages, and if we don't, it will just make us somewhat more violent, I will tell you that, because they would have broken their word.

Ben Shapiro (34:48)

And the meeting between President Trump and Netanyahu and the entire team was, of course, very warm. President Trump shouted out other members of his administration in the middle of this press conference, pointing out the solidity of his administration in pursuit of these new ideas.

Donald Trump (35:00)

J.D. vance, everybody. J.D. please. Vice President, stand up. He's been doing a good job. He's been working very hard on all things, but this in particular.

Ben Shapiro (35:14)

Okay. Perhaps the funniest moment came when President Trump was asked at this press conference a question by a female Afghan reporter who apparently wanted him to recognize the Taliban or something. And it didn't go amazing for her.

Donald Trump (35:28)

Go ahead.

Kaitlan Collins (35:30)

My name is Afghanistan. As a high expectation from you, do you have any plan to change Afghanistan situation? Are you able to recognize Taliban? Because I'm an Afghan journalist, Afghan separate woman. Any comment about Afghanistan? Let's your future plan for Afghan people, especially Afghan people.

Donald Trump (35:49)

I have a little hard time understanding you. Where are you from? Actually, it's a beautiful voice and a beautiful accent. The only problem is I can't understand the word you're saying. But. But I just say this. Good luck, live in peace. Go ahead, please.

Ben Shapiro (36:12)

I'm sorry. The man, he's a funny man. He's a very, very funny man. Well, in a second, we'll get to President Trump's Iran policy, which he also announced yesterday. And it is a return to the maximum containment, maximum pressure campaign against the Iranian terrorist state. First, no matter where you are watching or listening right now, take a second and hit that follow button. It doesn't cost you anything. It makes a huge difference in fighting back against the algorithm that really, really doesn't want you to hear this show. If you want the full show uncensored Uninterrupted, unshackled, from big tech overlords. There's only one way to do that. Become a Daily Wire plus member. As a member, you get unlimited access to our entire library of premium entertainment, including the culture shaping documentary what Is a Woman? And the hilariously offensive box office hit Am I racist? Go to DailyWire.com subscribe now and join the fight. Meanwhile, President Trump did announce yesterday an executive order cracking down on Iran. He has said he doesn't want war with Iran. He's not interested in a military strike if one can be avoided. But he's putting significant pressure on Iran, maximum pressure on the government of Iran to deny all of their paths to a nuclear weapon. And President Trump was asked in the Oval Office while signing this executive order, now, Mr. President, there's a lot of talk about Iran trying to assassinate you. What would happen if that happened? If it's Iran and their proxies who have threatened to retaliate against you and your team by killing you guys for taking out Soleiman?

Donald Trump (37:33)

Well, they haven't done that. And that would be a terrible thing for them to do. Not because of me. If they did that, they would be obliterated. That would be the end. I've left instructions. If they do it, they get obliterated, there won't be anything left.

Ben Shapiro (37:52)

According to this brand new executive order from the White House, the Iranian government, including the irgc, is using agents and cyber enabled means to target United States nationals living in the United States and other countries around the world for attacks including assault, kidnapping and murder. Iran has also directed its proxy groups, including Hezbollah's Islamic Jihad organization, to embed sleeper cells in the homeland to be activated in support of this terrorist activity. Iran bears responsibility for the horrific Hamas Massacres committed on October 7, 2023, and bears responsibility for continued Houthi attacks against the United States Navy, allied navies and international commercial shipping in the red Sea. Since April 2024, the regime has twice demonstrated its willingness to launch ballistic and cruise missile attacks against the State of Israel. Iran commits grievous human rights abuses and arbitrarily detains foreigners, including US Citizens, on spurious charges without due process of law subjecting them to abuse. The United States stands with the women of Iran who face daily abuse by the regime. Iran's nuclear program, including its enrichment and reprocessing related capabilities and nuclear capable missiles, pose an existential danger to the United States and the entire civilized world. It is therefore in the national interest to impose maximum pressure on the Iranian regime to end its nuclear threat, curtail its ballistic missile program and stop its support of for terrorist groups. So maximum pressure is back on the Iranian regime. Now, at this point, I'd like to point out President Trump is no one's tool. There are a lot of people out there. Many of them don't like Israel, many of them don't like Jews who seem to think that President Trump is a mirror of their ideology. There are isolationists who like to think that. There are interventionists who like to think that. There are a lot of people who like to think that President Trump is simply an avatar for their particular philosophy. As I've said many, many times, President Trump is an avatar of no one's philosophy. President Trump does not have a thoroughgoing ideology. President Trump is about winning. He's about utilitarian wins. That is what he does. And that means he's gonna do things that many people don't like. From time to time, as you've noticed, he does things that I don't like. But the reality is that it's his outside the box thinking that makes things possible. It makes things possible. So I don't know where this proposal is going to go. You don't know either. It could be a negotiating tactic. It could be the opening of a bargaining session with the Saudis, it could be an attempt to put pressure on the Iranians, it could be an attempt to get the hostages out, or it could be face value, an attempt to actually do something extraordinary with a hellhole that has been turned into a hellhole by the population that decided to elect Hamas and the Hamas government that decided to turn it into a terrorist. Haven't that. Maybe it's that we don't know yet. But bottom line, as I said right at the top, let Donald J. Trump cook. And meanwhile, your quick update on President Trump's nominees. They are getting through at a staggering rate. Pam Bondi is your new Attorney General. She was in fact confirmed yesterday. Meanwhile, RFK Jr has been moved out of committee. There was a lot of question about whether he was going to make it out of committee for Health and Human Services Secretary, but last minute lobbying from the White House has put him on a glide path to his actual job as the head of hhs. Meanwhile, Tulsi Gabbard also made it through committee with help from Senator Tom Cotton, who of course is quite hawkish on the Senate Intelligence Committee. So it looks as though President Trump is going to get his Cabinet. The three candidates who are the most likely to go down were Gabbard, RFK Jr. And Cash Patel. All three look like they are on a glide path to confirmation. All the betting markets suggest they will be confirmed, and of course, Pam Bondi was confirmed yesterday. So all the people on the right who wanted Trump to get his cabinet, he's going to get his cabinet. Now, speaking of the President and cooking, the president is set to issue an executive order today barring trans girls and women from female school sports. What does that mean? The actual real headline there is men don't get to play with the girls. Which, I mean, that used to be common sensical. The order is titled Keeping men Out of Women's sports is to be signed Wednesday afternoon. It's not exactly clear what the order would entail, but one option is to direct the Education Department to interpret Title 9 rules as barring the participation of trans girls and women in female sports categories, which, of course, makes perfect sense since Title IX was designed to protect actual biological women. It was not designed, in fact, to protect men who believe that they are women. The NCAA has already indicated it will move rapidly to change its rules to comply with with federal law. So the thoroughgoing defeat of the trans agenda is extraordinary. It's extraordinary. I've talked to you on the show about this. No company did more to help facilitate that defeat than the Daily Wire. We've been standing against this nonsense since literally the first day the company was founded. It was a standing rule at this company that we would never in any material, ever refer to people by anything like, quote, unquote, preferred pronouns. People would be referred to by what pronouns have always meant their actual, objective sex. At this company, we have stood strong against a wide variety of crackdowns by big tech, by advertisers who have attempted to target us multiple times on the basis of our unwillingness to lie and say that men can be women and women can be men. And President Trump is doing the right thing there, as he did a couple of weeks ago in fighting, quote, unquote, gender affirming youth for young people. So this is being ranted against by people like Cynthia Nixon. Cynthia Nixon, she of Sex and the City. You know, the one that nobody liked Miranda. Well, she ran for governor. Nobody liked her there either. And now she is claiming that hospitals must be allowed to cut the breasts off healthy young women and to cut the penises off healthy young men and to shoot kids full of hormones because every kid she knows is trans. Now, this, of course, is insane. It is insane because it is very clear that this is a social contagion. Why is it that transgender identification seems to run real strong among wildly left blue Hollywood types. Why. Why are half the kids in Hollywood transed? Is that just because of a weird genetic anomaly that is only located in the bluest of areas with a high percentage of LGBT parents? Is that. Is that the. Is that the only just magical genetic bottlenecking in these particular areas? Or is it a social contagion? Here's Cynthia Nixon, refusing to acknowledge the truth that is right in front of her eyes here.

Kaitlan Collins (44:12)

Most importantly, I am here today as the mother of a proud trans man. I am here today as the aunt of a proud trans man. My best friend's kid is trans, and my kid's best friend is trans. My wife and I, our lives are filled with the most amazing, beautiful, brave trans people, young and old, but especially young. My trans kid had his top surgery at NYU a number of years ago. His doctors were fantastic. His surgeon was the best we could have imagined. And the idea that the city is filled with young people who thought they had a place to go where they could receive the highest care, and that place has now been shut to them. It sickens me.

Ben Shapiro (45:30)

So everyone she knows is trans? Everyone. Her kid, her nephew, her niece, her. All their friends. They had their breast tissue cut out at these places. Here's the thing. She's gonna refuse to see the truth because the barbarity of what she's actually done to her own child is so obvious and clear. But this is. This wild social contagion is over. This lie is over. It is done. It is finished. People are no longer gonna go along with this nonsense. And kudos to President Trump again on doing the right thing. Meanwhile, it is hilarious to watch Democrats respond to to the massive changes that are now being effectuated by the Trump administration. The federal government is now being told that if you don't quit, some of you can get fired. According to the Washington Post, a supervisor and a government agency now run by allies of Elon Musk told staff earlier this week layoffs across the federal government are likely after Thursday's deadline to accept the deferred resignation offer, according to an email obtained by the Washington Post, a step toward forcibly removing many of the 2.3 million civilian federal employees. Well, yes, if you won't quit, then some of you will undoubtedly go. The CIA, too, has been offering sweeping buyouts to the entire workforce. Again, the idea here isn't to clear out the entire CIA, is to say, if you don't want to work for President Trump and do his priorities, since he's the head of the executive Branch. Well, don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split you have. Have at it. We'll see you later. You can take a payout. The goal is not to clean out the entire CIA. You still need CIA officers. The goal is to clear out the people who don't want to do the thing the CIA was actually designed to do, namely target our enemies abroad using the intelligence apparatus rather than people at home using the intelligence apparatus. Now, hilariously, the Democrats are losing their minds over all of this. So Hakeem Jeffries, the. Not speaker of the House, the House Minority Leader, he's very angry. He says, I can't believe they're raiding the federal government. They're raiding the federal. Okay, Babylon B had a great headline yesterday. They said there's a picture of President Trump has said first fascist in history to cut sides of government. Yep, here's Hakeem Jeffries trying to do the routine.

Unnamed Reporter (47:32)

They've done nothing as it relates to.

Ben Shapiro (47:35)

Lowering the high cost of living.

Unnamed Reporter (47:38)

At the same time, they are raiding the government, attempting to steal taxpayer money. That's what the situation at the Treasury.

Kaitlan Collins (47:52)

Department is all about.

Unnamed Reporter (47:56)

We will introduce the Stop the Steal.

Kaitlan Collins (47:59)

Act in short order to prevent unlawful.

Unnamed Reporter (48:05)

Access with respect to the Department of Treasury's payment system connected to people who are trying to steal personal, sensitive and, and confidential information.

Ben Shapiro (48:25)

This is ridiculous. So you're worried about the spread of confidential. That's your big complaint? My favorite line yesterday was from Chuck Schumer, who should never be allowed in front of a microphone again. Chuck Schumer, the Senate Minority Leader, he says, Elon Musk is coming in here. He's trying to run this place like a tech startup. This isn't the tech startup. This is the federal government. Tech startups are where people make billions of dollars off of innovation. The federal government is where we waste all those billions of dollars on stupid bullshit. Here's Chuck Schumer. The American people will not stand for an unelected secret group to run rampant through the Executive branch. Being innovative is good, but Mr. Musk, this isn't a tech startup. These are public institutions that deal with things like Social Security and Medicare and national defense and provide for the well being of the American people. And the American people have a right to be part of that debate. So I'm confused. The American people have a right to be part of the debate about the spending, but you don't want it ever cut because the bureaucracy is there. Democrats are in a state of panic and that means that they are getting dumber and Dumber and dumber. Alexander Ocasio Cortez, widely perceived on the left as a possible presidential candidate, is perhaps the dumbest member of Congress. I mean, truly a stupid human being who's trotted out only because she was basically cast in Hollywood. And Alexander Ocasio Cortez went to Instagram, which is where she truly wants to be a star, not in Congress, to call Elon Musk stupid. Which is legitimately like finding a 900 pound man who has grown into his couch criticizing the V shred guys for their standards of fitness. I'm sorry, this specimen of mental incapacity is going to criticize the man who built SpaceX and Tesla and was an original PayPal investor. She's going to criticize and call him stupid. What now? Okay, here we go.

Kaitlan Collins (50:32)

This dude is probably one of the most unintelligent billionaires I have ever met or seen or witnessed. Which, you know, you can probably even glean that from watching these people on tv. Anyways, all of that is to say is that they don't do their homework clearly. Like they're putting 19 year olds in at the treasury. This dude is not smart.

Ben Shapiro (51:01)

He is not. He's not smart. Every 19 year old he's bringing in is like a world class caliber coder. One of them, a 19 year old kid, used actual AI technology to decrypt a piece of like Greek writing that's 2,000 years old and nobody's been able to actually make out the writing. Those are the people that Alexander Ocasio Cortez is criticizing. This complete numbskull. Good luck with this particular. Meanwhile, Jasmine Crockett, another one of the Democratic Party luminaries, she went on CNN where she complained about how tired she was of white tears. Oh, goodness gracious.

Kaitlan Collins (51:40)

I am tired of the white tears. Listen, if you are competent, you are not concerned when I walk into Congress every single day, you know why I don't feel away and why you, you can't make me doubt who I am is because I know that I had to work 10 times as hard as they did just to get into the seat. When you look and you compare me to Marjorie Taylor Greene or me to Lauren Boebert, there is no comparison. And that is the life that we have always lived. So the only people that are crying are the mediocre white boys that have been beaten out by people that historically have had to work so much harder.

Ben Shapiro (52:17)

She's had to work so much harder. Truly, there's no comparison between her and Marjorie Taylor Greener. Lauren Boebert Okay. All righty then. Meanwhile, Ilhan Omar was caught on tape at some sort of seminar recently telling people giving advice to Somalis who are in the United States illegally on their legal rights in helping to avoid deportation. So much pro America happening. So much. She's speaking Somali. She says, I advise the Somalian people that have ICE attempts to question you. You're not obligated to answer their questions. Just state that you are advised by a lawyer not to answer questions. Disclosure of your name, immigration status, mode of entry is not mandatory. Learn the laws and prepare yourself, she says about illegal immigrants. And refrain from disclosing information you would prefer them not to know. Well, maybe she'll be nice and offer these illegal immigrants a fake marriage so that they too can become citizens of the United States under false pretenses. And meanwhile, nature is healing. It turns out that all it took to get the recruitment crisis pretty much done over at Department of Defense was it not being headed by a bunch of political generals who were worried about white rage. So Pete Hegseth took over, and it turns out the recruitment has skyrocketed. In fact, recruitment has been skyrocketing ever since President Trump won. According to Secretary of Defense Hegseth, in December 2024, the US army had its best recruiting number in 12 years. In. In January 2025, the army hit its best recruiting number in 15 years. Bottom line, America's youth want to serve under the bold and strong America first leadership of Donald Trump. And then he tweeted out a new U.S. army ad. And guess what? The army ad is about members of the military kicking ass and taking names and not about exploring their LGBTQ identities and the possibility of free hormone treatment. And now people want to join the Army. It's crazy. Almost like when you tell people what the army is and what it's supposed to do, people might want to do that thing. Crazy towns. Here's the ad. These are guys who are firing mortars, and then you see them fighting, doing sit ups. Tanks, guns, people climbing walls. Bazookas, grenade, night crawling, firing from tanks. Wait, you mean like when we. When we show people what the army does, Young men might want to join the army as opposed to when we tell them that they can read genderqueer and maybe do a book analysis of Ibram X Kendi. They don't want to join. I mean, wow. It turns out that was so difficult. It was so difficult. All righty. Well, folks on the line, joining me to discuss the end of their possible sporting dreams, Jake Crane. Blaine Crane, David Cohen, the Hosts of our very own Crane & Co. Said by some to be the most passionate 90 minutes of sports talk in existence. They are also stars of Lady Ballers, a film about their own athletic aspirations. Guys, I mean, I hate to break to you the news of the executive order today that President Trump is putting forth, suggesting that Title 9 will no longer apply to men who want to play with the women. I know. That's the entire premise of Lady Baller. So Jake, explain your feelings on learning that your hopes and dreams have been dashed by the President of the United States.

Unnamed Speaker (56:00)

Well, Ben, first off, thanks for having us. Even though it's, you know, under these circumstances, it took a lot of personal reflection when I heard about this. You know, sitting in my house, looking outside, wondering what's next when you dream so much about being able to take over women's sports as a biological man. But, but then it hit me and I came to the realization that at the end of the day, it's something that had to happen. But I think the saddest part is that it needed to happen is that we've gotten to a point in society where somebody, a president with this type of power, had to sign an executive order to keep men out of women's sports. Even though my dreams are dash, Ben, and it hurts, I've come to the realization that I think the saddest part is we actually had to do this cuz this is actually a real thing that exists in society. So I'm willing to put my dreams on hold. I've got a couple other ideas. I've started playing chess, doing origami, even took it up Crab McGraw. So it's, we'll see where it ends up.

Ben Shapiro (56:59)

So, Blaine, obviously this, it's a blow to you as well, especially since you were actually wrestling the ladies in Lady Ballers and it seemed like you were on a smooth glide path to a gold medal at the Olympics actually, until this moment happened. So your feelings today?

Unnamed Speaker (57:12)

Well, you know, I never thought Donald Trump would come after my career. And we're seeing, and we're seeing this now. And to make it even worse, I mean, here in Nashville, they just had a women's basketball team that's going to be coming here. So now they're just throwing it in my face. Ben, I will find every way, every way I can to keep this dream alive. And sir, I hope you're in my corner.

Ben Shapiro (57:34)

Well, David Cohen, who actually did play college sports and was nearly the starting quarterback of a major tape. David, what do you make of this moment? Obviously, it Actually is pretty incredible that we actually had to come to the point as a country where, seriously speaking, where we had to somehow tell colleges that it was wrong to allow biological men to compete with the ladies. What do you make of it?

Unnamed Reporter (57:58)

Nearly the quarterback. But I at least am grateful that we were able to make the global games before this move was initiated because that's still one of the highlights of my life, being able to lose the championship to a team called the Cowgirls. But good on President Trump for making, for keeping his word on this issue. This has been, this is what I call a 99% issue. 99% of the American public knows that men shouldn't be competing in women's sports or changing in their locker rooms, or women and men's sports for that matter. That's a side of this we don't talk about too often, but 99% knows that. But they were silenced by a powerful 1% minority with corporations and with politicians, Hollywood celebrities. And so while this is a huge political movement, this is even a bigger cultural move. And you say all the time that culture is down or politics is downstream of culture and this is going to give people their voices back to be able to speak out. Because I think when people speak out, it's the best way for this history to keep from repeating itself.

Ben Shapiro (58:58)

So while I have you guys here because our get togethers are rare, I do have to ask you about this, this Lakers Mavericks trade, because I mean, honestly, it was probably the biggest story of the weekend. A lot happened over the weekend, including the possibility of the United States taking over the Gaza Strip. But, but I think the biggest story of the weekend was Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers. So Jake, on a scale of Rigged to WWE, how rigged is the NBA that this trade happened to allow a 25 year old superstar coming off a near MVP season to go to the Los Angeles Lakers, who it seems every generation get a generational talent just by coincidence through some sort of wildly unfair trade.

Unnamed Speaker (59:37)

Yeah, I mean, I don't even want to disrespect the wwe. This is more a bunch of guys back where I'm from deciding to put a platform form up and do a wrestling show for the neighborhood fake. The NBA is drowning in its stupidity. You look at the ratings, it's never been more unpopular. And to have to pull off a move like this, it's blatantly obvious. I've seen sports media people out there try and make it sound like the Mavericks. They were doing this because they didn't trust Luca and his availability. And it's a long term play. Well, you know, if you're going to go on a diet and stop eating Butterfingers, I don't think you just start eating Snickers. And by getting Anthony Davis, it totally ruins that theory. It's an absolute rig job. And at the end of the day, the NBA is having to grasp at straws to survive. But Ben, we're going to talk about this for a couple more weeks, and then they're going to have to do something even bigger. See, that's the thing with wrestling. You have to keep doing bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger things to surprise people and shock people, and they're going to run out of stuff. I mean, LeBron's letting his kid play in the NBA and he's half the player that I am, and I'm six'one.

Unnamed Reporter (60:36)

He just made his first three, though.

Unnamed Speaker (60:38)

Yeah, he made his first three. Congrats.

Unnamed Reporter (60:39)

He did.

Unnamed Speaker (60:39)

That's one more than me.

Ben Shapiro (60:43)

I did see that, actually, that he made his first three the other night, which again, I feel like if you put me in an NBA game for as many minutes as he's been in, I would have a shot just by chucking the ball at some point down the court. Well, Ben ignited myself.

Unnamed Reporter (60:57)

I know you could make it three. And that's the real question is how many more hall of fame players does LeBron James need to team up with before he can actually try and chase down Michael Jordan? But everyone wants to criticize. Like my co host over here, Blaine, wants to criticize. Oh, well, Michael Jordan played with Scottie Pippen, while LeBron's over here playing with every single hall of Fame player of his generation. You want to.

Ben Shapiro (61:16)

Do.

Unnamed Speaker (61:17)

You want to walk down. You want to walk down this path right now?

Unnamed Reporter (61:19)

I didn't intend to. Ben brought it up. But yeah, Michael Jordan's the greatest basketball player of all time.

Unnamed Speaker (61:23)

Michael Jordan won nothing without Scottie Pippen.

Unnamed Reporter (61:25)

See, nothing he's got to deal with every day. I apologize to you that this.

Ben Shapiro (61:29)

Facts are facts.

Unnamed Speaker (61:30)

I mean, you can make up whatever illusion you want to in your head, but Michael Jordan won nothing without Scottie.

Unnamed Reporter (61:34)

Give me. Who's that? Hall of Famer, Dallas. Send him over here. Maybe I can win.

Unnamed Speaker (61:37)

Your fault, Ben. As an older brother, I have failed you.

Ben Shapiro (61:40)

Oh, man. Well, guys, if you want to listen to 90 minutes of that, then go check out Crane and Company, our own sports show. And guys, again, your. Your legacy in women's sports will live on forever in Lady Ballers, which is available over at Daily Wire Plus. Appreciate the time, Ben.

Unnamed Speaker (61:56)

Thanks, buddy. And yeah, we're going to make it. We're going to try, but we're going to make it. We will win.

Ben Shapiro (62:02)

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