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Alrighty, folks. So today we're gonna go through President Trump's top eight moments, his most memorable moments. For good or for ill? Mostly for good. We're gonna rank them and then we'll see how you believe our rankings went.
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No, get those lights off. They're eating the dogs. They're eating the cats. You are fake news. I'll kiss every guy. Man and woman, man and woman. Look at that guy, how handsome he is.
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So this does not make the top eight Trump moments, but of course, this was iconic Trump stuff. You'll remember in 2016. He walks out basically WWE style through the mist. I mean, full scale WWE stuff here, right. As Donald Trump after winning the nomination. Yeah, we all remember that. And at the time, pretty much everybody, myself included, thought, no way, man. No way. And way. Number eight, most memorable Trump moment, his speech on January 6th.
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We will give up.
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Now, I will say I do not think this was his best moment because of course I oppose the things he was saying between the election of 2020 and January 6th. They've been diced and sliced a thousand ways at this point. He did say here that he wanted people to peacefully protest. Did not say that he wanted people to riot.
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We will never give up. We will never concede. It doesn't happen. You don't concede when there's theft involved. Our country has had enough. I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.
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Now, again, was that his finest moment? I obviously think not. Was it an iconic moment? Hard to imagine that it wasn't. Number seven. So you remember during the BLM riots that rioters decided to burn down a church or set on fire a church near the White House. And so he walked out there with a Bible to point out that actually he was very much opposed to people burning down churches or setting fire to churches in the name of wokeness.
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State court Bible, State Bible.
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Of course, people were very upset by this. Much more than the people setting fire to the church. They were upset with President Trump for standing out there with the Bible. I will say that the BLM riots of 2020, while Trump did not win the 2020 election, led to his reelection in 2024 almost directly. Okay, moment number six.
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You are fake news, sir.
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It's so overplayed at this point that it's easy to forget that fake news is a Trump invention. So you remember, actually, the Democrats were the founders of the term fake news. They kept saying that every outlet they didn't like was fake. News. And President Trump grabbed that term and turned it completely on his head by pointing out that the legacy media were actually fake news.
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You know nothing about nothing. You fake news.
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He's used that phrase so often now that it has become part of our common parlance here. He was right after the 2016 election.
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Since you're attacking us, can you give us a question? Since you're no, Mr. President Elect, go ahead. President Elect, since you are attacking our news organization, not can you give us a chance. Your organization. You are attacking our news organization. You give us a chance to ask a question, sir. Go ahead, sir. Can you state, Mr. President Elect, go ahead. Can you say categorically question. Elect, can you give us a question? Can you give us a question? Don't be rude. I'm not going to give you a question. Can you state category. You are fake news, sir, Go ahead.
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So again, Jim Acosta. Ladies, find you a person who loves you like Jim Acosta loves Jim Acosta. Jim Acosta trying to badger the president. The president not backing down, of course, that is iconic Trump stuff. Alrighty, number five. So here is President Trump debating Joe Biden in the debate that ended Joe Biden's campaign and political career. He was the sitting president, you'll remember, at the time. And President Trump ended him with this one line that totally ended the election.
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And I'm going to continue to move until we get the total ban on the total initiative relative to what we can do with more Border patrol and more asylum officers. President Trump, I really don't know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don't think he knows what he said either.
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Oh, man, it's too good. It's too good. I mean, he was saying what we were all thinking. President Trump, the voice of the audience, always, okay, this one, I think, might be my personal favorite. So while I'm ranking at number four, it might be my personal favorite because it is the finest of Trump. He walks up in front of the
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entire world at midnight and just goes, abu Bakr al Baghdadi is dead.
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Shane Gillis does a rendition of this, and it's not as good as the original. So you remember that the United States military took out Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, who was the leader of isis, and Baghdadi was killed in a tunnel. We had released dogs.
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I call it a dog, a beautiful dog.
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And the president dunked on him. And I will never love, I think, another clip of President Trump more than I love this clip of President Trump.
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He died like a dog. He died like a Coward. The world is now a much safer place.
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Think Joe Biden would do this? I don't think so.
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You'll remember this is 2023, the iconic mug shot, one of the great mug shots of all time. Trump dude knows how to do pictures, okay? He's been in TV for as long as he has been an adult. And so he knew going in that they were gonna do a mug shot of him when they decided to arrest him for Atlanta election interference or whatever the dumb charge that Fanny Willis brought him up on was. And there it is, hanging on the wall. The White House love it. That mug shot was the thing that won him the primaries. If Democrats had not been so addicted to trying to prosecute President Trump, maybe they don't face him again in the 2024 election. But they had to arrest him. They had to get the mug shot. Boy, did that backfire. Massive, historic backfire by The Democrats right there. Number two, one of the great Trumps of all time.
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Again, you should be ashamed of yourself.
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Debating Hillary Clinton, who is widely perceived to have been the front runner. This is another one of those things where it's fascinating if you go back in history and you listen to talk about the Nixon JFK debate. People who listened on the radio thought Nixon cleaned jfk. People who watched it thought JFK clean Nixon. I remember watching this debate live and thinking, I'm not sure that Trump is doing, like, amazing in this debate. He's not. He's not like killing Hillary in terms of his knowledge. But because we live in a meme world and because we live in a world in which 15 second sound bites let him decide the day. This one liner in October 2016, it turns out that this was the gold line for President Trump. It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our
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country, because you'd be in jail, Secretary Clinton.
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Ooh, boy. Yep. Ouch, ouch. By the way, that was the original sin. If Hillary Clinton had actually gone to jail for what she did with regard to State Department documents as Secretary of State, it would have changed the course of American history in radical ways. But that was a classic Trump. And of course, number one, you knew what it was going to be, because it has to be. It is probably the most iconic political moment of any of our lifetimes. President Trump being shot in the ear. Man behind him killed by an assassin. And President Trump gets up and shouts, fight, fight, fight. So I remember I was actually Shabbating at this time. This happened on a Saturday, and I heard in the middle of the afternoon that someone had tried to kill the president. First question, of course, was, is he okay? And of course he was. I didn't get to see this image until after Shabbat. What an iconic image. I mean, that image is again, that is the Trump image. The Trump image. Nothing will surpass it. Nothing will overcome it. Most iconic moment, not only for President Trump, but probably for any president in my lifetime. This image of President Trump blood smeared across his face from an assassin's bullet that nicked him in the ear again. If he turns his head half a degree, he's dead. And American history is different. Instead, he survives and he's the president again. All right, so those are my top eight Trump iconic moments. What are yours? Leave them in the comments below.
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Host: Ben Shapiro
Date: April 11, 2026
Episode Theme:
Ben Shapiro counts down what he considers President Donald Trump’s eight most memorable moments—iconic, controversial, or otherwise—ranking them and delving into their context and impact on American politics and culture. The tone is energetic, fast-paced, and distinctly Shapiro: critical but often admiring, mixing sharp critique with humor and cultural references.
"For good or for ill? Mostly for good. We're gonna rank them and then we'll see how you believe our rankings went." – Ben Shapiro (00:00)
"He walks out basically WWE style through the mist. I mean, full scale WWE stuff here, right." – Ben Shapiro (00:23)
"I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard." – Trump (01:21)
"Was that his finest moment? I obviously think not. Was it an iconic moment? Hard to imagine that it wasn't." – Ben Shapiro (01:41)
"The BLM riots of 2020, while Trump did not win the 2020 election, led to his reelection in 2024 almost directly." – Ben Shapiro (02:14)
"You are fake news, sir." – Trump (02:36)
"Ladies, find you a person who loves you like Jim Acosta loves Jim Acosta." – Ben Shapiro (03:32)
"President Trump, I really don't know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don't think he knows what he said either." – Trump (04:07)
"He died like a dog. He died like a coward. The world is now a much safer place." – Trump (05:13)
"The best of Trump I love. He died like a dog. So good." – Ben Shapiro (05:21)
"That mug shot was the thing that won him the primaries." – Ben Shapiro (06:47)
"Boy, did that backfire. Massive, historic backfire by The Democrats right there." – Ben Shapiro (07:34)
Clinton: "It’s just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country."
Trump: "Because you'd be in jail, Secretary Clinton." (08:17)
"If he turns his head half a degree, he's dead. And American history is different. Instead, he survives and he's the president again." – Ben Shapiro (09:31)
On Media and Trump’s Communication:
"He's used that phrase so often now that it has become part of our common parlance here." – Ben Shapiro on “fake news” (02:57)
On Political Theater:
"Because we live in a meme world and because we live in a world in which 15 second sound bites let him decide the day." – Ben Shapiro (07:36)
On Historical Weight:
"Nothing will surpass it. Nothing will overcome it. Most iconic moment, not only for President Trump, but probably for any president in my lifetime." – Ben Shapiro on the assassination attempt (09:07)
For listeners and non-listeners alike, this episode provides a capsule history of Trumpism through eight viral or news-shaping events, with Ben Shapiro’s signature rapid-fire analysis and unapologetic conservatism.