Donald Trump is a 78-year-old billionaire who has not stopped whining about his problems since he wrote down his golden escalator nine years ago.
You've got the tweets in all caps, the ranting and the raving about crazy conspiracy theories. The two-hour speeches, word salad, just, you know, it's like Fidel Castro, just on and on. So that was President Obama directly going at Donald Trump personally. Think about Joe Biden, too. Yesterday, get a life, he tells Donald Trump, get a life and start helping people because he doesn't like what Donald Trump's been saying about the coverage, what they've done, what FEMA's done in North Carolina. And Barack Obama trying to get personal yesterday and also went on to say in a talk, African-American men look in their 20s.
How dare you not vote for a woman, a black woman? I find it interesting. It's certainly calculated. He's not one to fly off the handle and not pre-think these things. Ben Shapiro joins us now, Daily Wire co-founder, host of the Ben Shapiro show, who just a couple of days ago, I think, interviewed President Trump. Ben, your reaction to Barack Obama's re-entry into the field? Well, I mean, it's a desperation move. When you're calling out Barack Obama at the end of a campaign, for some reason, Democrats have had this bizarre notion that Obama is capable of shifting all the allegiance that people have for him to other candidates. It has never worked. He tried it with Hillary Clinton. He tried it with Biden. He's tried it with Kamala Harris.
It's never been transferable. Whatever people like about Barack Obama, it doesn't move over to other candidates, which is why he experienced massive Democratic Party losses across the country while he was president. He lost a bunch of state legislatures, a bunch of governor's houses. He lost the Senate.
He lost the House. All that happened while he was president. Dragging him out and then putting him up there, I actually don't think it helps her very much. He's uniquely charismatic in a way that she is not. It makes people in the Democratic Party long for him, not long for her. And again, this sort of weird approach that he has where he's ripping on Trump and then proclaiming that you should vote for Kamala Harris basically because she's a black woman.
That is not a pitch. That is not a pitch for why she should actually be president. And by the way, everyone already knows what they think about Donald Trump.
How many people out there are undecided about what they think about Donald Trump after 10 years? Are you kidding me? Right. And then he's trying to say now, I'm not going to play and take time away from you. But he said, yeah, the reason why you like the economy when Trump was president, because that was my economy. Really? So what are you taking credit for the four years after Donald Trump?
After you left office? Right, exactly. So well, that last point is actually the right one.
Brian is is this logic is so incoherent. So just to get this straight, he is saying basically that if you're the president, then the subsequent president's economic record is yours. OK, so then how exactly does Joe Biden and Kamala? How do they brag about their economy? If their economy is so wonderful, shouldn't Donald Trump be able to just say, well, that's actually my economy.
That's what Barack Obama just said about Donald Trump's economy. None of it makes any sense, but it's not calculated to make any sense. It's a desperation move. And you're seeing tons of desperation moves. It reeks from the Kamala Harris campaign at this point, not just because she's doing all these strange podcasts, call her daddy podcast or or the or the bizarre appearance on The View. You know, these these are desperation moves by a campaign that is clearly floundering right now. Yesterday, Michelle Andrews, co-chair of her campaign, said that they're releasing they've released an 82 page economic plan policy plan.
I just have a point to make on that one. OK, any campaign that is relegated to releasing giant binders filled with policy loses. Hey, remember Mitt Romney in 2012? There's a lot of talk about his giant tax plan, like this huge binder filled with tax.
He lost Elizabeth Warren 2020. If you have to say to the American people, here's what my boys in the back room put together as a policy. The American people don't want to hear it. They don't think you're going to effectuate it. The thing that is so off-putting about Kamala Harris is that either you already know her worldview, which is radical left, or you have no idea what her worldview is and she's not clarifying it for you because she doesn't want you to know her worldview and she's just an empty vessel.
Either way, that's a bad answer. So, Ben, it's just so interesting in the New York Times today, they acknowledge what you just said, but they praise her for it, for avoiding questions. This week, Harris put her own stamp on the art of the dodge. Her media swing showed how she often responds to uncomfortable questions by acknowledging them, yet not fully answering them. She can nimbly field a query and quickly lace her reply with a tripwire for her opponent, like a trained prosecutor. Harris is a loyally argumentative and fundamentally defensive. So she's praising her for not answering anything and saying her answers set up Trump. I can't believe this is the verbal gymnastics they're going through.
Again, these are the marks of a losing campaign. If you recall 2004 or 2000 Al Gore and John Kerry, the line whenever a Democrat loses, they were too sophisticated for the crowd. What they're saying in that piece is that she's just too sophisticated. She's relegated to defensive, loyally arguments because she's just too smart. And you normies, you don't understand how smart she is. The reason that she's not connecting is not because she's too smart for the crowd, it's because she's not saying anything and she's deliberately not saying anything and she can't answer even simple questions. The worst thing she did this week, she goes on The View, which is the friendliest show it is possible. I mean, they basically took up residence in her colon and they were doing whatever they could to ask her simple questions. And she was asked by Sunny Hostin, what makes you different from Joe Biden?
And she basically is like nothing. Okay, that's the number one question people want answered. And your answer is that you would change nothing from the Biden, nothing like that's your answer.
It's a ready-made ad for Donald Trump and the Trump campaign promptly jumped on it and started pumping it out as they should. Because you started to make gains and she's the agent of change. How could you be a change candidate still in power? It's beyond me. And the other thing is there's passive aggressiveness going on with Joe Biden, praising Governor DeSantis, who won't take her call.
We know that she said she was with me every step of the way in every decision. He went out of his way to do it, calling a press conference, walking into the press room at the same time that she has an event. So the other thing that I think you're passionate about, I imagine, is the appearance of a certain Tahiti Coates, who is an anti-Israel, anti-Semitic in my view, author, race relations seems to condemn the country at every turn. Says his parents grew up in the Jim Crow South, understood that could create some bitterness and justifiably so, but he writes about it. And Tony DeCopel decides to challenge him on this at CBS, his anti-Israel point of view.
Listen, cut 35. It's what I struggle with throughout this book. What is it that so particularly offends you about the existence of a Jewish state that is a Jewish safe place and not any of the other states out there? There's nothing that offends me about a Jewish state.
I am offended by the idea of states built on ethnocracy, no matter where they are. And he wants to say that Gaza is an open air prison, that people are walking around. They think they're going to get shot. They don't get cancer treatments. They're treated horribly by the by the Israelis. And when he started engaging on this, he got rebuked by his own company. He was forced to, I guess, apologize.
They have grief counselors coming in to speak to the staff. But yet, Cherry Redstone, the former owner of the company, defends him and other people do, too. I think I know where you stand, but can you understand the I can't get my head around the uproar.
OK, so here's the thing. Ta-Nehisi Coates, he's not just wrong. He's actually quite evil. And he's been evil since 2014, 2015, when he became prominent and the entire left decided to shower him with champagne and diamonds for it. He was writing pieces in 2014, 2015, boiling down all of America into the conflict between black and white, suggesting that white is an oppressor class, black is an oppressed class. And he says in his very famous book Between the World and Me that he literally felt nothing as police and firefighters burned to death on 9-11 because they were just representatives of the white overclass. He literally says this kind of stuff in 2014, 2015. He takes that very simplistic view, which is wrong in America.
It's wrong across the board. And then he applies it to a very complex conflict like Israel and the Palestinians after visiting there for two weeks. And then he comes back and he actually did an interview with with Trevor Noah, who's similarly excurable, in which he actually said that if he were a Gazan, he's not sure he could have stopped himself from crossing the border into Israel and engaging in rape and slaughter. He said that, okay, so the CBS interview, Tony Del Capel asks him a very simple, he says, listen, your book reads like it belongs in extremist backpack.
And this reads enormous, enormous blowback. CBS apparently has a race policy team that actually clears questions for people like Ta-Nehisi Coates, who's sort of a racial icon who must never be touched, he must never be asked a difficult question. And so they get very angry at Tony Del Capel for saying that.
And then Ta-Nehisi Coates proceeds to go on a show and basically prove Del Capel's point, which is that he is an extremist who actually justifies violence in the name of a victim victimizer narrative. And CBS News is melting down over this. They actually also put out a notice to all of their reporters that they should stop saying that Jerusalem is in Israel.
Now, the United States government recognizes that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, and both parties have acknowledged this, by the way. And yet CBS News is saying differently. So what that really speaks to is the disgusting worldview that not only Coates represents, but that has been imbibed into the bones of our legacy media institutions, because the fact that they are so defensive of Coates, the fact that if you ask him anything remotely like a difficult question about his true brash worldview and book, that that now results in the entire meltdown of CBS News, it's just indicative of how perverse and truly corrupt our press have become. When I had President Trump on earlier this week, he said, I'm no longer calling them the fake news, I'm calling them the corrupt news.
That seems that seems about right to me. Well, I mean, CBS is going out of their way to this whole thing with 60 Minutes, you know, ask some direct questions. People were praising the anchor for doing it. But then we find out that they choked up on and gave a different answer to make her seem more competent, not very, but more competent than her original answer. However, the problem is no one called the promos department because they put out the promo that shows how she talked in a circle and then they fix it for the actual broadcast. Now, we all have to sometimes edit, not Ben, you run your own show, but we have to edit.
Sometimes you go out, I'll talk to Ben Shapiro over twenty five minutes. It's a four minute piece. So I got to edit.
I got to pick and choose. I may be having a whole answer. That's not what this is.
This is a different answer to the same question. And one of the things that was kind of amazing to actually watch 60 Minutes is that in the middle of her answers, that actually cut to the anchor explaining her answer over her answer. So they would lower the volume on her answer and then they would attempt to give a synopsis of what they think she was saying over her just answering the question. She's a presidential candidate.
You need to hear her talk. It seems to me very simple what they could do here. They could just release the entire interview.
It's very simple. You don't have to release the whole thing on 60 Minutes. We have this thing called online and there are no time limit in the online space. I live there.
You can do whatever you want over there. They can release 60 Minutes, the entire transcript of the interview. They can release the entire tape of the interview.
They're not doing any of that because obviously they want her to win because CBS News is just an addendum to the Democratic Party. And you know it was the smartest move ever that Trump didn't do it. They would have spent the whole time on January 6th, the whole time in 2020. And this would not even have made news. It would have been all about what Trump said, nothing about what she said. Instead, they took their shots and said he said he was going to do it and didn't.
He's already done it multiple times. And the whole thing with Leslie Stowe is 100% right. She had no idea they spied on this campaign, no idea the laptop was real. The one with the 51 intel agents were against it.
She was just oblivious. So until he gets an apology, he wouldn't do it. Just back to the original, we have the CBS person in charge of news gathering explaining where Tony went wrong, who by the way, I never met him. Cut 37. Many of you have reached out to express concerns over recent reporting, specifically about the CBS Morning's Coats interview from last week, as well as comments made coming out of some of our correspondence reporting. I want to thank every single woman who reached out for your honesty, your transparency, and your commitment. So I want to address three things. Number one, after a review of our coverage, including what we do, it's clear there are times we have not met our editorial standards.
And you got it. Final thought on this? I mean, listen, CBS News has demonstrated precisely what it is. There's a reason why, as President Trump says, they're failing in the ratings and is correct not to subject himself to that kind of stuff. The only good news is that they're becoming so patently obvious in their bias that I think more and more Americans are tuning out and recognizing precisely what they are, which in the end will be good for America.
I'd rather they be obvious about their horrible bias than continue to pretend their objective. Ben Shapiro, Daily Wire co-founder, host of The Ben Shapiro Show, number one New York Times bestseller. Thanks, Ben. Have a great weekend.
