Trump’s Team: Best Ben Shapiro Show Moments
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What are the highlights from Trump's cabinet interviews?
Well, folks, we had a lot of interviews, a lot of sit-downs with a wide variety of picks for President Trump's cabinet. And today, we're going to go through some of the best moments from The Ben Shapiro Show, the Sunday special on The Search, featuring leaders of the next Trump administration. Here's some of what it sounds like. Here's some of my conversation with Vice President-elect J.D. Vance. I really think that Trump's major appeal more than anything else is something that he has said many times, which is they don't hate you because they hate me. They hate me because they hate you. And I think that's right for so many Americans. Yeah, I think that's very smart. And it extends further. It's not just about criticism of them personally, which I do think a lot of people feel to their core. It's also about the things that they hold dear, right? This wasn't true when Bill Clinton was running for political office. It wasn't true, by the way, when Barack Obama was running for political office.
Actually, one of my favorite lines to give in speeches is that I give a paraphrased line from a Barack Obama speech in 2007 or 2008 when he was running for president, where it's basically, you know, the quote goes something like, you know, I really don't like it when people bring non-American flags to protest in America. When I see a guy waving a Mexican flag in American protest, I get a flash of resentment. And, you know, you give that speech to college-educated audiences in 2017, 2018, and you see people shift in their chairs. They're like, oh, where is this going? This guy's a little uncomfortable. And then you say, well, Barack Obama said that like, you know, eight years ago, 10 years ago.
And they're like, oh, wow, that's surprising. And it just goes to show how different it is that people are talking about these issues. But to go back to this sort of people feel insulted personally, but they also feel insulted, I think, about core parts of their identity. So my grandparents, again, classic blue dog Democrats, but when you talk to them about World War II, and they were kids in World War II. My grandma's older siblings and her father were in the Navy. My grandfather didn't fight in the war. He just missed the sort of age cutoff. I think he was 16 when the war ended. They would get teary-eyed. It was this incredibly proud moment of American history, and that moment was important to them as people.
Their identity as Americans who felt that their country was good was really important to them. And of course, there are all kinds of things that America has done wrong. You sort of have to issue that caveat. But people like, you know, they recognize that there are a lot of things wrong with their family. They still love their family. They still think things are good. The American nation is, in a lot of sense, a sort of extended family for a lot of people. They care about its history. They're proud of its history. And if your operating assumption as a potential leader of American politics is not that America's made some mistakes but America's fundamentally terrible, then a lot of people are gonna feel personally insulted because America is something they actually care about. It's not just fake.
And I actually think that this is, it sort of reveals the cynicism of a lot of our sort of leadership class in the country. is I don't think that they were, well, they were caught off guard by the reaction that a lot of people had to this because they really don't think that patriotism is something that folks actually feel, right? They think it's all manufactured. They think it's all like, you know, Koch brothers or somebody else's propaganda to make people feel good about America. But a lot of people actually just feel good about America because they care about it and it's theirs and they love it. And if that feeling is genuine, it's very often, I think, foreign to a Now take a listen to a bit of my conversation with Secretary of Homeland Security nominee Kristi Noem. The broader mission, which is to fight an overwhelming left change in the country, that's not relegated to President Trump. And I think you made that clear in your speech.
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