Ben Shapiro
Co-Founder and Host, The Daily Wire. On 1 show, 3 appearances, plus 1 compilation re-air not counted. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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He is the host of The Ben Shapiro Show and co-founded the digital media platform The Daily Wire in 2015. A prominent conservative commentator and nationally syndicated columnist, he has authored numerous books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Right Side of History and Bullies.
1shows
3appearances
40statements
12resolved
5supported
1contradicted
42%fully supported
26said about them ↓ Everything Ben Shapiro said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Shapiro: China uses TikTok as a psychological operations weapon
“I just look at how China has utilized TikTok as a PSYOP weapon in a myriad of ways, gathering data, putting out its own propaganda.”
Shapiro: Federal gridlock will permanently shift political power to state governments
“I think that actually this is not going to get solved at the federal level. I think what's actually going to happen is that the federal government is going to lock up and it's going to be essentially rotating elected quasi-dictators until, until the end of tim…”
Shapiro: Qatar gave Hamas $2B and U.S. universities $6.3B recently
“They gave two billion dollars to Hamas over the course of the last several years. And have funded the American university system to tune a 6.3 billion dollars for a country that has a grand total of 2.6 million citizens.”
Shapiro: All net U.S. taxes are paid by the top income quintile
“All net taxes in this country are paid by the top quintile, all of them, because below the top quintile, you're getting as much back from the government or more than you are paying into the system.”
Shapiro: DOGE is avoiding means-tested welfare, the main national debt driver
“The systemic drivers of our national debt are not actually being touched at this point by Doge. I mean, it's the means-tested welfare programs that are really the systemic long-term drivers of our national debt.”
Shapiro: A U.S. recession will trigger populist revolts against free-market capitalism
“And if the, and if it goes sideways, then what you're going to get is a populist revolt on the left and a populist revolt on the right that is going to take down everybody who is even remotely connected with this idea of free market capitalism.”
Shapiro: Civilization is dividing between builders and those who tear down
“We're watching civilization break down between people who want to build and people who want to tear down.”
Shapiro: The US-China AI race is existential for America
“Well, as you might imagine, I'm definitely in the existential race category.”
Shapiro: Decades of federal market intervention have denigrated private industry
“The centralization of power in the federal government and the choosing of the winners and the losers over the course of the last several decades, actually, has been really denigrating for private industry.”
Shapiro: Trump administration picks market winners better than Biden administration
“You know, if you basically are now relegated to a choice between the winners that are picked by the Trump administration and the winners picked by the Biden administration, you know, from a political point of view, I'm going to pick the winners picked by the T…”
Shapiro: Congress created the administrative state to escape political accountability
“I'm blaming Congress for having kicked them the authority in the first place. If you're going to place, you know, blame with somebody, you have to give it to the branch that actually abdicated its duty and decided to construct an entirely different branch and …”
Shapiro: Raising tariff revenues and reshoring manufacturing are mutually exclusive goals
“You can champion The amount of revenue that we're raising off of tariffs, but you can't do that at the same time that you're championing reshoring, because if you reshore, then that revenue is going to go away, presumably, right? You're not going to be buying …”
Shapiro: Trump's tariff war is dampening U.S. economic growth
“The third is the tariff war, which I think is actually creating a pretty significant dampening effect on economic growth right now.”
Shapiro: U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi was previously a paid Qatari agent
“The current attorney general of the United States, Pam Bondi, was a foreign registered agent for Qatar for a while, being paid by Qatar to do that sort of lobbying work.”
Shapiro: U.S. average tariff rate is highest since the 1930s
“The average tariff rate right now is higher than it's been any time since the 19 thirties.”
Shapiro: US faces wild currency inflation or massive austerity in 5-10 years
“The answer is we're going to either wildly inflate our currency or we're going to go into massive austerity measures. You know, five to 10 years from now. There's not going to be a third choice.”
Ben Shapiro: Medicaid price controls will drive up private insurance drug costs
“And so if you do that with Medicaid, what you'll probably get is number one, a lot of these pharmaceuticals just won't be used by Medicaid. Pharma won't sell it to them. Instead, you'll have to go into the private sector, which means it's going to be more expe…”
Shapiro: US border crossings have dropped to lowest in recorded history
“The numbers of the border have just Plummeted to almost zero. I mean, the lowest numbers in recorded history, and that is an unmitigated success.”
Ben Shapiro: Trump's tariff plan rollout was as bad as possible
“I think that the way that the tariff plan was rolled out is about as bad a rollout as you could do.”
Shapiro: Trump will carve out tariff negotiation off-ramps within weeks
“I think the most likely result of these tariffs is that within the next few weeks, the headlines are not good. President Trump starts driving trucks through the center of the tariffs. And then he starts getting wins from various parties outside that allow him …”
Shapiro: Israel removed US tariffs before Trump levied 17% tariff
“Yesterday, in anticipation of this, Israel, which had very, very low tariffs on United States goods anyway, announced they'd removed all tariffs. On American goods, right? There were no tariffs on American goods anymore. And the administration that afternoon l…”
Shapiro: Loss of US dollar reserve status will trigger higher taxes
“The exit of the dollar as the world's global reserve currency is going to have some pretty nasty spillover effects, and it's going to require the government to start sucking in more dollars from the American population in order to pay off all of these debts th…”
Ben Shapiro: Trump's tariff policy rolls the dice without an articulated strategy
“It's why I'm being critical of the tariffs. It's not because I want Trump to lose, it's because I want Trump to win, right? I think he's doing too many important things, like the stuff that Antonio's doing. There are too many important things happening to take…”
The other half of the tape: Ben Shapiro's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 24 times in 14 episodes across the shows. 2 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Jason Calacanis 16Chamath Palihapitiya 4Tucker Carlson 3Chris Williamson 1
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Chamath calls Ben Shapiro's political commentary performative acting
“Well, that's performative theater trying to get people to watch something. Call it what it is. Like that's acting. I feel like probably if anybody, if any one of us found Ben Shapiro in a bar and just hung out and had a beer, you'd find out that he was like th…”
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2025 9 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
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- Tucker Carlson: Rise of Nick Fuentes, Paramount vs Netflix, Anti-AI Sentiment, Hottest Takes
- OpenAI's Code Red, Sacks vs New York Times, New Poverty Line?
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2024 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- E163: Market rips, Media RIFs, Texas defies Biden, Fintech reckoning, ARkStorm 2.0 & more
- DOJ targets Nvidia, Meme stock comeback, Trump fundraiser in SF, Apple/OpenAI, Texas stock market
- Google fires protestors, NPR chaos, Humane's AI Pin, Startup tax crisis, sports betting scandal
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2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2021 7 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- E52: Trump's SPAC, peak venture liquidity, tech as an economic ladder, Dems overplaying their hand
- E30: Ramifications of Biden's proposed capital gains tax hike, founder psychology & more
- E46: False Ivermectin narratives, regulatory grift, wartime mentality in solving issues & more
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
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| ALL-INLEDGER | Co-Founder and Host, The Daily Wire | 3 +1 | 40 | 42% 5/12 | full record on All-In → |