Ben Shapiro Goes OFF on Tucker Carlson for Bashing Trump and America

The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro took Tucker Carlson to task for bashing both the United States and President Donald Trump earlier this week during a scathing extended segment on his show.

The takedown began with Shapiro playing a clip of Carlson at a Turning Point USA conference over the weekend and charging him with accusing Trump of engaging in “a child rape cover-up,” but “without the courage of his convictions to just say Trump is the one doing the covering up.”

“But the fact that the U.S. government, the one that I voted for, refused to take my question seriously and instead said, ‘Case closed, shut up, conspiracy theorist,’ was too much for me. I don’t think the rest of us should be satisfied with that,” mused Carlson in the clip.

“So ask the president. So ask him, seriously! You got his phone number. We know the president talks to Tucker. We know that JD Vance frequently talks to Tucker. Ask the question, seriously. Do it! One of the things you’ll notice about Tucker, he’s very good at sort of speculating about problems without offering any solutions or trying to solve them,” observed Shapiro. “If he wants to accuse Donald Trump of being complicit in a child rape gang cover-up, then he should just say his name. He should just do it. And why won’t he? I think we all know the answer to why won’t he.”

Shapiro then moved on to Carlson’s suggestion that Jeffrey Epstein worked for the Israeli government, arguing that there’s no evidence to support it and again challenging him to call out Trump directly. He also observed that while Carlson had asserted that Shapiro accused him of being an anti-Semite, that had never actually happened.

“He’s throwing that out there as a red herring to the fact that he is saying things that he does not have the capacity to back up, period. And this is all part, again, of a sort of broader demoralization effort that is happening on parts of the right,” submitted Shapiro. “When President Trump says there have been an enormous number of wins under his administration. That is true. There are an enormous number of wins under President Trump’s administration. That’s just a fact. But there are a number of people, particularly Tucker, who make a living off of suggesting that there is nothing whatsoever that you can do to actually fix the country, fix your life, or make things better.”

“So here’s Tucker Carlson suggesting that President Trump’s wins on Title IX defending girls from boys in sports and shutting down the trans-ing of the kids on a federal level. Here’s Tucker suggesting that that’s totally meaningless, and then moving on to a series of problems, for again, which he will not name an actual solution, because he’s not interested in solutions. He’s interested only in running down the United States, most prominently, including even when President Trump is the president of the United States,” continued Shapiro before rolling the tape, in which Carlson said:

If you deny people what they actually want long enough, and instead substitute things that you claim they should want, like bombing Iran, you know? I mean, I’m not, whatever, I’m not for Iran. Where you spend all day telling me that it’s so important that, you know,  boys not play on girls’ soccer teams or whatever. I agree, I hate the tranny stuff passionately. I think you should keep the boys off girls’ soccer teams. But I don’t know, it kind of feels like you’re feeding me appetizers.

At some point, I want to look around and see a better country. I want to see a country I recognize. I don’t want to see people sleeping on the sidewalk. I don’t want to see people OD’ing on drugs. I want to know where are those drugs coming from? Why can’t you stop it? You’ve got the U.S. military. Don’t you have SEAL Team Six? Like, what are they doing today? Don’t you have Delta Force? You gonna give me another segment about how impressive the U.S. military is? I believe you. Why aren’t they employed to make my country better? Why are my cities disgusting? I don’t want to go there. It smells like weed and halal food. And you’re lecturing me about how it’s a great moral victory that I kicked the boys off the girls’ soccer team? Good, I’m so glad! But let’s do the real stuff like making New York livable!

“What is the real stuff he’s talking about? Seriously, what is the real stuff? And who’s the president of the United States, whose name he will not mention? For some reason, he treats the president of the United States, he sort of treats him as though he is Voldemort. If you say his name, he will appear. But all the things he’s saying right here are condemning the president of the United States,” observed Shapiro, who continued:

I would love to know if Tucker is in favor of an interventionist conflict in Mexico in order to take out the Mexican drug cartels. Really! Like, is he? If so, he should probably spell it out. But notice, there’s never a solution. He doesn’t even have anybody on to discuss these problems on his show. He will never talk about how to solve the problems. This is why I say it’s about demoralization. It’s about making you feel [BLEEPED OUT] about the country because there is never a solution emerging from Tucker Carlson.

I’ll give this to Zohran Mamdani, who I think is one of the worst people in American political history. His solutions are absolute trash garbage, but at least he’s offering some. Tucker goes out there and doesn’t offer any solutions at all. Instead, Tucker goes out there and posits that everything is wrong in the world, Every victory is, in fact, an appetizer or a loss. In fact, he says, elites are using Iran’s distraction while they steal our money. Who — I have a question — who bombed Iran? Why don’t you say his name? Say it. I dare you. I triple dog dare you. The president of the United States is the one who pulled the trigger on the Iran attack, the most successful single foreign policy move of my lifetime. Tucker Carlson said it would lead to World War III, catastrophic loss of American life. All of that was absolutely wrong and not just wrong, but yes, dumb because it was based in specious information. But he won’t say the president’s name.

Watch above via Ben Shapiro on YouTube.