Ben Shapiro: “What Candace [Owens] is doing right now is absolutely satanic to Erika Kirk”
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From the February 24, 2026 edition of The Daily Wire's Friendly Fire
BEN SHAPIRO (HOST): It's gonna be an epic episode of good Trump, bad Trump, right?
ANDREW KLAVAN (HOST): Yes, yes.
SHAPIRO: Which is something that I used to do on the show a lot was the good Trump, bad Trump. I think he'll get some very good Trump. He's gonna call on the — the US men's hockey team, which is gonna be great.
KLAVAN: That's great.
SHAPIRO: And, frankly, he should just call them down to the stage. Just let them take the stage, and then he should just walk out. I think that'd be the best version of this. My ideal State of the Union here is men's hockey team at the front and Tom Homan arresting people in the back, and that's America. I think that's --
KLAVAN: Perfect.
SHAPIRO: That's, like, the best version of this. But I think that the high points will obviously be him calling out some of the people. Erika Kirk is showing up as well, which I think is a terrific invitation by the president, obviously, in the face of Candace Owens' tremendous evil, which I'm just going to put out there --
KLAVAN: I was hoping Candace Owens would fly by on a broomstick saying, send out Erika.
SHAPIRO: As a person who doesn't often use the adjective satanic, what Candace is doing right now is absolutely satanic to Erika Kirk.
KLAVAN: Absolutely.
SHAPIRO: And I think Erika showing up, at the State of the Union in honor of her husband so the president can talk about left-wing violence against right-wingers, is absolutely good by the president, good on the president for doing it. I think those will be high points.