Benny Johnson: “You can live like a king off food stamps”
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From the November 3, 2025, edition of The Benny Show, posted to YouTube
BENNY JOHNSON (HOST): Doesn't it — I mean, doesn't it obviously befall Republican leaders to immediately fix this? Isn't this the single greatest insult to those who buy into the system? Why would anybody invest here? Like, I'm just like — I'm talking on behalf of all the young listeners and all the young people that come up to me at these events, Hogan, and they — you know, you and I were both at the JD Vance event, at Ole Miss. This is your alma mater. Correct? And there's all these young people coming up to me, and, like, why the hell would they ever buy into the system? Why would these people buy a house, why would they get a job, why would they pay their taxes if they — if some Haitians are just gonna be able to, like, come over and live much more royally than them? You can get lobster and caviar on food stamps. We've covered this. You can get truffles. You can live like a king off food stamps. And nobody — and your entire life is paid for — your rent, your medical care. Like, that's how you create generational nihilism, actually, is people see that —
HOGAN GIDLEY (GUEST): Right.
JOHNSON: They see what happened in Springfield, Ohio. And they say this is a broken culture. Might as well, like, black pill.
GIDLEY: Yeah. But I have to say, much like the southern border where Democrats let in 10 to 20, 30 million people illegally and unlawfully, much like crime, it's rampant in our city streets, much like the economy, we're paying more for gas and for groceries — Republicans came in and fixed it all. Don't worry. We got you. The same thing applies here. They allow this system to explode. They allow people to abuse it to the tune, as I said, of hundreds of billions of dollars, trillions over the life of the program. Don't worry. We'll step in and fix it. But the first thing you have to do is expose it. And right now, it's a messaging war with people saying, I'm going to die without it as opposed to the conversation being OK, fair. But what do you need? What do you deserve? And are you even legally allowed to have it? And as you just said, you don't need an ID to vote. You don't need IDs to get all of these government programs. You don't need an ID to get Medicare/Medicaid, but you need it to buy liquor? Quite confusing to say the least and hypocritical. So all these things that have failed in the past. It's like this administration has come along and with Trump now with the wind in his sails, he is moving quickly going, alright. The politics be damned. I want to fix this for generations to come. And even though the first wave of this is going to be maligned by the media, mocked and derided, the fact is, eventually, this is gonna right the ship, and the people who need and deserve it are gonna get it. And those who are abusing the system, both Americans and non-Americans, are done. We're not dealing with that anymore. That's going take some significant guts. And I'll tell you the one man who has it — has them is Donald Trump.
JOHNSON: So I think — yeah, I think you can do, like, a step-by-step process. So I think, like, you start step one as you take all the criminal aliens off of all welfare benefits. It's illegal. Right? Like, this is — you have to be an American citizen to get these benefits. Is that correct, Hogan?
GIDLEY: Yeah, but Democrats don't wanna do that.