Tucker Carlson: “Ben Shapiro just does not care about you at all. He's not even pretending to care about you.”
Carlson: “A guy like that, he really needs censorship and bullying to succeed” and “will not be a factor in America in five years”
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From the November 12, 2025, edition of The Tucker Carlson Show, posted on YouTube
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): So first and famously, don't even put it on the screen because I'm sure you've seen this, there was Ben Shapiro saying, you know, I'd be willing to vote for Bibi Netanyahu for president of the United States if only it were constitutionally allowed. Huh? You want some foreigner to run our country? Who even thinks like that? He said that.
Maybe it was just he was getting carried away. He just loves Bibi so much. Loves the guy who is killing tens of thousands of children in Gaza so much that he wants him to run our country. OK. But then we found a couple of other clips, which are recent, that give a window, not just — and I hate to be mean to poor Ben Shapiro, who's clearly going away as a media force. I hate to be mean to him, but this does reflect the worldview of an awful lot of people in Washington and a lot of people in Ben Shapiro's world, and that worldview is the people of this country don't really matter, they can be replaced.
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It's hard to know where to start with that clip. I think that's been on the internet and people are experiencing gut level revulsion when they see it, and they really should. And there's so many ways to approach it, there's so many things wrong with those statements. So childish, those statements, so lacking in understanding of people or any connection, really, to the country at all. But, really, what you see underneath all of that is contempt for the people who live here. 'You have no right to live in the town where you were born just because your parents are buried there. Your ancestors built the town. Who do you think you are?' Imagine feeling that way about someone in your own country. Imagine having that level of contempt for a fellow American.
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I don't think that you can win a popular debate with that attitude, because irrespective of the content of your sentence, people can feel the loathing that the speaker has for them. Ben Shapiro just does not care about you at all. He's not even pretending to care about you. So, again, it really doesn't matter what he's selling. That guy is not gonna make the sale if people are free to buy whatever they want. It's like, I don't know what that guy's selling, but he doesn't like me, I can feel it right away. He doesn't care at all about me, at all, and he thinks so little of me, he's not even gonna, like, put on the dog. He's not even gonna, like, try to pretend to care about me. And a guy like that, he really needs censorship and bullying to succeed because the free market does not reward a man like that, at all, ever, because people don't like it. Why would they like it?
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There are a lot of chiropractors throughout the country. It's because poorer people, working class people, blue collar people are aching. They have trouble walking, their backs hurt. So retirement for a man who climbs ladders is a little bit different from a man who hosts a podcast. But that's not even the point that I would make. That's true, of course. It's pure contempt for people who work with their bodies, and he should be judged for that.
But I think it's deeper than that. It's like, how dare you tell me when I should retire? Who are you exactly? Who gave you the moral authority to judge when I retire? That's insane. You're like a child who's got some deal with Facebook to, I mean, or whatever, whoever you are. You are not God. You have no right to talk to me like that. But you do because you have no respect for me. You have no love for me at all.
And it does kind of point to the core problem, not with Ben Shapiro, who will not be a factor in America in five years. I can promise you that. Or Mark Levin. Let's hope he gets better.