Benny Johnson: “The Middle East becomes a trap for great empires. ... How many empires must fall in this sandpit? This oblivion. I don't want that to be us.”
Johnson: “No American election ever has been won based on foreign entanglements ever”
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From the April 7, 2026, edition of The Benny Show, streamed on YouTube
BENNY JOHNSON (HOST): Our battle is not Sunni and Shia. It's not Israel or Qatar. That's never been what I wanted America First to be about. I mean, even, like, some of the stuff that's done in our own hemisphere, I kind of like — I kind of think it's almost more permissible to say, like, Venezuela is a couple miles away. Cuba is a couple miles away. We should control our own hemisphere.
But even beyond that, like, focusing inward on our borders, that's MAGA. That's America First. The pothole on my street is more important than making a new pothole in the Middle East. This has been the opinion of the show. There are obviously a lot of traps that have been laid in the Middle East for every great civilization. From Alexander to Napoleon, the Middle East is — to the British Empire. The Middle East becomes a trap for great empires. The Greeks. I mean, the Romans. The crucifixion of Christ.
How many empires must fall in this sandpit? This oblivion. I don't want that to be us.
I pray for peace. And we have a voice, and we have a show, and we have, like, modicum a of influence. And we're trying our our level-headed best to not, you know, light ourselves on fire, to not — you know, it's, like, veer wildly and just fly off the cliff in either direction, but to stay steady on, try and keep a coalition together, pray that spells are broken. That coalition, like, that won us this unbelievable victory in twenty — I mean, truly, like, in a God inspired victory, God saving President Trump's life in front of all of us, that that wins the day, that that is the energy that wins the day.
And a final note here. No American election ever has been won based on foreign entanglements ever. Not even World War II.