The 26 wildest lines from Donald Trump's interview with Ben Shapiro

Whoa boy.

Donald Trump continued his tour of friendly media outlets on Tuesday when he sat down for an interview with hugely popular conservative podcaster Ben Shapiro.

My friends at The Listening Post — an invaluable site for transcripts you can’t find anywhere else — logged the whole interview.

I went through it line by line. The stuff from Trump you need to see is below.

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To the Lines!

1. “They said that there was just no FEMA. You virtually don't see anybody from FEMA.”

Trump has been pushing the idea that FEMA has all-but-abandoned western North Carolina in the wake of Hurricane Helene. This is not true. And away we go!

2. “You know, I think Ron [DeSantis] is doing a good job. I see him all over television. He's all over the place.”

“I see him all over television.”

3. “I got to watch last night, ‘60 Minutes.’ And she's, she answers questions like a child. This is not a president.”

I, too, watched Kamala Harris’ interview on “60 Minutes.” Read the lines you need to see from it here!

4. Actually, now that you're mentioning it, I think they should do a double 25th Amendment. Get them both out.”

Is the “double 25th Amendment” like the “Triple Lindy”?

5. “And by the way, she is really blaming it on him. You know, he's I have some friends, obviously, over there. You're in the White House and you have a lot of friends on both sides. But I have friends. He is so angry at her and she's trying to distance herself.”

There is a 0% chance that Trump has friends in the White House telling him that Biden is mad at Harris. My guess is he is reading the same stuff I am that suggests Biden is annoyed that the world has moved on from him since he announced he wasn’t running again.

6. “Now she's supposed to be doing things that, you know, you're supposed to be doing. And she's not, she's not, he's just doing a terrible job and she's doing a terrible job in the storms.”