Ben Shapiro
American political commentator
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| March 4 2025 | Launched a website urging President Trump to pardon Derek Chauvin after his murder conviction for George Floyd's death. |
| 2024 | During the 2024 Republican primaries, Shapiro initially favored Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over Trump, but later supported Trump after DeSantis dropped out of the race. |
| October 2024 | In October 2024, Ben Shapiro interviewed Donald Trump on his show. |
| October 2024 | In an appearance at UCLA, Shapiro expressed his support for the actions of the Israeli Defense Forces and the Netanyahu-led government amid the Israel–Hamas war, claiming they have made extraordinary efforts to avoid civilian casualties. |
| March 2024 | Ben Shapiro attracted criticism when he stated on his show that 'No one in the United States should be retiring at 65 years old. Frankly, I think retirement itself is a stupid idea unless you have some sort of health problem.' |
| February 5 2024 | The song 'Facts', featuring Ben Shapiro, debuted at No. 16 on the Billboard Charts Hot 100. |
| January 26 2024 | Shapiro appeared alongside artist Tom MacDonald in the music video for the rap song 'Facts', which he is featured on. |
| December 1 2023 | Ben Shapiro made a cameo appearance as a referee in The Daily Wire film, Lady Ballers, which was released. |
| October 2022 | In October, Shapiro condemned Kanye West's antisemitic comments, comparing them to Nazi propaganda and labeling West as 'unstable'. |
| August 2022 | Ben Shapiro argued that 'Marxism can't work in America,' attributing this to 'high levels of societal income mobility.' |
| 2021 | Ben Shapiro stated that a global temperature increase of 4 °C (7.2 °F) did not amount to an emergency, arguing that labeling it as an emergency was 'purely a political designation'. |
| 2021 | Ben Shapiro expressed his support for the COVID-19 vaccine, stating that he had been vaccinated; however, he opposed COVID-19 vaccine mandates. |
| 2021 | An article in NPR revealed that under Ben Shapiro's leadership, the Daily Wire dominated Facebook news feeds, receiving more engagement than any other news outlet by a wide margin. |
| 2021 | Shapiro expressed that he is 'generally libertarian' in regard to the role of government and conservative regarding social structures. |
| 2021 | Shapiro published 'The Authoritarian Moment', arguing that the authoritarian threat in U.S. politics stems from the left's control over various institutions. |
| 2021 | After the trial of Derek Chauvin in 2021, where Chauvin was convicted for the murder of George Floyd, Ben Shapiro opined that Chauvin should not have been found guilty of murder, suggesting instead that Floyd died of a drug overdose. |
| 2021 | Ben Shapiro's podcast was ranked as the 9th most listened on Apple podcasts. |
| May 2021 | During the 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis, Shapiro stated that Hamas' rocket attacks would lead to an anti-Semitic genocide, criticizing the group's tactics and the media's portrayal of the situation. |
| January 2021 | Shapiro criticized the January 6 Capitol attack while also denouncing the Democratic Party's response to the incident. |
| January 14 2021 | Shapiro was featured as a guest writer for Politico Playbook newsletter, defending House Republicans against the second impeachment of Donald Trump, which drew significant backlash from Politico staffers. |
| 2020 | Supported Randy Feenstra as a primary challenger against Steve King. |
| 2020 | In an opinion piece on the California wildfires, Ben Shapiro contended that the severity of the fires was more due to state policies than climate change. |
| 2020 | Ben Shapiro criticized the Black Lives Matter movement, stating that it evolved from protests about police brutality into broader debates that included topics such as looting, rioting, tearing down historical statues, slavery reparations, and defunding the police. |
| 2020 | A study titled 'News, Nationalism, and Hegemony: The Formation of Consistent Issue Framing Throughout the U.S. Political Right' examined Shapiro's podcast as offering a mainstream conservative perspective that favored President Donald Trump. |
| November 3 2020 | On election night, November 3, 2020, Shapiro rebuked Trump for prematurely claiming victory in the presidential election, emphasizing that it was irresponsible to assert he had won. |
| October 19 2020 | On October 19, 2020, Ben Shapiro announced he would be voting for Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election, citing his change in perspective on Trump's policy and the necessity of voting against the Democrats. |
| September 2020 | In September 2020, Ben Shapiro announced that he and his family were leaving California and relocating the headquarters of his Daily Wire enterprise to Nashville, Tennessee, while resettling in Florida. |
| June 2020 | Ben Shapiro stepped down from his role as editor-in-chief of The Daily Wire, a position he had held since the site's founding, and took on the role of editor emeritus. |
| 2019 | Shapiro published the book 'The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great', emphasizing the importance of Judeo-Christian values. |
| 2019 | Ben Shapiro asserted that 'the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade' was 'not going to happen' and expressed doubts about the Supreme Court's willingness to overturn the decision. |
| 2019 | In response to Beto O'Rourke's comments about removing the tax-exempt status of religious institutions opposed to same-sex marriage, Shapiro stated he would either 'leave the country' or 'pick up a gun' if his children were indoctrinated in religious schools. |
| 2019 | Ben Shapiro spoke at the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., where he described abortion as a 'violent act'. |
| 2019 | Shapiro commented on Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar, suggesting that both she and the San Diego shooter shared similar anti-Semitic views regarding Jews. |
| 2019 | In response to Ben Shapiro's criticism of being labeled as alt-right, The Economist issued an apology and changed the title of the article to describe him instead as a 'radical conservative.' |
| January 2019 | Westwood One expanded Ben Shapiro's programming by adding a nationally syndicated two-hour live radio show, increasing his daily programming to three hours. |
| January 2019 | In January 2019, Ben Shapiro condemned Representative Steve King for his comments defending 'white supremacy' and 'white nationalism', calling for King to be censured and supporting his 2020 primary challenger Randy Feenstra. |
| 2018 | Shapiro retracted his earlier 2006 views on sedition laws in a column, describing his previous column as 'garbage' and stating that the idea of sedition laws was 'inherently idiotic.' |
| 2018 | Ben Shapiro argued that Facebook was targeting conservative sites after the platform implemented an algorithm change that limited their traffic, and criticized the platform for a lack of transparency. |
| September 2018 | Ben Shapiro started hosting The Ben Shapiro Election Special on Fox News, focusing on news and issues related to the 2018 midterm elections. |
| April 2018 | Westwood One began syndicating The Ben Shapiro Show podcast to radio. |
| 2017 | In 2017, Ben Shapiro stated that he does not believe in the existence of widespread systemic injustice in the United States today, asserting that the idea that racial disparities are a result of racism is not true. |
| 2017 | Following the Quebec City mosque shooting, Shapiro condemned the attack and stated that he did not incite the shooter, Alexandre Bissonnette, who had checked his Twitter feed multiple times before the incident. |
| 2017 | Shapiro released his first and only fiction novel, 'True Allegiance'. |
| 2017 | Ben Shapiro publicly criticized the alt-right movement, labeling it as 'a garbage movement composed of garbage ideas.' He asserted that it has no relation to constitutional conservatism. |
| October 2017 | In the aftermath of the Las Vegas shooting, Ben Shapiro wrote that banning all guns would be 'unwise as well as immoral,' arguing that no gun law short of full-scale confiscation would have prevented the tragedy or any other mass shootings. |
| September 14 2017 | Ben Shapiro delivered a speech at the University of California, Berkeley, hosted by the Berkeley College Republicans. The event, which criticized identity politics, required a significant police presence and resulted in nine arrests, but no major incidents occurred. |
| 2016 | According to a 2016 analysis by the Anti-Defamation League, Ben Shapiro was identified as the most frequent target of antisemitic tweets directed at journalists. |
| 2016 | During the presidential election, Shapiro wrote an article titled 'No, It Doesn't Matter That Bernie Sanders Is Ethnically Jewish. He's a Jew In Name Only.' |
| 2016 | In a statement, Shapiro described himself as 'basically a libertarian'. |
| August 2016 | DePaul University revoked an invitation for Ben Shapiro to address students and barred him from entering the campus due to 'security concerns'. |
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