1 00:00:02,160 --> 00:00:05,680 Speaker 1: Hey, the folks, it is Friday, February sixth. We are 2 00:00:05,720 --> 00:00:09,760 Speaker 1: coming to you from Radio Row and the Bay Area, where, 3 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:13,920 Speaker 1: of course, the Seahawks are gonna go at it against 4 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:14,920 Speaker 1: who roads. 5 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:15,680 Speaker 2: The Patriot there. 6 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:21,000 Speaker 1: It is the game. Understandings, folks, We have made our 7 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:23,040 Speaker 1: way to the Bay Area. We are on Radio Row 8 00:00:23,079 --> 00:00:27,080 Speaker 1: broadcasting now and even here with all the thoughts on 9 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:29,200 Speaker 1: the big game, A lot of thoughts are on the President, 10 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:31,319 Speaker 1: who says he is not going to be here, but 11 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:35,640 Speaker 1: he is making news for what some are calling the 12 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:40,120 Speaker 1: most racist thing they have seen coming out of this administration. 13 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:42,080 Speaker 1: And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ, 14 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:44,959 Speaker 1: a special edition of Aby and TJ Roges. We're here 15 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:48,320 Speaker 1: the game. Yes, Trump looms large over everything he does. 16 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:55,000 Speaker 1: This frankly a super Bowl weekend is Yes, we will 17 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:58,080 Speaker 1: see the president in the interview, traditional interview. We're used 18 00:00:58,120 --> 00:00:59,720 Speaker 1: to seeing the President play a part. He attended the 19 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:01,000 Speaker 1: Super Bowl. 20 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:03,120 Speaker 3: Last year, he did last year. This year a little different. 21 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:04,120 Speaker 3: Not coming this year. 22 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:05,160 Speaker 2: He said it was too far. 23 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:09,040 Speaker 1: Yes, he's not coming, Romes, but why is it still 24 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 1: He's playing such a role here. 25 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:13,319 Speaker 3: He plays a role, and I feel like just about 26 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:16,319 Speaker 3: every thread of the fabric of. 27 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:17,360 Speaker 2: America right now. 28 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:20,280 Speaker 3: I mean, there isn't a story that he isn't a 29 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:21,679 Speaker 3: part of, it feels like these days. 30 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:23,600 Speaker 2: But this perhaps was a story. 31 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:28,759 Speaker 3: That he didn't fully appreciate just where it was headed. 32 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:31,600 Speaker 3: And I don't understand why, because I woke up this 33 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:35,440 Speaker 3: morning and you said, Robes, look at this, and my 34 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:38,679 Speaker 3: jaw I could barely wipe this sleep out of my eyes, 35 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:41,480 Speaker 3: and my jaw dropped. I could not believe what I 36 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:43,319 Speaker 3: was seeing and what I was hearing. 37 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:45,760 Speaker 1: Okay, to be clear, I think I have it right. 38 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:49,400 Speaker 1: I showed you the image before telling you where it came, correct. 39 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:51,320 Speaker 3: Ok Yeah, And I just I was like, I'm sorry, 40 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:55,840 Speaker 3: Why am I seeing Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's heads 41 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:01,559 Speaker 3: superimposed in a caricature way on ape bodies. 42 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:04,040 Speaker 1: That is what happened, Folks who are not mincing words. 43 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:07,320 Speaker 1: This is not an interpretation thing. The President of the 44 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:12,000 Speaker 1: United States re posted something that somebody else put together. 45 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:14,520 Speaker 1: It was a video. The video went a minute in 46 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:20,640 Speaker 1: two seconds. The video was I guess, pawning a conspiracy 47 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:24,679 Speaker 1: theory about the election results. Fine, but at the end 48 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:28,240 Speaker 1: of that video was a clip in which you see 49 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 1: the faces the heads of Barack Obama and Michelle Obama. 50 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 1: They were smiling right or laughing even but they were 51 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:40,120 Speaker 1: on ape bodies. Now while this image popped up and 52 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 1: again it was only a few seconds of a minute 53 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:45,120 Speaker 1: in two second video, but it pops up and the 54 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:47,359 Speaker 1: song that's playing is from Lion King. 55 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, well, a lion sleeps night in the jungle, the 56 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:51,440 Speaker 3: Mighty Jungle. 57 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:53,080 Speaker 2: The Lion sleeps tonight. 58 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:55,639 Speaker 1: So President Trump is depicted in the video at some 59 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:59,600 Speaker 1: point as a lion. Okay, fine, whatever robes there is 60 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:02,760 Speaker 1: there not a discussion to be had, an interpretation or 61 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:07,280 Speaker 1: whatever else. This is the most racist. This is blatantly racist, 62 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 1: and that's nothing else to talk about. 63 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:13,360 Speaker 3: It's disgusting, It's overt in a way that I can't 64 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:14,400 Speaker 3: even begin to describe. 65 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:14,840 Speaker 2: It was. 66 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 3: It was my jaw dropped, actually literally physically dropped, because 67 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:20,880 Speaker 3: I cannot believe. 68 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:21,639 Speaker 2: Yes, we've seen. 69 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:25,600 Speaker 3: Look, the Internet is filled with disgusting rhetoric and hate 70 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:30,680 Speaker 3: and racism every single day. But when the President reposts 71 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 3: something like that, it matters. It matters the tone and 72 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:40,640 Speaker 3: the rhetoric that is being sanctioned by the leader of 73 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 3: the free world. 74 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:44,240 Speaker 2: That is basically a license to anyone. 75 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:50,440 Speaker 3: You can be as racist as you want, and it's okay, okay. 76 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:53,960 Speaker 1: So and again to be clear here, I showed you 77 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:56,840 Speaker 1: this without telling you that the President had done it. 78 00:03:56,880 --> 00:03:58,400 Speaker 1: I'm saying to you, folks, I'm trying to put you 79 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:00,720 Speaker 1: in the right mindset that, no matter what, this was 80 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:04,440 Speaker 1: deplorable before you found out who posted it. 81 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:06,840 Speaker 2: It's a known racist, yes, and. 82 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:11,800 Speaker 3: People might say, okay, well that's exactly who you're talking about. 83 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:14,880 Speaker 2: But whatever, a proud racist, someone who is on a 84 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:17,800 Speaker 2: bachelor a racist. It's they've put it up. It still 85 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 2: would have been jaw dropping. 86 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 3: But the President of the United States street posts this now. 87 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:26,440 Speaker 1: And full disclosure, folks, we will tell you this. We 88 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:29,160 Speaker 1: are here covering, of course, the big game on Sunday. 89 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:32,280 Speaker 1: Got a lot. We have a very busy schedule. We 90 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:34,919 Speaker 1: were up local time at one am so that we 91 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:38,240 Speaker 1: could get other stuff on the air on East Coast time. 92 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:41,960 Speaker 1: So we're out here working robes. Full disclosure. We saw 93 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:44,719 Speaker 1: the story this morning and we say, ah, do we 94 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:47,200 Speaker 1: really want to do that. We're out here, Let's do 95 00:04:47,279 --> 00:04:51,039 Speaker 1: something more uplifting, more fun, more good energy. We'll do 96 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 1: the Guthrie update. We have to do that one, but 97 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:57,640 Speaker 1: let's not let's just focus on the game and then robes. 98 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:02,120 Speaker 1: We saw that the White House risks sponded to the 99 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:05,039 Speaker 1: backlash over the videos. So Miss Carolyn Levitt, the White 100 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 1: House Press Secretary, came out and this is when we 101 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:10,039 Speaker 1: made the decision, Okay, we should probably do this. 102 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 2: We gotta do the story. 103 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:13,919 Speaker 3: Because it's one thing to repost it. 104 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:16,800 Speaker 2: It's another thing to have all the backlash that happened. 105 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:20,920 Speaker 3: But it's a whole other level when you defend, when 106 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:24,760 Speaker 3: you attempt to defend this post. 107 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:26,280 Speaker 1: This is a hard defense. Maybe this is defense. 108 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:30,200 Speaker 3: Here is what Carolyn Levitt, this is how she responded 109 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:34,720 Speaker 3: to the backlash to this Trump repost. 110 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:37,680 Speaker 2: She said, and I quote this is. 111 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:42,000 Speaker 3: From an internet meme depicting President Trump as the King 112 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:47,760 Speaker 3: of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King. 113 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:53,800 Speaker 3: Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today 114 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:58,400 Speaker 3: that actually matters to the American public. So it was 115 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:06,680 Speaker 3: dismissive and completely missed the whole point. Refuse to take 116 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:10,719 Speaker 3: accountability and refuse to acknowledge what it was, which is 117 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 3: putting the most prominent black couple and depicting them as apes, 118 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:21,000 Speaker 3: as monkeys, how is that not racist? 119 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:24,080 Speaker 2: Can someone explain that, how is that not racist? 120 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 1: We don't have to discuss that, right, it's not. It 121 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:29,279 Speaker 1: feels silly. To go back is to give some kind 122 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:31,720 Speaker 1: of history of why you shouldn't do blackface or why 123 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:35,200 Speaker 1: you shouldn't put black folks face his own monkeys. There's 124 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:37,920 Speaker 1: a okay, we shouldn't have to go back. If you do, 125 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:39,800 Speaker 1: you do that research on your own. We're not going 126 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 1: to do that here. But I am roses bizarre that 127 00:06:43,279 --> 00:06:45,360 Speaker 1: there's anything else that can come out of something. 128 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 3: Oops. 129 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 1: He didn't look all the way to the end of 130 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:53,080 Speaker 1: the video. He's bad. Oops. But to come out and say, yes, 131 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:57,120 Speaker 1: we acknowledge what you all are upset about, and we 132 00:06:57,160 --> 00:06:59,479 Speaker 1: acknowledge in telling you you don't need to be upset 133 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 1: what they the actual f is the problem. This is 134 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:07,360 Speaker 1: just the president having some that was that's it's not tone. 135 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:09,880 Speaker 2: Deaf that it was intentional, and you know what, It's 136 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 2: called gaslighting. Baby. Once again, it's just gaslighting. 137 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:16,080 Speaker 3: You are telling us that what we are seeing and 138 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:19,440 Speaker 3: what we know we are looking at isn't what we. 139 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:22,000 Speaker 2: Know we're looking at. 140 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:25,840 Speaker 3: We know we're looking at like the worst kind of 141 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:30,840 Speaker 3: racism ever, and you're telling us it's not that's gaslighting. 142 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:34,240 Speaker 3: It's exactly like I mean exactly. But the same concept 143 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:36,800 Speaker 3: is true with the Alex Preddy video. You're telling us 144 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:40,360 Speaker 3: we're not seeing what we're seeing. That's what Carolyn Levitt's 145 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:43,400 Speaker 3: job is now, to tell us that we're not seeing 146 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:44,360 Speaker 3: what we're seeing. 147 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 2: I think that's her number one job description. 148 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:52,080 Speaker 1: I keep trying to foolishly Robes, allow to give some 149 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:56,480 Speaker 1: just to give a little space for Maybe she didn't 150 00:07:56,520 --> 00:07:59,680 Speaker 1: see it. Maybe she responded, but without giving all the 151 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 1: full I don't know. 152 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:01,840 Speaker 2: She described it. 153 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:07,560 Speaker 1: I'm trying to leave space for something another explanation other 154 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:12,520 Speaker 1: than this place. Intentionally, this White House, my president intentionally 155 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:16,400 Speaker 1: put the black president's face on a monkey and thought 156 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:19,240 Speaker 1: it was funny and then defended it. I'm trying to 157 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:22,400 Speaker 1: find Robes. I gotta find a way. There's something in 158 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:26,320 Speaker 1: me who that it's necessary for me to believe that's 159 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:26,960 Speaker 1: not possible. 160 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:28,520 Speaker 2: Where are you on that journey right now? 161 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:32,400 Speaker 1: So I'm stuck in it. I'm gonna sweeart. This cannot 162 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 1: be possible that the President of the United States is 163 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:39,760 Speaker 1: there is not a You gotta speak to us now, Ropes, 164 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:44,280 Speaker 1: you gotta say something to the black community to tell 165 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:48,560 Speaker 1: me why I should support anything. You just call me 166 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:49,240 Speaker 1: the N word. 167 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:51,400 Speaker 2: That's what you said. 168 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:56,640 Speaker 3: You said, this is a visual representation of calling black 169 00:08:56,679 --> 00:08:57,640 Speaker 3: people the end world. 170 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:00,760 Speaker 1: So if he does that, what is Carolyn lev gonna say? Hey, 171 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:03,120 Speaker 1: you know, just call it like we see it, like, 172 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:07,640 Speaker 1: what is what is the limit? What's the god? Robes? 173 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:10,440 Speaker 1: So we're here now talking about it, and right before 174 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:12,560 Speaker 1: we came on, after we made the decision to do 175 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:16,720 Speaker 1: this episode, then you throw something else into this mix. 176 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:20,400 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, folks. By the way, the video is now 177 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:26,760 Speaker 1: down and it only came down after I guess Robes, 178 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:31,120 Speaker 1: very prominent or maybe a black man that the president 179 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:32,600 Speaker 1: respects a little bit, spoke up. 180 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:33,360 Speaker 2: That's correct. 181 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:38,959 Speaker 3: We're talking about Tim Scott, and I appreciate what he 182 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:41,880 Speaker 3: did and what he said because he has been a 183 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:45,840 Speaker 3: Trump ally like he has been a Trump without a doubt. 184 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:49,400 Speaker 3: He is the only black Republican senator. He's from South 185 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:50,199 Speaker 3: Carolina in the. 186 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:50,880 Speaker 2: History of the world. 187 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:55,840 Speaker 3: Yes, imagine, like I actually like having My first job 188 00:09:55,960 --> 00:10:00,840 Speaker 3: in television news was in South Carolina in nineteen ninety five, where, 189 00:10:00,920 --> 00:10:04,600 Speaker 3: by the way, the Confederate flag was flying atop the 190 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:06,760 Speaker 3: State House when I got there, and it was on 191 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:09,240 Speaker 3: the books illegal for you and I to get married 192 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:10,760 Speaker 3: in the state of South Carolina. 193 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:12,800 Speaker 2: So this is the history. I think we all know it. 194 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:15,319 Speaker 1: Those are the days it is South Carolina. 195 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:18,400 Speaker 3: So it's a I appreciate the fact that a black 196 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:22,640 Speaker 3: Republican senator from zally Alene is yes, Tim Scott from 197 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:25,520 Speaker 3: South Carolina. But he saw this and he this is 198 00:10:25,559 --> 00:10:29,360 Speaker 3: exactly what he said. He went on to X and said, 199 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:33,640 Speaker 3: praying it was fake because it's the most racist thing 200 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:37,680 Speaker 3: I've seen out of this White House. The President should 201 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:38,480 Speaker 3: remove it. 202 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:39,920 Speaker 1: He's praying it was fake. 203 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:41,680 Speaker 2: He's actually praying it was fake. 204 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:45,120 Speaker 1: Okay, See, I am in that lane like there's got 205 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:47,560 Speaker 1: to be some other explanation. There is no way my 206 00:10:47,679 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 1: president willingly did this. I'm sorry. This is my president too. Yes, boy, 207 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:56,479 Speaker 1: everybody out there, this is our guy. It's hard to imagine. 208 00:10:56,480 --> 00:10:59,120 Speaker 1: I'm looking for another reason for this can be right. 209 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:02,920 Speaker 3: May I ask you if Carolyn Levitt or maybe even better, 210 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:05,840 Speaker 3: President Trump himself came out and said that out that 211 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:08,960 Speaker 3: you kind of gave him. I reposted something I thought 212 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:11,880 Speaker 3: was funny, saying I was King of the jungle or whatever. 213 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:13,959 Speaker 2: I didn't see to the end. 214 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:19,480 Speaker 3: I didn't see the depiction of Obama and Michelle. Yes, 215 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:22,480 Speaker 3: and I now regret posting it. 216 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:26,319 Speaker 1: Yes, okay, this is something Yeah to you to your question, 217 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:29,400 Speaker 1: this is something you are better about than I am. Robes. 218 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:35,360 Speaker 1: You are You're always to what the president is saying. 219 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:43,160 Speaker 1: I don't at all immediately just pounce. I don't pounce 220 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:45,440 Speaker 1: on the president as as racist. This is typical. I 221 00:11:45,559 --> 00:11:48,200 Speaker 1: want to see this as a problem or mistake like 222 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:52,040 Speaker 1: Tim Scott does. But to you, you are the first 223 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:54,960 Speaker 1: one to say this stuff. It sends a message and 224 00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:57,720 Speaker 1: sets a tone. Robes, this is your thing. Every time 225 00:11:58,280 --> 00:11:59,920 Speaker 1: it sends a message that this is okay. 226 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:02,960 Speaker 2: It matters if the president condones this. 227 00:12:02,840 --> 00:12:05,480 Speaker 1: Is what you always that the first type of. 228 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:09,520 Speaker 3: Rhetoric and using either it's the language he uses. Now, 229 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:15,040 Speaker 3: this is the imagery that he is uplifting and putting 230 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:16,920 Speaker 3: out to the world. I don't care if he wasn't 231 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:21,400 Speaker 3: the original author. He is promoting it and by putting 232 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:24,320 Speaker 3: it on his truth social page or his account, he 233 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:28,720 Speaker 3: is not only accepting this type of rhetoric, but actually 234 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:31,439 Speaker 3: applauding it and laughing at it. 235 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:32,920 Speaker 2: It's not funny. 236 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:36,800 Speaker 1: I think the next thing was Carolyn Levitt. It was 237 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:41,840 Speaker 1: that we didn't make a mistake. This is fine that 238 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:44,640 Speaker 1: I think her thing. Send it off to another stratosphere 239 00:12:44,679 --> 00:12:47,160 Speaker 1: to where to your point, you always make ropes the 240 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:51,240 Speaker 1: next person, what kid out there? What? Teenager? What? 241 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:51,400 Speaker 3: What? 242 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:55,240 Speaker 1: Even middle school? Or certainly one young adult male. I 243 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:57,280 Speaker 1: can say whatever I want to say to somebody in 244 00:12:57,320 --> 00:13:00,960 Speaker 1: the office at the grocery store my uber drive, because 245 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 1: it's okay. It's actually okay call you monkeys. It's okay 246 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:09,680 Speaker 1: to call y'all monkeys. And it doesn't matter if you 247 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:12,800 Speaker 1: have a Harvard degree and you spent two terms as president. 248 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:16,000 Speaker 1: You ain't nothing but aim to me roums. 249 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:20,240 Speaker 3: I mean when you really, like everyone sit down and 250 00:13:20,520 --> 00:13:24,000 Speaker 3: actually think about what that messaging is saying. 251 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:25,319 Speaker 1: Like like, I think. 252 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:29,680 Speaker 3: People want to whitewash it, to use a a term, 253 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:31,920 Speaker 3: but they are trying to make it. Oh, it's just 254 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:33,680 Speaker 3: a joke. You can't take a joke. 255 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:34,480 Speaker 2: Oh, it was. 256 00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:36,800 Speaker 3: More about Trump being king of the jungle and less 257 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:41,920 Speaker 3: about you know what that video did. It dehumanized the 258 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:45,760 Speaker 3: former president and the former first Lady of the United States, 259 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:47,920 Speaker 3: equating them to animals. 260 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:51,120 Speaker 1: You know, I didn't do that deep of a dive 261 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:55,200 Speaker 1: on the responses online, but plenty of them, yes, of course, 262 00:13:55,200 --> 00:14:01,480 Speaker 1: from Trump circles and conservative circles were absolutely dismissing the 263 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:04,760 Speaker 1: video and essentially saying, yeah, the president President Obama was 264 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:07,840 Speaker 1: terrible for this country, and actually to a certain degree, 265 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:11,120 Speaker 1: justifying by saying, well, yeah he's awful, Yeah he's been terrible. Yeah, 266 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:15,480 Speaker 1: this is You can disagree with politics, absolutely, it's completely fine. 267 00:14:15,559 --> 00:14:18,560 Speaker 1: But but to justify this is other level. And again, 268 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:22,200 Speaker 1: we didn't plan on doing this. But now the story, Oh, 269 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:26,120 Speaker 1: we didn't even get folks to the best part story. 270 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:29,640 Speaker 1: You were waiting board. Stay with us, the best part 271 00:14:29,640 --> 00:14:32,520 Speaker 1: of the story. We haven't even told you yet. Stay 272 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:36,440 Speaker 1: here when we come back. You are not going to 273 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:50,240 Speaker 1: believe how this story is now wrapping up. All right, 274 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:53,240 Speaker 1: we continue here on Amyan TJ. Robes is laughing because 275 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:55,480 Speaker 1: I did. I don't know if I buried the lead. 276 00:14:55,560 --> 00:14:57,280 Speaker 1: We needed to, We needed to tell the story a 277 00:14:57,280 --> 00:15:00,000 Speaker 1: certain way. But Robes, something is now happened with this story. 278 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:03,320 Speaker 1: Sorry that I don't think has ever happened with a 279 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:06,880 Speaker 1: Trump story in which he was questioned or got backlash. 280 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:11,160 Speaker 3: He has responded, yes, and he almost always in his 281 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:16,120 Speaker 3: response doubles down or triples down. But now we have 282 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:23,240 Speaker 3: the blame game, all right, So just before noon Eastern time, 283 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:27,479 Speaker 3: the White House took down said. 284 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:29,640 Speaker 1: Posts boom that never happens. 285 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:33,440 Speaker 3: Never happens. And it was after Tim Scott put out 286 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:35,600 Speaker 3: what he put out. And you know what, kudos to 287 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:38,400 Speaker 3: Tim Scott for taking a stand and for saying what 288 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:44,280 Speaker 3: he said. But they blamed a staffer for the video 289 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:49,160 Speaker 3: that was reposted to President Trump's truth social account. They 290 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:53,160 Speaker 3: blamed a staffer and said the post had been removed, 291 00:15:54,480 --> 00:15:58,560 Speaker 3: and that is what they're calling it now, after Carolyn 292 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:01,440 Speaker 3: Levitt already put out the state and about fake outrage, 293 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:02,800 Speaker 3: which is it? 294 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:06,080 Speaker 1: So so now they're saying that the post should not 295 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:09,560 Speaker 1: have gone up. Correct was the mistake? After Carolyn Levitt 296 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:12,320 Speaker 1: has already said it's fake news and there was no mistake. 297 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:15,920 Speaker 3: So Carolyn Levitt defended it and actually put the blame 298 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:20,160 Speaker 3: on like left wingers who were making. 299 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:20,760 Speaker 2: Something out of nothing. 300 00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:27,560 Speaker 3: Right, But then now they say a staffer erroneously madrid post. 301 00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:32,320 Speaker 3: But the video was up for nearly twelve hours and 302 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:36,800 Speaker 3: it was only after Senator Scott said what he said. 303 00:16:37,880 --> 00:16:39,360 Speaker 2: And you know what. Thank God he did. 304 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:40,400 Speaker 1: God bless you Scott. 305 00:16:40,760 --> 00:16:45,120 Speaker 2: Seriously, this is can you remember I cannot think. 306 00:16:45,160 --> 00:16:47,400 Speaker 3: I'm sure it's happened, but I cannot think of a 307 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:50,880 Speaker 3: time when something like this made the headlines it made 308 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 3: where President Trump took it down or anyway somehow backed down. 309 00:16:57,040 --> 00:17:01,960 Speaker 1: And it came metting fault into some degree. But taking 310 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:04,400 Speaker 1: it down is the admission of fault, blaming the staffer. 311 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:06,640 Speaker 1: Is it a mission that it should not have gone up? 312 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:08,679 Speaker 1: Absolutely so? 313 00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:15,040 Speaker 3: By this, now should we now not believe the source 314 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:19,240 Speaker 3: of what's coming on President Trump's truth social So now. 315 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:20,920 Speaker 1: It's not really him. We need to wait to see 316 00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:21,880 Speaker 1: if it was just a staffer. 317 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:24,480 Speaker 3: So now can we just not take his true social 318 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:29,440 Speaker 3: posts as something coming from him, sanctioned by him, approved 319 00:17:29,560 --> 00:17:30,080 Speaker 3: by him. 320 00:17:30,119 --> 00:17:32,640 Speaker 2: Do you think a staffer? I don't know. I don't 321 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:35,359 Speaker 2: know the answer to this, but I'm asking the question, is. 322 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:40,000 Speaker 3: There are there staffers on President Trump's payroll who are 323 00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:43,640 Speaker 3: allowed to just post whatever they want on his account 324 00:17:43,920 --> 00:17:47,520 Speaker 3: without his Absolutely not exactly, I already knew the answer 325 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:49,159 Speaker 3: to it, but I just wanted to pose the question. 326 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:51,320 Speaker 1: I hope he comes here, I hope he changes his mind. 327 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:52,000 Speaker 1: It comes to the game. 328 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:55,400 Speaker 2: If Bad Bunny is anywhere near, he will not be here. 329 00:17:55,880 --> 00:17:58,159 Speaker 2: He'll come with ice agents. If he comes, Tobe comes. 330 00:17:59,280 --> 00:18:01,040 Speaker 1: Sorry, we want to have on We are here for 331 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:04,879 Speaker 1: the next several days. What a start super Bowl sixty 332 00:18:04,960 --> 00:18:07,119 Speaker 1: officially super Bowl sixty. 333 00:18:07,160 --> 00:18:09,560 Speaker 3: I think the Obama should comp That would be wonderful. 334 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:12,320 Speaker 3: They haven't responded, by the way smartly so we have. 335 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:14,399 Speaker 3: There's been I haven't seen a response from them. 336 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:16,600 Speaker 1: As of this recording, and maybe we won't see one. 337 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:18,879 Speaker 1: They don't respond to everything that they've actually said in 338 00:18:18,920 --> 00:18:21,800 Speaker 1: a response before. We can't respond to all the craziness 339 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:23,400 Speaker 1: coming out of here, but this one rose to the level. 340 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:24,160 Speaker 1: I don't know if this one does. 341 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:26,760 Speaker 3: So would you respond to this though? What would be 342 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:29,400 Speaker 3: the correct response? I don't know what that is. 343 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:31,040 Speaker 1: You know, we might need to take a moment to 344 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:33,520 Speaker 1: educate some and there might be some people in this 345 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:36,320 Speaker 1: country that don't understand what blackface might mean, what it 346 00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:38,959 Speaker 1: means to depict black folks as apes and monkeys more. 347 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:40,119 Speaker 2: You're very kind to say that. 348 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:43,399 Speaker 1: No, I'm saying, sweetheart, if we can take I'm trying 349 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:46,880 Speaker 1: to always bring the temperature down. We're outrage is our 350 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:50,640 Speaker 1: first reaction, outrage. Whatever happens, just outrage. If we could 351 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:53,040 Speaker 1: take a minute, there might be some people who don't understand. Wait, 352 00:18:53,040 --> 00:18:55,359 Speaker 1: why is that so upsetting? What's the big deal? Okay, 353 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:58,280 Speaker 1: take a minute and teach those folks maybe why that 354 00:18:58,440 --> 00:19:01,280 Speaker 1: is a problem. And again I'm trying here, you know, 355 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:03,720 Speaker 1: I'm always trying foolishly so. 356 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:07,119 Speaker 3: I know, and I think that if more people in 357 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:11,159 Speaker 3: the world had your open heart and open mind to 358 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:14,920 Speaker 3: accept apologies and mistakes. 359 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:16,800 Speaker 2: But I haven't even heard an apology. 360 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:20,640 Speaker 3: I've just heard, I've just seen nah ah and then 361 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:22,679 Speaker 3: just fine and then finger pointing. 362 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:24,040 Speaker 2: I haven't heard we made a. 363 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:26,480 Speaker 3: Mistake, and we apologize to the black community. This is 364 00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:29,080 Speaker 3: not acceptable and it will not happen again on my watch. 365 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:31,679 Speaker 2: That's what I would like to hear from the president. 366 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:36,080 Speaker 1: You are going to wrap this episode of Amy and 367 00:19:36,359 --> 00:19:40,639 Speaker 1: J because Robes is not well. That was hilarious, all right, folks. 368 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:42,960 Speaker 1: We always appreciate you spending time with us. 369 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:45,800 Speaker 2: Oh for my you're crying, you're laughing. 370 00:19:48,359 --> 00:19:51,080 Speaker 1: Amy Robock, I am DJ Holmes. We will tell to 371 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:51,680 Speaker 1: y'all soon.