Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central.
Speaker 2: This past weekend, Donald Trump finally hit the campaign trail,
Speaker 2: so I headed down to South Carolina for what was
Speaker 2: originally permitted as a buga rally but later downgraded to
Speaker 2: it into mid event. What is this event?
Speaker 3: It's a Trump rally.
Speaker 2: It is a rally, I'd say it was. It's not
Speaker 2: a rally. It's somewhat of a rally, but it's not
Speaker 2: a big rally. Now I thought it was a rally.
Speaker 3: It's not a rally.
Speaker 2: It's a bunch of people standing in line. It's an event.
Speaker 2: It's a list.
Speaker 4: It's invited list only. This is a private event that
Speaker 4: VIPs have been invited to you.
Speaker 2: Yes, only, heavily vetted VIPs were invited. Like this guy,
Speaker 2: Sombrero Trump JM.
Speaker 3: Yes from Lauren, South Carolina.
Speaker 2: Sombrero Trump. Yes, it's not a rally, it's a leadership
Speaker 2: form formed leadership teams. I see a guy like this.
Speaker 2: I think this guy has got two dates circled out
Speaker 2: his calendar, Sigo Demo and January sixth. Yes, this kickoff
Speaker 2: was packed with classic style and classic takes.
Speaker 3: Donald Trump is president right now, He's.
Speaker 2: Currently the president.
Speaker 5: He is still president there's a lot of things that
Speaker 5: this Biden person does not have, like the presidential steal
Speaker 5: and things like that that are pretty obvious.
Speaker 2: Biden doesn't have the presidential steal. When he speaks, there's
Speaker 2: a presidential steal in front of him. It's not real.
Speaker 2: What is he doing as president? He is in charge
Speaker 2: of the military. Great, the military is in charge of
Speaker 2: this whole thing.
Speaker 5: The military were put in charge in twenty eighteen when
Speaker 5: President Trump signed an executive.
Speaker 2: Order the American military arms that are going to Ukraine.
Speaker 2: We have Donald Trump to think for that.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 2: Two, there's two militaries. There's a good and the bad.
Speaker 2: So there's two militaries. Donald Trump's in charge of the
Speaker 2: good one. Yes, Biden's in charge of the bad military.
Speaker 2: That's exactly right. Fortunately, there were sub supporters who still
Speaker 2: believe an election cycle is actually necessary and we're serious
Speaker 2: about planning for a log campaign.
Speaker 6: He's just been doing a lot of preparations, a lot
Speaker 6: of tests in the waters, and.
Speaker 2: You know just what's normal talking to advisors. Yeah much.
Speaker 2: Nick Twente's Kanye West like the minds that are gonna
Speaker 2: shape the point of view of this whole campaign. The
Speaker 2: original Trump brand is still strung tween that guy. Huh mister,
Speaker 2: when the looting starts, that's when the shooting starts. But
Speaker 2: a new election cycle could be a different tone. What
Speaker 2: are you seeing that is different about Trump and his
Speaker 2: tone with this kind of an event.
Speaker 6: I think it's more elevated. He's at a more kind
Speaker 6: of a mature level. How everybody's got all their advisors.
Speaker 6: It's almost like he's finally listening to his a little bit.
Speaker 6: As far as tone the comments down.
Speaker 2: Are you noticing even the MAGA community being serious and respectable?
Speaker 6: If you watch the conservative rhetoric, it looks like you
Speaker 6: still love America.
Speaker 2: Conservative rhetoric still respects positions of power in this country,
Speaker 2: our police, our military, our executive branch. Exactly what's your
Speaker 2: hat say?
Speaker 3: I don't remember?
Speaker 4: I get shit A better president.
Speaker 2: This campaign is already attacking Biden's approach to the war
Speaker 2: in Ukraine, while Lottie Trump's brilliant yet still theoretical approach.
Speaker 7: Putin would have never ever gone in and even now
Speaker 7: I could solve that in twenty four hours.
Speaker 2: Trump says he could pick up the phone and this
Speaker 2: thing in twenty four hours. What actually would he say?
Speaker 3: It off he'd kind of be that that kind of
Speaker 3: tone to him.
Speaker 2: You think, totally knock it off. Might cower Vladimir.
Speaker 3: Putin because he knows Trump stands up and says, hey,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 2: Do you wish Biden would threaten nuclear war?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: No, no strong stance of hey, stop doing this, okay?
Speaker 3: Or got you gotta have a you gotta have a
Speaker 3: rattle behind.
Speaker 2: That saber, right, which is.
Speaker 3: Troops. But you don't want to do troops because then
Speaker 3: you have all at war?
Speaker 2: Right, So what would it be?
Speaker 3: Threat of it?
Speaker 2: Threat of troops?
Speaker 3: Correct?
Speaker 2: So you want Trump to get into office and promise
Speaker 2: to put troops into that war?
Speaker 3: No, I want him to stop it verbally because you
Speaker 3: don't want military into it because then it escalates me.
Speaker 2: He said verbally, you have to have some sort of backup, correct.
Speaker 2: So you want Trump to have that backup, which would
Speaker 2: be not troops.
Speaker 3: No, he has the troops.
Speaker 2: So you would support troops being sent in.
Speaker 3: You don't want to send troops in.
Speaker 2: It seems like a complicated situation.
Speaker 3: It is very complicated.
Speaker 2: Fortunately for some of these not rally goers, it doesn't
Speaker 2: have to be that complicated.
Speaker 8: I haven't seen any news reports about, you know, this
Speaker 8: terrible war in Ukraine. Where do you get your news
Speaker 8: on Newsmax?
Speaker 2: And they haven't covered it at all.
Speaker 8: I think that there's no war to cover. I think
Speaker 8: the whole thing is fabricated. And I think that Zelenski,
Speaker 8: who's the president of Ukraine, I believe that this is
Speaker 8: all extortion money.
Speaker 2: I spent a little time in Hungary and I met
Speaker 2: people who were coming from Ukraine to try to find
Speaker 2: safe haven. They're actual refugees fleeing what they said was
Speaker 2: a war zone. Were they I just think they might
Speaker 2: be actors. As far as I know, I believe that they.
Speaker 8: Might be actors.
Speaker 2: All of those people I met at Hungary, those are refugees.
Speaker 8: I believe that the the government is paying them to
Speaker 8: do that.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of actors. If that's a sad gig,
Speaker 2: that's gonna cost you billions. And if this is the
Speaker 2: Trump campaign's first round of invites, America is in for
Speaker 2: a sweet, sweet ride. Nicki Haley, the former South Carolina
Speaker 2: governor and Trump you An ambassador, has decided to throw
Speaker 2: her hat at the ring and run against her old boss.
Speaker 2: So I went to her campaign launched in South Carolina
Speaker 2: to see if the party was really ready to turn
Speaker 2: the page. Are you excited about NICKI Haley for president?
Speaker 2: Very excited.
Speaker 3: She's done great things for South Carolina.
Speaker 2: She's tough, she's a women women rule. The Republican Party
Speaker 2: needs a change, and we need someone with Nicky's foreign
Speaker 2: policy expertise.
Speaker 5: I love Donald Trump, but I think that she has
Speaker 5: more of a feminine finess.
Speaker 2: You think Trump has a harder time with communicating with ladies.
Speaker 2: He has a harsher approach when it comes to women.
Speaker 2: Sometimes has to pay for it. He sometimes has a
Speaker 2: hard time navigating it.
Speaker 3: Yes, I mean, I.
Speaker 2: Think she's really riding to get like.
Speaker 5: I don't think she'll win.
Speaker 2: Oh, I think it's for VP. So this is just
Speaker 2: sort of like batting practice.
Speaker 9: It's just fun to be here.
Speaker 2: Why not VP or President? I was curious to see
Speaker 2: how Haley could win over ardent Trump supporters. I voted
Speaker 2: for Trump, but I certainly will not be doing that again.
Speaker 2: When did Trump lose your support? The nail in the
Speaker 2: coffin for me with Donald Trump? Let me guess, Charlotte
Speaker 2: spill No, but okay, let me You're not gonna guess
Speaker 2: it kids in Cagous Nope. The interaction January sixth, the nope.
Speaker 2: Uh oh, okay, wait hold on first apeachment, nope, second
Speaker 2: peach hope Okay, invited white supremacists over tomorrow logo.
Speaker 10: No, But I mean, you know, criticizing DeSantis before.
Speaker 2: His election, wouldn't have guessed it. So that's the line
Speaker 2: right now. I was down on the I would have
Speaker 2: guess kids in CAGs I told you you went to
Speaker 2: guest it. I would have thirty minutes. This is the
Speaker 2: whay you come out and talk to people. You're constantly surprised. Yep.
Speaker 2: Haley has been either a strong Trump critic or a
Speaker 2: vocal Trump ally, depending on the time of day. Could
Speaker 2: this pose a problem? Did you feel like she sufficiently
Speaker 2: stood up to Donald Trump when she needed to?
Speaker 11: I think she has, and I think Nikki Helly's not
Speaker 11: afraid to stand up to any male or female with
Speaker 11: her voice of opinion.
Speaker 2: Yes, after January sixth, she wasn't afraid to say this
Speaker 2: is disgusting, that's right, and then a couple weeks later
Speaker 2: to say they were being too hard on him.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, we agree, I agree totally. An individual respects
Speaker 3: you if you can stand up to them.
Speaker 2: So something awful happens, like Charlottesville. She speaks her mind,
Speaker 2: Charlotteville happens. She's not afraid to criticize Trump. Walk right
Speaker 2: in there and hand in her fifty two week notice.
Speaker 2: Right is right. She knows right from wrong. It's a
Speaker 2: campaign that's distancing itself from the far right fringe, except
Speaker 2: if you look closely at Haley's first speaker, Pastor John Hagy,
Speaker 2: who has unusual views on the weather.
Speaker 1: As a candid you have that responsibility to not get
Speaker 1: in the gunn So hopefully we can say in the
Speaker 1: more positive planes.
Speaker 2: Well, the first person I saw on stage was Pastor Hagey,
Speaker 2: who thinks hurricanes are a punishment for gay people?
Speaker 3: Is that really what he said?
Speaker 2: How long ago was that?
Speaker 3: That was?
Speaker 2: That was around Katrina? Yeah, yeah, that's a that's an
Speaker 2: interesting opening act. Pastor Hagey has said that hurricanes were
Speaker 2: God's punishment for gays. Oh no, preaches the gospel.
Speaker 3: I mean I followed him for years.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, But maybe if she wants to track moderates,
Speaker 2: come in with a little bit more of a moderate
Speaker 2: pastor who thinks something more acceptable like tornadoes are caused
Speaker 2: by too much masturbation. Oh my goodness. Yeah, that's way
Speaker 2: out there. Now, that's too far. Oh yeah, gotcha, And
Speaker 2: there's that line again. Good to know. Last week, Donald
Speaker 2: Trump declared his arrest was imminent and called for a
Speaker 2: pro test to take our Nation back outside the Manhattan
Speaker 2: District Attorney's office. So yesterday I ventured all the way
Speaker 2: downtown and joined the media circus to observe this crowd
Speaker 2: of MAGA protesters who were definitely around here somewhere. Yeah,
Speaker 2: this is the truth social here it says Tuesday, protest,
Speaker 2: take our nation back? Excuse is this the protest for
Speaker 2: Trump or the Trump protest or the supporting Are we
Speaker 2: taking our nation back? Is that today? I thought it
Speaker 2: was today, So I did have the day right. And
Speaker 2: then I found a proud and totally concealed Trump supporter.
Speaker 2: Why are you here? Because I'm gonna support Trump? Because
Speaker 2: they want the dinam. So Trump went on his own
Speaker 2: social media and he called out people his supporters to
Speaker 2: come out here and support him, and right now, that's
Speaker 2: just you. I'm here. I'm here, heavy as the crowd.
Speaker 2: I don't need you to come out something, Okay.
Speaker 12: I'm here to actually see what's going on. Everyone was
Speaker 12: talking about it, so I came here to check it out.
Speaker 2: You want to see it with your own eyes.
Speaker 12: That's right, because I don't believe what I'm hearing on
Speaker 12: the news media.
Speaker 2: So what have you seen so far? Absolutely was nothing,
Speaker 2: nothing correct. This was an unusual MAGA rally. The numbers
Speaker 2: were low and it was in my own city. However,
Speaker 2: the arguments over some basic facts were refreshingly familiar. Do
Speaker 2: you think it's fair for Trump to be indicted if
Speaker 2: that does happen this week? Listen?
Speaker 12: I don't know all the specific facts, but what I
Speaker 12: do know is he's my president right now.
Speaker 2: I think he's my president. You think he's serving the
Speaker 2: role as your president currently.
Speaker 4: Well, he's in my heart, he's my president.
Speaker 2: OK. I just had to be clear sometimes for sure? Sure,
Speaker 2: you think Joe Biden is president?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 2: No, I think that man is a scam.
Speaker 12: I just know that's Allegendly he's there because that man
Speaker 12: doesn't make any sense to me.
Speaker 2: But technically he is there. He is serving the role
Speaker 2: of president. Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 4: I haven't been down, I've haven't been Washington, DC.
Speaker 2: I've not seen him walk in the White House. You
Speaker 2: don't think he actually spends time in the White House.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Well, there are videos of him in
Speaker 2: the White House. He's can we just I just want
Speaker 2: to get beyond this fact. He is the president the
Speaker 2: United States. Donald Trump wants the president of the United States.
Speaker 2: In fact, That's what I'm saying. Okay, this is right, Debora.
Speaker 2: Why are you here today?
Speaker 11: Joe Biden is going after him because I don't even
Speaker 11: know why he going after Hi, because they're gonna push
Speaker 11: him out to do and probably bring them Michelle Michael Obama.
Speaker 2: Okay, but Michael Obama, that's correct. Okay, they made Why
Speaker 2: do you call her Michael?
Speaker 11: What did Joan Rivers say?
Speaker 2: What did Joan Rivers? That's correct?
Speaker 11: If anybody remember what she said?
Speaker 2: Do you get most of your news from Joan Rivers?
Speaker 11: Oh no, I don't get none of my news from
Speaker 11: doing I'm just telling you what she said about Michael Obama.
Speaker 2: Okay. Regardless of their sources, the Marga crowd, which the
Speaker 2: police estimated to be between three and six people, believe
Speaker 2: these chargers were unworthy of a former president. I don't
Speaker 2: feel Trump should be in trouble.
Speaker 4: That's absitutional.
Speaker 2: I feel said President, this is a political attack. They're
Speaker 2: not charging somebody else for this crime. Everything is political.
Speaker 2: They did charge somebody else with this exact crime.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so why should he beats Well.
Speaker 2: Michael Cohen was charged, played guilty, served time in jail.
Speaker 2: Disloyalty's loyalty If na loycy is nothing. This is about
Speaker 2: a man who cheated on his wife with a porn
Speaker 2: star while his wife was at home with their newborn son.
Speaker 2: But loyalty is a big issue for you. Listen, we
Speaker 2: meant so we all know. Trump doesn't understand how the
Speaker 2: law works. Turns out, he doesn't know when it works either.
Speaker 2: But for Margat supporters feeling fomo about missing the Donald
Speaker 2: showdown with Justice, I'm confident you'll get another chance. How
Speaker 2: are you gonna be here today?
Speaker 12: Maybe a couple more hours, walk around and grab something
Speaker 12: to eat.
Speaker 2: If Trump has indicted in Georgia, next you go in there,
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Maybe I will.
Speaker 2: It's like a big old indictment to it, right, I'll
Speaker 2: see in Georgia. Maybe we'll swing by DC. The Daily
Speaker 2: Show is back on the air, and so I'm back
Speaker 2: in the field. Just last week I went to the
Speaker 2: shores of beautiful Lake within a pasaki and hit up
Speaker 2: my first Trump rally in a while. The ex president
Speaker 2: has been busy campaigning and juggling certain legal commitments. Well,
Speaker 2: I've also been incredibly productive during these last few months.
Speaker 2: I've started four scripts, you know, a little bit of
Speaker 2: a novel, novella actually long story short. Five months later,
Speaker 2: Bump Kiss, very little to show for it, but I
Speaker 2: think it's been good, you know, emotionally and just to
Speaker 2: kind of stretch yourself. See what else is out there.
Speaker 2: Find your voice. Really there's up. This is my voice,
Speaker 2: for better or worse. So I'm still warming up, but
Speaker 2: I was excited to see the sights and sounds and
Speaker 2: the long line of politically engaged citizens. Whatever Trump does
Speaker 2: the smartest, that's just sort of your boilerplate. You don't
Speaker 2: have to think through it. You've just given him that credibility.
Speaker 2: And it didn't take long to spout the new piece
Speaker 2: of must have Maga merge.
Speaker 3: The mugshot never surrendered to the tyranny?
Speaker 2: What is Trump doing here on the shirt?
Speaker 3: This is his mugshaw?
Speaker 2: Gotcha? So that was taken when he surrendered to authorities
Speaker 2: to have his picture taken. Huh.
Speaker 3: This says, never surrendered.
Speaker 2: But is that on the back? Is the buttet the back?
Speaker 3: But Trump?
Speaker 2: It's just Trump? So where's the where's the butt? Part?
Speaker 2: Is that that's implied? Nick? Take me through your fit. Ah, well,
Speaker 2: i'd bought the socks in town, and these socks have
Speaker 2: Trump hair on it.
Speaker 4: Yes, sir?
Speaker 2: Oh much did you pay for the sweatshirt?
Speaker 4: Forty dollars?
Speaker 2: Yeah? How much you pay for the hat?
Speaker 4: Twenty five? I think I get a hat at least
Speaker 4: once a month.
Speaker 2: How many Trump hats do you have?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 4: Probably forty or sold?
Speaker 2: How do you feel America's doing under Biden?
Speaker 4: Economic?
Speaker 2: Not good?
Speaker 7: I think you know, inflation and the gas prices everything,
Speaker 7: things going up. Milk and eggs are just through the roof,
Speaker 7: like buying regular food is you know? So you got
Speaker 7: to work for jobs and pay your rent?
Speaker 2: Yeah? How much money have you spent on Trump's wag?
Speaker 4: A couple thousand dollars?
Speaker 2: Wow, that's a lot. But people having a hard time
Speaker 2: paying for the necessities. Right as the Donald rolled in,
Speaker 2: I wondered what fresh ideas I had missed on the
Speaker 2: campaign trail.
Speaker 10: It's been out in Iowa talking about when I was there,
Speaker 10: he was talking about how he changed the name from
Speaker 10: Crooked Hillary to Crooked Joe Biden.
Speaker 2: Oh, so he's focusing on the issues. Yeah, great, Sadly
Speaker 2: the Donald's campaign appearances aren't the only thing on his schedule.
Speaker 2: How many of that means? We up to now? Georgia, Georgia? Okay, great,
Speaker 2: that's New York City, New York City.
Speaker 3: That's the most. The bankruptcy New.
Speaker 2: York is the bankruptcy one. Great. It's hard to keep
Speaker 2: him straight, right.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of there's way too many.
Speaker 10: I think they're just trying to throw them in jail
Speaker 10: to which hunt. Like what he said in New York?
Speaker 2: Is that pre or post the first David? I think
Speaker 2: that was right. When the lady charges Wait, lady charges?
Speaker 2: Is that Stormy Daniel's lady charge? Or sexual assault? Sexual assault?
Speaker 2: Sexual assault she found guilty of, right, I think? So?
Speaker 2: Are you one hundred percent sure you're voting for Donald
Speaker 2: Trump in the next election? Yeah? Yeah, No, matter what
Speaker 2: happens with these trials, this election still comes down to
Speaker 2: their guy versus the other guy.
Speaker 3: I mean, Trump has done more than Biden will ever do.
Speaker 3: And that's the other side of it. He should be
Speaker 3: in jail him and his kid for treason.
Speaker 11: I mean they've taken money from other countries who were
Speaker 11: not really in favor.
Speaker 2: Of saying that. The fact that, like you could have
Speaker 2: a memory of your family get billions of dollars from
Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia is nuts. Yeah right, nothing but a big
Speaker 2: cover up. Do you think you think Trump should be
Speaker 2: punished for all of that money that Ivanka and Jared got? No? Nope,
Speaker 2: who are you talking about?
Speaker 3: I'm talking about Biden with his kid.
Speaker 2: Oh not not that, Not that Jared and Ivanka money
Speaker 2: from Saudi Arabia? No? Does that bother you? No?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: And when it comes to which candidate makes a better
Speaker 2: commander in chief, there's a clear winner. Trump loves the veterans.
Speaker 2: Trump all the way. He's got my vote forever. Trump
Speaker 2: has called for the execution of General Milly. Does that
Speaker 2: rub you the wrong way as a veteran?
Speaker 9: Well, I don't like Milly because, uh, he did the
Speaker 9: Afghanistan thing, Like all these generals are supposed to know
Speaker 9: what they're doing and it was a complete disaster.
Speaker 2: So you don't trust the generals?
Speaker 3: No, I don't.
Speaker 2: What are you us excited to see inside?
Speaker 9: I just want to see him speak see what he
Speaker 9: has to say about Israel. I know Joe Biden was
Speaker 9: doing a barbecue with his people.
Speaker 2: We set a fleet of naval ships to Israel. Yes,
Speaker 2: are you you're against that?
Speaker 4: I am for that.
Speaker 2: Oh that's good. Yeah, that's so you can Biden credit
Speaker 2: for that.
Speaker 9: That's more of the generals making the calls there.
Speaker 2: Do he trust those generals?
Speaker 9: I don't even know who's in anymore?
Speaker 1: So I don't.
Speaker 2: Ultimately, I wondered would these Maga faithful ever care about
Speaker 2: any of these criminal charges? Probably not Exhibit A. Just
Speaker 2: ask what their favorite rally was.
Speaker 1: January sixth is probably my favorite one.
Speaker 2: You were there, Oh yeah, that's your number one? What
Speaker 2: what made it in your favorite one? What stood out
Speaker 2: from January sixth?
Speaker 1: Well, aside from all the violence that was planned by
Speaker 1: the FBI and such.
Speaker 2: Do you think were they proud boys and oathkeepers?
Speaker 1: No, they were Antifa, Black Lives Matter, ISIS and MS thirteen.
Speaker 2: Some of January six is perpetrated by ISIS. I mean
Speaker 2: this is.
Speaker 1: MS thirteen, Black Lives Matter, ANTIFA ices.
Speaker 10: Yeah, can you say maca hey, anyone can put a
Speaker 10: MAGA hat on.
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, guys, I hope you don't see
Speaker 2: any Antifa because there's a lot of Trump hats, and
Speaker 2: I guess that means Antifa's here, So good luck? Or
Speaker 2: what was your first rally?
Speaker 4: H January sixth, twenty twenty as a DC.
Speaker 2: If you're gonna go to one, go to one? Do
Speaker 2: you make it inside?
Speaker 4: I can't say that for legal reasons.
Speaker 2: You may or may not been involved in it's this activity.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, can't get into that one.
Speaker 2: Sure, sure, we'll have fun, try not to overthrow any
Speaker 2: duly elected officials.
Speaker 4: Oh no, we'll be good today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I trust him.
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