Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central.
Speaker 2: Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 3: Everybody? Trevoroah Here.
Speaker 4: During last year's presidential campaign, we sent our very own
Speaker 4: Jordan Clepper all around the country to attend as many
Speaker 4: Trump rallies as he could, and he did, from Pennsylvania
Speaker 4: to Iowa, all the way to the Capitol riots on
Speaker 4: January sixth. Now that some time has passed, we thought
Speaker 4: it would be a good idea for Jordan to look
Speaker 4: back at what he saw, catch up with the people
Speaker 4: he met, and reflect on that year and its violent conclusion.
Speaker 4: So tonight we present to you Jordan Clepper's journey into
Speaker 4: the Maga verse.
Speaker 5: I'm Jordan Klepper, and I'm back where all began, in
Speaker 5: the very same parking lot where I interviewed hundreds of
Speaker 5: fired up Trump supporters here in Hershey, Pennsylvania, or Lancaster, Pennsylvania,
Speaker 5: or shit, this might be Jersey. The point is I've
Speaker 5: definitely been here before, because I remember doing a badass
Speaker 5: hero shot over there, interviewing some women drinking wine at
Speaker 5: ten in the morning, and walking out of that cornfield
Speaker 5: like a boss. Although there's no more cornfield, so thanks
Speaker 5: a lot, President Joe Biden. Last year, I followed Trump
Speaker 5: supporters to his rallies from parking lots just like this one,
Speaker 5: all the way to the steps of the Capitol that
Speaker 5: I stopped because its additions not really my thing.
Speaker 2: I'm more of a jaywalking guy.
Speaker 5: But now that the election's over and the glass has
Speaker 5: been cleaned up from the Capitol, I wanted to look
Speaker 5: back and reflect this past year and see how this
Speaker 5: led to this, because ultimately they were about the same thing,
Speaker 5: a fervent devotion to Donald Trump above everything else. And
Speaker 5: that's I learned early on in my travels. The picture
Speaker 5: of Donald Trump that his supporters have in their heads
Speaker 5: is more flattering than well, almost any picture of Donald Trump.
Speaker 5: But don't ask me, just ask them to describe Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: Trump is my hero. President Trump is kind of a force.
Speaker 1: The aura came in the room before he did. Donald
Speaker 1: Trump is our first rock star superhero for residents.
Speaker 6: He's a very tall man, a little bit shorter than yourself,
Speaker 6: very big man, nice big hands.
Speaker 2: He's a man for all the people. I think he
Speaker 2: didn't need this job whatsoever either.
Speaker 5: The White House is honestly like a downgrade from his penthouse.
Speaker 2: Sweet and everything.
Speaker 5: Oh, it feels like it's a downgrade for America too.
Speaker 2: He's just a peaceful person in general, I think.
Speaker 5: And he puts those protesters down like that, which causes
Speaker 5: peace pretty quick.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's got a skin that is about as thick
Speaker 1: as it gets and.
Speaker 5: Donald Donald try Donald Trump is Yeah, his thick skin
Speaker 5: six akin. He gets mad if a celebrity makes fun
Speaker 5: of him on Twitter.
Speaker 1: He's the real life Tony Stark. They should call him
Speaker 1: President iron Man.
Speaker 2: Well, Tony start gave a shit about science.
Speaker 5: Of course, you can't be a true superhero without some
Speaker 5: tragic flaws.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I don't like what you tweet. I don't one
Speaker 2: hundred percent agree with the way the guy talks.
Speaker 7: Admittedly, his personality is a bit rough around the edges.
Speaker 6: If he's doing a good job, why can't you just
Speaker 6: vote for him? Yeah, he's an as sometimes, all.
Speaker 5: Right, we'll end on that last part. I think something
Speaker 5: we can all agree.
Speaker 2: He's an as sometimes, but that's him. That's him, right.
Speaker 2: Nothing could stop a Trump rally.
Speaker 5: Not bad weather, not a looming impeachment trial, not a
Speaker 5: full time job as a leader of the free world,
Speaker 5: and definitely not COVID nineteen.
Speaker 2: Even at the height of the pandemic.
Speaker 5: The Trump rallies still drew a crowd because Trump rallies
Speaker 5: are worth it, just ask anyone who is in Herman Kane.
Speaker 5: Besides their simple effective health cautions that can limit risk
Speaker 5: at these events, like wearing a mask. But for many
Speaker 5: Trump rally goers this was a face diaper of oppression.
Speaker 5: Trump is all about transparency, as you can see on
Speaker 5: the faces of his supporters.
Speaker 2: Granfully, I'm pretty jealous of these mouth breathers.
Speaker 8: Whenever they report it, they just talk about cases and death.
Speaker 6: They don't talk about recovery.
Speaker 2: They just tend to focus on the number. Yeah, very
Speaker 2: stone too much.
Speaker 5: Focus on the number dead. Let's focus on the other
Speaker 5: uplifting stuff.
Speaker 2: Correct, I'm worried about COVID. Why no mass breakaway? I
Speaker 2: forgot it in my car. Why aren't you wearing a mask?
Speaker 2: I mean again, it's a personal choice.
Speaker 8: I think if everybody was wearing home and everybody said,
Speaker 8: put a mask on, how do you respect everybody's wishes
Speaker 8: and put it on.
Speaker 6: We're not cheap, we're cheap.
Speaker 5: You're not cheap. But if everybody here was wearing masks,
Speaker 5: if everybody was wearing but again, we're not cheaper, you're
Speaker 5: not cheap. We're not gonna look at what everybody's doing
Speaker 5: and you're gonna follow.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but not cheap.
Speaker 1: Not cheap. You know.
Speaker 5: From a Trump supporter's point of view, a Trump rally
Speaker 5: was a traveling carnival. It rolled into town, gave everyone
Speaker 5: some thrills that ruled back out, leaving some good memories,
Speaker 5: some COVID hospitalizations, and some unpaid bills. So what happens
Speaker 5: when the president of the United States stiffs the locals
Speaker 5: on an invoice? Just asked the mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico,
Speaker 5: who's still looking for his money, mister mayor, thank you
Speaker 5: for joining us. What happened with the city of Albuquerque
Speaker 5: and the Trump campaign?
Speaker 8: Trump came for a rally and we decided to bill
Speaker 8: him because the cost.
Speaker 3: Of the city were tremendous. Eight US shut down downtown.
Speaker 8: We had a closed city hall, and so we decided
Speaker 8: to just build a campaign for it.
Speaker 3: And we have yet to get paid.
Speaker 2: So how much does Trump owe?
Speaker 3: Two hundred thousand, roughly.
Speaker 5: Two hundred thousand dollars, that's it. He's into Deutsche Bank
Speaker 5: for three hundred and fifty million. You think you're going
Speaker 5: to get your money from him. He doesn't even pay
Speaker 5: the irs, and they could put him in jail.
Speaker 8: In my mind, he owes us a lot more because
Speaker 8: there were about a day and a half where we
Speaker 8: couldn't even function as a city.
Speaker 5: What have you tried to do to get money back
Speaker 5: from Donald Trump?
Speaker 8: No phone calls have been returned. So we hired a
Speaker 8: collection agency.
Speaker 5: You actually hired a collections agency.
Speaker 8: He should be getting these annoying voicemails that like we
Speaker 8: get usually from scam companies where it's like you owe debts.
Speaker 8: I mean, I think mar A Lago is now getting
Speaker 8: those calls.
Speaker 5: A collection agency for Donald Trump. I feel like they
Speaker 5: could specialize predominantly in just Donald Trump claims like did
Speaker 5: you ask for a number twelve?
Speaker 8: We know other cities just from news reports have also
Speaker 8: built the campaign.
Speaker 5: Yes, the King of Debt is very good. Ain't a
Speaker 5: brand because he owes lots of cities money. Maybe you
Speaker 5: send a tough guy to go get money from him,
Speaker 5: like you're the mayor of New Mexico. You don't know
Speaker 5: Mike from Breaking Bad, I don't.
Speaker 3: But uh I have it.
Speaker 8: Actually as a person, he's a great dude, and he
Speaker 8: really also loves Albuquerque.
Speaker 5: People out there here that a city doesn't get two
Speaker 5: hundred thousand dollars, What does that actually mean to a
Speaker 5: place like Albuquerque? Where would that money go?
Speaker 3: Really? What happens?
Speaker 8: It just goes into the general fund and we use
Speaker 8: it top right the city.
Speaker 3: So police, force or fire all of those services.
Speaker 5: Is it fair to say that Donald Trump has effectively
Speaker 5: defunded the police? I mean, I knew it was happening
Speaker 5: somewhere in America. Apparently it's happening somewhat in Albuquerque.
Speaker 3: By that definition, you could say that.
Speaker 5: Knowing that he owes two hundred thousand dollars to Albuquerque
Speaker 5: might mean he'll never come to Albuquerque again? And is
Speaker 5: that worth it?
Speaker 3: That's all right with us. We're totally fine with that.
Speaker 5: I got a little gift for you that I think
Speaker 5: could be helpful. I want to send this your way.
Speaker 5: Welcome to Albuquerque. We do not accept checks from Donald J.
Speaker 2: Trump.
Speaker 5: I saw this out of Odego once to really just
Speaker 5: shame anybody who had bounced checks, and this it kind
Speaker 5: of did the trick.
Speaker 8: Hey, if you send that to us, we might send
Speaker 8: you back at an image of that hanging somewhere done.
Speaker 5: If there's one thing Trump supporters hate. It's fake news,
Speaker 5: which begs the question which news sources do they trust?
Speaker 5: We used to like Fox.
Speaker 6: We don't like Fox. We don't like MSNBC, we don't
Speaker 6: like CBS.
Speaker 4: We don't like any of the fake news channels because
Speaker 4: they lie.
Speaker 2: Oh what happened to Fox? Was it their COVID covers
Speaker 2: that turned you off?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: What about handed hand?
Speaker 6: Tucker?
Speaker 2: Tucker and Tucker?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so just two hours every day at Fox News.
Speaker 2: Otherwise it's a complete boycott. Yes, absolutely.
Speaker 5: Will you accept Joe Biden as President of the United States
Speaker 5: on the twentieth No, I.
Speaker 2: Will not accept it. No, No, I will not. So
Speaker 2: look what I I geducated myself about this.
Speaker 6: Okay, I don't know all what's in the Constitution.
Speaker 2: Have you read it? It's pretty short Constitution of America.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I've not read the whole you've read the entire thing?
Speaker 2: Yes, it's remarkably sure. All right, I doubt that, but
Speaker 2: it's okay, you should.
Speaker 5: Read it because you might be committed a seditious after
Speaker 5: an hour and a half.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm not gonna come on in, but that what
Speaker 2: do you think of the impeachment?
Speaker 6: Come on. Everybody knows what it's all about.
Speaker 2: Read the transcript, right, read the transcript?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 2: Have you read the transcript?
Speaker 5: I have not read it, but we should read the transcript.
Speaker 2: We should look at the transcript.
Speaker 1: R Yeah, look at the transcript.
Speaker 2: Have you read the transcript?
Speaker 5: I trust the wordy about president? Yeah, read the transcript.
Speaker 5: Read the transcript.
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Did you read the transcript? I don't have to. Everyone
Speaker 5: else said I can read it if I need to, right, Yeah,
Speaker 5: But it's important that everybody reads the transcript. It is
Speaker 5: very important. But attention and think for yourself. Yes you have,
Speaker 5: But to be clear, you have not read the transcript.
Speaker 5: I haven't, no, right, but it is just important.
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't be a sheep.
Speaker 3: Think for yourself.
Speaker 5: But again, just to be very clear, you have not read.
Speaker 5: I have not read. You just trusted somebody else who rest?
Speaker 5: What were you saying about? Don't be a sheep. Don't
Speaker 5: think for yourself. Do your own research. Do your own research.
Speaker 5: But just because they won't read their sources, that doesn't
Speaker 5: mean they don't have them somewhere. Historically, this presidency has
Speaker 5: lost more job than any others.
Speaker 2: Like Tony, I need my sheet with the job.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna give you fact, Give me fact.
Speaker 2: What's on the fact sheet?
Speaker 6: That fact sheet is that in my car?
Speaker 5: You know, in the fact sheet so close she had
Speaker 5: the real facts, but I think she left them at
Speaker 5: the wine store.
Speaker 6: People are stealing our election. It's obvious. This is the
Speaker 6: Star country.
Speaker 2: People are stealing our elections. Are they stealing the election
Speaker 2: because it's they're putting voter fraud? It's suspicion. How are
Speaker 2: they putting voter fraud?
Speaker 5: Department of Homeland Security said was the most secure election
Speaker 5: in Americans?
Speaker 2: Who is that? That's one guy like you and me, Brosif.
Speaker 6: You guys should do some research.
Speaker 2: There is massive voter froug as.
Speaker 1: The evidence is being demonstrated by Mike Lindell and others.
Speaker 2: To be clear, I think he goes by the pillow. Guy,
Speaker 2: what are your lies? Who do you trust? I trust
Speaker 2: the president? I think you said in the right direction.
Speaker 2: I trust Trump.
Speaker 6: I trust Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: I trust Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: And that's it.
Speaker 5: Well, there's uh, there's uh okay.
Speaker 2: I trust Trump and what he says and what he knows.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't trust the media that much.
Speaker 5: So the only person you really believe is Donald Trump himself.
Speaker 2: Ah, That's not the only person I believe. Who else
Speaker 2: do you believe?
Speaker 7: I mean, ultimately, I believe Jesus is King and I
Speaker 7: believe the Bible.
Speaker 2: That's like two, yeah, Jesus and Trump.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 5: I trust a lot of people, my friends, my family, Tucklecarlson,
Speaker 5: Jesus and Donald.
Speaker 2: Trump and more.
Speaker 1: I can go on and on.
Speaker 2: Are no, I think I can get the picture.
Speaker 5: People ask me lots of questions about my time at
Speaker 5: Trump Family's. Are the people I talk to real? Is
Speaker 5: what they say scripted? Do they agree to be interviewed?
Speaker 5: Was I ever close to getting my ass kicked? The
Speaker 5: answers are yes, no, sometimes, and oh boy, definitely. Here's
Speaker 5: a look behind the scenes at how the Maga sausage
Speaker 5: got made. All joy. Should we get closer?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna here.
Speaker 5: This guy's got a loud majority shirt on.
Speaker 2: I saw them at the product. Let's grab him. Did
Speaker 2: I see you at a rally in Hershey? No, you
Speaker 2: weren't in Hershey, Harrisburg?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 5: No your rally?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Starting to get DejaVu.
Speaker 5: Finding the right person to interview is a subtle art.
Speaker 5: You surveyed the scene looking for the perfect shirt, hat, sign,
Speaker 5: or you could just walk up to the lady with
Speaker 5: a megaphone.
Speaker 4: Here we go, Here we go, Trump train to Trump
Speaker 4: train too.
Speaker 6: We're covering to a tone near you.
Speaker 5: Many people wonder if we get permission to film them,
Speaker 5: and we do, which is apparently much harder than getting
Speaker 5: them to send surprise recurring donations to the Trump camp.
Speaker 5: Before I show this, I just need a signature, if
Speaker 5: that's right.
Speaker 6: I'm not doing it.
Speaker 2: No, he's in New York. He's doing this is tell
Speaker 2: me your name.
Speaker 5: I can play your name for Daily.
Speaker 3: Your sign r.
Speaker 2: Trevor know the Daily. You want to talk to earlier
Speaker 2: when he died. The release.
Speaker 6: I want to be a sign of release. You guys
Speaker 6: gonna ask me a bunch of dump trick questions. Say
Speaker 6: there was ten people here today.
Speaker 5: I want to know. I'm gonna you think. Sometimes these
Speaker 5: people are so enthusiastic they don't even wait for their
Speaker 5: turn to talk.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is a conspiracy against the United States.
Speaker 9: Thousands of people tried to murder people inside that very
Speaker 9: built Sometimes their anti media anger is surprisingly personal.
Speaker 2: You're not I don't know what they are. Let's sake,
Speaker 2: I got I got some fans.
Speaker 5: You you're not a man of God, just like Trevor Noah.
Speaker 6: Great anti American.
Speaker 2: So they're a little bit upsets.
Speaker 5: They're a little bit upset here you can sell.
Speaker 1: Are you, guys the liberal medioc I have one word
Speaker 1: for you.
Speaker 6: You are controlled by the Deep States.
Speaker 5: That's like four or five six words, ten words. That's
Speaker 5: even two.
Speaker 2: That one's even too. But that's okay.
Speaker 5: Here's a moment when you might think the heated conversation
Speaker 5: is over, and at Amuga rally it rarely is.
Speaker 4: You got pa, you are great, lost by the top,
Speaker 4: and I have one work for you, picks.
Speaker 2: Asylum majority that's too worse. Yeah, yeah, we got five.
Speaker 5: But every so often the anger, the vitriol, and the
Speaker 5: combativeness melts away and we have a conversation that you
Speaker 5: could almost call civil.
Speaker 2: I appreciate your questions.
Speaker 7: You weren't you weren't feeding me these leading questions that
Speaker 7: I appreciate that well, very genuine and there were important
Speaker 7: questions too. I mean a lot of people don't. They're
Speaker 7: not asked to force to answer these sorts of things.
Speaker 2: Well, that's the part we're going to use.
Speaker 7: Obviously I'm biased, but I'm trying to be more intellectually honest.
Speaker 2: I would say you're doing this all wrong.
Speaker 5: At this point, you're supposed to call me fake news
Speaker 5: and insult my testicles.
Speaker 7: There are some people in the news who give it
Speaker 7: a bad name, but I think there are good, honest
Speaker 7: journalists out there.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you very much. I appreciate that.
Speaker 5: Donald Trump is more than a president. He's even more
Speaker 5: than a man. He's a brand, a brand associated with power, opulence,
Speaker 5: and the cuts of meat you find next to foot
Speaker 5: messagers at the Sharper image. And no one loves the
Speaker 5: Trump brand more than a supporter's. Every Maga rally was
Speaker 5: a vast field of tasteful Maga merch, with bright colors
Speaker 5: and copyright violations as far as the eye could see.
Speaker 5: Here are just a few of my absolute faves. People
Speaker 5: say it's uncool to wear the merch of a band
Speaker 5: to their own concert, Well, those people have never been
Speaker 5: to a Trump rally.
Speaker 2: You don't see a mood and jeddj RB like this.
Speaker 5: Even a Kiya is tastefully adorned with like one bumper sticker?
Speaker 5: Is that a Trump hat on top of a cowboy hat?
Speaker 5: It's actually my dad's sort of like the Surducan of patriotism.
Speaker 5: Has this impeachment been fair?
Speaker 2: I think it's a joke.
Speaker 5: I just needed to build something as tough as Trump,
Speaker 5: so I made the Trumpet Eater, so ruthless, heartless automaton
Speaker 5: has come from the future to destroy our hope?
Speaker 2: Is that what's going on here?
Speaker 5: But like any unlicensed merchandise, sometimes the official branding messages
Speaker 5: can get lost. Why are you here?
Speaker 9: Well, because two weeks ago I had her dream, and
Speaker 9: in that dream, I was given this vision.
Speaker 5: You had, You had a screen printing dream. Your dream
Speaker 5: told you that Trump is gonna win, and then Avoka
Speaker 5: and then Don Junior and Eric Tiffany is going to
Speaker 5: win in twenty forty eight, and then Baron. Great, all right,
Speaker 5: but Barrett only serves one term. No, that's only one term.
Speaker 5: That's four years. Yeah, Actually these are mostly one term president.
Speaker 6: You're not rating it right for either.
Speaker 5: No, I'm twenty No, this is twenty four to twenty eight.
Speaker 5: That's four years and then another four No, no, no,
Speaker 5: that's these are one term presidents. Ivanka one term, Don
Speaker 5: Junior one term.
Speaker 6: Pay for Ivanka's what's the date?
Speaker 5: Ivanka is twenty twenty four and twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: Eight, that's eight years. That's four years.
Speaker 5: No, you have a four year period, a year where
Speaker 5: somebody else gets elected. It doesn't say anything about re elected.
Speaker 2: It does it says.
Speaker 4: Has her getting elected in twenty twenty four and twenty
Speaker 4: twenty years?
Speaker 2: Math is drum No, my math is not like.
Speaker 5: And while these patriots love America, they do think that
Speaker 5: old glory could use a little jazzy. No, it's not
Speaker 5: the size of the flag that matters. That's how many
Speaker 5: votes you get the electoral college system.
Speaker 2: Everybody said, nothing standing on your flag.
Speaker 5: It's a big flag. Yeah, nose are not an American flag.
Speaker 2: The stars and strikes on a brother just appreciated me, don't.
Speaker 5: Yet it feels like it's mostly Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: I'm scary appreciated if you don't stand.
Speaker 5: To be honest, If anybody's disrespected the flag, I think
Speaker 5: it's the ten foot high Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: But is that is that? Is that Trump? It's trump
Speaker 2: bot a Confederate flag.
Speaker 1: That's a Confederate flag. Yeah, you'll see that.
Speaker 2: Sing that what makes you still lift? Buddy? You don't
Speaker 2: know how to pick a winner. You might as well
Speaker 2: put a jets hat on.
Speaker 5: And the maga merch isn't just fun it's functional because
Speaker 5: on January sixth, it was a great way to identify
Speaker 5: all your fellow insurrectionists. I was worried that we were
Speaker 5: in trouble, but then I saw that we got the
Speaker 5: Tyranny Response team here, and I feel a lot better.
Speaker 5: Thanks for all you do.
Speaker 3: Look at your part.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's not a joke. Look, you make a good point,
Speaker 2: but you are worried. You were at a one Now
Speaker 2: a onesie that is a flag.
Speaker 5: I suppose if you bought all of these flags and
Speaker 5: all of these garments, you gotta do something like this.
Speaker 5: I mean, they've been for this, at least startorially for years.
Speaker 5: What was the mood at a Trump rally. What was
Speaker 5: the feeling fun? Sure, camaraderie, yeah, or what else?
Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah? Rage?
Speaker 5: I watched it simmer at these rallies for years, then
Speaker 5: build during the campaign, and I was there on January
Speaker 5: sixth when it finally boiled over into the Capitol building.
Speaker 5: Here's what that awful day of interaction looked like on
Speaker 5: the ground, from the point of view of a guy
Speaker 5: who was just there to find some laughs.
Speaker 2: I'm here in the nation's Capitol.
Speaker 5: They're boarding up to some of the buildings here and
Speaker 5: I overheard a man in fatigue say they're worried about Antifa.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's who they're worried about. Man in military fatigues.
Speaker 5: Being on the ground on January sixth was really unnerving
Speaker 5: from the very beginning. Given the night before the insurrection,
Speaker 5: when we checked into our DC hotel, we knew this
Speaker 5: was different. We overheard wild conversations in the lobby full
Speaker 5: of MAGA faithful Massless supporters claiming COVID stories of packed
Speaker 5: emergency rooms were lies and they were all in fact empty.
Speaker 5: Seeing a lot of cosplay here. There's military here, and
Speaker 5: then there's a lot of these people who are pretending
Speaker 5: to be military here. You know how, you know because
Speaker 5: they don't have badges, They just have notes from their
Speaker 5: wife that says you can go for the weekend and
Speaker 5: hang out with your friends, but be back on time.
Speaker 5: My producer wanted to ease into the interviews after seeing
Speaker 5: the charged crowd full of proud boys, oathkeepers, QAnon believers,
Speaker 5: and anyone else willing to toss aside our democracy. It's
Speaker 5: getting a bit hectic there, so I wanted to find
Speaker 5: some space. Luckily, there is some here at the National
Speaker 5: Museum of African American History and Culture. Then we spotted
Speaker 5: a group of Proud Boys appearing to leave the event,
Speaker 5: heading east toward the Capitol, well before Trump finished.
Speaker 2: His speech, Oh My, fight it out.
Speaker 5: We found filming on the National Mall was a safer,
Speaker 5: more effective way to get real conversations for a while.
Speaker 5: Then we found a man acting unhinged with a pitchfork.
Speaker 5: This is a warning.
Speaker 6: We can mobilize a million people that uned city in
Speaker 6: this country, now, make no mistake.
Speaker 1: That's the situation.
Speaker 2: That's right, man, We're not laying around.
Speaker 5: It was interrupted by a man acting more unhinged.
Speaker 4: How come we got a million people to the monument
Speaker 4: whenever there's where they're screwing us?
Speaker 6: How come that right over there?
Speaker 2: How come we're not down?
Speaker 6: You don't come down here? Congress all you all, mother, y'all.
Speaker 5: The really unhinged guy angered, the sort of unhinged guy
Speaker 5: wielding the pitchfork. I speaking myself, oy, he speaks of
Speaker 5: and he shut it down, and we're after him.
Speaker 2: The all go down, broad boys are hair.
Speaker 5: As we were setting up for a quick stand up,
Speaker 5: we noticed another large group marching aggressively down the street.
Speaker 5: The Proud boys all pass by again. We settled in
Speaker 5: a spot just outside the northwest side of the Capitol
Speaker 5: because we knew that at around one pm that angry
Speaker 5: crowd would be arriving there from the White House, and
Speaker 5: we knew that if things got hairy, it gave us
Speaker 5: the best escape route to the train in our cars.
Speaker 5: And then words became actions. The barricades got pushed over
Speaker 5: and folks flooded in. We're starting to see this massive people.
Speaker 5: They broke through the gate heare and now they're heading
Speaker 5: into the Capitol. I'm hearing people say it's our house.
Speaker 5: I heard some old man start screaming forward, forward, it's
Speaker 5: our us. Democracy should look more organized than what we're
Speaker 5: seeing right now.
Speaker 2: But we've been arguing. Now we have to do something
Speaker 2: else because it probably you can't put the game.
Speaker 1: It's time to go inside.
Speaker 5: The Trump supporters were getting up on the stairs, the
Speaker 5: fences and the embankments, barking at people, telling them where
Speaker 5: to go. Everyone turned into field generals, most of them
Speaker 5: wearing sweatshirts you buy at airports when you get cold
Speaker 5: waiting to board your flight. Bulks have pushed through and
Speaker 5: now they're heading into the Capitol. No violence other than
Speaker 5: shoving that down and carrying pitchforks. There's a mix of
Speaker 5: the scary and the absurd. Maga in a nutshell, there
Speaker 5: were the scary, O your voices today there were the absurd.
Speaker 2: I can I ask you some questions?
Speaker 5: Are you afraid if you run out of batteries for
Speaker 5: the last and then you'll be forwarded.
Speaker 2: Good luck? I hope you don't run into bumpy terrain
Speaker 2: or stairs.
Speaker 5: Personally, I don't think I'll ever forget talking to a
Speaker 5: man on a segwe who was attempting to topple the
Speaker 5: greatest democracy on earth.
Speaker 2: The Democrat Party.
Speaker 7: Progressive Socialist Marxists pose a far greater threat to this
Speaker 7: nation than any person on a battlefield.
Speaker 5: We looked around and we were shocked, but not surprised.
Speaker 5: The last fourteen months tipped it pretty good, the total
Speaker 5: distrust of facts and information, their cult like devotion not
Speaker 5: to their country or ideals, but to a person. Of course,
Speaker 5: they were gonna get here, and we knew it was
Speaker 5: time to leave. We continued listening to the escalating insurrection unfold,
Speaker 5: and the only place a comedy show should from the
Speaker 5: quiet car of an Asella rushing back to New York City.
Speaker 5: Of course, as we all know, the insurrection failed, Trump
Speaker 5: left office, and the MAGA supporters who aren't awaiting trial
Speaker 5: have returned to their hometowns and their old lives. But
Speaker 5: before I walked away from this story, I wanted to
Speaker 5: connect one more time with a Trump rallygoer, one on one,
Speaker 5: away from the cameras, an insult and sense of impending doom.
Speaker 5: So I caught up with Edward the debt collector to
Speaker 5: hear what he's up to. I've talked to hundreds or
Speaker 5: what feels like thousands of Trump supporters, and there's been
Speaker 5: a few folks who truly stand out like Edward.
Speaker 1: I'm literally making four times as much as I was
Speaker 1: making when Obama was president. What do you do? I
Speaker 1: worked for a debt relief company.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's good to be a white debt relief collector.
Speaker 5: Besides being first atlanted at the Harrisburg, PA rally, he
Speaker 5: spent the better part of last year at rallies, on
Speaker 5: the local news and in the papers preaching the MAGA gospel.
Speaker 1: I truly believe that Donald Trump was sent by God.
Speaker 5: I wanted to see if the ultimate rally head had
Speaker 5: any misgivings post January sixth, then if there was any
Speaker 5: common ground we could stand on.
Speaker 2: Edward, I see you dressed down.
Speaker 1: I figured you want me fully deck.
Speaker 5: Yeah, were going to ask you to bring your Trump apparel,
Speaker 5: but I guess you didn't get the email. I'm gonna
Speaker 5: sit six feet away if you don't mind.
Speaker 1: That's all right. I got something under the mask.
Speaker 2: Do you what's under the mass?
Speaker 1: Vampire fang?
Speaker 5: You have vampire fangs.
Speaker 2: You literally have fangs.
Speaker 1: I got these fangs made for me professionally.
Speaker 5: It's been a chaotic year, so much anger, and I
Speaker 5: wanted to come back, kind of close that loop, connect
Speaker 5: with somebody who I had seen before, and get some
Speaker 5: sanity again.
Speaker 2: And you showed up with fangs.
Speaker 1: I'm a Bengal tiger. So then I started bringing the
Speaker 1: fangs around to the rallies, telling people I'm a tiger.
Speaker 5: He sees himself as an endangered species, which makes it
Speaker 5: remarkable that Eric or Don Junior haven't sniped him in
Speaker 5: a trophy hunt.
Speaker 1: I have been to fifty Trump rallies.
Speaker 5: You went to fifty Trump rallies, and I.
Speaker 1: Have spoken to the President from the stage a few times.
Speaker 1: It was really great. I mean he has recognized the beard.
Speaker 1: And at one of the rallies, I figure which one
Speaker 1: it was. I was near the front and he pointed
Speaker 1: me out. He said, there's that guy.
Speaker 2: Here's that guy. That's how he trug talks to his children.
Speaker 1: I think I'm seeing this guy all the rallies. He
Speaker 1: gets in the news a lot.
Speaker 5: You stay in touch with the old Maga crew people
Speaker 5: you run into the round.
Speaker 1: Of course, I've developed some lifelong friendships with the Maga crew.
Speaker 2: What's the Maga crew up to now? Avoiding subpoenas?
Speaker 1: I'm Jones, and I'm Jones, and you know. Trump rallies
Speaker 1: are great. I was depending on them was the high
Speaker 1: point of my life. It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 5: I was at the last Trump rally and it was
Speaker 5: definitely not a lot of fun. What does he think
Speaker 5: about what happened at the Capitol on January sixth.
Speaker 1: Oh, I don't support. I mean, let me put it
Speaker 1: to you this way. I don't think the way it's
Speaker 1: reported is what actually went down. I saw a different perspective.
Speaker 1: Nobody I knew was going there to overthrow the government
Speaker 1: or break into the Capitol building.
Speaker 5: Million Maga mart be there will be wise.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well we had a fun look.
Speaker 5: But but you're literally wearing a shirt that that has
Speaker 5: intention on it, and the intention.
Speaker 1: Is I could sell it. But we had a wild
Speaker 1: time the first two We didn't cause any trouble. We
Speaker 1: had a lot of fun.
Speaker 5: Is that when a president stands up and says, you
Speaker 5: need to fight for me, that they might.
Speaker 1: Literally we're playing semantic games.
Speaker 5: Now, you went there with the complete intention to disregard
Speaker 5: what Donald Trump said.
Speaker 1: Yes, whoever went into the Capitol building, these were not
Speaker 1: Trump fans, because nobody would have walked out in the speech.
Speaker 1: They broke in. He was still speaking for half an hour.
Speaker 1: Are those people, uh, well, you know, I've heard news
Speaker 1: reports that one of them was an integral member of Antifa.
Speaker 1: Whatever happened on January sixth, They meaning the people who
Speaker 1: don't like President Trump, the Democrats that Nancy Pelosi allowed
Speaker 1: this to happen.
Speaker 2: They were trying to kill Nancy Pelosi was.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you some of them, I think maybe
Speaker 1: are being unfairly persecuting. Yeah, the FBI came to my
Speaker 1: house after their ally.
Speaker 5: Well at least they're doing their It puts me a
Speaker 5: little bit of oh did you flip on anybody.
Speaker 1: I'll flip on anybody.
Speaker 2: Did you turn somebody in?
Speaker 5: You're running around for you right now?
Speaker 1: Of course I would. First, I wouldn't write nothing to
Speaker 1: flip because my point of view is peaceful. As the
Speaker 1: FBI asked me, they wanted to know if I reached
Speaker 1: the Capitol Building. I said, of course I didn't. I
Speaker 1: said that that would have been the stupidest thing in
Speaker 1: the world.
Speaker 5: But the guy that you pledged your life at Wardrobe
Speaker 5: to told you to essentially.
Speaker 1: He do exactly.
Speaker 5: So what's next after the violent insurrection that he doesn't
Speaker 5: think Donald Trump told them to do? Well, turns out
Speaker 5: they're just waiting for Donald Trump to tell them what
Speaker 5: to do.
Speaker 1: We're not giving up. You know, it's not over. We're
Speaker 1: coming back in what way? Uh? It depends on what
Speaker 1: the Boss tells us to do.
Speaker 5: Donate.
Speaker 2: I believe it was the last thing from up on eyes.
Speaker 1: I've donated a lot to him, you know purpose.
Speaker 5: Or you look at your bank account realize, oh shit,
Speaker 5: I guess that happened a well. I didn't want to
Speaker 5: leave without finding some common ground with Edward. He previously
Speaker 5: described Trump as a superheroin a rock Star, but had
Speaker 5: Edward come back to the reality that the president of
Speaker 5: the United States is mortal who's not impervious to criticism
Speaker 5: and technically works for us.
Speaker 1: You've seen braveheart, of course, everybody he's seen brave heart.
Speaker 5: I have seen bredon.
Speaker 1: Yes, Donald Trump is our William Wallace. That's right.
Speaker 5: I mean maybe they both do wear a lot of making.
Speaker 1: Maybe they drew him and quartered him metaphorically, but he
Speaker 1: left behind a very strong, vocal and patriotic force of people.
Speaker 2: You know what, I want to find a middle ground here.
Speaker 2: How about this Donald Trump.
Speaker 5: I don't see him as your William Wallace, but he
Speaker 5: has a lot like mel Gibson.
Speaker 2: All right, can we agree on that?
Speaker 1: I'll give you that.
Speaker 5: I knew we'd find some common ground. I guess some
Speaker 5: ground is better than no ground.
Speaker 2: So that's it.
Speaker 5: The Maga Rally journey is over, and President Trump's ending
Speaker 5: is not unlike that of the ancient king Ozymandius, his
Speaker 5: wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command looking across this
Speaker 5: vast emptiness that was once his empire.
Speaker 2: Look on his works, you mighty and despair.
Speaker 5: Anyway, I'm just gonna stay here so I can be
Speaker 5: first in line. When the Rally start up again in
Speaker 5: twenty twenty three, or when Don Junior runs in twenty
Speaker 5: eight I'll always be here.
Speaker 1: I guess.
Speaker 2: This is my life now, Thanks Joe Biden.
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