Speaker 1: Trump is a lot like John Gottie. He has a
Speaker 1: cult of personality, he has fans that are cheering for him.
Speaker 1: In the end, Gotti and Trump are both mob bosses,
Speaker 1: and the way their business functions is they get a
Speaker 1: cut of the action up top. And so it should
Speaker 1: be no surprise whatsoever that the astounding grift that is
Speaker 1: the Trump political operation would attach a new vic for
Speaker 1: every maga Republican candidate out across the country who dares
Speaker 1: to use the Donald's name. Pay Trump, Pay Trump, pay Trump.
Speaker 1: It's gangsterism. It is the eighteenth of April. There are
Speaker 1: two hundred and one days remaining until the American people
Speaker 1: will decide who, between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, will
Speaker 1: be the most powerful person in the world, the American
Speaker 1: commander in chief. This is the morning. Donald Trump has
Speaker 1: been America's dominant cultural figure for almost ten years. It's
Speaker 1: been nine years since he descended the escalator into the
Speaker 1: bowels of Trump Tower, proclaiming that Mexicans are all rapists
Speaker 1: and murderers. Is the country better off today than it
Speaker 1: was before Trump's escalator descent? The answer is obviously no.
Speaker 1: But Donald Trump has managed over the last decade to
Speaker 1: build and enduring cult of personality that will persist so
Speaker 1: long as there is any question about his defeat, repudiation,
Speaker 1: and rejection at the hands of the American people. The
Speaker 1: power of his lie is grounded in his refusal to
Speaker 1: ever make a session to fact, to reality, or to
Speaker 1: what is plainly in front of him. For most Americans,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump got super famous during The Apprentice. That's how
Speaker 1: the American people got to know the Donald. I'm not
Speaker 1: one of those people because I grew up in the
Speaker 1: state of New Jersey. And if you grew up in
Speaker 1: a small geography that includes parts of southern Connecticut, Queens
Speaker 1: Long Island, Staten Island, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Northern New Jersey,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump has been famous, super famous since at least
Speaker 1: the mid nineteen seventies. I wouldn't bet a lot of money,
Speaker 1: but I'm pretty sure I got the art of the
Speaker 1: deal board game in nineteen eighty two. I was eleven.
Speaker 1: If you are from that part of the country, then
Speaker 1: you are familiar with a certain type of well, let's
Speaker 1: call them an asshole that Trump perfectly represents. And dealing
Speaker 1: with this type of let's call that asshole Trump is
Speaker 1: an important skill if you live in that part of
Speaker 1: the country, to simply be able to survive and navigate life,
Speaker 1: going to the store, going to the gas station. It
Speaker 1: is an aggressive culture. But for anybody who was alive
Speaker 1: in that geography, the most densely populated in the United States,
Speaker 1: it remains and will always remain the most astounding feature
Speaker 1: of our age that Donald Trump could conceivably ever be
Speaker 1: elected president of the United States, and further that the
Speaker 1: foundation of his election would be the con that he's
Speaker 1: a successful billionaire businessman. Now, personally, I don't have a
Speaker 1: Harvard MBA, but I can tell you this. It is
Speaker 1: incredibly difficult to go bankrupt running a casino, but Donald
Speaker 1: Trump has managed to do it multiple times. While doing it,
Speaker 1: he ripped off every small business guy and woman that
Speaker 1: you could shake a stick at all of them. There
Speaker 1: is no little guy contractor that Donald Trump didn't screw,
Speaker 1: didn't rip off. This is a man Trump who ran
Speaker 1: a fake and fraudulent university. Think about that, he ran
Speaker 1: a fake and fraudulent university. Now, in order to truly
Speaker 1: understand Donald Trump, one must have an appreciation from another
Speaker 1: resident of the Queens, New York, this one from Ozone
Speaker 1: Park his name was John Gotti, the teflon Don. John
Speaker 1: Gotti was a thug, a scumbag, and a murderer of
Speaker 1: the highest conceivable degree. But over and over again he
Speaker 1: got off, and when he did there would be fireworks
Speaker 1: celebrations in Ozone Park. Trump is a lot like John Gotti.
Speaker 1: He has a cult of personality, he has fans that
Speaker 1: are cheering for him. There has always been a strain
Speaker 1: of Americanism that is grounded in the philosophy of fuck youism,
Speaker 1: and Trump is one of history's great philosophers of fuck Youism.
Speaker 1: When John Gotti was acquitted, it was an fu. When
Speaker 1: Trump sticks his middle finger up to the Constitution, to
Speaker 1: the Congress, to anybody, it delights people. But in the end,
Speaker 1: Gotti and Trump are both mob bosses, and the way
Speaker 1: their business functions is they get a cut of the
Speaker 1: action up top. And so it should be no surprise
Speaker 1: whatsoever that the astounding grift that is the Trump political
Speaker 1: operation would attach a new vic for every maga Republican
Speaker 1: candidate out across the country who dares to use the Donaldson.
Speaker 1: The campaign wants a minimum of five percent, but will
Speaker 1: look favorably at the highest levels, perhaps even at the
Speaker 1: CAPO ranks, all the way up to the capo to
Speaker 1: two D Capo himself, the boss of bosses, Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: If you raise money for a mayor's race, of congressional
Speaker 1: raise and Senate raise and you use the name the Donald, well,
Speaker 1: then of course ten percent, twenty percent, thirty percent of
Speaker 1: all the money you raise should go to well, you
Speaker 1: guessed it, Donald Trump's campaign, to his legal defense funds,
Speaker 1: to pay the lawyers. Now, personally, I'm all for this.
Speaker 1: I believe fools and their money should be separated, and
Speaker 1: I definitely look at any candidate who uses Trump's name
Speaker 1: from my perspective, should be fined. And so the only
Speaker 1: deficiency in this plan is that the fine goes to Trump.
Speaker 1: The good news with that is it will soon be wasted.
Speaker 1: But putting that aside, the political situation for Trump is
Speaker 1: dire because he's on track to be outspent by three
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty million dollars in the general election. Now, again,
Speaker 1: understand the rules. If you're a candidate and you say
Speaker 1: Trump's name, he wants five percent. He won't be happy
Speaker 1: with that. That's the minimum expectation. If you want to
Speaker 1: please him, pleasure him titilate. The census number has to
Speaker 1: be higher ten percent, fifteen percent, maybe fifty percent. Who knows.
Speaker 1: But this is important to understand because when you look
Speaker 1: at Donald Trump's plans for the government, this is how
Speaker 1: oligarchy functions. This is how the corruption will work. You
Speaker 1: want to contract, pay the pride, you want to get
Speaker 1: something done, pay Trump. You want to make an invention,
Speaker 1: get approval at the government, Pay Trump, pay Trump, pay Trump.
Speaker 1: It's gangsterism. It's how Russia functions. To a degree, it's
Speaker 1: how China functions. And it's how Donald Trump wants to
Speaker 1: make America function because he has a fantasy that America
Speaker 1: functions like the corrupt real estate world he dealt with
Speaker 1: in Manhattan, where he can oil the system, where he
Speaker 1: can grease it with a little cash in an envelope.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is a grifter who is more fantastically corrupt
Speaker 1: then the accumulated corruptions of all of America's previous presidents
Speaker 1: put together times ten to the exponent of a million,
Speaker 1: which is to say, a lot more. This is a
Speaker 1: harbinger of things to come, of the degeneracy that will
Speaker 1: flow from Donald Trump atop the American government. He will
Speaker 1: turn it into a giant pay for play system. The
Speaker 1: United States government will become an open till a cash
Speaker 1: register with every Trump's greedy little pause in it all
Speaker 1: the time. Jared Kushner two billion dollars in Saudi money
Speaker 1: six months after walking out of the Oval Office having
Speaker 1: access to the President's daily brief two billions. The corruption
Speaker 1: is fantastical, and the danger it represents city American people
Speaker 1: even more so. The campaign story isn't that big a
Speaker 1: deal because it's so predictable. But even though it's predictable,
Speaker 1: it's still shocking. It's shocking not because it's unexpected, but
Speaker 1: because for nine long years, a great nation of three
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty million people have allowed this to happen,
Speaker 1: have allowed this degeneracy to fester, to grow, and this
Speaker 1: degenerate to dominate our society. Isn't it time to bring
Speaker 1: this wretched show to an end? Thank you for listening
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