Speaker 1: Eighty seven days until the last American will vote and
Speaker 1: decide who will be the forty seventh President of the
Speaker 1: United States.
Speaker 2: This is the warning.
Speaker 1: The first time I ever heard the word meltdown, it
Speaker 1: was with regard to the nuclear plant at Three Mile
Speaker 1: Island in Pennsylvania. When a nuclear plant melts down, or
Speaker 1: you're told it may be melting down or it could
Speaker 1: melt down, it really doesn't matter. When you're nine years old,
Speaker 1: the word you remember is meltdown. Hollywood, like politics, is
Speaker 1: always down river from culture. What this means is that
Speaker 1: in the aftermath of the Three Mile Island accident, there
Speaker 1: were movies, the China Syndrome, the nuclear freeze movement, meltdown.
Speaker 2: It was a.
Speaker 1: Word that was popularized into the vocabulary. Of course, later
Speaker 1: there was a real meltdown at Chernobyl. There was a
Speaker 1: moment in when the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbatrov was told
Speaker 1: the entirety of the Ukraine, East Germany, Poland Hungry, the
Speaker 1: entirety of the Warsaw Pact would be uninhabitable meltdown. There was,
Speaker 1: of course, the meltdown at Fukushima after the massive Japanese
Speaker 1: earthquake in the tsunami that hit the Tepco plant, and
Speaker 1: there was, of course the meltdown at Mara A Lago.
Speaker 2: He's unhinged. Now.
Speaker 1: The simple truth of the matter is Donald Trump, at
Speaker 1: seventy eight is too old to be president. He can't
Speaker 1: distinguish what's real and not. These are trying days in
Speaker 1: mar A Lago. Trump's news conference was completely unhinged. He
Speaker 1: is unfit, manifestly unfitted, not just for the presidency but
Speaker 1: for any position of responsibility. He's qualified to be the
Speaker 1: greeter at walmart on a volunteer basis, let alone the
Speaker 1: commander in chief. But let's go through lie by lie
Speaker 1: and set the record straight.
Speaker 3: And I've spoken to the biggest crowds. Nobody's spoken to
Speaker 3: crowds bigger than me. If you look at Martin Luther
Speaker 3: King when he did his speech, his great speech, and
Speaker 3: you look at ours, same real estate, same everything, same
Speaker 3: number of people, if not, we had more. And they
Speaker 3: said he had a million people, but I had twenty
Speaker 3: five thousand people.
Speaker 1: So here's a classic Trump absurdity. He's talking about the
Speaker 1: January sixth crowd on the Ellipse, which was ten thousand people,
Speaker 1: which he incited to march on the Capitol where seven
Speaker 1: people died, something he denied during the news conference where
Speaker 1: he said there were no deaths at the insurrection. He
Speaker 1: incited there were seven. There were deaths on the day,
Speaker 1: and there have been suicides since that day. But the
Speaker 1: crowd that he's comparing himself to is one of the
Speaker 1: most moral and righteous in all of American history. His
Speaker 1: crowd of ten thousand, Trump is saying is precisely the
Speaker 1: same as one that was twenty times larger, that gathered
Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty three, that was ecumenical in spirit. It
Speaker 1: was called the Freedom March, and the Freedom March came
Speaker 1: with Martin Luther King at the lead, but not alone.
Speaker 1: He was surrounded that day by white men and women,
Speaker 1: by black men and women, by people of all races, creeds,
Speaker 1: and religion. He said, challenging America, just live up to
Speaker 1: the words that you wrote down.
Speaker 2: And he did it in the shadow.
Speaker 1: Of Abraham Lincoln's shrine, the Temple where the memory of
Speaker 1: Lincoln rests forever, as it does in the hearts of
Speaker 1: his countrymen for whom he saved the Union. As the
Speaker 1: inscription above Lincoln reads on the walls, are the two
Speaker 1: great speeches, the Gettysburg address, the second Inaugural, with malice
Speaker 1: towards none, with charity towards all. So no, Donald Trump
Speaker 1: and his insurrectionist mob and his calls to retribution and
Speaker 1: revenge are not comparable in any way, in any form,
Speaker 1: to the moral dignity of Martin Luther King leading the
Speaker 1: freedom parade at the founding of the American Republic.
Speaker 2: That we have now.
Speaker 1: That day, the work before and the work after helped
Speaker 1: make King every bit as much of an American founder
Speaker 1: as Lincoln, as Jefferson, as Hamilton, as Washington.
Speaker 2: What Trump is is the.
Speaker 1: Great desecrator of the nobility of a profoundly true and
Speaker 1: important idea at the core of this country.
Speaker 3: Why is it that millions of people were allowed to
Speaker 3: come into our country from prisons, from jails, from mental institutions,
Speaker 3: insane asylums. Even Insana said, that's a it's a mental
Speaker 3: institution on steroids. That's what it is. When you see
Speaker 3: the people that are coming into earth, these are institutions
Speaker 3: that are being emptied out, not in South America, all
Speaker 3: over the world, including South America. All over the world,
Speaker 3: prisons are being emptied out into our country.
Speaker 1: Yes, immigration is an issue foremost on the minds of
Speaker 1: the American public. It's important to understand immigration dropped to
Speaker 1: a net zero during the Trump presidency, not because of
Speaker 1: anything Trump did.
Speaker 2: There was no wall built. It's all bullshit.
Speaker 1: What happened was a global pandemic that stopped the movement
Speaker 1: of people. Now we're trying to get inside Trump's head.
Speaker 1: It's always it's difficult because you have to open yourself
Speaker 1: to the possibility of a massive intellectual deficiency. That's hard
Speaker 1: to wrap your head around, even when pretending so. Donald
Speaker 1: Trump is not a smart man.
Speaker 2: He's not.
Speaker 1: He cheated his way into Wharton, he cheated his way
Speaker 1: into the University of Pennsylvania. He's never earned anything. He
Speaker 1: was an accidental president. He was a bankrupt casino magnate.
Speaker 1: And he was somebody who was handed a fortune by
Speaker 1: his father that he squandered, having to be bailed out
Speaker 1: over and over over again. Trump thinks that we think
Speaker 1: he's a genius.
Speaker 2: He's not.
Speaker 1: Here's the most incredible part. When you dissect all of
Speaker 1: Trump's speeches, it seems obvious that he believes all over
Speaker 1: the world people are mass escaping insane asylum and these
Speaker 1: places aren't called that anymore. But in all of the
Speaker 1: escapees from the insane asylums are trying to break into
Speaker 1: America to get into asylums. Here, when you dissect the
Speaker 1: incoherence of what Trump is saying, this is his argument.
Speaker 1: He's not somebody that you can communicate information to. He
Speaker 1: can't learn things, he can't absorb facts because the world
Speaker 1: he exists in doesn't account for reality versus delusion.
Speaker 3: You know, with the Hillary Clinton, I could have done
Speaker 3: things to her that would have made your headspind. I
Speaker 3: thought it was a very bad thing. Take the wife
Speaker 3: of a president of the United States and put her
Speaker 3: in jail, and then I see the way they treat me.
Speaker 3: That's the way it goes. But I was very protective
Speaker 3: of her. Nobody would understand that, but I was. I
Speaker 3: think my people understand it. They used to say lock
Speaker 3: her up, lock her up, and I'd say, just relax, please,
Speaker 3: and here's the deal.
Speaker 2: He never said relax.
Speaker 1: When the political extremists, disgrace general and fascists introduced to
Speaker 1: America the lock her up chant, I was sitting on
Speaker 1: an NBC news set and I said, welcome to the
Speaker 1: era of Banana Republicanism. Trump did that. He could have
Speaker 1: done terrible things. What's that Donald? Put her in a
Speaker 1: concentration camp like you've threatened to do to tens and
Speaker 1: scores of millions of Americans. Your restraint, Donald is positively
Speaker 1: christ Like. What a sweet man you are. This is
Speaker 1: not a beneficent statement. This is a threat. Elect me
Speaker 1: or here's the terrible things I'll.
Speaker 2: Do to you. I could have, but I did it.
Speaker 2: G trust me.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna speak in idiomatic English New Jersey dialect.
Speaker 2: Keep the fuck out of here? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: This is the person who wants to be the commander
Speaker 1: in chief, the President of the United States, the head
Speaker 1: of state.
Speaker 2: Please, it's disgraceful.
Speaker 3: To me, it doesn't matter. But to her, from her standpoint,
Speaker 3: I think it's very disrespectful to both. Really, whether it's
Speaker 3: Indian or Black, I think it's very disrespectful to both.
Speaker 3: To me, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: There are eighty seven days to go, and sadly, I'm
Speaker 1: going to refer back to this clip, going to play
Speaker 1: it again because the prediction I'm about to make is
Speaker 1: going to come true, and it's going to be much
Speaker 1: worse than people imagine it to be. The level of
Speaker 1: racial antagonism race, fating, cruelty, disgusting filth that is going
Speaker 1: to come out of Trump's mouth, out of JD. Van
Speaker 1: His mouth, out of Stephen Chung's mouth, out of the
Speaker 1: mouths of his surrogates, his retainers, his loyalists, his band
Speaker 1: of mtgs is going to be mind blower. As bad
Speaker 1: as you think it is, it will be worse. The
Speaker 1: attacks will be direct, they will be overt, They will
Speaker 1: be dehumanizing, degrading, insulting, and they will harken back to
Speaker 1: some of the worst chapters in this country's history. And
Speaker 1: so what Trump is doing here is yes, stupid, but
Speaker 1: it is profoundly disrespectful and demeaning. Kamala Harris is the
Speaker 1: Vice President of the United States of America. Her father
Speaker 1: was Jamaican who came to the United States. Her mother
Speaker 1: of Indians dissent in America. Kamala Harris is regarded thought
Speaker 1: of treated as black like every other American similarly situated period.
Speaker 1: She's black, but Donald Trump is trying to take something
Speaker 1: from her an identity, twist it and shove a knife in,
Speaker 1: trying to claim as somebody who earned nothing in his
Speaker 1: life that somebody who did in fact did not because
Speaker 1: she was a beneficiary of preferential treatment because of her race,
Speaker 1: which she used conveniently only recently that she long denied.
Speaker 1: It is an elaborate Trumpian smear grade, a neurotoxic bullshit.
Speaker 1: It's disgusting, and the American people are rejecting. The good
Speaker 1: news is it's so fucking boring. There's not a word
Speaker 1: for it anymore except for maybe Trump. The oldest, most
Speaker 1: boring act in town. Our fading pale as a cadaver,
Speaker 1: norma Desmond resident, norma Desmond.
Speaker 2: That's who Trump is.
Speaker 1: He cannot stand to see the power of optimism, the
Speaker 1: literal pollo rocket firing, lighting up the sky, illuminating Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris's crowds bigger than his enthusiastic and coming to end
Speaker 1: his political career in just a little bit.
Speaker 4: You have not had a public campaign event for nearly
Speaker 4: a week now. Tomorrow you'll be in Montana, which is
Speaker 4: not a swing state. Some of your allies have expressed
Speaker 4: concern that you're not taking this race seriously, particularly out
Speaker 4: of content where there is enthusiasm on the other side.
Speaker 4: Why haven't you been campaigning this week?
Speaker 3: Because I'm leading by a lot, and because I'm letting
Speaker 3: their convention go through.
Speaker 2: Look at the polls.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is a fading star and this is a
Speaker 1: great Norman Desmond moment. My ratings, my ratings, I'm winning,
Speaker 1: I'm winning. I'm number one in the box office. Except
Speaker 1: it's all imaginary. The only place this is real is
Speaker 1: on the deck at mar Lago. And if you have
Speaker 1: a million dollars and want to be regaled by tales
Speaker 1: like this for the rest of your natural life, if
Speaker 1: you want to put a bandage on your ear and
Speaker 1: sit gazing at this face with a million bucks and
Speaker 1: probably price will go down in coming years, you can
Speaker 1: achieve this.
Speaker 2: You can join.
Speaker 1: Mar Lago and the mad, mad, mad mad King will
Speaker 1: hold court there down for the next twenty five to
Speaker 1: thirty years, living to a right bold age of one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifteen. But his era of being able to
Speaker 1: mainline malice into the bloodstream of the country is mercifully
Speaker 1: coming to an end, because history, once again almost improbably
Speaker 1: has anointed Americans who can get the job done. When
Speaker 1: Trump was winning a month ago, was he talking.
Speaker 2: About any of this crazy shit? He was not.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is losing, and he's losing badly. Now this
Speaker 1: is all before the Democratic National Convention. If the election
Speaker 1: were today, Kamala Harris would be President elect of the
Speaker 1: United States by midnight. But it's not today. Donald Trump
Speaker 1: should know. John McCain's favorite quote of Chairman Mouse, apocryphal
Speaker 1: or not, was to remember, it's always darkest before it's
Speaker 1: completely black. Now, Donald Trump impunes the motives of everyone
Speaker 1: and everything that resists his claim on absolute power, which
Speaker 1: some amount of Americans have been dumb enough or naive enough,
Speaker 1: or malice enough or apathetic enough to fall for. We
Speaker 1: should love our fellow citizens, but we should maintain our
Speaker 1: judgment about people who would bandage their ears and stare
Speaker 1: gauzy eyed, dewey eyed at a rapist, which is what
Speaker 1: Trump is.
Speaker 2: Non judgmentalism.
Speaker 1: The cardinal rules of mind your own business do not
Speaker 1: mean tolerance for the most despicable characters in the country
Speaker 1: who want political power, preaching a dogma of command and
Speaker 1: control over every single facet of your life. As Donald
Speaker 1: Trump loses, everything will get worse.
Speaker 2: That comes out of his mouth.
Speaker 1: Each will be a piece of evidence about how much
Speaker 1: worse he is than even the most pessimistic amongst us thought.
Speaker 1: It will build, and it will build, and it will
Speaker 1: build the racism, the menace, the intimations of violence. Right
Speaker 1: wing thuggery of the type we're seeing in the UK
Speaker 1: is coming to the United States.
Speaker 2: Have no doubts about it.
Speaker 1: And it will have been caused as it was caused,
Speaker 1: and it will be caused by a singular figure.
Speaker 2: The demagogic despot.
Speaker 1: Wanta be Donald John Trump, and he will light the
Speaker 1: fuse that he has carefully laid as he loses an election,
Speaker 1: and he makes allegations like Nicholas Maduro in Venezuela, like
Speaker 1: a tinpot dictator, like a dime store Mussolini, that he
Speaker 1: makes allegations again that he won an election that he
Speaker 1: lost absent evidence, and this time there will be no
Speaker 1: possibility of a comeback. The stakes will be higher and
Speaker 1: more existential. It will all be on the line. And
Speaker 1: so here we are. Kamala Harris is surgeon. Donald Trump
Speaker 1: is losing, and because he is losing, he is decomposing.
Speaker 1: Because he is decomposing, he is getting crazier. Because he
Speaker 1: is getting crazier, he is getting more menacing. And because
Speaker 1: he is getting more menacing, the threats and intimations to
Speaker 1: violence will grow from his most unhinged supporters and they
Speaker 1: will find their mark. Put a joke that there were
Speaker 1: people standing on television sets talking about new Trump, gentle Trump,
Speaker 1: spiritual Trump in the aftermath of the assassination, Trump reborn.
Speaker 2: Wow, isn't the word. This is the Morning.
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