WEBVTT - REACTION: Trump's Mar-a-Lago Meltdown 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:04.560 Eighty seven days until the last American will vote and 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:08.600 decide who will be the forty seventh President of the 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:09.560 United States. 0:00:09.920 --> 0:00:11.480 This is the warning. 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.680 The first time I ever heard the word meltdown, it 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:19.079 was with regard to the nuclear plant at Three Mile 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:23.439 Island in Pennsylvania. When a nuclear plant melts down, or 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:27.000 you're told it may be melting down or it could 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:30.440 melt down, it really doesn't matter. When you're nine years old, 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:36.120 the word you remember is meltdown. Hollywood, like politics, is 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:40.680 always down river from culture. What this means is that 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:43.720 in the aftermath of the Three Mile Island accident, there 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:49.120 were movies, the China Syndrome, the nuclear freeze movement, meltdown. 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:50.280 It was a. 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:55.600 Word that was popularized into the vocabulary. Of course, later 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:59.440 there was a real meltdown at Chernobyl. There was a 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:03.200 moment in when the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbatrov was told 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:08.920 the entirety of the Ukraine, East Germany, Poland Hungry, the 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:14.399 entirety of the Warsaw Pact would be uninhabitable meltdown. There was, 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:18.760 of course, the meltdown at Fukushima after the massive Japanese 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:23.360 earthquake in the tsunami that hit the Tepco plant, and 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:27.240 there was, of course the meltdown at Mara A Lago. 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:29.440 He's unhinged. Now. 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:33.440 The simple truth of the matter is Donald Trump, at 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:37.920 seventy eight is too old to be president. He can't 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:42.920 distinguish what's real and not. These are trying days in 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:49.640 mar A Lago. Trump's news conference was completely unhinged. He 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:55.640 is unfit, manifestly unfitted, not just for the presidency but 0:01:55.680 --> 0:02:01.480 for any position of responsibility. He's qualified to be the 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:05.840 greeter at walmart on a volunteer basis, let alone the 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:11.440 commander in chief. But let's go through lie by lie 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:13.680 and set the record straight. 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:16.679 And I've spoken to the biggest crowds. Nobody's spoken to 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:20.000 crowds bigger than me. If you look at Martin Luther 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:24.240 King when he did his speech, his great speech, and 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:29.040 you look at ours, same real estate, same everything, same 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:32.520 number of people, if not, we had more. And they 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:34.320 said he had a million people, but I had twenty 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:35.239 five thousand people. 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:39.560 So here's a classic Trump absurdity. He's talking about the 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:44.120 January sixth crowd on the Ellipse, which was ten thousand people, 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:47.440 which he incited to march on the Capitol where seven 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:51.799 people died, something he denied during the news conference where 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:54.360 he said there were no deaths at the insurrection. He 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:57.359 incited there were seven. There were deaths on the day, 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:01.000 and there have been suicides since that day. But the 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:06.440 crowd that he's comparing himself to is one of the 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:10.160 most moral and righteous in all of American history. His 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:14.440 crowd of ten thousand, Trump is saying is precisely the 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:18.880 same as one that was twenty times larger, that gathered 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:23.720 in nineteen sixty three, that was ecumenical in spirit. It 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:28.040 was called the Freedom March, and the Freedom March came 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:33.000 with Martin Luther King at the lead, but not alone. 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:37.000 He was surrounded that day by white men and women, 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:41.520 by black men and women, by people of all races, creeds, 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:46.680 and religion. He said, challenging America, just live up to 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:48.320 the words that you wrote down. 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:51.520 And he did it in the shadow. 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:57.440 Of Abraham Lincoln's shrine, the Temple where the memory of 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:01.360 Lincoln rests forever, as it does in the hearts of 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:04.960 his countrymen for whom he saved the Union. As the 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:09.160 inscription above Lincoln reads on the walls, are the two 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:14.360 great speeches, the Gettysburg address, the second Inaugural, with malice 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:19.239 towards none, with charity towards all. So no, Donald Trump 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:24.320 and his insurrectionist mob and his calls to retribution and 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:29.279 revenge are not comparable in any way, in any form, 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:33.719 to the moral dignity of Martin Luther King leading the 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:39.520 freedom parade at the founding of the American Republic. 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:40.440 That we have now. 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:44.279 That day, the work before and the work after helped 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:48.080 make King every bit as much of an American founder 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:52.440 as Lincoln, as Jefferson, as Hamilton, as Washington. 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:54.360 What Trump is is the. 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:59.880 Great desecrator of the nobility of a profoundly true and 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:03.520 important idea at the core of this country. 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:07.039 Why is it that millions of people were allowed to 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:11.839 come into our country from prisons, from jails, from mental institutions, 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:17.400 insane asylums. Even Insana said, that's a it's a mental 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:20.960 institution on steroids. That's what it is. When you see 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:24.720 the people that are coming into earth, these are institutions 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:27.719 that are being emptied out, not in South America, all 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:30.640 over the world, including South America. All over the world, 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:33.600 prisons are being emptied out into our country. 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:38.760 Yes, immigration is an issue foremost on the minds of 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:43.040 the American public. It's important to understand immigration dropped to 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:45.919 a net zero during the Trump presidency, not because of 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:46.920 anything Trump did. 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:49.400 There was no wall built. It's all bullshit. 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:54.599 What happened was a global pandemic that stopped the movement 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:58.960 of people. Now we're trying to get inside Trump's head. 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:03.960 It's always it's difficult because you have to open yourself 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:09.880 to the possibility of a massive intellectual deficiency. That's hard 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:14.279 to wrap your head around, even when pretending so. Donald 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:17.000 Trump is not a smart man. 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:17.680 He's not. 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:22.160 He cheated his way into Wharton, he cheated his way 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:28.120 into the University of Pennsylvania. He's never earned anything. He 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:34.160 was an accidental president. He was a bankrupt casino magnate. 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:39.440 And he was somebody who was handed a fortune by 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:43.720 his father that he squandered, having to be bailed out 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:49.680 over and over over again. Trump thinks that we think 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:51.159 he's a genius. 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:51.800 He's not. 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:56.359 Here's the most incredible part. When you dissect all of 0:06:56.400 --> 0:07:02.320 Trump's speeches, it seems obvious that he believes all over 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:07.960 the world people are mass escaping insane asylum and these 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:11.680 places aren't called that anymore. But in all of the 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:17.600 escapees from the insane asylums are trying to break into 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:23.560 America to get into asylums. Here, when you dissect the 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:28.720 incoherence of what Trump is saying, this is his argument. 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:33.800 He's not somebody that you can communicate information to. He 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:39.880 can't learn things, he can't absorb facts because the world 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:44.760 he exists in doesn't account for reality versus delusion. 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:47.440 You know, with the Hillary Clinton, I could have done 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:50.880 things to her that would have made your headspind. I 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:53.120 thought it was a very bad thing. Take the wife 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:55.440 of a president of the United States and put her 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:58.520 in jail, and then I see the way they treat me. 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:02.480 That's the way it goes. But I was very protective 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:04.640 of her. Nobody would understand that, but I was. I 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:07.400 think my people understand it. They used to say lock 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:09.960 her up, lock her up, and I'd say, just relax, please, 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:11.600 and here's the deal. 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:13.240 He never said relax. 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:18.680 When the political extremists, disgrace general and fascists introduced to 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:22.280 America the lock her up chant, I was sitting on 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:26.280 an NBC news set and I said, welcome to the 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:31.960 era of Banana Republicanism. Trump did that. He could have 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:35.480 done terrible things. What's that Donald? Put her in a 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:39.120 concentration camp like you've threatened to do to tens and 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:44.600 scores of millions of Americans. Your restraint, Donald is positively 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:48.360 christ Like. What a sweet man you are. This is 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:53.360 not a beneficent statement. This is a threat. Elect me 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:55.640 or here's the terrible things I'll. 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:58.520 Do to you. I could have, but I did it. 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:00.520 G trust me. 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:05.080 I'm gonna speak in idiomatic English New Jersey dialect. 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:07.760 Keep the fuck out of here? Are you kidding me? 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:11.439 This is the person who wants to be the commander 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:14.200 in chief, the President of the United States, the head 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:14.720 of state. 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:16.920 Please, it's disgraceful. 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:20.840 To me, it doesn't matter. But to her, from her standpoint, 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:24.200 I think it's very disrespectful to both. Really, whether it's 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:26.640 Indian or Black, I think it's very disrespectful to both. 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:27.640 To me, it doesn't matter. 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:31.280 There are eighty seven days to go, and sadly, I'm 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:34.760 going to refer back to this clip, going to play 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:38.440 it again because the prediction I'm about to make is 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:41.200 going to come true, and it's going to be much 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:46.240 worse than people imagine it to be. The level of 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:55.600 racial antagonism race, fating, cruelty, disgusting filth that is going 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:59.840 to come out of Trump's mouth, out of JD. Van 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:04.400 His mouth, out of Stephen Chung's mouth, out of the 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:10.920 mouths of his surrogates, his retainers, his loyalists, his band 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:17.400 of mtgs is going to be mind blower. As bad 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:21.640 as you think it is, it will be worse. The 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:26.000 attacks will be direct, they will be overt, They will 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:32.560 be dehumanizing, degrading, insulting, and they will harken back to 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:36.719 some of the worst chapters in this country's history. And 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:41.640 so what Trump is doing here is yes, stupid, but 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:49.760 it is profoundly disrespectful and demeaning. Kamala Harris is the 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:54.320 Vice President of the United States of America. Her father 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:58.839 was Jamaican who came to the United States. Her mother 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:05.199 of Indians dissent in America. Kamala Harris is regarded thought 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:14.520 of treated as black like every other American similarly situated period. 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:19.320 She's black, but Donald Trump is trying to take something 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:24.439 from her an identity, twist it and shove a knife in, 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:29.760 trying to claim as somebody who earned nothing in his 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:34.600 life that somebody who did in fact did not because 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:40.760 she was a beneficiary of preferential treatment because of her race, 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:46.360 which she used conveniently only recently that she long denied. 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:55.000 It is an elaborate Trumpian smear grade, a neurotoxic bullshit. 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:59.080 It's disgusting, and the American people are rejecting. The good 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:03.000 news is it's so fucking boring. There's not a word 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:07.640 for it anymore except for maybe Trump. The oldest, most 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:13.280 boring act in town. Our fading pale as a cadaver, 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:17.520 norma Desmond resident, norma Desmond. 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:19.280 That's who Trump is. 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:24.280 He cannot stand to see the power of optimism, the 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:31.040 literal pollo rocket firing, lighting up the sky, illuminating Kamala 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:37.600 Harris's crowds bigger than his enthusiastic and coming to end 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:40.680 his political career in just a little bit. 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:44.800 You have not had a public campaign event for nearly 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:46.960 a week now. Tomorrow you'll be in Montana, which is 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:50.000 not a swing state. Some of your allies have expressed 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:53.120 concern that you're not taking this race seriously, particularly out 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:56.640 of content where there is enthusiasm on the other side. 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:58.840 Why haven't you been campaigning this week? 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:01.679 Because I'm leading by a lot, and because I'm letting 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:03.720 their convention go through. 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:05.840 Look at the polls. 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:10.080 Donald Trump is a fading star and this is a 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:15.760 great Norman Desmond moment. My ratings, my ratings, I'm winning, 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:19.400 I'm winning. I'm number one in the box office. Except 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:24.600 it's all imaginary. The only place this is real is 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:29.000 on the deck at mar Lago. And if you have 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:33.800 a million dollars and want to be regaled by tales 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:37.880 like this for the rest of your natural life, if 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:42.040 you want to put a bandage on your ear and 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:48.000 sit gazing at this face with a million bucks and 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:51.240 probably price will go down in coming years, you can 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:51.880 achieve this. 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:53.800 You can join. 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:58.600 Mar Lago and the mad, mad, mad mad King will 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:02.520 hold court there down for the next twenty five to 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:06.640 thirty years, living to a right bold age of one 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:10.520 hundred and fifteen. But his era of being able to 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:15.760 mainline malice into the bloodstream of the country is mercifully 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:22.200 coming to an end, because history, once again almost improbably 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:27.880 has anointed Americans who can get the job done. When 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:33.400 Trump was winning a month ago, was he talking. 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:35.960 About any of this crazy shit? He was not. 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:39.960 Donald Trump is losing, and he's losing badly. Now this 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:44.000 is all before the Democratic National Convention. If the election 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:47.960 were today, Kamala Harris would be President elect of the 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:52.320 United States by midnight. But it's not today. Donald Trump 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:56.640 should know. John McCain's favorite quote of Chairman Mouse, apocryphal 0:14:56.760 --> 0:15:00.680 or not, was to remember, it's always darkest before it's 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:06.800 completely black. Now, Donald Trump impunes the motives of everyone 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:12.960 and everything that resists his claim on absolute power, which 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:18.600 some amount of Americans have been dumb enough or naive enough, 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:24.760 or malice enough or apathetic enough to fall for. We 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:29.520 should love our fellow citizens, but we should maintain our 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:33.960 judgment about people who would bandage their ears and stare 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:38.080 gauzy eyed, dewey eyed at a rapist, which is what 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:38.800 Trump is. 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:40.720 Non judgmentalism. 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:46.040 The cardinal rules of mind your own business do not 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:51.600 mean tolerance for the most despicable characters in the country 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:56.280 who want political power, preaching a dogma of command and 0:15:56.360 --> 0:16:01.560 control over every single facet of your life. As Donald 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:05.080 Trump loses, everything will get worse. 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:07.000 That comes out of his mouth. 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:13.480 Each will be a piece of evidence about how much 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:19.600 worse he is than even the most pessimistic amongst us thought. 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:22.960 It will build, and it will build, and it will 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:30.280 build the racism, the menace, the intimations of violence. Right 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:34.320 wing thuggery of the type we're seeing in the UK 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:37.680 is coming to the United States. 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:39.920 Have no doubts about it. 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:43.640 And it will have been caused as it was caused, 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:47.480 and it will be caused by a singular figure. 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:50.840 The demagogic despot. 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:56.120 Wanta be Donald John Trump, and he will light the 0:16:56.240 --> 0:17:01.160 fuse that he has carefully laid as he loses an election, 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:06.320 and he makes allegations like Nicholas Maduro in Venezuela, like 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:11.240 a tinpot dictator, like a dime store Mussolini, that he 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:16.199 makes allegations again that he won an election that he 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:20.119 lost absent evidence, and this time there will be no 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:23.879 possibility of a comeback. The stakes will be higher and 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:27.720 more existential. It will all be on the line. And 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:31.479 so here we are. Kamala Harris is surgeon. Donald Trump 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:34.880 is losing, and because he is losing, he is decomposing. 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:38.879 Because he is decomposing, he is getting crazier. Because he 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:42.240 is getting crazier, he is getting more menacing. And because 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:45.879 he is getting more menacing, the threats and intimations to 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:50.200 violence will grow from his most unhinged supporters and they 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:53.680 will find their mark. Put a joke that there were 0:17:53.800 --> 0:18:00.800 people standing on television sets talking about new Trump, gentle Trump, 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:06.400 spiritual Trump in the aftermath of the assassination, Trump reborn. 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:11.760 Wow, isn't the word. This is the Morning. 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:15.439 I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the Morning, and I invite 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:19.680 you to join. Subscribe on our substack, on our YouTube channel, 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:23.199 follow us. Welcome to the community.