Trump CONFRONTED over shooting, SNAPS ON LIVE TV

[0:03] What's your reaction? Well, I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would, [0:06] because you're you're you're horrible people, horrible people. We have some breaking news. [0:11] Donald Trump's 60 Minutes interview with Nora O'Donnell about the shooting at the White House [0:15] Correspondents' Dinner just aired. And it's stunning, even by Trump standards. Whatever [0:20] decorum and civility Trump was briefly exuding in the aftermath of the shooting has totally [0:25] evaporated. At one point, when she dares simply quote the shooter's manifesto and ask him questions [0:30] about it, Trump comes unglued and viciously attacks her and the media and the Democratic Party writ [0:36] large. It's stunning. But before we unpack all that, if you end up liking this video and you [0:41] want to support the channel, please be sure to hit the like, subscribe and alert bells before you go. [0:46] All right, folks, I want to play these clips from Trump's 60 Minutes interview in chronological order, [0:51] starting with this. [0:53] Took 10 seconds for them to flank you, Mr. President, and then 20 seconds to get you out. [0:59] It looked chaotic. At one point, you were down. What was happening? [1:03] Well, what happened is it was a little bit me. I wanted to see what was happening. [1:08] And I wasn't making it that easy for him. I wanted to see what was going on. And by that time, [1:15] we started to realize maybe it was a bad problem, different kind of a problem, bad one, [1:21] and different than what would be normal noise from a ballroom, which you hear all the time. [1:25] And I was surrounded by great people. And I probably made them act a little bit more slow. [1:35] I said, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Let me see. Wait a minute. So, you know, I'm telling guys. [1:39] Just at that moment where it looks like you go sort of down with the service, [1:42] you were telling them to wait. Well, I know what happened is, [1:44] then I started walking with them. I turned, I started walking. And they said, please go down. [1:49] Please go down on the floor. So I went down and first lady went down also. But we were asked to [1:56] go down by the agents as I was walking. In other words, they wanted you almost to crawl. [2:01] I was standing up pretty much. I was standing up and then turned around the opposite direction [2:09] and started pretty much walking out pretty tall, a little bent over because I, you know, I'm not [2:15] looking to be standing too tall. And but I was walking out. It's pretty about halfway there. [2:21] And they said, please go down to the floor. Please go down to the floor. So I dropped to the floor. [2:26] So did the first lady. Well, so again, this is just so unnecessary. Sounds like he's just looking [2:31] at this as like an attack on his vanity. You know, oh, no, I was standing tall. They asked me to go to [2:36] the floor, but I wanted to stick around. I mean, if that's true, he put national security at risk. [2:40] Donald Trump is the president of the United States and putting himself in jeopardy is a national [2:45] security risk. There's a reason that when Secret Service effectively issues a command [2:49] to the president or the vice president, they're the only two people in the federal government who [2:53] don't get a choice. Right. I mean, they yank J.D. Vance off the stage without his permission, [2:57] without his choice. It's the same thing for Trump. So if what Trump is saying is true, [3:01] that was incredibly reckless. But I think much of it was, you know, he's just trying to make himself, [3:06] you know, appear like a strong man. You know, it's that image is extremely important to him. [3:12] In this clip, Nora O'Donnell asks Trump about his relationship with the press moving forward. [3:18] Do you think this will change your relationship with the press? [3:22] Well, look, for whatever reason, we disagree on a lot of subjects. I mean, [3:29] we talk about crime. I'm very strong on crime. It seems like the press isn't. It's not so much the [3:37] press. It's the press plus the Democrats, because they're almost one in the same. It's like the craziest [3:41] thing. I have the strongest border we've ever had in the country where, as you know, it said zero [3:48] people for nine months came into our country through our southern border. We have a very tough. [3:52] That's not true. It is not true that literally zero people have crossed through the southern [3:56] border. No evidence to support that whatsoever. Number one. Number two. Again, I would argue Trump [4:01] is graded on a curve compared to a Democrat. I mean, he he's so advantaged by the fact, oh, [4:05] it's just Trump being Trump. It's just how Trump talks. I mean, [4:08] if anything, he is advantaged because of who he is. The press could probably, [4:12] you know, guaranteed to be far more critical of him based on his various failures and his [4:18] corruption, his authoritarianism. And as you'll see, even in this interview, [4:22] Norah O'Donnell treats him with kid gloves, despite the attacks against her, the Democrats [4:27] and the press. Here's another clip. The so-called manifesto is a stunning thing to read. Mr. [4:32] President, he appears to reference a motive in it. He writes this quote, administration [4:38] officials, they are targets. And he also wrote this. I'm no longer willing to permit a pedophile, [4:45] rapist and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes. What's your reaction? Well, [4:50] I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would, because you're, you're horrible people, [4:55] horrible people. Yeah, he did write that. I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody. [5:00] I'm not a pedophile. Do you think he was referring to you? Excuse me. I'm not a pedophile. You read [5:06] that crap from some sick person. I got associated with stuff that has nothing to do with me. [5:15] So I just want to say, we're going to play the rest of this, but Donald Trump was found liable [5:19] for sexual abuse and defamation of E. Jean Carroll in a civil court proceeding. A jury of his peers [5:24] found him liable for sexual abuse and defamation, despite the presumption of innocence, [5:28] despite all the best attorneys that a corrupt billionaire ex-president can afford at the time, [5:33] despite the standards of evidence being against those bringing the case, he lost [5:37] and it survived appeal after appeal after appeal. And the presiding judge in that lawsuit explicitly [5:43] said in a subsequent hearing that what Donald Trump did would be considered in the common parlance [5:49] as rape. Those were the exact words of the judge. So no, a federal judge begs to differ. That is what [5:56] you've done. As far as the other charge against him, you know, again, this seems to be a reference to [6:01] his close association with Jeffrey Epstein, who was his best friend for years. And as the Epstein [6:07] files revealed, there were a few credible allegations against Trump, one of which was investigated [6:12] multiple times by the FBI. Multiple interviews were conducted. We did videos about this. But again, [6:18] she didn't accuse him. She just asked for his response to a perfectly reasonable question like, look, [6:22] this is the shooter was targeting you and the members of your administration. This is what he had [6:26] to say. What is your response? And he just flies off the handle. It's a perfectly reasonable question. [6:32] Suggests again, just a profound insecurity. I was totally exonerated. Your friends on the other side of [6:39] the plate are the ones that were involved with, let's say Epstein or other things. But I said to myself, [6:46] you know, I'll do this interview. And they'll probably I read the manifesto. You know, he's a [6:51] sick person. But you should be ashamed of yourself reading that because I'm not any of those things. [6:57] Mr. President, I was never excuse me, excuse me. You shouldn't be reading that on 60 minutes. You're [7:03] a disgrace. But go ahead. Let's finish the interview. The other thing that he wrote, [7:08] he's visibly triggered. He's pissed. That is an eminently reasonable question. In no universe is that [7:13] not a reasonable question. She wasn't accusing you of anything. He took it as an accusation. [7:19] Again, because he's visibly insecure. He is palpably insecure. And Trump has a closer [7:24] association with Jeffrey Epstein than any prominent Democrat, including President Clinton. It's just, [7:29] again, terrible response by this. Again, all that's going to do is inflame further suspicions [7:35] about Trump regarding Epstein. Here's another clip. The other thing in the manifesto that I think is [7:40] worth looking at, in terms of determining his motive, is he had been staying at the hotel [7:46] since Friday. He checked in. He said he had cased the place. And he wrote, [7:51] what the hell is the Secret Service doing? And he wrote this quote, I expected security cameras at [7:56] every bend, bugged hotel rooms, armed agents every 10 feet, metal detectors out the wazoo. What I got is [8:02] nothing. He wrote, like, this level of incompetence is insane. Sir, you have already had [8:09] two. Well, he was pretty incompetent, too, because he got caught. And he got caught pretty easily. [8:14] So I'd say he was pretty incompetent, too. You know, I could take any event having to do with [8:19] security or anything else. I can always find fault. Those guys did a good job last night. They did. [8:26] Listen, there's no doubt. Again, they were able to successfully, you know, arrest, [8:30] you know, detain and arrest the suspect in question. But again, there are questions. How the [8:34] hell was he able to get that far in? He wasn't even in the same room as Trump, but he made to get [8:39] it in the building. And Trump posted footage where, you know, he runs past multiple law enforcement [8:46] agents. So again, there are serious questions about this. And of course, you know, even MAGA has [8:51] questions at this point about the Butler, Pennsylvania attempted assassination. So [8:56] Trump can try to downplay this all he wants, but there are legitimate security concerns. And this is [9:01] only going to further inflame that scrutiny and those questions. So here, Trump, again, [9:06] lashes out at the idea of the no kings protests and people who criticize him for being an [9:11] authoritarian. And then again, he turns it into a jab against the press. He had attended a no [9:16] kings protest in California. What did security tell you about what? The reason you have people like [9:23] that is you have people doing no kings. I'm not a king. What I am. If I was a king, I wouldn't be [9:28] dealing with you. He doesn't want to be dealing with the media. He really doesn't, which is why, [9:34] again, he lashes out any time somebody asks a perfectly reasonable question. And the no kings [9:40] protests, which, by the way, have been overwhelmingly peaceful, many protests having no arrest whatsoever. [9:46] It is a shockingly peaceful series of mass protests and some of the biggest in the history [9:51] of the planet, let alone the history of the United States. It's not that we're saying that Trump is a [9:56] king. We know he's not a king. It's that he wants to be a king, which is emphatically true. [10:00] This is a guy who is the most authoritarian president in American history, the most corrupt [10:05] president in American history, a man who thinks that by signing an executive order, he can overturn [10:10] constitutional law, a man whose Supreme Court justices granted him sweeping presidential immunity, [10:15] the likes of which sovereigns get in monarchies like Great Britain, for example. He absolutely wants [10:23] to be a king. He's violated the Constitution, the peaceful transfer of power, which is the most [10:27] fundamental aspect of our democracy. All of that is perfectly legitimate. No one's saying Trump is a [10:32] king. We're saying that he wants to be. And it's disturbing how far he's gone to try to make that [10:36] a de facto reality. Perfectly reasonable. Also at the dinner last night was your secretary, [10:43] Robert F. Kennedy Jr. His sister, Kerry Kennedy, was there. They've both witnessed their father [10:49] and their uncle be assassinated. That's right. Erica Kirk was there. The House Majority Leader, [10:56] Steve Scalise, was there. Yeah. Political violence has touched so many people in that room. Is there [11:04] something that you as president can do? What can be done to change the trajectory? Well, you know, [11:12] you go back 20 years, 40 years, 100 years, 200 years, 500 years, it's always been there. People are [11:21] assassinated. People are injured. People are hurt. And I'm not sure that there's any more now than [11:28] there was. I do think that the hate speech of the Democrats, much more so, is very dangerous. I [11:34] really think it's very dangerous to the country. So again, he had a brief moment of grace, [11:40] about a 12-hour window. I mentioned that. Again, I'm not giving him flowers for it. I'm not going to [11:45] give him a parade for it. I refuse to grade him on a curve. But I did note, and I'm happy to note, [11:49] that for the first time in the immediate aftermath of the shooting, Donald Trump did not [11:53] immediately become divisive. He immediately attacked the Democratic Party, liberals, [11:57] progressives, or anything like that, which is his want, which is his habit. But 24 hours later, [12:03] he's back at it. He's back to his old tricks as the president of the United States, the most powerful, [12:07] important, and influential person on earth, abusing his position to attack his political opponents in [12:12] ways we've simply never seen any other president. Joe Biden did not do this. Barack Obama did not do [12:18] this. Bill Clinton did not do this. George W. Bush did not do this. This is a unique aspect of Trump, [12:23] and it is dangerous. The president of the United States should be held at the highest possible [12:27] standard, and they do have the ability to influence the culture, influence the tone, [12:31] influence the rhetoric. Donald Trump has routinely celebrated and glorified violence against his [12:37] political foes. And when he does it, it's infinitely worse than any random liberal or, quite frankly, [12:43] any random Democratic politician doing it. What Trump does is objectively worse. And now he's trying [12:48] to make it a partisan political issue because he's insecure, because he's offended, and he doesn't [12:54] take accountability. As the president of the United States, is there something you can do? No, [12:58] it's just the way it is. But Democrats need to stop criticizing me. Fuck that and fuck you. [13:02] Here's another clip. Well, I know the White House Correspondents Association very much appreciates you [13:07] going last night and honoring a commitment to do it again. I hope we're going to do it again. Nora, [13:14] tell him to get it going. And we should do it within 30 days. And they'll have even more security, [13:21] and they'll have bigger perimeter security. It'll be fine. But tell them to do it again. We can't let [13:28] something be. It's not that I want to go. I'm very busy. I don't need that. I think it's very important [13:35] that they do it again. So again, Nora O'Donnell basically kissing his ass after he insulted her [13:43] to his face or her face, excuse me, and attacking the media writ large and attacking Democrats. [13:48] It's very much an abusive like Stockholm syndrome situation. They just Donald Trump abuses them, [13:53] verbally abuses them, and they grade him on a curve and they tolerate it. It is absurd. Now, [13:58] I don't expect you to give the president of the United States a finger or whatever, [14:00] but to push back and you don't have to kiss his ass. You can simultaneously give this man [14:05] a tough but fair interview and not kiss his ass even though he was the target of an attempted [14:12] assassination attempt. These things are not mutually exclusive. We're not inclined. We're not [14:17] obligated to treat Trump differently. Everything he is today, he was yesterday and he was the day [14:24] before, the day before, the day before. He is still an authoritarian. He is still the most corrupt, [14:29] authoritarian, most morally, morally reprehensible president in American history. All of that is [14:34] true. And yet there should be no violence against him. We have elections coming up. The American [14:38] people shouldn't have voted him back into power in the first place, but they did. We have an [14:42] election coming up, the midterms in the 2028 presidential election. That's how we deal with [14:46] this. We protest, we criticize, we investigate, we use power when we have it at the legislative and [14:53] executive level to hold him accountable. That's what we should do. But again, it's just, it's very much [14:59] a strange relationship that the media has with Trump that quite frankly, I don't think they would ever have [15:03] with any other president. But there you have it, folks, Donald Trump losing his shit during the 60 [15:08] Minutes interview, getting triggered, and we're going right back to his old habits of attacking [15:12] the media and attacking Democrats. This is who he is. In the meantime, let me know what you think in the comments.