Trump Praises Hegseth’s Doozy of a Press Conference, Milks the MAGA Faithful & Melania’s New Show

[0:18] busy day of dumb stuff here in the United States and we'll get to all that but I want to begin the [0:23] show with a look at the latest project from our former president you know it's easy to forget [0:29] there was a president wedged in between Trump and Trump and that was good old Joe Biden who [0:35] put his auto pen to paper and has written a new memoir that is due out next week it's called [0:41] promise me America which sounds like a goodbye kind of promise me America but according to the [0:48] description it tells the story of President Biden's groundbreaking four years in the White House [0:53] comes out Tuesday just smart they're at least releasing two days before Grand Theft Auto 6 [0:58] because they don't want you know they're basically the same fan base they don't want to have to pick [1:02] which line to stand and the book's already a bestseller you know a lot of times these presidential [1:06] memoirs are not very revealing but this one might be a little different the Atlantic published an [1:11] excerpt in which Biden details his meeting with Trump at the White House following the election [1:17] in 2024 Biden says Trump said you know Joe if it weren't for politics I believe we'd be good [1:23] friends if it weren't for politics we'd spend all our time golfing together it's like saying I could [1:29] have been sober if it weren't for all the booze I drank Biden said Trump gave him a lot of compliments [1:36] meeting was supposed to go 30 minutes it went on for two hours and that's Trump's kind of thing [1:41] he you know he fawned over mom Donnie when you meet him in person he's not so tough he's your buddy if [1:46] you're not in the room he's a hard ass I mean can you imagine even floating the idea of being good [1:51] friends with someone you spent years insulting like this Joe Biden is the worst president in [1:57] the history of our country has no sense doesn't know what he's doing grossly incompetent and our [2:04] country is going to hell he's the worst president in history he's the most corrupt president in history [2:10] he's grossly incompetent he doesn't know what the hell he's doing he doesn't have a clue [2:15] Biden is a vicious person Biden's a stupid person he's a low IQ person but he's vicious [2:22] he's a Manchurian candidate Joe Biden is a part-time president I call him corrupt Joe he's corrupt [2:28] he's mentally no good he can't put two sentences together he doesn't know what to do you know he's [2:34] never a smart person crooked Joe Biden is the demented tyrant he's a demented tyrant but he's my demented [2:42] tyrant demented tyrant should be the title of Trump's book when he writes one you know tomorrow [2:50] special day tomorrow is Veterans Day and you remember last year somebody erected a statue of [2:58] Trump with Jeffrey Epstein holding hands they put it on the National Mall well they did it again this [3:03] time honoring our president's non-service to his country as you know Trump received five deferments [3:08] during the Vietnam War one for bone spurs in his feet four for his studies in college honestly I [3:14] don't know which excuse I believe less but the pranksters who made this statue chose to focus on [3:21] his feet his spurry bones all that poor man you know he wanted to fight in that war so badly but [3:26] those bone spurs just kept poking him the face is a stunning likeness I have to admit it actually looks [3:33] more like me than him but this folks is this is what beautifying Washington DC should look like [3:41] according to the Washington Post the sculpture is the work of a group of anonymous artists who [3:46] go by the name the secret handshake their identities are unknown they use a go-between to obtain permits [3:53] for the installations from the National Park Service and that go-between's name is Smokey Bear [3:58] that's right thank you Smokey and thank you secret handshake you know what when you cut funding for [4:03] the arts the arts cut you right back meanwhile construction of blob the builder's big beautiful [4:13] 250 foot tall Arc de Trump is on hold for at least two weeks by order of a federal judge but that order [4:19] didn't stop the White House from launching a website for the arch with a video rendering of what this much [4:25] needed new monument will look like and may she guide our democracy by the light of her shining sweater [4:55] globes nice right Guillermo very nice it was an up and down day for Pete Hegseth who yesterday got hit [5:05] with eight articles of impeachment in the house outgoing Congressman Thomas Massey who is a Republican [5:12] seemed to be having fun with what is likely his last official act in office and had some advice [5:17] for Pete Hegseth ahead of Pete's press conference this morning I hope he addresses the eight articles [5:23] and doesn't get up and misquote the bible in Quentin Tarantino fashion and do some pull-ups [5:29] and you know call everybody fat and gay like for being for this impeachment we need more press [5:36] conferences from politicians who are retiring in two months Pete Hegseth so Pete Hegseth had to defend [5:46] himself he gave a doozy of a performance today he did exactly what members of the Trump reverse do [5:51] when they find themselves in a situation like this he smeared on the chapstick he got down on his knees [5:57] and kissed the royal ass we've never had a better commander-in-chief full stop I get to watch him [6:01] every single day he lives and breathes America first and it's the honor of a lifetime to be his [6:07] secretary of war any day he'll have me I'll be right here at this podium well in that case I now [6:11] pronounce you husband and wife that may have been the most romantic speech I've ever heard given by [6:17] a secretary of war look out Melania pretty Pete's gunning for your spot moments later Trump gave his [6:24] assessment of Pete's please don't impeach me speech he wrote Pete Hegseth gets an A plus plus plus for [6:31] his defense against the disgruntled angry defeated former congressman Thomas Massey a total loser and then [6:38] later in the day republicans in the house voted to postpone that impeachment vote they referred [6:43] it to committee which means somebody's having a shot of impeach flavored schnapps at the pentagon [6:48] tonight if you know what I mean you know over the past week we've been very focused on the beating [6:54] republicans took in the midterms including the senate but we haven't heard a peep from Kentucky [7:00] senator mitch mcconnell until now senator mcconnell can i get your quick reaction to the midterms [7:07] the gop's midterm losses what do you think is going to change [7:12] do you think that republicans okay no problem do you think republicans will get anything done in [7:17] the lame duck session oh all right well you heard the word duck and he looked up that's a good sign [7:26] right i mean how is this allowed seriously there is there no requirement that a senator not be a [7:33] vegetable wall in office i mean all those republicans who are screaming about joe biden every time [7:38] he stuttered nothing from anybody all this poor bastard wants to do is fall asleep at home watching [7:44] wheel of fortune can we not just give the man that mitch mcconnell is supposed to retire in january [7:54] we'll see i guess another republican who's going to be out of a job soon is lauren bobert from [7:59] colorado you know they're still going through votes but she is projected to lose her seat in the house [8:05] she was a congresswoman for six years and what did she accomplish over those last six years well [8:10] she looked like the evil white girlfriend in a tyler perry movie does that count for anything [8:16] it was quite a scene at bobert's election night party you know she was favored to win they thought [8:20] she was going to win but i guess she started to fall behind in the vote count and all of a sudden [8:25] the fake news wasn't so fake anymore yeah the denver post put that out a couple hours ago but i don't [8:34] know why nothing new in a while is this thing that there's a cyber attack at the secretary of state's [8:45] office just let y'all know we'll get back to the music now he's already preparing for next season [9:01] of dancing with the stars you think she'll go farther than you did guillermo no i don't think so no [9:07] lauren bobert's defeat is a great loss for our monologue but now she can go back to doing what [9:17] she does best which is getting kicked out of applebee's for drinking too many shark bowls it's uh it is [9:23] a sad ending for a woman known for giving happy ones but you know what they say when one door closes [9:29] a window opens on only fans and we wish her the best meanwhile after the big loss uh for republicans [9:36] trump is making lemonade he's once again milking the maga faithful with some hot new merch [9:42] the day after the midterm he said he's going to become mr veto and he had a hat and he liked it [9:46] so much he's now selling the veto hats for 55 a pop what he does this is interesting he creates new [9:53] hats to remind him of what he's supposed to do he's like veto if he forgets to veto something looks [9:58] in the mirror he's like oh yeah and then he vetoes it's to help him and he's getting older you know [10:04] this one uh he uh you to make sure that he never forgets to do that not only is donald trump [10:14] losing voters he's losing followers millions of users have abandoned his twitter knockoff truth [10:19] social traffic from this time a year ago is down almost 40 percent but revenue is up 200 [10:27] thanks to a special service that gives subscribers early access to his rants and raves it's called [10:33] truth api and various organizations including wall street trading firms and anyone with the money to [10:39] pay between 60 and a hundred thousand dollars a month get to see his posts 50 milliseconds before [10:45] everyone else does and why would they pay that because in 50 milliseconds their automated systems [10:51] are able to trade stocks related to whatever this lunatic is posting about that day before the general [10:57] public can see those posts remember when trump accused biden of selling access he is literally selling [11:04] access there's a price for it and everything you could call them and ask how much is the access [11:09] and they'll tell you that's 100 grand a month but if you have a promo code it's only 60 grand a month [11:14] he has people paying him a million dollars a year for information and we barely hear a thing about it [11:21] but he'll tell you all presidents do this you know abraham lincoln did it with the gettysburg [11:26] address for two bits you could find out if it was three score or four score or five score half a second [11:32] before everybody else did he's just sitting in the white house raking it in and did you see him [11:37] call into c-span last night so last night i guess he took a break from picking fabric swatches for the [11:43] ballroom and he dialed into a new show on c-span he called the phone he surprised the host of the show [11:49] and pay special attention to the voice um on the end of the phone that laughs when they connect the calls [11:55] and it looks like we've got a call from the white house um mr president welcome to washington journal [12:03] prime time thank you mamie and good luck with the show i've watched you numerous times and you do a [12:09] great job but good luck with the show yes that feminine giggle you heard at the top of the call [12:14] was either his assistant natalie harp or could have been his son eric we don't know but it was probably [12:20] probably natalie she does the phone how cute that is though they're giggling it's giggle time in the [12:28] white house trump stayed on the phone for about eight minutes and then let the random callers once [12:33] again have the floor you can call us anytime you can you have an open invitation to come on the program [12:38] and and be our guest okay sir well you you do a great job and uh good luck with everything it's my [12:43] honor to be one of your early calls thank you thank you very much take care of yourself goodbye bye [12:51] and uh we will go back to your calls now we'll go to margo calling us from portland oregon [12:59] turns out margo was just trump again doing a lady voice he literally has nothing better to do than [13:05] call it to c-span you know how many people are watching c-span at nine o'clock at night two him and [13:11] us that's it and while trump's calling into shows the first lady is the star of one melania [13:18] is about to become the first first lady with her own tv show while in office amazon which as you know [13:24] produced melania's 75 million dollar bribeumentary is using the leftovers from that to make a new [13:31] two-part docu-series called melania the series it promises unprecedented insight into the first lady's [13:38] life in the white house wouldn't it be great if she spent a month living with nathan fielder and they [13:43] release but amazon's releasing the new show on november 20th the trailer is already here and i have [13:49] to be honest it looks kind of good a new two-part series everybody wants to make as many monies as [13:56] we can before my husband stopped doing president we have still footages more from documentary movie [14:05] so why not make the one more grief for sad fat people that loves my husband baron is son he is tall [14:15] person some peoples are not tall but he is i like to wave i like to shake hand i gets to meet robot [14:28] robot is funny and strong robot can wave like me melania this is boss with women for trump [14:41] boss deliver many women to my husband good go to him i go away on plane plane is like boss but up in sky [14:53] melania the series seemed like a good idea at the time available on prime video it's still a good idea [15:03] make no mistake hey we got a good show for you guys andrew scott is with us we have music from jesse [15:08] welles i smith is sitting in with the pleijons tonight and we'll be right back with jody foster so stick