Trump responds to Obama's viral joke about him

[0:00] Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed brought out the heavy hitters this weekend. [0:04] President Barack Obama joined him at a campaign event in Detroit and quickly went after President Trump. [0:10] What's up with the gold? Man, he's got the white house looking like Saddam Hussein opened a cheesecake factory. [0:21] It's just gold everywhere. [0:24] Trump responded in kind, telling reporters that Obama is not a smart guy, [0:28] adding that only a, quote, stupid person would run the country as he did. [0:32] He responded again at a rally in Mississippi tonight. [0:37] Barack Hussein Obama, have you heard of him? [0:42] Donald Trump spends a lot of his time fixing up the White House. [0:47] Isn't that a nice thing to do? [0:49] He said, this isn't a cheesecake factory, can you believe it? [0:51] Which is a very successful company. [0:54] This isn't, he doesn't like successful companies. [0:57] But, you know, he was very critical about me because I spend time. [1:01] It's not money, it's peanuts, but the White House is now in better shape than it was in 1792. [1:10] Van, idea. [1:12] Dispense with the 22nd Amendment, Trump and Obama. [1:15] Let's get this on. [1:16] Hey, listen. [1:17] Hey, I'm in. [1:19] It's another election and it's these two who are making the argument. [1:22] Your thoughts? [1:23] Hey, listen. [1:24] Barack Obama is still the most talented communicator. [1:28] And when you get him loose like he was this weekend, there's nobody better. [1:33] And he lit, he lit him up. [1:35] By the way, Bill Clinton also lit him up. [1:36] He said he made the White House look like Liberace's bathroom. [1:39] So you've got, you know, both of our heavy hitters whooping this guy. [1:43] And I don't think that Trump's rebuttals are as sharp. [1:47] Listen, you're watching the collapse of one of the great American talents in Donald Trump. [1:52] Donald Trump used to have such a fine sense of where the working class was. [1:56] Now he's out there, you know, bragging on the fact that oil companies are making money while everybody else is suffering. [2:02] So you see, Obama has not lost his fastball. [2:05] Trump's losing his. [2:07] Who's winning the Cheesecake Factory debate? [2:09] First of all, Liberace's bathroom? [2:12] Bill Clinton turned the Oval Office into Hugh Hefner's bedroom and he's out here criticizing Donald Trump. [2:17] Come on. [2:18] That's number one. [2:19] Number two, has anybody seen Barack Obama's presidential library and he's got design critiques for Donald Trump? [2:26] Number three, this was a totally unserious speech by someone who can't get over one thing, [2:33] that his presidency will be remembered for rooting health care and then ushering in the Trump years. [2:38] That's all Barack Obama gave the country. [2:40] He's been lashing out emotionally ever since. [2:42] He campaigns every year on the same tired jokes and it's not going to work. [2:45] They were brand new jokes. [2:47] I think Donald Trump's presidency is going to be remembered for a slice of the Cheesecake Factory's prime cheesecake. [2:54] Now I think probably half the size it was and it's $13 a slice. [3:00] Because everyone's on a Zempick, right? [3:00] That's what he's going to be remembered for. [3:02] No, darling, I think it's because prices are high everywhere because of inflation. [3:08] Cheesecake is getting smaller. [3:10] It could be a Zempick, but I think it's getting smaller because Cheesecake Factory can't afford to give us a decent slice anymore. [3:18] Who's winning this fight, if anyone? [3:19] Well, you wouldn't guess it today, but there are an awful lot of Obama-Trump voters out there. [3:26] In each of these states, Iowa, Ohio, Michigan, about 10% of the electorate voted for Obama and then switched to Trump in 2016. [3:35] And those are the voters who are up for grabs. [3:37] It turns out it wasn't like they made some covenant with Trump to support Republicans forever. [3:42] And it's not just the rhetoric, it's the reality. [3:44] They signed up for Trump in 2024 not because they loved him personally, but because they believed he was going to usher in an economic golden age, [3:52] that he was going to extract America from foreign conflict, and that he wasn't going to make major changes to entitlement programs, including Medicaid. [3:59] And so that's why his approval rating among independents in our tracker is at 27%. [4:05] And when he's at 35% approval in Michigan, is that a great place for a Republican candidate to invite him to appear on stage? [4:12] I don't think so. [4:14] Trump's response, okay, he said today, and I don't have a camera, but this is what he said, it's not about money, it's about seeing. [4:21] Guys like Obama don't see it. [4:23] You don't see dirt. [4:24] He doesn't see filth. [4:25] He doesn't see broken ornaments on a building. [4:27] For you to say it's a cheese cake factory that just shows why you were a lousy president back then. [4:31] I have a different view than the president on this. [4:34] I mean, I love any time liberal elites look down on middle-class America, right? [4:39] Deplorables with Clinton, clinging to your guns and religion. [4:43] For a lot of Americans, like, Cheesecake Factory is not tacky or low-class. [4:48] It's actually a nice night out. [4:49] And you wonder why Trump has made gains with middle-class Americans? [4:52] It's comments like that. [4:53] Well, hold on a second. [4:54] First of all, he's losing all those gains because he's also up there saying that I don't care about your gas prices and we're making a fortune while you're suffering. [5:00] And also, I love Cheesecake Factory. [5:03] I love Waffle House. [5:04] I love Cheesecake Factory, too. [5:04] But Cheesecake Factory is garty. [5:06] It is garty and everybody knows that. [5:08] And so I think the reason that it sticks is because it shows that Obama does have a feel for everyday people. [5:14] I think right-wingers want to pretend like, oh, this is a proof of elitism. [5:17] It's proof that Donald Trump is just tacky as hell and everybody knows it. [5:19] And it's all too expensive for most people. [5:21] And I think that's what they're really feeling. [5:22] And here's the question for Democrats. [5:23] It's not whether they spent money early enough, but where's that guy been? [5:26] I mean, if they're pulling people off the bench, I would have pulled Barack Obama off the bench months ago because he's the most gifted communicator of our lifetime, right? [5:32] And if it's a one-on-one between Barack Obama and Donald Trump, Barack Obama is going to win every time. [5:37] He's more captivating. [5:38] He's funnier and he's more popular. [5:40] So do you know who Trump brought in today to go to the Cheesecake Factory? [5:43] I don't think it's the sort of person you're talking about, Bill. [5:46] Scott Besson. [5:46] It's a billionaire named Scott Besson who may not frequent the Cheesecake Factory. [5:52] I don't know. [5:52] Perhaps he does. [5:53] But he went today. [5:53] And here's what he said. [5:54] He went today. [5:55] I have what I always had, the French dip cheeseburger. [6:01] I eat a great meal, always have a great meal. [6:03] And I would tell the Martha's Vineyard set to give it a try. [6:08] Lean in. [6:09] Okay. [6:09] Is that going to apply? [6:11] Lean in. [6:11] Why Scott Besson talking to the Martha's Vineyard crowd? [6:14] Bill's loving the theater, but that's for an audience of one. [6:18] Exactly right. [6:19] I mean, Scott Besson is the worst messenger for that particular message you could possibly make. [6:25] But this is where we get distracted by, you know, stuff that doesn't really matter. [6:31] What's pissing people off is the intersection of corruption and costs. [6:35] And a president who says that affordability is now a hoax, who says that he doesn't give a damn about this stuff. [6:40] Now, Democrats have their own baggage. [6:42] But the key number to keep in mind is 22% approval rating from Donald Trump among independents. [6:46] That gives you a sense of the gravity of what's going on. [6:49] Bill, Bill, what's going on with Trump? [6:52] Okay, that's an existential question. [6:55] But he goes on a stage this weekend and he says about gas prices, but I said, I don't give a damn. [7:02] I'm going to say it. [7:03] We're making a freaking fortune. [7:04] Our country's getting stronger and those pump prices are going to come down. [7:08] I don't give a damn. [7:08] I mean, obviously, that's not in the prompter. [7:11] I mean, nobody would say that's a good idea. [7:14] Go tell people you don't give a damn. [7:16] And we're making a freaking fortune, not Americans. [7:18] What's going on, Bill? [7:19] I could tell you things that you don't care about, like waving at the Jones Act or, you know, [7:23] reducing some of the regulations that allow cheaper diesel and importing foreign diesel. [7:29] Two things. [7:30] One, it hasn't worked. [7:32] Prices are not lower. [7:33] And two, most Americans don't think Republicans care enough about these things. [7:36] Data shows that Americans care about affordability and the economy. [7:41] Americans think that Republicans care about Iran and immigration. [7:44] But how does he go out, Bill, and say, I said, I don't give a damn when people are going to pay a little higher for gas? [7:49] Because he doesn't. [7:50] He really doesn't give a damn. [7:51] I mean, I think he said that out front. [7:53] I mean, he said, I don't care and nothing can stop me. [7:56] And that's the challenge for the Democrats is, can they actually challenge him? [7:59] Can they actually stop him? [8:00] I think the bigger issue here is that they don't want people who fake like they're going to cheese factory. [8:05] Mike Lawler was out there pretending to work at McDonald's. [8:08] They want people to understand that they can't afford McDonald's. [8:10] That's the issue right now. [8:11] And all the politicians feel fake and out of touch. [8:13] That's why there's kind of an eat the rich mentality that's focused on the corruption that started in Hungary, [8:17] might hit Israel this week, and is coming to the U.S., I think, in the next week especially. [8:21] Paul, one thing I think is very interesting, though, in all seriousness, [8:26] like, this is a collapse of incredible political talent. [8:30] Donald Trump used to scare the crap out of Democrats because he had that feel for the working class. [8:35] He was somehow able to really be their tribune. [8:38] It is a long way from that guy to this guy saying we're making a freaking fortune and we don't give a damn about price. [8:44] This is a complete face plant, a total collapse of a rare political talent, and this party's going to pay for it. [8:52] I think he's become extremely undisciplined, and it's this spray and pray kind of strategy where he's throwing everything, [8:57] and he's neglecting to realize that Iran sits over all of it, and the country knows that he started the war in Iran. [9:02] He's continuing the war in Iran. That's a road at his base. [9:05] MAGA is very frustrated that he went against his no forever war promise, and it's killing him with independence [9:10] because people know that if you stop the Iran war, gas prices go down. [9:14] So there's one guy who can impact gas prices, and it's the president with his war in Iran. [9:17] Yeah, I just want to make one other point for why Democrats are doing well right now. [9:21] It's not just the implosion of Donald Trump into sort of self-obsession and self-parody. [9:25] It's that they're putting forward candidates who have brought a lot of populist energy to common-sense center-left policies, right? [9:32] You look at Rob Sand in Iowa. You look at what Tallarico's done benefiting from the nomination of Paxton. [9:37] You look at the Kansas—Hamilton in Kansas, who was the pastor of the largest church in the state. [9:42] These are—these are candidates that Democrats haven't traditionally put forward. [9:45] They don't resemble anything like the DSA, who do nothing to help you gain a majority, [9:49] but they're expanding the map because they're a different kind of candidate, [9:52] and they're winning over the center, and that's the power, and that's what's driving the momentum in this election. [9:57] They're better, but the question is, is they good enough to overcome the unpopularity of their own democratic brand? [10:02] Especially among independent. That's the question. [10:03] Go back to the point you were making about the money coming in late. [10:05] Yeah, yeah, and the smart ones are running against their—like Sand, they're running against both parties. [10:10] Running against everything.