 I don't usually cover Donald Trump's rallies because I don't like to subject myself to torture if I don't have to but I am willing to put up with, you know, some things that are more unhinged than usual and usually at these rallies he kind of just drones on incoherently for an hour or so and there's usually not much substance there but here, you know, it was his first rally in months and you can tell he had a lot of pent up energy because even though I don't think he actually enjoys being president I think he does like doing these rallies, right? He likes the adoration, he likes people, you know, cheering for him he likes that, he's a narcissist but at this rally there is so much that transpired, I have to talk about it and some of the things that was said at this rally was just beyond the pale even for someone who knows that a lot of the Trump news stories are, you know, sensationalized and the media covers things that are supposed to be controversial when in actuality there are other bigger controversies and scandals from Trump's administration that they should be focusing on namely, you know, warmongering and whatnot that being said, I want to talk about the Tulsa rally because even before it took place there were really weird things happening first of all, Donald Trump literally threatened protesters with violence he tweeted out on Friday any protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes who are going to Oklahoma please understand, you will not be treated like you have been in New York, Seattle or Minneapolis it will be a much different scene now, I mean, we've seen the videos anyone who watches this show knows about the footage of the NYPD driving their cars into crowds of protesters we've seen protesters in Seattle gassed with chemical weapons so they haven't been treated nicely so maybe the implication here, if we're being charitable is that Trump wants to actually treat these protesters more nicely wrong well, I mean, of course not this is a direct threat of violence to protesters he lumps protesters in with agitators and anarchists usually he likes to make it seem as if all of the people out on the streets are the same but he's very distinctly saying protesters too so you see all the violence that's taking place in the streets currently perpetuated by police officers predominantly well, it's going to be worse here what you've been seeing in Minneapolis and Seattle and New York well, that was a walk in the park compared to what we're going to do to you if you start any shit here so I mean the implication is that they will be treated worse now putting that aside, this was taking place at an indoor venue probably featuring almost nobody wearing masks thus spreading COVID although this guy was wearing a mask, I'm sure that he was made fun of because half of that crowd probably thought that it wasn't even a real thing like I think they literally believe COVID-19 is either a hoax or you know the numbers are overblown, they're conspiratorial so I mean you know that they're going to be spreading COVID-19 if they're indoor at this stadium not wearing masks and on top of that we know that some of Trump's staffers who are going to be at this rally literally tested positive for COVID-19 so I mean it puts people who are going there at a higher risk but regardless you know the rally took place anyway and it attracted quite a broad range of psychopaths you have a counterfeit version of the Brady Bunch singing about Donald Trump, they may be low-key Satanic I don't know, you have this particular individual cracking a whip outside of the venue which I mean I'm sure was trying to communicate a very specific message but I mean you also had people showing up with I Can't Breathe t-shirts as well now maybe you know this is a right winger who was wearing an I Can't Breathe shirt to signify that she doesn't like to wear masks because they're uncomfortable and they make it difficult to breathe but you know it could be a message in support of George Floyd which Trump has tweeted previously that he supports George Floyd he wants to honor George Floyd's legacy although you know whip guy, I didn't see the police arrest him but the lady with an I Can't Breathe shirt was actually arrested even though she had a ticket and she attended this event she was arrested, take a look and then the officer said just because you have a ticket that's what we're trying to figure out right now Alex they're arresting me they're arresting me it appears they're placing her under arrest right now Alex I've got nothing, I have tickets to this event I'm trying to listen to what she's saying I'm not arresting me so whip guy, you're cool, you can come on in lady with the I Can't Breathe t-shirt, you've got to get out I mean it kind of tells you about their priorities right where they are allowing open racists to be associated with this event and people who are speaking out against police brutality and speaking out in favor of George Floyd who Trump said he supports are being escorted out now Donald Trump isn't the one who ordered her to be you know escorted out but still I mean we know who this is trying to appeal to right we know exactly who Donald Trump is pandering to with this rally in Tulsa now the lead up to this event may have been almost as bizarre as the event itself because Donald Trump boasted online that nearly a million people requested tickets but in actuality the stadium it was pretty empty now you know theoretically you'd think this is a good thing because that allows ample room for social distancing but of course that didn't take place but come to find out it was Zoomers on TikTok and K-pop stands who actually trolled Donald Trump by ordering a ton of tickets kind of inflating the interest for this event and some of them online were talking about they ordered you know 20 others say I got 11 so this led to Donald Trump being embarrassed thinking that he was going to have this huge large crowd when in actuality this wasn't a full stadium well played Zoomers well played you know K-pop stands I am so proud of Zoomers they are so much more cooler than millennials and I love you all so much you really are the future and I'm so happy about that so I think that if you're going to troll someone there's not a more wholesome and better way to do it than what they did so that was fantastic and Donald Trump was trying to explain away you know why the crowds were lower than he anticipated but moving on I want to talk about the actual substance and I use the word substance loosely of this event because there were moments where Donald Trump just kind of rambled incoherently for minutes at a time there were other moments where I can't help but feel disturbed but we're going to start out with the more lighthearted moments where he tried to redeem himself after he sipped water like a weirdo so he took a sip of a glass of water and the crowd loved it good job Mr. President that was incredible I wish Bernie could do that like the fact that they were cheering him on as he drank water it's just weird like what world are we living in we are literally living in idiocracy and I hate to be that guy but he still didn't really drink water like a normal person he was licking his lips like a weirdo when you only drank water like what was this now aside from that moment there were portions of it that I could pick out and really nitpick and make fun of him for because he doesn't make sense like he, like Joe Biden is I think experiencing very rapid cognitive decline I don't know who is declining faster but I mean there were moments where he wasn't saying anything and he gets sidetracked so easily where he'll be trying to make one point and then he'll branch off into a different point and then from that point he'll branch off into a different point when you know five minutes later he doesn't know about the original point that he was trying to make like it's easy for him to go off on tangents but there were moments where he contradicted himself in a very embarrassing albeit still chilling chilling way so he called out so-called cancel culture and you know he was angry because not even the confederate statues are safe nowadays because of the PC police take a look at what he said specifically and listen to the words that he uses who does not conform to their demands for absolute and total control we're not conforming that's why we're here actually so he very directly and explicitly calls out the people who want to quote punish, cancel and persecute anyone who does not conform so he says that but he also says this at that same event we ought to come up with legislation that if you burn the American flag you go to jail for one year one year Jim and James Jim and James we ought to do it they talk about freedom of speech and I'm a big believer in freedom of speech but that's desecration that's a terrible thing we used to have things we don't have them anymore we want to be so open and look what happens we should have legislation that if somebody wants to burn the American flag and stomp on it but just burn it they go to jail for one year ok? so on one hand he doesn't like that the left wants to punish, cancel and persecute anyone who does not conform but at the same time he wants you to go to jail for a year because you burned a piece of material and the crowd ate it up they loved it now obviously this is unconstitutional burning the flag flag desecration is freedom of speech now I love how he throws in the little caveat I'm in support of freedom of speech but I mean that's desecration so that's different desecration is a part of free speech because where does it end? I'm not one to necessarily make the slippery slope argument but if we start allowing the prosecution of people who burn cloth which is permissible under the constitution then are we not allowed to burn the bible desecrate religious figures if you are going to be an authoritarian at least try to be consistent because the crowd cheered him on as he denounced left-wing authoritarians who want to punish people and taking down confederate statues that's not even cancel culture we should want to cancel members of the confederacy that shouldn't be controversial cancel culture is good in that regard but anyways they loved when he said cancel culture is bad but when it comes to their version of cancel culture canceling people who choose to burn cloth or desecrate cloth well that's good so basically to them authoritarianism is good only if they're the ones that are being authoritarian I mean there's no consistency here ideologically this is a cult and anything that their dear leader says they're going to follow because I mean that's what cults do now he also went on to make a point about his supporters he says that the left they're the ones who are usually violent although if for some reason things got a little worse in this country and it devolved into I don't know maybe a civil war or you know left versus right violence he knows which side he'd want to be on and sort of attack our city the mayor and the governor did a great job but they were very violent people and our people are not nearly as violent but if they ever were it would be a terrible terrible day for the other side because I know our people I know our people we do too they are violent fascists who simultaneously believe that the left are a bunch of hypersensitive snowflakes but at the same time violent thugs who we should all be afraid of so I mean this is it goes beyond him just being divisive he's literally trying to pit Americans against each other right and usually if you're a president you have a vested interest in making sure that the country is united because if you try to pit Americans against each other that leads to societal unrest and chaos and that makes you look bad and incompetent as a leader but I mean he doesn't know what he's doing he doesn't actually think these things through he doesn't think about the consequences of trying to escalate tensions between the left and the right he wants to make it very clear to his base of followers that it is the leftists who are the enemies they are your enemy they are not like you and anything that they say or do is bad by definition because they are your enemy he has dehumanized people who protest and he is tacitly endorsing violence here by suggesting that his supporters would actually be better at conducting violence in the event it came to that so this was definitely an unhinged event but you know the moments where he talked about cracking down on the first amendment and you know ramping up the violent rhetoric that is something that we can't just look away from we can't just chalk it up to more Donald Trump derangement syndrome or you know anti-trump outrage this is serious this is serious he's getting desperate right it's an election year and he's pulling out all the stops and he doesn't care if he burns the country to the ground he just wants to get reelected so if he thinks you know he can ramp up the divide in this country the polarization then if that serves this political cause that's what he's going to do we can't allow this to continue we can't allow him to threaten to use violence against protesters we can't allow him to demonize the left and call for their constitutional right to desegrate a flag to be violated he wants to jail them for a year I mean this is fascism and sure he may not be the next Hitler right that's not what I'm trying to imply here but it doesn't matter a fascist is a fascist and that is what he is doing he's using the tactics of fascist and what he's doing is unacceptable and we have to call it out