 So Trump sat down for a town hall with George Stephanopoulos on ABC News and Watching it all the way through it really Made me wonder whether or not Donald Trump ate lots and lots of paint chips as a child because it's not just like he's lying repeatedly and Sound stupid because both of those things are true But like he says things specifically that make me wonder if he's like Delusional he seems like he's not all there But before we talk about the specifics, I just want to point out how much I love this picture It might be a little bit grainy But like it looks like George Stephanopoulos is terrified And I don't know why Donald Trump is doing like the thumb point But look at how much space there is between these two and he just looks absolutely fearful for his life and I can't say I blame him because Trump is really weird and this this town hall really proves it So let's start with a couple of short clips. So just last week we got confirmation From the Bob Woodward tapes that Donald Trump did in fact know about the severity of COVID-19 While he was publicly downplaying it and on tape he admitted that he was trying to downplay it So he wouldn't cause a panic But then at this town hall when somebody asked why would you want to downplay it? Um, he says I never downplayed it. Why would you downplay a pandemic that is known to disproportionately? harm Low-income families and minority communities. Yeah. Well, I didn't downplay it. I actually in many ways I upplayed it in terms of action Oh, okay So I guess that we'll just pretend like the tapes that we all listened to last week aren't real because you say so I mean, this is what I'm talking about. You are on tape admitting That You downplayed it and you wanted to downplay it to not cause a panic. So why are you now saying? that you Didn't downplay it like it's like me saying I don't wear glasses But you can see me wearing glasses. They're on my face right now. I can touch them. They're here But I just deny it. Nope. I'm not wearing glasses You'd think I was delusional, right? You'd think that I'm not living in the reality in the real world that everyone else lives in well I mean that's the sense that I got from this town hall now Donald Trump was asked why he won't support a national mask mandate and His response was incoherent, of course, but he ended up blaming Joe Biden For not instituting a nationwide mask mandate. Let me remind you Joe Biden is not the president But nonetheless that didn't stop Donald Trump from blaming him someone who currently doesn't have power from uh, not taking action They said at the Democrat convention, they're gonna do a national mandate They never did it because they've checked out and they didn't do it And a quite a good question is you ask like Joe Biden They said we're gonna do a national mandate on masks called on all governors to have them It is a statement. Well, but he he didn't do it. I mean, he never did it Now, uh, there is by the way a lot of people don't want to wear masks There are a lot of people think the masks are not good And there are a lot of people that as an example you have those people I'll tell you who those people are Waiters they come over and they serve you and they have a mask and I saw it the other day where they were Serving me and they're playing with a mask. I'm not blaming that. I'm just saying what happens They're playing with a mask. So the mask is over and they're Touching it and and then they're touching the plate. That can't be good So he literally is implying now that Wearing a mask might actually be more dangerous Great message to have the president send right now Um, and on top of that he blames Joe Biden for not instituting a national mask mandate What do you want Joe Biden to do? I mean the r&c chairwoman just last week ronnie mcdaniel Also accused joe biden of bungling covet 19 by saying something to the effect of You can't run from your disastrous record Donald trump is the president right now. You are the one with power. So why would we expect joe biden? To institute some sort of nationwide mask mandate. Do you expect him to try to sign it into law? What are you expecting like the things that he says are fucking stupid? Like you're not all there Like you had to have eaten a lot of paint chips as a child or just like drink buckets and buckets of paint Because you are a very stupid person and it's like I can't just say oh, he's lying I can't say he's just stupid because that doesn't necessarily suffice like it goes deeper than that like he's delusional He is not all there But if you think that was weird him criticizing joe biden for not taking action on a mask mandate Listen to what he says about the military our military when I came into this great office Our military was depleted. It was in the worst shape. It was in probably ever It was depleted the planes were old and broken the ships everything You see what I've done. I've rebuilt 2.5 trillion dollars And you think that was easy getting that money from democrats because they don't like the military You mean the same democratic party who consistently votes to increase the military budget? Are we talking about the same democratic party who just a month ago? They voted down even a 10 cut to military spending Is that the same democratic party we're talking about here because it seems like his perception of the democratic party Is much different than what's happening in reality the democratic party They aren't dubs anymore the democratic party. They are hawkish. They expand the military And what you are saying about it being depleted? It doesn't just sound factually incorrect It's so wrong that it makes you sound like a fucking stupid person because How bad was the military when donald trump took office? Well, let's look at these phenomenal graphs provided to us by the brilliant andrea witty of connecta dot cusa dot com Well, as you can see here military spending reached its highest point since the cold war during the obama years And on top of that we spend more on the military than the next nine countries combined most of which are our allies And on top of that we have hundreds and hundreds of military bases around the world So to say that the military was depleted when you took office is a lie That's so outrageous that it would be more believable if you told us that there was a reptilian body underneath the orange skin That you're wearing like that is how Insane it is nobody believes that the military was depleted because we have the largest military In the history of the world and you're telling us that when you took office, it was depleted. It was gone I mean nobody believes this even republicans do not believe this unless they are very stupid But this is just it's factually incorrect and it's laughable at its face. But on top of that Uh healthcare came up and of course, we know that he just nailed it, right? Uh, no, of course not He was babbling, you know, he repeated himself multiple times. He was incoherent But one lady before we get to like the general conversation about healthcare She asked him about protections for patients with pre-existing conditions And he brought up socialized medicine medicare for all and not only claimed that joe biden supports medicare for all Which i wish that were true, but it's not but he claimed that under a socialized healthcare system That is what would actually lead to discrimination against patients with pre-existing conditions He claimed this with a straight face And we are not going to hurt anything having to do with pre-existing conditions We're not going to hurt pre-existing conditions and in fact just the opposite If you look at what they want to do where they have socialized medicine They will get rid of pre-existing conditions if they go into Medicare for all which is socialized medicine and you can forget about your doctors and your plans Just like you could forget under president obama. He said you can have your doctor You can have your plan and that turned out to be a lie. That might be the dumbest thing he said at this town hall I mean it doesn't even make sense. So you're telling me that Private companies are going to discriminate against patients with pre-existing conditions under a single payer healthcare system That's not possible because the entire point Of a single payer healthcare system is to have the government be The sole insurance provider for all of americans So when we're talking about Patients with pre-existing conditions, that's only a thing When we're discussing a private healthcare system because it's these private insurance companies that don't want to pay For these patients that have pre-existing conditions because it's costly But if you have a single payer system and you have everyone into the same health pool Then even the young and the healthy are subsidizing the health care Which is more costly for the elderly and the sick So to say that there will be discrimination against patients with pre-existing conditions Under a single payer system It's nonsensical like unless the government itself is going to carve out exemptions for people with cancer or something Then that wouldn't be possible But in other single payer countries like canada We don't see that as a thing now you can say that maybe you know coverage won't be comprehensive if we one day Get a single payer system depending on who writes the bill, but still to say that It's just it's idiotic now. George Stephanopoulos, you know Probably acknowledging that he's in over his head and doesn't really know what he's talking about here Challenged him for the bevy of lies that he told and tried to get him To explain why he still won't propose his own health care plan And this just made him look completely foolish I just have to stop you there because it's just on a couple of points number one Joe biden has ran against medicare for all in the primaries, but much more importantly obama care Guaranteed people with pre-existing conditions could buy insurance Guaranteed they could buy it at the same price as everyone else Guaranteed a package of essential benefits Guaranteed that insurance companies couldn't put a lifetime limit on those benefits You fought to repeal obama care. You are arguing the supreme court right now to strike it down That would do away with pre-existing conditions So that we can do new health care, but you've been promising a new health care plan We interviewed I interviewed you in june of last year. You said the health care plan would come in two weeks You told chris wallis this summer would come in three weeks. You promised an executive order on pre-existing I have it already, but it's you've been trying to strike down existing conditions I have it already and it's a much better plan for you and it's a much better plan What is it you say obama care? I got rid of the individual mandate Which is the worst part of obama care you're striking down the whole law Wouldn't be pertain to you, but it pertained to a lot of people where they were going Literally bust because they didn't want to have health insurance and they were paying for it anyway, and it was no good Obama care was a disaster obama care is too expensive. The premiums are too high. It's a total disaster You're going to have new health care And the pre-existing condition aspect of it will always be in my plan and I've said that loud and clear But you haven't come up with it and it's almost like the republicans don't have their own health care plan because the affordable care act was their health care plan the affordable care act Was a neoliberal market-based approach to health care reform But because democrats did it then they have to say it's bad They have to pretend as if they don't like it when that private insurance based Model of health care is exactly what they want It's what the heritage foundation proposed. It's what mit romney did as governor Uh, so I mean it's stupid and something else. He said made me scratch my head So he's arguing that the reason why he has to strike down the affordable care act in court Which also would get rid of protections for patients with pre-existing conditions is because He wants to do new health care He's trying to strike that down so he can do new health care I don't even know what that means. That doesn't even make sense Are you saying that in order for you to pass a new health care law? You have to repeal the last one Can't you build on it? Like if you want to keep protections for patients with pre-existing conditions Can't you just like repeal the other elements of the aca and then build off of what you like? You don't have to get rid of one bill to do another one. Like this doesn't even make sense He doesn't even know how the legislative process works And it's because he uh wants to get rid of protections for patients with pre-existing conditions Otherwise you already hollowed out the affordable care act So why try to kill it in its entirety unless you're trying to kill those protections and deliver for your health industry Donors who don't like paying for patients with pre-existing conditions and want to discriminate against them because they're high risk It costs them more money to cover them. Um on top of that. He says I got rid of the individual mandate Which is the worst part of obama care Again, if you are a neoliberal if you're a capitalist like donald trump is that doesn't make sense Because in order to make the affordable care act work, you need the individual mandate That's the crux of it right that forces people to buy health care on the private market There's nothing that insurance companies love more if people are forced to buy insurance that keeps costs down for everyone else In theory because it forces the young and the healthy to subsidize the health care of the old and the unhealthy But when young people and healthy people don't buy health care and you get rid of that individual mandate What happens prices go up because insurance companies don't make as much money And they have to cover people who tend to cost more money who require more health care And in order to recoup the profits that they're losing health insurance companies Raise the prices hence why you force everyone to buy into it so it's cheaper all around But without the individual mandate the way that you get people to buy insurance who otherwise wouldn't such as young people and healthy people Is you lure them in You basically dangle some shitty cheap plan over their heads and say hey, this will provide you with basic care Now if there's a disaster they're fucked But it gives you a couple of things that you can do maybe it lowers the cost of your prescription drugs You can see your doctor occasionally But overall it's not actually adequate insurance if they really need To have surgery or something there's shit out of luck And this is kind of what the aca did away with it got rid of these types of plans that are skinny plans because they're effectively They're scamming people right? But that's what trump wants to do in order to help the insurance companies make more money He is going to allow them to basically scam people I mean, I don't know how else to explain it and sell him these shitty plans that aren't worth a damn Because I mean if you want a free market based health care Solution which he does How else are you gonna do it? You have to have things like the individual mandate or you have to allow the private insurance companies to basically scam people Like you can't have your cake into it too. Like you can't have Good health care reform if you're only approaching it through this free market angle Like just do medicare for all and all of this goes away people would love you instantly It's incredibly popular, but donald trump is corrupt. He'd never do that His health industry donors would never allow him to do that now this last clip that I want to play for you This was a disaster for donald trump because someone Finally asked him to clarify what he means by make america great again At what time was america great for black americans? For example, and he was stumped. He had no idea how to answer this and it was honestly painful to watch You've coined the phrase make america great again When has america been great for african-americans in the ghetto of america? Are you aware of how tone deaf that comes off to african-american community? Well, I can say this we have tremendous african-american support You've probably seen it in the polls We're doing extremely well with african-american, hispanic-american at levels that you've rarely seen a republican have If you talk about make america great If you look at just prior to and i'm talking about for the black community You look just prior to this horrible situation coming in from china when the virus came in that was the probably the highest point home ownership For the black community home ownership Lower crime The best jobs they've ever had highest income the best employment numbers they've ever had If you go back and you want to look over many years You could just go back six or seven months from now that was the best single moment in the history of The african-american people in this country. I think you know, I would say well I mean your statement is though make it great again. So historically The african-american experience especially in these out of these ghettos that have been our red line Historically these ghettos that have systemically been set up and treated the way that they have been the conditions of the drugs The guns and everything else that actually created the symptoms for what we see That you profess to be just the democratic cities and themselves These things have historically been happening for african-americans in these ghettos and we have not been seeing A change quite frankly under your administration under the Bombers administration under the bush under the clinton the very same things happen in the very same systems and cycles continue to continue to ensue and We need to see Because you say again We need to see when Was that great because that pushes us back to a time in which we cannot identify with such greatness And I mean you've said everything else about choking and everything else But you have yet to address and acknowledge that there's been a race problem in america So if you go well, I hope there's not a race problem I can tell you there's none with me because I have great respect for all races for everybody This country is great because of it But when you go back six months and you take a look at what was happening You can't even compare that with past administrations when you look at income levels and a lot of things because of the job situation where They had the lowest income the best the best unemployment numbers they've ever had The black community by far and that was solving a lot of problems and you know what else was it was bringing people together I was starting to get just before this was you know, we were having a long run of success I was starting to get calls from democrats that Hey, it's starting to work. Let's get together people that You would never have thought this would have happened with there was going to be unity But unfortunately that was hurt because we got set back But now I think next year is going to be one of our best years economically But income equality is still happening but income equality is higher So I mean jobs can be produced but at the same time in a lot of these big major cities where african-americans are underserved under resource That's an eight dollar eight dollar job Does not mean that they can necessarily afford to live where they have to live or where they've been living at for the last 20 years Well the income inequality which I agree with you as a problem I always agreed with that But if you look under president obama and biden the income inequality was phenomenal. It was it was record-setting. It was it was It's getting worse now Okay, that guy who asked the question He should have been the one hosting the town hall if any pundit or journalist in america asked donald trump Questions that are that comprehensive and sophisticated and actually pressed him I mean We'd be in better shape because politicians are never held to account in that way. So kudos to him so He followed up with donald trump after donald trump did not answer the question um And he says you haven't acknowledged Or addressed the race problem in america and donald trump said in response Well, I hope there's not a race problem Oh that that was bad Oof that's a yikes moment I hope there's not a race problem in america How out of touch and tone deaf can you be you're bragging about how Incredible your administration has been For black america. You do that all the time But yet you're saying I hope there's no race problem in america. Oh well g We all hope so but that's not the reality and you wonder why black people don't support you I mean he thinks they do I guess like six or eight percent is something to brag about but um, this is why because you are a complete fucking moron You hope there's not a race problem in america Jesus christ Now he always responds like When he's asked like a question about race, he brings up how black unemployment was the lowest ever But that guy made the phenomenal point that these are not jobs that pay a living wage They're eight dollar an hour jobs and we still can't afford rent Trump had no idea how to respond to that because how do you respond to that you're bragging about jobs But just having jobs in general isn't inherently good like are these jobs Paying you a living wage Can you make the rent each month and put food on the table with these jobs? Like it's an out of touch elitist thing to say it's class is to say Oh, well, you know You have a job so be happy No, that doesn't mean that you're going to have everything you need just because you have a job You haven't raised the minimum wage back in 2015 and 2016. You said that wages were too high So, I mean just having a job in and of itself doesn't mean that your quality of life is going to improve And I shouldn't have to explain this to donald trump, but he's an imbecile He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth So he has no idea what it's like to struggle But he then says but if you look under president obama and biden the income inequality was phenomenal It was record setting so i'm pretty sure that he misspoke and said the opposite of what he wanted to say But it was phenomenal It's really clear even though he misspoke He's never really thought deeply about the issue of income and wealth inequality So this town hall was a disaster for donald trump and it's funny because laura ingram afterwards Was complaining about how he was bombarded with all of these questions You're the president of the united states if you can't take questions about issues that affect americans Then you shouldn't be president step down resign But i mean donald trump he doesn't know like he's in over his head He doesn't want to be president because he wants to help people. He wants to be president because He loves the power. He loves the attention I don't ever believe he wanted to be president in the first place like he launched his presidential bid in 2015 I think anyways to launch a television career. There were reports that he didn't actually want to be president so I mean like you don't want to be the president and um You can see there because you know, there's there's no intellectual curiosity there when it comes to Any of these issues he doesn't even know how to respond to these issues and like it's clear based on his answers To some of these issues that he hasn't even thought about these things for a second like race in america Income inequality. It's just it's embarrassing This is the president of the united states and we have so many issues that need to be addressed so many crises That have to be addressed and we have this dipshit who's president It's like we live in the movie idiocracy Mike is the worst progressive on youtube. Please don't subscribe to him or become a patron David dole is so much better. Trust me folks. He's doing a great job. He really is okay