>>> I HAVE TO REMIND MYSELF NOT TO LAUGH AT DONALD TRUMP
SOMETIMES.
SOMETIMES. LAUGHING IS A NATURAL REACTION
BECAUSE DONALD TRUMP IS SO
RELENTLESSLY BUFFOONISH.
RELENTLESSLY BUFFOONISH. BUT HE IS THE PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES FOR ANOTHER 15
MONTHS OR SO AND BECAUSE HE’S
PRESIDENT, DONALD TRUMP’S
BUFFOONERY, IGNORANCE, PUBLICLY
REVEALED STUPIDITY, ARE BOTH
FUNNY AND DANGEROUS.
WE ALL NEED TO LAUGH AND THE
LATE NIGHT COMEDIANS HAVE BEEN
DOING A GREAT JOB FOR YEARS NOW
OF GATHERING US TOGETHER TO
LAUGH ABOUT DONALD TRUMP AND THE
GOOFIER DRUP GETS, THE SONALD TR
GOOFIER DONALD TRUMP GETS THE
MORE DANGEROUS HE BECOMES
BECAUSE HE’S PRESIDENT.
IT IS WELL DOCUMENTED THATPRESID
IT IS WELL DOCUMENTED THAT
DONALD TRUMP IS THE LAZIEST
PRESIDENT IN HISTORY AND ALSO
THE MOST IGNORANT PRESIDENT IN
HISTORY.
HISTORY. AND HE ABSOLUTELY DOESN’T CARE
ABOUT DETAILS.
ABOUT DETAILS. TO COMPOUND THE DANGER, ALL OF
THAT IS ALSO TRUE OF HIS WHITE
HOUSE STAFF.
HOUSE STAFF. THAT’S WHY DONALD TRUMP AND HIS
WHITE HOUSE STAFF PRODUCE AN
ENDLESS STREAM OF TYPOS AND
INCORRECT STATEMENTS LIKE NO
OTHER WHITE HOUSE IN HISTORY.
I’M NOT TALKING ABOUT THEIR
DELIBERATE LIES HERE, I’M ONLY
TALKING ABOUT THEIR MISTAKES,
THINGS THEY WISH THEY HADN’T
SAID.
SAID. DONALD TRUMP IS IN THE TROUBLE
HE’S IN TONIGHT BECAUSE HE DOES
NOT KNOW HOW TO CARE ABOUT
DETAILS, EVEN WHEN HE’S TRYING
TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE DURING THE
MUELLER INVESTIGATION AND EVEN
WHEN HE’S TRYING TO FORCE
UKRAINE TO HELP HIM IN HIS
RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN.
RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN. DONALD TRUMP DOES NOT KNOW HOW
TO CARE ABOUT DETAILS.
.
. >>> YESTERDAY DONALD TRUMP
TWEETED THIS.
TWEETED THIS. MARK ESPERANTO, SECRETARY OF
DEFENSE, THE CEASE-FIRE IS
HOLDING UP VERY NICELY.
THERE ARE SOME MINOR SKIRMISHES
THAT HAVE END QUICKLY.
USA SOLDIERS ARE NOT IN COMBAT
OR CEASE-FIRE ZONES.
WE HAVE SECURED THE OIL.
BRINGING THE SOLDIERS HOME.
WE ARE NOT BRINGING THE SOLDIERS
HOME.
HOME. WE HAVE NOT SECURED ANY OIL.
AND MARK ESPERANTO DID NOT SAY
THAT BECAUSE MARK ESPERANTO
DOESN’T EXIST.
DOESN’T EXIST. BUT DONALD TRUMP’S DEFENSE
SECRETARY, MARK ESPER, ALSO DID
NOT SAY THAT.
DONALD TRUMP APPARENTLY IS
ATTRIBUTING A QUOTATION TO THE
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE THAT HE
SUPPOSEDLY SAID TO THE MEDIA,
BUT NOT TRUE.
THE MARK ESPERANTO PART OF THAT
TWEET WAS ACTUALLY THE PART I
TOOK MOST SERIOUSLY BECAUSE WE
HAVE SECURED THE OIL IS A
STANDARD TRUMP LIE.
THAT WAS A DELIBERATE LIE.
WE’RE BRINGING THE TROOPS HOME,
DELIBERATE LIE.
DELIBERATE LIE. BUT MARK ESPERANTO, THAT WAS A
MISTAKE.
MISTAKE. DOES DONALD TRUMP KNOW HIS
DEFENSE SECRETARY’S NAME?
IT TOOK OVER TWO HOURS FOR THE
WHITE HOUSE TO CORRECT IT, TO
CORRECT THAT TWEET.
WE LIVE IN A CONDITION NOW WHERE
WE DON’T KNOW WHETHER THE
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
ACTUALLY DOES KNOW THE NAME OF
THE DEFENSE SECRETARY.
AND WE DON’T KNOW IF HE CARES,
AND WE DON’T KNOW IF HE CARES
ABOUT ANYTHING INVOLVING ANY
KIND OF DETAIL.
WHAT AS A GENERIC PROBLEM COULD
BE MORE DANGEROUS IN A PRESIDENT
THAN NOT KNOWING THOUSAND CARE
ABOUT DETAIL?
ABOUT DETAIL? JOINING US IS A CONGRESSIONAL
HICHB HISTORIAN AT AMERICAN
ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE.
ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE. I GOT FIXATED ON MARK ESPERANTO.
I JUST COULDN’T LAUGH IT OFF
YESTERDAY.
YESTERDAY. AND I THINK THIS IS THE MOOD
THING.
THING. WE ALL LAUGH AT THIS STUFF AND
OTHER STUFF WHEN WE SEE IT, WE
JUST LOOK AT IT AND REALIZE HOW
FAR WE’VE FALLEN AND HOW
DANGEROUS A PLACE WE ARE IN NOW.
>> SO, LAWRENCE, WHEN I FIRST
SAW THIS, I WENT TO TWITTER AND
TYPED IN ESPER TO SEE IF MAYBE
THIS WAS AUTO CORRECT, WHICH HAS
HAPPENED TO ALL OF US.
IT WASN’T.
IT WASN’T. THIS IS WHAT HE TYPED IN.
THE WORD IS CONTACT STOCKSY,
GOVERNMENT BY THE LEAST AND MOST
UNSCRUPULOUS AMONG US, THE WORST
KIND OF GOVERNMENT.
THIS REFLECTS A SLOPPINESS, AS
YOU SAY, A LACK OF CONCERN, NOT
EVEN KNOWING THE NAMES OF HIS
OWN CABINET MEMBERS BESIDES
MAKING UP QUOTES FROM THEM.
THAT IS UNLIKE WE HAVE EVER SEEN
IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
>> MATT, THE STAFF, THE STAFF
LETS THIS SIT OUT THERE FOR OVER
TWO HOURS YESTERDAY.
AND APPARENTLY NO ONE KNOWS
THERE’S A PROBLEM.
>> YEAH.
>> YEAH. IT’S REALLY INCREDIBLE.
I MEAN, LOOK, I WAS A STAFFER ON
THE HILL FOR YEARS, LIKE YOU
WERE.
WERE. I WORKED IN THE EXECUTIVE
BRANCH.
BRANCH. IF I PUT OUT A PRESS RELEASE
WITH AN ERROR, I WOULD TRY TO
CORRECT IT INSTANTLY.
IT REMINDS ME OF THE BROWN
M&M’S.
M&M’S. THEY EXPLAINED LATER THAT THEY
DID THAT BECAUSE THEY HAD THESE
EXPENSIVE SHOWS WITH
PYROTECHNICS THAT COULD FALL ON
THEIR HEADS AND KILL THEM AND
THEY WANTED TO KNOW THE CREW WAS
PAYING ATTENTION TO DETAIL.
IF YOU COULDN’T GET THE M&M’S
RIGHT IN THE GREEN ROOM, IT
MEANT THAT YOU COULDN’T PAY
ATTENTION TO THE STAGE AND THE
BAND WOULDN’T SAFE WHILE
WORKING.
WORKING. IT IS THE SAME THING IN THIS
ADMINISTRATION.
ADMINISTRATION. IF THE PRESIDENT CAN’T GET
LITTLE DETAILS RIGHT, HE’S NOT
PAY ATTENTION.
PAY ATTENTION. YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT THE DEBACLE
IN SYRIA RIGHT NOW IS THE
PERFECT EXAMPLE.
PERFECT EXAMPLE. THE PRESIDENT MADE THE DECISION
HE DIDN’T WANT TROOPS THERE.
FINE.
FINE. A PRESIDENT THAT PAID ATTENTION
TO DETAILS WOULDN’T HAVE JUST
DONE THINGS WILLIE UNTILLY.
HE WOULD HAVE WORRIED ABOUT HOW
DO WE MAKE SURE WE GET OUT
WITHOUT SEEING HUNDREDS OF ISIS
PRISONERS ESCAPE OR IT LEADING
TO BLOOD SHED OF THE KURDS OR
GIVE LICENSE TO IRAN AND RUSSIA
TO RUN WILD?
BUT HE DOESN’T PAY ATTENTION TO
THE LITTLE DETAILS OR THE BIG
DETAILS.
DETAILS. I THINK THAT’S ONE OF THE
PROBLEMS YOU SEE COME UP OVER
AND OVER AGAIN IN THE.
>> IN AN IMAGINARY WARDLY WHERE
DONALD TRUMP DIDN’T HAVE
CRIMINAL INCOLIN NATIONS, THIS
WOULD BE THE CENTRAL PROBLEM OF
THE TRUMP WHITE HOUSE AND DONALD
TRUMP HIMSELF, IS THAT HE CANNOT
COMPREHEND DETAIL, NEVER MIND
MASTER DETAIL.
MASTER DETAIL. HE CAN’T EVEN BEGIN TO GET A
GRIP ON IT.
>> IT’S TRUE ACROSS THE
ADMINISTRATION, THOUGH.
ADMINISTRATION, THOUGH. HE SET THE TONE FOR EVERYBODY
ELSE.
ELSE. WHEN YOU LOSE HUNDREDS IF NOT
THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN IN A CHILD
SEPARATION POLICY AND CAN’T KEEP
TRACK OF THEM DESPITE COURT
ORDERS, WHEN YOU DON’T FILE WITH
RENTERS THEIR ABILITY TO KEEP
THEIR HOUSING WHEN THE SHUTDOWN
OCCURRED AS THE DEPARTMENT OF
HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
DID, ALL OF THIS, THE LACK OF
INTEREST IN GOVERNING, THE
SADISTIC QUALITY, THE CORRUPTION
THAT GOES ALONG WITH IT, THEY’RE
PART AND PARCEL OF THE SAME
THING, IT’S AUTOCRACY AND IT’S
KLEPTOCRACY ALL COMBINED INTO
ONE.
ONE. YOU’RE RIGHT, YOU CAN MAKE HUMOR
OUT OF ESPERANTO, WE COULD HAVE
DONE OUR SEGMENT IN THE LANGUAGE
OF ESPERANTO, I SUPPOSE.
BUT IT’S NOT A LAUGHING MATTER
BECAUSE IT’S ALL TIED TOGETHER
WITH THE CORRUPTION THAT WE HAVE
AND THE HORRIBLE GOVERNANCE THAT
THIS COUNTRY’S BEEN PUT THROUGH
FOR THE LAST ALMOST THREE YEARS.