Speaker 1: Well, I told you that a lot of people looked and sounded bored during Donald
Trump's big 2024 announcement. It turns out that it wasn't just my perception.
People were trying to leave the room at Mar a Lago last night, and Mar a Lago staff blocked
people from leaving the room. Understand that the Trump announcement was so boring,
people were trying to get out and they were forced to stay in the room. Here is ABC's Jonathan Karl.
Folks, this this is beyond parody. It is stunning that this is the world we now
live in. Listen to this incredibly low energy. Speaker 5: I actually saw people trying to leave
and people leaving early. Speaker 1: And by the way,
Trump is speaking right now. He was. Speaker 5: Down. He's still speaking
now. And then they, I think, perhaps a little concerned that the hall the hall
would empty out too much. They actually started preventing people from leaving.
Speaker 4: So now they're no longer allowed. Speaker 1: What an electric atmosphere at Mar a
Lago where it's quiet enough for a reporter to do a stand up while the speech is still going on. I
mean, think of that that that in and of itself is amazing. And increasingly, of course, the
question is, has Trump fizzled out? The polling is not looking good. DeSantis is leading Trump
in just about every poll, and Trump's not even I'm sorry, DeSantis hasn't even announced that
he's running for anything yet. So the question of whether Trump fizzled out is one question.
The speech really was very low energy, and at one point the camera panned to Trump's family,
and they were all just kind of standing there awkwardly. It wasn't even really clear they were
that into it. And there were some reports that not everybody in Trump's family wanted him to do this.
Ivanka Trump, as far as was reported, wasn't even at the speech. And we actually have video here.
I'll play this. You can see a crowd milling from screen right to screen left,
and they're just quite literally blocked. There is a bunch of staffers in the lower left preventing
anybody from getting out the the entire thing was going to empty out and people were blocked,
security or whatever. These people are not letting them leave. Forget about freedom of speech. They
don't even have freedom of movement at Mar a Lago. So that was quite, quite remarkable. Here's
another moment of just how bored people were. This was while Trump was speaking, and you see many
empty seats and just absolutely no energy here. Speaker 4: They've devalued their currency,
whether it was the pound or whether it was the WAN or the yen. Yeah. And I used to fight like cats
and dogs with the leaders of other countries. Speaker 1: Like a dog.
Video at one point also caught Roger Stone. This is pretty funny. Stone was there and I
can't think of anyone looking more bored about all of this than Roger Stone. He looks like he's
wondering where the exits are or maybe the bar. Speaker 4: And they let it go back up instead
of putting America. Last year, the Biden administration has done very,
very openly and bravely. Speaker 2: My God.
Speaker 1: What it really was like like Hotel California. You can check out any time you want,
but you can never leave. And much of the crowd mentally checked out, but quite literally not
allowed to leave. Just one more clip here just to give you the flavor of what was going on.
One guy doing YMCA. Okay, Chuck, if you're watching, look at the middle of the room.
He notices no one else is doing it. And then he stops. So lower energy. Hard to
imagine. Trump didn't seem that into it. His family certainly didn't seem that into it.
The crowd didn't seem very much into it. And one of the most interesting aspects of this
was even Fox News didn't seem that into it. And I want to talk about that next.