WITH ALL OF THE ACTING OUT WITH DONALD TRUMP IN PARIS.
>> WELL, LET’S START THERE.
WORLD LEADERS WERE IN PARIS OVER
THE WEEK TO COMMEMORATE THE
100th ANNIVERSARY OF THE END OF
WORLD WAR I.
PRESIDENT TRUMP, HOWEVER, CHOSE
NOT TO ATTEND SEVERAL EVENTS.
ON SATURDAY THE PRESIDENT AND
FIRST LADY WERE SCHEDULED TO
VISIT THE AMERICAN CEMETERY FOR
A SOLEMN REMEMBRANCE OF THE
BATTLE OF BELLA WOOD WHERE THE
U.S. LOST ABOUT 1,000 TROOPS AND
ONE OF THE MOST LEGENDARY
BATTLES IN U.S. MARINE HISTORY.
THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF CANCELED
THAT VISIT CITING THE WEATHER AS
A REASON.
A REASON. HE DID SPEAK AT A DIFFERENT
AMERICAN CEMETERY ON SUNDAY AND
HAD THIS MESSAGE FOR WORLD WAR
II VETERAN IN ATTENDANCE.
>> FRANK DAVITA, THANK YOU,
FRANK.
FRANK. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
YOU LOOK SO COMFORTABLE UP THERE
UNDER SHELTER AS WE’RE DEBTING
GRENCH
GRENCH DRENCHED.
DRENCHED. YOU’RE VERY SMART PEOPLE.
>> THE WEATHER DID NOT STOP
OTHER WORLD LEADERS FROM PAYING
THEIR RESPECTS AT OTHER HISTORIC
SITES ACROSS FRANCE.
INCLUDING CANADA’S JUSTIN
TRUDEAU WHO TRADE TRIBUTE TO THE
TROOPS THAT LOST THEIR LIVES.
TRUMP SKIPPED THE PARIS PEACE
FORUM, OPTING TO FLY HOME EARLY
INSTEAD.
INSTEAD. AND YESTERDAY WHILE THE OTHER
WORLD LEADERS WALKED SHOULDER TO
SHOULDER TOGETHER, PRESIDENT
TRUMP DECIDED TO GO ALONE.
RUSSIA’S PUTIN ALSO WENT
SEPARATELY AND YOU CAN SEE IN
THIS SNAPSHOT THE DIFFERENCE IN
REACTION BETWEEN MACRON AND
ANGELA MERKEL AND TRUMP UPON
PUTIN’S ARRIVAL.
PUTIN’S ARRIVAL. IN HIS REMARKS, PRESIDENT MACRON
WARNED AGAINST NATIONALISM, A
LABEL PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS
RECENTLY EMBRACED.
RECENTLY EMBRACED. >> Translator: AS THE VERY
OPPOSITE OF THE SELFISHNESS OF A
NATION THAT ONLY LOOKS AFTER ITS
OWN INTERESTS BECAUSE PATRIOTISM
IS THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF
NATIONALISM.
NATIONALISM. NATIONALISM IS A BETRAYAL OF
PATRIOTISM BY SAYING OUR
INTERESTS FIRST, WHO CARES ABOUT
THE OTHERS?
THE OTHERS? WE ERASE WHAT A NATION HOLDS
DEAREST, WHAT GIVES IT LIFE,
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT AND WHAT IS
ESSENTIAL.
ESSENTIAL. IT’S MORAL VALUES.
AND TO RUIN THIS HOPE BY GIVING
INTO THE FASCINATION FOR
WITHDRAWAL, ISOLATIONISM,
WITHDRAWAL, ISOLATIONISM, VIOLENCE AND DOMINATION WOULD BE
A GRAVE ERROR THAT FUTURE
GENERATIONS WOULD VERY RIGHTLY
MAKE US RESPONSIBLE FOR.
>> DAVID IGNACIOUS.
DONALD TRUMP IS LOOKING MORE AND
MORE ALONE ON THE WORLD STAGE.
AND I’M WONDERING WHAT YOUR
REACTION WAS TO ALL OF THE
MISADVENTURE THIS IS PAST
WEEKEND IN FRANCE AND WHETHER
THE WORLD LEADERS DID LOOK AT
TUESDAY’S RESULTS AND REALIZE
THAT THIS IS A MAN THEY ONLY
HAVE TO ENDURE FOR THE NEXT FEW
YEARS.
YEARS. >> JOE, I THOUGHT AS YOU DID
THAT THE WEEKEND MARKED A REAL
BREAK BETWEEN TRUMP WHO SULK
THROUGH THE NEWS CONFERENCE WITH
MACRON SATURDAY AND A VERY
IMPORTANT COMMEMORATION AT THE
CEMETERY WHERE THE FALLEN FROM
BELLA WOOD, ONE OF THE GREAT
BATTLES IN MARINE HISTORY TOOK
PLACE AND WOULDN’T MARCH WITH
THE OTHERS ON SUNDAY WAS A
STATEMENT FROM TRUMP.
I’M HERE BUT I’M NOT REALLY WITH
YOU.
YOU. AND IT WAS RECIPROCATED BY THE
EUROPEANS.
EUROPEANS. I THOUGHT THAT THE SPEECH THAT
EMANUEL MACRON GAVE YESTERDAY
FOUND REAL VOICE FINALLY.
MACRON IS SOMEBODY WHO TRIED TO,
YOU KNOW, BUDDY UP WITH TRUMP,
PAT HIM ON THE BACK, BE HIS PAL.
NOT THIS WEEKEND.
MACRON SPOKE CLEARLY AND FIRMLY
ABOUT THE VALUES THAT AS HE SAYS
SUSTAINED EUROPE, SUSTAINED OUR
TRADITIONAL ALLIANCES.
TRADITIONAL ALLIANCES. SO WE DID HAVE A SENSE OF A NEW
KIND OF BREAK POINT.
FOR THOSE THAT THINK PRESIDENT
TRUMP IS IRLEGALRELEVANT BECAUSE
THE STRIKING LOSS LAST TUESDAY.
I’M NOT QUITE SURE OF THAT.
I THINK ONE THING I HEAR FROM
EUROPEANS WHEN I TALK TO THEM IS
THAT THEY’RE RECKONNING WITH THE
POSSIBILITY THAT AN AMERICA THAT
ELECTED DONALD TRUMP COULD ELECT
ANOTHER DONALD TRUMP DOWN THE
ROAD.
ROAD. MAYBE THIS ISN’T THE COUNTRY WE
THOUGHT IT WAS.
THEY’LL BE REASSURED BY
TUESDAY’S VOTE.
TUESDAY’S VOTE. AS YOU HEARD FROM MACRON, THEY
HAVE TO BEGIN TO THINK ABOUT
THEIR SECURITY IN OTHER WAYS.
MAYBE LESS DEPENDENT ON THE
UNITED STATES AND, TO ME, THAT
MAY BE THE MOST LASTING AND
DANGEROUS BREAK THAT EUROPE
BEGINS TO SAY WE REALLY GOT TO
GO IT ALONE HERE.
>> AND, JOHN, YOU HAD COMMENTED
THIS WEEKEND.
THIS WEEKEND. YOU SAID I DON’T KNOW WHAT IT’S
ABOUT, BUT IT’S NOT ABOUT THE
WEATHER.
WEATHER. EXPLAIN.
EXPLAIN. >> WELL, I MEAN, THIS IS A
GIMME, RIGHT?
GIMME, RIGHT? PRESIDENTS GO ON KMEMCOMEMORATIV
TRIPS, NOBODY FAILS AT AN EVENT
LIKE THIS.
LIKE THIS. YOU CAN’T.
YOU CAN’T. SO IT’S REALLY STRANGE THAT HE
DIDN’T MOVE HEAVEN AND EARTH TO
DO IT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, IT WAS
ONLY GOING TO BE GOOD FOR HIM.
SO YOU HAVE TO THEN WONDER WHAT
WAS IN HIS HEART?
WHAT WAS IN HIS MOOD?
WHAT WAS IN HIS SPIRIT?
HAVING SAID THAT, I WANT TO
DESCEND A LITTLE FROM THE NOTION
THAT MACRON’S, YOU KNOW, SPEECH
REALLY TOLD TRUMP OFF
BRILLIANTLY.
BRILLIANTLY. I THINK THE CENTRAL POINT THAT
EVERYBODY’S QUOTING WHICH IS
THAT NATIONALISM IS THE OPPOSITE
OF PATRIOTISM IS NONSENSE.
NATIONALISM IS PATRIOTISM TAKEN
TO AN EXTREME IN A WAY THAT, YOU
KNOW, CREATES BLOWBACK
AGAINST -- CAN CREATE BLOWBACK
AGAINST THE COUNTRY ONE IS BEING
NATIONALIST OR PATRIOTIC TOWARD.
I THINK SOME OF THE THEMES THAT
WERE EVOKED, THAT IS THIS NOTION
THAT MAYBE FRANCE AND EUROPE CAN
GO IT ALONE, THAT DOESN’T HARM
TRUMP.
TRUMP. TRUMP HAS BEEN EXPLICITLY SAYING
THAT HE DOES NOT WANT THE
AMERICAN SECURITY UMBRELLA TO
HAVE TO EXTEND OVER THE REST OF
THE WORLD AND IF EUROPEANS ARE
GOING TO START TALKING OPENLY
ABOUT TAKING CARE OF THEMSELVES,
THAT WILL BE A SUCCESS FOR HIM,
NOT A FAILURE.
HE COULD USE THE SUCCESS RIGHT
NOW.
NOW. BUT, YOU KNOW, I THINK THE
GENERAL FEELING OF THE COMMON
COMMENTARY CLASS IS BECAUSE HE
SO FOOLISHLY SKIPPED THE EVENT,
HE WAS UNIQUELY -- HE WAS IN A
UNIQUE POSITION TO GET HIMSELF
ABRATED BY MACRON.
I’M NOT SURE THAT MACRON HIT HIM
HARD IN THE WAY THAT PEOPLE
THINK HE DID.
>> RIGHT.
>> RIGHT. SO I WILL SAY THAT WHEN DONALD
TRUMP HAS ACTED THIS WAY IN THE
PAST, SPEAKING OF THE
COMMENTARY, YOU HEARD OH, THIS
PLAYS INTO TRUMP’S HANDS.
WE DON’T UNDERSTAND IT.
BUT THERE IS SOME MAGIC
POLITICAL VOODOO THAT HE
UNDERSTANDS.
UNDERSTANDS. JUST LOOK AT 2016.
IT WAS ALWAYS HE WOULD DO THINGS
THAT WOULD DESTROY OR HARM ANY
OTHER POLITICAL CANDIDATES.
AND BECAUSE HE WON IN 2016 IT
WAS SORT OF ALWAYS THE POLITICAL
SCIENCE BELIEF, STRIKE ME DOWN
OR I STRIKE MYSELF DOWN AND I
ONLY BECOME STRONGER.
WELL, NO.
WELL, NO. ACTUALLY, THE BEHAVIOR THIS
WEEKEND, THE EMBARRASSMENT OF
HIMSELF, I REFUSE.
AMERICANS CAME OUT ON TUESDAY
AND THEY EXPLAINED IN THE
BIGGEST WAY SINCE WATERGATE FOR
DEMOCRATS.
DEMOCRATS. THEY EXPLAINED EXACTLY WHAT THEY
THOUGHT ABOUT THIS TYPE OF
BEHAVIOR.
BEHAVIOR. I THINK MORE IMPORTANTLY FOR
WHAT IS RELEVANT IN 2020 AS
WELL, REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES, NO.
THIS HURTS COREY GARDENER.
THIS HURTS SUZANNESAN COLLINS.
WE SAW IT ON TUESDAY AND THE
RESULTS JUST KEEP, AS JOHN PA
PADORA SAID, AAT A SNAILS PACE.
WHAT HAPPENED THIS WEEKEND IS
TERRIBLE FOR DONALD TRUMP AND
REPUBLICANS AND WE HAVE ALL THE
EVIDENCE THAT WE NEED OF THAT.
THIS DOES NOT WORK.
>> PEOPLE WHO KNOW HIS
PERSONALITY WELL WOULD BELIEVE
THAT ONE OF THE REASONS HE
DIDN’T SHOW UP OR WASN’T
ACTUALLY PRESENT EVEN WHEN HE
WAS THERE IS THAT HE’S PACING
AROUND, FREAKING OUT ABOUT THE
REALITY OF THE REPUBLICAN LOSS
AND WHAT IT MEANS TO HIM
PERSONALLY AND WHAT CAN
TRANSPIRE IN THE WEEKS AND
MONTHS TO COME BECAUSE OF THAT
REPUBLICAN LOSS AND HE CAN’T
FOCUS AND HE NEEDS TO BE ON THE
PHONE.
PHONE. HAVING SAID THAT, YOU MENTIONED
COUNTRIES WAITING OUT TRUMP.
OUR ALLIES MAY BE WAITING HIM
OUT.
OUT. BUT I THINK THERE ARE DANGERS TO
AMERICAN WEAKNESS.
AMERICAN WEAKNESS. TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE
INTERNATIONAL SYMBOLISM OF AN
AMERICAN PRESIDENT WHO IS THERE
BUT NOT REALLY THERE AT EVENTS
LIKE THESE.
LIKE THESE. THEY’RE SO SYMBOLIC AND SO
IMPORTANT TO WORLD HISTORY.
>> I THINK IT’S VERY SCARY,
ACTUALLY.
ACTUALLY. WE REALLY DO NEED TO WATCH WHAT
MACRON AND A LOT OF EUROPEAN
LEADERS ARE SAYING.
FIRST IT WAS THE 100 YEAR
ANNIVERSARY OF WORLD WAR I.
AND WHAT LED TO WORLD WAR I AND
WORLD WAR II IS NATIONALISM,
BASICALLY.
BASICALLY. IT IS DIVISIONS AND FIGHTING.
EUROPEAN ALLIES HAVE SEEN THE
WORST, HAVE SEEN THE
CONSEQUENCES OF WHAT NATIONALISM
CAN DESTROY THEIR OWN COUNTRIES.
AND WHEN MACRON SAYS ABOUT
COLLABORATION AND FIGHTING
TOGETHER FOR THE COMMON GOOD,
WHEN HE TALKS ABOUT CREATING A
EUROPEAN ARMY AS A RESULT OF
SOME OF THE PRESIDENT TRUMP’S
STATEMENTS ABOUT NOT WANTING TO
SUPPORT NATO, WE HAVE TO WATCH
FOR THESE THINGS.
I FEEL LIKE THIS IS THE
BEGINNING OF THE EUROPEAN
SEPARATION FROM AMERICA.
>> TOTALLY AGREE.
>> THIS IS REAL WHY I SCARY.
THESE ARE OUR ALLIES AND FRIENDS
AND THEY FOUGHT WITH US AND
SUPPORTERS.
SUPPORTERS. AND WHEN WE LOSE THEM, WE LOSE A
LOT OF AMERICA WITH IT ACTUALLY.
A LOT OF OUR OWN NATIONAL
INTERESTS.
INTERESTS. AND SO WE HAVE TO WATCH FOR
THESE SIGNS AND NOT RIDICULE
THEM OR LOOK OVER THEM.
>> YES.
>> YES. MIKE, SPEAKING OF LOOKING OVER
SOMETHING, SO I KNOW FOR YOU,
YOU HAVE WRITTEN ABOUT OUR
VETERANS FOR SUCH A LONG TIME.
YOU SEE DONALD TRUMP MISS
CEREMONIES FOR MARINES ON ONE OF
THE MOST HALLOWED GROUNDS FOR
U.S. MARINES ANYWHERE.
AND AT THE SAME TIME, WHILE HE’S
ACTING THIS WAY AT EVENTS THAT
SHOULD BE CELEBRATING OUR
VETERANS, WE SAW IN "THE NEW
YORK TIMES" YESTERDAY THE
DETAILS OF OUR MEN AND WOMEN IN
UNIFORM.
UNIFORM. THEY’RE BEING SENT DOWN TO THE
BORDER WHERE THEY’RE JUST IT’S
AN ENINVASION THAT IS JUST NOT
COMING.
COMING. >> THAT IS A ZAMSCAM USING THE
UNITED STATES MILTON THE BORDER.
THEY WILL BE THERE ON THANKS
THANKSGIVING DAY AWAY FROM THEIR
FAMILIES NO MATTER WHERE THEY
CAME FROM ON THE EAST COAST.
I APPRECIATE THE HIGH LEVEL OF
INTELLECT IN THIS DISCUSSION
THUS FAR.
THUS FAR. BUT IT OUGHT NOT TO BE A
SURPRISE WHAT HAPPENED THIS
WEEKEND.
WEEKEND. DONALD TRUMP IS A MAN OF NO
HISTORY.
HISTORY. HE HAS NO COMPREHENSION OF WHAT
WORLD WAR I MEANT TO EUROPE AND
THE WORLD.
THE WORLD. HE HAS NO COMPREHENSION OF THE
LOSS ENTAILED AND THE DANGERS
THAT WORLD WAR I PUT BACK ON THE
CENTER STAGE.
CENTER STAGE. HE HAS NO COMPREHENSION OF WHAT
HAPPENED IN WORLD WAR II.
STOOD IN A CITY ON A BOULEVARD
WHERE NAZI TROOPS MARCHED DOWN
75, 80 YEARS AGO.
HE HAS NO SENSE OF THAT.
THINKS THING OVER THE WEEKEND,
HIS BEHAVIOR OVER THE WEEKEND I
WOULD SUBMIT IS BECAUSE OF ONE
THING.
THING. HE WAS NOT THE ONLY PERSON ON
THE STAGE.
THE STAGE. THAT’S HOW HE THINKS OF HIMSELF.
I AND I ALONE BELONG ON THE
STAGE.
STAGE. AND HE AND ONLY ONE OTHER PERSON
WHO APPEARED IN PARIS OVER THE
WEEKEND WERE INTENT ON HAVING
DISINTEREST TO PUT IT AT A MILD
LEVEL BUT PERHAPS AN INTENT TO
DISRUPT AN ALLIANCE THAT KEPT
THE PEACE IN EUROPE, NATO, AND
THE EUROPEAN COALITION FOR OVER
70 YEARS.
70 YEARS. AND THAT OTHER PERSON ALSO
ARRIVED LATE TO MANY EVENTS,
VLADIMIR PUTIN.
VLADIMIR PUTIN. YOU HAD PUTIN AND DONALD TRUMP,
TWINS, ON THE STAGE IN PARIS.
BOTH LEFT EARLY.
BOTH ARE DESTRUCTIVE.
BOTH THE BEHAVIOR NOT
SURPRISING.
SURPRISING. >> AND THE QUESTION IS, THIS IS
THE BRAND THAT HE REALLY WANTS