Can I please make my big announcement now?
Everyone, just.
>> Hello.
>> Just shut up, George.
>> Can somebody just mute George?
>> [COUGH] >> Dick,
could you try not to cough on the.
Okay, so how are we gonna take out Trump you guys?
>> Guys from the FBI, this is not a private call.
This is a public Twitter space.
Everyone can listen in.
>> God damn it.
>> Donald Trump is notorious for his pretty vicious social media attacks but
he just released the strangest one yet.
What you just watched was a mockup of DeSantis's disastrous Twitter
announcements.
He was supposed to announce that he's running for
president through Twitter Spaces.
And not only was it glitchy, Twitter Spaces was crashing just repeatedly and
it was a complete and utter disaster.
And so in this mockup, you'll see DeSantis along with some pretty questionable
people including the devil, Dick Cheney and yes, also Adolf Hitler.
If you didn't catch DeSantis's embarrassing Twitter fail yesterday,
here's a little clip of that.
>> Governor DeSantis first drew my attention and
support when I saw how he responded to the COVID pandemic.
And refused to believe what we now know to be the many falsehoods
that government experts and their media mouthpieces were feeding us.
He kept Florida's schools open and its economy thriving while my state of
California chose two years of learning loss and lockdowns that we have yet
to fully.
[MUSIC]
>> Right, we're just reallocating more server capability to be able
to handle load here.
It's really going crazy.
I was super excited to have to coverage DeSantis.
[MUSIC]
>> So it kept crashing and when it would crash,
it would take people back to the front page of their phone.
But real quick, I have to show you how Trump's little mockup video ends.
This is how it ends.
>> Well, that concludes our Twitter Space for today.
Thank you to all of our.
>> Hold your horses, Elon.
The real president is gonna say a few words.
>> The devil, I'm gonna kick your ass very soon.
Hitler, you're already dead.
Dick Cheney, sounds like you'll be joining Hitler very soon.
Klaus Schwab and George Soros, I'm putting both your asses in jail, and
Ron DeSanctimonious can kiss my big, beautiful 2024 presidential ass.
Trump 2024, baby.
Let's go.
>> Okay. >> He lives for this kind of stuff.
>> He does. >> And you know what?
I don't know if you wanna say to his credit, but
he has hired the right team for this stuff.
>> Yeah, well, in that case I think he's just reposting something, right?
And to his credit though, I often talk about how he's got these deranged
MAGA guys that I think are problematic in 18 different ways.
But he also does have MAGA trolls who are really good at social media.
See, we're the fairest show in America so we call it as it is whether we like it or
we don't like it.
So probably some MAGA troll put that together.
>> Mm-hm.
>> But that's not the interesting part of the story.
The interesting part of the story is Trump reposting it because pre-2015,
that gets you banned in the Democratic or Republican parties instantly.
You referring to you got Hitler in the video.
Are you crazy?
And you're reposting it saying that the opposing candidate in your own
party is in bed with the devil and Hitler, instant cancellation.
Instant, over.
But Trump can do anything he wants and so he's messing with them.
But guys, we can say, we hate it and he shouldn't include Hitler, blah, blah,
blah, blah.
But his base finds it intensely entertaining and that's what matters.
And the stuffed shirts and media and Washington are all like, dude,
Claris is very reef ghost.
This is all wrong.
Who cares?
Is he gonna get the votes or is he not gonna get the votes?
And this is far more likely to get the votes.
There's so many interesting things in that small little video.
Notice how the right wing has Dick Cheney next to the devil and Adolf Hitler.
>> I know, yeah.
But honestly, it's indicative of how much the Republican base has changed, right?
How much the Republican party has changed which is by the way,
incredibly concerning for the country and for the Democratic party.
Because the very individuals who love Dick Cheney hate Donald Trump.
And guess where they went?
>> Yeah, guys.
>> Okay, when we talk about the Democratic Pprty being a big tent,
it's more than just a big tent.
It has absorbed the never Trump Republicans.
I never thought I would see the day where the mainstream Democratic party
would be applauding Liz Cheney as if she's a hero.
>> Forget Liz Cheney, they brought on Dick Cheney.
So now MSNBC is a Dick Cheney fan.
Get a load of how much of a cell phone this is.
When Dick Cheney left office, you know what he was pulling at?
Because Biden and Trump are so unpopular.
You're used to politicians and
leaders being in the 30s which is previously unimaginable, right?
In an earlier era for any president to be that unpopular, Dick Cheney pulled at 9%.
He was in the single digits.
He was despised by this country.
And what happened?
The Republicans are like, okay, then we don't want you anymore.
And they were gonna say, come on in, we'll take you.
>> It's just a disaster.
>> He's the most right wing politician of our lifetimes until Trump.
Why would you take that toxic load of crap and put him on your team?
Why would you take the guy that's at 9% and celebrate him?
What is wrong with you people?
Meanwhile, Trump being unfortunately politically savvy goes, yeah,
I hate Dick Cheney.
I don't care that I agreed with him before.
I don't care.
I'm gonna say I hate him now and I'm gonna get all the credit for it.
And that's exactly what happened.
Who's that Klaus S guy, right?
So I see Klaus S I was like, Santa, [LAUGH] is this part of the joke?
Is Santa evil now, okay?
We're the guardians of the Galaxy, right?
Anyways, so no, it's Klaus Schwab, the head of the World Economic Forum.
So now the right wing is against these neoliberal groups,
neoliberal basically meaning economically conservative groups that
oppress all the populations and give everything to the rich.
That's another giant win for
Republicans even though they don't agree with that in policy at all.
In policy, they're about to pass $3.5 trillion tax cut or
they're gonna propose one for the rich.
They already passed $10 trillion in tax cuts for the rich, but
they are appearing to be populous while the Democrats are embracing conservative
economic positions that the American people despise.
And there's one last fun thing out of this other than the fact that the people at
the top of that were almost all either TYT guests, former TYT hosts, producers, etc.
That was fun.
But that nickname, Ron Disaster, that came out of this and
trended on Twitter, that's a good nickname, okay?
So there's a lot of good names for DeSantis and
I don't know how long we're gonna have to kick him around.
>> I just like Rob.
>> Rob [LAUGH].
>> Rob is my new favorite [LAUGH].
It's just so dumb but so funny.
But yeah, that's a fine nickname.
There's so many to choose from at this point, right?
So pick your poison.
But I do wanna also just note that the right wing media with
the exception of the far right, right?
Newsmax, OAN, they're still rooting for Daddy Trump.
But if you look at Fox News for instance, if you look at even the Daily Wire,
it's very clear to me that they're trying to prop up Ron DeSantis.
But Fox News couldn't help itself because the rollout of his presidential
campaign was such a disaster that they put out this fun headline.
Much-hyped presidential announcement a disaster for Twitter due to tech issues.
Fox News then rubbed it in with the breaking news notification.
Programming alert, wanna actually see and hear Ron DeSantis?
Tune into Fox News at 8 PM Eastern Time.
>> Yeah, so there's two elements to this.
One is they're totally right, okay?
The second is mainstream media hates social media cuz they're competitous.
So I've told you guys in the past about how CNN, etc,
did hit pieces on Facebook when Facebook was really popular.
Facebook not as popular anymore.
All of a sudden there's no hit pieces on Facebook, okay?
Now, Twitter is super popular.
Tucker Carson might be going from Fox News, Cable News,
beloved Cable News to Twitter and Daily Wire saying the same thing.
All of a sudden, yeah, Twitter sucks, man.
Screw Twitter, yeah.
Okay, yeah, in this case they more than earned it, right?
And Elon Musk is a disaster.
And yeah, this is what happens when you fire 90% of your employees.
But having said that, be careful with mainstream media.
They're also trying to torpedo all of social media including TikTok
because they view it as competition.
>> I have to jump in and just opine on the lack of judgment from
Ron DeSantis because just stop and think about it for a second.
He signed on to rolling out his presidential campaign,
announcing his presidential bid through
Twitter Spaces which was an audio only venture to begin with.
Why would you do that?
>> I know why, okay?
>> Okay, I know what you're gonna say and I think it's a good theory.
I don't know if I buy it completely.
I think that he just has terrible judgment and he wanted to be in the same room
with Elon Musk and he thought that would be beneficial in some way.
But what do you think?
>> So for sure he did it for a number of reasons but
the primary one is he wants Silicon Valley bro money.
So the Silicon Valley bros are almost all libertarian right wingers now, okay?
So those are guys who range from billionaires to hundreds of millions
of dollars and there's tons of them in Silicon Valley.
And they're now huge donors to Republicans.
And by the way, remember, there's no limits.
Sheldon Adelson three different occasions gave over $100 million to the Republicans
during presidential cycles.
So Elon Musk is one of the richest men in the world.
If he wants, he can give the Republican candidate a billion dollars, right?
He threw away $44 billion on Twitter.
So this is Ron DeSantis kissing the donor ass for money.
There's more to it but that's the primary reason why.
>> I get it, however, you didn't need to announce your presidential bid this way.
You could have agreed to do a Twitter Spaces hangout after
announcing it in a better way.
That includes video, that includes channels that are a little more,
let's say, reliable, dependable, won't fall apart.
But he chose to go in this direction.
It's also worth noting that MSNBC put out this graphic that I found.
You know what?
Good for them.
This is one of the rare instances where I give them a lot of credit because it's
pretty hilarious.
So it says, peak audience numbers for live streams.
So at the very top they show you the number of people who were watching
DeSantis's 2024 launch which was at 300,000.
Then they compare that number to all these other live streams that
were taking place and how they tended to have a far bigger audience.
So April the giraffe gives birth, 1.2 million people were watching that and
I believe that they made the right decision.
AOC plays video game on Twitch.
Even that got more views at 430,000 which it cuts both ways.
It's both hilarious and also depressing because she could do so
much more with her name recognition that she just decides not to do.
But anyway, let's move on.
BuzzFeed makes watermelon explode,
gets more than double Ron DeSantis's launch at 807,000.
Drake plays Fortnite, 628,000 people were watching that.
And Cristiano Ronaldo accidentally records himself in sauna which should
have 700 million views but for some reason it only had 700,000.
>> Okay, that's another headpiece.
Sorry, I don't agree.
Okay, and I'll tell you why.
So the top streams is a deeply misleading category.
If they said top videos online,
then it would be in the hundreds of millions, right?
So they take just concurrent streams.
Remember when Tucker Carlson did the video on Twitter?
It got about, I think it was, I forget the exact number if it was ten
times as much as his audience on Fox News but way more for sure, okay?
So if you take the videos afterwards, they do way better than mainstream media but
MSNBC doesn't want you to see that.
That's why they're like, ha ha, watermelon exploding, he he.
So that's totally misleading.
Now, in this case, Spaces was a disastrous place to do it cuz it's audio only.
You're not even gonna get video out of it.
That's why you're right that it was bungled.
It was poorly played.
But remember, there's one other reason why DeSantis did
it because Tucker Carlson is going to Twitter.
So he's thinking Twitter is the new right wing hub.
Elon Musk is there, Tucker Carlson's there, and
all my billionaire bros are there.
>> All the cool kids are doing it.
>> Exactly, but if you're gonna do that, you gotta, a, be competent and
then b, have a plan for ass kicking.
When this goes wrong, you gotta come over the top on Trump.
But he hasn't done anything.
He hasn't come over the top.
He's gone under.
So right now his campaign is, yeah, Ron Disaster.
>> You don't think it's because DeSantis has a face for
radio/facial expressions for radio?
>> That's my favorite theory.
One of our producers came up with this theory earlier today.
She said, I know why he did audio because he doesn't wanna do those weird faces.
Like, I'm gonna announce everybody.
Donald Trump's in the race [SOUND].
If you had a face like that you would wanna hide it too.
Hey, meatball Rob, I get it.