Tonight, we bring on
legendary Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward to discuss whether Trump
can say that only 2% of his Mar a Lago dinner guests were anti-Semitic,
if you count the hundreds of foodborne tapeworms.
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We begin tonight with the controversy surrounding former president
and inventor of the speech venue exit padlock, Donald Trump.
After he dined at Mar a Lago with new Trump secretary of state
and defense frontrunners, Kanye West and Nick Fuentes.
Here to discuss is legendary Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Bob Woodward.
He is the author of the audio book ‘The Trump Tapes:
Bob Woodward's 20 Interviews with President Donald Trump.'
Thanks for joining us, Bob.
Thank you.
Now, Bob, no reporter is closer to Donald Trump.
What did Trump hope to gain from this dinner with anti-Semites
besides voices loud enough to drown out the sound of Trump trying to get through
steak physically indistinguishable from a dog toy?
Well, first of all, what
I found in these
8 hours of interviews with him,
he does exactly what he wants.
In the audiotapes,
he describes his
relationship with Kim Jong Un, the leader of North Korea.
Now, there is no
worse thuggish leader
on the globe than Kim Jong Un.
He starves millions of his people.
But Trump told me, said when he first met Kim Jong Un,
it was like
meeting a woman in one second.
You know, whether it's going to work out.
He'll have dinner with
whoever he wants.
No one's going to tell him what to do.
And it's just sad that Fuentes got Trump's ear instead of the usual
more enlightened company of Tallahassee's breast implant king.
But oh, to be one of the hundred thousand flies on that wall.
And now, Bob, you've had a lot of late night
phone conversations with Trump before ending a call,
has either of you ever accidentally said I love you?
No. He's not said that.
But imagine this is a nine month period,
he's president of the United States.
I realized I became
entangled in the
chaos of his presidency.
But the agreement was he
could call any time.
Of course, I could call him any time.
Yes, that's how a phone works. My wife Elsa Walsh, who worked for
The Washington. Post, was a staff writer
for The New Yorker, was in on lots
of these calls.
I would tell
Trump, my wife is here.
They had a little bit of a phone relationship.
But Elsa said during this
period, it was as if there were three people
in our marriage.
Hot.
But now, Bob, before Donald Trump led an insurrection,
Richard Nixon led a criminal conspiracy,
Bill Clinton allegedly committed sex crimes, and
George W. Bush killed hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis.
The presidency is a chance to administer capitalism's greatest labor
farm and command history's greatest death machine.
So how did become such a freak magnet?
From Nixon, up through Trump,
there is a concentration of power in the presidency.
I think people just don't comprehend it.
The great historian Barbara Tuchman
in 1974, after Nixon had resigned, she said, “America has
become
overly
enchanted, even
bewitched by the
presidency.
The media's become
bewitched by it.
And she was quite right when she said the president
himself becomes
bewitched with that extraordinary power.
Bob, you are perhaps this nation's most preeminent journalist.
And by simply writing about the office of the presidency
have given credibility to it.
But given recent history, perhaps it's time for some course correction.
Which brings us to our segment: Updated Bob Woodward Books.
Now we'll throw out some new titles for your books about presidents past.
And you tell us if these provide a fuller picture of their time in office.
Ready? Ready. And away we go.
First up for Trump, how about a book entitled ‘Trump's Judgment:
Cobbled together advice from Sean Hannity, Jon Voight,
and the caddie who gives the other caddies pills.'
Yes or no?
Yes. Okay.
Now for Obama, how about: ‘Review
the inside story of Obama's momentous Wall Street light wrist slap.'
Yes or no, Bob?
I'd say no to that one. Okay.
Well, for Bill Clinton, we're thinking: ‘Clinton's rise how the highest office
in the land came to be occupied by the grossest human in history.'
No. All right.
How about this, Bob?
For George W Bush, you could do: ‘Hindsight
Bush killed millions, but he never tweeted hamberders.'
No.
Now you haven't written one yet for Joe Biden, but may we humbly suggest the title:
‘Biden Year one 365 days
and 365 calls to long deceased colleagues.'
Uh. Maybe.
All right. We got it a maybe.
And that's how you play updated Bob Woodward books.