>> Tulsa, Oklahoma had imposed a curfew to quell protests ahead of and during Trump's
rally in the area, which is supposed to take place over this weekend. Now the curfew has
actually been rescinded, which I'm happy about because the way this was framed by both the
media and the Trump administration.
Was that there were going to be violent protests, in response to Trump holding his rally in
Tulsa, Oklahoma. There was no indication that these protesters had any intention of being
violent. It just seemed as though they were trying to squash any protests in response
to Trump. And luckily, these curfews have been rescinded, that's the latest update.
So this is a statement from the governor who said, last night I enacted a curfew at the
request of Tulsa police chief Wendell Franklin. Following consultation with the United States
Secret Service based on intelligence they had received. I'm sorry, that was actually
from the Republican Mayor of Tulsa, not the Governor of the state.
He also said, today we were told curfew is no longer necessary, so I'm rescinding it.
So curfew around the area of the rally, it has been rescinded, it has been lifted. But
that didn't change the fact that Donald Trump threatened protesters on social media. I wanna
go to his tweet where he said, any protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlives
who are going to Oklahoma.
Please understand you will not be treated like you have been in New York, Seattle or
Minneapolis, it will be a much different scene. Minneapolis, what's wrong with me? Minneapolis,
yeah, so he's threatening the protesters. >> Let me say two things about that tweet
and then we'll get to the Mayor.
So first of all, how are they treated in Minneapolis? Well, the cops stood on their neck for 8 minutes
and 46 seconds until they were dead. So that's Trump's view of the cops being not tough enough
on protesters. So second of all, I am concerned about Trump and his mental decline.
He's now threatening to do damage to himself, he's saying that any low life going to Oklahoma
should watch out. And we know who the lowlife going Oklahoma this weekend is, there he is
right there. Okay, so, okay, having said that, it's curious and interesting that when they
thought it was going to be black protesters, they're like curfew!
Curfew, black people are dangerous, we gotta have a curfew. And then it turns out it was
the MAGA guys who are lining up in the middle of the night to get a seat to the rally. They're,
white people, not dangerous! They're rescinding the curfew, it's so brazen, it's so brazen.
>> It is. >> And I wanna read you another statement
by Trump. He said, I just spoke to the highly respected mayor of Tulsa, PT Barnum. Okay,
fine, it's G.T Bynum, but close enough, he says, he's gonna put on a great show, bearded
lady and all. Anyway no, back to the real quote, he said, who informed me there will
be no curfew tonight or tomorrow for our many supporters attending the MAGA rally.
Enjoy yourselves, thank you to Mayor Bynum, now, you got Trump himself, the President.
Coming into town, threatening violence, his crowd is showing up, amped up, they've beat
up protesters in crowds before. Trump has encouraged them and told them he would pay
their legal bills when they do. But those people are apparently not dangerous thanks
to the great Mayor PT Barnum.
But protesters exercising their first amendment right and freedom of speech apparently are.
And of course remember this is Donald Trump who cries daily about how Twitter or others
impinge upon his freedom of speech. >> Yeah, exactly right and I don't doubt that
Trump would do anything and everything to unleash violence.
Brutality, absolute hell toward peaceful protesters, I mean, he's done it before. But there are
plans to do like a counter rally and based on what I've seen in their planning efforts
and what their intentions are. They want things to be peaceful but, Cenk, I wanted to just
issue one quick correction.
Because you said that people were camping out over the last night in order to go to
Trump's rally. People have been camping out all week, literally camping out in line waiting
to go to this essentially death rally. Where Trump is not requiring people to wear masks,
there will not be social distancing.
And Kayleigh McEnany, Trump's own press secretary, said that she plans on attending and she will
not wear a mask. So they are pushing this idea that wearing a mask is somehow a bad
idea or it's wrong or it looks bad. And in a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal,
Trump told them that he feels that some people who wear masks are purposely doing so with
the intention of making him look bad.
So he thinks it's some sort of weird conspiracy against him, when in reality, this is an effort
to, at least, slow the spread of Coronavirus. But in order for it to work, you need everyone
to be on board and, unfortunately, we don't have that. And of course, as you guys know,
the number of Coronavirus cases are spiking in nearly two dozen states, including Oklahoma
and in the Tulsa area.
And things are particularly bad in Florida where on a single day there were nearly 4,000
new Coronavirus cases, that's the highest number so far.
>> All right, well, so first of all on masks, I think Trump might be on to something there.
I wear a mask while sleeping and showering and think to myself, gotcha Trump!
>> Got him. >> No, we wear the mask when we go out because
we don't want to get our family sick and we don't want to get other people sick. He's
so obsessed with himself, I've never seen a narcissist on this level, it's absolutely
insane. On the other hand, if McEnany and Trump and others don't want to wear masks
in a place holding about 19,000 people.
Most of whom are not wearing a mask, while Coronavirus cases are spiking in Oklahoma.
Great, that's their call not my call, freedom, baby, freedom. They asked his campaign manager,
Brad Parscale, he's yeah, I'll probably wear it most of the time. In other words, I can
get all that Ferrari and Range Rover, not to drive them.
I'm gonna wear the mask and let other people die. So do you get a sense of how bad COVID
is right now in Tulsa, Oklahoma? It's in the last week at 140% increase and it is the second
fastest growing per capita state in the country in Coronavirus cases.
So it is skyrocketing right now in that city as he's going to rally there, and last part
of this is we had a perfect storm here. So we have Coronavirus spiking in Oklahoma as
Donald Trump packs 19,000 people, most of whom are not working a mask in the same place.
On top of that you've got his MAGA crowd that he's encouraged towards violence. And you
happen to have the epicenter of Juneteenth, which is this year in Greenwood and in the
Tulsa area. That is where the 1921 massacre happened, where 300 successful African Americans
were murdered by white racists there.
And so Juneteenth is a celebration of African American independence. So they're going there,
so you've got a sizable anti-Trump crowd with a sizable and angry Trump crowd, and Coronavirus
all converging on Tulsa on Saturday. So, if things go wrong, it is going to be the definition
of the Trump administration.
>> Yeah, we live in a failed state, we really do, which is lack of leadership, profits over
everything including human lives. And by the way, Trump did plan on doing this rally on
Juneteenth, today, but later pushed it a day back. After there was enough backlash, and
he claimed that he didn't know what the day meant which.
Here's the President of the United States and he was also quoted as saying the following,
I did something good. I made Juneteenth very famous, it's actually an important event,
an important time, but nobody had ever heard of it. He said that, Donald Trump said that,
it's painful, we live in a painful situation, Cenk, I don't know what to do.
>> Yeah, look, I gotta comment on that, I mean the guy, he once said that he invented
the word fake, in the English language. So he thinks if he hasn't heard of something
that nobody has, no you schmuck! It's been celebrated since 1865, 1866, technically,
was the first anniversary of it and they celebrated in Texas and it's spread from there.
So all those years of African Americans celebrating it in this country didn't count until Donald
Trump found out about it. One of my secret service guys was black, told me about it,
now maybe because of me now everybody knows about it, nobody knew about it before. Okay,
I mean, not only is he wildly ignorant and offensive, but again, he's just too dumb to
know how ignorant he is.
So he just keeps saying these things that are so outrageous and of course, had to be
corrected. He said that what, and then pointed to a staffer and says, and nobody knew about
it, right? And she's like, actually, sir, we've been putting out statements commemorating
it for three years in
a row.
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