DONALD TRUMP'S NEW CAMPAIGN LEADERSHIP HAS PRODUCED HIS
FIRST RESULTS, NOW HE'S SORRY FOR SOME OF THE THINGS HE HAS
SAID.
I'VE NEVER BEEN POLITICALLY CORRECT, IT TAKES TOO MUCH TIME.
SOMETIMES IN THE HEAT OF DEBATE AND SPEAKING ON A
MULTITUDE OF ISSUES YOU DON'T CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORDS, OR YOU
SAY THE WRONG THING.
I HAVE DONE THAT.
AND BELIEVE IT OR NOT, I
REGRET IT.
[CHANTING TRUMP, TRUMP]
THANK YOU.
AND I DO REGRET IT, PARTICULARLY WHERE IT MAY HAVE
CAUSED PERSONAL PAIN.
TOO MUCH IS AT STAKE FOR US TO BE
CONSUMED WITH THESE ISSUES, BUT ONE THING I CAN PROMISE YOU THIS
-- I WILL ALWAYS TELL YOU THE TRUTH.
WE LOOKED INTO THAT, THAT WAS A LIE.
USES THE WORD ISSUES -- I
DON'T THINK HE KNOWS WHAT IT MEANS.
SPEAKING ABOUT A
MULTITUDE OF ISSUES, HE DOESN'T SPEAK ABOUT A MULTITUDE OF
ISSUES.
BUT THEN, WE CAN'T BE CONSUMED BY THESE ISSUES -- THE
PROBLEM ISN'T THAT HE SPEAKS ABOUT THE ISSUES AND GET THE
FACTS WRONG, ALTHOUGH HE DOES, AND HE'S NOT REGRETTING THAT,
IT'S THAT HE DOES POINTLESS FEUDS AND VENDETTAS AGAINST
PEOPLE LIKE THE KHAN FAMILY AND MEGYN KELLY.
THAT IS HOW HE HURTS PEOPLE, THEY ARE NOT ISSUE RELATED.
YOU ARE A LOSER, YOU NEED TO STAND UP AND FIGHT PEOPLE LIKELY
KHANS.
IT DID SHOW MEDIA BIAS, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU SAW WHERE WE
GOT THAT CLIP FROM, IT WAS THE ERIN BARNETT SHOW, AND TO SHOW
SOME MEDIA BIAS THEY SHOWED THAT SPEECH IN ITS ENTIRETY.
WHEN
WILL THEY STOP BEATING UP ON HIM LIKE THAT, THEY KNOW THAT HURTS
HIM WHEN PEOPLE SEE HIM TALK WITHOUT BEING FACT CHECKED.
WHY
WON'T THEY STOP THAT?
HE HAS A POINT THAT THE MEDIA IS AGAINST HIM.
THIS SPEECH IS PROOF POSITIVE THAT THE TRUMP WILL SAY ANYTHING
TO BE PRESIDENT, INCLUDING AN APOLOGY.
[LAUGHTER] THAT WASN'T REALLY AN APOLOGY.
WHAT'S GREAT ABOUT THE APOLOGY, THERE IS NO SADNESS OR
EVEN -- A POLITICIAN CAN DO FAKE SADNESS, OR FAKE GRAVITAS.
THERE IS NO SINCERITY?
IT'S LIKE, I REGRET IT, I SWEAR I DO.
I WILL TRY TO THINK
OF AN EXAMPLE -- I GOT NOTHING.
NOBODY KNOWS WHAT HE WAS
REFERRING TO, AND THIS IS OF COURSE A "PIVOT" THAT HE'S
DOING, WHICH AS YOU POINTED OUT WAS ON THE PROMPTER, THIS IS NOT
HIM SPEAKING STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS LIKE NORMALLY, THE
PROMPTER MIGHT LITERALLY HAVE ONLY HAD "I REGRET THAT" WRITTEN
ON IT.
COMING A WEEK AFTER HE SAID --
I GUESS I WILL MAKE AN UNCONVINCING APOLOGY IF
THAT WILL HELP ME IN THE POLLS.
HIS PREVIOUS PIVOT WAS WHEN HE WENT FROM BEING RACIST ONLY GETS
MEXICANS TO ANTI-SEMITISM.
OBVIOUSLY HIS NEW TEAM WROTE THAT FOR HIM, IT'S STRANGE
BECAUSE HIS NEW TEAM IS SUPPOSED TO BE LESS APOLOGETIC, BUT THEY
LEAD WITH AN APOLOGY.
THAT WAS INTERESTING.
BUT TO ME THE
FUNNIEST MOMENT WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SO-CALLED APOLOGY
WHERE HE SAYS I REGRET THE THINGS I'VE SAID, PEOPLE ARE
LIKE, YEAH.
TRUMP, TRUMP.
THEY THOUGHT HE WAS KIDDING, BECAUSE
HE SAID I'M NOT KNOWN FOR BEING POLITICALLY CORRECT, SO HE GOT
THEM IN THE RIGHT MOOD.
THEN WHEN HE CONTINUED, THE ROOM FELL
SILENT FOR A MINUTE.
DOES HE MEAN IT?
WE THOUGHT HE WAS
JOKING, WHY WOULD HE APOLOGIZE FOR ANYTHING?
I LIKE THE BEGINNING WHERE HE ACKNOWLEDGED, AND HE'S TOTALLY
RIGHT, BUT SOMETIMES YOU DON'T HAVE TIME TO BE POLITICALLY
CORRECT.
LIKE, YOU DON'T HAVE TIME TO NOT CALL MEXICANS
RAPISTS AND MURDERERS.
IF YOU HAD TIME, THAT WOULD BE GREAT.
HOW MUCH LONGER DOES IT TAKE TO SAY AFRICAN-AMERICAN THAN IT
DOES TO SAY THE OTHER WORD?
I THOUGHT YOU WERE GOING TO SAY WHEN HE SAID IN THE CROWD,
THAT'S MY AFRICAN AMERICAN.
HE ADDED A WORD THERE.
MY FAVORITE
PART OF THIS IS KELLYANNE CONAWAY, NOW BASICALLY HIS
CAMPAIGN MANAGER, SHE IS NOT THE CEO OF THE CAMPAIGN, THAT IS
STEVE BANNON, WHATEVER THAT MEANS -- SHE IS TRYING TO
EXPLAIN WHAT HAPPENED HERE.
THEY ASKED, WHO IS HE TALKING ABOUT?
WHAT IS HE APOLOGIZING FOR?
HE WAS TALKING ABOUT ANYONE WHO
FEELS OFFENDED BY ANYTHING, THEY SAID.
THAT'S AMAZING.
WE ARE NOT
GOING TO APOLOGIZE FOR ANY SPECIFIC THING.
ALSO, HE SAID SO
MANY OFFENSIVE THINGS WE ARE DOING A CARTE BLANCHE APOLOGY
FOR ANYTHING OFFENSIVE HE'S EVER SAID THAT THEY JUST PICK THEM,
WHATEVER YOU ARE OFFENDED BY, HE APOLOGIZES FOR THAT.
FOR EXAMPLE
IF YOU ARE PART OF A MINORITY GROUP HE OFFENDED BUT YOU LIKE
WHAT HE OFFENDS OTHER MINORITY GROUPS, THAT HE'S NOT
APOLOGIZING FOR THAT PART, JUST YOUR PART.
INTERPRET IT HOWEVER YOU LIKE.
CAN WE SHOW A LITTLE BIT OF THE KELLYANNE CONAWAY?
SHE WORKS FOR THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN SO HER MAIN JOB IS GOING ON
TV AND BEING FORCED TO LIE TO COVER FOR HIM, YOU WILL SEE
THAT ABOUT THE ORIGINS OF THIS NEW TRACK OF HIS CAMPAIGN.
HE WAS TALKING ABOUT ANYONE WHO FEELS OFFENDED, THAT IS ALL
HIM.
HE TOOK EXTRA TIME YESTERDAY GOING OVER THAT SPEECH
WITH A PEN, THAT WAS A DECISION HE MADE, THOSE ARE HIS WORDS,
AND I HOPE EVERYONE WHO HAS CRITICIZED HIM AT SOME POINT,
DAVID, FOR BEING INSENSITIVE OR FOR MOCKING SOMEONE, AT
LEAST SHOWS SOME RECOGNITION AND SOME FORGIVENESS.
WHY THE REGRET NOW?
PEOPLE MIGHT SAY, WAS THAT YOU?
IT'S NOT ME, IT WAS TRUMP, HE'S THE CANDIDATE.
WHY NOW?
IT'S AN EXPRESSION OF REGRET, HE FELT IT BEFORE BUT HE'S
EXPRESSING IT NOW.
SURE, JUST 48 HOURS AFTER HIS CAMPAIGN SHAKEUP.
PERHAPS HE FELT IT BEFORE, HE'S JUST EXPRESSING IT NOW
THAT HE'S ON A PROMPTER WITH A SPEECH I WROTE.
PERHAPS
HE FELT IT BEFORE, PERHAPS MAYBE HE FEELS IT NOW, MAYBE NOT.
TRUMP KIND OF REMINDS ME OF HUNTER S. THOMPSON IF YOU GOT
HIM TO RUN FOR OFFICE AND HE WAS A RACIST BIGOT, JUST STREAM OF
CONSCIOUSNESS, ANTAGONIZING EVERYONE, AND EVERY ONCE IN A
WHILE YOU GET HUNTER SOBER AND HE BE TALKING -- TO BE LIKE,
THIS ISN'T FUNNY ANYMORE.
THAT'S HOW I FEEL ABOUT DONALD TRUMP WHEN HE HAS THESE
MOMENTS OF CLARITY.
I WANT TO GO BACK TO, IT DOES TAKE A LOT OF TIME TO BE
POLITICALLY CORRECT.
FOR INSTANCE, I USED TO SAY IRISH
AMERICAN, THEN I SHORTENED IT UP, I JUST SAY MICK.
THAT IS
ABOUT NEXT TO TWO SECONDS.
YOU SAY THAT'S JUST TWO SECONDS, BUT
OVER A MONTH IT ADDS UP.
THAT'S LIKE AN EXTRA 30 MINUTES A
MONTH, AND WHAT DO I DO WITH THAT TIME?
I GET A MASSAGE.
TIME WELL SPENT.
SOMETIMES THERE ARE SMALL TICS PEOPLE HAVE WHEN YOU KNOW
THEY ARE LYING.
WHEN SHE GETS ASKED QUESTIONS ON A RAPIDFIRE,
KELLYANNE, IS IT?
SHE GOES, THAT'S HIM HIMSELF, HE HAD A PEN
LAST NIGHT -- WHY DO YOU HAVE TO TALK ABOUT THE PEN ON THE PAPER?
SMALL DETAILS WE DON'T NEED.
HE DID IT HIMSELF LAST NIGHT, I SAW
HIM DO IT.
SHE SAID HE HAD A PEN.
THAT
IS THE EXTRA, ADDED DETAIL THAT REVEALS THEY ARE LYING.
BY THE WAY, IMAGINE IF PRESIDENT OBAMA HAD TO SCRIPT
OUT ON UNTIL A PROPER, I'M SORRY I HURT PEOPLE'S FEELINGS.
THEY
WOULD ATTACK HIM --
APOLOGY TOUR.
TELE PROPER, SO PATHETIC, YOU CAN'T BE HONEST.