- What's the biggest thing I should maybe be concerned
about as an American citizen?
- Going back to Trump's twitter,
(horn sounding)
he tweeted on February 17, 'The fake news media,
failing New York Times, NBC News, ABC, CBS, CNN,
is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American people.'
- Is he not an American person?
- I mean this is concerning because
it kinda seems like it's maybe contradicting
the first Amendment of the Constitution.
A little bit.
- That's the first one.
- It's the number one.
- It's the best Amendment.
- It's the number one top Amendment.
So but basically that one is protecting
like freedom of speech, freedom of press,
you know, and he's not taking away any
of their freedoms, but he's kind of like
placing this distrust and sort of
discrediting them a little bit.
- Here's my biggest concern right now,
and this might be selfish.
I'm a media person, and he certainly didn't call out
BuzzFeed in this instance, as before.
Is Trump potentially telling the American people
that I'm their enemy?
- I don't know.
- Because if I'm their enemy, I want more stuff.
I want a lair, I want a badass car.
I want space weapons, I want expensive wine all the time
that I could be like constantly doing this.
I want better stuff if I'm going to be an enemy.
Enemies have cool stuff.
- It's true.
- Can we call Hayes?
- I think we should check back in with Hayes,
and see what he thinks.
- Hey guys, I missed you.
- Hey.
- We're talking about the tweet that Trump sent
saying that all the news outlets were an enemy
of the American people.
I want to know, since I technically work for a media
company that has a news outlet,
a, if I am then an enemy to the people,
and b, if you are an even bigger enemy to the people,
and c, what does this mean?
- Well, first of all, as far as I can tell,
being an enemy of the state is a transitive property
so it's like a six degrees of separation thing.
If you know someone who's an enemy of the American people
and are like relatively close ties with them,
it passes on to you like a cold.
- Oh.
- That's just my working theory.
- So you are a bigger enemy than me,
but I am still an enemy.
- Yes, correct, because you work
for this failing pile of garbage as well.
- I aspire to your position sir.
- In all seriousness, it's really terrible and scary.
- Yeah.
- So today in CPAC, Trump had a speech where he tried
to say no, no, no, I was just talking about
the fake news and journalists who make up sources,
which happens to be everyone in my mind.
The fact that he's trying to say that anyone
who disagrees with him is automatically a liar and fake,
is a way to sort of burrow away at the idea of a free press
in a way which you would expect to see in a less free
country than the United States of America.
Trump today again at CPAC said something along the lines of
I don't mind bad stories when I've earned them,
except he seems to never believe
that he's truly earned them.
And it goes back to our good friend, Vladimir Putin,
in similarities when you see how the Russian state
controls most of the media.
And you have very few independent outlets left.
- Who else in history, you can name all of them,
has made an enemy of the press to the people they represent?
- Oh, you know, some dudes named Benito, Adolph,
Uncle Joe, just some friendly characters,
Bobby Mugabe down in Zimbabwe.
- As a person who technically according to Trump
is an enemy, would you ever go on record saying
something like Trump is kind of like Hitler?
- Mmm, no, bit soon, bit soon for that.
- Yeah.
- Okay, I said...
- So basically what he would say, this is a potential
first step in the wrong direction.
- Wrong direction, will agree with that.
I've been reading a lovely Hitler biography,
and there are some things where I'm like, I see.
I see, but we're not quite there yet.
- Well I appreciate your time,
and since I aspire to be a bigger villain,
I'm not really a reporter, so I do think Trump
is probably very Hitler-like,
but you don't have to say that,
and I'm not technically news so...
- Bye, signing off, bye.
- Like I don't know if Trump is actually Hitler,
I don't know if Trump is actually Putin.
You know, he's going to be his own kind of person, right.
No one can be Hitler, Hitler is Hitler.
No one can be Keith Habersberger, I'm Keith Habersberger.
That's just the facts, right.
- Those are both facts, you are not Hitler,
Trump is not Hitler.
- Trump is not Keith.
You are not Trump.
These are true things.
- I'm making everybody who's like an authority of facts,
very worried right now.
- Those of us who like facts and truth
were really concerned.
We don't want to make too many crazy claims.
We're really nervous right now.
- It's scary to make crazy claims, but right now
Trump has made it scary to make factual claims.
- Or it seems like he's trying to make people
not believe like accurate reporting.
- He's turning us against ourselves.
It's kinda like, kinda like...
- [Man] Hunger Games?
- Hunger Games, yeah, kinda like Hunger Games.
I was going to go for Hitler, but actually
it's way more like Hunger Games.
- No, it's pretty Hunger Gamesy.
I'm safe with Hunger Games.
- Nah, it's fiction.
Why can't I just say that he's Hitler?
Why can't I just say it?
Like I just want to know why
I can't just make crazy claims?
- It's too much right now.
- Well I'm an enemy, no one's going to believe me anyway.