>> The US Fish and Wildlife Service has started an investigation after a manatee was
found with Trump carved on its body. And the images are
just awful, the fact that anyone would do this is awful. These are protected animals.
And Blue Planet Society, posted one of the images showing what the carving look like.
This is a federal criminal offence, I'm glad it's being investigated.
And these are endangered species that are protected under the Endangered Species Act. So
they're seeking information about who might have done this. They're even providing a $5,000 reward
for any information that leads to an arrest. And why do people suck so bad?
Like why? Just leave the animals alone. I get it, we're all vicious to one another, but can we just
leave innocent animals out of it? What did they get out of carving Trump on an innocent animal?
I don't understand people. And then people ask me, why don't you like to talk to strangers?
Because strangers suck. >> These kinds of people
exist and I don't wanna communicate with them. My life is complicated enough. I don't wanna
come across with a garbage. >> Yeah. I'm from Miami and
there's plenty of manatees in Biscayne Bay where I grew up. And it was just a
very important part of our childhood was like understanding that manatees need to be protected.
That they like it when you put a hose in the water and they come and they drink the freshwater. And
you're not supposed to do that because it's bad for them to be around docks. Because they're so
slow, boats just like pass right over them they don't have time to get out of the way.
And then you see a bunch of manatees with scars on their back. Like sometimes when you
see a manatee they'll just have scars on his back from a boat's propeller.
Because they're just so big and slow that they can't get out of the way in time.
That's why there's like all over Biscayne Bay, Miami there's manatee's zones.
Like big signs, that play manatees are on here, you can only go
like I think it's like five miles an hour. So that gives them enough time to get out of the way.
So these are just beautiful, large creatures, large slow creatures of the sea.
And just the thought that someone would capture one I guess in the net.
Hold it down, carve TRUMP on his back and then put him back in the wild is just,
it's a degree of depravity that is very very troubling. Because you know how hard it is
to do what they did? The amount of effort they had to go through to do what they did?
For what? Like a funny selfie- >> I don't, cuz I've never done
it, and it wouldn't even cross my mind. >> To share with your dumbass friends? Yeah,
it's crazy. I mean it's it really is disparate. I mean I can't tell
you like these creatures are like absolutely just gentle giants.
There's something about a fat, gentle giant that I just have a soft spot for,
and- >> You know?
>> Yeah, you know? And they're totally harmless, and could never hurt a fly. And yeah, so just
absolutely horrible, and a story that was very near and dear to my heart as a native Miami Sun.
>> I'm glad we're doing the story together because you just know more about
what the local regulations are and what people are taught. It's not as if
this is something that people don't know about. Like I didn't know that there was this whole
education behind it. >> Yeah.
>> Discouraging people from harassing them, but I'm really glad that that takes place.
But this happened in Citrus County. So Trump did win 70% of the vote in 2020 in this county.
So lots of Trump supporters. And the question is will the manatee recover? Will it be okay?
We don't know yet, here's what we do know. The algae growth will return, the name on the animal
will disappear over time. But what the long term impact on the animal is, we don't know. And that's
according to an expert from the Jacksonville University Marine Science Research Institute.
But it's just again, all I can say, I don't really have much commentary other than this awful.
>> Yes. >> And I.
>> $50,000 fine and prison time for the person who gets caught and I really hope they do
get caught. What were you saying Nando? >> Like I said, it's just to reiterate,
it's very common to see manatees with scars on their back right just
giant gashes all across their back from a propeller.
Sometimes they survive, but if they don't. But this is like,
I can't tell you how big of an issue is for anyone that's growing up in Miami,
it's like very present. It's not something that someone wouldn't have known about,
if that makes sense. I mean it's just they're very present creature if you're from Florida.
>> Look at that little cute face. >> They're so cute, look it's so cute,
they're just a gentle giant. >> I know little whiskers.
>> Yeah, you could be swimming and sometimes they like swimming near you.
And yeah, they're just gentle giants. They're just beautiful, beautiful, big fat creatures.
>> Okay now, animals are insane. Okay, so now let's go to like the, this isn't gonna be in
the video so we can you know talk freely. I love this game, if I were ruler of the world, one of
the things that I would mandate is that everyone at least once a month has to go to an aquarium.
Preferably well high on marijuana and just like watch animal like watch sea life. It's
weirdly healing. It's weirdly healing. I'm always mesmerized by it. I love aquariums.
There's an aquarium, near, the best aquarium in LA is the Long Beach Aquarium, it's Aquarium of
the Pacific. I don't know if you've been but the jellyfish displays are the best.
>> Yeah. >> It's just the best. Spend hours just them.
>> I think that every man, woman, and child on the earth should be forced to watch
the BBC series Planet Earth, Blue Planet, Planet Earth 2 all the various spin offs something.
Maybe the greatest piece of television content ever created could only have been created by
public media which I'm very proud of also instead of some evil for profit corporation.
And yeah, I mean, it's just incredibly soothing and beautiful
seeing the natural world and how it works. Maybe do a little psychedelics
while you watch Planet Earth. Maybe that would be a good educational.
>> No, I stay away from psychadelics. >> I've definitely done that. I remember
my friend and I, one time while we were watching Planet Earth.
That scene where the Iguanas and the Galapagos are running from the snakes.
And we were like, riveted, like jumping up on the couch like, go, go you can make it.
>> I know. >> Yeah, when the guy makes it onto the rocks,
like we're just like hugging each other, like it just affirms your belief in our planet, really.
And yeah we've just been so desensitized and so removed from it by our bourgeois comforts. That
you can see people with the depravity to do things like carve your favorite president's
name on the back of a helpless creature. >> But, like the thing that I hate is that
we don't have enough time to do these kinds of things.
Like, to go to an aquarium or to enjoy, like I love enjoying nature because of how healing it is.
And it grounds me, right? Like when I feel like look at how, how how this exists guys? This
exists, there is like a whole world out there.- >> So, Anna I grew up-
>> Of the amazing creatures. >> I grew up next to an aquarium
called the Miami Seaquarium. Which is where they filmed Flipper for example, like the TV show
Flipper was filmed there. And, I grew up with the killer whale there was called Lolita. And growing
up next to the aquarium it kind of radicalized me against, like aquariums depress me in a way.
Like when I go there, I just thought of like capturing an orca and putting it in
a tiny little tank for the rest of his life or her life. Just like when I'm confronted
with that it just depresses me. And- >> I damn like this always taking things-
>> I know, I know, I know. >> Just let me enjoy the
aquarium Nando. >> I know, I know.
>> I hear you, you're right. >> I know. But yeah,
that one's just like again, because I grew up next to one and it became kind of like an issue.
Especially when I was in high school, that people were like,
did you ever watch the movie Blackfish? >> Of course, yeah, that's why I know
you're right, yes. >> Yeah, it's evil.
>> I mean Blackfish is about like I don't want to go to a place like, okay.
I don't know if you've experienced this but it's happened a few times. Where I'll be
on vacation. Like we'll travel somewhere tropical and beautiful. And then there's always like,
look at these fun day long adventures. There's always some adventure that involves you
fucking around with dolphins, right? >> Yeah,
>> No, don't touch the dolphins, I don't wanna touch the dolphins. Like leave them alone. I like
being able to see them in their natural habitat. I like being able to see them,
if you'll go to Santa Monica Pier sometimes you'll see the sea lions and it's freakin awesome.
I love that. But any type of situation where people are making money off of you swimming
on top of dolphins like- >> Yeah, it's gross.
The natural world should not be subjected to the ravages of capitalist profit motive.
Because they're just gonna squeeze every little bit they can from it.
And it's just yeah I mean yeah, but you're right that it's interesting to see like the relationship
that people who live like indigenous communities and things like that. Who are much more tuned to
the natural world, like their relationship to it versus us, kind of Western desensitized people.
It really is kind of like one of those like sad things about
our reality that- >> Yeah.
>> The fact that we destroyed the Great Barrier Reef, the fact that our grandchildren would not,
I've never actually been to the Great Barrier Reef. But the fact that like, if
we have children and they're never gonna be able to go and see that and then we just destroyed it.
Like, for what? For like an extra, I dunno, bypass or something like, yeah. You know what I mean?
Like, it's really depressing. >> It is depressing.