Brace yourselves, Donald Trump is
running for president. Which is good
because up until this point, the GOP
field had been so serious, so
responsible, there was really nothing to
joke about on TYT up until this point.
So, thank God he's here. Now, of course,
if you've been a longtime viewer of TYT,
we have had a ban on covering Trump
related news. So, we are modifying that
ban. Uh, Jen, why don't you explain how
exactly we're doing that? Yeah, so now,
uh, he's running for president. He's
going to affect other people in the
race. So he becomes unfortunately for
the entire country and the world
impossible to avoid which is of course
exactly his intention. Is he being
earnest in this run? I don't think so at
all. Uh and it's a moment of pomposity
and and to of course pump up his own
name. And if you don't know he's largely
a failed businessman. He his companies
have declared bankruptcy over and over
again. He just says well that's a
business tactic. If a middle class
person lose their house and they go
bankrupt they're a bum, right? But when
Trump does it over and over again, he's
a savvy businessman. Now, he's going to
pretend to have all sorts of money here
in the clips that you're going to see.
It's part of what makes him unbearable.
But the way that he makes his money is
by selling his name. So, he'll sell his
name for tens of millions of dollars. He
won't actually do that project, whether
it's a building in a foreign country, in
this country, or a business venture.
It'll say Trump on it, but he'll have
most of the time, not every time,
nothing to do with it. So, this is part
of how he builds his name. I know to a
lot of us it seems vile, right? But the
more your name is mentioned, the better
it is in this insane world that we live
in almost no matter what the
circumstances are. So what we're doing
here is we're going to show you his
preposterous entrance into the race. But
in order to modify our ban, we're going
to block out his face, but not his hair.
Okay. So going forward, Donald Trump
kind of Okay. Uh and we don't want to
give him the benefit of at least that
much. Exactly. So, here was his grand
entrance into the race. Ladies and
gentlemen, it is my pleasure to
introduce to you today Donald J. Trump.
[Applause]
[Music]
I see a woman in the
night with a baby in a hand.
[Music]
That is some group of people. Thousands.
And it's an honor to have everybody
here. This is beyond anybody's
expectations. There's been no crowd like
this. And I can tell you some of the
candidates they went in, they didn't
know the air conditioner didn't work.
They sweated like dogs.
He's such a weirdo. God damn it. Why
come down the escalator? You're so Okay.
And then he comes in and he says it to a
crowd of thousands as there are
reporters there looking at crowds of at
most dozens. So every reporter on the
scene is they're not there not there's
not thousands of people. That's not
true. Maybe he's not actually lying
about how much money he has. Maybe he's
terrible at counting.
It's just awful at a There's a billion
people here. It's part of his war on
math. Exactly. Um, yeah. So, to go back
to what you were saying earlier, I I
don't know if if he has $5 million to
her name, if he has $5 billion. I don't
care either way. Honestly, I think that
he is a complete he's a complete
goofball. He's not actually running for
president. He's doing this to pump up
his name. Everybody already knows who he
is. Most people largely don't care
anymore. Like, it doesn't it doesn't
matter. I don't know why he wants the
higher profile. Um, and the way that he
uses it is awesome. Like Bernie Sanders
came out early on, he was like, "Look,
I'm gonna show I understand the plight
of the common working man." Hillary
Clinton came out and she was like, "I'm
going to fool you into thinking I
understand the plight of the common
working man." He is going to literally
read from his bank statement. Let's
watch.
Ladies and
[Music]
gentlemen, I am officially
running for president of the United
States and we are going to make our
country great
again. I will
be the greatest jobs president that God
ever created. I tell you that. And I
have
assets big accounting firm one of the
most highly
respected nine
billion
240 million
and I
have
liabilities of about 500. In fact, one
of the big banks came to me and said,
"Donald, you don't have enough
borrowings. Could we loan you $4
billion?" I said, "I don't need it. I
don't want it." And I've been there. I
don't want it. But here, a total net
worth of 8 billion. Net worth, not
assets, not liability. A net worth after
all debt, after all expenses. I would
build a great wall. And nobody builds
walls better than me, believe me. And
I'll build them very
inexpensively. I will build a great
great wall on our southern border. And I
will have Mexico pay for that wall. Mark
my words. Nobody would be tougher on
ISIS than Donald Trump. Nobody.
I will find within our military. I will
find the general patent or I will
find General MacArthur. I will stop
Iran from getting nuclear weapons. And
we won't be using a man like Secretary
Kerry that has absolutely no concept of
negotiation, who's making a horrible and
laughable deal, who's just being tapped
along as they make weapons right now,
and then goes into a bicycle race at 72
years old and falls and breaks his leg.
I won't be doing that. And I promise I
will never be in a bicycle race. that I
can tell you. Bush is totally in favor
of Common Core. I don't see how he can
possibly get the nomination. He's weak
on immigration. He's in favor of Common
Core. How the hell can you vote for this
guy?
Jesus Christ. Okay, now it it it was
worse than it looks. It was meandering.
It went on and on. It went off his
prepared remarks. Everybody in the room
was confused as to what's going on. At
one point, he called immigrants rapists.
He said about Mexican immigrants that
are coming in, Latin American immigrants
overall, they are bringing drugs, they
are bringing crime, and they're rapists.
Okay. So, now the other part I didn't
understand is if he's going to make the
Mexicans pay for the wall, why bother
making it inexpensive?
Let's just build this. He's very nice.
Yeah, that's cuz he cares about the
Mexicans. They're largely rapists, but
he cares about them and doesn't want to
overcharge them for the Great Wall. The
what he called the Great Wall that he's
Well, that's clever. Very inexpensive.
Yeah. No, like it's it's not just a
great wall. It's a great great wall. Oh,
good marketing, Donald. Yeah, it's big
enough you can see it from the other
side of the planet. Yeah, there's so
much great stuff in like he's not going
to be in a bicycle race. I don't really
think he's going to be in a presidential
race either in his life. Um the Iran
thing, yes, if he gets elected, he will
stop them from getting uh nuclear
weapons, which will be made much easier
by the fact that we have already made a
deal with them that should stop them
from getting nuclear weapons. That's
going to make it easier. I Yeah, but
while we were doing that deal, John, our
Secretary of Defense at the age of 72
tried to stay in shape. Guilty. You
don't trust exercising. Yeah, Donald
will never exercise if he's president.
Okay. That's why you should tune into
this show. You can trust two men who
don't ever exercise. But anyway, um
yeah, he actually plays basketball. I
just don't. Um I love also that he's
old, but he's not that old. His two
general references are like Korea and
World War II. like he can't come up with
anything any more recent than that?
That's the most recent military history
he knows about. And you're going to
trust him to fight ISIS? The guy, by the
way, that he says, "I have a foolproof
secret plan to defeat ISIS." But I can't
tell you about it because I don't want
them to know how it works. Literally,
that was a scene from the office when
someone was trying to get the managerial
position job. Yeah. Well, he said that
in the last election cycle, too. You
would have think he would have been a
patriotic enough American that he would
have at least whispered in Obama's ear
after the election, but he decided no to
get a lot of our troops in harm's way
and to have all those people die because
he wanted to save the secret plan for
when he's president. Exactly. Okay.
Well, that that doesn't sound very
patriotic. Also, uh it's uh it's not
MacArthur. Uh it's not Macarfield. It's
not any of those things. Uh John made a
good point. His slogan is make America
great again. Wait a minute. Are you
saying America's not great right now?
Apparently saying it. Okay, that sounds
unpatriotic. And uh and finally, the the
core of what he's doing here is
fascinating. See, most other politicians
don't talk about how rich they are for
the reasons that John stated in the
beginning. They want to seem like humble
and average man, etc. But the other
reason is so they can collect money from
other rich people. If you go around
talking about that's why Mitt Romney,
part of the reason Mitt Romney never
talked about it because if you go around
saying how rich you are, they go, "Well,
okay, why don't you fund your own
campaign? What do you need my money
for?" Right? Especially if you have nine
billion dollars. I mean, you'll even
overwhelm the Koch brothers. You can do
anything you like. Just spend what? 10%
of that and that'll be all of the money
the Koch brothers are amassing from all
other millionaires and billionaires. You
got this thing on lockdown, Donald.
Right. So, why is he doing it? Because,
as we've been pointing out, this is a
publicity stunt, right? So, is he
technically running? I don't know if he
filed the paperwork. He might not have
even even done that because he's an
enormous liar. But let's give him the
benefit of the doubt on that. So
technically whether he runs or not, the
reality of running is you go and you set
up offices in New Hampshire and Iowa,
you hire staff, you run you run ads and
all these things cost money and you
raise money. It's it's unfortunate, but
that's a part of the system. He's not
going to go through any of the mechanics
of that because he doesn't actually
intend to win. So why do it? And why go
out there and slap everybody across the
face with your fake $9 billion? Now, by
the way, why do I say it's fake? Warren
Buffett doesn't have to come out and go,
"Uh, official accounting firm here. I've
got the papers. Official accounting
firm. I have $9 billion." Because
everybody knows Warren Buffett has that
money. He has to say it's an official
accounting firm because no one believes
him. Okay. So, by the way, I think uh
Bernie Maidolf also had an official
accounting firm. But anyway, so but
that's irrelevant. I don't, as John
said, who cares how much money he has?
But the reason he says it is because his
brand is rich. what he's trying to sell
to the world is Trump equals rich. So
this is an opportunity for him to do
that to do a giant press conference
where he holds up a piece of paper and
says I am I'm worth $9 billion and I
equal rich. Okay. So now what what does
that lead to? That leads to TV deals and
he and he gets pretty good ratings for
the apprentice, right? And then the
apprentice leads to much better
marketing deals for Donald Trump. So
that then he'll sell his clothes, he'll
sell his books, he'll he sells clothes.
Yeah. And and that you and for the
people who don't know how the rest of of
this media industry etc works in media
industrial complex works that TV show
engines is the engine for so much of his
growth and his money-making machine.
It's not that the TV show gets him a lot
of money, although I think it does, but
it leads to those other marketing
avenues where he makes his real money.
So, this is all a giant ad for Donald
Trump whose brand is rich. That's why
you get the obnoxious press conference
you just saw. That's the whole point of
this.