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- We've been counting down
"Donald Trump's 100 Most Tremendous Scandals!"
for about a week.
It just occurred to me
that we should've left a blank spot in this countdown
for whatever shit he's done
since we started doing this countdown.
And now we're down to the top 25.
These are the big ones.
These are the scandals
that are going to cement President Trump's place
in the history books.
Assuming history books are still allowed after November.
So let's start the countdown at number 25.
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- [Reporter 1] Donald Trump and his father
built the family's empire by dodging taxes for decades.
It reportedly included instances of outright fraud.
- [CNN Reporter] Peaceful protesters were teargassed.
- These aren't people.
These are animals.
- [Reporter 2] Conditions at migrant detention facilities
are simply horrific.
- President Trump swiftly fires the acting attorney general.
- [Reporter 3] Fired five independent watchdogs.
- The diverting of billions of dollars
from the Pentagon budget
to fund the president's border wall.
- This is an island
surrounded by water.
Big water. Ocean water.
- China should continue building these concentration camps
for the mass detention of Uyghur Muslims
because President Trump thought that,
quote, "Was exactly the right thing to do."
- And then we fell in love, okay?
No really.
It's funny, the relationships I have,
the tougher and meaner they are,
the better I get along with them.
- Disband this commission that he had set up
to back up his false claims about voter fraud.
- [Reporter 4] Playing another round of golf
and that was his 284th visit to one of his golf clubs
since taking office.
- Our media is the enemy of the people.
Somebody said I should not criticize judges.
Okay, I'll criticize judges.
- [Reporter 5] Trump has now made
more than 20,000 misleading or false statements.
- [Reporter 6] The president,
who routinely skips reading the president's daily briefing.
- Mailmen selling the ballots.
They're being sold, they're being dumped in rivers.
- [Reporter 7] Russia wanted Donald Trump to win,
that his campaign was eager to accept Russia's help.
- [Reporter 8] The president said, "I need loyalty.
"I expect loyalty."
- [Reporter 9] Woodward pressed the president
about MBS' role in Khashoggi's murder.
Trump told Woodward, "I saved his ass."
- [Reporter 10] Another woman comes forward
with another claim about Donald Trump's behavior.
- [Reporter 11] Separating children
from their families at the border.
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- [CNN Announcer] This is CNN Breaking News.
- President Trump has been impeached.
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- How does he even have the energy for this many scandals?
I mean, I have a theory,
but our lawyers said that we don't have any proof
so we can't put it on the list.
Number one is still ahead,
but now let's look at scandal number two.
Gather 'round for this one, everybody.
Well, not too close. Keep six feet.
A global pandemic would be a crisis for any president,
but it would take Donald Trump to turn coronavirus
into not just a scandal,
but one of the biggest scandals of all time.
You can call it a germ, you can call it a flu,
you can call it a virus.
You know, you can call it many different names.
I'm not sure anybody even knows what it is.
- [Roy] Trump was working on screwing up the pandemic
before there was even a pandemic to screw up.
- The Trump administration disbanding
the National Security Council's Pandemic Unit in 2018.
- We worked very well with that office.
It would be nice if the office was still there.
- [Roy] And when the outbreak began in Wuhan,
the Trump screw ups really began taking off.
As China tried to hide how bad things were,
Trump helped them cover it up
because he wanted a trade agreement.
- That's all taken care of.
And China's working very hard on the problem.
- [Roy] That's called the art of the deal.
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The next screw up came when the virus reached America.
- You have 15 people and the 15 within a couple of days
is gonna be down to close to zero.
- [Roy] Just as China was finally admitting
that this thing was more viral
than a white girl dancing on TikTok,
Trump began doing the opposite.
This is a flu. This is like a flu.
It's going to disappear one day.
It's like a miracle, it will disappear.
You're gonna have a kid with the sniffles
and they'll say it's coronavirus,
whatever you wanna call it.
- [Roy] Yes, according to Trump
COVID was something you could simply ignore.
Like, consent.
- [Donald] When you're a star, they let you do it.
- [Roy] But even though COVID was no more harmful
than just a case of the sniffly-wifflies,
he still put together a task force
led by the smartest guy he could find one office over.
And this guy had lots of experience
when it comes to not handling a public health crisis.
While Trump continued to promise that COVID-
- Is going away.
And it will go away and we're gonna have a great victory.
- [Roy] He did everything he could think of
to make sure it stuck around.
- So I said to my people, "Slow the testing down, please."
With the masks, it's going to be really a voluntary thing.
You can do it, you don't have to do it.
I'm choosing not to do it.
- [Reporter 12] The Trump administration
dismissed the PPE shortage
and instead encouraged reusing supplies.
- I don't take responsibility at all.
- [Roy] Eventually, Trump was persuaded
to take the pandemic a little more seriously.
- I am confident that by counting and continuing
to take these tough measures-
- [Roy] Even if he pretty clearly wasn't happy about it.
- Okay. (sighs)
- [Roy] Hey, I know how you feel, Donald.
I get cranky too when the pandemic pulls me away
from my 18 hours of golf.
But before long, the second wave of screw ups would begin
as Trump went full snake oil salesman.
- Hydroxychloroquine.
Try it.
If you'd like.
And then I see the disinfectant.
Is there a way we can do something like that by injection?
- [Roy] Turns out the D in DJT stands for "Doctor."
And the J stands for, "Jesus, did he just say
"that we should inject ourselves with bleach?"
- Totally normal.
(man laughs) (camera shutters clicking)
- [Roy] Still, his people rejoiced,
sharing the good news about why masks are bad.
- [Man] You're all a bunch of pussies wearing masks!
- You are violating federal law!
- Return to your service of Satan!
- Back off!
(woman screams wildly)
- [Roy] And showing up at his rallies
without a care in the world.
- They are dying, that's true.
And it is what it is.
- [Roy] As the US became a global leader in coronavirus,
it seemed like the good times would never end.
Until it all came crashing down.
- [George] Breaking news overnight.
President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump
test positive for the coronavirus.
- [ABC Reporter] At least 28 people
connected to President Trump have tested positive for COVID.
- [Roy] It's a sobering reminder
that coronavirus is real and even the most powerful people,
even the president of the United States,
are vulnerable to this terrible disease.
(laughs) Nah!
You can't hurt Donald Trump.
His blood is made of cheeseburgers.
- I'm immune.
I could come down and start kissing everybody.
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- [Roy] So even as Trump's first term comes to an end-
- COVID, COVID, COVID.
- [Roy] His most impressive scandal
keeps soaring to new heights.
- One a scale of one to 10,
how would your rate your response to this crisis?
- I'd rate it a 10.
- Be honest.
When Tom Hanks caught the 'Rona back in March,
did you really think we'd still be dealing with this shit
in November?
Eight months. It's bene eight months.
I'm starting to think having a president
with an attention span of eight seconds was a mistake.
Well, you've seen Donald Trump's top 99 scandals.
The man is a tax dodgin', Putin lovin',
pussy grabbin', bleach drinkin' cry baby!
Which brings us to his most tremendous scandal.
He's somehow still president!
How?
How is he still the president?
You would think at number 60,
somebody would've said something.
Unbelievable!
How the.