You have people like Fauci saying that his lockdowns didn't cause any
permanent damage to any young kids.
I got news for you, it did.
And we are gonna reap those rewards across the whole country for years and
years and years because they treated kids so poorly.
And I'm just sick of seeing him, I know he says he's gonna retire.
Someone needs to grab that little elf and chuck him across the Potomac.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> Okay,
I'm gonna need you to buckle up because there is so much going on in this clip.
I wanna start off with the most petty part cuz I can be petty when I wanna be.
Little elf? Little elf?
I did a bit of research.
I Googled, how tall is Dr. Fauci?
And Dr. Fauci is 5'7.
You can decide for yourself if that's tall or not.
He was actually on his school's basketball team, but he was 5'7.
So then I googled how tall is Ron DeSantis?
He's 5'9.
Dude, okay, can I pick you?
Okay, I'm 6'1, can I pick you up and throw you across the river, Ron DeSantis?
Both of you are elves to me, what a weird thing to say.
Dude, you're 5'9, which is fine.
You know what's being also fine?
Being 5'7 or 5'5 or 5'3, but you wanna make a big deal out of how tall you are?
What a weird thing to say.
It's the least important part of this.
The far bigger issue is that, man, this guy wants to be a tough guy.
They all wanna be tough guys.
They can't wait to use campaign ads money to present themselves jumping
out of planes like the guy who got into a scrap with the dude from SNL, or
even him and his Top Gun thing, if we could show this shot.
It's just, I don't even wanna play the video because it's so cringey,
but just that shot really sells the entire thing.
These guys desperately wanna be tough.
They also don't wanna be just generically tough,
they wanna be tough like one particular guy, which we'll get into in a little bit.
But, Jordan, what do you think about this?
>> Yeah, it's so pathetic.
[LAUGH] They all have the chismo that they take on when they're trying
to rile up a crowd or talk about their perceived political enemy.
I mean, just look at DeSantis, he's a puffball.
What's he really gonna do?
This guy struggles to pick up a pen, he's just kinda hefty-
>> [LAUGH]
>> And [LAUGH] it's just so weird.
I think genuinely tough people are strong people,
they don't feel the need to go around and brag about it.
They don't really feel the need to throw it in everyone's face all the time.
If they do, there's a deeper insecurity there.
It's a huge red flag that he's even talking about this kind of stuff.
>> Yeah, 100%.
I mean, I don't have the photo, but I'm sure people have seen the photo of him
standing at an event recently and he was doing this.
>> Hell yeah.
>> I don't even understand what that is.
Is that because Trump stands like a weirdo,
you have to sta- >> [LAUGH]
>> [CROSSTALK]
>> Like this.
>> Like men do.
[LAUGH] We're just men being men.
So anyway, So
anyway, that's an issue and we'll get into the specific impersonation.
I wanna tease you with that for a little bit longer.
The other issue and perhaps the most substantive issue here is the reference
to the little elf, the implication that we're gonna throw him.
[LAUGH] Gets funny because it's violence and we hate this guy and
he should probably die.
So, he called him a little elf.
Why did he call him a little elf?
I don't know for sure, but I have a theory.
And the theory might be that it seems like a suspiciously specific call back to
a guy who said he wanted to break every bone in Fauci's disgusting elf skull,
who was recently sentenced to three years in prison for those death threats.
He threatened to, among other things,
break every bone in his disgusting elf skull, sew his scalp onto a rat.
While warning that the famed public health researcher would soon be hunted,
tortured, beaten, and enslaved.
He said, apparently, drop the mandatory vaccine talk, maggot,
or you're getting 6 mandatory shots in your worthless satanist,
I've blurted out, but it's a homophobic slur, skull.
You and your buddies, Gates and Soros, too, you sick little, another slur.
I'll smash every tooth out of your, another slur, skull.
Maybe that's not why he's calling him an elf.
I don't know, he's a Republican.
I don't know what it is, but it is suspiciously similar to a guy who
made national headlines for talking about how he wanted to murder Fauci.
What do you think, Jordan?
>> Don't be surprised.
>> What do you think, Jordan?
[LAUGH] >> Sorry, I wouldn't be surprised,
[LAUGH] I wouldn't be surprised if that's why he was doing it like this.
There were open these Neo-Nazis marching in Florida.
They made their own flag with the swastika made out of the shape of Florida.
He didn't condemn them, he didn't find the time to condemn them.
He's welcomed extremists into the fold in the Florida Republican base.
I wouldn't put this past him.
I'm sure it's crossed their mind, they're certainly aware of it.
So, yeah, I could see it, we don't know for sure, but I wouldn't, cuz he's vile,
I wouldn't put it past him.
>> Yeah, 100%.
God, here's the other thing.
So was he trying to be a tough guy and failing miserably at it?
Yes, is he the first Republican to try to do that?
No, he's pretty much just doing Ted Cruz's shtick at this point.
But I wanted to give Jared Holt credit for pointing out something that I guess other
people have talked about previously, I hadn't actually noticed it.
He says it remains baffling that anyone would enter the idea that Ron DeSantis is
a more reasonable and mature alternative to Trump.
The guy altered his speech rhetoric and
hand gestures to do a soft Trump impression.
He is literally trying to be him.
How different is he, really?
And so, apparently, The Recount had this theory a couple months ago.
So let's play a little bit of what they had to say about this.
>> Anybody here would do it.
Judges are a priority.
>> And honestly, we have businesses that have been locked down and
lives destroyed for over a year [INAUDIBLE] say.
No COVID vaccine, passports made in China.
Why would we want so many important things to us be at the whim of China?
>> I love how petty including the signing of a bill in that was.
Everybody signs something looking the same way.
But, anyway, yeah, he does kinda look like he's doing impression.
What I wanna do though is,
I wanna play the first 15 seconds of that first video again though.
Because I want you to notice he does this specific hand thing that I literally
never seen anyone other than Trump do.
And also, I want you to listen to how he speaks,
cuz I feel like he is literally doing a Trump impression with his voice.
Take a look at this.
>> You have people like Fauci saying that his lockdowns didn't cause any
permanent damage to any young kids.
I got news for you, it did.
And we are gonna reap those rewards across the whole country for
years and years and years because they treated kids so poorly.
>> He was doing a thing with his voice.
That's not how his voice and he's twitching in a weird way and
that is such an awkward thing to do, Jordan.
What do you think about this theory?
Is this a planned thing?
>> It seems like it.
This whole thing, that's a distinctly Trump thing.
The marker- >> [LAUGH]
>> Or the signing was because he did
it in Sharpie, he was signing something in Sharpie, which is not common.
That's a very distinctive Trump thing as well.
>> Good catch there.
>> He's changed his mannerisms, he hasn't talked like that before.
It definitely seems that his campaign and his staff has realized that probably
pulls a little bit better and that's what they're doing.
They're just trying to lean into it because even Jared is saying he wants
to beat Trump and some people think that he's a better alternative to Trump,
but he still kinda wants that image, he still kinda wants that aesthetic.
So, if he can just be a little less crazy, a little less corrupt than Trump,
he's calculated and his campaign is calculated that this is how they do it.
It's, hey, it's almost like Trump but without all the baggage.
>> Exactly, yeah, and even being caught out trying to do the impersonation
that should be deeply embarrassing, but the right doesn't care.
They wanna do more like Trump.
Honestly, if he were to walk around in a Trump mask,
are we sure his numbers would go down amongst Republicans?
Who is gonna be the first candidate to literally wear a Trump mask and run?
I think they might have a chance.
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