Impeached twice, defeated once.
Donald Trump nonetheless appeared
on conservative media to take
credit for
Glenn Youngkin the right wing
candidate winning the gubernatorial
race in the state of Virginia.
He said this, I've heard Virginia
is blue, but I've never believed it
was blue, without MAGA Youngkin
would have lost by 15 points more.
Instead of giving us credit they
say, he's more popular than Trump.
So Trump,
his feelings are getting hurt.
Because it is undeniable
that in the general election for
that gubernatorial race, Youngkin
did in fact distance himself from
Trump to make himself appear more
palatable to independent voters.
Now during the primary where he's
up against other Republican
candidates he did play up his Trump
support, and his Trump finesse.
But in order to be more palatable
to a broader base of voters,
Youngkin did something smart and
he presented himself as someone
who was just
a little better than Trump.
Let's just put it that way,
now is he?
I don't think so, but
it's all about messaging and
his messaging worked.
He beat the Democratic incumbent,
Terry McAuliffed and
now Virginians are in for it.
I'm not happy about that.
Now, how predictable was this,
how predictable were Donald Trump's
statements here?
Incredibly predictable.
What was not so predictable though,
was that Trump used his limited air
time to complain about Fox News
coverage on Youngkin and that
gubernatorial race, let's watch.
>> It took Fox 30 minutes to call
Virginia for Youngkin 30 minutes
after both MSNBC and NBC.
What does that say?
>> Well, that's probably because
maybe they wanted the Democrat to
win who knows, we don't know.
That's a much different
place than it was a few years ago.
When I ran in 16 I actually did
much better in 20 than I did in 16
as you know,
I got 12 million more votes.
But when I ran in 16,
Fox was great.
And now all they do is they put on
commercials from
the liquid project and others.
Roger Ailes would never air a bad
commercial.
If he was with somebody he would
never allow the Rhinos or
the never Trumpers or whoever it
may be to put on a commercial.
And in all due respect CNN doesn't
it either.
If you wanted to go in
with a good Trump commercial,
CNN is a total fake.
But if you want to go in with
a good Trump commercial to MSNBC or
CNN you can't put it on,
I mean they won't take it, but
Fox will take anything.
>> [LAUGH] That picture of trump is
so perfect.
>> It just fits the whole thing.
>> So Fox News accurately reports
who won in that gubernatorial race,
but Trump is salty about it because
Fox didn't report the results
soon enough.
>> Fast enough.
>> Okay.
>> God, that whole thing was so
sad for so many different reasons.
I mean,
Newsmax actually I saw a screenshot
they had a full screen graphic they
made of who called in which order.
Because this whole thing it used to
be that these networks whether they
ever deserved it or not would imply
that there was something more
prestigious or serious about them
than the masses of grifters.
But now it's just that.
It's just they're trying to fight
with each other we're the most
pure, we deferred to Trump or
Youngkin the fastest.
It's pathetic,
it doesn't mean anything.
I love Donald Trump's thing
about I did better in 2020,
I got 12 million more votes.
Yeah, but you lost.
I can't say like in my second
marathon attempt I beat my time
now in the end I did have a heart
attack but
I was beating my time at the point.
No, you didn't win though buddy
that's not how it works.
It all has to be up to him,
it burns in him that Youngkin did
better than him.
And look the only reason that
Youngkin did better than him,
they got people worked up about
unverifiable nonsense but
more important than that Youngkins
not a known quantity.
They don't have baked in knowledge
about how horrendous he is.
They should have known enough the
fact that he's worth $440 million.
>> He's a private equity guy.
>> Yeah, like he worked for
the Carlyle Group and for the same
group that Pete Buttigieg did.
Is this how you drain the swamp?
Apparently in Virginia it is.
>> Right,
now of course Donald Trump never
passes up an opportunity to speak
against those who have left him
aggrieved.
And in this case he's just super
salty about former senate majority
leader Mitch McConnell
now the senate minority leader.
So what did he have to say about
McConnell in this interview?
Let's listen.
>> So if the Republicans in
the midterms, if they take back
control of the senate, do you have
any sense that there might be
potentially with your help and
new majority leader?
>> I think you'll have a new
majority leader which I've always
said he's the most overrated man in
politics.
I know him well, I worked with him,
it took him forever to get me
the wall and
then in the end he couldn't get it.
So I got it,
I took it through the military and
I got the wall.
It took me a long time because
him and Paul Ryan, they gang up and
that was the group.
How would you like us to have to
work with those two?
>> Paul Ryan didn't run for
re-election because he was like so
badly out of place in the Trump era
in the Republican Party but
they gagged up everyone.
Mitch McConnell gave Trump
everything he wanted
with one exception.
One exception, he didn't whitewash
what happened on January 6th.
>> That's really all it takes.
Yeah, we work together.
Yeah, there's a lot of work and
going on late nights,
piles of paper, negotiations.
No, he didn't want anything because
he's not a serious person.
>> No, but hey,
let's be 100% real here.
He fought for things, or at least
he gave the optics of fighting for
things that his base wanted.
>> You talking about Trump?
>> I'm talking about trump.
>> Only if they wanted a wall,
that's true.
>> And also Trump fought pretty
hard and accomplished tax cuts for
the rich.
>> Yeah, which maybe some of them
wanted they didn't benefit from it.
>> Right. >> And also by the way
Mitch McConnell totally love those.
>> Of course.
>> It's like half of his presidency
was in lockstep with
Mitch McConnell but Mitch McConnell
once criticized him briefly.
>> More than half I mean 98% of his
presidency was with Mitch McConnell
carrying out exactly what
he wanted, including ensuring that
his federal judges got confirmed.
>> Yep.
>> So I just find it hilarious that
you will eventually find a day
where your Trump loyalism will bite
you in the ass.
Doesn't matter who you are.
Even if you're one of the smarter,
one of the scrappier lawmakers in
the Republican Party and
Mitch McConnell certainly does fall
into that category.
>> Yeah, look,
I will say I think it's going to
be very interesting to see to what
extent other Republicans take from
the Youngkin thing that they too
need to run from Donald Trump.
It's an open question about whether
it'll work in terms of campaign
strategy, but it will almost
certainly burn his blood that
they're going to be ignoring him.
But it seems, yeah, they need
the MAGA base, but the MAGA base
are Republicans, they're going to
support the Republican candidate.
>> Yeah.
>> What's the benefit of having
Trump with you and
all of the baggage he brings?
Any random Republican is going to
start out with better approval
ratings than Donald Trump with all
of his baggage.
You're not going to get independent
voters, you're not going to get
a single Democrat if you have trump
campaigning with you.
So I don't know, I think, look,
they're almost certainly going to
do very well but I don't think that
they need Donald Trump or
going to want him.