Trump is not shocking to me because if you look at the signs, if you look at the signs
as far as what’s been resonating with all different types of groups of people in America
in terms of entertainment, in terms of literature, in terms of popular culture and now in terms
of politics, you know. Like why did the Tea Party thing resonate the way that it did for
so many people?When the Oprah Winfrey show was enormous and she had like racists and
skinheads on, like clan members and skinheads on once. And I remember her asking and the
children are there who no longer identified with them. And there were three children on
stage I think. I mean I’m remembering from way back watching this thing as a kid and
there were like three kids on stage who h ad all continued their education, right, and
no longer identified with being racist or having parents in the clan or their skinhead
friends, right. And so she asked the audience who was composed of all clan members and skinheads
how many people here graduated from high school. Two or three raised their hands. How many
of you went to college? Nobody raised their hands. Asked the three kids, you know, who
no longer identified with their upbringing how many of you graduated from high school?
How many of you went to college? So all of a sudden they have interacted with more people
in their life. They got out of their little circle and suddenly saw the world differently.
That’s why cults try to keep you in. Try to keep you from seeing what’s out there
so that you can maintain this perspective regardless of how warped it may be, you know.
As you can see I’m really into the idea of education. I think it’s the key to all
of this and I think when I see people following Trump I think it’s just a lack of that,
you know. It’s that simple. And because it’s funny. Because it’s funny. I mean
we’ve learned to laugh at stupid shit, you know. Like I said we equate entertainment
with escapism. Well what the fuck does that mean for Bob Marley? What the fuck does that
mean for Nina Simone or Fela Kuti or Jim Morrison or the Beatles. Like these guys weren’t
necessarily Bob Dylan. These guys weren’t necessarily trying to escape. They were digging
into what was happening in the culture. Like look at what’s happening around you. Look
at what the fuck – I mean listen to the words of like Satisfaction by the Stones,
you know. The man on the TV says this dah, dah, dah, dah. Like these are people who are
counterculture even though, you know, questioning authority, questioning what’s going on,
you know. Whereas now you have a pop culture that’s centered around this sort of thing
of just like rooting for the winner which his crazy to me. Like essentially rooted for
the like – for the underdog, you know. But you look at like the thing in pop culture
like Meek Mill and Drake for example, right. And people were like the guy who’s winning
– that’s the guy I want to win, you know, as opposed to the guy who actually comes from
the real fucked up situation who actually has something to say. No I want the guy who’s
winning the win, you know. That’s where we are right now. It’s a fucked place in
pop consciousness, you know, and Trump is the perfect example of that. Like we’re
all like his fucking apprentice right now. It’s a damn shame. But it was a damn shame
when he was on that show and everybody was fucking watching it. All that shit was a damn
shame. This is the outcome of that. This is the outcome of that. The shit we were laughing
at and calling our guilty pleasure, you know. Somebody fucking expect. What do you expect.
No he won’t get elected as president. He won’t. He won’t. I mean like if he does
call me back here and I’ll be like oh, I don’t know. But you’ll have to buy me an international ticket.