BACK IN 2016 DURING THE DEBATES BETWEEN DONALD TRUMP AND
HILLARY CLINTON A MAN STOOD UP AND ASKED THE QUESTION.
HIS NAME WAS KEN BONE AND HE WAS CURIOUS ABOUT WHAT THE POLICIES
WERE IN REGARD TO THE COAL INDUSTRY.
HE AT THE TIME WAS A COAL POWER PLANT OPERATOR, HIS JOB WAS
ON THE LINE AND HE WAS CONCERNED.
HE BECAME A MEME INSTANTLY BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT HE
LOOKED THE WAY HE DOES.
THE RED SWEATER, THE MUSTACHE, THE GLASSES.
HE WAS UNDECIDED IN REGARD TO WHO HE WOULD VOTE FOR AT
THE TIME.
HE IS BACK IN THE NEWS TODAY BECAUSE OF A SIMPLE TWEET HE PUT
OUT DURING THE STATE OF THE UNION.
IT WAS DURING TRUMP'S STATEMENTS ABOUT THE COAL INDUSTRY.
TAKE A LOOK.
>> WE HAVE ENDED THE WAR ON AMERICAN ENERGY AND WE HAVE
ENDED THE WAR ON BEAUTIFUL, CLEAN COAL.
>>SO WHAT DOES KEN BONE THINK AS SOMEONE WHO WAS EMPLOYED BY THE
COAL INDUSTRY?
HAVE WE ENDED THIS WAR ON BEAUTIFUL CLEAN
COAL?
>> HERE IS MORE BACKGROUND.
PEOPLE DUG INTO HIS BACKGROUND.
HE IS A PRIVATE CITIZEN.
IF YOU DIG INTO ANYONE'S BACKGROUND, YOU WILL FIND
SOMETHING DAMAGING ABOUT THEM.
YOU CAN DO IT TOO LITERALLY ALMOST ANYONE.
BUT BONE DID NOT ASK TO BE A PUBLIC FIGURE.
THEY DUG IN AND FOUND DAMAGING STUFF.
APPARENTLY SOME STUFF ABOUT EROTIC PHOTOS, I DON'T REMEMBER.
I DON'T WANT TO REMEMBER.
THEN THEY FOUND THAT HE HAD SAID TRAYVON MARTIN'S KILLING
WAS JUSTIFIED.
IT MAKES MY HAIR STAND ON EDGE.
I WANT TO HATE KEN BONE.
I DON'T WANT THE COUNTRY, PRIVATE CITIZENS RIPPING EACH
OTHER APART.
I KNOW IT IS CLICH…
BUT YOU ARE GOING TO AGREE ON
MOST STUFF AND IT IS THE POLITICIANS THAT DO THE
PROPAGANDA THAT SPLIT US.
MY FAVORITE ISSUE, THE ONE THAT IS MOST IMPORTANT, MONEY IN
POLITICS.
BUT KEN BONE TO ME ñ I SAY THAT AS CONTEXT FOR I AM NOT
A KEN BONE FAN.
BUT HE IS IN A SENSE THE AVERAGE AMERICAN, AND THAT IS WHAT
HE RESONATED AT THE TIME THAT HE DID.
THE AVERAGE AMERICAN WHO DOESN'T KNOW THAT MUCH ABOUT POLITICS.
IN REALITY THERE IS A GIANT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM, AND
THEY ARE BOTH IN THEIR OWN WAY LOANSOME.
HE OBVIOUSLY
HAD SOME CONSERVATIVE LEANINGS
BASED ON THE TRAYVON MARTIN THING.
YOU CAN'T JUST
CARICATURE PEOPLE BASED ON ONE THING THEY HAVE SAID EVEN AS
DEEPLY TROUBLING AS THAT COMMENT
ABOUT TRAYVON MARTIN IS.
NOW HE WAS LOOKING AT WHAT TRUMP HAS
DONE AND SAYS THAT IS NOT AT ALL WHAT YOU PROMISED, OR WHAT YOU
ARE SAYING TODAY.
THERE IN LIES THE STORY OF DONALD TRUMP'S POLITICAL CAREER.
MORE PEOPLE EVERY SINGLE DAY REALIZE THIS IS NOT WHAT HE
PROMISES.
THIS GUY IS NOT WHAT HE CLAIMED TO BE.
>> DURING THE STATE OF THE UNION THERE WAS A LENGTHY PORTION
WHERE TRUMP APPLAUDED HIMSELF FOR PASSING THESE TAX CUTS
FOR THE WEALTHY.
I THOUGHT IT WAS A POOR POLITICAL STRATEGY TO EMPHASIZE
THAT SO MUCH BECAUSE IT WAS SUCH
A DEEPLY UNPOPULAR BILL.
AND ALSO AMERICANS ARE GOING TO NOTICE THAT THEIR WAGES ARE
STAGNANT.
THEY WILL NOTICE THAT THEIR TAX CUTS WILL EXPIRE WHILE THE
TAX CUTS FOR CORPORATIONS OF THE TOP 1% WILL BE PERMANENT.
THE LONGER HE IS IN OFFICE, THE MORE HIS POLICIES REALLY SET IN
AND GIVE AMERICANS AN OPPORTUNITY TO REALIZE HOW
DESTRUCTIVE AND DAMAGING THEY ARE, THERE IS GOING TO BE SOME
PORTION OF HIS VOTERS THAT WILL
FLIP.
BUT THEN THERE IS THAT CORE BASE.
ESPECIALLY THE RELIGIOUS VOTERS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT IN
PREVIOUS SHOWS THAT GENUINELY THINK TRUMP WAS PUT IN
OFFICE BY GOD HIMSELF.
THOSE PEOPLE WILL NEVER FLIP.
IT DOESN'T MATTER IF THEIR WAGES
ARE STAGNANT, OR HAVING TROUBLE PUTTING FOOD ON THE TABLE, IF
THEY LOSE THEIR HEALTH CARE, IF
THEY LOSE THE GOVERNMENT AID THEY GET BECAUSE THEY DON'T MAKE
ENOUGH MONEY WORKING FULL-TIME AT A COMPANY LIKE WALMART.
IT DOES NOT MATTER, AND THAT IS THE MOST DEVASTATING PART OF IT.
>> THE ONES BETWEEN THE 40%
THAT DONALD TRUMP PEAKS AT, IN THE LATEST POLL HE IS AT 42.
AN ELECTION DAY THERE WAS A PULLED THAT HAD HIM ON 37.
25% WHICH IS HIS MINIMUM, THAT GOT HIM INTO OFFICE.
THE DIFFERENCE WITH THAT, KEN BONE IS IN THAT MIDDLE AREA
BETWEEN 25% AND 40%.
THAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TRUMP STAYING IN OFFICE AND
NOT STAYING IN OFFICE.
WHETHER IT IS THROUGH IMPEACHMENT OR THE 25TH
AMENDMENT.
LOSING THE CAN BONES OF THE WORLD DOES MAKE A
DIFFERENCE, IT MAKES A GIANT DIFFERENCE.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 40 AND 25 IS 40
IS BARELY HANGING IN THERE.
25 IS DEVASTATING.
THE CLOSER HE GETS TO 25,
THE CLOSER HE GETS TO LEAVING OFFICE.
THAT IS WHY STORIES LIKE THIS ARE IMPORTANT.