It turns out Donald trump aficionado of saying the quiet part out loud has finally
revealed to the New York times is Maggie Haberman the real reason he decided to run
for president.
Are you ready for this?
It is for the fame and the envy.
That's it.
Yeah, according to an upcoming book by Haberman, entitled Confidence Man.
When asked why he ran for president, here's what he said, quote,
the question I get asked more than any other question.
If you had to do it again, would you have done it?
The answer is, yeah, I think so, because here's the way I look at it.
I have so many rich friends and nobody knows who they are.
Haberman goes on.
So it's not only I have rich friends, which I'm sorry, I forgot that part.
I have rich friends and no one knows who they are.
So I want to know what we think about that.
But it was also really because it was a vehicle for his own stardom, he says yet
there it was reflecting on the meaning of having been present in the United States.
This is Haberman writing, his first impulse was not to mention public service
or what he felt he'd accomplished only that it appeared to be a vehicle for
fame and that many experiences were only worth having.
If someone else envied them, we could have told you this back in
2015 when he descended an escalator with Melania,
five steps behind him and announced his decision to run.
But that line about rich friends, Jake, it's just you don't know any of them.
Are they still donating to you buddy?
>> Yeah, so we did a story on one of the loser Donald segments before the 2016
election, which goes to prove your point that we've known this all along.
About this one guy in New York's elite circles who used to be really rich and
then he lost all of his money and
then he would go to these rich people parties like Trump.
And Trump wouldn't often wouldn't get invited to those parties because everybody
thought he was a clown and that he was just living off of his dad's money and
he was a dumb blowhard.
Now that was largely true of course, as we've seen in spectacular fashion, right?
But sometimes he would get to go and he gets so excited.
I got invited to the cool kids, why he's not gonna press all the other rich people.
And he told a story to a reporter about that guy who lost all his money and
sometimes he would see them at those parts, see him at those parties and
nobody wanted to talk to him.
The other rich people were now shunning him and
he thought that was the worst fate possible.
That's why he brought it up voluntarily to the reporter.
And he explained, yeah, that's the worst thing I could imagine.
So that's what's in his head, all he cares about is impressing his rich friends and
trying to be in that cool kids club as he imagines it.
One time there's another story about how they were doing some sort of event and
Trump had partly organized it and
other actual rich people like Steve Wynn had said that they were going to show up.
And he kept going around telling everybody know Steve Wynn is gonna come,
another rich guy, he's gonna come, I swear, I swear, right?
He's so pathetic.
So talking to Maggie Haberman, he admits with the realities like, look,
if I ran for office once and I told you guys when I ran,
there was not a high chance of winning because they both republican and
democratic machines were against, the media hated me, right?
So, but I did it anyway and
I went through a lot of pain there because we got to get money out of politics.
And if we don't have someone talking about it honestly calling it corruption,
bribery, etc,
it's, we're never gonna get enough media attention to the issue to fix it?
And we desperately need to pass a constitutional amendment.
And I started wolfpack to to figure out a way to do that without going through
Congress, etc.
Why do I tell you all that?
Because I care,
I actually want to get that thing done because it's gonna matter a lot.
It's gonna bring our democracy back now.
That's an answer of someone who cares, when they asked trump, he says,
my rich friends, they would have been jealous.
>> Yeah, they would have envied me and can I just say, I think it's very ironic that
Haberman is the one to reveal this and to write this, why?
Because Haberman has been willingly played and trying to play Trump.
They have this relationship between them where it's like he tells her all his
secrets, she goes and writes books, she kind of gets cloud off of it.
She was one of the first people to interview him,
gave him a glowing sort of first few months in office.
This was the New York times, they were eating out of his hand in the first few
months and he's so stupid and surrounded himself with such tacky idiots
that they weren't even able to play the media.
So that then the media was essentially like turned on him and obviously they love
it because their ratings are insane whenever they talk about Trump.
But again, he could have done smart neo fascism,
he could have done instead of like calling the media the enemy of the people.
Calling the media all the all kinds of names, all these things and
you're just like bro, you are part of the elite, you could easily be part of
the elite if that's all you wanted just be a little less stupid and corrupt.
But he is again either too stupid or too corrupt to even do that.
So I feel like that needs to be named.
But I also wanted to just say quickly, quickly quickly that in the book we
also know that he took he basically admitted to taking stolen documents.
He demurred when I asked this is her writing, if he had taken any documents of
note upon departing the White House, nothing of great urgency.
No, he said Trump, then proceeded to contradict himself mentioning letters sent
by not Korean leader Kim Jong-un,
which he had taken from the White House to MaraLago.
When Haberman asked if he was able to take the letter with him,
she says trump seemed to register her surprise and
backpedaled claiming the documents were in the national archives, which is not true.
Those love letters in fact were in some of the boxes that were seized by the FBI from
MaraLago.
But again their relationship is so hilarious to me.
So of course he's going to admit it to her.
>> Yeah, in fact, I love doing the show with our members.
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This is from twitch leftist magical mathematical dragon rodent.
One of the most disgusting parts of our corrupt system is how millionaire
reporters like Habermann sit on information that might have saved
lives and prevented this catastrophe and
we only find out about it after they make millions on their books.
And he also gave the example of bob Woodward and that's of course,
absolutely true.
Look guys, he says, I ran for president and
I like being president because that made me more famous than my other rich friends.
And republican voters go, that's awesome, I'm so
glad that he got to be a little bit more famous than his other rich friends.
He didn't help me at all.
But hey look, we serve the alpha and so being servants of the alpha and
being incredibly weak right wingers,
well at least we got to help him brag to his other rich friends,
enjoy enjoy look I don't want you to be a smug you're the one who made that choice.
I mean you're basically telling, yeah, go ahead and rob me, right?
Whether it's for Herschel Walker or Donald Trump,
right wingers are constantly saying please lie to me, rob me.
Maybe they're masochists or not masochist, but
yeah, masochist and they're like yeah, yeah, yeah,
I like when you take advantage of me and and
I've got nothing left and just one super random last comment.
The quote unquote love letters from Kim Jong-un,
imagine if Barack Obama had said that he fell in love with a communist dictator.
And he kept the love letters even though the archives were supposed to have them.
>> Yeah, we are from like the leader of Iran at the time.
I think Rouhani was the was the leader of Iran.
What if he had kept those letters during the Iran deal?
My God, all kinds of things.
Yeah, the Hannity Tucker, everybody in the right would have savaged him and
everyone in the media and everybody in democratic politics would have gone along.
Maybe not against Obama, but against anyone, right?
Anyone on the left, anyone in democratic, but my God,
God help the progressive, right?
Bernie Sanders said something about Castro 40 years ago, they're still talking about.
>> My God. Yeah, and Donald Trump says he fell in
love with a communist dictator and kept his love letters and
the right wingers like, yeah, of course, yeah, you gotta love.
Yeah, that's right.
>> Love wins.
>> Yeah, and guys, there's a super potentially relevant and
important part of all of this, which is that at the end,
Haberman says, look, okay.
So he says, I had the love letters than when press, he says,
I didn't have the love letters.
We now know that he did have the love letters.
But more importantly, when Haberman asked, Hey,
have you been in contact with world leaders since he said no,
I haven't talked to Putin Xi in China at all.
How about Kim Jong-un?
And he punts on that one?
He says, well, I'm not gonna talk about it.
Why is he calling Kim Jong-un?
So one could be that he just wanted to hear praise and
he's the most pathetic person in the world and that is incredibly believable, right?
But remember Francesca,
there's some chance that he took those nuclear documents to sell them.
So there could be a very good reason.
>> Just lies.
Why can't he lie when he's supposed to lie?
And what I mean?
He just can't some people disarm him.
I mean, again, their relationship is weird.