One of the easiest ways to manipulate Donald Trump is to compliment him.
He loves compliments that he has a fragile ego.
And recently President Joe Biden actually gave Donald Trump credit for operation
warp speed which sped up the process of developing coronavirus vaccines.
In fact Biden said this, let me be clear thanks to the prior administration and
our scientific community America is one of the first countries to get the vaccine.
And thanks to my administration and the hard work of Americans, we let
a rollout that made America among the world leaders in getting shots in arms.
Now trump was surprised by this compliment and
also of course pleased by the compliment.
He loves to get credit for anything really.
And so he said this in an interview with Fox News.
I think it was a terrific thing and I think it makes a lot of people happy.
I think he did something very good.
You know it has to be a process of healing in this country and that will help a lot.
And he was also not subtle in his admission that Biden's flattery made him
less likely to criticize Joe Biden in the future.
We'll see how long that lasts.
But in the same interview Trump also said this,
it is a little tough to be overly critical now because he just thanked us for
the vaccine and thanked me for what I did.
You know that's a first so it is very tough for me to be overly critical now and
honestly that answer did shed some light in regard to how Trump has been
talking about the coronavirus vaccine and the booster shot in general.
In fact he was recently talking about the Covid
vaccine and how it should be defended.
Let's watch.
>> Well I stand on forget about the mandates that people have to have
their freedom.
But at the same time the vaccine is one of the greatest achievements of mankind.
We would have had a 1917 remember the Spanish flu killed
perhaps 100 million people.
And I came up with three vaccines.
All are very very good.
Came up with three of them in less than nine months.
It was supposed to take 5 to 12 years.
>> And yet more people have died under Covid this year by the way under Joe Biden
then under you and more people took the vaccine this year.
So people are questioning how.
>> One of the vaccine worked.
But some people aren't telling you the ones that get very sick and go to
the hospital are the ones that don't take the vaccine but it's still their choice.
And if you take the vaccine you're protected.
Look, the results of the vaccine are very good.
And if you do get it,
it's a very minor form people aren't dying when they take the vaccine.
>> That has to be the most shocking interview I've seen with Donald Trump just
first of all just to respond to Candace Owens and
her claim remember Biden has had a full year of the pandemic.
Whereas the Trump administration really had to deal
with it in mid March on to December on through December.
And whatever it doesn't matter, but I like the way that they manipulate
the numbers like that is ridiculous but great answers Donald Trump.
>> Yeah.
So let me give a bunch of unexpected credit here].
So number one I wanna give credit to Joe Biden [LAUGH].
Like what we're talking about like Trump did a good job.
Yeah back to Joe Biden.
No seriously the reason is I think he's a softie to republicans and
it drives me crazy is a softy to mention we talked about that earlier in the show,
but in this case you know the Trump administration did only one thing right in
my opinion and it was speed up the production of the vaccines and and
there's nothing wrong with giving credit where credit is due even to Trump.
So I think Biden is right to point that out.
I think it is conciliatory in both a factually correct way but
also politically correct way.
I don't mean.
>> Strategic way.
>> Strategically correct way.
Right.
And so it's true that trump will hype the vaccine more if you give him credit for
it, everyone knows that and it worked perfectly and Trump did do that.
But I also want to give credit to Trump not just for speeding up the vaccine.
He did everything else wrong about coronavirus injecting bleach and
all that nonsense talk and and not promoting mass etc.
But he did that right, right?
And so that's credit number one.
Credit number two is saying the truth now saying yeah I got vaccinated.
Yeah I got the booster shot.
The people who are dying are the ones who are unvaccinated.
All those things are true.
We would give Trump all the credit in the world if he actually said the truth right?
People think because of partisanship we're always gonna hate Trump etc, right?
We don't think like that.
The reasons we hate Trump is because of the things he does.
If he did the right things then why would we hate him?
I wouldn't care.
He's a fake populist.
If he was a real Pappas,
I'd actually like him if he actually drained the swamp I'd love it.
Right? But he didn't do that.
But in this case credit where credit is due.
>> Yeah. I mean look I think that there are certain
things that Trump has done that were not only good things to do but
also strategically smart.
So for instance when Trump insisted on having his signature on the coronavirus
stimulus checks that were mailed out to Americans.
All of the like elitist DC insiders who are like tut tut were stupid.
Absolutely stupid.
Yeah.
Yeah. You want to put your name on those checks.
I don't begrudge him for wanting to do that.
He understood the importance of getting money to people, but more importantly,
taking credit for getting money to people.
>> Yeah. Whereas Joe Biden whispers every time he
does something right, because he thinks it's like ungentlemanly and
then he'll give credit to republicans.
He's just, he's a terrible politician overall, but
in this case he played it right.
The other thing that's interesting about Trump is that he's accidentally honest.
And so what do I mean by that?
Well, he'll tell you things that he shouldn't really necessarily tell you.
He's like, why am I giving credit to Biden?
Because he was nice to me.
Know, but Donald you're not supposed to say that you're supposed to say because
he deserves it and I'm generous and I'm a good person.
If you're trying to be a cheesy politician, he just but
don't give him credit for that one because he's too unintelligent to know that
that makes him look dishonest, right?
In a very ironic way, right?
It makes him look like he's self interested, right?
But since he's saying things that a normal politician wouldn't say,
he gives off the appearance of honesty.
And so I think that's why his base loves him.
They're like, well I know cheesy politician wouldn't say
that [LAUGH] because it doesn't really help his cause to go,
well I only like him because he's saying nice things about me.
And it's not just about Joe Biden remember he said that about Kim Jong the communist
dictator of north Korea.
So he wrote me a love letter, I now love him.
>> We fell in love.
>> He used that phrase. >> Your not supposed to say that out loud,
you schmuck, right?
>> But whether it's intentional or unintentional, that honesty in the context
of so many dishonest politicians comes across as refreshing for a lot of votes.
>> Yes. And
that's what corporate democrats don't understand.
That's what not a single national reporter in the country understands, right?
Because they think that people love the establishment.
We don't.
So that aura of populism, even if it's not matched by the substance is very powerful
politically, but this has cost them the last part of it, that's important.
People are in the right wing community are turning against them.
Candace Owens, then twitter on, twitter doubled down and said no,
I'm very skeptical of the vaccines, no matter what anybody says.
Ben Garrison, the lunatic cartoonist,
that's a right winger, did a cartoon mocking Trump.
>> An angry doodle.
>> Right?
I know, [LAUGH] but for the right wing since their children,
that stuff is important to them, right?
Ted Nugent might get so upset, he might crap himself [LAUGH] and
then the right wing would be like Nugent crapped himself and my God and
there was a doodle now we're against Trump now.
So Trump in his sense made the mistake of saying something that's true there and
it might cost them in the Republican party.
>> We'll see.