PRESIDENT TRUMP MADE A CRYPTIC STATEMENT DURING A PHOTO
OPPORTUNITY WITH MILITARY LEADERS AND IT SCARED THE CRAP
OUT OF ME PERSONALLY, WE WILL FIND OUT WHAT IT DID TO THE
FELLOW MEMBERS OF THE PANEL, BUT LET'S TAKE
A LOOK.
>>YOU SAW THAT, WHAT WAS YOUR REACTION?
>>I FEEL LIKE HE'S PROBABLY TROLLING AND THAT'S THE COMMON
WISDOM, THAT HE'S JUST SAYING THINGS, BUT MY BIGGEST FEAR IS
THAT, LIKE, WE KNOW THIS, I WATCHED THE APPRENTICE, BUT
MAYBE OTHER PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD ARE NOT AS TASTELESS AS I AM AND
DON'T KNOW WHO DONALD TRUMP IS.
SO HOW ARE OTHER COUNTRIES
LOOKING AT OUR PRESIDENT, WHO IS SO RECKLESS WHEN SPEAKING ABOUT
THE MOST POWERFUL MILITARY IN THE WORLD, AND MAYBE ALLUDING TO
USING IT AS SOME SORT OF SURPRISE ATTACK ON GOD
KNOWS WHAT.
IT'S WEIRD TO SEE HOW THE REST OF THE WORLD IS TAKING US.
>>WHAT WAS YOUR TAKE, JIMMY?
>>I THINK HE'S JUST SAYING STUFF.
BUT WHEN HE SAYS THE
GREATEST MILITARY MINES IN THE WORLD ARE IN THIS ROOM, AND THEY
COULDN'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO BEAT THE TALIBAN FOR 18 OR 17 YEARS
NOW, THE GREATEST MILITARY MINES, THEY COULDN'T FIGURE OUT
IRAQ, LIBYA, HERE WE ARE DROPPING 26,000 BOMBS IN SYRIA,
STILL CAN'T FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO, SO THE GREATEST MILITARY
MINES IN THE WORLD DON'T SEEM TO BE GETTING SHIT DONE.
ESPECIALLY
WITH UNLIMITED BUDGET AND RESOURCES.
BUT THOSE GREATEST
MILITARY MINES IN THE WORLD FROM WHAT I CAN TELL WERE GIGGLING AS
HE WAS SAYING THAT SHIT.
>>TO ME THE GIGGLING IS CRAZY BECAUSE IT SEEMED LIKE YOU HAD
TWO SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT IN THE ROOM.
YOU HAD THE REPORTERS, I
THINK YOU CAN GET RID OF THE REPORTER, COLON -- IT COULD BE
EVERYONE, COLON, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN, AND THE PEOPLE IN THE
AUDIENCE GIGGLING.
>>LOOK AT THE GUY SECOND OVER TO TRUMP'S RIGHT, HE CAN'T STOP
SMILING.
IF YOU SHOW THAT VIDEO AGAIN, YOU CAN SEE THEM ALL KIND
OF GIGGLING AND LAUGHING.
THOSE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THE GREATEST
MILITARY MINES IN THE WORLD.
WATCH WHEN HE STARTS SAYING THE
STUFF, THAT GUY KEEPS GRINNING LIKE AN IDIOT, AND THIS GUY HERE
WITH THE CREWCUT, HE'S IN THE SHORTHAIR CONTEST, HE WILL START
-- THAT I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING.
WORLD'S GREATEST MILITARY, AND
WATCH THIS GUY, HE'S KIND OF HALF SMILING THE WHOLE TIME.
AND WHO IS THE WOMAN?
>>MELANIA.
>>THERE HE IS, YOU SEE THEM GIGGLING?
THAT GUY HAS A WHOLE
CHEST FULL OF MEDALS, AND HE IS STANDING NEXT TO THE CLOWN
PRESIDENT WHO IS MAKING RIDICULOUS THREATS, AND HE'S
LAUGHING.
IT'S LIKE WATCHING A FILM FROM NORTH KOREA WHERE
EVERYBODY IS AFRAID TO SAY THAT GUY IS A MANIAC.
IT'S OKAY HE
SAID THAT, HA HA.
I WONDER WHO THAT GUY IS, WE SHOULD FIND OUT.
>>HE MUST BE A TRUMP SYCOPHANT BECAUSE THAT'S THE ONLY GUYS WHO
GET TO STAY IN THE ADMINISTRATION, SO EVEN TO BE IN
THAT SHOT HE HAS TO BE KISSING TRUMP'S ASS IN SOME WAY AND
FINDING HIM ADORABLE.
HE IS SURROUNDED BY PEOPLE WHO AREN'T
TELLING HIM HEY, THAT'S A LITTLE CRAZY, HE SURROUNDS HIMSELF
BY PEOPLE WHO LEFT AT HIM.
>>A LOT OF PEOPLE SAID THEY THOUGHT MATTIS AND KELLY WERE
NOT SYCOPHANTS TO TRUMP, I HAVE A HARD TIME BELIEVING THAT,
TRUMP DOESN'T LET ANYONE AROUND HIM WHO DOESN'T DO EXACTLY WHAT
HE SAYS THAT THEN
>>THE OTHER THING IS WHEN THE REPORTER IS SO EASILY ABLE TO
RATTLE OFF BOILING POINT CRISES -- IRAN, NORTH KOREA,
HEALTHCARE, THE TAX PLAN, JUST RANDOMLY FIRING SOMEONE AT
RANDOM, I ALSO PUT DOWN THE PISS TAPE GUY TALKED TO MUELLER, GUY
WHO DID THE PISS TAPE DOSSIER TALKED TO MUELLER -- I ALSO
WROTE DOWN RANDOM MANUFACTURED TRAGEDY, HE COULD MAKE SOMETHING
UP.
OR NOTHING.
I GUESS WE HOPED WE WOULD GET MORE FROM SARAH HUCKABEE
SANDERS AT A PRESS CONFERENCE TODAY, LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT
WHAT SHE SAID.
>>CAN YOU CLARIFY THE COMMENTS, WAS HE REFERRING TO
MILITARY ACTION WHEN HE SAID CALL BEFORE THE STORM?
>>AS WE HAVE SAID MANY TIMES BEFORE, I KNOW THE PRESIDENT
HAS, AS I HAVE FROM THIS PODIUM ON QUITE A FEW OCCASIONS, WE ARE
NEVER GOING TO SAY IN ADVANCE WHAT THE PRESIDENT IS GOING TO
DO.
AND AS HE SAID LAST NIGHT IN ADDITION TO THOSE COMMENTS
YOU WILL HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE.
>>BUT HOW SERIOUSLY SHOULD THE AMERICAN PUBLIC, OR
ADVERSARIES FOR THAT MATTER, TAKE THOSE COMMENTS?
>>I THINK YOU CAN TAKE THE PRESIDENT PROTECTING THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE ALWAYS EXTREMELY SERIOUS, HE'S BEEN VERY CLEAR
THAT THAT IS HIS NUMBER ONE PRIORITY, AND IF HE FEELS THAT
ACTION IS NECESSARY HE WILL TAKE IT.
>>WAS THAT ANYTHING?
>>NO.
>>YOU DOESN'T KNOW, SHE HAS NO IDEA.
>>TAKE HIM FOR HIS WORD, I THINK YOU CAN TAKE BLANK FOR BLANK,
THAT IS HER DEFAULT STATEMENT AND FRAMING OF ANYTHING, ANY
RESPONSE WHAT YOU DOESN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO.
AND I THINK WHEN I
COMPARE HER TO SPICER, SHE IS WORSE.
>>HOW SO?
>>AT LEAST SPICER YOU COULD SEE WAS FREAKING OUT ABOUT IT.
HE
WAS BRIGHT RED AND ANGRY, BUT WITH SARAH -- I'M DIZZY NOW --
WITH SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS, SHE IS JUST SO GOOD AT THAT DEAD
FACE --
>>THAT'S WHY I FEEL LIKE SHE'S GOOD AT THE JOB, HER JOB IS TO
COVER THIS AND MAKE IT SEEM AS NORMAL AS POSSIBLE, SHE NEVER
REALLY CHANGES THE INFLECTION IN HER VOICE, I THINK SHE'S REALLY
GOOD AT THE JOB IN A WAY THAT WE NEVER GET ANSWERS FROM HER.
BUT I THINK THAT'S KIND OF WHAT THEY WANT, IS SOMEONE WHO
DOESN'T GIVE US ANSWERS, AND THAT IS WHAT IS SO FRUSTRATING.
>>ANOTHER REPORTER WENT ON MSNBC, HE HAS CERTAIN SOURCES IN
THE WHITE HOUSE AND HAS IDEAS OF WHAT POSSIBLY TRUMP MIGHT BE
DOING, HERE IS HIS TAKE AFTER DOING SOME INTERVIEWS OF
PEOPLE BEHIND THE SCENES.
>>I THINK IT'S A HIGH DEGREE OF PUBLIC ABILITY THAT HE'S
TROLLING EVERYONE, AND IN FACT I WAS TALKING TO A SENIOR OFFICIAL
LAST NIGHT, SOMEONE WHO I SHOULD STRESS IS NOT ON THE NSC, WHO
WOULD NOT BE PRIVY TO COVERT OPERATIONS, AND THEY STARTED
LAUGHING, SAYING HE'S JUST TROLLING ALL OF YOU.
BUT OF
COURSE IT'S TROLLING WITH VERY SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES.
THIS IS WHAT HE DOES WITH NATIONAL SECURITY.
>>HE ALSO GAVE AN EXAMPLE OF THE APPLICATION OF THIS WEIRD
TROLLING APPROACH AS IT PERTAINS TO OTHER NATIONAL SECURITY
AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ISSUES, TAKE A LOOK.
>>WE REPORTED LAST WEEK A PRIVATE MEETING IN THE OVAL
OFFICE, AND HE SAYS TO HIS CHIEF TRADE NEGOTIATOR, YOU TELL THEM
I'M SO CRAZY I COULD PULL OUT ANY MINUTE.
AND THAT SEEMS TO BE
THE SORT OF MADMAN KIND OF APPROACH HE'S TAKING WITH NORTH
KOREA, THE SORT OF NIXONIAN, MAKE THESE WILD STATEMENTS,
THESE VERY DESTABILIZING STATEMENTS, AND SORT OF LET
THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY.
>>DO YOU TAKE THIS -- IS THAT WHAT YOU THINK IS HAPPENING?
>>YES, THAT'S WHAT I THINK.
>>WHY DO YOU SAY THAT?
>>I THINK TRUMP SAID SOMETHING, HE'S GOT THESE PEOPLE IN THE
ROOM AND HE FEELS HE HAS TO SAY SOMETHING, BUT CALM BEFORE THE
STORM -- WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
IT DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING, I JUST HAD TO SAY SOMETHING.
>>I JUST THINK IT'S SOMETHING HE SAID.
>>ONLY TRUMP CAN MAKE A CALM BEFORE THE STORM REFERENCE AFTER
TWO HUGE STORMS.
>>WITH ANOTHER ONE ON THE WAY.
>>WE JUST GOT DONE WITH HIS MISHANDLING, MANHANDLING OF THE
PUERTO RICO SITUATION, AND HE MAKES A CALM BEFORE THE STORM
REFERENCE.
HE'S THAT DODDERING AND STUPID.
>>TILLERSON IS RIGHT, HE'S A MORON.