Welcome to "Full Frontal"!
I am Samantha Bee.
This week, French president Emmanuel Macron
paid a state visit to the White House,
where he and Donald Trump competed over
who could invade the other's personal space
the most aggressively.
I call it power flirting.
Grip grapple!
Power kiss!
Think I'll get that little piece of dandruff off.
Neg him!
Denied!
Finish hm!
Oh, so much vanity and male aggression.
It's the first diplomatic visit sponsored by Axe body spray.
And if you're thinking, hey, shouldn't we
have some sort of diplomat-in-chief
to keep things from getting this odd?
By next week, we will.
President Trump's nominee for Secretary of State, Mike
Pompeo, current CIA director and black sheep of the Pompeo
family will almost certainly be confirmed
as Secretary of State.
To replace Tillerson, the president
tapped CIA director Mike Pompeo, an Iran hawk and Benghazi
conspiracy theorist.
The third-term congressman has been
accused of being anti-Muslim.
During his run for Congress in 2010,
he personally apologized after his campaign tweeted a link
to a blog that referred to his Indian-American rival
as a turban topper and President Obama
as an evil Muslim communist usurper.
OK, so a pretty typical Trump pick.
I guess Logan Paul and the cash me outside girl were busy.
Most Democrats are not expected to vote
to confirm Pompeo, which gave the president
a chance to learn a new word--
obstructionist.
Apparently it was the word of the day on Republican street.
The Democrats have become obstructionists.
That's all they're good at.
They're not good at anything else.
They have bad ideas, they have bad politics-- the one
thing they do is obstruct.
Democrats continue their pointless obstruction--
Democrats, who are once again obstructing the president--
Be sure to vote in our poll tonight--
do you believe the Dems petty, pointless obstruction
of Mike Pompeo's confirmation just further damages what's
left of the Democratic brand?
Please cast your vote on Twitter.
And when you're done voting in Lou Dobbs's Twitter poll,
please vote in mine.
What, Lou Dobbs is still alive?
I just assumed--
I just assumed that Fox News got rid of him
when they brought in the clear desks.
Each one of Lou Dobbs's legs is insured for a million dollars.
In any case, if the Dems are being obstructionist,
let's take a look at the guy they're trying to obstruct.
For starters, Mike Pompeo is not a fan of the Muslims.
In fact, he even won a prestigious
not a fan of the Muslims award.
There's a group called ACT for America.
It is the largest anti-Muslim hate group in the country.
They gave him, in 2016, the EAGLE award.
He was the recipient of the highest
honor of the largest anti-Muslim hate group in the country.
Well, pretty sure the actual highest honor anti-Muslim hate
groups can bestow on you is getting you elected president,
but this one's pretty good.
You know, it's his work in Congress that really helped him
earn that 2016 hate-y award.
It's been just under two months since the attacks
in Boston, and in those intervening weeks,
the silence of Muslim leaders has been deafening.
Silence has made these Islamic leaders
across America potentially complicit in these acts.
If a religion claims to be one of peace, Mr. Speaker,
its leaders must reject violence that
is perpetrated in its name.
Of course they spoke out.
They have to because of human email
forwards like this jag-off.
Also, it's not Muslim leaders' job
to condemn violence perpetrated by strangers
any more than it's Mike Pompeo's job to condemn
every Kevin James movie.
Pompeo is also a friend of Frank Gaffney,
a professional Islamophobe and, judging by his facial hair,
an escaped "Westworld" robot.
Pompeo appeared frequently on his radio show,
co-signing Gaffney's theory that Barack Obama has an affinity
for slaying Christians.
Congressman Mike Pompeo, I wonder whether, in fact, what
the president is conveying to them
is not simply that he doesn't understand,
but that there's really kind of an affinity for, if not
the violent beheading and crucifixions and slaying
of Christians and all that, but at least
for the cause in which these guys
are engaged in such activities.
Mike, every place you stare at the president's
policies and statements, you see what you just described.
Every policy of this administration
has treated America as if we are the problem and not
the solution.
The guy who thinks that Barack Obama was team ISIS
is going to be our next Secretary of State.
I don't know, maybe he's onto something.
I mean, here's Obama committing a moisture
attack on our nation's panties.
Mission accomplished.
Sorry, Michelle.
It would be unfair to simply call
Mike Pompeo a raging Islamophobe,
because he's also a raging homophobe.
It's what Republicans call intersectionality.
He hit both of those notes at a 2015 rally
in Kansas, where he warmly invoked
the prayer of a local pastor.
Pastor Joe went on to make clear that American had
worshipped other gods and called it multiculturalism,
and we'd endorsed perversion and called
it an alternative lifestyle.
Even YouTube refused to buffer that shit properly.
I guess the only man who can save us
from multicultural perversions is
the guy who probably pays foreigners
to urinate in front of him.
Senator Cory Booker invited Pompeo
to elaborate on those beliefs at his confirmation hearing
this week.
I do want to give you a chance to speak about your comments
on gay and lesbians.
Is being gay a perversion?
When I was a politician, I had a very clear view
on whether it was appropriate for two
same-sex persons to marry.
I stand by that.
So you do not believe it's appropriate for two gay people
to marry?
Senator, I continue to hold that view.
The official position of the Trump administration now
is that marriage is between a man and a woman
who won't hold his hand.
Pompeo is against gay people's right to marry and to serve
openly in the military.
He even voted against the Violence Against Women Act
because it would incidentally protect gay people.
Of course, to Republicans, straight women are just
the gays of heterosexuality.
The problem isn't simply that Mike Pompeo is anti-gay.
The problem is that the Secretary of State
represents American values to the rest of the world,
and a homophobic Secretary of State
will do nothing to assert values of tolerance
in anti-gay countries like Saudi Arabia, Pakistan,
and the United States, at a time when
our tantrum-throwing, garbage pail kid of a president
has fired most of the grownups who were reigning in his worst
instincts, it's more important than ever
to have a Secretary of State who's willing to stand
up to him when necessary.
Unfortunately, Pompeo is even more of a balls
out warmonger nut job than the president.
He's called for regime change in Iran
and regime change in North Korea.
He's about to be our nation's top diplomat,
and he's already given up on diplomacy.
It's like if the animal control guy himself had rabies.
To recap, Ellen Pompeo is a national treasure,
and Mike Pompeo is a racist, warmongering homophobe.
And it looks like the only thing preventing him
from being our new Secretary of State
is the common decency of the Senate.
So basically nothing is standing in his way.
We'll be right back.