It's already looking like the 2020 presidential election will feature some of the most diverse
candidates in American history, but there's one class of politician feeling like they
get no love at all. Amy Hoggart has more.
The presidential election is still 21 months away but they're already too many choices.
How can any candidate stand out from the pack?
Your net worth is something close to three and a half billion dollars- billion dollars-
billion dollars. A real-life billionaire! Exactly what America
needs! But it seems like everywhere you look- Billionaire has become a bad word
They keep saying that it’s immoral for anybody to be a billionaire
Is being successful now the new villain? Oh no, if we don’t do something quick, a
billionaire might not charge us eight bucks for a somewhat tolerable cup of coffee!
That talking shrimp toast is right! So on a perfectly random street corner I set up
a crafting tent and dragged in some locals to share their Valentine's messages with America's
real heroes: billionaires. They were told to be creative, romantic, but most of all
sincere. Fuck billionaires.
They should be illegal But billionaires are humans too, right?
Um, biologically. I mean I'm not opposed to them I… well you
know what? I sort of am opposed to them. Nobody deserves to earn that much money
What? Earning that much money is an American right: the car, the mansion, the yacht, the
smaller yacht, the exotic accountants. What are the super-rich supposed to do with all
that cash if they don't run for president? You can easily redistribute your massive amounts
of wealth that you'll never spend in your lifetime to people who need it.
You really hate billionaires. I mean yeah.
So you are discriminating against a minority? No, I mean, no
And this affluent phone is not alone: 70% of the country is on board with making billionaires,
get this, pay more taxes. But this lady gets it
Billionaires have done some amazing things in this country, they've donated a lot of
money, they brought a lot of jobs, been very innovative in changing what we do.
Do you think they make good presidents? Definitely not.
Yeah I think you need some kind of experience in public office to run.
Well look at the situation we're in now. Trump basically bought himself into the White House,
so I don't think billionaires should be in politics
Excuse me just one second- Chad! Chad’s our fact-checker.
Trump being a billionaire has never been confirmed. But I thought it’s a government for the
people by the people and- Corporations are people, my friend so isn’t
running a corporation and a government the same thing?
Great business people are terrible at running economies
Terrible? Yeah
But who should I believe? Billionaires or this Nobel prize-winning economist who just
happened to stop by our tent next to this local neighborhood coffee shop?
Billionaires are super rich aren’t they? So they must be really successful.
Well, sometimes they're just lucky. Sometimes they really are smart but just about something
really teeny narrow and also there's billionaires disease.
Or known by its medical name: Yes-Meningitis People want what you can give them and so
they tell you what you want to hear. So billionaires start to think that they're brilliant, that
they're charming, that they're sexy, and generally speaking, not so, right?
But stonecold money foxes don't need Yes Men because as a CEO he's got all the right qualifications.
My business experience is not qualifications to run for president
Oh okay But he's got a detailed tax plan that does
it all. I should be paying more taxes
Are you talking about you should pay 2% higher, 10% higher, 20% higher federal income tax?
I don't, Poppy, I don't know what the number is.
Okay just please don't help Trump get reelected. You promise that you will not be a spoiler.
Let's clarify this right now, right here on national TV on CNN
Here it comes How can you spoil a system that is already
broken? You bloody idiot
It's not the right word You know what? If you need help finding the
right words, here are a few: are you a beaver cause damn you barely thought any of this
through; I like you, but not as much as I hear your money; build a hospital; and happy
Valentine's Day, step away from this self-aggrandizing attempt to insert yourself into national politics,
Thank You, next. Love, Amy Thank you, Amy. We’ll be right back.