-Now, obviously, "The President Show,"
which was a show I adored. -I did too.
-Yeah. It's sadly not coming back.
Do you miss it? Do you want a --
Do you want to, in the moment now --
I could just throw you out a few press conference questions
and get a little Trump from you? Would you mind that?
-We could improvise a little bit, sure.
-How do you feel? Are you worried today
with the indictment of Michael Cohen
that this could lead back to you now?
I mean, he specifically named you in court.
-No, Michael -- First off, Individual 1 isn't me, okay?
That's an individual, and he's one guy.
He's one guy. We don't know who he is.
And Michael was talking to him.
I don't know who he is. I'll never know him.
I'll never know Individual 1.
No matter how hard I stare into the mirror,
I'll never know him.
I'll never really know him.
Melania says she knows him.
What's the next question? -The next question is --
-Come on. Let's go.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Obviously, I don't need to tell you this,
but Democrats took back control of the House.
And now, you know -- -Excuse me, excuse me.
They took the House. We took the Senate.
-Yeah. -And I told Chuck,
and I told Nancy the other day,
and they were at me from both sides!
They were spit-roasting me with questions.
And -- [ Laughter ]
And -- -Well, I would just say,
you know, if I could, Mr. President,
you say you took the Senate. You had the Senate.
-I had the Senate, and I took it back.
[ Laughter ]
-You lost the House.
You had the House. You lost the House.
-I never really lost the House, because the House always wins.
[ Laughter ] And we know that from a casino.
We know it from "Casino," the great Joe Pesci.
He gets put in that ditch.
And that's gonna happen to Don Jr.
if he messes up, I'll tell you that.
I'll tell you that. -Can I throw out some names
of some potential 2020 opponents, maybe?
-You can give me anybody you want.
They're all gonna lose.
And even if I lose, I promise you, I will not concede.
-Okay. What about Beto O'Rourke?
A lot of people are talking about Beto O'Rourke.
-Beto. Beto! Guy's a Beto male.
He's a total Beto male!
And he's a lanky guy, and he's big old neck apple.
You know that neck apple? -Yeah.
-The neck apple.
And Eve took a bite from the neck apple,
and then the whole thing was screwed,
so we can't have that guy. He's a snake.
-Elizabeth War-- Elizabeth Warren?
-Pocahonta-s-s-s-s.
Elizabeth Warren took the bait.
I don't know. Let me tell you,
I know a good guy named Anthony from Massachusetts
who would say, "Never let someone from Massachusetts
run for president, ever.
Doesn't anyone remember Dukakis?"
Dukakis. [ Laughter ]
Exactly.
-What about Cory Booker. -Book 'em, Danno!
Let me tell you about Cory Booker.
Guy's bald, big bald guy.
And he likes the ladies. We all know that.
He likes the ladies.
Booker, he's got a big mouth, and he used to jump over the --
He used to drive a car -- T.J. Booker, tough guy.
T.J. Booker.
And that guy totally resurrected his career from "Star Trek."
So unbelievable. -Oh, my God.
It's fantastic. Fantastic.
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[ Both laugh ]
-It's frightening.
-Every now and then, someone would say to me,
"Hey, would you want to have the president on this show?"
And the thing I would say is, it wouldn't matter.
There's this idea that there's
a good interview out there with him
where he'll actually answer the questions that are asked.
Would you ever, though, like to, as him, interview him?
Do you think that you could maybe --
[ Laughter ]
You know, I've never thought I --
I guess, on my show, we had this same question.
And mind you, he was never gonna come to our show.
-Sure, right. -But we did have Deepak Chopra.
So, the point being -- [ Laughs ]
The point being, I don't think the value in interviewing him
is only for your own benefit, right?
Like, for your own humor benefit.
You're not gonna get information from him.
You're not gonna get anything new.
-Yeah. -And, to me, you just
serve a platform for him to peacock more.
And I think that the greatest or most bizarre thing
is that we're still, three years in,
trying to calculate what the pieces
that were missing about him,
especially in the media and his coverage,
and it's like, "There is no 'there' there."
I might have said this before but it's, like,
this is Chauncey Gardiner, like, times a thousand,
which is from "Being There."
-Put it on with your Steely Dan.
-"Put it on with your Steely Dan"!
And then get a rotary telephone and call your grandmother.
But I just don't think there's any value,
and I think that the thing is, you know, like a tumor,
which our President is a tumor on democracy,
we need to cut the oxygen off.
And the way you cut the oxygen off is stop focusing on him.
-Yeah.
-There's so many important things --
There's so many things that are important
that both sides need to deal with.
And, especially, I speak to the left, which is,
we need to think about the issues that aren't as sexy
as sort of like the marquee things of taking down Trump.
Tort reform, for instance.
I know no one wants to talk about it,
but people's rights in court are being taken away
by corporations every day,
and we have Amazon moving to New York very soon,
and arbitration is the name of the game
when it comes to trying to sue a business for money.
These are real things that affect people, right?
How we employ people, keeping children in prison.
Those things matter, and they're not interesting,
and they don't stay on the bill every day.
And prosecuting the president over a long-form period
on cable news isn't gonna do anything.
But we can do things every day that matter
by changing our behavior and how we interact
with people in our lives.
That's more important than interviewing the president.
-Well, couldn't agree more.
And thank you for being here, buddy.
It is always just such a pleasure to see you.
-Thank you so much. -Anthony Atamanuik, everybody.