>> Donald Trump has decided to attack an American company that makes an American product and,
also employs many American people, so why would he do that?
Well, it's over an obscure local news story out of Louisville, Kentucky that showed a
screenshot that was taken by a Goodyear employee.
The employee claim that this screenshot was from some sort of racial discrimination training
that they had to go through, and there was apparently zero tolerance for a certain type
of apparel.
So, the slide shows that acceptable apparel includes Includes Black Lives Matter gear
or anything that talks about gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender pride.
Unacceptable, on that list, you have Blue Lives Matter, All Lives Matter, MAGA attire
and political affiliated slogans and material.
So this is something that, of course, upset Donald Trump because he wants to make sure
that any one who wants to wear his goofy hats can wear their goofy hats.
And so he tweeted about this saying the following, don't buy Goodyear TIres, they announced a
ban on MAGA Hats, get better tires for far less.
This is what the Radical Left Democrats do, two can play the same game, and we have to
start playing it now.
So a few things I wanna just quickly mention, Donald Trump recently went on a rant about
cancel culture, and then proceeded to cancel Goodyear because of some policy that they
have about certain political attire.
And then, look, I personally don't care about whether or not someone wears a MAGA hat, I
don't get triggered by it.
I don't really, I judge them, there's no question about that, if you want me to prejudge you,
that's the best way to do it.
And at first I was like, yeah, I don't think Goodyear should do this, I think Goodyear
should just let people wear what they wanna wear as long as it's not like super inappropriate
or could endanger someone as they're doing their job or something.
If you're making tires, I'm sure you have to wear certain safety equipment, but at the
same time, we're in such a divisive, terrible environment right now as a country.
And when you go to work, you have to be around people you work with, and so why needlessly
do things that are going to antagonize your colleagues or your coworkers and make the
work environment even more unbearable than it needs to be.
But Kayleigh McEnany was asked about Trump's boycott, and so I wanna watch that video and
get your thoughts, John, let's take a look.
>> So why is the president retaliating against a private company for their dress code and
potentially jeopardizing American jobs?
>> So Goodyear needs to come out and clarify their policy, there was an image-
>> Statement, have you seen that?
>> They failed to, yes, I did see their statement, but still failed to clarify their policy,
>> Racial equality, racial justice that is okay, but not political space, that's pretty
standard across the board right now, that's not that unusual.
Did the President even reached out to Goodyear before he tweeted?
>> Blue Lives Matter's equity issues, as far as I'm concerned, Blue Lives Matter is an
equity issue, there have been police officers across this country that have been targeted
because they were the bad- >> Yeah, except if you choose to be a cop,
you have made a decision to be a cop.
People don't get to choose what their race is, they don't get to choose what their sexual
orientation is.
And so, to try to extend an argument regarding equality to people who make a decision to
work in a certain field, I think is absolutely ridiculous.
But, John, I wanted to get your take.
>> Yeah, the whole thing is just so frustrating, yes, choice versus being born into it is a
great point.
The actual reality of who is being targeted and oppressed and who is pretending to try
to draw the spotlight to them sells the fact that one was an organic movement meant to
draw attention to an injustice, the other was a direct response intended to take the
spotlight back again.
Like if I sit next to, well, when we sat in the studio, I sit next to Brett, let's say,
hypothetically, we both had kids and I got a World's Greatest Dad mug and he got a No,
No, I'm a Better Dad mug.
Those are not equal, one is more aggressive, okay, and so, it's just yeah, it's like saying
that you have LGBTQ pride, it's just a positive thing about a group.
We know how many people have attacked others while wearing MAGA hats, we know that All
Lives Matter is a direct response, an aggressive response to this civil rights movement, there's
no reason why they wouldn't want to limit that.
To be safer, they're probably just gonna end up banning literally everything, so because
the reich got triggered by this, everything's gonna be canceled, that would be my prediction
for Goodyear.
But I also love, in his original tweet, the idea that the leftists do this all the time,
we have to start, too.
You guys boycott something like every week, what are you talking about start doing something?
Fox News is all boycotts, then they boycott Keurig and Nike and a million other products,
it's not new.
But I also love another thing where he's like you can get much better tires for lower prices,
does anyone think he did market research before he tweeted that?
Does anybody think that- >> No, I mean he won't even do market research
for his own businesses, that's why he went bankrupt six times.
I mean, the guy is lazy and incompetent as hell, so like, of course not.
But no, but that's, look, this story, okay, forget the apparel part of it, right?
I actually think that's a very small part of this discussion, I know this is what triggered
the discussion, but at the heart of it is this characteristic of Donald Trump that's
so damaging to the country, right?
It's about how he always prioritizes himself- >> Yeah.
>> His own political agenda and his own self interest above anything else.
And while being president of the United States is a position of power, right, and there are
people out there who are lured, seduced by that power, in reality, what that position
is supposed to represent is a service, is a public service, right?
You are supposed to be willing to give up so much in order to represent this country,
to lead this country.
But even when it comes to something on a very like granular irrelevant level, something
like as irrelevant as wearing a MAGA hat, Donald Trump is willing to see Americans lose
their jobs.
Assuming that this boycott is successful and, honestly, I don't think it will be, but assuming
that it would be, but that's his intention, let's boycott knowing that employees are gonna
lose their jobs if people follow through with this boycott.
Because my peepees are hurt- >> Because people won't be able to wear my
goofy hats, like just you're grown man, he's in his 70s, he's in his 70s.
>> Imagine Obama's like, I just heard that Oscar Mayer wiener's banning the Hope shirt,
don't eat their wieners, there are better wieners.
That would've never ever happen, god, I just want the world to be sane.
And honestly, Trump is gonna freak out, he's always gonna freak out, he's gonna pretend
that he cares.
>> But okay, >> I know, exactly, I think it works best
this way, and people pointed out that like The Beast, the vehicle the president uses
has Goodyear tires all the time.
But anyway, it was the response to the tweet that really got me most worked up.
It was because there are people with three times as many Twitter followers as us who'd
literally the only thing they do is respond to everything Trump tweets and say, yeah,
you're the best.
So I looked at his Goodyear tweet replies, and it was all people saying, no more Goodyear
for me, just agreeing with it, which fine, they're gonna do whatever he says.
But then, there were all these replies saying Goodyear tires are second rate, like what,
did you think that yesterday I had no idea if it's better or worse than Firestone or
literally any other type?
The idea that you can say I'm not going to purchase this product because of what they
did.
You could boycott something, fine, people boycotted Goya, but they did it because of
the political thing.
They didn't suddenly start saying Hormel has better beans, yeah, unless they already believed
it, okay?
But you can't have your factual statements about the world be entirely determined by
day-by-day political calculations.
And I know It seems like a weird thing to focus on and every time I talk about caring
about the nature of reality or actually caring whether the things you believe are actually
true, it seems like this weird, abstract, philosophical thing that we don't have to
worry about.
But there are millions of QAnon people and Trump was just talking about it, and Laura
Loomer just got elected and Marjorie the QAnon woman, she just won a primary.
This is actually leading to something, this idea that facts are totally optional, you
can just make them up and live your life based on that.
This isn't just a philosophical concern, this is having real world impact on our politics
and it's only gonna get worse from here.