KEEN-EARED LISTENERS FOR DONALD TRUMP'S INAUGURATION
SPEECH MIGHT HAVE NOTICED A WEIRD SIMILARITY BETWEEN PARTS
OF IT AND ANOTHER SPEECH THAT I KNOW CENK WILL BE FAMILIAR WITH.
WE WILL PLAY THE FIRST SECTION, THIS IS FROM EARLIER TODAY,
DONALD TRUMP DELIVERING PART OF HIS INAUGURATION ADDRESS.
TODAY'S CEREMONY, HOWEVER, HAS VERY SPECIAL MEANING.
BECAUSE
TODAY, WE ARE NOT MERELY TRANSFERRING POWER FROM ONE
ADMINISTRATION TO ANOTHER OR FROM ONE PARTY TO ANOTHER, BUT
WE ARE TRANSFERRING POWER FROM WASHINGTON, DC AND GIVING IT
BACK TO YOU, THE PEOPLE.
FOR TOO LONG, THIS SMALL GROUP IN OUR NATION'S CAPITAL
HAS REAPED THE REWARDS OF GOVERNMENT WHILE THE PEOPLE HAVE
BORNE THE COST.
SO WE KNOW TRUMP GETS A LOT OF CREDIT FOR BEING A
CHARISMATIC GUY, WE HAVE ANOTHER SPEAKER WHO WILL SOUND A
LITTLE BIT SIMILAR, PERHAPS EVEN MORE CHARISMA.
THEY HAVE KEPT YOU DOWN WITH MYTHS OF OPPORTUNITY, AND WE
GIVE IT BACK TO YOU, THE PEOPLE.
THAT WAS ALMOST LITERALLY WORD FOR WORD.
NO IT WASN'T.
BRING UP THE FIRST GRAPHIC, YOU WILL SEE IT
COMPARED.
IT'S FUNNY, BUT IT'S NOT THAT SIMILAR.
IT'S NOT.
THE PEOPLE IS.
WE ARE TRANSFERRING POWER AND GIVING IT BACK TO YOU, THE
PEOPLE.
AND WE GIVE IT BACK TO YOU, THE PEOPLE.
THAT'S THE SAME, I GUESS.
THAT'S RIDICULOUS.
THAT'S NOT RARE ENOUGH TO QUALIFY.
I'M NOT SAYING HE PLAGIARIZED BANE --
A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE, I THINK THEY ARE STRETCHING.
THEY ARE KIDDING.
IT'S NOT LIKE TRUMP IS, LET'S LOOK UP
COMIC BOOK VILLAINS -- SHOULD I GO WITH THE PENGUIN?
CHENEY
ALREADY HAS THAT LOCKDOWN.
THE RIDDLER, MELANIA ALREADY TOOK ALL THE GOOD RIDDLER STUFF.
THAT LITTLE PIECE OF GIVING IT BACK TO YOU, THE PEOPLE -- IF HE
ALSO HAD TURNED TO OBAMA AND SAID, SO YOU THINK YOU'RE IN
CHARGE -- I WOULD BE LIKE, HE MEANT IT.
THIS IS YOUR MOMENT OF
LIBERATION.
IF YOU THINK WE ARE EXAGGERATING, TO COMPARE TO THE
BANE WE HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE OF DONALD TRUMP SPEAKING IN
ROUGHLY SIMILAR WORDS.
THE ESTABLISHMENT PROTECTED ITSELF, BUT NOT THE CITIZENS OF
OUR COUNTRY.
THEIR VICTORIES HAVE NOT IN YOUR VICTORIES,
THEIR TRIUMPHS HAVE NOT BEEN YOUR TRIUMPHS, AND WHILE THEY
CELEBRATED IN OUR NATION'S CAPITAL THERE WAS LITTLE TO
CELEBRATE FOR STRUGGLING FAMILIES ALL ACROSS OUR LAND.
THAT ALL CHANGES STARTING RIGHT HERE AND RIGHT NOW, BECAUSE THIS
MOMENT IS YOUR MOMENT, IT BELONGS TO YOU.
JANUARY 20, 2017 WILL BE REMEMBERED AS THE DAY THE PEOPLE
BECAME THE RULERS OF THIS NATION AGAIN.
THE FORGOTTEN MEN AND WOMEN OF OUR COUNTRY WILL BE FORGOTTEN NO
LONGER.
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
ASIDE FROM THE WHOLE BANE THING, I THINK WE UNDERSTAND WHY
HE HAD TO GO WITH THIS TACTIC, FINALLY IT'S NOT THE
POLITICIANS, IT'S THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE POWER.
AND I KNOW WHAT
PEOPLE ARE GOING TO SAY, THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE IS HOW WE
ELECT PEOPLE, AND IT'S TRUE, IT IS, BUT IT'S A LITTLE BIT FUNNY
TO SAY THAT THE PEOPLE FINALLY GET WHAT THEY WANT, THEY ARE
FINALLY THE ONES IN CHARGE, WHEN HE LOST THE POPULAR VOTE BY
ALMOST 3 MILLION PEOPLE.
AND I KNOW IF YOU TAKE OFF CALIFORNIA
AND NEW YORK AND PEOPLE WEARING GALOSHES AND PEOPLE WHO VOTED AT
10 PM -- IF YOU TAKE OFF WHATEVER YOU WANT HE SOMEHOW WON
OR WHATEVER.
BUT I PERSONALLY BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE ARE MORE
IMPORTANT THAN THE SQUARE MILEAGE OF A DISTRICT, FOR
INSTANCE.
PEOPLE DIDN'T VOTE FOR DONALD TRUMP, 3 MILLION MORE
VOTED FOR HILLARY CLINTON, WHICH MUST HAVE BEEN DIFFICULT FOR
THEM TO DO, BUT EVEN AS UNPOPULAR AS SHE WAS, SHE WAS
MORE UNPOPULAR.
I UNDERSTAND THAT HE WANTS TO HAVE THIS CLOAK
OF BEING A POPULIST EVEN THOUGH AS ANA HAS POINTED OUT THE FEW
THINGS HE'S YET DONE AS PRESIDENT HAVE BEEN
ANTI-POPULIST, BUT HE'S NOT REPRESENTING THE PEOPLE, NOT IN
THE VOTE, THEY DON'T SHOW UP IN POLLS, AND THEY DON'T SHOW UP AT
THE INAUGURATION, WHICH WE WILL SHOW YOU IN A BIT.
IT SOUNDED LIKE BERNIE SANDERS WROTE THAT PART OF THE SPEECH.
WE ARE GIVING THE POWER TO YOU, THE PEOPLE, THE 1% HAVE BEEN
DOING GREAT BUT YOU HAVEN'T.
IT'S AUTHENTIC WHEN BERNIE SAYS
IT, AND WHEN TRUMP SAYS IT IT'S ALL BULLSHIT.
I THINK THAT THE REASON WHY, JUST BASED ON REPORTS I'VE READ
BY ACTUAL PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR TRUMP, A LOT OF THEM SAID, WELL,
I DON'T LIKE A AND B AND C ABOUT TRUMP, I WANTED TO VOTE FOR
BERNIE, BUT AT LEAST THEY ARE BOTH ANTIESTABLISHMENT.
I'M
ANGRY AT THOSE VOTERS BECAUSE TRUMP AND BERNIE SANDERS
COULDN'T BE MORE DIFFERENT, THEIR MESSAGING MIGHT BE A TINY,
TINY BIT SIMILAR IN TERMS OF BEING ANTIESTABLISHMENT, BUT
IT'S VERY CLEAR THAT ONE LITERALLY SYMBOLIZES THE
CORRUPTION IN THIS COUNTRY WHILE THE OTHER HAS BEEN A POLITICIAN
FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE AS LONG AS HE'S BEEN A
POLITICIAN, AND HE HAS A TINY BANK ACCOUNT TO PROVE THAT HE'S
NOT IN IT FOR THE MONEY.
IF
YOU CAN BE ANTIESTABLISHMENT BY FILLING YOUR CABINET WITH
FORMER EXECUTIVES OF GOLDMAN SACHS AND MAKING THE HEAD
OF AN OIL COMPANY FOURTH IN LINE TO THE PRESIDENCY, BEING
ANTIESTABLISHMENT DOESN'T MEAN SHIT ANYMORE.
I WANT TO GO BACK TO BANE, BECAUSE THAT'S FUN.
I THINK
THERE IS A TINY PERCENTAGE CHANCE THAT STEVE BANNON, WHO
VERY LIKELY WROTE THE SPEECH, OBVIOUSLY TRUMP DIDN'T --
STEVE BANE-ON.
COINCIDENCE?
STEVE BANNON MIGHT HAVE WANTED US TO MAKE THE
CONNECTION BECAUSE THIS MIGHT BE THE KIND OF THING THAT THE
MAINSTREAM MEDIA WILL RAISE A HUBBUB OVER BUT THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE LIKE POPULAR CULTURE.
CERTAINLY THE POPULIST MESSAGE
IS THE STEVE BANNON KIND OF, LET'S GO GET 'EM, YOUR TOWNS ARE
NOW ROTTEN BECAUSE OF EVERYONE ELSE FOR US, NOW WE ARE WINNING,
ALL THAT STUFF -- BUT I DON'T WANT PEOPLE TO TAKE IT TOO
SERIOUSLY AND GET ALL WORKED UP, BECAUSE IF YOU SPEND YOUR
ENERGY GETTING WORKED UP ABOUT SILLY THINGS THAT TRUMP
SAYS, YOU WON'T HAVE TIME LEFT FOR WHEN HE DOES IMPORTANT
AND SERIOUS THINGS.
THE SILLY STUFF HE SAYS IS IN MY OPINION INTENTIONAL TO
DISTRACT FROM THE HIDEOUS THINGS HE DOES.
WHILE THE MEDIA IS
OBSESSING OVER HIS TWEETS PEOPLE TAKE REAL ACTION AGAINST
WORKING-CLASS AMERICANS AND MIDDLE-CLASS AMERICANS, KEEP
THAT IN MIND WHEN YOU GET DISTRACTED BY HIS B.S.
MY PLAN IS TO DEFEAT HIM AND THEN ASK, I WAS WONDERING WHAT
WOULD BREAK FIRST -- YOUR SPIRIT OR YOUR BODY.
I'VE SEEN HIS BODY, IT WILL BREAK FIRST.
IT'S BAKING RIGHT
NOW.