Now that we've all had a full day
to absorb the first presidential debate,
let's really sit down and talk about what we learned.
You know, take some time
to analyze the policy disagreements.
Think through the important issues.
Parse the nuances of...
-The question is... The question... -Radical left...
-Will you shut up, man? -Who is your... Listen.
You graduated either the lowest
or almost the lowest in your class.
-This is so unpresidential. -He's gonna pack the court.
Hunter got thrown out of the military.
He was thrown out, dishonorably discharged
-for cocaine use. -That's not true. It wasn't dishonorably.
WALLACE: Wait a minute. You get the final word.
Well, it's hard to get any word in with this clown.
-Excuse me, this person. -Hey, hey, let me just tell you, Joe.
And there's nothing smart about you, Joe.
-47 years, you've done nothing. -Well, let's have...
-And by the way, you were... -You're the worst president
-America has ever had. Come on. -Hey, hey, Joe, let me...
Oh, snap!
These guys were bickering so much,
Canada called the cops to complain about the noise.
I have never seen a debate like that in my life.
To be honest, I've never seen anything like that in my life.
Honestly, it-it seemed less like a presidential debate
and more like a fight that you overhear
in a booth at Denny's.
"Will you shut up, you clown? You got no class."
"I got no class? You got terrible grades.
And your son's a cokehead."
"You piece of shit, you don't talk about my son.
"You listen... Yeah, hi.
"Could I get the, uh, Moons Over My Hammy
"with the orange juice, please?
"Yeah, that'll be all, doll. Thank you so much.
"You got drunk,
and you hit on your own daughter!"
"I wasn't drunk."
I mean, some of these insults were way more personal
than you ever see in a debate.
Especially Biden calling Trump a clown,
which, guys, I'm sorry, man, is...
That's not fair to Trump. Right?
Clowns wear weird makeup.
They-they have clothes that are too big for them.
They're deeply sad even when they don't show it.
Does that sound like Donald Trump to you?
Now, let's just be clear.
The reason that this debate was such a colossal train wreck
is because Donald J. Trump
was throwing grenades on the tracks.
And usually in a debate, the moderator is there
to prevent things from getting out of hand,
but last night's moderator, Chris Wallace,
was about as successful at stopping Trump
as the popular vote.
WALLACE: The country would be better served
if we allowed both people to speak
with fewer interruptions.
I-I'm appealing to you, sir, to do that.
TRUMP: Well, and him, too.
Well, frankly, you've been doing more interrupting than he has.
-Obamacare, I got rid of it. -Mr. President, I'd like you...
We will protect people with preexisting conditions.
WALLACE: Mr. President, I'm the moderator of this debate,
and I would like you to let me ask my question,
-and then you can answer. -Go ahead.
-How many... -WALLACE: Sir. Wait, wait. No.
-Sir, it's his... -It's too long still.
WALLACE: Yeah, I understand. You've agreed
to the two minutes, so please let him have it.
-Sir, you made a... -A far less lethal disease, by the way.
WALLACE: You made a point. Let him answer.
-Mr. President, let him answer. -The only guy...
-(laughs) -WALLACE: The second subject is COVID-19,
which is an awfully serious subject, so...
let's try to be serious about it.
-Not true. -You're on tape doing it. -WALLACE: Stop.
-You're gonna have... -It's on tape. -Not true.
WALLACE: Gentlemen! Is... (chuckles)
-I hate to raise my voice, but... -Chris, he's on tape.
WALLACE: Why shouldn't I be different than the two of you?
-No. You've been talking back and forth. -He made a statement.
-WALLACE: I'm asking you... -I would love to end it.
-WALLACE: No, you know, sir... -I would love to end it.
WALLACE: I-I... You know, if you want to switch seats,
-we could do that. -We could very quickly...
Oh, man, that is so sad.
Trump was being such a child
that Chris Wallace actually had to pull
the "do you want to switch seats?" move
that English teachers use with their students.
And honestly,
I'm glad that Trump didn't take him up on it,
because if Trump takes over Wallace's job,
then Wallace has to take over Trump's job,
and I don't know if he has it in him to kill 200,000 people.
But seriously, though, I feel bad for Chris Wallace.
Any moderator in a Trump debate is basically a WWE ref.
You're not really stopping anyone.
You're just there to get body slammed
every once in a while.
And people have been criticizing Wallace
for how he handled the debate,
but honestly, guys, I don't know
if another moderator could have done better.
I mean, whether you like it or not,
Trump is the president of the United States.
So what was Wallace supposed to do, ground him?
There was no way to stop Trump last night.
He interrupted Biden.
He interrupted Wallace.
And there weren't any commercials last night,
but if there were, Trump would have interrupted those, too.
MAN: Guys, are you tired
of frequent nighttime bathroom trips?
Well, Force Factor...
Why is it, just out of curiosity,
the mayor of Moscow's wife gave your son
three and a half million dollars?
Ooh, that guy is relentless.
So, look, this was not a shining moment
in the American history books. Right?
Political observers referred to it as a shitshow,
a dumpster fire, the worst debate in history.
And with all the interrupting and cross talking,
it might have even been hard to remember
if anything important happened last night.
But there was one moment that really stood out.
WALLACE: Are you willing tonight
to condemn white supremacists and militia groups?
-Sure. -WALLACE: And to say that they need to stand down
and not add to the violence in a number of these cities
as we saw in Kenosha and as we've seen in Portland?
I'm willing to do anything. I want to see peace.
-WALLACE: Well, then do it, sir. -I... -Say it. Do it. Say it.
Do you want to call them... What do you want to call them?
-Give me a name. Give me a name. Go ahead. -White supremacists.
-Who would you like me to condemn? -Proud Boys.
-WALLACE: White supremacists and... -Proud Boys,
stand back and stand by.
But I'll tell you what. I'll tell you what.
Somebody's got to do something about antifa and the left,
-because this is not a right-wing problem. -His own...
Wow. There you have it, folks.
Trump had an opportunity to be like,
"White supremacists, I don't (bleep) with you."
Instead, he's like,
"Stand by, guys. I never know when I'm gonna need you."
Telling white supremacists to stand down
and telling them to stand by are not the same thing, right?
That one little word makes a huge difference.
Like the difference between a blowout and a blow job.
Do not ask for the wrong one at Supercuts.
Again, to the staff at Supercuts, I apologize.
I-I hadn't slept,
and I didn't read the menu properly.
And even for that noncondemnation,
Trump to be dragged into it.
Like, no president should ever have to be pressured this hard
into condemning white supremacists.
It's the easiest thing.
Trump did it so grudgingly, he was like one of those guys
who refuses to make real apologies.
"What, I'm-I'm supposed to apologize
"for tailgating at your dad's funeral?
"Fine, I'm sorry.
"I'm sorry that you're unable to have a good time.
Some of us are still living."
And by the way, you know that you've truly botched
your condemnation of a hate group
when that hate group
says thank you for the endorsement.
NEWSMAN: The Proud Boys, a far-right extremist group,
immediately celebrating the president's comments
on social media.
They went nuts on social media celebrating.
They put out those words as a rallying cry.
"Stand back, stand by."
Within minutes, the group's members
were posting on private social media,
calling Trump's comments "historic."
The New York Times reports that some group members
labeled it as a tacit endorsement
to their violent tactics,
while another posted the group is already seeing
a spike in new recruits.
Yes. Thanks to Donald Trump's failed condemnation,
this hate group
is now seeing an increase in recruits.
Which means in the history of television,
that might be one of the worst answers ever given.
And that's coming from someone who once guessed
the number seven on Wheel of Fortune.
I didn't know it had to be letters.
That was, like... I was new to America.
The Proud Boys liked Donald Trump's answer so much
that they're even adopting it as their new slogan.
And that actually might piss off Trump,
because the one thing he definitely believes in
is getting royalties.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Nobody should be advocating
"the supremacy of the white man
without giving Donny his cut."
I'd be careful if I were the Proud Boys though,
'cause if there's one thing we know about Donald Trump,
it's that, once he invests in you,
you have about five years until you go bankrupt.
So, yes, in a debate that consisted almost entirely
of three old men trying to shout over each other,
this one moment was horrifying enough
to break out and get noticed.
And you know it's bad when even Trump's own supporters
are left saying... (sucks air through teeth)
"You done (bleep)ed up."
The president, well, he would not condemn white supremacists.
I agree that, uh, the president, uh,
made a-- made a bad error.
And I think that was a huge gaffe.
He was-- he was kind of, like, playing around.
I-I didn't like that he equivocated
when he could have slam-dunked that.
KILMEADE: Donald Trump blew the biggest layup
in the history of debates by saying--
not condemning white "supremists."
I don't know if he didn't hear it,
but he's got to clarify that right away.
That's like, "Are you against evil?"
Um, why the president didn't just, uh,
knock that out of the park, I'm not sure.
Yes.
Why didn't the president condemn white supremacy?
Hmm. It's a real mystery.
Maybe he didn't hear the question.
Or maybe he misspoke.
Or maybe he thought they said "Sprite supremacists"
and he's really into Sprite.
I can't think of any other explanation, Watson.
By the way, did you notice that even when Fox people
acknowledge Trump did something really bad,
they still give him the benefit of the doubt?
I wish I had friends that were that loyal, you know?
If I shat my pants in public,
none of my friends would be like,
"Trevor, didn't shit himself.
His butt misspoke."
Look, Trump's friends can play dumb about this all they want,
but I don't know why. I don't know why, at this point,
people are still acting surprised
when he refuses to denounce white supremacists.
Because, as you may remember,
this is not exactly a new thing for him.
I think there's blame on both sides.
And you had some very bad people in that group.
But you also had people that were...
very fine people. On both sides.
I don't really.
There are white supremacist groups
and individuals like that who support you,
some of whom you've even retweeted.
Well, that I know nothing about.
I mean, I don't know about retweeting.
I mean, you-you retweet somebody
who turns out to be a white supremacist.
I know nothing about these groups that are supporting me.
Will you unequivocally condemn David Duke
and say that you don't want his vote
or that of other white supremacists in this election?
I don't know anything about David Duke, okay?
I don't know anything about what you're even talking about
with, uh, white supremacy or white supremacists.
You wouldn't want me to condemn a group
that I know nothing about. I have to look.
If you would send me a list of the groups,
I will do research on 'em and, certainly,
I would disavow if I thought there was something wrong.
-The Ku Klux Klan? -But you may have groups in there
that are totally fine, and it would be very unfair.
So give me a list of the groups and I'll let you know.
Okay. I mean, I'm just talking about David Duke
and the Ku Klux Klan here, but...
I don't know any-- Honestly, I don't know David Duke.
I don't believe I've ever met him.
I'm pretty sure I didn't meet him.
And I just don't know anything about him.
Yeah. It's actually hard to keep track of all the times
that Trump had the chance to be antiracist and didn't.
The only thing he avoids more
than condemning white supremacists is paying taxes.
And keep in mind-- this is the same guy
who has strong opinions on everything.
I mean, the man tweeted for a month
about Robert Pattinson's love life.
Robert Pattinson. A.K.A. Twilight.
But then when it comes to white supremacy, he's like,
"Hey, man, I-I don't get involved
in other people's business, you know?
You do your own thing."
The truth is, people,
sometimes not having an opinion
is having an opinion.
If someone's like, "I don't know Osama bin Laden,
so I'm not gonna say anything bad about him,"
then you should stop talking to that person
or at least don't get on a plane with them.
So, look, I get why his supporters
want to act like Trump's Proud Boys moment last night
was some kind of accidental or unintentional gaffe.
But if you see someone making the same "mistake"
over and over again,
well, at some point, you have to accept
that it's not a mistake-- it's their belief.