-The Trump administration announced a plan today
to send the National Guard to the border.
Meanwhile, Trump has kept up his attacks on Amazon.
For more on this it's time for "A Closer Look."
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This has been a week with Trump indulging
his various obsessions and one of those obsessions
remains our border with Mexico.
He's been fuming about a caravan of immigrants
headed here through Mexico and claiming that
the border is essentially a lawless territory.
-Hopefully Congress will get their act together
and get in and create some very powerful laws,
like Mexico has and like Canada has
and like almost all countries have.
We don't have laws, we have catch and release.
You catch and then you immediately release.
It's like we have no border,
because we had Obama make changes,
President Obama made changes
that basically created no border.
It's called catch and release.
-That's right. It's called catch and release.
Or as Trump used to call it, marriage.
[ Laughter ]
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[ Whistles ]
-Whoo!
-[ As Trump] I don't know how to tell you this,
but it's time for release.
[ Laughter ]
[ Normal voice ] In reality, under Trump,
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
has massively ramped up the tensions
of undocumented immigrants, in may cases
tearing apart families and deporting people
who have lived here for decades.
But this week, Trump called for yet another aggressive step,
he wants the military to guard the border.
-We are going to be doing some things --
I've been speaking with General Mattis --
we're going to be doing things militarilety
until we can have a wall and proper security,
we're gonna be guarding our border with the military.
We are preparing for the military
to secure our border between Mexico and the United States.
We have a meeting on it in a little while
with General Mattis.
-Oh, great another thing for General Mattis' to-do list.
He's already planning your dumb military parade,
now you want him to guard the border.
Why don't you just combine the two
and have the parade along the Mexican boarder?
Have you ever?
I mean, think about it.
Have you ever tried to cross the street during a parade?
[ Laughter ]
Immigrants would walk up to the border and be like,
"Aw, man, this is today?"
[ Laughter ]
"Oh, bagpipes. Let's get out of here."
Also, could we go back to this part of the clip for a second?
-I've been speaking with General Mattis,
we're going to be doing things militarilety.
[ Laughter ]
Was that a word or did your teeth
try to escape your mouth again?
Trump is less articulate than a 7-year-old
in the back of his mom's sedan after dental surgery.
[ Laughter ]
[ Imitates being under anesthesia ] Is this real life?
[ Normal voice ] Now today the Trump administration announced
a plan to send National Guard troops to the border.
And lately, Trump has been obsessed
with this idea of militarizing the border.
An idea he floated last week,
when he said the U.S.-Mexico border should be
just as fortified as the border between North and South Korea.
-Look at Korea, we have a border at Korea.
We have a wall of soldiers.
We don't get paid very much for this, do we?
We have -- You look at that, nobody comes through.
But our own border, we don't take care of it.
Look, North and South Korea.
Thirty-two thousand soldiers.
They're finest equipment, barbed wire all over the pla--
We protect that whole thing, nobody comes through,
but our country, we don't do.
Things are changing, folks.
-I'm sorry. What is this?
[ Laughter ]
I think he he wants to [bleep] the border.
[ As Trump] Have you seen the border?
Oh, she is 34 -- 24 -- 34
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Beautiful. We've got to guard it.
You've got to gu-- You need the military
to guard it because people want to [bleep] it.
[ Laughter ]
Get away.
[ Normal voice ] While Trump fixates on the border
and mumbles half-baked ideas
about sending the military there,
he's also been nursing another obsession,
his growing anger toward Amazon.
Now, as you might recall, it wasn't so long ago
that the republicans were against the presidents
intervening in the economy.
Like when they relentlessly bashed President Obama
for favoring certain companies over others.
And picking winners and losers on everything
from green energy to financial reform to the stimulus.
-We do not believe we should be governed by our betters.
That elites in Washington should make all those big decisions.
That they should be picking winners and losers.
-The federal government should not be
picking winners and losers in the marketplace.
-It is not government's role to pick the winners and losers.
-When we talk about Washington picking winners and losers,
look no further than Dodd-Frank.
-We have got to get this government
and this administration out of picking winners and losers,
because all they pick are losers.
-I had a friend who said you don't just pick
the winners and losers, you pick the losers.
-Oh, my God.
Mitt Romney is almost as bad at landing a zinger
as Trump is at saying the word "militarily."
[ Laughter ]
Romney would be terrible at "Snaps."
[ As Romney ] Your mother is so fat that her doctor
is a bit concerned about her cholesterol.
Rightly so, I might add.
[ Normal voice ] Of course, it turned out
that just four years later republicans elected a guy
whose favorite two words in the English language
are winner and loser.
-Governor Pence, just come here for a second.
This guy is a winner.
What a group of losers we have.
The great Bobby Knight.
He had the last undefeated season in college basketball,
he's a winner.
They're declaring Marco Rubio the big loser of the night,
which is true.
Jack Nicklaus, who endorsed me, I love Jack. I love Jack.
His record's unbelievable.
He won it four times, top ten 18 tim--
I mean, this guy is a win-ner.
These people are losers.
I said Bill Crystal is a loser.
Bill Crystal's a loser.
Johnny Damon was a champ, he was a winner.
We have a bunch of babies running our country, folks.
We have a bunch of losers.
They're losers. They're babies.
-Only Donald Trump could equate babies with losers.
[ As Trump ] Babies, they're losers.
They don't own any real estate.
They're all virgins.
[ Normal voice ] And now Trump has apparently found
a new loser to attack -- Amazon.
The tech behemoth owned by Jeff Bezos.
Bezos also owns the Washington Post,
which has done a lot of hard-hitting reporting
on Trump and that has apparently irked the president,
who has been tweeting obsessively about the company.
-Trump versus the tech titan.
According to Vanity Fair's sources close to the president
say he is "discussing a way to
escalate his twitter attacks on Amazon
to further damage the company."
-You write and I'm gonna quote for everybody here,
"He's off the hook on this."
According to sources that you spoke with.
-Yeah. -"It's war.
He gets obsessed with something,
and now he's obsessed with Bezos...
Trump is like, how can I F with him?"
-How can you F with him?
I don't know, do the same thing you did
to the rest of the country and run for president of Amazon.
[ Laughter ]
That's Trump's only.
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That's Trump's only motivation is f-ing with people.
If he weren't the president, he'd be breaking into
people's houses and leaving loose LEGOs on the stairs.
For weeks, now, Trump has repeatedly bashed Amazon
for supposedly cheating the Post Office out of lost revenue,
which is not true.
The Post Office says they actually make money
delivering Amazon's packages.
Trump's behavior is that of a petulant autocrat
compulsively attacking his enemies by lying about them.
But here's the thing, despite his rhetoric,
his own government is actually helping Amazon.
For one thing, Amazon benefited greatly
from those massive tax cuts Trump pushed through last year.
And on top of that, the New Republic reported
that under Trump's watch Amazon secured a change
to federal procurement laws "that will allow
the Defense Department to purchase all commercial items
on the Amazon marketplace."
I'm sorry, but it's not exactly reassuring
that the Pentagon is working with a company
that already has it's own army of drones
and a leader who looks like the ruthless jazz instructor
from "Whiplash".
[ Laughter ]
And let's not forget,
this is also the company that makes the Amazon Echo.
A product which, according to several real videos
posted last month, has started creepily laughing
for no reason at all.
-Amazon Echo users are reporting that Alexa
has been letting out a spontaneous
and rather creepy laugh.
Completely unprompted, imagine that.
Some are even saying that they'll hear
random chuckles coming out of their Alexa
in the dark long after they've gone to bed.
Now, just to give you an idea of what this sounds like,
take a listen.
-[ Alexa laughs ]
[ Alexa laughs ]
-So, either the singularity has already happened
and artificially intelligent robots have become self aware,
or Alexa just found out that Donald Trump is president.
[ Laughter ]
That's probably how Trump's Alexa
responds to him whenever he talks to it.
-We're gonna be doing things militarilety.
-[ Alexa laughs ]
[ Laughter ]
-For years.
For years republicans spun a wild fantasy
about an imperial president interfering
in the free marketplace by picking winners and losers,
and now they've got a president who is
actually doing that and their silence is deafening.
Trump is a wannabe autocrat who thinks he can rule unilaterally.
Whether it's on the border, economically, or...
-Militarilety.
-This has been "A Closer Look".
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