This week on the U.S.A. Cast, I'm joined by my buddy Brian Lyle, who's wrong about Trudeau leaving, and is wrong about Kamala Harris, but he's right about many things. He and I talk about the birther hoax, and why Donald Trump's political orbit was changed by the black hole in space that is Donald Trump.
00:01:57.760So, it's like kind of a tribute to them.
00:01:59.280And yes, as Ian and I agreed yesterday as we drove past Walker's Point, we would have taken either Bush without hesitation over Donald Trump.
00:02:20.100He lives on the ground floor of a three-story walk-up on Gove Street, which is down by Saco Bay in a working-class neighborhood in Biddeford, Maine.
00:02:31.040And he used to be an independent, he told me, which is a recognized and registered political affiliation down here in the States.
00:02:39.280And last year, half of American voters said they were independent, neither Democrat nor Republican.
00:02:46.620So, I asked him which way he's going to be voting in November.
00:02:50.860And Weissmeyer smiled at me and he said, Democrat.
00:03:28.340But the birther hoax got legs in 2012 when a private citizen named Donald J. Trump started to tweet that it was true.
00:03:38.080An extremely credible source had told him, Trump said at the time.
00:03:43.360Now, history will record that Obama won anyway, and that was that.
00:03:47.580But the birther hoax, which ushered in the Donald Trump era and ushered George Weissmeyer towards the Democrats, was the official start of crazy time in U.S. politics.
00:04:01.540And in that way, I think George Weissmeyer is American.
00:04:08.420His political orbit, you see, was changed by the black hole in space that is Donald Trump.
00:04:14.840Like, everybody in America has had their politics changed by Trump, either pulled toward him by this dark gravitational force or pushed away.
00:04:25.760So, as we were knocking on doors for the Democrats this week, we got a lot of that.
00:04:31.520Like, on Cleve Street, we went looking for somebody named Tammy Wilder, and she was out.
00:04:37.500I think she was working, but we got her husband instead.0.99
00:04:39.820And he said, you know, she's a Democrat, so is he.
00:04:45.000And Kamala Harris had been anointed the Democratic Party presidential candidate just days before.0.96
00:04:50.920So, the literature that we had, the signs that we had were, like, hot off the presses.
00:04:55.620So, Tammy Wilder's husband, we asked him about the issues Harris should be talking about, and he stopped cleaning the stove, and he squinted off in the middle distance.0.99
00:05:07.500And he said, there's a lot of issues, actually, but that son of a bitch, no way.1.00
00:05:13.700And that's how it went on the Sunday morning in Biddeford, Maine, that we were knocking on doors.0.99
00:05:18.740People either really were for Donald Trump or really against him.
00:06:30.580The U.S. Army took the unprecedented step of condemning him in a statement for trying to turn Arlington National Cemetery into a prop for one of his commercials.
00:06:41.260He's retweeted a post containing a disgusting sexual slur about Harris and Hillary Clinton.
00:06:49.380He's been condemned by more than 200 staffers who work for him or Reagan or the two Bushes.
00:06:56.280We've all said they're going to vote against him.
00:06:58.620And he can't figure out a strategy to stop his slide in the polls.
00:07:03.060So, at a rally in Kennebunkport, later on on Sunday, he and I went.
00:07:09.500And there were about 100 happy Democrats crammed in there.
00:07:13.800It's on this hall that basically is on the road that leads you back to Canada.