Donald Trump is the favorite to win the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, but what does that mean for the rest of the field? Is he a shoo-in for the nomination, or is he destined to lose to Hillary Clinton? And what will the establishment do now that they know they veered into a primary that won t go their way? What will they do if Trump doesn t win the nomination? And how will they move forward now that he s the presumed favorite to become the next president of the United States? Alex Blumberg lays out the strategy the Trump campaign is using to prepare for the possibility that Trump will lose the primary and what they can do to make sure he s not the next President of the USA. (Spoiler: it s not what you think.) Alex also explains why the establishment is getting behind Trump and why it s a good bet he s going to win in November. If he doesn t, they re going to have to go all in on Hillary Clinton and hope for the best possible outcome. And if he does lose, they ll have to figure out a way to get behind him in the polls and keep him there until the fall, and then they'll have to deal with the fallout from the inevitable Democratic primary chaos that s sure to come from a fractured Republican primary. They'll also have to learn how to counter Hillary Clinton in order to keep him on the trail in the general election, which is going to be messy and messy and ugly and nasty and nasty, and they won't be able to do it the way they think they want them to win it. . And they'll also learn that they can t stop him from winning the nomination unless he s running against Hillary Clinton. And they have to be prepared for a third party candidate who s gonna beat Hillary Clinton and they can win the primary or they know he s gonna win it in the fall ...and they don t know what to do about it that s gonna be a good thing, right? Can they do it, right or they don't know what they re gonna do? ? What do they do with it? What s the best way to stop him, and how to stop Trump s chances of winning in November? and what s their best chance of winning the election, and can they prepare for that chance at winning in the mid-term election? And what s the worst thing they ve got?
00:00:00.000With the end of the Republican primaries in sight and Donald Trump the prohibited favorite for the nomination, critics of the Never Trump movement have been out in force and they're trying to browbeat those of us who don't support Trump into embracing this demagogic loudmouth moron with tyrannical views of government and an incoherent quasi-isolationist foreign policy.
00:00:18.000So last week I talked about Never Trump and I said never means never.
00:00:23.000But here's a more important question given the fact that the Trump train is now barreling down the 2016 tracks.
00:00:32.000Now that their whining, mewling rage has brought about the nomination of the most leftist candidate in the GOP's history, here's the question.
00:01:10.000Like the Joker in the Dark Knight, they've now chased the car and they've bitten the bumper, but now they don't know what to do with it.
00:01:16.000So they'll pretend for just a few months that Trump will win.
00:01:19.000Today they're holding up a new Rasmussen poll that shows Trump ahead of Hillary 41 to 39.
00:01:23.000This, they say, shows Trump is competitive.
00:01:26.000Now, put aside that Rasmussen polls were wildly off last time around in 2012.
00:01:31.000Instead, focus on the fact that the poll includes 15% of voters who say they want somebody else and another 5% who are undecided.
00:01:39.000No candidate in history has won an election with 41% of the vote without a third-party candidate, and there's no third-party candidate on the horizon.
00:01:47.000Beyond that, the poll shows that Trump wins about 48% of white voters.
00:01:50.000He needs 63% to be competitive with Hillary Clinton.
00:01:54.000So, in the absence of decent stats showing that Trump would be competitive with Clinton, they're starting to spin.
00:02:00.000Michael Walsh, who's a big Trump supporter over at the New York Post, he says Trump can win.
00:02:06.000Does anyone think that in the debates, Hillary will be able to withstand the blunt force trauma the braggadocious billionaire deployed to knock Jeb and his other rivals out of the race?
00:02:16.000First off, he didn't really knock Cruz out of the race with that same routine.
00:02:19.000He didn't knock Rubio out of the race with that same routine.
00:02:22.000He looked pretty bad in those last debates.
00:02:24.000New debates will look much more like those late debates.
00:02:26.000Then they have to move on to step two.
00:02:47.000He constantly threatened and cajoled Republicans, and it always paid off.
00:02:52.000Now, Marco Rubio is making ridiculously funny noises about how Trump is coming around and has become more mature.
00:02:59.000John Boehner, the former Speaker of the House, says Cruz is Satan incarnate and he'd vote for Trump over Hillary, but not Cruz.
00:03:05.000Trump is overtly defending Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
00:03:09.000In Indiana, former Governor Mitch Daniels has kept quiet, and current Governor Mike Pence reluctantly endorsed Cruz, but then said nice things about Trump.
00:03:16.000GOP leaders are getting behind Trump for a few reasons.
00:03:18.000First, they don't want the party split.
00:03:33.000So the Trumpsters are really worried that Trump's gonna lose.
00:03:36.000And so they're preparing, they're stabbed in the back myth early.
00:03:39.000They're relying on these first two steps, they're claiming Trump is a super powerful, wonderfully brilliant candidate, and they're gonna say that even the establishment got behind him, and then if they lose, they're gonna say that the evil, nasty conservatives wrecked the whole thing.
00:03:51.000Ian Tuttle put it this way at National Review.
00:03:54.000He said if Trump is the nominee, it's not going to matter what anti-Trump conservatives do leading up to November.
00:03:58.000If he wins, supporters will trot out the guillotine.
00:04:01.000If he loses, they'll trot out the guillotine.
00:04:04.000This has been the animating impulse from the beginning.
00:04:06.000At the heart of the Trump phenomenon is a bloodthirst, and one way or another there will be blood.
00:04:11.000Now the Trump people have to push this narrative, or they'll be blamed for nominating the most despised person in modern politics, and thus losing the presidency to the most despised leftist in modern politics.
00:04:22.000That'll turn 2020, four years from now, into a brawl between the Trump supporters, the people who initiated this stupid, pathetic Beer Hall Putsch, and those who oppose them.
00:04:33.000They're about to find out that if you like the match for the burn-it-all-down movement, that's not quite the same thing as sitting in the center of the house while the walls are flaming.
00:04:50.000So we're back from Passover, and this week's episode is sponsored by the post-Passover laxative Let My People Go.
00:04:57.000And it's a- And it was a great vacation, I'm so glad that I had it.
00:05:02.000And I'm so sad that I get to come back the day before Armageddon.
00:05:05.000It's just- it's bad vacation scheduling.
00:05:07.000Like, if you're gonna schedule a vacation, preferably you do it when Armageddon is actually happening.
00:05:12.000You don't come back right before the sweet meteor of death hits the earth and obliterates all life.
00:05:17.000That's the time when you'd prefer to be on the vacation.
00:05:20.000We're coming back the day before Indiana.
00:05:22.000Newest poll from the Wall Street Journal, NBC, shows that Trump is up 49 to 35 over Ted Cruz, which of course has everybody who cares about the Republic, everybody who thinks Trump will be bad for the Republic, shredding their clothing and ripping their clothes and gnashing their teeth and
00:05:41.000Donald Trump is poised to win Indiana.
00:05:43.000There are two different polls that came out over the weekend.
00:05:45.000One shows Cruz way ahead, and then one shows that Trump is way ahead, the one that shows Trump way ahead.
00:06:35.000Now, yes, of course Cruz is desperate.
00:06:38.000But one of the things making him desperate is that you guys keep saying that he's desperate.
00:06:41.000Like, it turns out that when everybody in the establishment jumps onto the seesaw on Donald Trump's very heavy side, then that's going to make Cruz a little bit more desperate.
00:07:05.000Look, Indiana is make-or-break for Cruz, and it's a bump in the road for Trump.
00:07:12.000If Cruz can't win Indiana, and by win I mean get virtually all the delegates, do something like close to what he did in Wisconsin,
00:07:21.000There's no possibility that he can stop Trump.
00:07:23.000It'll just be over sometime Wednesday morning.
00:07:26.000On the other hand, if Trump doesn't do particularly well in Indiana, he has so much overall momentum and is such a huge lead, he could still win by winning in New Jersey and California on June 7th.
00:07:38.000So for Trump, it is a significant event.
00:07:43.000Well, it's become that because people like Gingrich over the past few weeks have been throwing their rather ample support behind Donald Trump.
00:08:54.000If he doesn't win Indiana, it is over.
00:08:56.000Essentially, unless something unforeseen happens, Donald Trump spontaneously combusts from dusting his face with the Hot Cheetos instead of the regular Cheetos or something like that.
00:09:07.000Donald Trump is probably going to be the nominee.
00:09:10.000But the point that I'm making is that the talk about Cruz, you can see there's like a little bit of glee behind a lot of these folks talking about how Cruz is basically done.
00:09:17.000And the reason that he's basically done is because these people have blown up in the last two weeks Trump's victories, which he was expected to win, on the East Coast into, well, this is over now.
00:09:32.000After Iowa, the media did not push the notion that Ted Cruz had a lot of momentum going into New Hampshire.
00:09:36.000They said, oh, he's gonna get killed in New Hampshire, and he actually did much better than expected in New Hampshire.
00:09:40.000The media helps craft the momentum conversation, and they're really behind the Trump train right now, and which is why Trump will probably win Indiana tomorrow, and he'll probably win it in bigger numbers than people think he will.
00:10:22.000Again, why this man is considered a legitimate political figure is beyond me after he ran up and down the halls of Fox News during the last election cycle like a character from Harry Potter haunting the bathrooms.
00:10:34.000Like moaning Myrtle, here's Karl Rove.
00:10:37.000He said if Trump won Indiana it could all be
00:10:46.000The Ocella primary was a night of good night for Donald Trump.
00:10:49.000And what better way to stop people in Indiana from focusing on that than naming your vice presidential running mate and spending a lot of time in Indiana.
00:10:57.000And so, you know, it was a desperate move.
00:10:59.000But it may have shut down a certain amount of the coverage of Trump's Ocella primary win and spend a little bit more time on the pizazz of a vice presidential running mate.
00:11:28.000Then it's the establishment jumps on the bandwagon, because they like the money and they want to keep the doors open.
00:11:33.000And then finally it'll be, Trump loses and he loses pretty big, and then they turn around and they say, well it's because of all you conservatives who wouldn't back him in the first place.
00:11:40.000EJ Dionne is on the left, he's pushing the horse race narrative, here he is.
00:11:44.000Trade, trade, trade, and deindustrialization.
00:11:49.000If he could win those Rust Belt states that are traditionally democratic, he could win the election.
00:11:54.000His problem is, on Matt's point, the country may say we're on the wrong track, but Barack Obama's numbers have gone over 50%, as he said last night.
00:12:06.000And if Barack Obama is doing that well in November, it's going to be very hard for Trump to advance that argument.
00:12:12.000Whatever he picks up among voters concerned about trade and those issues, he's going to lose with those massive negative numbers he has among women.
00:12:21.000So I think his path is very difficult.
00:12:24.000But if there is a path for him, it's in the Rust Belt and it's with young voters not voting in the numbers that Hillary needs.
00:12:43.000So I don't think that it's going to be as much of a cakewalk as even I have been saying Hillary over Trump.
00:12:49.000I do think that Hillary will end up winning.
00:12:50.000I do think she'll win a lot of states that Trump has put into play.
00:12:53.000But if Trump wins, it's really going to be just because the left is so terrible, which is what makes this whole thing really frustrating for me.
00:13:00.000Because if Trump wins because the left is just so terrible, that means that Cruz could have won just because the left is so terrible.
00:13:06.000And then we could have a constitutional conservative as president of the United States, not this bloviating big state buffoon.
00:13:12.000If the left is so terrible that anybody could have won, which is basically the premise, because the only other premise is basically that Trump attacks a lot, but Trump's attacks backfire as often as they strike,
00:13:24.000But if Trump wins, it's going to be because the people who are on the other side are so terrible.
00:13:27.000So one of the big narratives that's emerged over the last few days has been all of the protesters at Trump rallies.
00:13:33.000There are a lot of protesters showing up and harassing people, and this is true.
00:13:37.000And when I watch this stuff, as somebody who ardently does not like Donald Trump, somebody who ardently dislikes Donald Trump, I understand the sympathy for Donald Trump when you look at this stuff.
00:13:47.000So here are a bunch of Hispanic kids protesting one of Trump's appearances in California, and here's what it looked like.
00:13:57.000We've got people driving past with Trump signs, and what you see is a bunch of Bernie Sanders holding Latino kids.
00:14:53.000Protesters in California tried stopping the billionaire in his tracks, clashing with police, breaking down barricades, even fighting with a Trump supporter, the most violent opposition to a Trump appearance since a canceled event in Chicago last month.
00:15:05.000They forced the candidate to take a winding detour to a GOP convention near San Francisco.
00:15:10.000That was not the easiest entrance I've ever made.
00:15:41.000I'm sure there are people who dislike me.
00:15:43.000And when I go and I speak on a campus and people try to throw people who want to hear lectures around and start beating them up, people start to have sympathy for my point of view just because the people who are protesting me are so terrible.
00:16:06.000And the guy is choosing, in fact, to walk through a bunch of leftist protesters, but it does show that there are a bunch of people out there on the left who are violent.
00:16:14.000There they are, flying Mexican flags, and honestly trying to beat up a guy who's wearing a Make America Great Again hat.
00:16:25.000Of course, this is a pro-Trump video, so it's the legend of Christopher Connelly.
00:16:28.000This guy's walking, and if it's a fancy video, you should subscribe, number one.
00:16:35.000But number two, this guy, and he's walking, he's getting all feisty with some of these protesters.
00:17:05.000I think that what you're seeing is people express righteous rage at the fact that we've got this hateful bigot coming to speak in our state.
00:17:12.000And they're saying no, absolutely not.
00:17:14.000Was this planned to be a peaceful protest?
00:17:17.000Or was it by any means necessary at this point?
00:17:20.000We respect the diversity of tactics, right?
00:17:22.000We plan to lock down the streets and keep him out and stop him from speaking.
00:17:26.000And by any diversity of tactics, you mean anything goes?
00:17:29.000We mean that black and brown and poor people have a righteous rage and they have a right to express it in the way that they need to and to prevent this man from speaking in our state.
00:17:36.000Why is the anger so directed at this one person, at Donald Trump?
00:18:12.000And they're handing a talking point to the RNC.
00:18:15.000So RNC Communications Director Sean Spicer, he said this, he was on CNN, he says, why is it that we never talk about the anti-Trump protesters who are getting violent?
00:18:23.000But what was not as fun is to watch the violence outside of the Donald Trump rally last night.
00:18:28.000Sean, I want to just pull some pictures up of what happened last night.
00:18:49.000When the issues happened in Chicago a few months ago, it was the Republican National Committee and members of folks on our side that called out and said, we agree this sort of violence is unacceptable.
00:18:59.000But yesterday, you heard absolute silence when folks on the left went and caused this absolute disrespectful nature, caused violence, you know, ruining public property.
00:19:22.000They're always willing to call out everybody else, but when it's their side that disrupts, that creates violence... I will announce it right now, Sean.
00:19:32.000Protests should be peaceful, absolutely.
00:19:34.000And I hope you join me, too, in denouncing your local Republican Party chairman in Broward County, Florida, who last night said the most offensive, misogynistic thing that anyone has said on this campaign.
00:19:45.000And it's largely driven because the RNC has stood by and not stood up to Donald Trump's misogynistic... Okay, let me stop it there.
00:19:51.000So, again, the contrast here is what's going to help Donald Trump.
00:19:54.000Because on the one hand, you have Sean Spicer who's saying, you guys won't even stand up to people who overturn cop cars.
00:19:59.000And on the left, you have their spokesperson, and he's saying, yeah, well, we don't like when they do that, but you should really condemn the comments of this person.
00:20:08.000There's a difference, as I like to say, between action and words.
00:20:11.000Okay, somebody saying something can be something you don't like, it can be something offensive, it can be Donald Trump saying stupid things, it can be lots of things.
00:20:18.000Violent action, of course, is the line that once you cross it, there is no return.
00:20:22.000And so equating the two things is very dangerous stuff.
00:20:25.000The idea that Donald Trump says something that's the equivalent of people surrounding cars and overturning them, that's absurd.
00:20:31.000That's absurd and that is the road to fascism and that's why Trump is seeing
00:21:10.000Jeremy Boring, who's the managing editor over at Daily Wire, he likes to give the example, I think I've talked about it before, he likes to give the example that people love Star Wars, but Luke Skywalker is one of the most boring heroes in movies.
00:21:24.000What makes Luke Skywalker the hero is that you open the movie with Darth Vader.
00:21:27.000You open the movie with a 7 foot tall guy in a black death mask bursting open a door and force choking somebody, picking him up from the ground, and choking him to death for no reason.
00:21:37.000Just crushing his larynx, his windpipe, for no reason.
00:21:40.000And then you cut to Luke, who's a whiny teenager, like, oh, that guy must be the hero.
00:21:44.000Okay, in this scenario, Darth Vader is these protesters, and Donald Trump is Luke Skywalker,
00:21:50.000But what if Luke Skywalker is actually just, like, not a great guy?
00:21:52.000What if Luke Skywalker, in that case, is Boba Fett?
00:21:54.000If they just cut to Boba Fett, now Boba Fett is the good guy, right?
00:21:57.000Because the guy you cut to after the worst person must be the best person, and that's how the mind operates in terms of Trump versus his opposition.
00:22:07.000And so, for example, you see that sort of stuff, and then you see Trump getting all pugnacious, and he's asked about Vincente Fox and the wall, and he says, his usual line, the wall just got 10 feet taller, right?
00:22:17.000You look at Trump doing this, and you go, okay, I get this.
00:22:20.000The former president of Mexico, Vicente Fox, he said today, and I'm quoting him, he said, I'm not going to pay for that effing wall.
00:22:31.000So if you don't get an actual check from the Mexican government for 8 or 10 or 12 billion dollars, whatever it will cost, how are you going to make them pay for the wall?
00:22:43.000I will, and the wall just got 10 feet taller.
00:25:09.000But I think it's a very nasty statement to men.
00:25:13.000And if I made that statement, it would be a big, big story.
00:25:17.000Okay, so Trump is fighting back on her level, and because she's nasty and inheritant, and he's also nasty and a horror show, they'll fight it out on that level with each other.
00:25:52.000So the media made him, and the media will break him.
00:25:54.000And the media made him, they've spent 30 years portraying him as this master of the financial universe, this whiz kid who comes from nowhere and makes himself into this massive brand and the whole deal.
00:26:06.000And they spent $2 billion worth of media coverage in this primary alone to help push him.
00:26:10.000And now they're going to destroy him because all of this sideshow nonsense?
00:26:14.000If it's initiated by Hillary and he responds, that's not sideshow.
00:27:43.000Now, it is funny to me that the tape cuts out there, presumably because you don't want to show what happens in the women's room.
00:27:50.000It gets real awkward when it turns out that he's standing facing the toilet in order to go pee-pee.
00:27:54.000They always stop it right where that cuts out because the offensive part actually happens inside the door when he takes out his very feminine penis and begins peeing in the women's room.
00:28:03.000But this is part of the Trump sideshow campaign because now this is all over the news.
00:29:57.000So Donald Trump says Mike Tyson is not a rapist, and anyone who calls Mike Tyson a rapist, despite the fact he was convicted of rape, is a liar.
00:30:04.000But there is one kind of rape that Donald Trump doesn't like, and that is economic rape.
00:30:33.000First of all, Ted Cruz is the greatest liar in the history of the world.
00:30:36.000China manipulating its currency is the greatest theft in the history of the world.
00:30:40.000Not like, I mean, admittedly not quite, not, maybe it's a little bit worse than like, I don't know, killing six million Jews and taking all their money.
00:30:47.000But you know, aside from that, it's like the greatest theft in history, or maybe, you know, the various mass wars of attrition across the Middle East and across the, maybe the stealing of oil and the nationalization of British petroleum by Iran.
00:31:02.000But no, the greatest theft in history is not actually theft, it's just China trading with us.
00:31:06.000Okay, so Mike Tyson is not a rapist, but China is an economic rapist.
00:31:10.000Okay, again, this is where the Trump sideshow begins to run off the rails.
00:31:14.000And this is the problem for the Trump train, is that if Trump just stayed on track, if he were just fighting Hillary, if he just were the counterpuncher, he'd be okay.
00:31:43.000Here's why the Democratic Senate takeover is likely.
00:31:46.000They're now starting to run ads about Trump.
00:31:48.000So this is the first time we're now nearing the Trump nomination to the point where Democrats feel comfortable spending their money on anti-Trump ads.
00:31:54.000So, there's an ad that's now running in Arkansas.
00:33:57.000You're getting the guy who's gonna throw the kitchen sink.
00:33:59.000You're getting the guy who's gonna hit people with a hammer.
00:34:01.000He's also the guy who's always a hammer and has been hammering people badly and in negative ways and in nasty ways for legitimately years.
00:34:09.000Now, what's sad about all of this, again, is that Hillary is so vulnerable.
00:34:13.000If you're just anti-Hillary, you have a good shot at winning.
00:34:15.000If you're anti-Hillary, Hillary's such a shrew, she's such a shrieking harpy of evil, that if you just went out there and ran against her, you'd be in great shape.
00:34:23.000But Trump has so much baggage, there's so much that is negative about Trump, Hillary is just going to eat him up on all of those things.
00:34:32.000And the Trump support base, but again, this is the disconnect, right?
00:34:36.000The point that I'm making is a pretty objective one.
00:34:39.000Trump is good in some ways, but he's really bad in some ways, and the ways that he's bad are really gonna hurt him.
00:34:43.000The Trump support base, though, is so passionate because they're anti.
00:34:47.000And because Trump is anti things, they now assume, his Trump support base assumes, that everything that Trump is anti is something worth being anti.
00:34:55.000So, there's an exchange that happened, it was today, earlier this morning, Ted Cruz was campaigning in Indiana and he was confronted by a Trump supporter.
00:35:04.000And it looked, just to give you sort of a hint, is to, well, let's play a little bit of it.
00:35:10.000Here's Ted Cruz meeting a Trump supporter, and you're about to see why this election has gone so badly.
00:35:15.000Because the anti-feeling, the feeling of resist, has now been extended to even people who are constitutional conservatives, not just the actual enemy, people like Hillary Clinton.
00:35:24.000Because for Trump, and for Trump's people, Hillary isn't necessarily the enemy.
00:35:27.000Everybody who's not Trump is the enemy.
00:35:29.000I'm going to treat you with respectability, even if not everyone in this process does.
00:36:28.000Now, do you know on the wall that Donald told the New York Times editorial board he's not going to build a wall and he's not going to deport anyone?
00:36:52.000That's a total lie made up by Donald Trump's campaign.
00:36:57.000Okay, and this is, and, okay, so basically this has now become the scene from Tombstone where Kurt Russell is dealing at the casino and Ike, right, Ike Clanton comes up to him and this is the end, this is the scene, this is the exact scene.
00:38:15.000I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.
00:38:16.000I think a lot of the Trump people ardently support Trump because they were pushed into the Trump camp by a lot of people who were anti-Trump, originally the hard left in the media.
00:38:24.000And now they've bought full into the dictatorial impulse
00:38:43.000Once you get to that point, folks, you've moved beyond the realm of rationality.
00:38:48.000I fully understood the reactionary love for Donald Trump's candidacy, but you have to acknowledge, on an objective level, that there are problems with Donald Trump as a candidate.
00:38:56.000I've acknowledged, on an objective level, there are problems with my guy, Ted Cruz, as a candidate.
00:39:00.000He comes off like a snake oil salesman, he comes off like a Baptist preacher, and it's very difficult to feel that he's sincere.
00:39:06.000Donald Trump is a bad man, and he comes off like a bad man.
00:39:10.000You can acknowledge that and still support your guy, but this whole routine where everything he does is right, every single thing that he does is right, everything, they're all great, all the things are wonderful about Donald Trump, you truly have to be foolish to believe this.
00:39:23.000And if you buy into this, if you buy into this all the way through the election, you're gonna be in for a bad surprise, because you're gonna think all the way up till the time he gets beat by a thousand percent.
00:39:31.000All the way up until the time he loses 43 states, you're going to be thinking that he's going to win, because that's all he does.
00:43:57.000And there's been no evidence that private party purchases like that are what are leading to any sort of spike in gun prices.
00:44:02.000In any case, you wouldn't expect intelligence from a woman who sets her vagina on fire to show the world how she sets the world on fire, presumably.
00:44:10.000But comedy in the service of leftism has now become the thing.
00:44:13.000So, over the weekend was the White House Correspondents Dinner, and I hate
00:44:17.000Hate the White House Correspondents Dinner.
00:44:19.000There are two Washington spectacles I absolutely despise in every way it's possible to despise them.
00:44:24.000The first Washington spectacle that I despise is the State of the Union.
00:44:28.000It's an imperial diktat that comes from a guy who's an elected official in front of other elected officials, but when he walks into the chamber everybody cheers.
00:44:37.000And now we all have to worship at his altar, and it's gonna be great.
00:44:40.000So that's the number one thing I hate.
00:44:41.000The second thing I hate is the White House Correspondents' Dinner, because it's the media, which is supposed to cover the president in all of the gory detail, and the president, who's supposed to serve the media and the public.
00:44:54.000And they get together and then they just drink and they wear tuxes and they feed each other and they talk about how they're best friends.
00:45:00.000I don't want the media to be friends with the president.
00:45:02.000The media coverage of George W. Bush was significantly better than any of the media coverage of Barack Obama because the media didn't like Bush and they like Obama.
00:45:09.000So I hate this thing, and I think that if you were somebody who was out of a job watching President Obama wear a tux and sip champagne as he makes jokes with the celebrities, you would think, well, maybe our political class is a little bit out of touch.
00:45:22.000I'm voting for Donald Trump because of all of that.
00:45:24.000Even though Donald Trump is these people, he's both Hollywood and Washington, D.C.
00:45:27.000So there are a couple of things that were particularly galling.
00:45:48.000Most of them are talking heads who are incredibly stupid but good-looking.
00:45:51.000And so they're there, and they're supposed to be nerds, and they're joking with each other, and it's just... the whole thing just sticks in my craw in a real way.
00:45:58.000Here's President Obama joking about Donald Trump.
00:46:03.000So this night is a testament to all of you who've devoted your lives to that idea.
00:46:08.000Although I am a little hurt that he's not here tonight.
00:48:10.000And it's not just the media, obviously, it's also the folks in Hollywood.
00:48:13.000So you saw Amy Schumer using comedy in the service of leftism, or rather, taking a gun to the head of comedy and pulling the trigger, splattering its brains across the wall in service to leftism.
00:48:24.000Larry Wilmore, who as I've said before, is the second least funny human being on the planet after Trevor Noah.
00:48:29.000Larry Wilmore was the guy who hosted this one, and
00:48:50.000If this doesn't tell you everything you need to know about the nexus between Hollywood and the media and the White House, this is it right here.
00:48:56.000Okay, Larry Wilmore got praise, nothing but praise for this, from the media.
00:49:00.000The media thought this was brave and wonderful.
00:49:02.000The same media that thought Stephen Colbert going on stage and calling George W. Bush a liar in front of him at the White House Correspondents' Dinner about 10 years ago now, they thought this was just the bravest thing they ever saw Larry Wilmore do.
00:49:12.000Here's Larry Wilmore talking about President Obama.
00:49:15.000Thank you for being a good sport, Mr. President.
00:49:17.000But all jokes aside, let me just say how much it means for me to be here tonight.
00:49:22.000I've always joked that I voted for the president because he's black.
00:49:25.000And people say, well, do you agree with his policies?
00:49:27.000And I've always said, I agree with the policy that he's black.
00:49:32.000I say, as long as he keeps being black, I'm good.
00:50:27.000So, Mr. President, if I'm going to keep it 100, yo, Barry, you did it, my nigga.
00:50:36.000Oh, and Obama's so pleased because, of course, he spent his entire life searching for his black identity according to dreams from my father.
00:50:42.000A couple of things worthwhile there pointing out.
00:51:22.000And then when he drops the N-word at the end of that, everybody's supposed to be okay with that, because a black man talking to another black man making a black guy in-joke in front of the entire country, right?
00:51:32.000With the president who's supposed to be the president of all the people.