Donald Trump tried to pick another fight with Jimmy Kimmel, and the late-night host destroyed him again.
Donald Trump tried to pick another fight with Jimmy Kimmel, and the late-night host destroyed him again.
Jimmy Kimmel said, “By the way, I was at any niece and nephew’s music recital when I got this video. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. Donald Trump has said I’m not talented so many times, Eric is starting to get jealous. What he doesn’t realize is that I love this. I love that this bothered him so much. I love that Fox picked a news guy nobody knows to interview him. And I especially love when he tries to spin the fact that everyone was laughing at him into a positive.”
Kimmel played a clip of Trump saying in a Fox News interview over the weekend:
Now look, look. Jimmy Kimmel is every night he hits me. His ratings are terrible. He is not a talented guy. I hear he hits me all the time. So I figured I’d hit him, because I thought he was a lousy host.
And he probably stupidly had to act in a short period of time, right? He had minutes, because he is on air. He sees this thing and he wants to go out there and he wants to I guess confront me. And he ends up reading my truth. I said this guy’s even dumber than I thought. The thing went viral. It went all over the world now, and all he had to do is keep his mouth shut.
Kimmel responded, “Yeah, yeah. By the way, you forget why it went viral all over the world.”
The late-night host played a clip of his Isn’t it past your jail time joke and continued:
Barbie was laughing at you. Not only were they laughing at you on Oscar Sunday, there are now dozens of “Past your jail time” shirts! For sale. There are mugs. There are tank tops. There is an “Isn’t it past your jail time” backpack? People are writing it outside the Trump Hotel. There are billboards. There are billboards in Pennsylvania and Florida, and there are a lot more to come.
But if only I’d kept my mouth shut. Imagine him telling anyone they should’ve kept their mouth shut? That should be on his tombstone. Should have kept his mouth shut. Hey, maybe you know what? Maybe you’re right about me being dumb. We should take one of those cognitive tests or an IQ test together. Or maybe we should sit down for a long game of Scrabble together and find out who has a biglyer brain. I’d love that. But I get it. He’s wounded and he’s lashing out.
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Trump never ever learns. He knows that he got humiliated in front of a global audience at the Oscars, so he is trying to spin it into a positive for himself. Trump became the butt of the joke. He didn’t go viral for a good reason. Anyone else would have been embarrassed, but Donald Trump believes that he can turn it into a positive.
e their move or pack up and end this investigation.
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Rachel Maddow connected Trump's desperate need for cash, and Paul Manafort's life work of spending Russian oligarch money to advance Putin's interests.
Rachel Maddow connected Trump’s desperate need for cash and Paul Manafort’s life work of spending Russian oligarch money to advance Putin’s interests.
Maddow said: His purpose in life at that time was extracting money from Russian interests, from pro-Kremlin interests to serve the interests of Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin. That was his life’s work.
Paul Manafort has announced today as coming back to the Trump campaign again on the same day that Donald Trump also announces that he is out of money and he cannot secure a bond to pay the half billion court judgment that is due from him one week from today. That is a court judgment. That’s not some bank being asked please pay us back. That’s a court judgment. If he doesn’t pay it, the new York attorney general can start padlocking his buildings and taking everything he owns.
As of one week from today. Donald Trump has never been more desperately in need of money than he is right this sec today, the day it is reported that this guy, for all his baggage, for all his ex con sparkle, this guy is coming back, the guy who specializes in extracting money from Kremlin-aligned interests to serve Vladimir Putin’s long-term goals. I wonder why today of all days is the day we learn that Paul Manafort is coming back.
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Rachel #Maddow “Paul Manafort has announced today as coming back to the Trump campaign again on the same day that Donald Trump also announced that he is out of money and he cannot secure a bond.” pic.twitter.com/A2au0Ln1Jz
Rachel #Maddow “Donald Trump has never been more desperately in need of money than he is right this second today… I wonder why today, of all days, is the day we learn that Paul Manafort is coming back.” pic.twitter.com/vwnACWbRay
This isn’t a difficult one to connect the dots on. Trump is broke, and suddenly, the money man for Russian oligarchs who advance Putin’s interests returns to the Donald Trump presidential campaign.
It is not a coincidence that Manafort is returning.
Donald Trump is running the 2016 playbook all over again, including leaning on help from Putin to get him into the White House.
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Trump has been courting the United Steelworkers for an endorsement, but union president Bruce McCall said that the union will endorse President Biden.
Trump has been courting the United Steelworkers for an endorsement, but union president Bruce McCall said that the union will endorse President Biden.
McCall said on Fox News:
We’re clearly leaning towards President Biden and we’ll be endorsing him. I’m sure it would be up to our executive board to do that in the very near future.
But President Biden is really developed for at least in my lifetime an industrial policy in this country with the infrastructure bill, the IRA and the CHIPS and Science Act. If you do that along with making sure that we’re on a level playing field with the rest of the world, that’s, that’s about real progress in America for industrial workers.
When asked why they haven’t endorsed Biden yet, McCall answered, “We just haven’t had our board meeting yet.”
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Steelworkers Union President: We’re clearly leaning towards President Biden. We’ll endorse him, I’m sure…. pic.twitter.com/K5jePn3JXE
Trump has courted the autoworkers, Teamsters, and steelworkers unions with the autoworkers and steelworkers both deciding to endorse President Biden and the Teamsters making it clear that they are likely to endorse Biden after the presidential conventions.
Labor isn’t going to abandon Biden, and they most definitely will not be abandoning him for Donald Trump.
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From the April 7 edition of MSNBC's All In with Chris Hayes:
TODD ALLBAUGH: I've been a Republican for a long time. It was at that moment, Chris, in that room in the senate Republican caucus when I heard people, a Party I had fought for for over 30 years of my life, actually giddy and happy and talking about how we can take people's Constitutional rights away, or at least impede them, in order to hang onto power.
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Now, you have a group of people in the state legislature, particularly in the senate Republican caucus, who want to impede peoples' voting rights. That's the point where I said "I can't do it anymore." I can't be a Republican, I can't keep going to caucuses because this Party no longer represents me and what I believe in.
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Republicans used to fight for voting rights, and here they were taking them away. So, yes, the point is, this was a poignant point in my life. I remember it clearly and certainly the point in that room that day was how do we do this quickly because there was a lot of recalls going on in Wisconsin at that time. How do we do it quickly so that we can make sure we hang onto power in the future.
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