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00:00Good evening. Hope you're having a great Saturday night. Welcome back to My View.
00:06It says everything about today's political culture that the fastest way to trigger a liberal meltdown
00:11is for President Donald Trump to succeed. If Donald Trump's name is on it, the far left wants
00:17nothing to do with it. We're watching it play out in real time. The Trump administration just
00:22avoided a major trade war with the EU after striking similar agreements with Japan and the UK.
00:28These are big wins for America. So what's the response from the left? Crickets or even worse,
00:35complaints. Put me down as kind of skeptical that there is much there. It's not that big a deal.
00:42I mean, certainly in the context of the US economy, it's not a huge deal. The trade deal is going to
00:46make things more expensive, which makes you wonder, what are we getting out of these tariffs anyway?
00:50Over the weekend, Donald Trump announced a new trade deal with the European Union. Trump would
00:57have you believe it's the biggest deal ever. That's his words. Dangling $250 billion of new energy
01:03purchases and more in new investments. They're just one hiccup. It's fake.
01:09Ah, so it's not about results anymore. It's about clinging to an ideology and identity built on one
01:16idea. Donald Trump is bad. If you dare to step outside of that group think, if you even listen
01:22to someone with a Trump connection, you get canceled, mocked or erased. Whatever form your politics take,
01:30we're in trouble if Americans can't even talk to each other. And if you followed me for any amount of
01:35time, you know, I'll talk to anyone respectfully, candidly, even when we disagree. Take Charlemagne,
01:41the God, a hugely influential voice in media. He calls himself a Democrat adjacent voter. But we
01:48were able to open a tough and honest dialogue back in 2024 when he had me on his show, The Breakfast Club.
01:55Remember when he was running in 2016, they were like, we can't give this guy the nuclear codes.
01:59I agree with that though, even now to this point. He was the only person, Charlemagne,
02:03not to get us into a new war. He was the one who got us the Abraham Accords, peace agreements that
02:07people said were impossible in the Middle East. So why is that? Why are you concerned about Donald
02:12Trump with the nuclear? For me, him, him being able to just push a button, uh, hypothetically
02:17speaking, it's a little bit scary because we've seen kind of, he gets a little bit erratic when he
02:21wants to. Charlemagne's built a career calling out the hypocrisy from within the Democrat Party,
02:27pushing buttons and asking hard questions of both sides. And tonight we'll reopen that dialogue
02:33and no topic is off limits. So whether we see eye to eye or not, this isn't a shouting match.
02:39It's a rare thing in American life, a real conversation, because if we want to heal this
02:44country, we've got to start by hearing each other out. All right. Well, Charlemagne,
02:50I'm so honored to have you here. Thanks for coming on my view. All right. Thank you for having me.
02:54Yeah. You did Breakfast Club. I had to return. Yeah, we're trying to reciprocate. I appreciate
02:57that very much. Um, so look, we're six months into President Trump's second term in office.
03:03Now I know you, you've been critical. You've had your, your bones to pick with President Trump.
03:07If you took his name out of it and looked solely at what has happened,
03:11the policies and the things that have changed around the world and in our country over the
03:14first six months, how do you rate his presidency so far? Uh, I wouldn't give it a good rating,
03:20you know, simply because, you know, the least of us are still being impacted the worst.
03:24Like when you look at something like, you know, the big, beautiful bill, that's something that,
03:27you know, I'm going to benefit from because of the tax bracket that I'm in. But you know,
03:30there's going to be so many people that's hurt by that bill. And you know, anything that,
03:35you know, uh, takes away Medicaid from people and he won't put people in a worse financial situation
03:40than, you know, they were previously in, I'm not for, and you know, he ran on that. Like he ran on,
03:45you know, the economy, he ran on saying that, you know, grocery prices are going to be down.
03:49And you know, he, that has happened. No inflation is trending down. And by the way,
03:54we want to make sure that people who are not actual recipients or shouldn't be getting Medicaid
03:59are off of Medicaid. So it can actually benefit more people. There is good stuff in that bill,
04:02though. You have the 2017 tax cuts that are made permanent. And that, that really is for everybody,
04:07but that's for everyone. Everyone in this country is impacted by that. You also have things,
04:11by the way, like money going to school choice for parents all across this country. There is a lot of good
04:17that I think will come out of the big, beautiful bill. But what about things right now? People
04:20are hurting and I, you know, there was a, there was a, he campaigned on immediate change, day one
04:25change. And you don't think you've, you felt any change? People aren't feeling change. Do you feel
04:29safer knowing that Iran will not have the ability to develop a new? There's certain, there's certain
04:33things that I, I absolutely, you know, uh, understood, like, you know, as far as, you know, border
04:37security, but I understood border security for different reasons. Like, you know, people were complaining
04:42about the border because they felt like people were coming into, you know, the country and, you know, um,
04:46taking, taking jobs away from people in certain areas and certain communities. And that is the
04:50conversation that I had been hearing, you know, for the past year and a half prior to, to the,
04:55to the election. I understand that, but I want to see the criminals and illegal immigrants, you know,
05:00actually deported, not people who are here, you know, trying to go through the process of being in
05:06this country legally. Like when you see people actually getting, you know, getting deported and
05:10getting detained and they're actually trying to go through the process of being American citizens.
05:13That's not right. Well, we're allowing those people to leave. They actually get money to leave
05:17and then they get to reapply, to come back here the right way. So, but leave and go where they
05:21go back to their home country and then what if they've never, what if they've never even been
05:24to that country? Well, you know, they have been to that country. That's where they came here from.
05:28But let me ask you this. Hold on. Some of them haven't though. A lot of them haven't.
05:31I don't know. I've seen a lot of cases of people getting deported. Well, someone to El Salvador who
05:35are from Venezuela, but those people have now been sent back to Venezuela. Let me ask you about how the
05:40Democrats have responded though in the first six months of this presidency. How do you rate
05:45their response? Because it feels like to a lot of people watching, they don't really have an
05:49alternative. And it's a lot of, we hate this because Donald Trump is trying to do it. What do you think
05:54of how they've reacted? When you look at Democrats approval rate in this country, when you look at
05:58Republicans approval rate in this country, you see that Americans are just fed up with it all.
06:02Like Democrats suck. We know that already though. You know what I mean? So it's like,
06:05I knew that Trump would probably get in office again and fumble, but I also knew that Democrats
06:10wouldn't have the team put together properly to recover the ball. So what you're seeing right now
06:15from just American people is just a backlash to everything. People want something different.
06:21Well, when I was on your show back, and I think it was October of last year,
06:25you told me that you would have been happy to have voted for Kamala Harris as the nominee for the
06:31Democrat party. I want to ask you, do you still feel that way? Do you think she was the best
06:36representative and the best person for the Democrats in their chance to have a president
06:41this term? Yes. I would have voted for, I mean, I did vote for like president Kamala Harris,
06:45but absolutely. Because I mean, if you look right now, she's looking pretty, pretty good because a lot
06:49of the things that she said, you know, uh, president Trump would do, he actually did. And you know,
06:54I did a segment on the daily show, you know, after he became president and I was like,
06:57prove people wrong. Everything that everybody is saying about you, everything that they say
07:02you're going to do, all you got to do is simply not do, but he did it anyway. Well, let me ask you,
07:08not like he was listening to me. I'm just simply saying, he listens to everyone. He takes input
07:11from all around. So Kamala Harris, listen to this. She now says that she is not going to seek
07:17becoming governor of California. Here's her statement. He says for now, my leadership and public
07:22service will not be an elected office. I look forward to getting back out and listening to the American
07:27people helping elect Democrats across the nation who will fight fearlessly and sharing more details
07:32in the months ahead about my own plan. Charlemagne, if you look at what, uh, Democrat primary voters
07:40think about some of the candidates, look at where Kamala Harris falls. She's number two
07:45right here behind Pete Buttigieg. Do you think she should run for president again?
07:50I mean, she can do whatever she wants. Uh, I don't personally know if I would run for president,
07:56if I was her. And if she does, she has to get a real connection with the people. I think that's
08:01something that she's always been missing. Um, if you look at from 2020 to now, whenever you see her,
08:06it always seems like it's transactional, right? Like she ran for president. So she was trying to get,
08:10you know, people's attention for that. Then she became vice president and she became the actual nominee.
08:15People have never seen the VP just out having a conversation, doing what she says she wants to
08:21do right there, which is just being of, of, of service to the people in that way. And I think
08:24she just needs to need to establish a real connection with the people. I think any of those
08:28candidates that are attempting to run, need to establish a real connection with the people.
08:31And I think that you do it by doing things like this. Like, you know, you have to show up
08:36to the Fox news of the world. You have to show up to the Joe Rogan of the world. Hell,
08:40I think that in 2000, uh, you know, 28 really now until 2028, they should have their own platforms.
08:46They should be launching their own podcast. Should she have done Joe Rogan?
08:49She definitely should have done Joe Rogan. I told her that personally, but more importantly,
08:52I think now they should be launching their, their own podcast. You know, like, you know,
08:56I gotta give people like Gavin Newsom props. I gotta give people like Nikki Haley props,
08:59even though I don't like Gavin Newsom's podcast, but the fact he has established his own platform and
09:04the fact people like Nikki Haley have established their own platform. That is how you're going to connect
09:08with people, uh, moving forward. Well, I was going to ask you, what advice would you overall
09:13give Democrats? Sounds like for potential presidential nominees, you'd say they need
09:17to connect more with people. What overall advice would you give the party? Uh, you gotta throw the
09:21old regime completely under the bus. Like, you know, whatever, you know, whoever is going to be
09:26leading the party moving forward, whoever says that they're going to be the face of the party moving
09:31forward. God knows New York. His morning show, the breakfast club is a cultural institution in this
09:37city. And he's watching closely as a self-proclaimed socialist Zoran Mamdani gets within reach of Gracie
09:44Manchin. But here's the question. When did the rent is too high become a Trojan horse for radicalism?
09:51When did progressive slogans start replacing actual solutions? As Mamdani gains traction and the
09:57Democratic Party scrambles to find its soul, even Charlemagne is asking whether the language they're using
10:03is helping anyone or just driving voters away. Here's more of our exclusive sit down.
10:10Well, let me ask you about that, because it seems like the new face of the party
10:14is a guy who just won the Democrat primary here in New York City, Zoran Mamdani.
10:18You think he's the face of the party?
10:19Well, he seems to be the one who is out front. You have Mamdani, you have AOC,
10:25but who is really the leader of the Democrat Party? I don't think they have one.
10:28Exactly. So is this the person who they should be championing? And is this the right leadership
10:35for New York City, do you think? I don't think it's about individuals. I think it's about ideas. And I
10:39think, you know, what he's presenting as far as just simply talking about affordability. That's it.
10:45Nothing more, nothing less. You know, when you hear somebody go out there and say, hey, look,
10:49the groceries are too damn high in New York City. The rent is too damn high in New York City. New
10:53York City is not affordable. Anybody who goes out anywhere in this country and has that message
10:59is going to be effective. That's what President Trump did. President Trump did the same exact
11:03thing. He went out there and he said it himself. I won this election because of one word, groceries,
11:08because people are out here hurting. People are out here starving.
11:10Well, but the real question is, will socialism be the way?
11:14I don't like the word socialism.
11:16Well, but he calls, he says that that's what he's for, right?
11:18I know. And if you watch him on Breakfast Club, I told him, I said, Democrats,
11:21y'all come up with, you know, all types of language for all types of other stupid stuff,
11:24right? Like pregnant people and, you know, whatever it is.
11:27Birthing people.
11:28Yeah, all of that, all of that.
11:29They need a new term then. You don't like socialism.
11:31You need a new term for socialism. But I think affordability is actually the right term.
11:34When you're speaking to people's pockets, people will always hear you,
11:37because that is something I don't care if you're black, white,
11:39gay, straight, regardless of what your party is, your religion is. If you are a person who is,
11:43we want two things in America. We want more money in our pocket,
11:47and we want to feel safe. If you can speak to that, you will always connect with people.
11:51Well, it's funny you bring up feeling safe, because he also has said things like that he
11:55wants to potentially replace some of our NYPD officers with social workers. Listen to this
12:01soundbite, though, from him, because he sort of flip-flops. 2021, he says one thing about the
12:06police. Take a listen to this. When we talk about defund the NYPD, the entirety of the push is
12:14defund the NYPD and refund all of these different social services and things that actually create
12:20safety. I am not defunding the police. I am not running to defund the police.
12:24All right. Well, obviously, Charlemagne, he says he's not into defunding the police,
12:29but you heard from him not long ago there. You know, I think the question a lot of people here in
12:34New York have is how do we make our streets safer when you've already seen a lot of money
12:39taken away from the NYPD, right? You've seen their budget paired back because you had a huge budget
12:44for the illegal immigrants here in the city. You've seen that you've had a lot of people retiring.
12:50Does that make you feel good as someone who works here in New York City? Well, he said it right there,
12:54you know, and that's that's another slogan that they need to get rid of, right? Defund the police. But
12:58he said it refund social services. Like, you know, whenever people have these conversations about
13:02defunding the police, what they're talking about is just take some of that, those, you know,
13:06hundreds of millions of dollars, billions of dollars that are being put into the police
13:09departments and put them into things that can actually make our community safer. Like, you know,
13:13he was on Breakfast Club and he talked about pairing, you know, mental health professionals
13:18with police officers, because that's what you need sometimes. Like, if I'm a police officer,
13:21I'm not equipped to go out there and deal with somebody who's having a mental health crisis.
13:24And then, you know, because I fear for my life, this person might attack me. I shoot them,
13:29I kill them. You know, now it's a big, a big, a big controversy. When the reality is,
13:33pair them with people who actually do that work so you can prevent, you know, some of those type
13:38of things. And also, man, put money in those communities to give these kids something to do.
13:42Like, you know, these kids are going to resort, you know, to crime and other things if they don't have,
13:46you know, you know, community centers, if they don't have access to trade school, if they don't have,
13:51you know, food in their stomach. Like, I completely understand it when he says,
13:55you know, refund social services. That's the thing that we need to hear.
13:59Yeah. And I, I finally think a lot of people agree with that, but not at the deficit to
14:04our police force. I think you probably can do both.
14:06I want police officers to make more money. Like, you know, if, if, if, if, if,
14:10these police departments are getting billions and billions of dollars, it's not even going into
14:14the police officers pockets most of the time. So where is it going? So if you're spending all
14:17this money on the police departments and you're, you're militar, militarizing the police,
14:21what are you doing that for? Maybe if you put more money in the police officers pockets,
14:25maybe some of them will be happy. Another conversation that we've been having is like,
14:28you know, we talk about pairing police officers with mental health professionals. What about
14:31police officers, mental health police officers are human too. They're dealing with all types
14:35of issues. Sometimes they have to go out and go into these communities and they might be
14:38projecting the pain and the hurt that they're feeling onto other people, abusing their power.
14:42So, you know, I think that there is a way to, you know, please all parties in that situation,
14:47but we got to start talking about what the root, you know, causes of these problems are. I think we get
14:52too caught up in. He also said while hostage talks are deadlocked, Hamas is, quote,
14:58ready to demilitarize. 50 Israeli hostages remain in Gaza, but only about 20 are believed to still be
15:04alive. The Senate confirming Janine Pirro, Washington, D.C.'s top prosecutor, the one-time New York judge,
15:13prosecutor and former Fox News host has served in the role on an interim basis since May.
15:19Pirro was one of over 150 outstanding nominees on the Senate's calendar. With Senate Democrats trying
15:25to block Trump's nominee, her confirmation made it just before lawmakers head home until September.
15:31I'm Jenny Painter. Now back to My View with Laura Trump.
15:40So, as it turns out, when you build your entire show around sneering at half the country,
15:46audiences eventually tune out. Just ask the late show host Stephen Colbert. And then there's The View,
15:52where diversity somehow means only inviting left-wing guests. It begs the question, is there still
15:59appetite for civil discourse and apolitical entertainment? Or has the liberal echo chamber
16:04become the norm? Well, Charlemagne certainly has some thoughts.
16:08I give you a lot of credit because you have had me on your show. You have people with differing
16:17viewpoints on a lot of different things on your show. And Charlemagne, I think we need more of that.
16:22Absolutely.
16:22You know, you look though at things like, take a look at these numbers. This is The View.
16:27The View had since January, from January until July, look at that, zero conservatives and 102
16:36left-leaning guests.
16:37Is that real?
16:39That's real. And this is ABC News. And listen to what ex-reporter Terry Moran had to say. He said,
16:45but we were biased. Yes. Almost inadvertently, I'd say ABC News has the same problem so many
16:52leading cultural institutions do in America, a lack of viewpoint diversity. It's no secret there are
16:57hardly any people who supported Donald Trump at ABC News or other corporate legacy mainstream news
17:03networks. How important do you think it is to have different viewpoints and allow people? I mean,
17:10you're here on my show. I appreciate that. And vice versa, you had me on yours. This is important.
17:14I think it's very important because I think a lot of times people talk about folks they never talk to.
17:19Yeah. And if you think that a person is spreading misinformation, if you think that a person is
17:24lying, then, you know, bring them on your platform and have that conversation. Like, you know,
17:28present the facts, present the truth, and then let the people decide. I think that's ridiculous to
17:35never, ever have anybody on your show that you, you know, don't agree with or have an opposing view
17:41of you from a different political party. But at the end of the day, man, regardless of who's in the
17:45White House, that person represents all of America. Amen. And I reserve the right to criticize
17:50both parties. Well, Ann, I would say that person is a representative of America and we should all want
17:56that person to succeed for America, right? No matter your political viewpoints, right?
18:02A hundred percent agree. Like, when you ask me, you know, what do I think Trump has done,
18:06President Trump has done over the last six months, I don't want to say that I think he did a terrible
18:10job. But if he's doing a terrible job, I got to call it like it is. And if it was a Democrat.
18:15I respectfully disagree with you on that. But that's okay. You can have your viewpoint.
18:19But if it was, I gave President Biden the same hell too, you know, because I didn't think he was doing a
18:23good job. All we want is somebody in those positions that's going to do a good job. I'm
18:27not a party person in no way, shape or form. I want to say I'm an independent, but that don't
18:31make no sense because there's only two parties in this country, right? So you're going to end up
18:34voting for one of them. Yeah. Do you see yourself in 2028 voting blue or voting red? And is there
18:40anyone you might already see yourself supporting? I really don't know. I mean, I think that there's some
18:46good candidates out there. You know, I think that we really have to look to the governors when it comes to
18:51the Democrats. I don't think that there's any like good evening. I want to take you on a journey
18:55across continents tonight, a narrative shaped by violence, government breakdown, civilian silence,
19:01and small sparks of defiance from city streets in America to state repression in Iran and sudden
19:07bloodshed in Thailand. This is a story about the fragile fault lines between people in power.
19:12We begin in downtown Cincinnati, where a late July vigil devolved into chaos. A man and a Russian
19:18woman, known in media as Holly, were ambushed by what appears to be a coordinated group.
19:23Among an estimated sky-high crowd, only one person dialed 911, long after most bystanders dispersed.
19:31Footage shows Holly being sucker punched, knocked unconscious, bleeding heavily. Investigators
19:36arrested five suspects, including Montianez Merriweather, 34, Jermaine Matthews, 39,
19:41and DeCaira Vernon, 24. Police allege Merriweather and Matthews planned the ambush.
19:47Cincinnati Councilwoman Victoria Parks sparked outrage by posting that the victims begged for
19:52that beatdown, prompting calls for her resignation. Conservatives argue that if roles had been reversed
19:57racially, national media would have reacted differently. Deutsche Welle, the star.
20:03Meanwhile in Iran, the state is flexing its power by severing nearly all avenues of communication.
20:08In June 2025, amid escalating war with Israel, Iranian authorities imposed a nationwide internet blackout,
20:15dropping connectivity by 97 percent. Citizens were effectively isolated from the world even as
20:21airstrikes rocked the country. Many people abroad, like a young woman named Shirin, described the
20:26passing days of silence as psychological warfare, waiting in dread outside what felt like an invisible
20:32operating room, Wikipedia plus one, the national plus one. The blackout wasn't Iran's first. Similar
20:39censorship reoccurred during the Masa Amini protests in 2022, when social media and messaging apps like
20:46Instagram, Telegram, and WhatsApp were blocked. The regime relies on this digital control blocking VPNs,
20:52monitoring domestic traffic, limiting access to foreign media, all implemented through deep packet
20:58inspection and national internet systems. Reddit plus three Wikipedia, plus three Wikipedia plus three.
21:05Despite this, citizens resist. Protesters craft graffiti, raise green slogans, broadcast defiance
21:11via satellite apps, bypassing censorship. Hacktivists like Anonymous have even released personal data
21:16of MPs in solidarity with dissenters. Incidents like these signal a refusal to disappear in digital
21:22darkness. Reddit plus one. Reddit plus one. Then, across Southeast Asia and Bangkok, tragedy struck on
21:29July 28th at Or Tor Khor Market. A former employee allegedly holding a long-standing grudge against
21:35security staff opened fire at lunchtime. By the time local police responded, five people lay dead,
21:40including four security guards and a female vendor. Two others were wounded. The attacker later killed
21:46himself. Eyewitness video shows him walking calmly through the parking lot, dressed in shorts and a
21:51backpack strapped to his chest firearm in hand. Authorities continue to probe motives, and though
21:57the shooting occurred near Thailand, Cambodia border tension relief point's early findings suggest
22:02a personal dispute. Not political conflict. Deutsche Welle. Plus 13. Euronews.com. 13. People.com. 13.
22:10Gun violence in Thailand, while not routine, has reappeared disturbingly in recent years. A 2022
22:17nursery massacre 2023, teen mall shooting and earlier rampages by disgruntled soldiers. Experts worry about
22:24lax enforcement mental health gaps and the risk to tourism and publictrustreuters.com.
22:30What does this trio of crises reveal? In Cincinnati societies, apathy and fear are on display.
22:35Recording takes priority over recalling or reporting. A crowd of witnesses stays silent while violence
22:41consumes helpless victims. In Iran, state repression through digital blackout severs civilians from
22:47the outside world and each other. It's a controlled suffocation where silence becomes the enemy and
22:51speech a guarded weapon. In Thailand, an unresolved personal grudge escalates into a public tragedy.
22:58Societal safeguards, mental health, workplace resolution, gun control are visibly fractured.
23:03Chaos erupts where order fails. But here's the thread linking these stories. When institutions fail,
23:08violence fills the void, whether through mob attacks, state suppression, or individual revenge.
23:12Yet, there is hope people still film, still chant, still strike, even when governments demand silence.
23:18They speak, even when technology is turned off. They protest, even when cameras are forced down.
23:22Watching these events as a single unfolding moment, you sense a global pattern. A commonplace
23:27is violence, born from breakdown, broken social contracts, broken communication, broken empathy,
23:33and the antidote citizen responsibility. If you witness injustice, call for help. If you see
23:37oppression shouted out. When institutions crumble, the citizens must hold the line,
23:42even if only by refusing to look away. In streets or under blackout, in market chaos,
23:46or courtroom delays, the choice is not only to survive but to insist on decency amid disorder.
23:53Thank you for staying with me through this global journey of unrest silence and the flicker of
23:57resistance across cities, regimes, and markets. Meanwhile, discussions surrounding Trump's tariff
24:02policies and domestic economic impact continue. While some Republicans praise his approach for
24:07revitalizing American manufacturing, Democrats argue that the strategy is raising prices and stalling
24:13job growth. The recent jobs report showing lower than expected hiring numbers has prompted further debate.
24:19In response, Trump fired Erica McIntyre, head of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics,
24:25accusing her of releasing inaccurate data that favored Democrats.
24:28Democrats. In a parallel move, Trump's administration has also cut funding for the
24:33Corporation for Public Broadcasting, prompting warnings that rural PBS stations may be forced
24:38to shut down. As the nation watches all these developments unfold, it's clear that the United
24:43States stands at a critical crossroads, both domestically and on the world stage.
24:48The future of the Democratic Party remains uncertain, divided between moderates, progressives,
24:53and legacy figures, while Trump continues to assert a bold and often unpredictable vision for American
24:58leadership. Whether that vision results in peace or further escalation remains to be seen.
25:04It's Friday, which means it's time for Greg Gutfeld's primetime roast and political commentary
25:08session, an unapologetically edgy hour where no one is safe from the punchline. Greg kicked off the
25:13show by announcing he hadn't received applause like that since his grave-robbing days before welcoming the
25:18panel Fox & Friends first co-host Todd Pirro comedian Joe DeVito and outnumbered co-host Emily Campagno,
25:24three personalities known for both sharp wit and willingness to drop puns faster than falling
25:29elevator doors. The night's opening segment, Greg's Leftovers, was a hilarious buffet of jokes
25:34that missed the nightly broadcast, setting the tone as Greg teased that if the jokes failed,
25:39they'd send Joe Machi, aka the nanny, straight to Kamala Harris's doorstep. Touché.
25:44From there, Greg raced through current events. New York Governor Kathy Hochul had declared a state
25:48of emergency over flooding, Greg quipped. Half the water was caused by this man's tears
25:53referencing unnamed political figures. His next target, Kamala Harris, fresh from Stephen
25:58Colbert's late-night couch where she reportedly said she never aspired to be president, a statement,
26:03Greg ridiculed by pointing out how sometimes dreams don't come true, yet you still end up vice
26:09president. He moderated that Harris's favorite motivational quote,
26:12Don't let people tell you who you are. Contrasted sharply with the jokey,
26:16insecure confession her mother quipped, By the way, you're adopted.
26:20Then he moved to Senator Warren's latest Senate floor Lady Fall. Joking her new Native American
26:25name is Falls on Axe, he lampooned Trump's attempt to reclaim the Redskins football name,
26:29calling it if, when, or how, presidential edition. A study on Ozempic preventing erectile dysfunction
26:35earned a trademark Gutfeld gag. If your wife is fat and takes Ozempic in a few months,
26:39you no longer have a dysfunction. Cringe laugh gold, no topic was safe.
26:45Greg mocked outrage over Sydney Sweeney ads as promoting eugenics ridiculed,
26:49woke revolts over chip slogans and lampooned Abercrombie's plus-size model campaign,
26:55joking viewers panicked, wondering if somebody ate Sydney Sweeney. Greg's disdain for fake holidays
27:00was unfiltered. National Orgasm Day. I'm so tired of these fake holidays. I feel dirty,
27:07he groaned. Then came the presidential fitness test redux. Teachers are excited,
27:12Greg joked, because now students will have better stamina during sex. Scientists saying embarrassment
27:17is good, Greg retorted, they should host a morning show to prove it. The absurdity piled up Minnesota's
27:22infamous Axe murderer released due to a progressive law, Greg quipped. Were they just letting him go on
27:27his period? A Spirit Airlines passenger banned for cosmetic surgery, then allowed back after
27:32claiming her face as luggage audience roared. Next, the spotlight returned to Kamala's much-hyped
27:37memoir, 107 Days. Greg summarized her Colbert appearance by saying,
27:42This book is about her campaign. It's called 107 Days. You'll find it in bookstores that is
27:45right between Mitt Romney's March and the Ford Pinto, America's classic disaster. He joked each page
27:51hits like a concussion, and Todd Pirro added that she'd built a career off the very system she now
27:56claims to reject accumulating wealth from it. The result, an awkward disconnect between her
28:00rhetoric and reality. While Colbert mourned the lost hope of her campaign, Greg snarked,
28:05What country is he talking about noting the current border crisis and economic stumbles?
28:09His metaphor, two Siamese twins at the altar, completely deflated. Greg imagined Democrats
28:15scrambling to monetize their losses. Kindle specials, speaking gigs, Patreon pages. If the donor
28:21money returns, he scoffed to Pirro. She'll come back to the system faster than you can say she'll
28:26run again.
28:28Are they in London?
28:30Then came a surprise crossover announcement. Greg revealed he's appearing next week on The
28:34Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and the Jonas Brothers, the biggest crossover since the
28:38Harlem Globetrotters visited the Golden Girls. He quipped that he was once in the band but got
28:42kicked out for being too hot.
28:44Fallon, he added, dared to humanize Trump by messing up his hair, which is apparently
28:48unforgivable in liberal hive mind circles. Greg joked that if Fallon wants to run his
28:53fingers through his hair again, he'll welcome it after all last time it got him into the White House.
28:56The panel chimed and Todd repeated his take that Harris' rejection of the system is ironic given
29:01she built her career and fortune through it. Emily described the contradictions in Harris' activism,
29:07and Joe humorously compared 107 days to a Judy Blume novel nobody asked for. They agreed the
29:14only reason Harris might return politically is that the Democratic bench is shallow if the
29:18donors circle back she's back in the game. Greg wrapped up the segment with his signature
29:22blend of self-deprecation and political punchlines. He teased Todd for wearing a Miami realtor outfit,
29:28suggested Joe was scouted by the Jonas for his charm and threw shade at a book call. He got rich off
29:33the system he's now veering against, but he'll run again if the checks come in. In classic Greg style,
29:39the night ended with equal parts mockery and reflection. Whether skewering political vanity,
29:44cultural absurdities, or the endless cycle of media-driven fake news holidays,
29:48Goodfeld delivered an unrelenting burst of satire, perfect for anyone seeking sharp
29:52laughs with a side of political criticism. Ladies and gentlemen, let's talk about that awkward
29:57little media moment we all witnessed recently, Kamala Harris appearing on Stephen Colbert's
30:02now cancelled show, promoting a book that, let's be honest, not even she seems to have read.
30:07I watched the interview, if you can call it that, and I kept asking myself was this supposed to be
30:11inspiring because it felt more like a therapy session for two people who refuse to accept the
30:15reality that the country has moved on. Kamala sat there, trying to appear thoughtful and reflective,
30:20but it was the same tired talking points we've heard for years. That weird tone, the awkward laughter
30:25at all the wrong times, and when she said nobody can ever take your power from you, I almost choked on my
30:30coffee. Kamala, the system you're criticizing, that's the same system that artificially propped
30:35you up in the first place. You didn't rise because of grassroots support. You were installed,
30:40not elected, so spare us the empowerment speech. And then Stephen Colbert, with the sincerity of a
30:45man who just realized his ratings never bounced back, says to her, wasn't it joyful? Wasn't there
30:50so much hope during your campaign? And Kamala gave him a look like he was speaking a foreign language.
30:55Joyful hopeful, her campaign didn't even survive the primaries. Joyful for who? The other 15 Democrats
31:02she cleared the path for by stepping down early. And the book, oh, don't get me started on the book.
31:07She kept repeating the word book like it was some magical key to political resurrection.
31:12I talk about that in the book. The book is about that, that you have to read the book. Look, if you need
31:16to say the word book 12 times in one sentence, you're either stalling for time or trying to convince
31:22yourself that it matters. She told a personal story in the interview, something about her
31:26birthday being in October and her husband, Dougie dropping the ball. Oh, that was the highlight,
31:31folks. The big reveal. That's what we waited for. A sad story about an October birthday
31:36and a forgotten gift. And here's the kicker. I don't think even she read the book. I have a theory
31:41that thing is just a hollowed out copy filled with a flask of Southern comfort and a note that says,
31:46sorry, America. I tried. Look, I'm not here to just dump on Kamala for the sake of it. But this whole
31:52charade, the fake gravitas, the pretense of reflection, the desperate attempt at a political
31:56comeback, it's just tired. And the fact that the only person willing to interview her is a guy who
32:01doesn't even have a show anymore. That says it all. So no, I won't be reading the book. I'll wait for
32:06the audio book narrated by the last voter who actually supported her if they're still around.
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