And in the saying of this hatred of Somalians who have come to America, he's also making very clear that there's other countries that he would like to cleanse the United States of.
And in the saying of this hatred of Somalians who have come to America, he's also making very clear that there's other countries that he would like to cleanse the United States of.
But the problem is we always just get these like statements. Trump gets in trouble in the polls. He gets in trouble with his favorability. And then we always see that he brings out the red meat and he throws this out to the base. And it's sort of disturbing that he knows exactly what to say. Like that was a perfect statement that I would love. And so you say to yourself, oh, so you do know how to make us happy.
Trump is saying this stuff that the racists want to hear, but put it on paper, man. Do the thing.
But it's not that far off from stuff he normally says. It's not far off from the rhetoric that is pretty normal in spaces like Alex's show and other right wing media outlets. Like Alex has been saying that Kamala Harris isn't black for a while now. Like this is all pretty regular.
So, you know, while he's saying they were great patriots, those people on January the 6th, they're great patriots.
It's disturbing to me how he got up there before the Iowa caucus and said, this chance, you in Iowa, it's the ultimate chance for you to declare victory. Over the perverts and the Democrats. He starts naming all these groups that he considers not real Americans. And it was a very explicit dehumanization call.
I think this is something that is underreported amongst all of his terrifying words is how much of a pathetic little whiny whiner he is. He's a whiner. He's a whiner. He's a little tiny whiner.
And I want to make a point of this as we close the episode that like, yep, that was on his show and it's scary as hell because Trump just sounds like Alex. Yep. It's fucking terrifying.
To go back a little bit earlier when you showed that image of me getting punched and you were saying, oh, they were creating a dialectic. Well, the fact is Donald Trump created a dialectic. Donald Trump was calling upon race, even if he wouldn't use that word specifically because he told us directly, particularly at the RNC, that I am your man. I am going to stick up for Americans. Americans have dreams too. Immigration is out of control. I'm going to be your guy. This was implicitly, it was explicitly nationalist. And let's be frank, it was implicitly racialist because America has been a white country for its entire political history. That's what Donald Trump was about.
I don't agree with that. He's just calling for unity and saying those that want to divide us and say America's bad or wrong, it's okay for America to exist. And all of our traditions are good and we should celebrate those. But it was a unification event as well. Was up there at the RNC with a rainbow flag, but he also went and marched in pro-life events, something no Republican's done. He's trying to, I mean, he really seems pragmatically trying to be a unifier, but also stand up for human life and get the IRS off church's backs because they have no place being there under the First Amendment.
And really, his rhetoric is basically perfect. He gave him about a 99. My bad.
But at the rally, Trump talked about the idea that after babies are born, they wrap them up, and then the mother and the doctor decide whether or not to execute it. Yeah. And that's mirroring Alex's rhetoric. And Alex isn't alone in those narratives, which aren't real and aren't true at all.
The tweet that Joanne Reid put out was, I believe that she's, I mean, her point was correct. All the tropes that Trump was using in the State of the Union speech were very much hearkening back to a pre-civil rights era. And a lot of his behavior does consistently.
Well, I remember reading something about how... Liberals were triggered that Trump said the word America like 85 times. And it's like, no, we're not triggered.
Him phrasing it that way implies that what he believes or what he would like to express is, hey, everyone's got egg on their face. Mistakes were made on all sides as opposed to, this was a Nazi march. This was a Nazi demonstration and people got killed. There were murders or a murder and...