Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - Don Jr. & Kevin McCarthy On President Trump's Empathy
Aired: 2023-01-27
Duration: 03:34


=== Never Show Empathy (03:34) ===

[00:00:00]  Well, it's also, I mean, it's interesting that you say that story because I hear so many of those from people.
[00:00:04]  And even as I've seen it, whether it's people that have worked with us forever or whatever he's done that's unique.
[00:00:08]  But, you know, actually, I thought it was, you know, perhaps his greatest maybe political weakness was that he never wanted to show his empathetic side.
[00:00:17]  No! I'm dealing with Russia.
[00:00:19]  I'm dealing with Iran. I can't be soft.
[00:00:22]  I'm like, you don't have to be soft with them, but like show that side.
[00:00:26]  But he still had that old school sort of dramatic, like whatever it was.
[00:00:29]  Yeah, I don't know how he grew up.
[00:00:31]  He actually has so much more of that empathy that I think you needed for suburban women.
[00:00:38]  But he was like, nope, we're on a world stage.
[00:00:39]  We are literally, whether we're at war or just...
[00:00:42]  Much closer to it with someone else.
[00:00:44]  I'm never going to show weakness.
[00:00:46]  And I was actually like, man, I wish you would do this.
[00:00:48]  I wish people got to...
[00:00:49]  So we were flying up.
[00:00:51]  We're going to do... He's up for re-election.
[00:00:53]  We're flying up to New Hampshire.
[00:00:55]  He's going to do one of his rallies.
[00:00:57]  As we're going, he gets word that two Americans were killed and their bodies were coming back to Dover.
[00:01:04]  And so we go up to the rally.
[00:01:05]  He walks back to us. He goes, I'm cutting the rally short because I'm going to be there for that family.
[00:01:10]  And so he did the rally.
[00:01:11]  He cut it short. And most of the members stayed.
[00:01:13]  I flew with him. And when you go back to Dover, so I walk in and there are young Marines, a very young mother or wife.
[00:01:21]  She is in a place.
[00:01:22]  She doesn't believe her husband's dead.
[00:01:24]  And he consults her.
[00:01:26]  He goes out to the field.
[00:01:29]  It is raining. You do not have an umbrella.
[00:01:32]  He sits there as a respect for these men who lost their lives.
[00:01:36]  Was he taking his what? Not once.
[00:01:38]  And you know what though? He's consoling the family.
[00:01:42]  We go through all that.
[00:01:43]  We get back on the plane.
[00:01:44]  And he walks in.
[00:01:46]  And this is where he won't ever show.
[00:01:47]  I can see in his eyes.
[00:01:49]  And he said, those men should not have to die in vain.
[00:01:53]  Why do we have...
[00:01:54]  I mean, and this is the part that people don't see, and I wish they did.
[00:01:59]  I've literally tried, but again, you're...
[00:02:00]  You know as a son, you see.
[00:02:01]  But I've watched him, too, the pride he has in his children.
[00:02:05]  And this is what I'll say, too.
[00:02:06]  Look, raising a family is not easy.
[00:02:09]  You know, you're a great father. But they don't see him as a father.
[00:02:12]  They don't see him as a grandfather.
[00:02:13]  I see your kids walk up and...
[00:02:14]  It doesn't matter what they're...
[00:02:16]  But you know what?
[00:02:19]  You think of your life, okay?
[00:02:21]  He was successful. He comes from a successful life.
[00:02:24]  I've watched all you kids as brothers and sisters love one another.
[00:02:29]  You're not into drugs.
[00:02:31]  You don't have problems. You don't have laptops.
[00:02:33]  You don't have these other things. According to the press, I'm really into drugs.
[00:02:37]  No one's ever called me low energy, but I get these.
[00:02:40]  But you know what? I've been around you guys privately.
[00:02:43]  It is a real family that has real love for one another.
[00:02:46]  And really, it stems of what he did as a father.
[00:02:51]  I appreciate that. Yeah, no, I want him to show some of that.
[00:02:55]  But, you know, again, you're not going to...
[00:02:57]  Hey, there were times I probably also didn't want him tweeting.
[00:02:59]  And people are like, have you ever thought about maybe asking him...
[00:03:01]  No, I never thought of that. I never thought of...
[00:03:03]  Everybody would always say that.
[00:03:05]  You're on CNN in 20 minutes.
[00:03:06]  Like, what are the talking points? It's like, I don't know, man.
[00:03:09]  You're on your own. Just go figure it out.
[00:03:10]  I would tell him this. I would say...
[00:03:12]  We'd be talking, oh, that'd be a good tweet.
[00:03:14]  I said, you know, my mom used to tell me in the summer, if you ate, you had to wait 30 minutes before you get in the pool.
[00:03:20]  Why don't we wait 30 minutes on this tweet?
[00:03:24]  Then he'd look at me and he goes, I wouldn't be sitting in this seat if I took you in the pool.
[00:03:27]  And there's truth to that. That's the other thing that people have got to understand.
[00:03:30]  You sometimes have to take, you know, that good with it.
[00:03:32]  The success comes from it. He was a disruptor.