Speaker 1: So Happy President's Day to everyone, Yes, the ones who
love me and the ones, well, let's just say who don't. Usually,
on Monday mornings, I like to take stock of what
happened over the weekend. And after doing that, what I
like to do is to analyze, right, all of the
deranged behavior, all of the nonsense, all of the chaos
that we have to deal with on a day to
day basis. And right now, nobody understands chaos more than me.
All right, And while I still will do that, I
do actually want to look through the lens of a
past president. And I'm talking about Barack Obama. Why do
I say that, Well, I say it because this weekend,
not the Obama's. They spend some time together. Right. They
went to, for example, an NBA All Star Game and
they received a standing ovation. Play the clip. Okay, now,
let's acknowledge that took place in Los Angeles, California. Right.
But here's the thing. Many people during Barack Obama's presidency
did not actually like him, who resided in California. But
yet yet they had the what they had, the respect,
the decency to applaud. Unfortunately, the same is not given
to Trump. It's not given to Vance. It's not given
to the other people in the administration, who receive consistent
booze at just about every single event that they attend.
But not only did Obama get a standing ovation, he
actually was calmly joking around with Reggie Miller. Play that clip.
Speaker 2: I want to shift to Chicago.
Speaker 3: You mentioned the nineties, your time there and that run
by Michael Jordan's innis Chicago.
Speaker 2: Do you have a favorite moment during.
Speaker 3: That time in Chicago during the nineties. I always enjoyed
watching US beat Indiana. Oh my goodness, although I wouldn't
do that to me, although I will say that nobody
terrified me more that Reggie Miller where the possible three
points shot at the end of the game. You did
push off, Michael on that one player, MoMA, mister president.
Everybody knows if you push off in the Utah. Right.
They didn't all it, right, No, right, we gave it
to you. We had to come back in game seven
though it didn't happen.
Speaker 2: We didn't happen, you know.
Speaker 1: There there says something about Barack Obama forgetting about even
just being a former president of the United States. He
actually has a pretty decent ability. He has a good
ability within which to interact with people, because it wasn't
just Reggie Miller that he was interacting. He was interacting
with people the audience. He was interacting with NBA's Anthony Davis,
who literally turned around and said that Obama was actually
his favorite person in the world and that they hung
out the day prior. I mean, just imagine a star
athlete saying that play the clip.
Speaker 2: I know you've met him before, but the President Obama
was the Obamas was here.
Speaker 4: Did that give you any extra motivation to play any
harder tonight?
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure you are.
Speaker 2: We got to put on a show for he my
favorite person in the world. We was kicking it yesterday,
me and him.
Speaker 3: I had a great time yesterday, so I told him
I was gonna put on the show for him.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, honestly, it's warm, it's nice. Maybe it's
also the manner to which Barack Obama, I don't know,
handles things and he just seems to be mellow. Now
was he mellow when he was president? Well, let's just
say mellower than what we're currently you know, having to
deal with. But yesterday, let me show you what former
President Obama posted about how sports can actually be used
to bring us all together. Wouldn't that be special? Play
the clip.
Speaker 5: Sports can bring the world together. But right now we're
in the middle of the Olympics, it's worth reminding us.
We saw it in Paris that when you watch the
US team and play in Paris, and the Serbian teams
and the French teams, and you're reminded of what the
Dream Team did to inspire all that. And and you
saw the French fans when Steph was hitting those threes,
and they're they're mad, but they can't be too mad
because it is such as art. It's art and it's joy,
and it binds us together to see human excellence in
that way.
Speaker 2: You know that that's only sports.
Speaker 5: And music and the arts can do that to bind
us together, to remind us of our common humanity. Uh yeah,
that that's uh, that's something we want to we want
to preserve and build up.
Speaker 1: I absolutely agree. I agree with him one hundred percent.
Anything and I mean it, anything that can bind us together,
that could display our humanity for one another. I'm in
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He's phenomenal. Brian Tyler Cohen no relation, even though I
do have a brother named Brian. About Trump's racist post
depicting him and Michelle play the.
Speaker 4: Clip, President, thanks so much for joining me.
Speaker 2: It is wonderful to be here. Brian thank you for
having me.
Speaker 4: So, as you know better than anybody, the discourse has
devolved into a level of cruelty that we haven't seen before.
What was disqualifying just a few years ago now not
only feels fine, acceptable, but actually rewarded. You have administration
officials saying that the victims of ICE's aggression are domestic terrorists.
You have Jade Vance coming out and saying that it's okay,
you don't have to apologize for being white. Just days ago,
Donald Trump put a picture of you your face on
an ape's body. And so again this is you know,
this is kind of we've seen the devolution of the discourse.
How do we come back from a place that we
have fallen into.
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, I think it's important to recognize
that the majority of the American people find this behavior
deeply troubling. You know, it is true that it gets attention,
It's true that it's a distraction. But you know, as
I'm traveling around the country, as you're traveling around the country,
you meet people they still believe in decency, courtesy, kindness,
And there's this sort of clown show that's happening in
social media and on television and what is true is
that there doesn't seem to be any shame about this
among people who used to feel like you had to
have some sort of decorum and a sense of propriety
and respect for the office. Right, So that's been lost.
But the reason I point out that I don't think
the majority of the American people approve of this is
because ultimately the answer is going to come from the
American people. And we just saw this in Minnesota.
Speaker 1: In Minneapolis, No, let me be clear about something, all right,
He's not wrong. The majority of the American people were
really truly offended, as was I about that post. I
was deeply offended. And I'm going to tell you something too.
I don't think that Trump handled this the way that
I know it would have been handled. If we were
at the Trump organization, somebody did that, I know he
would have called the person out and probably shitcanned them
on the spot. It's the lack of decorum. I absolutely
acknowledge and agree with what President Obama is saying, because
truth be told, we are all better than that. This
social media bullshit that goes on these keyboard warriors, these
texting tough guys, the desire to hurt somebody simply because
one you're anonymous and two because you can that somehow
or another. But this is becoming acceptable behavior, and I
want to be honest. Even after listening to Obama sit there,
I don't think if I had a half an hour
to try to write, and some of you who follow
me on substack as well, you know I'm a pretty
good writer, I don't think I could write it with
that type of clarity, with that type of empathy, And
I applaud him for that.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: I also want to say that while Obama did spend
the weekend showing up as one of America's favorite presidents, right,
let me be very clear. Trump was actually meeting with
Liz Truss, who is obviously one of the UK's worst
prime ministers ever, right, who literally tanked the economy there,
and who only lasted a few weeks. Let me show
you what was posted in it. They turned around write
about everything real Donald Trump. You know, let me be
clear about something. It's okay, right, we all know what
she's doing. None of us are stupid here. She's visiting him, clearly,
and she wants something, and so she's playing to his ego. Right,
how many hats have you seen? Trump is right about everything?
Maybe that's why the UK shit canter. And finally, let
me just say that it wouldn't be a chaotic weekend
without some sort of some sort of fighting going on
between two people. This specific time happens to be Trump
and Bill Maher. Let me show you what happened here
in it. It turns around and it says, well, sometimes
in life you waste time. TV host Bill Maher asked
to have dinner with me through one of his friends,
also a friend of mine, and I agreed. He came
into the famed Oval office much different than I thought
he would be. He was extremely nervous, had zero confidence
in himself, and to soothe his nerves immediately within seconds,
asked for a Vodkatonic. He said to me, I've never
felt like this before. I'm actually scared. In one respect,
it was somewhat endearing. Anyway, We had a great dinner.
It was quick, easy, and he seemed to be a
nice guy. And for his first show after our dinner,
he was very respectful about our meeting. But with everything
I have done in bringing our country back from oblivion,
why wouldn't he be? But then I noticed his show
started to devolve into the same old story, very boring
anti Trump, no mention of the perfect border. Lowest crime
in one hundred and twenty five years, the mass removal
of stone cold criminals, the fifty thousand DOLLO, the seven
thousand SMP both highest ever, least number of murders since
nineteen hundred Venezuel of Midnight Hammer Soldomani dead, al Bagdadi dead.
Lowest inflation in years one point two percent the last
three months, the rebuilding of our military, eight war stoppages,
and on and on and on. In any event, it
was a total waste of time for me to have
this jerk at the White House. And last night, after
explaining what a disaster Canadian leaders are to deal with,
how Canada has ripped off the United States for years
on trade but not anymore, I jokingly stated in a
truth that the first thing China will do is terminate
all ice hockey being played in Canada and permanently eliminate
the Stanley Cup. Well, he went on and on, so
did the post which says about the hockey statement, like
what kind of a person would say such a foolish
thing as this, as though I were being serious when
I said it. Fortunately, his television ratings are so low
that nobody will learn about his various fake news statements
about me. He's no different than kimme O, Fallon or Colbert,
but I must admit slightly more talented anyway. Bill Maher
is a highly overrated lightweight and Republicans should stop using
him to show how the Left is coming over our
way are based the greatest of all time? Laughs at
your weakness when you do it. Mar asked me if
he could come back to the White House again and
with his friends, also asked to come to the wonderful
White House Christmas Party, but he didn't. Regardless, I'd much
rather spend my time making America great again than wasting
it on him. Bill continues to suffer from a severe
case of Trump Derangement syndrome TDS, and there's nothing that
will ever be done to cure him of this very
serious disease. Thank you for your attention to this minor matter,
President DJT. Well, let's just say that there is a
difference in I don't know humor as it relates to
former President Obama and current President Donald Trump. No, like
a real serious difference, and as always, thanks for listening.
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