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President-Elect Trump's Conflicts of Interest: The Daily Show - YouTube
Channel: The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
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But clearly, Donald Trump
is the winner of Thanksgiving.
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He's got so much
to be thankful for.
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He ran his campaign
the way he wanted.
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Lots of people want
to give him high fives.
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And he was elected president,
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which means all those
time travelers clearly failed.
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Oh, on top of all of that,
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he'll also be
the first commander-in-chief
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who's doing "president"
as his part-time job.
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WOMAN:<i> Conflicts of interest
between Donald Trump's</i>
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<i> businesses and his presidency
are already sparking talks</i>
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<i> of a constitutional crisis.</i>
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The question arises,
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how are his personal
financial interests
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potentially conflicting
with the national interests
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of the United States?
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That's a very good question.
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A question you'd think
would be answered
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after a 17-month campaign,
a hundred debates
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and 12 billion hours
of press coverage.
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(chuckling):
But, I mean...
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we spent all that time
on e-mails, so, I mean...
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We know so much about e-mails
now-- have you noticed that?
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We know about IMAP,
we know about POP3,
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BleachBits,
and every type of server.
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Hell, we even know
the shape and general size
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of Anthony Weiner's dick.
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But we don't know...
we know almost nothing
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about where Trump's money is.
(laughs loudly)
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-(laughter)
-We... (speaking indistinctly)
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(whooping, applause)
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What we do know, what we do know
is that Trump definitely plans
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on making more.
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NEWSWOMAN:<i> On Friday, the Trump
International Hotel in DC</i>
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<i> entertained a group
of foreign diplomats,</i>
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<i> marketing the new hotel's
exclusive hotel's</i>
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<i> exclusive Townhouse suite.</i>
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<i> Cost per night: $20,000.</i>
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The Secret Service
is considering renting
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an entire floor of Trump Tower
to set up a command post
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for protecting Donald Trump
and his family
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when they're in New York--
this is a plan that would cost
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about a million
and a half dollars a year
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just to rent a floor
of Trump Tower.
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Wow, that's
kind of a dick move, man.
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You're gonna charge rent
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to the people who are there
to keep<i> you</i> alive?
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You're making a profit
off the Secret Service?
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You know, if one of them
takes a bullet for Trump,
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he's probably gonna charge them
for his dry cleaning bill.
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He'll be like,
"You got blood on my suit,
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"and this suit
was made in China, okay?
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You got to pay.
You're gonna pay."
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(applause)
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How can you do that?
I wouldn't be shocked
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if the Secret Service gave Trump
a (bleep) nickname.
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Slum Lord is on the move.
Slum Lord is on the move.
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By the way, don't do that,
Secret Service.
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(quietly):
Do it.
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Now, uh,
in a normal administration,
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the president making money
off the Secret Service
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would be a monumental scandal
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that would dominate the news
for weeks.
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They would probably make
an HBO show about it,
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or at least a Showtime one--
the point is,
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Paul Giamatti would be in it
and it would be amazing.
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But for Trump,
that story doesn't even make
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the front page news, because
just in the last two weeks,
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President-Elect Trump has been
on the phone with world leaders
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every single day--
and it seems like Trump's eye
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is not necessarily
on the right ball.
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For instance, in Argentina,
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Trump's companies
have been struggling
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to get their permits for
their hundred million-dollar,
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35-story tower
in Buenos Aires, right?
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So when Argentina's president
called Trump
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to congratulate him
on his victory,
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Trump just coincidentally handed
the phone to his daughter,
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who will now be overseeing
his real estate businesses.
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Oh, just out of the blue.
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Just be like,
"Oh, and I appreciate...
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"Oh, look at that.
It's Ivanka, folks.
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"Oh-ho! What are the chances?
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"Oh, now, if you'll<i> permit</i> me,
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"I insist you two<i> build </i>
a friendship together.
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-Tower."
-(laughter)
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In fact,
it seems like every time
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Trump has a conversation
with a foreign official,
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it somehow includes
the business of Trump.
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NEWSMAN:<i> ...Donald Trump
embroiled in a legal fight</i>
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<i> with the Scottish government
over a wind farm</i>
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<i>just offshore ruining the view,</i>
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<i> a fight he lost
less than a year ago.</i>
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NEWSMAN: <i>
Yet shortly after his election,</i>
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<i> he met with British politician
Nigel Farage,</i>
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<i> who helped lead
the Brexit movement,</i>
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<i> and did they discuss
wind farms again?</i>
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<i> Just today, Trump told </i>
The New York Times...
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What do you mean,
you "might have brought it up"?
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This is a question
about international relations,
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and he responds like a character
from a Jane Austen novel.
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"I<i> might</i> have brought it up.
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A lady never tells."
(high-pitched giggling)
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(applause)
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Why... why is
the president-elect
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of the United States stressed
about the view
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from his Scottish golf course?
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You're the president!
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Focus, Donald! Focus!
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Jobs! ISIS! The economy!
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-Focus!
-(laughter)
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Most people see president
as their end goal.
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Trump is like,
"Now that I'm president,
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I can finally be
a successful businessman!"
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-(laughter, applause)
-What are you doing? Focus!
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And look, don't get me wrong,
I'm not saying
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Trump shouldn't make that paper,
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but at least put
America's interests first.
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Because at this rate,
U.S. foreign policy
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might be determined by where
Trump happens to have a hotel.
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It's like the whole world's
a Monopoly board
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and Trump's like,
"Syria, it's fine.
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"I don't have a hotel there.
Russia, you can roll again.
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You can roll again."
I mean, the guy was on a call
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with the president of Turkey,
and he still found the time
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to slip in a good word for
his Istanbul business partner.
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Now-now, here's the thing,
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if Erdogan is nice
to Trump's business partner,
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there's a good chance that Trump
will owe Erdogan in return.
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Which is not good,
for two reasons.
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One, no one wants to picture
Trump and Erdogan
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scratching each other's backs.
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And two, if you owe President
Erdogan a personal favor,
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the favor he calls in,
could be for the U.S.
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to stop supporting his enemies
in the Kurdish militia,
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which are America's
most effective ally
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in the fight against ISIS.
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So Trump's Turkish skyscraper
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could end up
hampering the battle
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against Middle East terrorists.
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And, by the way, if you think
foreign leaders haven't noticed
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where Trump's head is at,
well, think again.
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TV REPORTER:<i> President Rodrigo
Duterte, the Philippine leader,</i>
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<i> had already named Mr. Trump's
business partner in Manila</i>
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<i> as a special envoy
to the United States.</i>
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TV REPORTER: <i>
Mr. Trump has been tied</i>
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<i> to Philippine real estate
magnate, Jose. E.B. Antonio,</i>
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<i> who has been appointed the
country's envoy to the U.S.</i>
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<i> Mr. Antonio is also building
Trump Towers Manila in Makati.</i>
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Oh, would you look at that?
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The man who Trump needs to build
his towers in the Philippines
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is now coming to Washington
asking for favors from America.
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Yeah. So don't be shocked
when Trump goes against Obama
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and says Duterte can go on
killing people in the streets,
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because then Trump will be like,
yeah, you're making a killing,
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I'm making a kill, we're good.
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-We're good.
-(audience exclaiming)
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Being president
of the United States
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is already the hardest job
in the world.
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You don't need somebody
who's distracted
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by picking curtains
for his newest tower.
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And I've picked curtains;
that (bleep) is hard.
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It is so hard, 'cause you have
to pick more than the thing
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than the space and then there's,
like, the one that does that,
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and then there's the hooks,
and if you get the hooks,
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and then you're like,
I didn't know the hooks
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were supposed to go on--
and then the thing's falling,
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and you're like,
I should have got blinds.
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(laughter)
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-It so hard, it's so hard.
-(laughter and applause))
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But all of these things
Trump is doing.
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Just-just think about this,
think about this.
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If, God forbid, if, God forbid,
somebody decided to attack
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one of the Trump Towers
in the world,
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is that an attack on the hotel?
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Or is that now an attack
on America?
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Think about it.
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Because the hotel is owned
by the president of America.
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And you know that Trump
would react to it.
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The guy melts down if someone
insults him on Twitter.
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Is he going to
invade the Middle East
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because someone (bleep)
in his lobby?
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Because I'll tell you now,
I would.
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I'll tell that you straight up.
I'll tell you.
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If I had nuclear weapons,
and you (bleep) in my lobby,
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I hope you (bleep) good, because
that's gonna be the last (bleep)
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anyone in your country
ever takes.
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I'm coming for you man,
don't (bleep) in my lobby.
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Sorry, sorry.
You know what I mean, though.
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Look, the point is,
having a president
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who's trying to run businesses
all over the world
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not only makes for a less
focused president,
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but people who voted for Trump
said they wanted someone
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who would run America
like a business.
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More and more though,
it seems like voters got someone
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who is running America
for<i> his</i> business.
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Maybe you should put that
on a hat.
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