Trump鈥檚 Train-Wreck Interview with Jonathan Swan on HBO | The Tonight聽Show - YouTube

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Extreme winds and thousands of power outages,
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Alright. Let's get to some news and jokes.
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Well, guys, everybody is talking about this.
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Last night HBO aired
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Jonathan Swan's interview with President Trump,
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and let's just say it was so bad
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it made his coronavirus briefings look good.
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The interview was such a disaster, at one point FEMA
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showed up and wrapped Trump in a foil blanket.
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You could tell things weren't going well
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because midway through Trump asked
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if he could talk to Chris Wallace instead.
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-Incidentally, I took the test, too,
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when I heard that you passed it.
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-Yeah, how did you do? -It's not the hardest test.
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-No. -The picture --
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-The last -- -It's an elephant.
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-"Well, elephant, doesn't really look like an elephant."
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If you don't know Jonathan Swan,
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he's an Australian reporter, which is fun
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because we got to see a Trump interview
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go down the drain in the opposite direction.
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Trump did so poorly, the only HBO interview
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he'll do now is Elmo's late-night talk show.
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That's right. The interview was on HBO,
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which is why beforehand they showed this graphic.
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Adult content, child language, brief stupidity.
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[ Laughter ]
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The interview started off with Swan asking Trump
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about his response to the coronavirus.
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Let's see how that went.
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-When they hear you say everything's under control,
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don't worry about wearing masks,
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it's giving them a false sense of security.
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-Right now, I think it's under control.
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-How?
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A thousand Americans are dying a day.
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-They're dying, that's true.
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It is what it is.
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-"It is what it is"?
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You're the President of the United States.
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You're not Paulie Walnuts delivering bad news
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to Tony Soprano.
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"Sorry, T, things got a little messy.
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It is what it is, capisce?"
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At funerals while everyone says, "my condolences,"
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Trump's like, "It is what it is."
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"Where are the refreshments?"
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That reminds me of the moment after the attack
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on Pearl Harbor when FDR said, "Eh, what are you going to do?"
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Yep, move over, MAGA. We got a new hat on the market.
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There it is. "It is what it is."
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From there things escalated when Swan directly confronted
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Trump on the country's COVID statistics
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and Trump responded by pulling out a bunch of charts.
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Watch this.
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-United States is lowest in numerous categories.
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We're lower than the world.
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-Lower than the world? -We're lower than --
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-In what? In what?
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-Take a look.
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Right here.
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Look. Here is the United States.
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You have to go by the cases.
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You take the number of cases.
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Look, we're last.
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Meaning we're first. Take a look.
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Again, it's cases.
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-Trump looks like every dad looking at IKEA instructions.
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This one -- hold on, this was the -- wait.
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You put the flugendorf in the flugen.
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No. I'm holding the flugen. How can I put it in the --
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Eventually Trump just tossed 500 pages into the air,
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and when they landed, he was gone.
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[ Laughter ]
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Can we see one of Trump's charts again?
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Swan was like, "Sir, that's just the alignment page
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from your printer." [ Laughter ]
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Okay. So his response to the coronavirus questions
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wasn't Trump's finest moment.
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Let's see if he can bounce back.
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Here's Swan asking about civil rights icon John Lewis.
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-How do you think history will remember John Lewis?
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-I don't know. I really don't know.
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I don't know. I don't know John Lewis.
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He chose not to come to my inauguration.
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-He can hold a grudge, huh?
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You know Trump's probably keeping stimulus checks
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from all the kids who didn't show up
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to his 5th birthday party.
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Trump's upset John Lewis didn't come to his inauguration.
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He was like, "I hope he'd be there.
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I even held 2 million seats open for him."
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If all that wasn't bad enough, for the second time
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in two weeks, Trump was asked for his thoughts
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on Jeffrey Epstein's former associate,
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Ghislaine Maxwell, and once again he said this.
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-She's now in jail. -Uh-huh.
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-Yeah, I wish her well. I'd wish you well.
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I'd wish a lot of people well.
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Good luck.
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Let them prove somebody was guilty.
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Her boyfriend died in jail,
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and people are trying to figure out how did it happen?
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Was it suicide? Was he killed?
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And I do wish her well.
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I'm not looking for anything bad for her.
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-Man, for a guy who owned a bunch of casinos,
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you think he'd know when to stop doubling down.
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Stop wishing her well.
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She's an accused sex trafficker,
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not a kid going off to college for the first time.
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He's so nice to Ghislaine Maxwell,
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which can only mean she went to his inauguration.
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Yeah, a lot of people are calling
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Trump's interview a train wreck.
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And get this. Apparently HBO had to delete some of
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the best moments for time.
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But we managed to get our hands on the footage.
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Check this out.
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-How do you think history will remember John Lewis?
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-John Lewis, look, he didn't come to my inauguration.
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So I'm not a fan.
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The Dalai Lama didn't come either.
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Neither did Mother Teresa.
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She's very mean. Very nasty to me.
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She was.
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I don't anything about John Lewis.
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For me, it goes, person, woman, man, camera, TV,
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and then way down the list maybe John Lewis.
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We'll see.
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-The criticism of you that is most prominent
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is about the communication.
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It's the public health experts saying that it needs
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to be based in reality.
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-Look, it is based on reality.
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What people don't realize is America might have
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a lot of Americans with COVID,
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but we have very few British people with COVID.
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Unlike, by the way, British land.
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No one talks about that.
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You won't report that.
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Well, no, look, look at these -- look at these --
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look at these charts here.
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Very impressive.
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Four colors.
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I walked right into Kinko's, I saw this chart on the wall,
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I said, boom, that's the chart,
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then the Kinko's guy started with all this,
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"Sir, that's just a sample chart to demonstrate our printing,"
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so there may be some problems with Kinko's,
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but we're looking into Staples.
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We're looking into Office Max.
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A lot of people are calling them Stinko's, by the way.
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People are dying. That's right.
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It is, as they say, what it is.
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I love that saying. It is what it is.
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Or as they say in French -- people say, hakuna matata.
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America, excuse me --
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America is far lower than the world.
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-Lower than the world? -That's right.
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When other countries look at us, they think, America,
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lower than the world.
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You know, we have some of the best doctors around.
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Great doctors.
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Some even women doctors.
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I call them nurses.
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-The other day a reporter asked you about Ghislaine Maxwell.
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You said, "I just wish her well, frankly."
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-I do. I do wish her well.
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I wish a lot of people well.
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I actually sent her something at, you know, the jail.
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It was a bear, or as we call it, a Build-A-Bear,
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and when you squeeze its hand, it says,
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"Shh, snitches get stitches."
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Excuse me. Excuse me.
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What even is Axios?
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When I said I'd do this, I thought I was going
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to be interviewed by a cologne bottle I saw at Neiman Marcus.
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Axios by Jimmy Choo.
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Sometimes I could put my -- I'll put my hands out like this.
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Sometimes I give you two palms.
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Sometimes I go in, out, in, out, in, out.
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-Sir, the the question was how will you ensure hospitals
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don't reach capacity?
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-Well, no, look at these.
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These are the latest numbers, Jonathan.
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Maybe you have more up-to-date numbers.
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You're Australian.
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I know Australia is, what, one day ahead
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or is it two days ahead?
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I haven't been to Europe in a long time.
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Who are you with again?
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Axios Hollywood?
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Why didn't they send Mario Lopez?
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I love Mario Lopez.
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Everyone loves Mario Lopez.
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-Interesting interview.
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Yeah, it was a rough night for Trump.
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Unfortunately, things didn't get much better for him today.
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During a bill signing, he was talking about national parks,
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and he had a little trouble reading the word Yosemite.
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Watch this.
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-We want every American child
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to have access to pristine outdoor spaces.
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When they gaze upon Yo-semite's towering sequoias.
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-"America's full of beauty, from Yo-semite's..."
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"...National Park to the mighty Miss-peepee River.
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"To the Appalachian Mountains to New York's Viagra Falls."
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[ Laughter ]
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Alright. Let's get to some other news.
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Listen to this. I saw that Kraft is replacing the word dinner
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with breakfast on its iconic blue macaroni and cheese box.
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Look at this.
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Yeah. For breakfast. Yeah.
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I'm excited about it because now I can finally stop
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melting Kraft singles on my Cheerios.
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[ Laughter ]
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Meanwhile, Velveeta is like,
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"Who knew we'd be the classy brand?"
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Mac and cheese for breakfast.
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In a related story, the C.E.O. of Kraft
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must be going through a divorce.
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And finally, this isn't good. At a museum in Italy,
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a tourist snapped three toes off a 19th century statue
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while posing for a photo.
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Here's the moment where it happened.
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Check it out. Oh, yeah.
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When the security guard saw three toes on the floor,
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he was like, "Okay, which three statues
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are missing their penises?"
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Afterwards the tourist was like, "It is what it is."