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Trump and Phil Robertson Freak Out About "Socialism": A Closer Look

Feb 20, 2020
It seems like President Trump is crazy about Democrats running for president. To learn more about this, it's time for "A Closer Look." ♪♪ Trump spoke this morning with religious leaders at the National Prayer Breakfast. It's always a slightly awkward situation for a president who has been married three times, paid money to a porn star to keep quiet about him, and, at best, has probably thumbed through the Bible. "And as everyone knows, God set fire to a bush so he could collect the insurance money and build a casino. It was smart. It was a smart decision." For example, Trump mentioned the problem of human trafficking, and here is his expert diagnosis of what is causing it. -Together we will end the "scorj" of modern slavery which, thanks to the Internet, is at levels that no one can believe.
trump and phil robertson freak out about socialism a closer look
The Internet came along and some good things happened, but some very bad things happened. -Oh, really, Dr. Science? Is that your expert opinion? Did the Internet arrive and some good things and some bad things happen? One of the nice things about the Internet is that you can Google how to pronounce the word "scourge." -Scorj. -Trump then laid out what I guess you could say is his thesis statement for America, what makes our country great. Reagan called it the shining city on a hill and Obama said that America is a place where you can write your own destiny.
trump and phil robertson freak out about socialism a closer look

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And now here are President Trump's thoughts on what makes America great. -America's potential is limitless because our extraordinary people are simply something that is number one. -High words. Just loud words. It's like a guy on a date who has lines played through an earpiece and the transmission cuts out. "You have beautiful eyes and your... nose. Well, I mean, you know, it's your nose, but it's, uh... You have a really cool horn." Trump was trying to live up to the theme of unity that he laid out in his State of the Union address on Tuesday. As we all know, he is incapable of that.
trump and phil robertson freak out about socialism a closer look
Trump always needs something to scare people, and in his speech Tuesday he landed on a new target, warning that Democrats would turn America into a socialist country, prompting some scattered reactions from Republicans in the audience. -Here in the United States we are alarmed by the new calls to adopt

socialism

in our country. -Well guys, you did it. You stopped

socialism

by booing it. It reminds me of Ronald Reagan's famous quote: "Mr. Gorbachev, boo this wall." At least they are making real proposals like Medicare for All. You stole your best political argument from Statler and Waldorf. -Boo! -Boo! -And then...
trump and phil robertson freak out about socialism a closer look
Then, of course, the camera caught the reaction of self-proclaimed democratic socialist Bernie Sanders after Trump promised to prevent socialism from taking root in the United States. -The United States was founded on freedom and independence, not coercion, domination and government control. We are born free and we will remain free. -So it turns out that Statler was in the audience. I mean, that's... that's a real... classic Bernie face. That's the face Bernie makes when he finds out that the restaurant charges for bread. "Bread is supposed to be free! Breadicare for everyone!" I hope you applaud the writer who told me that "Breadicare for All" wouldn't work.
And yesterday, in an interview on CNBC, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin doubled down on Trump's line about socialism, although the way he said it left some people scratching their heads. -The good news is that the American economy is doing great. We continue to have very solid employment figures. I think we've just begun to see the beginning of tax reform. I think you'll see that kick in a lot again. And as the President said last night, his economic program is working. We are not going to return to socialism. -Now, when he says “go back,” he probably refers to President Obama, who was many things, but he was not a socialist.
I mean, first of all, he

look

s at how he dresses himself now. He

look

s like a high-powered sports agent. "LeBron, baby! You're, uh... crushing it." By the time he left the White House, he was cast in a recurring role on "Ballers." And yet... while he complained about socialism in public, Trump also privately claimed that he had predicted the success of one of the most famous self-proclaimed Democratic socialists of the new Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Trump met with news anchors hours before his speech and claimed he was one of the first to spot her political talent and said he had predicted her upset in last year's primaries.
Trump said he knew Ocasio-Cortez had "it," meaning star power. Oh really? Did you predict that one of the country's most charismatic and Internet-famous politicians had star power? I wonder who else he brags about. "You know who I think is going places? Tom Hanks." Trump believes he is good at detecting star power because he believes he has star power, but when people say Trump has it, that's not what they mean. "I'm sorry, but it looks like you have him. And, um... he's gone straight to your brain." Fearmongering about socialism might have worked a few years ago, but it has lost steam now that Republicans have used it again and again.
Take last year's midterm elections, for example. Trump went to Wisconsin, a state he won in 2016, to campaign against Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin, and tried to warn the crowd that Baldwin would support socialized medicine, though he claimed she was trying to be nice about it. -Leah's far-left radical opponent is Tammy Baldwin... ...who wants a socialist takeover of health care. You know, I'm trying to say this very kindly. I'm trying to... Look, normally I would yell, "They want a socialist takeover!" Now I say: "He wants a socialist takeover." I'm trying to be nice. -It's very shocking when he tells people that he pretends to be nice.
It's like Robert De Niro looked at the camera mid-movie and said, "I'm not really in the mafia. I'm pretending. None of this is real." And the attack didn't work. Baldwin ended up winning his race by 10 points, but if he thought billionaire Donald Trump would be the least effective messenger against the supposed dangers of socialized medicine, he would be wrong. Because on Tuesday, Fox Business News found someone who was even worse at it: "Duck Dynasty" star Phil Robertson. Fox had it for some reason, and instead of asking him about something he's qualified to talk about, like duck calls or how to dress if you want to camouflage in a swamp, they asked him about health care policy, and he ended up talking. a crazy rant about Senator Kamala Harris' proposal to eliminate private health insurance.
Even the Fox host who invited him was nervous about how crazy her answers were. -It has been given to us, contrary to what Kamala Harris said. She says, "Elect me and everything will be free. Look, everyone can have their own healthcare. The government will fund everything." What I'm saying is, Kamala, I already have healthcare. God has given it to me. Eternal health. I am guaranteed to be resurrected from the dead. I have life and immortality that God has given me through Jesus Christ. -But people get sick on Earth in human form, so would you advise me... -The temporary respite is not worth it. -The presenter actually had to say: "People on Earth get sick in a human way." I mean, I guess...
I guess after you say that to a guest, your next stop will be your producer's office to say, "Maybe no more forest people?" Also, it's crazy to see a guy say that with a stock symbol underneath it. "Did you get any stock advice today?" "No, but I heard that Phil Robertson will live forever." And by the way, lest you think Fox sought out a normal guy's opinion, Hillbilly Gandalf here supposedly has a net worth of $15 million, plus an extra 38 cents if he ever combs his beard. "Oh!" And yet somehow the fever dream got stranger from there because Robertson continued to claim that people don't need medical care at all and that he was living proof. -I tell you that I have eternal health and it is free.
Doctors can give him a little temporary respite, but they can't save him from physical death. The doctors who treat you also die. Jesus... But you're not discounting that we need... people need healthcare, right? The question is who pays. I didn't have medical care for 50 years. -Well, you look great. The reason they are so scared about Medicare for All is because they know it makes basic sense to people. Most people don't care if it's called socialism or capitalism or whatever. They simply know that it is inherently unfair for mega-millionaires to hoard their wealth while millions of Americans don't even have healthcare.
Ocasio-Cortez made that point in a recent interview, and a Fox News guest mocked her for it. -A system that allows billionaires to exist when there are parts of Alabama where people still get ringworm because they don't have access to public healthcare is wrong. -She's saying, Mark, that she basically doesn't want the kind of poverty that leads to lack of health care to exist... when people, you know, are allowed to have billions of dollars and be big shots, essentially. -Well, first of all, I want to say that the fact is that ringworm is not fatal. I mean, people get ringworm... it's like foot fungus. -"We know that ringworm is not fatal.
For some people, it is a gem." "Will you take this ring and be my swamp bride? I'm never going to die. You can be on my health insurance. I get it from Jesus!" Now, there's a reason, a reason why these guys are crazy about Medicare for All and why most Democrats running for president are in favor of it. It makes basic sense to people. Everyone deserves health care. For a very simple reason, and that is... -People get sick on Earth in human form. -This has been "A

closer

look."

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