Holy Sh*t He Can’t Walk

Donald Trump can't walk anymore, and it's the reason that he kicked Politico, CNN and MS now out of the White House. It is because Donald Trump is terrified of anyone seeing how bad his health is. He hates it. He hates it. When they catch him sleeping every day in the Oval Office, when they zoom in on his bruised hand, Donald Trump just can't stand the fact that the press is giving any coverage because it is certainly not enough to his cognitive and physical decline. Which is why today, I don't just want to talk about Donald Trump stumbling across the red carpet as he approached Xi Jinping with a very disturbed millennia at the White House. By the way, he's probably getting paid big bucks to stick around for two days in a row. It's a little bit shocking, but we're going to talk about everything. We're going to talk about how Donald Trump's health is crumbling, how we saw it today, why the press needs to cover it more, and why that's the reason that Donald Trump is still mad with him. Because after losing, losing his lawsuit last night, losing a lawsuit last night, which meant the press had to have their access return to the White House, Donald Trump is still blocking MS now, Politico and CNN. Now, of course, it didn't stop the events that we're going to check out in just a second from being captured on camera, but we have to start here because we now know the reason why. We're going to get into it, but let's start on the ground. MS now, White House reporter Laura Lopez-Lara. So, good to see you. So, walk us through what just happened there in terms of how you were denied access to the White House despite the corridor coming down late last night. What was said to you by Secret Service or any other White House officials? Right. Jonathan. So, I showed up here on this corner of 17th and Pennsylvania, like I often do every morning if I come to the White House. And I made it past the first perimeter fencing that has Secret Service. You can see it there, it's a little bit more fortified right now because of Xi Jinping's visit, the Chinese president, but I flashed my badge, my White House hard pass. I was allowed through the first perimeter fencing, then I went to the press pass security HUD. Again, made it through the gate, went into the HUD where there are the magnometers, the scanner that you put your badge through. You put your badge on a pin pad, you tap it, you put it in your pin, which I did, like I do every time, and it started flashing red. I tried it again, it continued to flash red. I asked the US Secret Service that was sitting there, what was happening with my badge. He took the badge, he ran it again, and he said, quote, it's still being disabled. It's still coming up as disabled. So that was all that I was able to get from the Secret Service. There was no other White House official nearby that I could speak to. There were only just three Secret Service officers inside of the HUD, and then he confiscated my badge, and I had to leave the premises. And so then I walked all the way back out here, and I'm with you right now. But it's not clear based on the interaction that I had, whether or not this is a defiance as I heard Lisa was saying of the court order, or it's some kind of incompetence or lag in the system where they have not updated our press badges and the fact that we should have access based on the judges ruling Jonathan. So Laura, of course, we'll reach out to the White House and see what is going on. Donald Trump doesn't want anyone seeing him. That is what this is about. This is wholly about Donald Trump just being an insecure individual who is terrified of anyone seeing his cancels, hear him slur his words. I know it was embarrassing, and it was really actually a beautiful little bit of silence. For Donald Trump to not have his audio captured that first day of the media ban, doing his ribbon-cutting ceremony for his fucking stupid hella pad, and the audio didn't work. And it was a beautiful thing. But the audio not working for Donald Trump is the best thing. It means we can't hear him slur it. Weans we can't hear him fuck up a speech, and it means Donald Trump can't get more unpopular with the things he says. Now, gas prices, grocery prices, housing prices, that'll help take care of Donald Trump's unpopularity and continue to see his approval rating go down. But when he opens his mouth, he's hurting himself. And we want to give him the opportunity to do that. But it doesn't just take Donald Trump opening his mouth. It also takes him just existing because his weakness is a problem for him and his inability to walk. Yeah, I think it's contributing to that weakness. So not only could Donald Trump not walk in a straight line, as we just saw, you can also see that Donald Trump's hand is caked in makeup. Now remember, I pointed out yesterday that he was wearing gloves, black gloves in a big overcoat when it was only 65 degrees out yesterday. But Donald Trump's hand caked in makeup, so yeah, I think we know why he was wearing gloves. We can clearly see that this man cannot walk in a straight line. And we have discussed this before on the show. Medical experts have weighed in and pointed out that Donald Trump being unable to walk in a straight line is certainly a part of his cognitive decline, that his function is getting worse. He is unable to move his legs, right the left side, right side, brain stuff contributes to his inability to keep himself straight, to keep his, you know, motor skills all together. The Donald Trump being all over the place isn't just a, oh, he doesn't really know how to walk anymore, but it's also that he's got cancels, he's fat as fuck, and his brain doesn't work. Like these are the combination of factors. These are the confluence of factors that Donald Trump is dealing with right now. And it's why he's all over the place. It's why he can't walk. And it's why he's so pissed with the media. That's what this is about. It is about Donald Trump being frigid, being frigid, I'm just saying he said it was cold actually. It's the wrong word. I was going to say Donald Trump just being weak and frail, but I guess, you know, maybe he was a little, he was a little cold yesterday in the 65 degree weather. Isn't that insane? Is it an insane that he was wearing a giant coat and gloves that wasn't covered nearly enough? And it was just to cover up his hand. So again, these things are symbolic. Donald Trump wearing gloves to cover up his hands as he bans, bans, I should say, the mainstream press, yes, it is about his health. All of this is about his health. Donald Trump now wants to put his name on Ford's theater. The theater where, of course, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. And I think he wants to do it because I think he believes it's named after President Gerald Ford. But why does Donald Trump want to put his name on more shit? Because Donald Trump thinks he could die at any minute. And he hates that we can see that. He hates that we can see how frail he is, how weak he is, how pathetic he is, how out of touch he is, and it's why he's going out of his way to stop the mainstream press. And so Mike called to the mainstream press is cover him more, more extensively, more thoroughly. Talk about the things that he hates when you talk about, especially his health. It matters. Donald Trump, thinking that he could die at any moment, is why he makes the decisions that he makes. It's why he doesn't care about AI. Oh, it's this, this ominous threat. Oh, it could kill us all at any point. In the future, it may wipe out humanity, Donald Trump doesn't care. He's not going to be around for that. Climate change? He doesn't give a shit. He thinks tomorrow he could be gone. Burn, burn baby, burn. Make as much money as possible as he can in this moment. That's what it's about to Trump. And do you think he's worried about what world he's going to leave his kids and his grandkids? He doesn't like any of them. They're all fuck ups and criminals, which I guess the criminal part he likes. And all of this, all of this, all of this has to do with the fact that the man knows he's dying. And so I guess that should provide a little solace for some of us, but that's what this is about. Fundamentally, Trump not being able to walk and wanting to cover it up, yeah, it's about his death. Donald Trump having a blotchy makeup all over his hands to cover his bruises, it's about his death. That's what's going on here. That should be the framing. That should be how it's covered. And it's why I'm glad that my good friend Jim Acosta, who we're going to be having on the show this weekend is bringing attention to all the reasons why Donald Trump is attacking the press. What's that got to you? Well, this case is not about national security, it's about Donald Trump's insecurities. And there are a lot of them. He is trying to ban the press because he doesn't like what he calls fake news and negative news. When he was talking to reporters last Friday, he didn't say anything about national security stories or classified leaks or anything like that. I do think it's interesting how he's trying to, you know, use the military as a justification for lots of things, the ballroom project at the White House, the arch over by the Lincoln Memorial. And now the press man has some sort of military justification for it. All of it's baloney. He is trying to, I think, soften up the coverage as we head into this midterm cycle. He knows that going after certain organizations will send a chill down the spines of certain media executives, I guess, in this town and up in New York, and that they may respond accordingly by telling their journalists, hey, you got to, you know, we can't go so tough on this guy. To me, this is the time, if there isn't a time for intense coverage on Donald Trump, it's just never going to happen. The time is now. He has tried to stop mail-in balloting in this country. He is now attempting a press ban in this country who knows if he's going to honor the election results coming up. All of this warrants very tough coverage. And, you know, he's going after the press right now. It's what he did eight years ago. He got slapped down by the judge back then. It's going to happen this time around. The one thing I will say, I do hope that this time around, that Judge Kelly does give a full-throwed defense of the First Amendment. That would be very gratifying to see. If it's just hung on Fifth Amendment due process grounds, that's fine. but it may. makes me think, okay, he's gonna try this again. - Yeah, Fallon Gallagher made this point earlier that it was kind of the transcript of that is really what the record is. And so that's an interesting thing to watch. And as I noted, we don't know when he's gonna roll if he rolls while we're chatting. We'll certainly chat about that. - Yeah. - The press apparatus, I should say, the network pools have really banded together. It's five networks. They've banded together. They, you know, President Xi arrived, a red carpet was rolled out. Sometimes it feels so on the nose that the leader of a country that has a horrific record on press freedom, a red carpet is rolled out. There was not network coverage of that. It's not being showed on that. We're not showing it and other networks are not showing it. What do you make of this tactic? I wouldn't say I was surprised by it. I think I was encouraged by it. And how long do you think it will continue? - I was glad to see. First of all, I didn't know there was a mute button on Donald Trump, but that was interesting to see for the first time this week. But I mean, I will say this, listen, this should have happened a long time ago. When the Associated Press was booted out of the Oval Office in Air Force One, for refusing to call the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America, to me that was the moment when news organization should have banded together and said we're standing behind. - Do you think that would have made a difference? And where we are now? - I think it would have set the tone much sooner. But remember, that was at a time when we were coming into the second term, he had just, you know, basically extracted these extortion payments from ABC and CBS. I was so disturbed that when I left CNN, I left with the message, don't give into the lies, don't give into the fear. Because there was a lot of fear in the water back then. It wasn't just news organizations, you had major law firms, you had universities all bending the knee. And I think it emboldened him, much like the immunity decision at the Supreme Court. It emboldened him to go down this authoritarian path. And so I do think, yes, had the news organizations acted sooner, it might have been able to nip this in the bud. We shouldn't be having White House correspondent sinners with a president of the United States. He wants to do away with the free press. We shouldn't be clinking champagne glasses with people like Stephen Miller, who is locking up migrants and detent, awful detention camps all over this country. I think the press needs to stand up not just for our individual right to have access to the president and cover things here in Washington, but for our democracy, for our Constitution, for our Bill of Rights. I think some of that has been lost in all of this. We are American citizens in addition to being journalists. And the least we can do is fight for our right to a free press in this country, fight for our rights, and not have our press passes taken away. That's the very least we can do. So I think, yes, this was a big moment. When Trump went out there, what was it on Monday? And he was showing off his hella pattern. And there was no audio. I thought, wow, if only I had pulled off this trick during the first term. I don't think I ever left him speechless. But I think it did send the message that you do learn something when the hand touches the hot stove, and they touched it this week. My question is, does he honor what takes place in court? If Judge Kelly says, give him back the press passes, do they give them back? If the Secret Service doesn't give them back, what kind of hot water does that put the Secret Service in? Yes, they work for the present, but they also work for us, the American people. That's what's lost in all of this, Jen. He is a federal employee. He likes to think he's the king, and he's got all this gold stuff everywhere, but he's a federal employee working in a federal building surrounded by other federal employees. We have a right to access to those grounds and to hold his-- You really must hope that this lights a fire in the belly of the mainstream press, and that they get angry, that they get upset, and that they say enough is enough. It is time for us to really talk about these things. It is time for us to ask tougher questions. It is time for us to bring back the conversation around the files, all the things that they want to hide. We are not going to let them. That's what I'm hoping for. And you know that we're going to be covering on this show. If you want to support our work, as always, you can hit that subscribe button. Leave a like on this video. If you stuck around at the end, drop a blue heart in the comments. If you want to go one step further, make sure you are subscribing to the show over on Spotify, Jack Cotter, all the show. Keep on fighting y'all. Don't let them silence you. And until next time, I'll see you soon.