Kennedy Center Protest ENDS Trump

Donald Trump is going to have another stroke tonight, and I wouldn't be surprised if this one killed him. But if it doesn't, the humiliation will, because there are thousands of people right now outside of the Kennedy Center protesting Donald Trump and showing what a weak and pathetic little man he is. And that has been the entirety of the Trump presidency lately. It has been Donald Trump being shown to be as weak and pathetic as we have always known that he is. He is a wannabe strong man. He is not a strong man because a strong man wouldn't be falling asleep in the Oval Office. A strong man wouldn't need his executive orders, read to him, a strong man wouldn't need Natalie Harp to change his DIPs. But Donald Trump, he is not a strong man, and it's why he is being humiliated out front the Kennedy Center right now. I want to get into all the coverage, but I want to get into why Donald Trump will be so specifically peeved. And that's because we already know that he has been rep, Betty, who is the one who brought this lawsuit forward to make sure Donald Trump couldn't put his name on the Kennedy Center and try to renovate it like a mad man, which Donald Trump is. But she shared a little insight into the call that she had with Trump when Trump lost his lawsuit. I want to start with that because it kind of shows the frame of mind that he is in the frame of broken mind. Then we're going to get the protest out front. I got a lot to say, it's just humiliating. Will you describe what did happen on that call with the president to us? Well, we were in our Kennedy Center Board meeting today. It was virtual. It was first announced that Betty V. Trump lawsuit that the judge had rendered the decision that again for the second time that it would be unlawful for Donald Trump to put his name on the Kennedy Center. And at that time, there were a series of questions that I had proposed and the president through a tantrum. I think he was upset because he had lost and it had been reported. There was a lot of things that I thought were very unprofessional. This is the chairman of the Board and the president of the United States. So he picked the wrong person to try to attack my character and to berate me. I was not going to let him tell me that he thought I was incompetent. So I responded by telling him, I knew he was incompetent. He wanted to blame me if someone died, if something happened, if the ceiling fell in and I reminded him. He has us at war and people are dying. He has tariffs and taxes that are preventing people from buying food or being able to have affordable housing and other things. So it was a tit for tat and this is the chairman of the Board. I was disappointed but I was not going to let him get away with bullying, bullying me because that's what he does. He tries to intimidate people, he tries to bully them because he didn't get his way because he wanted this to be his vanity project. So we already know that Donald Trump has been pissed that he's lashing out that all he really talks about is the Kennedy Center and he doesn't in such detail. It's quite funny. Donald Trump, if you asked about healthcare, would say, well, it's a great plan and we love the plan and it's going to be a plan, concepts of a plan and it's going to be medicine, I think. He would just be in vague nonsense terms. He asks him about the Kennedy Center. He gets into like the specifics, the nuts and bolts he's talking about the type of stone. I have no, I'm being complimentary here, but it is clearly his fascination, his obsession, his obsession. It's like Donald Trump thinks about the Kennedy Center, like Natalie Hart thinks about Donald Trump except Trump can't run to it because Trump can't run. And so Donald Trump is clearly losing his mind because he knows, he knows and he's already admitted this, that when he dies, no one's going to put his name on shit. They're going to tear his name off a shit. And so he wants to make sure that it's somewhere and it's why he kept the memorial on the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts because he wants to see Trump and memorial and people going in because he wants one day for people to love him and to honor him after he's gone. They're not going to though. They hate you now. They will still hate you then and we know that because of the protest and we have a lot of coverage to get into. I want to start with my friend Jim Acosta shared on Instagram a few moments to go though. Okay, everybody, look, I'm down here at the Kennedy Center right now in the middle of this hands off the Kennedy Center demonstration that's being staged by the wonderful people at hands off the arts and look at how big the crowd is here gathered outside the Kennedy Center, the same Kennedy Center that Donald Trump says he wants to tear down if his name is not added back to it. This should be an unmistakable message being sent to Donald Trump right now to keep your damn hands off the Kennedy Center and if you've even tried to rip down this beautiful institution this living memorial to a slain president, there will be hell to pay. And I imagine right now this is just a tiny fraction of all of the people around this country and around this world who want to save the Kennedy Center and there it is behind me. The crowds are big and quite frankly they're only getting bigger. Did you see Mark Carney do the Trump accordion hands and in like do the little impression? It is humiliation everywhere. Who is Donald Trump beating? Who is he standing up to? Who is he winning against? Where is it so much winning you're going to get tired of winning? Does it look like in mass Donald Trump is being humiliated and some people might say you know Jack maybe these protests they're not the most important thing right now. It is a legal victory against this horrible man and I think that is important. I think that it is important that we point out the fact that when we take this guy on and when we take on his administration we can win. I don't want to get into this idea that we're always going to have to capitulate. We're always going to have to to bend the knee. I feel like we did that too much in the beginning of Trump's administration and why I do think it is actually important. One, it's fun. Two, morale. So stop complaining. Let me enjoy this a little bit. The three, because of the beginning of the Trump administration when they had all of the power there were Democrats caving. I have a little bit of a worry because of our leadership of what's going to happen when it's time to be in opposition to Donald Trump with some actual power. I really do. I have that worry. Why? Because Hockey and Jeffery's went and met with Jared Kushner. That's not a good start. Why are you giving up your leverage? Why are you talking to that war criminal that disgusting genocidal maniac in sanity? I have a little worry that there may be some hesitancy on the part of our leadership to realize that they have the power to take on Trump and actually hold them accountable. What is going to have to be us, it's going to have to be out in the street, showing our organizing power, and demanding that they follow our lead. Thankfully, we are sending lots of progressive fighters, not people who just say they're going to fight, but people who actually fight and fight for the dignity of all people. We're sending them to Congress to hopefully hold the speaker, Jeffery's in check if it ends up being a speaker, Jeffery's not to say it's going to be Mike Johnson. I'm saying, a Catherine Clark, a Jim McGovern. I don't know. Well, we are in the predictions, it came a little bit here. But we need to show that we are pissed. I know we have this entire time, but I need to show that we are pissed with power and the power actually works because it actually does. Let's be very clear about that. It's why people are down there. Again, also, it is just tremendously funny. I want to talk about that more after we see another update on the ground. First of all, what went through your mind when that photograph popped up of President Trump on Air Force One and through the windows, you can see he was holding some sort of poster that said, Kennedy Center demolished. Because, you know, it's heartbreaking, to me, it's heartbreaking because this is the monument to our slain president, and this has also the monument to the arts, the most important monument to the arts in our entire country. And these are the actions of the, oh, these are the actions of the petty tyrant who can't get his way. And because he can't add his name to it, he's going to blow it up. It would be like the Trump Eiffel Tower or the Trump fucking hemp house or, you know, the Trump tomb of the unknown soldier. Keep your name off our buildings, Mr. Trump. Do your job. Lower our prices. Stop the war near Ron and get to work on what's in three. Three decisions that Donald Trump makes. He makes because he knows he's going to die soon. And I don't say that just because I'm wishing for the big beautiful obituary, for the big, big, big back from heaven or hell, you know, it, the beautiful it, and we love it when it finally happens. And it's because I think we need to acknowledge that. I think we've had a lot of conversations about the 25th Amendment on the show. I think the 25th Amendment might be a great idea right now. Donald Trump is the president wholly out of control because his singular focus, his singular focus is on not preserving even like the next couple of years of his life, but to leave some legacy for himself. And we talk about a lot of things on this show that I think are emblematic in the way that we need to cover them, like Mitch McConnell being essentially half dead. and still voting how he's told, that's a lot of members of Congress, and I don't like saying both sides, so I'll say Republicans and the corporate conservative Democrats, right? They're dead inside. Mitch McConnell is just brain dead, but if you're taking money from giant corporations that, you know, carry out, it is violence, right? They're killing people. If you're denying someone's health insurance claim, for life-saving care, you're killing them. If you're starving people because you're a, you know, monopolistic grocery store chain and you're charging outlandish prices, you're killing people, right? It's just true. They're carrying out violence. So if you take money from those people, if you take money from the people polluting the planet and killing the planet, you're dead inside. You're dead inside. That's just true. You're basically dead. You have no soul. Those shouldn't be the people representing us, and so these things are emblematic. Donald Trump's focus on just himself is also the problem with members of Congress who do not think in terms of what's next or what they're leaving behind. Just kind of this kind of reactionary immediacy. No, no, no, no, no, especially in the age of AI, we cannot have that. We need people who are actually focused on addressing the future, maybe protecting my generation. I don't know for a change that could be, that could be kind of cool, but it's not happening in Trump. It's not happening in the Trump administration. It's not happening in Trump's mind. And we know them because every Trump accusation is a confession. We open up the show with Rep. Beatty, and of course, her really pissing Trump off. I want to close with what Trump said, I'd just say about her, because again, every accusation is a confession, especially this one. Honestly, did anything constructive while she does this complaint? All she does is complain. Sir, that is all you do. And about stuff that doesn't matter. And stuff that doesn't real. You're complaining about the Kennedy Center not having enough marble. I don't think there are people in rural America seeing their hospitals close. They go, I want it healthcare, but what's the marble situation at the Kennedy Center? What's going on with marble? Is it where are we importing it from? What's the gloss level? Nobody's thinking that. It's just Trump. It's just his very anecdotal personal reactionary complaints. And they can't be driving everything. It's not what the country is about. It should not be about the small interest of a bunch of small men. And again, when we're talking about the things that are emblematic, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos and Larry Ellison, and even like the elites of the media, they are also influencing based upon their anecdotal and personal opinions. And that should not drive the country. A select few having an obsession with a genocidal state in Israel. That should not drive US foreign policy. It shouldn't. But those are the very select few who want that. Who want that more than anything. Who want that genocidal state expanding its borders illegally, killing people while it does it. They want that over the success of America and the thriving of our people. So Donald Trump is the complainer. That's the complainer class. It's not those of us who want America to be better. It's those who are in the small minority and are self-interested to the point of killing the country. And we cannot allow that to happen. Good on everyone protesting at the Kennedy Center. Big props to you. We're going to continue to call out all the bullshit though. And if you want to support that as always, you can hit that subscribe button. Leave a like on this video. If you stuck around to the end, drop a blue heart in the comments. Keep on fighting y'all. Don't let them silence you. And until next time, I'll see you soon.