Trump Loses it After Jan. 6 Hearing Reveals Embarrassing Speech Outtakes: A Closer Look

Seth takes a closer look at Donald Trump claiming to be the most persecuted individual in American history after last week’s bombshell hearing of the January 6 committee embarrassed him by airing never-before-seen outtakes of his speech from the day after the insurrection.
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[@errgag3580]

I'M SICK OF HEARING ABOUT ISSUING SUBPOENAS. I WANT TO HEAR ABOUT ISSUING ARREST WARRANTS.

[@Jin420]

Criminal cases are different. It'll take time. Otherwise, acquittal -- then double jeopardy. Unless it can be dismissed without prejudice, so that the prosecutor(s) can bring back the charges at a later time.

[@maryannthorpe286]

yes

[@ranaway9307]

What you gonna do sick boy !! NOTHING !! Start stocking up on cryin towels !!

[@davidclark573]

Wow that says it all.

[@MellowMaromi]

@@ranaway9307 Wow, it's obvious English isn't your first language.

[@rhesreeves5339]

We can only pray he becomes the most prosecuted person in American history.

[@helenpatterson3858]

Amen to that.

[@thePronto]

Shower time is going to be fun. Paco and friends from MS13 have memories like elephants.

[@couragekarnga8735]

Ah, we may dream!

[@heinousanus9352]

If that's all you can do then you're wasting your time. Praying is a silly stupid thing that only idiots do.

[@JadenKaye]

And most incarcerated.

[@onamattapeeya]

Those outtakes are a gift from above, everyone just have a seat and enjoy the gift.

[@jburton8594]

That smoke and music into just shouts "we have tiny junk!"

[@covetic26]

Donald's "friend" is the reflection in the mirror that he talks to nightly and always reassures him how great and wonderful and fantastic he is.

[@sallyphillips9175]

"Many people are saying ..."

[@mollydtt]

@@sallyphillips9175 you beat me to it. The old “many people have said…” routine.

[@pa6370]

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[@jaymevosburgh3660]

It was probably Jeff Epstein.

[@helenryan5217]

If it's not himself, it's Mike Lindell. That's not really any better.

[@lunaturner508]

Ah yes the most persecuted American in history, a man who, and I cannot stress this enough, held the highest office in the land with millions of people backing him up. Truly oppressed is he🙄

[@molsongrrrl]

And who has never been held accountable for anything he's ever done. Poor Donnie ...

[@gamepapa1211]

Yes, a man who spent his childhood delivering newspapers from the back seat of his daddy's car with his own driver taking him down his routes. Truly the most persecuted man in the history of the country!

[@cbpd89]

I'm glad I wasn't drinking anything when he said that because that was genuine spit take material.

[@Islandswamp]

Only trump could brag about being rich AND persecuted in the same incoherent rambling speech.

[@FuelDropforthewin]

I am sure all the people who died in the trail of tears, or witch trials, or vampire hunts, or everyone who was enslaved, or those arrested in the satanic panic, are all feeling super sorry for him.

[@sunshine2942]

You can always tell when trump has learned a new word. He uses it 40 times in a sentence and just looks so proud of himself

[@dominikschlatter1428]

My two-year old daughter does the same 😂

[@Ali_D_Katt]

Right like a toddler lol what a dunce him and ol kiss ass cruze

[@davidcyphers3993]

You caught the essence of he man perfectly in two sentences.

[@jefe2098]

At least he xan complete a sentence not like the word salad people

[@jefe2098]

Let's vote for the word salad people

[@Khaivet]

Donald's friend is definitely the same friend you are talking about when you are "just asking, for a friend". 😂

[@dohctorclark]

Those “lights, dramatic music and smoke machine” are all exactly why they have such a tight strangle hold on their base. Someone somewhere surely once said “hear me out…what if we made our GOP rallies look like old school monster truck rallies?”

[@AC3handle]

I'm amazed they didn't have the Eye in the SKy intro running.

[@grmpEqweer]

WWE politics. According to Kinzinger, they're all pretending in public, as in having fake rivalries.

[@2jackdog]

It was a pathetic stage for little boy cruz.

[@mikemeyer300]

It's like watching the WWE

[@Sandals578]

Education is important.

[@civil_villain]

"Politics is show business for ugly people." - that entrance by Ted Cruz proves that adage to be 100% true.

[@nycatlady2314]

That’s how little they think of our government. They are the ones pretending to work for the people. They’re there for the money they take in from lobbyists, insider trading and other sources.

[@redrockdoc]

Nope ! You forgot Creepy Joe's scripted presentations ! He loves "air hand shakes " !! Loves calling his sister his wife ! Tripping up the steps ! Too much Adderall !! Time to check into the home ! just sayin !!

[@johnstephen2869]

I always enjoy your program and agree with nearly all that you say. Sometimes I wonder (from an overseas perspective) how the ex President hasn’t been arrested yet. Take care from NZ.

[@iamyou8416]

We’re wondering too!

[@U2BER2012]

That's because he hasn't committed any crimes. If you watch American main stream media, you'll only see and hear a bunch of lies; only what they want you to hear.

[@reptoidrenaissance]

Unfortunately, he's very rich. And in the US, being rich gets you a LOT of free reign from the legal system. For example: he was found guilty of charity fraud while President. According to the law, that's supposed to disqualify him from holding office any longer, be grounds for impeachment/removal, AND lead to prison time. What he got was a token fine that he paid out of tax dollars & nothing more, simply because he was rich & the president.

[@jeneticallymodified1]

he collects dirt on everybody.

[@johnstephen2869]

@@U2BER2012 I thought that‘Mainstream media’ is a product of a free press in a free country. Can you, Mr Monty, honestly believe that the press would bander together and conspire to create untruths about an individual who had done no wrong?

[@culturallysignificantnickn7446]

It kinda shows how clever he can be. Taking out the word "yesterday" would allow him later to claim this speech was about something else.

[@obadyahyasharel9858]

There's irrefutable proof that Trump can't read or write.

[@psycho01cb]

@@obadyahyasharel9858 Tbf, he was reading from a teleprompter. He obviously didn't write the speech, but he was definitely reading it.

[@FluidKaos]

Any time trump talks about "a friend" or "people" saying anything, he's just saying what he thinks. Nobody said any of these things.

[@w1tchmom]

The voices in his head

[@gamepapa1211]

It has the same grain of truth as "My uncle who works at Nintendo..."

[@susanrobinson910]

@@w1tchmom Yep, that is what I was thinking 😊😂

[@groaningmole4338]

Yeah, he can't say anything without turning it into a made-up Appeal to Popularity.

[@Adreno23421]

Also, nobody is friends with Trump. You're either family or you work for him, but you ain't his friend.

[@lorinelson7523]

Good Lord, this guy was actually our president for FOUR years. We are lucky the U.S. is still standing.

[@FablestoneSeries]

it's like a bad comedy from the 80's. Like King Ralph, or Moon Over Parador. Its like if Rodney Dangerfield had become president. No one would have believed any of this.

[@luisadiaz1960]

And nowhere in his speech preparation do you get any sense that what he's saying is for the good of the country and the citizens. Allll about him-- not wanting to leave. If the Congress Certifies the Elect Votes then that means the Election is over!! Duh.

[@ryanfraser167]

Gas was cheap, that's enough for most...

[@davidowens5898]

Izzit?

[@dragongirl89115]

@@ryanfraser167 Gas being cheaper than it is now had nothing at all to do with him. You know what did? The regression of voter rights, human rights, environmental protection, as well as blatantly breaking the law and outright lying with even the simplest of fact checks dismantling him.

[@edforest6344]

Hard hitting hilarity … thank you Mr. Meyers

[@moxy187]

I love Seth, he's just seems utterly delightful. Great conversationalist.

[@david1661]

Seth is a deep state treasonous Troll who supported Pinocchio Joe Biden who gave 90 billion in American made weapons too the Taliban too kill American's with their own American made weapons while leaving the border open so all the newly armed terrorist can come in and attack our energy grid so they can call Marshall Law and end ALL our rights is their treasonous agenda !!! Your not to bright are you ???

[@cestwhat1317]

Crybaby Trump whines that he’s “the most persecuted”…My hope and prayer will be that he will be the most (successfully) prosecuted.

[@Julia-lk8jn]

I'm with you, even if I tend to address my prayers to "whomever it may concern".

[@stefanfrankel8157]

Maybe he thinks that that is what the word means.

[@barbaraschuld8206]

I hope his persecution comes after his life ends!

[@dietotaku]

ok how many people are going to regurgitate this joke? think of your own jokes people.

[@MossyMozart]

@@dietotaku - Has it been copyrighted? If not - PUBLIC DOMAIN!

[@leejaylampman2222]

I get the impression that Trump just learned the definition of the word persecution. Chances are he avoided it because it sounded a lot like prosecution.

[@ggjohnson5754]

Or prostitution

[@gratefulone6669]

or prostitution 🤷

[@acciousername6776]

🎯

[@pyatig]

Or prostitution

[@couragekarnga8735]

I mean, he must be a witch. He's put all his supporters under some kind of spell.

[@sabburahsuhail]

OMG your current Trump impersonation at 7:04-8:01 is so perfectly on point with his current state of incoherent word litter. Almost 60 seconds of NOTHING! Great work Seth!!

[@prannakumify]

I have saved this clip. Keep coming back to it 😂

[@ElvisRose_]

It's a sad state of affairs when it surprises you because he knows a word with more than one syllable.

[@user-em6ie2be7x]

You can tell whenever Trump learns a new word, because he keeps saying it repeatedly like saying it more makes him sound smarter.

[@MontgomeryWenis]

Dude, I remember when I learned what sarcasm was. I constantly used it, incorrectly of course, for weeks. I was seven. 🤷🏼‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@katiehettinger7857]

In the beginning he had all the best word, now he's up to at least a dozen.

[@pietrojenkins6901]

He's a Wharton Business Sch grad though.

[@gamepapa1211]

He really does sound like an elementary schooler who just learned how to say, "onomatopoeia."

[@carren1983]

WWE??? It feels like WWE

[@edvh88]

“They don’t have any ideas and they don’t like anyone else’s”. This nails the GOP. This is them to the core.

[@dietotaku]

they are angry, tantruming toddlers. they don't know why they're angry, it is too much effort to figure out, so they just scream and flail at everyone with no coherent goal. no thoughts, just RAAAGE, 24/7/365, at a million percent, and if you think that there's something behind that, then you're crazy.

[@apollo5751]

WOW, OMG, like you made so much sense I will follow your thoughts now and drop my own. HAHAHAHA. Loser.

[@Toni-tt9gt]

@@dietotaku Oh no, there's definitely something behind it all, corporate and theological agendas. These rats are following a pied piper to all of our dooms.

[@David-iv6je]

Here in Texas we see they can't even govern. The power grid is a disaster. It failed in 2011 and they did nothing. It failed again in 2021 and again they did nothing. It almost failed again last week in this record heat wave. And yet they'll deny climate change because their corporate owners, the oil companies, tell them to.

[@sueprice3315]

Or, in the case of the American Rescue Plan, the GOP voted against it -- didn't like it because it was pushed by President Biden -- but then once it passed, touted its benefits to their constituents. They don't like anyone else's ideas, but are happy to take credit for them, if it passes in spite of them.

[@knate44]

Someone having to stop and think about "hey maybe I'm being like super persecuted here" has never been persecuted for anything in their life.

[@theowl3756]

The best way Don the Con can show his appreciation for Ivana is to join her as soon as possible.

[@paddlefaster]

I wish we could say he was the most prosecuted person in American history.

[@hgr.7857]

🤯 My mom said literally the exact same thing. We were all thinking it.

[@Julia-lk8jn]

Here's hoping ... I mean, he had several hundred law-suits against him when he ran for president, right? And it would be fun if people clubbed together to sew him for the deaths / long-lasting physical, financial & emotional effects of Covid19. Those damages were a lot higher in the US than in other developped nations, and it shouldn't be too hard to tie that to a president who advertised that a new Corona virus was "just the sniffles".

[@davedesjardins5894]

With Conviction and Jail Time

[@davidsignor7931]

Bingo you nailed it

[@jiles7726]

@@davedesjardins5894 yeah and his house fire bombed

[@CreepyGnocchi]

Watching him try to read the prompter at the end…. I cant believe that he was ever president. Also Crazy to see how he dictates everything so it can go his way, so i definitely know he misses being the president. He should NOT be let back in that position. So glad he is out 🇺🇸😁

[@EarthChild9000]

Yeah and he always talks crap that other people read from the prompter..

[@vforwombat9915]

@@LD-eu9gd whatever, polly. you want a cracker now?

[@alainarchambault2331]

@@LD-eu9gd Man you are slow, try to keep up.

[@lastjob2011]

Revelation 18. In the last days of the end times, the world's most wicked Nation will be destroyed. This is part of that.

[@enough1494]

@@lastjob2011 are you alright? Are you looking forward to the destruction, enjoy the chaos in today’s world? Are your faithless? Well, then REJOICE JESUS IS ALIVE NOW WITHIN YOU…WITHIN ALL FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN….SEEK….WITHIN!

[@wesdo77]

Thank you Seth Meyers!, what a great segment!

[@walstib4945]

lol (please save us!)

[@trikphotography1274]

Hello Seth and Team. Firstly, love what you're doing on the show, I watch it almost every chance I get. Secondly, if Trump has such a hard time pronouncing 3 syllable words he wouldn't be able to say the word Karate (as well as the word Syllable...) , as it too has 3.... syllables. Much love, Australian Jackal (I believe we're called Dingoes) Vin...... Hey! Great job anyway!

[@jeremiahwood9077]

It’s always amazing to see Ted Cruz walk so well for someone without a spine.

[@sandrajones2262]

Great comment! 💯 I love it!👌 🎯 I so can't stand Ted Cruz. I'm not a Democrat but I'm not a Republican. There are so many politicians I can't stand and some I just dislike. Some need to retire. Some need to go back to school. Some act like they never left. Some terrify me, I'm afraid they'll get reelected. Anyone over 80 needs to retire. Ya hear that Nancy? Dianne? Gramma Mitch?

[@tonya_1111]

Hahaha! So funny and so true. I think soon he'll be rolling not walking. Thankfully too round to fit in an oval office.

[@petedavis7970]

What are you talking about? Ted was able to stand proud while Trump called his wife a dog and his father a traitor.

[@ToniHunterOne]

It's the steel rod up his a$$ holding him up.

[@BeRandom2012]

@@textmenow9113 get bent!

[@whydidmyhandlechangefromAlice]

I think Trump confused “persecuted” with “prosecuted”.

[@juiciferjerny]

Great comment 💯🤣

[@Morty602]

I *wish* he were the most prosecuted man.

[@joycemansfield1108]

Hahaha

[@pietrojenkins6901]

He deserves more of both honestly.

[@dottiedavis355]

Nice!

[@AnakinIHateSandSkywalker]

The deafening lack of applause when Ted Cruz walked in was painful

[@lynnjacobs2091]

The word "...yesterday..." does Not work well with me!! Lmfao - TRE45ON!!!

[@mtedesco04]

I love Seth and all the others maybe it’s just me but I’m tired of hearing how trump is in so much trouble and NOTHING happens. When does he go down

[@johnj3905]

Never. You've been duped.

[@gregbors8364]

It’s all up to Merrick Garland now

[@anro7137]

?

[@mypillowguy445]

Why did Trump throw his dinner plate at the wall? Because he said he'd be tough on China.

[@grmpEqweer]

👏😆

[@virginiatyree6705]

😂😂😂

[@donnawhiteturkey7240]

👍👍👏👏😀

[@christaferduran3952]

😎🤣😂🙌

[@selalewow]

This 😆

[@wendytardieu2872]

Love the Simon and Garfunkel ref!

[@briansanford1721]

The fact that there is no presidential 'shrink' is scary. C'mon now, any person with 2 years of college can understand that, no?

[@levelsandgear5644]

... Can you imagine ANY of the founding fathers reaction to a "leader" walking out to a stage of pyrotechnics like a WWE performer? How embarrassing.

[@stephieirene1]

Hamilton carried a smoke machine with him.

[@yehudivenuti]

ever seen "ideocracy?"

[@ranaway9307]

I can't imagine WHY you would make such a ignorant statement !! pyrotechnics in 1776 ??

[@wait...what...]

@@ranaway9307 You know there was a war, right? They actually had like gunpowder and ... fireworks.

[@TooBadThatDidntKillMe]

When they worship a reality show hack who _was_ a WWE sideshow...

[@kadarabdullahi]

That confused crowd just waiting for a catchphrase 😂😂

[@richardbrowning8221]

Keep on talking Donald your Teflon suit is melting right in front of our very eyes!

[@shaerenuel9950]

oh my g#d! the subtle Simon and Garfunkel reference...

[@NyxOleander]

1:56 I have never been offended by Seth Meyers or his writer’s before, but this crossed a line. Comparing TC to expired, freezer burnt Lean Cusine😭 To actually suggest that Lean Cuisine is nearly as vile as that man! SHAME!

[@judylevitt4555]

@Dechtire Dubhlainn I wasn't "offended" by the spelling bee, but it could have been such a better joke with something truly awful or boring. I agree, showing cute kids at a spelling bee was a rare miss by Seth of a good joke.

[@Jen_Wick]

🤣😂

[@erasiguess4549]

Lets get ready to rumble!!! Bowling championships semi finals

[@wranglerboi]

@Dechtire Dubhlainn Yep--especially the ones who know how to spell HONEY. DTJ (as we well know) doesn't even know how to spell co-fe-fe. You know--that dark brown stuff one pours into their coffee cup.

[@dhwang101]

Use baseball game instead, a friend told me baseball is boring 🤣

[@cjtymczak4687]

A 70 year old grown adult with the mentality of a 3 year old.

[@pixiebells]

As someone who works with 3-year-olds, I can confirm! 😂

[@patriciagrandjean8205]

I dunno. My 3-year-old nephew is insulted.

[@cjtymczak4687]

@@patriciagrandjean8205 🤣🤣🤣🤣. My apologies to your Nephew. He is obviously much more mature than the orange criminal

[@tobyseth]

I'm surprised he didn't walk in on his "grandiose" entrance doing the Macarena in tribute to his master in chief, Humpty Drumpty the moldy McTool looking like fermented cheese 🥴

[@jackjack8844]

'Nobody needs to tell me about the faults of other people. I can see them every time I take my eyes off my own.' Anon.

[@IRanOutOfPhrases]

People really missing out on some of his omissions. He wanted to remove "yesterday" because he didn't want to describe Jan 6th as a heinous attack. Same reason he wanted to remove "the election is over" or why he wanted to minimize the amount of time he spent focusing on those who broke the law.

[@couragekarnga8735]

His heart, or lack thereof, wasn't in that speech any more than it was when he belatedly condemned the Neonazis who marched in Charlottesville.

[@IRanOutOfPhrases]

@@couragekarnga8735 Well, and did he ever even condemn neonazis? I remember him vaguely mentioning 'bad people on both sides'. I honestly can't remember if he even mentioned neo-nazis directly by name afterwards. Dude couldn't even denounce white supremacy when asked point blank at a debate. Re-reading THAT transcript, it was nice to him to at least own the fact that white supremacists are right wing though, I feel like usually the right tries to deny that to some extent, lol. WALLACE: You have repeatedly criticized the vice president for not specifically calling out antifa and other left-wing extremist groups. But are you willing, tonight, to condemn white supremacists and militia groups and to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence in a number of these cities as we saw in Kenosha and as we've seen in Portland? Are you prepared to specifically do that? TRUMP: Sure, I'm prepared to do that. But I would say almost everything I see is from the left wing, not from the right wing. If you look, I'm willing to do anything. I want to see peace.

[@dietotaku]

@@IRanOutOfPhrases when he was reading a prepared remark after charlottesville, he condemned neo-nazis but when he was speaking off-the-cuff afterwards is when he whipped out "fine people on BOTH sides" because he didn't want the neo-nazis thinking he didn't like them.

[@thebigpicture2032]

He’s clearly doesn’t want to make this video.

[@nonyabizness.original]

exactly. no one can play that clip and say he condemned the carnage on 1.6 without the word "yesterday". he also deleted the first word- "today". mob bosses hate specificity in speech.

[@1mezion]

When U listen to Donald speak an overwhelming sense of depression hits you as you realize people thought he was suitable to run the country, voted for him and despite all the horrible things he said and done continue to support him. we are doomed.

[@KathyHussey063]

We really are doomed if we allow that insane, evil, con man, tax evading, bank defrauding, draft dodging, cowardly, Godless, gutless, fake, lying, moronic, serial adulterer, Epstein's good buddy, that p$%sy grabbing lecherous old pervert and piece of trash to get elected again. If he does, decent people just might as well let the nuts have the place and go watch from afar as the whole thing breaks down and self destructs from the utter stupidity and anaphylactic reaction to actual facts that will ensue, the hanging of VP's, jailing of political opponents and poisoning of reporters will be certain to follow if he gets another shot at running this nation, or any local country club for that matter.

[@tinabean713]

Not only do they continue to support him, but people genuinely believe that he was a good president, a good Christian, kept his promises and did more than anyone else for our country. These are the same people that seem to think our border policies completely switch from open to closed when the presidency switches hands, when in reality very little at ICE and Border Patrol probably change - only the coverage of it does. But people choose to believe the news sources they choose to consume and they emotionally need to believe the person they supported and elected was not a dumpster fire making a mockery of everything we hold dear.

[@thane595]

I have thought a lot about this and can conceive of only two situations where his followers would finally turn on him: 1) he admitted that he lied 90 percent of the time; 2) he said something that took away their fears about ethnic groups.

[@tinabean713]

@@thane595 Hmmmh #2 sounds a little too optimistic, but I'll give you #1

[@caroltrice5134]

...and will do it again

[@marseaschultz4815]

Thanks, Mr.Meyers!

[@mikeross6067]

I predict every word on his Tomb will be a lie.

[@Corpsman01]

We know he’s lying. He doesn’t have friends. He has lackeys and yes men!

[@raiderz10mb]

The concert like rally is a stark reminder of idiocracy. Making a circus of politics

[@Julia-lk8jn]

I protest! President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho was miles above these guys. Talented singer, actually tried to do a good job, had the courage to accept that somebody was smarter than himself and to listen to expert advice ... also great abs. In short: Camacho could have taken that silly entrance and made sure that _he_ was the coolest part of it.

[@GayleWilbanks]

That graphic with Cruz peeking out of the bushes reminds me of Arte Johnson on Laugh-In peeking out of the dried grass, saying "Very interesting . . . but stupid".

[@debbielamonica8337]

Laughed out loud. You are the best !!

[@Itcouldbebunnies]

"Yesterday is a hard word...Screw those Beatles!" - A stable genius

[@valkyrie1066]

A very stable genius. Love the rainbow!

[@Opus313]

Donnie was afraid it would sound like 'yesh-turd-eh' when he says it.

[@selalewow]

I am sure Lady Ruby would argue with 45. Did he ever have to leave his home and family, change his name and go into hiding because the President singled him out.

[@darriswilson1010]

That's point DON'T pay ATTENTION!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@joesilva2184]

ahhhh, lmao, the music fits his pyrotechnics.😂🍿😳🤗😊🎼🎶

[@Opus313]

You can really see how the investigations are affecting Donnie. He's depressed and the rest of us are loving it!

[@galapagoensis]

Okay there … pills 💊 time.

[@ranaway9307]

Opus 313 Trump has fought a lot more serious battles than these lying democracy attacking's democrats can ever present !!!

[@pietrojenkins6901]

He can afford the best healthcare and medication for that.More bombshells to come for him.

[@TheDarkness1]

When will the wicked witch of the West be crushed by a house that was picked up by a sharpie hurricane?

[@2jackdog]

Do you think so? I sure hope so. He's made millions depressed in this country.

[@nyceplayz8051]

It is amazing to me how Donald Trump always seems like he's doing a satirical bit about himself.

[@rasmie8858]

As much as I love Seth or Stephen's rendition of Trump, only the Donald can capture the true stupid of the Donald

[@0g0dn0]

Yeah, it’s just that he completely lacks the self awareness needed for satire. Or any kind of wit.

[@couragekarnga8735]

He's the butt of his own jokes!

[@floorsbychrisable]

Poe's Law.

[@tiki_trash]

He truly is a joke.

[@1Onionpeeler]

"Most persecuted person in American history? I hope it's really most prosecuted.

[@fantasyfox965]

Ted Cruz's stage appearance at 0:50-0:57 made me think, "Is this the Eras Tour?!"😂

[@Lanwarder]

Would be nice if he finally got what he deserves and became the most prosecuted American in history.

[@markkasprzyk3287]

He deserves it? What laws broken exactly? Be specific? Thanks

[@mabuloo]

Trump confuses "persecution" with "prosecution."

[@mackjrbell7828]

You know big words are hard for him. He doesn't even like the word "yesterday".

[@mabuloo]

@@mackjrbell7828 Yeah, poor guy. No matter how low I adjust my standards, I just keep expecting too much.

[@johnalsop2303]

Cofveve!

[@kamilebrahimoff3589]

Yes

[@freema9246]

the word is prostitution

[@machorn2653]

You you you! The definition of narcissism

[@jillianparis9473]

Ted Cruz intro was like something from The Omen! Very apt.

[@bmeclipse]

I love how we were told Ivanka distanced herself from daddy over 1/6 but was right there holding the cue cards and goading daddy through the lines.

[@rebeccaelliot6586]

She is the kind of person who tells everyone what she thinks they want to hear, which is why she told the committee that she accepted in December that the election was lost, but told the documentary filmmaker (in December!) that she thought tfg should do everything he could to contest the election.

[@WhitMcMo]

@@rebeccaelliot6586 exactly. She has no identity separate from the cabal.

[@rneumeye]

Ivanka is a liar and con artist just like Trump. His whole family was convicted and banned from charities for embezzling money from their non-profit. 🤥🤥🤥💰💰💰

[@jbwj032977]

I don't know about the most persecuted, but I certainly am routing for him to be the most prosecuted...

[@tobiishmail3436]

That Cruz entrance... 🤣😂

[@stevebennett4959]

I love how politicians can just make up a person to be the springboard for whatever point they want to make.

[@spelunkerd]

The "I never had time" remark is such an irony, when you know most of his time was spent looking at himself in the mirror, looking at himself on TV, and reacting to things said about him. When you elect a narcissist, don't be surprised if he spends all his time thinking about himself. Of course he has no time to actually lead.

[@goldzilla1507]

You forgot the 300+ times he went golfing while in office.

[@pwatson5766]

And his "Executive Time" spent in the Oval Office, when he was actually watching Fox!

[@mykofreder1682]

You look at the Cruz entrance, how do people who vote for him expect to see the change that affects their lives when they treat the politicians like a rock or wrestling star. They know they are untouchable; they fill their pockets while making meaningless efforts on hot button issues that in the end has 0 effect on their lives in their right wing rural or suburban life.

[@heyitsmikegaming]

@@pwatson5766 don't forget the diet of a 10 year old, big macs every day and then throwing the food on the walls in a tantrum

[@rebeccakimble5512]

Time to read you mean

[@btamp925]

And this is a US Senator….how much lower must we go with people like this in political office…..vote responsibly people!

[@chippewaindian947]

I'll vote 100% TRUMP

[@maryellengottlieb3792]

They vote the way the preacher who told them that snakes can talk, people can live inside a whale, magic tricks are miracles and a virgin can get pregnant from God tells them to vote.

[@FreemanicParacusia]

@@chippewaindian947 Not your day with the brain cell is it? We have an orange cat in our midst.

[@ayoutubegirl5933]

@@chippewaindian947 This is a serious question.... Why do you continue to support him knowing and seeing all the crap he's said and done?

[@pedronoa1973]

@@chippewaindian947 you took the little bus to school, didn't you?

[@djpfisterdrews2812]

Oh GOD! That video clip of Ted Cruz with all that smoke and glitz was freakish.

[@PreacherAtArrakeen]

Think I'll throw up in my mouth, now.

[@GG-cr5hm]

I love how the only adjective about his friend in the story is that he's very successful as if that's the only thing that makes his opinion worthy. Such a psychopath

[@daniellamcgee4251]

He also said 'a very smart guy' . How coincidental that his 'friend' has the same qualities he wants people he thinks he has. Including that he is worthy of friends like that - or has friends at all. Typical narcissist projecting, and pathologically lying.

[@GG-cr5hm]

@@daniellamcgee4251 right? You would think he would want us to know he was qualified to speak on the subject by claiming he was a very educated US historian or something but that would be too specific for such a made up person 😒

[@dutchray8880]

The term psychopath is fitting. Narcissism is an integral part of psychopathy. All his life he's lied, stolen, and cheated with no regard to the harm he's inflicted on others. Now he is facing accountability and calling it persecution.

[@AstraVex]

"Yesterday's a hard word for me." - _A Former President Who Let Thousands Of People Die_

[@johnwalck3133]

Hundreds of thousands of people…

[@anro7137]

Good correction 😁

[@EvilFookaire]

Also: - *_A former president who mocked a reporter with a disability. That former president now whines about how hard a common word of barely three syllables is for him to say._*

[@victornieves1794]

To be fair, what U.S. President doesn’t have thousands of people’s blood on their hands? I think most of them did.

[@henrygvidonas9573]

@@EvilFookaire This right here! Also, Trumps minions mock Joe Biden - a man who overcame a significant speech impediment, but very occasionally has little difficulties - relentlessly every time he doesn't say _anything_ perfectly. Their guy doesn't want to say "yesterday" because it's _so hard_ for him to pronounce.

[@leewalker9295]

Anything to deflect from the nursing home patient we have in office now..

[@r.m.8374]

Hi, you have the America you deserve, because of people like this guy. Good luck, your now starting to feel it, that sinking feeling of very hard times ahead through poor leaders.

[@danielolson9348]

Seth's gentle way of subconsciously talking to Donald's 'friend' is how you break it to your grandfather he has dementia and the war is over.

[@PdZ2012]

Speaking of dementia, how is Joe Biden doing these days?

[@gmun2248]

Funny moment in generally sad situation... My grandfather was in the Royal Air Force during WWII. When he had to go into a care home with dementia he used to tell us that during the war, someone flew the plane and he and another guy sat at the back of the plane lighting the bombs and throwing them out. 😅 He drove essential supplies to bases all over Western Europe. He didn't ever actually fly in bombers during the war. We used to wonder if he had dreams and confused them with memories. Or they put cartoons on...!?

[@michaelccozens]

One thing that's interesting to me is how the out-takes revealed how hair-trigger 45's temper is, and how quickly he descends into tantrums at the slightest difficulty. The man grimacing and smacking the podium and making violent "reset" hand gestures when he has to do something as simple and easy as repeat a take once or twice is definitely the man who would throw his food at the wall or lunge for a Secret Service agent's throat. He is also not someone capable of complex plans. It's nothing we didn't already know, of course, but 45 usually carefully manages his public image to appear unflappable and sophisticated (at least, as much as he's capable of doing so). Those out-takes shred that image for anyone who cares to look, and perhaps even for some who'd rather not. A guy playing 47D chess doesn't start pounding tables because he has to repeat a sentence, and there's not really a way to spin that as "the liberal media's out to get me", because it was his people in control of the recording. The out-takes made him look quite powerless, and there's few things more deadly to a fascist leader than signs of weakness, because the image of strength is pretty much all his followers pursue him for, and there's always a new would-be fascist leader sharpening their knives in the shadows just off-stage (hi, DeSantis!).

[@LightSpeedLove]

Well said

[@mctavish199]

Or complex thinking. Or even simple thinking.

[@WhitMcMo]

He's such a massive baby. It's so embarrassing. But these are the kind of babies that have the power to kill people. Psychopaths.

[@evanmcateer7251]

Ki

[@ggerardlee]

Michael, I think your observations are quite astute. As I read them I was reminded of Adolf Hitler.

[@derricklafrance9440]

Interesting bit about that spelling bee. Put Trump and Biden head to head in a Spelling Bee. Epic.

[@uainediabhal9689]

"A friend of mine said..." - what friends? You don't have any friends

[@philoctetes_wordsworth]

The friend who lives in his head: the only friend he has ever had. If it were not so dangerous to American Democracy, I would postulate it as a screen play. Great horror movie, terrible reality.

[@melodyssong4916]

"Great movie, terrible reality" really just perfectly encapsulates the last six years

[@couragekarnga8735]

No one would ever have made a movie of this. It would be thought too insane. BTW, love your username. Do you know who Philoctetes was?

[@andrewjohnson6716]

The friend he invented on the spot for the purpose of attributing his own thought to. A textbook symptom of Grandiose Narcissism

[@dietotaku]

that friend's name? albert einstein. oh sorry, i mean JOHN BARRON.

[@whwhywhywhywhywhywhy]

@@dietotaku it's probably the voice of his mother in his head

[@SchizoSkillz]

"I never thought about being the most persecuted person in history, cuz I was busy fighting persecution and being persecuted..." Sounds like he learned a new word and was showing off all the ways he learned how to use it in a sentence.

[@jenniferschaefer646]

Made me laugh out loud. And I suspect it’s true LOL

[@mt-mg7tt]

Slaves, or victims of the KKK or Amerindians or homeless people etc, might beg to differ with him.

[@soopafamicom]

He had a roll of 'word of the day' toilet paper and is making the most of it.

[@gatchrocks]

It's not hard to imagine that, as it's the entire philosophy of trumpists. Anytime you start seeing some random new catch phrase, you can link it back to Tucker Carlson or Trump said it, and they just parrot it without knowing it's meaning.

[@wantingandgetting3886]

What we need is for Trump to become the most prosecuted man in American history. Maybe then we can put this nightmare clown behind us and move on as a nation to more important things. The morbid GOP spectacle in general in recent years is an extraordinary waste of time.

[@plcoyle]

He's the worst individual, and needs more scrutiny.

[@sharonhunt2267]

I prefer to be dazzled by what a politician has to say rather than a flashy theatrical entrance.And Cruz has absolutely NOTHING of value to say.

[@kaydee9358]

While it's embarrassing to see the members of one of the two political parties in our country looking and sounding like wrestlers, it's more of an indictment of the people who think this is something to cheer about. How can we maintain respect around the world when our political climate is represented as a circus by that party? We must have indictments NOW. And we have to vote blue in November.

[@whyohwhy9679]

You are so right!

[@madshorn5826]

Yeah. How can anyone see an intro like that and expect the guy on the scene to address societal issues like infrastructure, health care and school curricula in a remotely sensible way? Ki$$ my a$$ should find something else to do but politics. (I for one respect peoples pronouns ;-)

[@antihypocrisy8978]

The US has no credibility. Not when it causes chaos around the world so it can sell more weapons.

[@annalieff-saxby568]

Speaking from the UK, I find all this ballyhoo really cringe. Talk about smoke and mirrors.

[@madgodloki]

I really hope with all this roe v wade and circus of a scotus, and very openly corrupt republican party backing up a potential coup plotter that the majority of people will see the decision for what it is and will show up to vote this disease out.

[@matthewwilliams8978]

I love how not a single person was clapping when Cruz presented himself! Total silence!

[@yama5182]

…and maybe a lot of confusion?! 🤣🤣

[@buslady6695]

They were waiting for the rock band to come on stage.

[@williammccarthy7187]

That was definitely a awkward moment couldn't happen to a better douchbag.

[@tommynewsom17yo94]

The images still put's a smile on my face seeing them hide

[@LuisGuzman-uj3mg]

Yes

[@davyman2000]

The Republican rallies are starting to seem more and more like they are produced by the WWE and not in a good, entertaining way. But in a "oh these people are insane" kind of way

[@cristinac3482]

Isn’t Vince McMahon available since he got ousted at WWE?

[@davidclark573]

Trump ran his 2016 campaign like a professional wrestler with the wrestler who tells the biggest lies gets the most applause. Trump has always been into professional wrestling.

[@lorinelson7523]

It's what the crowd likes.

[@AlexSeverinski]

Apparently before the Orange Traitor appeared on stage, they played Undertaker and Hogan's themes.

[@sunshine3914]

Don’t suppose it had anything to do with him getting the support to run for office after making an appearance on WWE, to drum up ratings for The Apprentice.

[@heidigone]

Having everyone say, "Kiss my ass, Ted Cruz" seems pretty reasonable.

[@melodymarks4927]

Thank you Cruz what aMoron!

[@jeffreycarman2185]

Those outtakes are priceless!

[@seanpatrick1243]

The word “yesterday” was difficult for him, because it would have made it clear that he was referring to the riot as the “heinous act” rather than the election.

[@apollo5751]

Joe Biden shakes hands with GHOSTS, he can't speak, he falls of a bike, he hides at his home every weekend (to get more drugs) and his kid is under INDICTMENT (negotiating a plea deal) and you think Trump (who has been persecuted FALSELY) years before 2016 is a bad person for not being guilty of ANYTHING he's been accused of? LOL, you are classified as an idiot.

[@embreis2257]

that makes actually sense (in his corrupted mind)

[@michaellombardi1620]

Those outtakes show us who he truly is. Again. I hope it convinces a few more people late the the party at least

[@ranaway9307]

The working class people would welcome Trump back to the White House to end the democrat destruction of our economy !!!

[@donnawhiteturkey7240]

B'S!

[@2jackdog]

Nah ! People will support Trump no matter what he does. No matter what he does.

[@freedomlife3623]

@@2jackdog because they see themselves in his image.

[@joechapman8208]

He hides it so well most of the time, but yes, once in a while the mask slips

[@voiceofreason8041]

Awesome editing . LOL Love it!!

[@moxy187]

There's me...There's Rosa Parks! And of course Ruben Hurricane Carter...had me dying

[@forrestmaher4545]

The crowd at Ted Cruz's entrance was noticeably quiet.

[@commonsense571]

Yeah well he still get elected. Still holds power. 😕

[@supersaiyansalamence]

What crowd 😂

[@grmpEqweer]

Just FYI, anyone leaving a what's app number to call in a comment section is a scammer. Please report them.

[@messytoodles76]

I was thinking the same thing

[@ianmiller6040]

@@grmpEqweer Report them for harassment. It's more serious than spam and will get attention of the admins (a bit) more quickly.

[@chrisobrien1344]

He's confusing " persecution" with " prosecution", and the " friend" is him

[@stevewales7266]

His "friend" John Barron

[@ccdogpark]

@@stevewales7266 I was thinking Alex Jones.

[@stevewales7266]

John Barron is a trump alias he used through out the 1980's. According to WaPo, "the name was a 'go to alias' when trump was under scrutiny, in need of a tough front man, or otherwise wanting to convey a message without attaching his own name to it. Barron would be introduced as a spokesperson for trump". He also used John Barron to plant favorable stories in the NY tabloids. Alex Jones is a legitimate candidate also, HA HA Ha ha

[@ccdogpark]

@@stevewales7266 I didn't know that part.

[@stevewales7266]

@ Bill Zardus; kinda suspected that. S'ok, probably most people don't. I did kinda wonder how many people would "get" what I was referring to. In the 90's he would feed the tabloids braggadocios stories about all the women he was involved with, claiming to be a trump publicist named John Miller. So maybe his "friend" is John Miller. 😆 He is one sick, narcissistic sociopath.

[@geniaallen2792]

This is so unbelievably ridiculously hilarious !!!!

[@winniecross4579]

The grim destruction of all I have wroght . . . whoo, hoo . . .