[00:00] KAMERON: Shots fired. The White House Correspondents’ Dinner abruptly ends in a hail of gunfire. 2,600 people in formal wear, diving under tables because some crazy person decided to shoot it up. But we aren’t talking about the gunman yet. That’s for another episode. We’re talking about what happened after.
[00:15] Trump sat down with Norah O’Donnell on 60 Minutes, where she read the gunman’s alleged manifesto. And Donald Trump does the most guilty man thing I have ever seen in my life. You know what it reminds me of? It’s like when a cop knocks on your door to ask you about a missing person in the area, and before they even open their mouth, you blurt out, “There’s nobody tied up in my basement!” To me, that’s basically what he did. He played himself. Let’s talk about it.
[00:46] [Intro Sequence: Pragmotiv News]
[00:54] KAMERON: So Norah O’Donnell is just doing her job, just like every person who interviews Donald Trump, they’re just doing their job. She was reading from the manifesto of the alleged gunman, Cole Thomas Allen. She reads this specific line:
[01:08] NORAH O’DONNELL (READING): “I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.”
[01:15] KAMERON: Now look at the details here. The gunman did not mention Trump by name in that sentence. He said “administration officials” were targets. But Trump immediately starts attacking her and fires back: “I’m not a rapist, I didn’t rape anybody.” And her reaction says it all.
[01:33] [60 Minutes Playback Segment]
NORAH O’DONNELL: The so-called manifesto is a stunning thing to read, Mr. President. He appears to reference a motive in it. He writes this, quote, “Administration officials, they are targets.” And he also wrote this: “I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.” What’s your reaction to that?
DONALD TRUMP: Well, I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would because you’re... you’re horrible people, horrible people. Yeah, he did write that. I’m not a rapist. I didn’t rape anybody.
NORAH O’DONNELL: Oh, you think he was referring to you?
DONALD TRUMP: Excuse me, excuse me. I’m not a pedophile. You read that crap from some sick person. I got associated with stuff that has nothing to do with me. I was totally exonerated. Your friends on the other side of the plate are the ones that were involved with, let’s say, Epstein or other things. But I said to myself, you know, I’ll do this interview and they’ll probably... I read the manifesto, you know, he’s a sick person. But you should be ashamed of yourself reading that because I’m not any of those things.
NORAH O’DONNELL: Mr. President, these are the gunman’s words...
DONALD TRUMP: You shouldn’t be reading that on 60 Minutes. You’re a disgrace. But go ahead, let’s finish the interview.
[02:54] KAMERON: What an a**hole. I’m sorry, but he’s a b****h. You’re going to sit there and call that lady that to her face? And all she did was read from the d*mn paper! And it didn’t even mention you! But you see, this is what I’m talking about. Why are you pouncing on that if your name wasn’t in there?
[03:11] It speaks to exactly what I’ve always said about the Republicans. They don’t understand that if you answer to a name that wasn’t yours, you accept it. You accept whatever they’re saying about you; you accept whatever they’re calling you. But to answer something like that? Frankly, that’s just telling on yourself.
[03:31] And you know, that reminds me... it reminds me of the whole Druski and Erika Kirk look-alike situation. I covered it a few weeks ago. Here’s a snippet.
[03:41] [Video Playback: MAGA’s Selective Outrage]
KAMERON (Playback): The thing that is even funnier than the video itself is the fact that MAGA immediately started saying that he was trying to portray Erika Kirk. Me personally, before I watched the video, when I had only seen pictures, I thought it was Miss Bumpy-Lip-Levitt, but whatever. So, what the MAGA idiots don’t ever seem to understand is: never answer to jokes that don’t mention you directly by name. So for them to respond directly, that is a huge mistake and they don’t even realize it. Like, people, you put her name to it. So y’all must really think she look like that.
[04:29] KAMERON: And I see Trump doing the same exact thing right here. He’s attacking Norah, calling her a disgrace and a horrible person, just for reading the words. He’s getting all defensive because the shoe fits a little too well, in my honest opinion.
[04:40] And here’s the kicker—the part that’s actually hilarious if it wasn’t so dark. He goes off about being called a rapist first, but then he realizes he’s focusing on too specific of a part of it. Just one aspect of the sentence he was focused on. So then he had to backtrack and catch himself and add: “I’m not a pedophile either.”
[05:01] He didn’t deny the pedophile part at first! He just let that one hang there until his brain caught up with his mouth. Congratulations, Donald. You played yourself.
[05:09] And of course, he spends the rest of the interview blaming Democrats for violence. Look, let’s be real. Let’s be 1,000% real here. The political violence in this country is largely coming from one side of the aisle. I made a video about it months ago—talking about this same issue. It’s funny how videos become relevant again.
[05:27] They are fine with the violence until it affects them. But most of the time, it’s them with the violence. As far as I know, no left-leaning person mailed literal bombs to multiple Republican figures. As far as I know, that ain’t happened. But yet, they’ve done it. Republicans have done it.
[05:44] So Trump wants to act like a victim of a “liberal press” while he’s literally throwing a tantrum over crimes he wasn’t even being directly accused of in that moment. He’s mad at Norah for just reading something. But I think the reality is, he’s just mad because she held up a mirror and he didn’t like the reflection.
[06:03] He called her disgraceful for reading the gunman’s words. But he’s the one who made sure everybody knew exactly which labels he thought applied to him. Like I said, I’m going to keep saying it until I’m blue in the face: You don’t answer to something that doesn’t apply to you. But Donald answered loud and clear.
[06:21] Next video, we’re going to get into the other side of this. Because while Trump is busy showing his hand in interviews, we have a Secret Service that let a man with a gun—with a shotgun—get within 45 yards of the President. That’s the real disaster. Out of all this shit, that’s the real disaster right there.
[06:39] So let me know in the comments, y’all. Did he fuck up and admit to something? Or was it just Trump being Trump? I want to hear it. See y’all next time.
[06:46] [Outro Sequence: Pragmotiv News]
