>> All throughout this pandemic, I have been
continually saying that the right wing acceptance
of an ever-increasing death toll of 1,000
people plus on most days, 162,000 or 3,000
total as of today. Overall, they never would
have accepted this under a different president
and pretended bang up job that was being done.
That seems pretty clear to me. Where does
Trump fit? What would he have been saying
if it had been Obama? A reporter put that
question to him. Let's see what he says.
>> 60,000 people have died on President Obama's
watch. Do you think you would have called
for his resignation?
>> No, I wouldn't have done that. I think
it's been amazing what we've been able to
do. If we didn't close up our country, we
would have had 1 and a half or 2 million people
already dead. We've called it right. Now we
don't have to close it.
We understand the disease. Nobody understood
it because nobody's ever seen anything like-
>> Well they didn't understand it because
it's not that they hadn't seen anything like
it. They haven't seen it. Because it wasn't
around, it's also why we didn't have tests
for it. Anyway, so he wouldn't Emma, he would
not have asked Obama to resign if Obama had
presided over 163,000 deaths including a big
spike over the past few weeks.
>> Yeah, that certainly doesn't pass the smell
test. That's insanity. He was up in arms about
almost everything Obama did from Common coming
to the White House for a poetry session to
I don't know Obama just being black and having
a father from a different country? He must
have not been from here, right?
He's different. He's different. That was the
whole purpose of birtherism was to say he
was an illegitimate president and that he
should resign, which basically boiled down
to resign for being black looking different
than how I want a president to look and representing
something like change which doesn't sit well
with me.
So he wanted Obama out for that very purpose,
and let alone how they keep trying to compare
Trump's COVID response to President Obama's
Ebola response in a way to hit Joe Biden which
is like the wettest part of a argument that
I can think of. It falls so flat.
I mean, no one remembers Ebola in the way
that everyone's going to remember Coronavirus,
which caused an economic depression, which
caused tens of millions of people to lose
their jobs and beyond unemployment which caused
countless deaths. So nobody is going to think
of that in the same terms.
Most people probably think of Ebola in passing,
but this is going to dominate an entire year
and an entire election and Trump's in trouble
because of that.
>> Yeah, look, Ebola has and continues to
occasionally devastate certain countries.
We just weren't one of them. That's all. Still
a tragedy, just not an American tragedy.
The pandemic we're currently in is a worldwide
tragedy and especially an American tragedy.
So here's the thing. It's fun, I guess to
ask hypothetical questions about whether he
would do something if it was Obama. But we
don't need to go to hypotheticals because
as with everything, there's a tweet for that.
So this is the time in the show where we pointlessly
point out hypocrisy, even though it doesn't
matter. Donald Trump tweeted back in October
23, 2014. If this doctor who so recklessly
flew into New York from West Africa has Ebola,
then Obama should apologize to the American
people and resign.
Not if that doctor flies into New York, spreads
Ebola, and then it spreads more and more and
more until 160,000 people die. If that one
person had it, he should resign just off of
that. And then he said this actually slightly
earlier two weeks earlier says Obama won't
send troops to fight jihadists yet sends them
to Liberia to contract Ebola.
He is a delusional failure. So when he sent
our troops to try to help people, and theoretically
to help stop it from spreading to other countries,
he was a delusional failure for trying to
stop a virus from getting into American spreading.
Even though in hindsight it didn't spread.
So it seems kind of successful, should have
resigned, should be a failure. And one other
point by the way, he tweeted that anyone who
gets Ebola that Obama should go and should
hug them warmly. Everybody who contracts this
disease so we don't need the hypotheticals.
He did ask for him to resign, even though
basically no one at that point had died.
11 people were treated for Ebola during that
pandemic. Over 5 million people in the US
had been diagnosed with the Coronavirus.
>> Yeah, it's not comparable obviously Ebola
more deadly, but less contagious than Coronavirus
so I'll give Trump just that. Only that because
the rest of it is absolute absurdity.
And yeah, hypocrisy shaming. It's fun, it
makes liberals feel good.
>> It does nothing for the discourse.
>> It does nothing.
>> Yeah, I mean, because they're not acting
on rationality.
>> Yeah.
>> They're acting on emotion and they feel
like they love Trump and they love that he's
entertaining and that he says the things that
they wnt him to say about immigrants, about
the economy, about America, about Jingoism
and makes them feel warm and fuzzy.
That's you can't hypocrisy shame when it comes
down to emotion because when you're emotional,
you're a hypocrite all the time. So that's
>> I'm gonna keep doing it because it does
make me feel good. And cuz I feel like the
things that we've said and done should matter,
but I get that they don't, okay?
>> I like it. I like it, for commentary purposes,
it's awesome. For democratic strategy purposes
obviously, Democrats need to make their own
case. That's the only way that they win.
>> Exactly, and I am watching the YouTube
chat. I apologize that my Trump voice apparently
now sounds like Zoolander which is weird because
I've never seen Zoolander, anyway.
>> That is outrageous.
>> I know, I actually felt asleep while trying
to watch it the first time.
>> It's actually bad, but there's so many
great lines. And I love it, but watching it
as an adult, it's not great. And I looked
on Rotten Tomatoes and the critics.
>> Yeah.
>> Had some interesting things to say.
>> I bet. Yeah, I need to eventually watch
it. I'll get around
to it.
