Come on let’s go out and do this real fast.
This is the famous desk, many presidents have
sat behind this desk. Good stuff right?
Awesome.
Nothing like the White House, you know, it's
the whole deal right?
How are you?
Alright, so are we good to go here? Frankie?
Should I wait for you?
Your sons a big fan of our website.
He’s a big fan of yours, yeah.
I’ve tried to get, even before this started,
I was trying to get a retweet out of him for
about six months.
Well, we will do that.
He kept, well you got me one once, he DM’d
me and i'd be like, get the old man to get
a retweet to get the numbers up, and then
we will talk business.
You’re doing pretty well.
Yeah, yeah, well so are you.
So I consider myself, believe it or not, Apolitical.
I don’t think of myself as wildly Republican-Democrat,
I’m down the middle. The fact is, this is
the first interview I’ve ever done. You
have done pretty well, you started very well,
that's good.
I was going to give you the heads up, I don’t
know if you can remember this, you were once
on the Ali G show, and you were the only
one that sniffed out that it was a fake interview
and the whole thing. I don’t know if you
remember that.
That’s right. I thought maybe you would
be like, oh this guy is a fake.
Were you involved in that show in some way?
No, not at all, I just watched it on TV.
But you’re right, I was the only one.
30 seconds, in and out.
I said, this guy is a total fraud, And I left.
And everyone else sits there for 6 hours.
I know. You’re the only one that’s ever
given my credit for that.
That was a very sharp move.
Well, thank you.
Because he’s pretty good at that, he gets
everybody.
Now I like this interview, no matter what
he does I like this interview now. Mariano.
That’s right, I said what’s going on with
this guy? And I just felt it was a phony deal.
Yeah, and nobody else did it. Nobody else
smelled it out.
And he said he was some British Broadcasting
Corporation. They called up with everything,
beautiful, the voice, this British Broadcast.
And this guy shows up and, and this is, but
within a very short, like immediately, and
thank you very much, you gave me credit. Because
I never get credit for anything.
I’m pretty good that what I’m saying
You are pretty good
And here’s- and here’s part of it, I hate
politics, my dad loves politics, the thing
that drives me nuts is that I feel like for
us, which is good. They are like, Hey Dave,
you’re a snowflake. Hey, Dave, you’re
a sort of crazy person. And almost on each
side, you can predict what somebody is going
to say, which drives me nuts, it’s like
you put it in a box. So, one of the things
that I’ve been thinking about, and for all
the people like me, which I think is a good
amount of the country, is which way am I going
to vote? One of the things I have a question
for, and again I think it matters, I’m very
curious about the answer. When the Kaepernick
thing started I was critical of it, and as
it continued. Baseball players now, I heard
you say if they kneel you’ll turn the game
off. And we’ve got the Black Lives Matter
protests. So for me it's like, how is somebody
that’s dissatisfied, in your world what's
the way for them to show it because we don’t
want them looting and doing all the stuff
they're doing. To me, that’s like a silent
protest that is far better than going on the
streets and creating crime. So I’m curious,
what would you do if you had an issue with
the country or something to show your displeasure.
Well I mean you could always say you run for
office right, you become successful, you can
run for a lower office, you can do things,
but there are ways you can get groups together.
They can be very friendly ways of doing it,
very successful, I mean you’re going to
have rebounds - negative rebounds if it keeps
up the way that it is. Like, for example Portland,
this is crazy, 51 days, you know, we send
in very powerful, not military, but very strong
people. The police are good, but they were
told not to do anything by the Radical-Left
Mayor. No, you have to go out and you have
to say, and speak your mind is good, I think
speaking your mind is good, but you have to
do it fairly. We are for justice but we’re
for law and order, it's gotta be law and order,
and there is law in order. I put something
out when they were starting to rip down statues,
I went out and I found an old law, an old
bill, you couldn’t get it passed today.
You get 10 years in jail, you get 10 years
and no games, and we have a lot of people
in jail right now. If you rip down a statue,
a federal statue because the states have to
take care of their own unfortunately because
I do that too. But if you rip down a federal
statue you get 10 years in jail, 10 years
no three months, and nothing happened since
then, it was amazing, I signed it, I had a
news conference, I said it you do it, and
we were supposed to have thousands of people
march on Washington that day. Nobody showed
up.
How do we close the divide? Like at my age
it’s like, it just seems half the country
hates the other half, and no matter what you
say you can’t get along. So, and you’re
the lightning rod, there’s no doubt in my
mind. Do you agree with that? That you’re
like a lightning rod?
Sometimes for a purpose, I mean, you know.
How do we bring it together so the two sides
right now that are at heads can be like, you’re
my guy?
I think it was happening, and then we got
hit by the China virus okay. I think it was
happening, success. Our country never did
better, the highest, the best employment numbers
in the history of our country. The best unemployment
numbers, African-American, Asian-American,
Hispanic-American, everybody, the best unemployment
numbers in history. The best stock market
we’ve ever had. Although I must tell you,
as you probably know, the stock markets almost
at the same level right now, which is a great
thing.
I wasn’t watching it today, that’s why
I went down today.
Okay, but the stock market has been
Yup, right
Absolutely great
Since March
A lot of things are happening, great housing
numbers the other day, great unemployment,
great everything, we’re doing really well.
We're trying to get rid of the rest of this
Pandemic, but success does it, and we were
ready to do it because if you look at when
you say Hispanic or when you say African-American,
Asian-American, they were all working, everybody
was making a lot of money. Everybody was doing
good, and it was coming together, and China
sent us this horrible, bad, present. A real
bad present. They could’ve stopped it, they
should’ve stopped it. And we made a deal,
you know, we made a trade deal with China.
MHM
And it was a great deal, and it means much
less to me now, then it did then because I’m
not happy with what they’ve done to the
world. They stopped it going into China from
Wuhan, but they didn’t stop it going into
Europe, the United States, and the rest of
the world. So, but, we were ready to do it,
and the word is a success, and I think we’re
going to have a great next year. We’re going
to have, I mean, you’ll be able to see the
results before the Election which is interesting
because of the very beginning of November,
the Election is November 3rd, at the beginning
of November the numbers are going to come
out for the 3rd quarter, and i predict those
numbers are going to be really great despite
the fact that Democrats want to keep their
areas closed. Because the want the numbers
to be
Right
And I mean can you imagine.
Yes.
You know, I know how you feel about that.
Yeah.
And part of the reason I think, a big part
of the reason, they do it is for politics.
I don’t know that the Black Lives Matter
person is like Woah, we don’t, the economy
is great, but we still want the President
to come out. Whether it be Twitter or whatever,
and be like, have our back, so that’s where
like the kneeling and things like that seems
like such a small concession in the thing
to be like, yup, Donald’s our guy.
Yeah I don’t like the kneeling I must be
honest
Yeah I know
I don’t like the kneeling, I didn’t like
it for the NFL. I think there are many ways
of showing you’re unhappy, because when
the NFL saw what was happening.
I hate Goodell, by the way.
I know exactly, I’ve heard that.
Good.
And I don’t know why he did it in the middle
of the summer all of a sudden sitting in a
T-shirt in his basement he comes out with
his thing about, that nobody was even thinking
about.
He spiked at it, nobody was talking about
it and he brought it back to the forefront.
I don’t understand, he’s talking in the
middle of the summer, he comes out and he’s
sitting there and he looked, you know, nice
but I wouldn’t say like, Mariano. He looked
nice in his T-shirt okay, I don’t know if
I’d look much worse than that to be honest
with you, I would wear a T-shirt. I think
he would’ve looked better in a suit.
That’s why your Twitter game is strong.
No, no, he would've looked better in a suit
and tie. If I had any advice, number one,
he could have waited until at least the fall.
Yeah, right.
But more importantly, I would have worn a
suit, or a tie, or even an open shirt that’s
loose, not tight.
Yeah, I got you.
Okay, so he came out with this thing, Dave,
and everyone’s saying where did this come
from now? And the whole big thing started,
and he’s made a mistake.
I actually have a question on your presidential
powers. So, you may not know this but during
the NFL draft, he said I’m going to do a
charity auction, and somebody can sit in my
basement, watch Monday Night Football with
me, and the charity will go to COVID. Well,
I bid, and won, I spent 250,000 dollars to
win that chart. I won it fair and square.
He rejected it.
Well, he wanted no part of you.
I know, so I don’t know if you can arrest
the guy for that.
No, but I think he did a good thing, that
was a wise move.
By him?
That was a very smart move.
That’s the first nice thing you’ve said
about him.
Look he’s working hard and everything, but
it's, you know.
He's the most overpaid guy in the history
of human beings.
Well, he makes a lot of money
A lot of money for a job a lot of people could
do.
Alright, I have to ask this question because
we followed. When you meet world leaders,
you stick the handshake on them, and it looks
like you’re going for the power move. Is
that intentional?
So, before COVID, right now I guess.
Well now you can't, this is pre-COVID.
He’s the only one I’ve shaken hands within
a long time. You, cause you stuck your hand
out.
Yeah, I did.
And I’m saying, what are we doing? But I
shook your hand. You were tested?
I was tested when I came here.
Good. Otherwise, they would take you out right
now.
Right.
They’ll end the interview. Did you notice
that? He stuck his hand out, and I said what
do I do here? Rather than insult him I said
fine.
I appreciate that.
I immediately ran, washed my hands, no. But
in the days, like four months ago. I just,
you know, I get along really great with the
world leaders. I’m tougher with world leaders
than any presidents been. I’ve been tougher
on Russia by far with the pipeline, with our
military, with the oil. You know, we’re
the number one energy in the world energy
producer in the world, and there’s nobody
even close. I’ve been very tough on Russia.
I’ve been very tough, with I mean China,
nobody’s been tough like me with China,
and that’s not to be tough, that’s because
for years they’ve taken advantage of so
many countries, not those two only, the whole
world, our allies, NATO, has taken advantage
of our country. But despite that, I have a
very good relationship with leaders, I mean
Because of the handshake?
I’ll shake them, I shake their hand, I hug
them.
Power shake.
No, I have a lot of great Abe of Japan, you
know look, they’ve been ripping us off for
years and years. They send their cars in,
there’s no tax. We send a car to them, they
say we don’t take your cars, you know. This
is the kinda thing we’ve put up with. We
defend these countries, we get nothing for
it, and you know, I’ve ended a lot of the
craziness that’s gone on.
Do you love doing Twitter?
There are times when I love it.
Yeah.
Too much sometimes, right.
Yeah.
Where Dan, we have, I think we have. Dan,
how many, what's our number now, total?
207 million.
Can you believe it?
What happens to this Twitter account? Is it
yours when it's over, or do you lose it all?
Well it's mine, and I don’t know if i'll
ever use it again but it certainly was good.
It’s a platform, look, we have Fake News.
You don’t know about that, but we have Fake
News.
Uh, I know very much about that. That exists
in my world as well.
And then you know Dave that uh we have a voice.
We have a very big voice when you have the
kind of numbers that we have. You're able
to get the word out in an honest word and
that's important. So, it's been very important
to me.
Do you sometimes because you're, I follow
you on Twitter and I know I do this, but my
I’m not the pres, well my nickname is El
Pres.
That’s true.
I’m a company. So, we're doing it, do you
ever tweet out and be like wake up, oh man
I wish I didn't send that one out?
Often. Too often, yeah. You know it used to
be, in the old days, before this you'd write
a letter
and you'd say, this letter's really bad, you
put it on your desk, and then you go back
tomorrow and you say, oh I’m glad I didn't
send it. Right, but we don't do that with
Twitter. Right. We put it out instantaneously.
We feel great and then you start getting phone
calls. Did you really say this? I said, what's
wrong with that? And you find a lot of things.
Do you know what I found? It's not the tweets,
it's the retweets that get you in trouble.
You've been caught with retweeting. People
are like, oh you just retweeted this crazy
person. So, you don't even look, you just
press re-tweet. Do you just fire from the
hip?
You see something that looks good and you
don't investigate it and you don't look at
what's on. The helmet exactly. Right, which
is in miniature and you don't blow it up. And
sometimes it's. But I have found almost always,
it's the retweets that get you in trouble.
I've seen that a little bit with you. So,
we got an opening day today. Okay so uh Fauci’s
throwing out the first pitch. Do you give
him any tips? You think he's gonna be able,
I mean, he seems like a little guy. I've never
seen him. Are you expecting a good pitch here?
Well, they say he was a good basketball player
and he is a very nice guy.
How tall is he?
Not, well, he was not tall, but he was a fast
little guard. And they say, he was a good
basketball player. And he's actually a very
nice guy, we don't always agree on everything,
you know he'd like to do things that I don't
like to do, but ultimately I make the decision,
but we make it all a group of people. And
he's been here for like 45 years, for many
many years and he's a nice man actually.
So I started doing, I’m a sports guy.
Sure, good.
Like the company that bought us Penn National
or gambling companies. So, sports gambling
is a big part of what we do. I switched the
stock market actually, day trading, so Fauci
is on my ex list, because every time he talks
and says the companies, the country should
stay inside. My stock's tanked, so I don't
like that aspect of it.
No, he'd like to see it closed up for a couple
of years, but that's okay. Because I’m president,
so I say, well I appreciate your opinion.
Now, give me another opinion. Somebody, please.
Overrule, yeah, the overrule.
No well, you have to. And you know, we're
open and we're doing well. And I just had
a press conference about opening the schools.
You've got to open the schools. They have
a stronger immune system even than you have
or I have.
Oh, that's not something.
The kids.
That's not saying that I don't know.
What I like about it, but they do, they have,
it's amazing you look at the percentage. It's
a tiny percentage. Of one percent. And in
that one case, I mean a couple, I looked at
a couple of cases. If you have diabetes, if
you have you, no problems with something,
but the kids are in great shape. So we want
to open the schools. And we're opening the
country and we had great numbers announced
the other day. And two weeks ago we had the
best, the best, the biggest number of jobs
we've ever had. And the month before that
we had the same thing. A lot of good things
are happening and I think it looks like a 'v'
have a lot of people that would like to see
their states close. I have a feeling on November
4th, they'll open them up. I think they want
to do it for political reasons. But we're
doing well. The polls are starting to really
shape up. You know Dave, we were doing great,
we were sailing. George Washington would have
had a hard time beating us. And then, when
the China Virus came in, all of a sudden,
you know, it's a dampener.
Well, yeah COVID is bad.
Right. It really is, it's a downer. Well,
it's a downer though, and you know, psychologically.
And, uh, it went down and now we're really
starting to do well. We're looking really
good in a lot of different places.
I'm sure you've been asked this. It's one
of the questions that I had when I was thinking,
what I would ask you here. Because you theoretically,
for somebody like me, who’s sports entertainment,
having fun, um you're the dream life, seemingly.
And there's a part of me that's like, I wonder
if he ever, you know, I know the answer is
gonna be no regrets because now, I mean, you're
the most famous person in the world. Yeah.
My guess is nobody ever said, hey I don't
like Donald Trump before he became President,
but now, everyone has an opinion and your
life has changed forever. When seemingly you
have the dream life beforehand.
I was in so many rap songs, like seventy-nine,
or something, I was in every rap, this is
before I did this. Right. It's a very interesting
thing that you say, because the best day in
my life, in terms of business, and, life,
and everything, was the day before I announced
I’m running for President. Everything was
good. The company was good. I was, I had finished
up a lot of jobs that were very successful.
And it was and then, I said, I want to do
this now. I'm really glad I did, but I was
treated very unfairly with fake Russia, you
know, Russia, Russia. Russia, and Ukraine,
Ukraine all fake stuff. It's, it's a very
vicious business. Somebody said, who's the
toughest in the world to deal with? Is it
Russia? Is it China? Could it be North Korea?
I said, no. The toughest is the United States.
It's the toughest to deal with.
Yeah.
When you look at what I have to do, I have
to focus on the big picture but, I also have
to focus, have so many people on the left,
or call them Democrats, call them whatever
you want, and then you look at what they're
doing, with cities. Every city is run by a
Liberal Democrat and they're going to hell,
and we have to do something. We just sent
people into Chicago. We sent people into Portland
as we said. We're sending people into New
York to help out. It's incredible, but I love
doing it. But there was this, you know, phony
deal. That I was devastated when I won, because
I couldn't have my life. I had a great life.
I did. One thing that happened, I was going
into a thing called the Robin Hood Foundation.
I'll never forget it. It was just about the
night I announced, or whatever, my wife looked
at me, she said, you know I hear people booing,
and she was with me for a long time. We've
been together for a long time. She said some
people are booing. I said, yeah, but some
people are also clapping wildly. I said, no
she said, you know what I’ve been with you
a long time, I’ve never heard anyone boo
you. This was right after I started being
a politician. And it meant something because
I said, you know, it's the first time my life
I was ever booed. You know, the story.
Right, Yeah yeah.
Yeah, I’d go to Yankee Stadium, I had a
very, it was close to a who's 100 percent.
It was pretty close.
It was the dream life.
And now I would say now, I would say this,
I have more fervor on the one side and I have
far more animosity on the other side.
That's the vibe I get. I have this, is my
DNA, but I’m not the president. I feel like
so many interviews they're always coming from
an agenda. Positive or negative. And what
I notice, I think is you come at you hard.
You just come back harder and that's a very
different thing for the President. I mean
I’m the President of Bar Stool. But people
say, is it presidential, is it not? And you
just do your thing and it wins. I wonder that
like here's a hypothetical, if the perfect
candidate, let's not say Republican, Democrat,
came along and said, if we make him President,
this country is going to be prosperous. Everyones
gonna get along. Would you step aside?
I mean, I don’t know that such a person
exists.
Probably not.
And I should say Yes absolutely I would, okay.
So, let me say it that way because that's
much more politically correct.
Absolutely.
To be politically correct.
Yeah, but it doesn’t work that way.
Yeah, yeah.
Cause it just doesn’t unfortunately.
I really believe in success, we were there,
everybody was working. Everybody was just.
Probably you, I don’t know how you’re
doing now, but you were probably doing better
four months ago.
Well, I got in the stock market right when
it went up so.
Okay well, you got in at the right time. But
a lot of people, that is 401K.
Oh yeah.
I mean they’re doing phenomenally, but a
lot of people sold stock. And now they’re
saying I missed it. And I said, don’t sell,
don’t sell, just don’t sell, because the
foundation is so strong, just don’t sell.
But the people that really lost in terms of
economics, are the people that got out. The
people that stayed in, they stayed with me
and they’re doing great. And we're almost
at record highs.
Okay, the last thing I’m going to wrap this
up with, and we asked for permission, you
can say no if you don’t want to do it. My
dad and I have had debates forever, he’s
not the biggest fan of yours. What I want to
do is kind of a prank. He doesn’t even know
I’m even here, but we’ve talked a lot.
I want to call him, facetime him, and just,
he’d die if he saw that I was with you.
Go ahead, you can do it quickly right?
Oh yeah, it’ll take two seconds, he knows
it's coming. This is going to be Uh.
Oh, he does? That’s bad. That’s too bad.
No this is going to be absolutely great. Let
me get the thing here, I have it all set,
it'll take two seconds. Dad this is going
to be.
Is he a good dad?
He is a great dad.
Good. Good.
Alright. I’ll put you on in a second.
Don’t worry about socially distancing.
Alright well, I'll come over from here. Hey,
uh, I got a question for you. What would you
ask this guy dad? I know, you just sent me
something so I'm not shocked.
Uh, the goal was to shock. We've had a very
good interview.
And you have a very talented son. Good guy.
Really?
That’s all he’s got.
He’s honest. That’s an honest thing. You
have an honest father.
I was wondering why you were pinning me down.
Mr. President, he never calls me.
Oh no, That’s no good.
There it is. Alright.
That’s no good.
I haven’t heard from him, unsolicited in
a long time.
Well here you go, he was in a meeting with
the president.
I knew something was going on, I knew something
was going on sir. And I'm not shocked, although
I didn't expect to see your face just now.
It's great to see you.
Can you get him to call me a little more often?
I'm gonna put a lot of pressure on him, he
will call you today, in a little while.
Alright, thank you.
Thank you very much. Great to meet you.
He handled that better than I thought he would.
Thank you.
Yeah. I was really worried about it.
Well, he got tipped off, so this must have
been leaked. I don't know-how. Yeah. I appreciate
it. Thank you very much. Can't do it that's
great, a great guy. Yeah. I almost did it.
Thank you very much.
