Donald Trump’s one-on-one interview with TV host Phil McGraw, aka Dr. Phil, dropped Tuesday. The interview was Trump’s second likelihood this summer season to ramble to the movie star physician on his new community, Benefit Avenue. Lots has modified for Trump since that June interview—an assassination try, a brand new opponent in Vice President Kamala Harris, and a brand new ally in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—however Trump nonetheless discovered time to insist that the 2020 election was stolen and ramble on about why windmills are a menace.
Let’s dig in.
“In California you have some people getting seven ballots—Democrats,” Trump mentioned, selling the large ol’ lie of large voter fraud. He advised McGraw that he had such a giant crowd at one in every of his speeches there in 2020, it was inconceivable to imagine he misplaced the Golden State by 5 million votes.
“If Jesus got here down and was the vote counter, I might win California,” Trump insisted.
If Jesus “came down” as Trump suggests, it’s unlikely that vote counting in California can be excessive on his precedence listing of points to handle on the subject of Trump.
McGraw gave Trump the prospect to make clear that point he advised a room stuffed with Christians to not fear about voting ever once more as soon as he’s in workplace.
Trump actually struggled with this one. Bigly.
“Christians, for no matter motive, don’t vote very a lot, you already know, proportionally. NRA individuals, and people who really feel very strongly concerning the Second Modification, they’re not voters. I don’t know why, perhaps it’s a rebellious streak?
“And I mentioned to the Christians, ‘We gotta win this election. We win this election, I’ll straighten every little thing out in lower than 4 years, by quite a bit. Then you definately don’t need to, it doesn’t matt–’
“In different phrases, I’m saying, ‘You don’t need to vote.’ Doesn’t imply we’re not gonna have elections, we’re gonna have elections. ’However it’s a must to vote this time, as a result of we’ve got to win.’
“This is the most important election in the history of our country. But you’re right, they took that, ‘you only have to vote-’ I say, ‘Vote this time, get us in. Once we’re in, we’re gonna fix the country, and it’s not gonna be important for you to come, and we’re not gonna need you voting. But we need the votes now.’ Christians have to get out and vote. Gun owners don’t vote, relatively, They don’t vote. And gun owners have to get out and vote.”
That clarified nothing, after all, so McGraw led Trump the place he needed him to go.
“So you didn’t mean ‘vote me in once, ‘cause I ain’t never leavin’?’ You’re meaning, ‘this is an important, vote this time.’”
“Of course that’s what I meant,” Trump sighed earlier than meandering off of McGraw’s path. “And I said it that way, and everybody agrees that I said it that way.”
The Republican nominee trailed off, pondering whether or not the well-known clip was on video, earlier than defending his equally infamous vow to be a “dictator on day one” towards “very dishonest people” who “take it and they cut it.”
“All you have to do is watch it,” Trump declared, as if tens of millions of individuals hadn’t already watched the footage.
And it wouldn’t be an hour-long Trump interview with out Trump tilting at windmills.
“They have all sorts of nice contraptions but they don’t have–wind is fine but it, it kills the bird, birds,” Trump mentioned. “It destroys the fields, destroys the fields. And the environmentalists love it, why do they love it? It kills the birds. Walk to the bottom of a windmill and take a look. It looks like a bird cemetery.”
When requested concerning the July 13 assassination try, Trump took a while to deal with his new consciousness of the risks of the (former) presidency with an oddly particular comparability.
“Look, being president is a dangerous job. It’s much more dangerous than a race car driver, than anything. It’s probably the most dangerous profession if you think about it, just go up and down the list.”
Firefighters, paratroopers, and academics may need some ideas about that.
Watch the complete interview right here, in case you’re into such issues.
It’s so good of Dr. Phil to take a break from spewing COVID misinformation to convey us this scintillating dialog with Trump—and one with RFK Jr. on Wednesday.
