Rachel Maddow (4:00)

What else strikes me is that the people that are losing money are like Anderson Cooper said, they're Trump followers. The people who are getting rich. The people that are getting losing their ass on all these Trump investments, they're going to continue to lose their ass, they're going to lose health care, they're going to lose jobs. And they don't seem to have a problem with all of this escalation of the rich. And I don't understand how these people continue to vote against their self interest. But that's a story for another day. Then you look at the foreign interference that Trump has allowed in his administration. You have the five million dollar gold card where you can get citizenship. Now we look at this pull, put this graphic up his crypto dinner. Tristan Snell says Trump's crypto dinner is literally selling the power of the US President to the highest foreign bidders. This is total bribery and an unconstitutional violation of the emoluments clause. And you look at who is investing in all of these meme coins that he has and it says 76% of the token value held among the top 220 wallets likely belongs to foreign owners because the wallets used exchanges that are not available to US Residents. So when you're talking about cybersecurity, when you're talking about intelligence, look no further than the breakdown in the Oval Office. And here's the deal. He doesn't care and nobody around him cares.

Michael Moore (5:31)

But here, let's break this down for the American public to where it's a very simple message. If you voted for Trump, you voted because you were tired of other people coming into this country and making money. You were tired of people coming into this country and potentially getting some sort of benefit that you as a citizen maybe weren't getting. Whether that's true or not, that was a big. The border and immigration was a huge problem for them. So what I need for these people, people to do is explain to me, like I'm five, how you're okay with a South African born man coming over here who is a welfare queen who the United States taxpayer subsidized to the tune of billions of dollars. That man's name is Elon Musk, who is able to shut down investigations into him when all of the other laws of the United States of America apply to us. And then when you look at this graph, why is it that you're okay with Trump enriching people from other countries and not enriching Americans? And that simplic. Why are you okay with Trump making all of these people millionaires and billionaires and not you? Why are you okay with that? Is that safe? Is that good for us? And all of this stuff just falls through and then everybody's talking about the Gulf of America or opening of Alcatraz when the real grift here, the real anti American bullshit, you know, they're so, you know, they're patriots. This country's for Americans. We're not going to give it to anybody else. Trump's doing that at your expense, right, maggot? At your expense. All of his billionaire friends all over the place. This is a field day. There has never been a better time in the history of the world to be a white collar criminal than right now, right?

Rachel Maddow (7:19)

Well, kids, the United States of America is. The President of the United States is one. He is a white collar criminal. And then we have shocked to absolutely no one. Trump has never given up control of his businesses as required by ethics and morals and law. Put this up, Kyles. The Trump Organization admits in a filing that President Trump never gave up control of his business assets, despite public claims to the contrary. This confirms long standing and obvious conflicts of interest. And the lack of transparency makes it worse. Here's the thing, I. He lies all the time. I never believed this. I never believed he would give up control, especially those bozos of sons. He's not giving it up to them. He can bankrupt it from the Oval Office. But what he. This is the first time that he alone has figured out a scheme that's not going to go bankrupt. The American people might go bankrupt, the American economy might go bankrupt, but Trump is making billions off of the office of the presidency. And again, going back to all these foreign nationals. Nobody cares. The America first crowd is totally silent about it.

Michael Moore (8:32)

Yeah, it's really amazing to me that a lot of we live in, you know, this deep red state. A lot of these people that have this, like, white rural rage, you know, or white suburban rage, where they're just so mad. And Trump has been a conduit for them to express their anger. And if he hoodwinks them or enriches himself just simply because he says the stuff that he says, the homophobic, the prejudice stuff against immigrants, that's enough for them, that satisfies enough for them, because then they feel less neglected. And both parties, quite frankly, have neglected these people. You have the Republican Party, who has overtly neglected them, and then you have the Democratic Party, who has covertly neglected them by really not pushing when we do have majorities and raising the minimum wage, because the Democratic establishment is beholden to corporations as well, which is why I think the messaging of Bernie and AOC is the path forward. Because we can't just oppose Trump. And Bernie Sanders recently said this, so I'm borrowing this from him. We have to radically oppose Trump, but we have to radically rethink the way government works for us, because it just doesn't work. This. We manifested this entire moment, and everybody came to the worst impulses of unregulated capitalism and selfishness and, you know, merging religion in with American politics without making that kind of something that politicians shouldn't talk about their faith.

Rachel Maddow (10:15)

Right.

Michael Moore (10:15)

You should talk about service to the public, keep your faith private. But instead, they use that to get the rubes roped in. And it's just. This is. It's really sad to watch all of this because the. The fix for this is going to be so much longer than the break was.

Rachel Maddow (10:31)

Oh, it's generational. So going back to. Trump is immune from executive decisions. Okay. All of the. Kristi Noem is not immune. She doesn't have absolute immunity. Pete Hexess doesn't. Kash Patel doesn't. But anyway, I bring all of that up to say that cyborg. What is Pee wee German? Stephen Miller has now sued Justice Roberts, and he has said the judicial branch of government, the three branches of government, he wants the judicial branch to go under the executive branch, because the judicial branch is the only thing keeping Trump in check. So I just have a little bit of hope I want to leave people with. Chief Justice Roberts has said he. Chief Justice Roberts took a thinly veiled shot at President Donald Trump during an interview Wednesday. And his remarks stunned CNN anchor Aaron Burnett, who noted he knows the weight of every word. And so what I am hopeful for this kind of corruption in the White House that is not executive privilege. I am hoping that the next attorney general is Democratic and we have a full throated investigation into this. And I am hopeful that John Roberts and the rest of the Supreme Court now, obviously not Alito and Clarence Thomas, they're too far gone. But they are going to hold some accountability for this administration. I am hopeful for that. I think they know, at least I think John Roberts knows he created a monster. He created a monster and it is destroying democracy.

Michael Moore (12:06)

Yeah. But he still continues to feed the monster. We're still feeding the monster. He just put out. They put out a ruling that Trump could still continue to ban trans service members in the military. They're probably going, the Oklahoma case, the Oklahoma education case, where that money is going to be funded, taxpayer money is going to fund a religious school. They're probably going to vote for that. And so I have, I take issue with like, on the one hand, I'm not going to cede my power, but on the other hand, still going to feed all of the things and all of the bigotry and all of the corruption that led to this moment. He knows, and every person on that court knows that we have a distinct separation of church and state and they're going to squander that. They know that the trans people that serve in the military are brave, actually braver than anybody in the Trump administration to be born in this transphobic country and be treated like a piece of. Then you have the Supreme Court bully used to John Roberts. I don't have any hope in him because he wants to play both sides. He wants to keep his power for him personally. But he doesn't give a. And he doesn't fight for equality for all Americans. So him, him trying to have a moment of clarity on cnn. It is. I'm sick of it.

Rachel Maddow (13:29)

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