Breaking news from the only place
we get breaking news anymore, Donald Trump's Twitter. REPORTER:<i> Overnight,
President-elect Donald Trump</i> <i> unleashing a Twitter tirade,</i> <i> retweeting attacks
on a journalist</i> <i>after Trump claimed voter fraud</i> <i> but provided no proof
of voter misconduct.</i> Trump has shared tweets
from supporters who are hitting our senior Washington
correspondent Jeff Zeleny. One of Trump's retweets
is from a 16-year-old calling Zeleny pathetic. Yeah, Zeleny! You're pathetic. I mean, not as pathetic
as a future president so desperate for validation
that he's like, "See? This teenage boy says
I'm right." But, still, pathetic. Yeah. But, seriously, uh, congrats
to that teenage boy. Yeah. He's just been named
secretary of state. Fantastic. And, uh, this-this whole thing
with Trump leads me to a question. Have you ever argued
with a toddler? Because if you have,
if you have, you probably lost that argument or you killed the toddler. Either way,
you didn't win the argument, because you can't win
an argument against a toddler. Toddlers will say
the most outlandish (bleep). And the more you argue
with them, the more they become entrenched
in their views. A toddler will just say
anything. They'll just be like, "My daddy is the strongest man
in the world!" And you'll be like,
"No, he's not." Be like, "Yeah, he is." It's like, "No, he's not." "Yeah, he is.
My dad is the strongest. Prove it!" You're like,
"What do you mean? I c... I can't prove it."
And he's like, "I told you." Now, now, the reason I'm telling
you this is because, over the course of this election
season, we've come to realize that there's a good chance
that President-elect Trump might have the mind
of a toddler. And-and if you think about it,
it makes sense. You know, he loves the same
things that toddlers do. They like building things, they love attention, always grabbing things
they're not supposed to. -(laughter, applause)
-And... they love riding escalators. "Whee! Look, Mommy! Whee!" By the way, by the way, I-I bet that's-that's
the same thing with elevators. You know that whenever
Trump gets into an elevator, he's like, "I push!" And then presses
all the numbers. "Aah!" Now, now, throughout
the presidential campaign, the media tried to figure out
how to deal with Trump's lies. Then they realized
that Trump might actually win. So, uh, then they started doing
their jobs. So, on Trump's claim
that Clinton or her staffers deliberately destroyed
subpoenaed e-mails, CNN's Reality Check Team
finds that false. He talked about bombs
on the floor at the San Bernardino apartment,
uh, where that attack happened last year. There were no bombs
seen on the floor. -Nobody saw that. -REPORTER: <i>
Trump did make a number</i> <i> of false statements
in the speech.</i> REPORTER 2:<i>
Trump's claim is false.</i> REPORTER 3:<i> Trump spent
an entire day repeating</i> <i> a false claim
that President Obama</i> <i> literally is the founder
of ISIS.</i> You knew Trump's lies
had reached big league when CNN started fact-checking
him in their headlines. Look at that at the end.
That's a real headline. "Trump calls Obama founder
of ISIS (he's not)." It's almost like CNN was like, "Hey, we can't even wait for you
to watch the whole show. "You need to know
this is bull(bleep) right now. Right now. Don't even watch." And-and here's the problem
that everyone realized about Donald Trump
almost too late: facts mean nothing to him. Donald Trump
has no relationship to facts. None. Like, no relationship. Not even, like,
a distant cousin. He has no... He has a better
relationship with Tiffany than he does with facts.
And that's saying something. Trump has no relationship
with... If Trump went on Ancestry.com, he would not find any facts.
Or black people. None. And here th... here's why this is important,
right? Historically, every politician
the news has ever dealt with, they all have one thing
in common: they're all amazing in bed,
right? No, that's not true.
That's not true. They all have one thing
in common. In some way, shape, or form,
they all use facts. Even if they lie, politicians'
lies are based on facts. They base their lies on facts
because they're aware that human beings like facts,
so you're supposed to use them. For example,
for example, all right. I want you all to do this
at home and in the studio. I want you to imagine
the slimiest, most spineless,
conniving politician you can. Just think of that person. The politician
you're thinking of is Ted Cruz. -(laughter)
-Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. -Thank you. Thank you.
-(applause and cheering) I'll be here all week.
Thank you. Thank you. Yes, it's Ted Cruz, the Texas senator
who is an inveterate liar. And it's so bad that even his birth certificate
says "Lyin' Ted" on it. -(laughter) -Now here's
an example of how he lies. The computer models predicted that the earth would warm
dramatically. There's one little problem. The satellites that actually
measure the temperature-- that have recorded
no significant warming whatsoever
for the last 18 years. -(speaking gibberish)
-(laughter) You see what he did there?
It's hard to see. But we all know that
global warming is on the rise, and has been for many decades. We know this
because scientists have told us. But Ted Cruz-- and this is
where he's brilliant-- he took the scientists' data, and then he just used
the cherry-picked section from the specific satellite
data set that makes it look like global warming is not
actually an issue, when, in fact,
we know that it is. It's almost like someone saying,
"Man, I'm so good this year. This entire year,
I haven't had any junk food!" And you're like, "Oh, wow! "That's really impre... Wait. -It's only January 2nd!"
-(laughter) "Well, that's not the point." But you see, what Cruz did was
he made a lie based on a fact. Now until Donald Trump,
this is how politicians lied. That's why fact-shaming worked. It's almost like<i> Terminator.</i>
Think of<i> Terminators,</i> right? Most politicians are like
the original<i> Terminator,</i> Arnold Schwarzenegger. They have a skeleton of truth
and a skin of lies. And if you shoot enough facts
at the lies, the facts rip away the flesh
and expose the truth. But Trump-- he's the upgrade. (laughter) You come at Trump
with your facts, and every time, he does this. (laughter) By the way, that guy's also
in Trump's cabinet. (laughter) Now, the media has never
had to deal with someone who is impervious to facts,
and, uh, clearly it shows. What do you do as a journalist? How much time and energy
and space should we be devoting to the demonstrably false claims
that the president-elect makes? Do we overreact to every tweet,
every flutter from Donald Trump? You know, frankly, I don't know what our job here
is a journalist these days, because, I mean, are we gonna
just do Donald Trump's tweet of the day? (laughter, applause) Well, that... that poor man! (laughter) He's having
an existential crisis on air! "I mean,
what is a journalist anymore? "What... what is life? "What is tweets? I... I'm going to Thailand." (laughter) You know what my theory is? I believe that Donald Trump
has created his own universe, and from within that universe,
he takes a made-up idea, throws it at us
in the real world, and whether we can
prove him wrong or not-- it doesn't matter. We've lost, because now,
we're in his universe. For example, last night,
Trump tweeted that anyone
burning the American flag should lose their citizenship. And then, the news and Twitter
and everyone was swallowed up by flag-burning arguments. "Oh, the Constitution! You can't
do it! The Constitution!" But you see,
once again, Trump wins. It doesn't matter
what he says. He could tweet anything.
He could tweet that goblins
are faster than unicorns. And the next day,
the news would lose their minds. For 24 hours, it's all
they'd be talking about. CNN would bring out
a hologram unicorn. Don Lemon would host a panel
where people would argue about goblins,
and then, after all that effort, Trump would just tweet about how
the news is bad at journalism, because they can't prove
their claims. Claims that no one could prove
because Trump invented them. Think about it.
You can just do it. You can be like,
"Oh, goblins, unicorns. Goblins are faster." And the people are like,
"That's not true." "Prove it."
"Ah..." "You see? You're wrong." And Trump does this to the news
all the time. He said
Cruz's dad killed JFK. Then what happened? -People spent weeks studying old
pictures. -(laughter) He said thousands of people in
New Jersey cheered on 9/11. So reporters
went around New Jersey asking, "Hey, did you cheer on 9/11?
Did you cheer? "Who cheered on 9/11?
Who likes 9/11? "Wait. You do? "No, I didn't say 7-11.
I said 9/11! Come on, man!" (laughter, applause) That facts aren't
the same anymore. And don't get me wrong. I'm not saying
facts don't matter. But we've got to be smart
about how we use them against Donald Trump--
because he's changed the rules. He's completely changed
the rules of engagement. It's the same way Americans
changed the rules of engagement back when they were fighting
the British. Yeah, and the British
didn't adapt, and that's why they lost. They, too, were like,
"This is the way we've done it "since the beginning of time! "We can't fight like this. "They won't tell us
when they're coming, "they won't break for tea,
and they're hiding! "How can you fight a war
when you're hiding? "This is ridiculous!
We will not fight like... "Ah, I'm dead. I'm dead. "I'm dead. I've lost. I'm dead." The truth is, the news
also needs to adapt. Here's an option. One thing the news could try
is treating Trump like the toddler he is. You don't argue with a toddler
if you want to win. Don't amplify
the toddler's voice, because you'll just get trapped
in the toddler's world. Rather, just keep asking
the toddler to elaborate. Because logic is the downfall
of every toddler. Well, that and shoelaces.
But logic, mostly. Yeah. You don't fight.
The toddler says, "My dad's the strongest man
in the world!" And you're like, "Oh, yeah?
What makes you say that?" "Well, the other day, uh... he put something
on the top shelf." Is that tall or strong? "That's tall." Have you got another example? "The other day
he picked'd me up." Have you seen anyone else
picked'd their kid up? "Yeah." Still think your dad's
the strongest? -"No."
-(laughter) "I don't think
I should be president." -That's all you got to do.
-(applause, whooping) Just ask the toddler
to elaborate. And look, don't get me wrong,
don't get me wrong. You're not gonna convince Trump
he's wrong. But that's not the point. The point is to gently
demoralize the toddler and smother his tantrums. And as a bonus,
you could stop him from delegitimizing the press.
That's a bonus. So here's the thing.
Next time Trump tweets something completely ridiculous,
instead of fact-checking him, just say,
"Oh, wow, Donald, really? "Vote-rigging? "That's amazing! "Show me where it happened,
big guy, and we'll investigate." And he'll be like,
"I don't know." See, that way,
the news can spend its energy on stories
it can actually prove, like how Trump is nominating
a health secretary who wants to repeal
the Affordable Care Act and millions of people could
lose their health insurance, or how Trump's chief of staff
says that Trump thinks climate change
is a bunch of bunk, which means we'll probably
all be underwater in 50 years. You know, the things
that we should be focusing on. So, news, report on the stuff
that actually affects the real world,
and then if Donald Trump tweets some crazy claim
from his universe, just tweet him back-- "Hey, man,
pics or it didn't happen."
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