Jordan Klepper Fingers The Pulse - Into The MAGAverse: Full Special | The Daily Show

hey what's going on everybody trevor noah here during last year's presidential campaign we sent our very own jordan klepper all around the country to attend as many trump rallies as he could and he did from pennsylvania to iowa all the way to the capitol riots on january 6th now that some time has passed we thought it would be a good idea for jordan to look back at what he saw catch up with the people he met and reflect on that year and its violent conclusion so tonight we present to you jordan clapper's journey into the [Music] megaverse [Music] i'm jordan klepper and i'm back where it all began in the very same parking lot where i interviewed hundreds of fired up trump supporters here in hershey pennsylvania or lancaster pennsylvania or [ __ ] this might be jersey the point is i've definitely been here before because i remember doing a badass hero shot over there interviewing some women drinking wine at 10 in the morning and walking out of that corn field like a boss although there's no more corn field so thanks a lot president joe biden last year i followed trump supporters to his rallies from parking lots just like this one all the way to the steps of the capitol that i stopped because sedition's not really my thing i'm more of a jaywalking guy but now that the election's over and the glass has been cleaned up from the capitol i wanted to look back and reflect on this past year and see how this led to this because ultimately they were about the same thing a fervent devotion to donald trump above everything else and that's something i learned early on in my travels the picture of donald trump that his supporters have in their heads is more flattering than well almost any picture of donald trump but don't ask me just ask them to describe donald trump [Music] trump is my hero president trump is kind of a force his aura came in the room before he did donald trump is our first rock star superhero president he's a very tall man a little bit shorter than yourself very big man uh nice big hands he's a man for all the people i think he didn't need this job whatsoever either the white house is honestly like a downgrade from his penthouse sweet and everything it feels like it's a downgrade for america too he's just a peaceful person in general i think and he puts those protesters down like that which causes peace pretty quickly he's got skin that is is about as thick as it gets and who donald donald trump donald trump is yeah he's thick skin he's sick he gets mad if a celebrity makes fun of him on twitter yeah he's the real life tony stark they should call him president iron man well tony stark gave a [ __ ] about science of course you can't be a true superhero without some tragic flaws sometimes i don't like what he tweets i don't 100 agree with the way the guy talks admittedly his personality is a bit rough around the edges if he's doing a good job why can't he just vote for him he yeah he's an ass sometimes all right we'll end on that last part i think something we can all agree he is an ass sometimes but that's him that's him right nothing could stop a trump rally not bad weather not a looming impeachment trial not a full-time job as leader of the free world and definitely not covet 19. even at the height of the pandemic the trump rallies still drew a crowd because trump rallies are worth it just ask anyone who isn't herman cain besides there's simple effective health precautions that can limit risk at these events like wearing a mask but for many trump rally goers this was a face diaper of oppression [Music] [Applause] [Music] trump is all about transparency as you can see on the faces of his supporters frankly i'm pretty jealous of these mouth breathers whenever they report it they just talk about cases and death they don't talk about recovery they just tend to focus on the of stuff yeah too much focus on the number dead let's focus on the other uplifting stuff correct [Music] i'm worried about covert why no mask frankly i forgot it in my car why aren't you wearing a mask i mean again it's a personal choice i think if everybody was wearing them and everybody said put a mask on i respect everybody's wishes and put it on we're not cheap we're lions you're not cheap but if everybody here was wearing masks if everybody was wearing it but again we're not cheaper you're not cheap we're not so you're going to look at what everybody's doing and you're going to follow that's it yeah but not cheap you know from a trump supporter's point of view a trump rally was a traveling carnival it rolled into town gave everyone some thrills then rolled back out leaving some good memories some coveted hospitalizations and some unpaid bills so what happens when the president of the united states stiffs the locals on an invoice just ask the mayor of albuquerque new mexico who's still looking for his money mr mayor thank you for joining us what happened with the city of albuquerque and the trump campaign trump came for a rally and we decided to bill him because the cost of the city were tremendous they made us shut down downtown we had to close city hall and so we decided to just build the campaign for it and we have yet to get paid so how much does trump owe 200 000 roughly 200 000 that's it he's into deutsche bank for 350 million you think you're gonna get your money from him he doesn't even pay the irs they can put him in jail in my mind he owes us a lot more because there were about a day and a half where we couldn't even function as a city what have you tried to do to get money back from donald trump no phone calls have been returned so we hired a collection agency you actually hired a collections agency he should be getting these annoying voicemails that like we get usually from scam companies where it's like you owe debts i mean i think mar-a-lago is now getting those calls a collection agency for donald trump i feel like they could specialize predominantly in just donald trump claims like did you ask for a number 12. we know other cities just from news reports have also built the campaign yes the king of debt is very good at staying on brand because he owes lots of cities money maybe you send a tough guy to go get money from him like you're the mayor of new mexico you don't know mike from breaking bad uh i don't but uh i have her actually as a person he's a great dude and and he really also loves albuquerque when people out there hear that a city doesn't get 200 000 what does that actually mean to a place like albuquerque where would that money go really what happens it just goes into the general fund and we use it to operate the city so police force or fire all of those services is it fair to say that donald trump has effectively defunded the police i mean i knew it was happening somewhere in america apparently it's happening somewhat in albuquerque by that definition you could say that knowing that he owes 200 000 to albuquerque might mean he'll never come to albuquerque again and is that worth it that's all right with us we're totally fine with that i got a little gift for you that i think could be helpful i want to send this your way welcome to albuquerque we do not accept checks from donald j trump i saw this at a bodega once to really just shame anybody who had bounced checks and this it kind of did the trick hey if you send that to us we might send you back an image of that hanging somewhere done [Music] if there's one thing trump supporters hate it's fake news which begs the question which news sources do they trust we used to like fox we don't like fox we don't like msnbc we don't like cbs we don't like any of the fake news channels because they lie all the time what happened to fox was it their coveted covers that turned you off no what about hannity i like hannity tucker tucker and taco yeah so just two hours every day of fox news otherwise it's a complete boycott yes absolutely will you accept joe biden as president of the united states on the 20th no i will not accept it no i will not so look what i i've educated myself about this okay i don't know all what's in the constitution have you read it it's pretty short constitution of america yeah i've not read the whole thing no you've read the entire thing yes it's remarkably sure all right i doubt that but it's okay you should read it because you might be committing a seditious act in an hour and a half okay i'm not gonna comment about that what do you think of the impeachment come on everybody knows what it's all about read the transcript right read the transcript right have you read the transcript i have not read it but we should read the transcript we should look at the transcript right yeah look at the transcript have you read the transcript uh i i trust the word of our president man yeah read the transcript read the transcript yeah did you read the transcript i don't have to everyone else i can read it if i need to but right yeah but it's important that everybody reads the transcript it is very important pay attention and think for yourself yes you have but to be clear you have not read the translation right but it is just important yeah yeah don't be a sheep think for yourself but again just to be very clear you have not read i have not read it you just trusted somebody else about it what are you saying about don't be a sheep think but just because they won't read their sources that doesn't mean they don't have them somewhere historically this presidency has lost more jobs than any other it's not true he has not been like tony i need my sheet with the job i'm gonna give you facts come on give me facts what's on the fact sheet i'm gonna show you the fact sheet is that in my car you don't have the facts sheet so close she had the real facts but i think she left them at the wine store people are stealing our election it's obvious this is our country people are stealing our elections how are they stealing the because they're putting voter fraud it's suspicious how are they putting voter fraud department of homeland security said was the most secure election in america who's that that's one guy like you and me broseph you guys should do some research there is massive voter fraud as the evidence is being demonstrated by mike lindell and others to be clear i think he goes by the pillow guy what are your lines who do you trust i trust the president i think he's heading in the right direction i trust trump what tells donald trump i trust donald trump and that's it well there's uh there's uh okay i trust trump and what he says what he knows you know i don't trust the media that much so the only person you really believe is donald trump himself uh that's not the only person i believe who else do you believe i mean ultimately i believe jesus is king and i believe the bible that's like two you got jesus and trump no i trust a lot of people my friends my family tucker carlson tucker carlson jesus and donald trump and more i can go on and on if you want no i think i get the picture people ask me lots of questions about my time at trump rallies are the people i talk to real is what they say scripted do they agree to be interviewed was i ever close to getting my ass kicked the answers are yes no sometimes and oh boy definitely here's a look behind the scenes at how the maga sausage got made [Music] should we get closer yeah here this guy's got a lot a loud majority shirt on i saw them at the front let's grab him did i see you at a rally in hershey no you weren't in hershey no harrisburg no no is this your first rally no no starting to get deja vu finding the right person to interview is a subtle art you survey the scene looking for the perfect shirt hat sign or you could just walk up to the lady with a megaphone yeah guys here we go here we go we're covered to a tower near you many people wonder if we get permission to film them and we do which is apparently much harder than getting them to send surprise recurring donations to the trump campaign before i show this i just need a signature if that's right i'm not doing it dally show with trevor noah are you trevor no he's he's in new york he's not here this is jordan tell me your name i can print your name just you want me to sign a release you guys gonna ask me a bunch of dumb trick questions say there was ten people here today i wanna know how many you think sometimes these people are so enthusiastic they don't even wait for their turn to talk i mean they they promise this is a conspiracy against the united states thousands of people tried to murder people inside that very building sometimes their anti-media anger is surprisingly personal funny you're not fine i don't know what the decisions are telling them aerosols so they're a little bit upset they're a little bit upset here you can tell [Applause] are you guys the liberal media i have one word for you you are controlled by the deep state that's like four or five six words ten words that's even two that one's even two but that's okay here's a moment when you might think the heated conversation is over and at a maga rally it rarely by the is and i have one word for your thing [Music] the silent majority is derived are you ready but every so often the anger the vitriol and the combativeness melts away and we have a conversation that you could almost call civil i appreciate your questions you weren't you weren't feeding me these leading questions that i i appreciate that they're very genuine and they were important questions too i mean a lot of people don't they're not asked forced to answer these sorts of things well that's the part we're going to use obviously i'm biased but i'm trying to be more intellectually honest i would say you're doing this all wrong at this point you're supposed to call me fake news and insult my testicles there are some people in the news who give it a bad name but i think there are good honest journalists out there well thank you very much i appreciate that [Music] donald trump is more than a president he's even more than a man he's a brand a brand associated with power opulence and the cuts of meat you find next to foot massagers at the sharper image and no one loves the trump brand more than his supporters every maga rally was a vast field of tasteful manga merch with bright colors and copyright violations as far as the eye could see here are just a few of my absolute faves [Music] people say it's uncool to wear the merch of a band to their own concert well those people have never been to a trump rally you don't see a buddha judge rv like this even a kia is tastefully adorned with like one bumper sticker is that a trump hat on top of a cowboy hat yeah it's actually my dad's hat that's sort of like the turducken of patriotism has this impeachment been fair um i think it's a joke i i just needed to build something as tough as uh trump so i made the trumpeter so a uh ruthless heartless uh automaton has come from the future to destroy our hope is that what's going on here but like any unlicensed merchandise sometimes the official branding messages can get lost why are you here well because two weeks ago i had a dream and in that dream i was given this vision this you you had a screen printing dream your dream told you that trump is gonna win and then ivanka and then don jr and eric tiffany is going to win in 2048 and then baron great all right all right but barron only serves one turn no that's only one term that's four years yeah actually these are mostly one-term presidents oh you're right you're not reading it right brother no i'm like 22 no this is 20 24 to 28 that's four years and then another four no no that's these are one-term presidents ivanka one term done junior one term ivanka what sort of what's the date ivanka is 2024. 2028. that's eight years that's four years no you have a four-year period year where somebody else gets elected it doesn't say anything about reelected it does it says has her getting elected in 2024 and 2028 your math is wrong no my math is not wrong and while these patriots love america they do think that old glory could use a little jazzing up it's not the size of the flag that matters it's how many votes you get the electoral college system everybody said nothing on your flag it's a big flag it's also not an american flag star is a stripe signer brother just appreciate it if you don't see that it feels like it's mostly donald trump obscuring still i appreciate if you don't stand there be honest if anybody's disrespecting a flag i think it's the 10-foot high donald trump what is that is that is that trump that's trump out of confederate flag that's the federal flag yeah see that's cnn i think she still lives cold buddy you don't know how to pick a winner you might as well put a jets hat on and the maga merch isn't just fun it's functional because on january 6th it was a great way to identify all your fellow insurrectionists i was worried that we were in trouble but then i saw that we got the tyranny response team here and i feel a lot better thanks for all you do look into your heart okay it's not a joke look you make a good point but you are wearing you wearing a one right now a onesie that is a flag i suppose if you bought all of these flags and all of these garments you gotta do something like this [Music] [Applause] i mean they've been prepping for this at least sartorially for years [Applause] what was the mood at a trump rally what was the feeling fun sure camaraderie yeah what else uh oh yeah rage i watched it simmer at these rallies for years then build during the campaign and i was there on january 6 when it finally boiled over into the capitol building here's what that awful day of insurrection looked like on the ground from the point of view of a guy who was just there to find some laughs i'm here in the nation's capital they're boarding up some of the buildings here and i overheard a man in fatigue say they're worried about antifa yeah that's who they're worried about man in military fatigue being on the ground on january 6th was really unnerving from the very beginning even the night before the insurrection when we checked into our dc hotel we knew this was different we overheard wild conversations in the lobby full of maga faithful massless supporters claiming coveted stories of packed emergency rooms were lies and they were all in fact empty seeing a lot of cosplay here there's military here and then there's a lot of these people who are pretending to be military here you know how you know because they don't have badges they just have notes from their wife that says you can go for the weekend and hang out with your friends but be back on time my producer wanted to ease into the interviews after seeing the charged crowd full of proud boys oath keepers q anon believers and anyone else willing to toss aside our democracy it's getting a bit hectic there so i wanted to find some space luckily there is some here at the national museum of african american history and culture then we spotted a group of proud boys appearing to leave the event heading east toward the capitol well before trump finished his speech we found filming on the national mall was a safer more effective way to get real conversations for a while then we found a man acting unhinged with a pitchfork this is a warning we can mobilize a million people to any city in this country now make no mistake that's the situation that's right man we're not playing around who was interrupted by a man acting more unhinged how come we got a million people to monument when over there's where they're screwing us how come nobody's over there how come we're not done playing you don't come down here and film congress oh you all [ __ ] oh y'all the really unhinged guy angered the sort of unhinge guy wielding the pitchfork i'll speak to myself okay he speaks for himself as we were setting up for a quick stand up we noticed another large group marching aggressively down the street the proud boys all pass by again we settled in a spot just outside the northwest side of the capitol because we knew that at around 1pm that angry crowd would be arriving there from the white house and we knew that if things got hairy it gave us the best escape route to the train in our cars and then words became actions the barricades got pushed over and folks flooded in we're starting to see this massive people they broke through the gates here and now they're heading into the the capitol i'm hearing people say it's our house i heard some old man start screaming forward forward it's our house it's a democracy should look more organized than what we're seeing right now but we've been organized you have to do something else because we don't do it properly good good yeah trump supporters were getting up on the stairs the fences and the embankments barking at people telling them where to go everyone turned into field generals most of them wearing sweatshirts you buy at airports when you get cold waiting to board your flight folks have pushed through and now they're heading into the capitol no violence other than shoving that down and carrying pitchforks it was a mix of the scary and the absurd maga in a nutshell there were the scary there were the absurd can i can i ask you some questions are you afraid if you run out of batteries for the last stand then you'll be thwarted good luck i hope you don't run into bumpy terrain or stairs personally i don't think i'll ever forget talking to a man on a segway who was attempting to topple the greatest democracy on earth the democrat party progressive socialist marxists pose a far greater threat to this nation than any any person on the battlefield we looked around and we were shocked but not surprised the last 14 months tipped it pretty good the total distrust of facts and information their cult-like devotion not to their country or ideals but to a person of course they were going to get here [Applause] all right and we knew it was time to leave we continued listening to the escalating insurrection unfold in the only place a comedy show should from the quiet car of an acela rushing back to new york city of course as we all know the insurrection failed trump left office and the maga supporters who aren't awaiting trial have returned to their hometowns and their old lives but before i walked away from this story i wanted to connect one more time with a trump rally going one on one away from the cameras and insults and sense of impending doom so i caught up with edward the debt collector to hear what he's up to i've talked to hundreds or what feels like thousands of trump supporters and there have been a few folks who truly stand out like edward i'm literally making four times as much as i was making when obama was president what do you do i work for a debt relief company yeah it's good to be a white debt relief collector besides being first at line at the harrisburg pa rally he spent the better part of last year at rallies on the local news and in the papers preaching the maga gospel i truly believe that donald trump was sent by god i wanted to see if the ultimate rally head had any misgivings post january 6 than if there was any common ground we could stand up edward i see you dressed down i figured you'd want me fully dead yeah we're going to ask you to bring your trump apparel but i guess you didn't get the email i'm gonna sit six feet away if you don't mind that's all right i got something under the mask do you yeah what's under the mat vampire fangs you have vampire fangs you literally have fangs i got these fangs made for me professionally it's been a chaotic year so much anger and i wanted to come back kind of close that loop connect with somebody who had seen before and get some sanity again and you showed up with fangs i'm a bengal tiger so then i started bringing the fangs around to the rallies telling people i'm a i'm a tiger he sees himself as an endangered species which makes it remarkable that eric or don jr haven't sniped him in a trophy hunt i have been to 50 trump rallies you went to 50 trump rallies and i have spoken to the president from the stage a few times it was really great i mean he has recognized the beard and at one of the rallies to figure out which one it was i was near the front and he pointed me out and he said there there's that guy there's that guy that's how he talks to his children he said i think i see this guy all the rallies he gets in the news a lot do you stay in touch with the old maga crew people you run into the rally of course i've developed some lifelong friendships with the maga crew what's the magnet crew up to now uh avoiding subpoenas uh i'm jonesing i'm jonesing you know the trump rallies are great i was depending on them was the high point of my life it was a lot of fun i was at the last trump rally and it was definitely not a lot of fun but what does he think about what happened at the capitol on january 6th well i don't support i mean let me put it this way i don't think the way it's reported is is what actually went down i saw a different perspective nobody i knew was going there to overthrow the government or break into the capitol building what does your shirt say what million magamartis be there we'll be wild yeah well we had a fun look but but you're literally wearing a shirt that that has intention on it and the intention is you can watch it i can sell it okay but we had a wild time the first two we didn't cause any trouble we had a lot of fun when a president stands up and says you need to fight for me that they might literally we're playing semantic games now you went there with the complete intention to disregard what donald trump said yes whoever went into the capitol building these were not trump fans because nobody would have walked out in a speech they broke in he was still speaking for half an hour how are those people uh well you know i've heard news reports that one of them was an integral member of antifa or whatever happened on january 6th they meaning the the people who don't like president trump the democrats that nancy pelosi allowed this to happen they were trying to kill nancy pelosi was she say saying let me tell you some of them i think maybe are being uh unfairly persecuted really yeah the fbi uh came to my house after the rally well at least they're doing their job but it'll be a little bit of hope did you flip on anybody i'll flip it anybody did you turn somebody in you're running around free right no no of course i would i first i wouldn't write nothing to flip because my point of view was peaceful as the fbi asked me they wanted to know if i breached the capitol building i said of course i didn't i said that that would have been the stupidest thing in the world but the guy that you pledged your life and wardrobe to told you to essentially do exactly so what's next after the violent insurrection that he doesn't think donald trump told them to do well turns out they're just waiting for donald trump to tell them what to do we're not giving up you know it's not over we're coming back in what way uh it depends on what the boss tells us to do uh donate i believe was the last thing from up on high i've donated a lot to him you know purposefully or you look at your bank account and realize oh [ __ ] i guess it happened again i didn't want to leave without finding some common ground with edward he previously described trump as a superhero and a rock star but had edward come back to the reality that the president of the united states is mortal who's not impervious to criticism and technically works for us you've seen braveheart of course everybody's seen braveheart i have seen brad yes donald trump is our william wallace that's right i mean maybe they both do wear a lot of makeup maybe they drew him and quartered him metaphorically but he left behind a very strong vocal and patriotic force of people you know what i i want to find a middle ground here i how about this donald trump i don't see him as your william wallace but he is a lot like mel gibson [Laughter] i knew we'd find some common ground i guess some ground is better than no ground so that's it the maga rally journey is over and president trump's ending is not unlike that of the ancient king ozymandias his wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command looking across this vast emptiness that was once his empire look on his works ye mighty and despair [Music] anyway i'm just gonna stay here so i can be first in line when the rallies start up again in 2023 or when don jr runs in 28. i'll always be here i guess this is my life now thanks joe biden you

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Published: Sun Aug 22 2021