Russell Brand Reacts To Trump Vs Morgan Interview

donald trump isn't president anymore he might not even run for president again so why are we still talking about him and why is he still defining contemporary politics hello there you 5.6 million awakening wonders i'm so happy that you are with us on this voyage to truth together let us cultivate the light within ourselves let's cultivate the connections between us let's see what can grow out of this movement where people become more bold about speaking freely open to new alliances open to new conditions if you want to come and see me live you can i'm performing in glasgow there's a few tickets left there i'm in blackpool have a look at there's a link in the description anyway just come and see me it's not important i also want you to sign up to my mailing list so i can communicate with you directly in case i do anything mad and unusual so i'll be putting that up at the end now let's talk about donald trump of course he recently did that interview with piers morgan do you think that ending bit was faked do you think it's like a media stunt did you hear that leaked bit of audio where it sounds like they sort of ended convivially more importantly though than this one conversation although that's a gifted interviewer and a very interesting and exciting orator in communion together both of whom cause a great deal of controversy but then so do i who's free from controversy in this world what i'm interested in is what does trump represent how do we view trump now do you want trump to run again do you see america as a better place with trump at the helm do you think that trump would handle the ukrainian conflict differently or do you just enjoy trump because he says mad stuff because that's where i land on all this he uses the n word the nuclear word all the time what trump's got is a gift for saying stuff that's a bit mad and interesting he uses the n-word the nuclear word like he's playing oratory games isn't he playing rhetorical games right now he's being interesting the people that dislike trump i don't understand why they can't see what he does brilliantly that's what's always confused me but then i suppose i shouldn't be confused because i was one of those people when he announced the first time i'm going to be president i was like no you won't you're mental mate no one's having you as president but he was right about that because he was president that's a no-no you're not supposed to do that he uses it on a daily basis and everybody's so afraid so afraid so afraid and as they're afraid he uses it more and more that's why he's doing the kind of things he's doing he's doing them because he thinks nobody's gonna ever attack us because they're all stupid and they're afraid to talk i totally agree with him one of the things you have to say about donald trump is he understands primitive dynamics expertly i.e alpha posturing because basically what donald trump's saying is this wouldn't be happening if i was president i could accuse his editing but how is that so effective biden's saying oh he's got nuclear weapons he keeps saying he's got new we have better weapons that we have the greatest submarine power in history what would you say and do i would say we have far more than you do far far more powerful than you and you can't use that word ever again is it possible that geopolitics can be reduced to this like superpowers or at least a former superpower and a current one talking about the most significant conflicts currently happening in a way that's sort of so identifiable and recognizable is it really that simple you go listen you might have nuclear weapons mate we've got more nuclear weapons you keep mouthing off well do you like like no different from school all political life is still an expression of the palette of emotions that human beings experience isn't it like what is late corporate capitalism greed you know like greed fear desire it's all going to be drawn from that palette there aren't new emotions there's not new phenomena they're not feeling things from different dimensions when it comes to elite politics and elite corporate political pacts are they so perhaps what donald trump does is acts as a kind of cipher of simplification that we all sort of somehow appreciate because of the obfuscation and opacity of modern politicians you cannot use the nuclear word ever again and if you do we're going to have problems trump is like a culture hack a circuit jam we're so used to the dissonance of what politicians say and then what they do they say all of this stuff and then we know they've got them foundations and they're trading in congress and they own stocks in this and none of it makes sense so when this person comes along just go you will just be good better burns better burns everything seems to go like that he pulls things madly into alignment it's a version of truth we're so accustomed to the disparity the disjunct between what they say and what they do that when someone sort of mashes that together it's startling and i think the people that dislike trump don't acknowledge that you know like of course i don't agree with donald trump on so many things ultimately a billionaire catalyst that said some really really crazy outlandish stuff but there are loads of things in terms of his rhetoric his ability to communicate his diagnosis of contemporary american political life his clarity you have to say well this dude what who are you bringing in as the alternative and by the way by the time we arrived at trump we'd been through that you know the spike of optimism of people like tony blair oh this guy's good he's young he's gonna be really good oh [ __ ] oh [ __ ] he's just done a war right he's useless oh but obama obama he's good oh oh no oh [ __ ] no he's just done the same things but hillary clinton a woman one will that work and it doesn't make any difference like shuffling around the kind of demographic differences around age and race and gender doesn't mean anything in that sphere people focus too much on trump rather than the causes of trump what facilitated trump's rise a total lack of trust in political figures a political landscape that was devoid of integrity no political party that was representative of ordinary people and because none of those things are going to be addressed because of entrenched establishment corruption in all parties it's easier to just go i don't like trump he's a sexist or whatever you want to say trump but he actually isn't meaningfully worse than any of the people that you're presenting as an alternative and he is observably better at doing the things that are important i.e being on the television connecting with ordinary people there's your trump phenomenon when you were talking to putin when you were president and he was talking about potentially invading ukraine that you threatened him with your nuclear capability i threatened him like he has never been threatened before i threatened him like he's never been threatened before trump's certainty is appealing isn't it you don't know what frets like putin he was in the kgb he must have some crazy [ __ ] in his life did you threaten to use nuclear weapons i don't want to say that i threatened him like he has never been threatened before who speaks like that like churchill who says stuff like i threatened him like he's never been friend before essentially he's appealing to something that there is a need for there is a knee for look how complex your own life is look how much uncertainty there is from the decisions you make about what you eat to how you conduct yourself in a relationship to the ongoing doubts about evolving social lexicons so you're uncertainty about political figures the fact that no one in the political landscape is presenting you with a new vision saying this is how we could organize society this is how we're going to run things i know what i'm doing don't be frightened no one's talking like that so donald trump at least is ticking one significant box there's an archetypal charge to somebody else i threatened him like he's never been threatened before you can go to bed and relax now i'll [ __ ] you i'll see you in the morning i'll get in as well i'm just gonna put my hair net on i think potentially look you know if these people aren't smart and they're not if these people aren't smart and they don't what we're watching here is two people that really understand media two collaborators in creating spectacle piers morgan understands media like few people on the planet donald trump understands media like a few people on the planet here they are together engaged in this wonderful piece of theater talking about like nuclear wars and stuff like that it's also it's mad isn't it because in a sense right like we're talking about aesthetics anyway like are all the people that are doing all the you know flags like are they really any more integrally connected to the reality of people in ukraine bombed and desperate and baffled not really just like it's a the pose the aesthetic the dance is based on sort of sympathy and apparent sophisticated nuance compassion whereas this dude and appears there it's much more yeah come on let's have it and the fact is is that sort of um professional class piety that's not rooted in the kind of compassion that warrants requires demands in fact sacrifice is just artificially different aesthetically different not meaningfully different our leaders are not smart if they're not smart you can end up in a nuclear war trump cannot become irrelevant unless you make trump irrelevant you cannot nullify trump and trump's rhetoric unless you have political parties and political leaders that behave with absolute integrity and authenticity that are willing to say for example not have pundits on cnn that are former military advisers that currently work for lockheed martin as long as you know that there are congress people that have investments in raytheon and firms that make weapons as long as you know that the media secretly enjoy wars because it improves ratings as long as all those things are true as long as there's a great deal of complexity about biden and biden's families relationships in big business some of which are you know ukrainian some of which are chinese as long as all these questions are out there you are going to require the simplicity the vivacity the bombast of a figure like trump who at least provides something real even if it's just a better type of illusion i'm obviously uncertain about their effectiveness and my personal opinion he was president for a while the world didn't really change in any way that was sort of significant so both sides should take that on board like if you really really hate trump well what changed if you really really like trump what changed what is true though is that the problem of trump remains the same problem it isn't trump at all it's the context it's an establishment that has no political integrity that has no political teleology that has no vision has no meaning because essentially his diagnosis is correct they're corrupt they're only in it for the money no one's got any authentic care for ordinary people and as long as those things remain true then trump will remain a viable alternative this is just the beginning this is the beginning and i've been the best predictor of things ever now where does that claim come from from donald trump yeah i'm the best predictor of things ever like what is a chart is there of the predictors of things that they've been in the past nostradamus there like machines that predict outcomes data optics for athlete performances all these different meteorological systems predictors of figs up there at the top donald trump how long's this let's go back that covers always you know i confronted kim jong-un it just sounds so cool like people saying that that's sort of what you feel like a president should be it's a child's drawing of a president come to life he said i have a red button on my desk meaning a nuclear button i said i have a red button on my desk too but it's bigger and stronger than yours and mine works it's difficult enough to see that as some phallic male posturing is there an actual red button like the size of the button wouldn't really matter look at this bloody hell boom that's more what the button ultimately does when you press it it could be like a mouse's button that you could do with your little finger as long as it creates a nuclear explosion that is not a euphemism but it's so amazing and again observe the simplicity the observe the effectiveness bigger stronger bigger dick harder bigger fists more willing to have a fight but like elsewhere in the conversation before you condemn trump's oh an idiot like what are they saying elsewhere deliberately confusing we did this with nato we have these interests we inspired that coup some guy coming out saying i've got a big red button on my desk oh my nails that sounds like a simple solution this stuff that would happen if there was a war on sesame street strongly against mandates but i'm very proud of what we did i saved worldwide tens of millions of lives it's another amazing claim and again it's interesting because a lot of people on both sides want trump to be a kind of overt anti-vaxxer but he ain't an anti-vaxxer because an important part of his legacy was the creation of the vaccines and as you just heard him say in his incomparable style he saved tens of millions of lives now i know a lot of like anti-establishment people are anti-vaccine or at least anti-mandate so that's another interesting part of the trump narrative my opinion is before overtly condemning trump get your own house in order i haven't mentioned that's it no yeah yeah last question four times this was a 20-minute interview listen this was a 20-minute interview uh i think it's fine it's fine what that is is an interview between two masters of the medium so whether you think of the medium these are people that know how to operate within it expertly and the reason we have a requirement for them is because elsewhere there is so much opacity and undue complexity that's usually connected to disingenuity rather than oh look the world's complicated of course it was bloody complicated because truth is complicated but i feel that many political figures and media operators enhance and amplify the complexity not in order to give you a better depiction of reality but to obscure reality altogether and one thing donald trump seems to do is pierce that with a kind of rhetorical brutality and a bombast that's appealing in a landscape that's otherwise just feels like some nitpicky stew of bureaucratic claptrap congratulations on the holy one all right thank you very much thank you very much thank you very much we appreciate it okay thank you okay let's go that was a great interview yeah that's fine thank you very much i really appreciate it turn the camera off i often think when people condemn donald trump where is your platform to condemn him from because it seems to me sometimes that donald trump is simply better at doing what they all do they all strip away complexity but they don't do it with so much easy charm and apparent wit none of them are offering nutrition a real vision of a better world genuine solutions to the problems that affect your life a willingness to confront the complexity and apparent opposition of the polarity of progressivism versus traditionalism they just pick a side and sling mud at the other side as long as no one's offering a realistic alternative an alternative they'll make your life better my life better our communities better the planet better better world for our children better world for our elders respect tradition the ability to be who you are as long as no media based political based corporate base offers us anything like that trump's simplicity his rhetorical ability will remain appealing and in my opinion no one's got any right to condemn donald trump unless they're coming from a place of integrity and in the whole political landscape i don't see it anywhere but that's just what i think what do you think let me know in the comments below if you enjoyed this video have a look at one of these two and remember sign up to my mailing list so i can communicate with you directly please subscribe to this channel if you don't subscribe already and turn on the notification bell if you can more important than any of that please stay free

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Length: 16min 7sec (967 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 29 2022

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[u/North_Star_07]

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Russel Brand never got it for 5 years always bashin Trump. Look where ut brought us. Since last year he changed his tune but that is merely because the Democratic party is imploding and he is part of the controlled opposition. Later on, he can say, yeah not all leftists were nuts. Look at me

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I love Russell Brand! Very stimulating.