story? he has succeeded in gaining attention, but the whole idea of the bully pulpit is you use it to advance your agenda. he s got all of your attention. jimmy carter, who i liked i pay tribute to, could have kept our attention 24/7. he s constantly putting on a reality show that s never stopping. when he got elected president in the electoral college he began a four-year reality show 24/7. a four to eight-year reality show. i m old enough to remember when people complained that obama gave too many speeches. remember that? overexposure. he s overexposed. there is no overexposure. for trump? he doesn t have a policy agenda, he has a trump agenda and the trump agenda is to make sure it s constantly focused on him between twitter. how does he do it? because he taps into the inexhaustible fuel of american politics, which is rage. rage? he brings people out that don t like him. my dad when i was growing up
let s watch. real change begins with immediately repealing and replacing obamacare. we will also have an efficient and responsible federal budget. no more waste. no more throwing away taxpayer dollars. donald j. trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states until our country s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on. well, in some issues, he did an about-face like labeling china a currency manipulator during the campaign but not now. let s watch. we will build a great wall and mexico will pay for the wall. i will direct my secretary of the treasury to labor china a currency manipulator. i promise you, i will not be taking very long vacations if i
just because of who they are. and african-americans with that. i thought the birtherism thing was the build the first 20% of his coalition then build on the hating of mexicans and muslims. add up to the high 30s. it was like a big cake. right? yeah. i mean, his loathing it s a multilayered cake with lots of white slices and maybe some brown ones at the top. but here s the thing. his antipathy toward obama angel food. exactly. he s angry at obama for not just being successful but for being a successful black guy and part of this is an anathema to how trump sees himself. and this is really key. the more he goes after obama, just last week, snl does a sketch, barack, we want you back. if you strike me down, i ll come back more powerful. the fact that he keeps talking about obama just aggrandizes what obama did and he makes the president more powerful former president more powerful every time he talks about them.
what do you make of this, shannon? i do agree that there are racial tensions underneath all this obama attacking and maybe he doesn t even intend it to be that. but it is perceived that way and certainly by the alt-right and racist elements in the country. they perceive it to be about race. same thing with the persistent attacks on black athletes. i forgot. the take the knee guys. making it into s.o.b.s. they called them you can say i disagree with them. it s a good argument on both sides. i can see the argument. maybe it s not the proper way to show your anger but to call them s.o.b.s. or with the ucla players, sort of talking down. yeah, i know. we re going to have some fun now. if those people are deadly serious, you may want to watch something else for the next few minutes. i m sorry, this is what he is. just like fredo in the godfather , trump wants us to know he s smart. he s smart, michael. i m a smart one. that s ahead. you re watching hardball.
guy. why doesn t he cut deals with chuck schumer? why is it always stuck to that need to get 50 out of 52 republicans in the senate, the same old, same old every time and all it takes is three republicans to say no and it all crashes and burns. why doesn t he try to reach over and grab five or ten from the other side or write a tax bill the democrats are willing to go along with. i don t think donald trump understands how to make a deal when he s on equal footing. most of his deal making has been, i ve got money, you need me. he s talking to people who say, i don t need you to get reelected. i don t need your assistance. everyone around him is cutting deals. jared kushner, papadopoulos. everyone around donald trump seems to negotiate better than he does. deals about not going to prison for a long time. anyway, coming up, trump s trouble with the truth. the washington post happen counting up trump s falsehoods. it s an average of more than five a day. five and a half a day. we v