The 35 must-see lines from Donald Trump's interview with Hugh Hewitt
Whoa boy.
Donald Trump continues to counter-program the Democratic National Convention as he seeks to stay in the political conversation with the attention focused on his rivals gathered in Chicago.
On Tuesday he did an interview with comedian Theo Von in which the two engaged in an extended conversation about cocaine. Yes, cocaine.
Then, earlier today, Trump called into conservative talking head Hugh Hewitt’s radio show. Hugh, to his credit, always posts the transcripts of his interviews with the president.
So, I went through the whole thing line by line. (You can read the whole transcript here.)
The lines you need to see from Trump are below.
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To the lines!
“You have to do what you have to do, whatever it is.”
So, so true. And away we go!
“I just heard that many people were shot during that, and five people were killed already in Chicago during this convention.”
This is from Fox News. Eight people shot. Four killed. I will note here that Chicago is a city of 2.6 million people. There have been 364 people killed in the city this year.
“And we have millions of people coming haplessly, coming in from all over the world, from parts unknown, from countries people never even heard of.”
What countries are these? And who are the “people” who have never heard of them?
“Right now, Israel, the pressure that’s being put on them by Biden and Schumer, who’s frankly, you know, Schumer is, like is he a member of Hamas? Is he a Palestinian?”
Chuck Schumer is Jewish.
“Israel has to finish the job, get it done, and get it done fast. And they have to do it. They have to get it done fast.”
So Trump’s plan for Middle East peace is for Israel to, uh, hurry up? Got it!
“Somebody says he looks good in a bathing suit, so spend your time on a beach.”
Trump says this line about Joe Biden all the time. Like, does Biden really spend that much time in a swim suit? Also, Trump isn’t running against Biden anymore. Someone should let him know.
“Biden? I don’t think he knows where he is. But still, what they did, and you know, part of the reason he doesn’t, he got very much worse over the last 10 days or so.”
What evidence did Trump provide for this HUGE claim? Oh, none.
“You know, when you debate, I did a lot of debates, I mean, from somebody that eight years ago never debate other than life is a big debate, as you know better than most.”
“Life is a big debate” is the title of my forthcoming memoir.
“ABC is the worst newscast of any newscast by far. And you know, a lot of people don’t know that.”
ABC’s nighttime newscast has been #1 in the ratings for, like, 200 straight weeks.
“I owned something. I own a big chunk of the Bank of America building in San Francisco. So San Francisco used to be the greatest city, maybe, in the world. And that was 15 years ago. 15 years ago, people would say, the great Bob Tisch and others, you know Bob Tisch, he passed away a while ago, but he was everywhere.”
No one under 65 years old knows who Bob Tisch is. He died in 2005!
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