President Trump has taken part in yet another interview with Sean Hannity, just a week after he had spoken to the Fox News anchor over the phone.
The two spoke for 40 minutes at a town hall event in Green Bay, Wisconsin which had a small number of attendees and it was as alarming and eyebrow-raising as you can imagine.
Before the interview even began, the two travelled together on the Marine One helicopter, where Hannity entered before Trump and even received a salute from the marines outside the vehicle.
Sean Hannity boards Marine One ahead of the president. He saluted the marines at the door. Trump followed about a m… https://t.co/ciC8FHCh6I— Zeke Miller (@Zeke Miller) 1593114051
The pair then had a walk around the Jet Air Group facility where the interview took place, which looked more like a backstage segment on WWE television than a conversation between a president and a journalist.
it's like watching a backstage WWE interview https://t.co/lNpxgpJGw9— Brendan Karet (@Brendan Karet) 1593133881
When they finally sat down to talk, things didn't get off to a great start as Trump attempted to make a joke about 'fake news' that was greeted by almost complete silence.
literally one person clapped for Trump's attack on the media during his Wisconsin town hall event with Hannity https://t.co/rJ9SyqPBpR— Aaron Rupar (@Aaron Rupar) 1593134080
Trump then moved on to repeating a line that he has said over and over again in recent weeks that cities that are controlled by Democrats, such as Chicago, are worse than Afghanistan, Honduras and Guatemala as an attempt to justify his border wall.
Trump claims that Chicago is "worse than Afghanistan" https://t.co/WgJzMrkxci— Aaron Rupar (@Aaron Rupar) 1593134322
In a bizarre moment, Trump appears to admit defeat to his presidential rival Joe Biden saying the he might become president because "some people don't love me."
"He's gonna be your president because some people don't love me, maybe" -- Trump sure sounds resigned to losing to… https://t.co/eqqJLey5cP— Aaron Rupar (@Aaron Rupar) 1593134515
Coronavirus was rarely brought up during the interview but when it was Trump managed to show further ignorance about the pandemic calling the virus 'Corona-19' and complaining that the disease has too many names.
Trump: If we didn’t do testing, we’d have no cases... There are so many names to this, I could name 19 names like C… https://t.co/vqIltHIxcS— Acyn (@Acyn) 1593134727
Trump then tried to justify his complaints about the United States having too many positive cases because they are doing too many tests by falsely claiming that Germany has fewer cases because they are carrying out less tests.
If you look at what we've done on ventilators and testing, where we have 30 million, Germany is second with maybe four, maybe five million. Germany is going to show fewer cases because they are testing far fewer people. Different size countries and all, they are testing far fewer people. Many countries don't do testing like that. So it shows that we are way up in testing but what it also shows by doing that, in all fairness, it shows a very, very low mortality rate. Just about the lowest. So, we are right at the bottom in a positive way and I think that people are starting to see it.
Trump then reveals a story, possibly told to him by one of his imaginary friends, that they think he is 'the most perfect person' which receives a polite round of applause.
"A friend of mine said, 'you have to be the most perfect person.' Isn't that true?" -- Trump https://t.co/9OWptMZngV— Aaron Rupar (@Aaron Rupar) 1593135504
Questions from the audience are then allowed to be asked and this is not a joke when we tell you that the first question was from a woman asking what Trump what his finest accomplishment was. Trump answers by saying that there the United States now has 300 federal judges before going on to take credit for the veteran's choice program which was actually signed in by Barack Obama in 2014.
Asked what his biggest accomplishments have been, Trump cites legislation that was signed into law by President Oba… https://t.co/ReJ93nIlIM— Aaron Rupar (@Aaron Rupar) 1593135747
While still on the same question, Trump begins complaining about government cuts before calling coronavirus an 'artificial problem' despite the fact that well over two million people in his country have tested positive for the disease.
Trump repeatedly describes the coronavirus pandemic as an "artificial problem." (The 126,000 Americans who have die… https://t.co/qjE56RCOYM— Aaron Rupar (@Aaron Rupar) 1593135843
As the conversation inevitably turned to the anti-racism and Black Lives Matter protests, Trump for no reason brings up the sexuality of Tim Carpenter, the Democratic senator who claims he was assaulted by protesters earlier this week in the state capital of Madison.
"The person they beat up was a Democrat who happened to be gay" -- Trump brings up a Wisconsin politician's sexual… https://t.co/SljcEu3va6— Aaron Rupar (@Aaron Rupar) 1593136174
Trump was then asked what his aims will be should he win a second term but fails to name any.
Asked what his top priorities for a second term are, Trump can't name a single thing https://t.co/fF6xXaDAy0— Aaron Rupar (@Aaron Rupar) 1593136421
One of the final parts of the interview showed Trump continued ignorance on coronavirus and complaining that people voted in person during World Wars I and II so why do they now have to do postal votes. This is part of Trump's unfounded belief that more postal votes automatically equal more fraudulent activity during elections.
Trump still hasn't figured out that World Wars 1 and 2 weren't contagious diseases (also the troops who fought thos… https://t.co/8IFqxRXOv8— Aaron Rupar (@Aaron Rupar) 1593136718
Trump ends the interview rambling about there potentially being no debates as part of the election this year because of coronavirus before claiming that Biden and the Democrats will destroy the United States.
I will do any amount of debates. You understand what I mean. I say 'if I want to do ten debates' they'll say 'he's afraid he is going to lose.' No, what I want to do is three and I'll do any amount that they want. It doesn't make any difference to me. He is a candidate that will destroy this country and he may not do it himself. He will be run by a radical, fringe group of lunatics that will destroy our country and people have to know that.
Mercifully it was then over. Just another regular hour in the life of Donald Trump then...