Donald Trump has been giving us the campaign we’ve all been wanting, Glenn says. Instead of “vindicative,” it’s been fun and full of REAL joy, unlike the Kamala Harris campaign. Glenn reviews the latest example: Trump responded to Biden calling his supporters “garbage” by donning a bright orange vest and taking a ride in a garbage truck.
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STU: Glenn, how are you? Nice outfit.
GLENN: Well, where is your costume?
STU: I'm going as you today. I'm sitting in your chair.
GLENN: Yeah. Don't get used to that, pal.
STU: No problem. That is not something you have to worry about.
GLENN: I'm going as --
STU: Your bag that you're wearing.
GLENN: I'm going as a Trump supporter today.
It's the greatest costume at the last minute. You know, you put a belt around it, and it's very stylish. It is a little hot to wear a garbage liner. It's a little hot.
STU: That's interesting.
GLENN: Yeah. They don't really breathe. They don't really breathe.
So, yeah. Yeah.
So, anyway, I was looking at what happened yesterday, with Trump pulling in, on the garbage truck.
Wearing the -- you know, the orange vest.
Which I've never seen him out of the blue suit.
I thought that thing was sewn on to his body, you know.
He comes out with the orange vest, right off Trump force one. And did you see his rally last night by any chance?
STU: I saw a chunk of it. I didn't see all of it.
I did see him in the vest. I saw him driving around in the garbage truck, with Trump on the side.
Smart -- I will say, the campaign for Trump in 2016 and 2020. I wasn't really impressed with. This one, I think was pretty good.
GLENN: I don't think we'll ever see a campaign like this again. I mean, think of the images we have. Donald Trump working at a McDonald's, and it worked. I mean, it actually wasn't a Michael Dukakis moment. Anybody else trying to do that, it would destroy them.
This worked for him. Then coming off the plane in a construction outfit, driving a -- a garbage truck, that wouldn't work for anybody else.
But it worked for him.
And then you have the image of him holding his fist up, after an assassination.
You're never going to have another campaign like this, ever. Ever.
STU: Yeah. And I keep thinking to myself, you know, these have worked. It looked pretty good.
I wouldn't keep pushing my lucky with them.
I feel like, one of them will eventually feel like Michael Dukakis. But, honestly, he's been able to pull off a couple of them.
GLENN: Yeah, every single one. Did you see Ramaswamy in the garbage truck?
He was picking up garbage, and he looked like a typical politician doing it.
Which, he's really not the typical politician.
He said, okay. I grabbed this can. And I put it in the back.
No offense to Vivek. I love him.
It didn't work!
With Trump, I don't know how these things are working. But they are.
And then he got on stage, and he was making fun of himself, you know, and he was dancing.
He's gotten better at dancing.
I mean, this honestly is the campaign.
I mean, yeah.
It's not -- he's not like, you know, me. On the dance -- thank God, he's not.
On the dance floor.
You know, but he's just -- he's hit exactly the right tone.
And they're hitting all the wrong tone. I mean, you know, they started out with, it's got to be a positive campaign. And look where they are. You know, calling Americans garbage. By the way, cut five. Here's what Trump said about that last night.
DONALD: 250 million Americans are not garbage.
(applauding)
This week, Kamala has been comparing her political opponents to the most evil mass murderers in history. And now, speaking on a call for her campaign last night, crooked Joe Biden finally said, what he and Kamala really think of our supporters. He called them garbage.
No way. No way.
And I actually mean it, even though without question. My supporters are far higher quality than crooked Joe or lying Kamala.
(applauding)
GLENN: You know, it's --
DONALD: Our response to Joe and Kamala is very simple. You can't lead America if you don't love Americans. That's true.
GLENN: Amen. Amen. Amen.
And it's clear, isn't it? Isn't it becoming very, very clear, they don't like Americans?
I mean, look at everybody around them.
That they're not people that you would want to hang out with. Are they? Pragmatism there anyone on the Kamala side, on that time, that you're like, you know, they just seem like fun. You know. They just seem like fun.
Where on the other side, you have people who disagree with each other. You have -- you have Tulsi, on Trump's side.
You have RFK Jr. You have Elon Musk. I mean, it is kind of the cool kids club. And they're all fun. They're all having fun. Well, I mean, RFK is not exactly fun.
It hurts.
Every time he speaks, I grab my throat, it hurts.
STU: What are you talking about?
He's the most fun. The guy is putting whales in his car. He's just picking up bears on the side of the road, and strapping them to his steering wheel for some reason. He's got all the good stories.
GLENN: You know, just a normal day in America, when the headlines read, Biden bites babies at White House event. I mean, nothing to see here, right? Just a normal -- another day in America.
Okay. There -- there is also from Fox news, an exclusive report, House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer accused the White House of releasing a false transcript of President Biden's remarks in which he referred to people as garbage.
Now, this is crazy!
We -- we saw the video!
And they release a transcript, that is not what he said. And then -- and then they tried to defend it, saying, well, no. He was just talking about the one comedian.
No!
No! He wasn't. He wasn't.
Go ahead. Here it is.
BIDEN: From Puerto Rico, where I am from. From my home state of Delaware. They're good, decent, honorable people. The only garbage I see floating out there, is his supporters. It's unconscionable.
STU: Yeah. But where is the possessive apostrophe in that? That is the debate.
I mean, they really are trying to say, that he was saying the garbage is held by only one supporter.
That was like their real argument on this, which is nonsense. Just say the guy is incoherent. And shouldn't be president of the United States. It would solve all your problems on this. You can't say this.
GLENN: You can't say that.
Because there's a deal. Shut up, Joe. Just shut up. Let's get through this. And maybe we'll help you build this library.
You notice? He can't raise the money for a presidential library.
Hmm. Yeah. You're the best president ever.