Overtime - Episode #440: Trump Feuds, Leftist Dems, Sleaze

Charlie Sheen is an icon of decadence.

I lit the fuse and my life turns into everything it wasn't supposed to be.

He's going the distance.

He was the highest paid TV star of all time.

When it started to change, it was quick.

He kept saying, no, no, no, I'm in the hospital now, but next week I'll be ready for the show.

Now, Charlie's sober.

He's gonna tell you the truth.

How do I present this with any class?

I think we're past that, Charlie.

We're past that, yeah.

Somebody call action.

AKA Charlie Sheen, only on Netflix, September 10th.

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There's too much bloody regulation like in your monologue.

Obi-regulated.

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There's nothing in that.

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Right.

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compose myself if we are uh no fuck no

it's a it's an entertainment show olivia what do you make of the strange relationship between trump and scarborough and brzezinski uh those are the hosts of our morning news show called morning joe i went on that before you did

memorable

it was memorable i remember it

Yeah, he antagonizes them, does he?

Your president?

Well, he used to be friends, right?

Is that the deal?

And then they became unfriendly, and he accused her of having a bad facelift.

It was just...

That was the gist.

Yeah, I mean, they were friendly.

Joe Scarborough was accused of being too kind to him throughout the election when it really mattered in terms of people taking him seriously at the beginning, especially.

He turned.

Joe turned.

Yeah, they did become critical and

sort of in a very emotional way.

It seemed personal.

Personal from them or Trump?

Both.

I mean,

Trump was, you know, Trump started attacking them in a really vitriolic way, you know, even more than a year ago, insinuating that they had some kind of personal relationship that was untoward in some way.

Which they did.

And,

you know.

Right?

Aren't they a couple?

Yeah, but untoward, I said.

He was kind of, he was sort of, he was suggesting that there was something going on that wasn't okay.

What's an untoward?

Anyway, it became very personal.

Something sleazy.

Feeling uncomfortable.

Monkey business.

Colourbaloo.

Filthy.

Smut.

Mucky business.

But it became personal.

It's got to be stamped out.

Like what?

It became very...

No, no, no, no, we've got to get to the root of it.

It became very personal.

And then as president, he attacked her for having plastic surgery and claimed incorrectly, there were photos of this event, that she was bleeding at Mar-a-Law.

He's obsessed with that, isn't he?

He's obsessed with the iconography of femininity.

That's actually true misogyny.

Yeah, no,

he's a bad dude.

I'm getting the idea you don't like him.

I don't like him.

He sued me once, you know.

Honest.

Yeah, absolutely.

He sued me.

What for, mate?

You can't, I could not even.

I'll try to tell you.

He,

you know, he had a birthday thing.

He accused Obama of not being born here.

was, and then when.

We saw that in England.

We were bemoaning.

Okay.

So

after Obama released his birth certificate, then Trump went after his college records as if it was suspicious that a black guy would be in college.

He's working his way through his life.

He starts at the birth certificate, then the college, and then who knows what next?

So I said, and he often...

At least it's chronological.

Right.

That, in a way, is more than I thought him capable of.

He understands how time works.

At least one aspect of it.

Linear time.

Linear time.

All right.

So listen to.

Earls, Miyam!

I'll sue you.

This is America, isn't it?

That can happen.

Yeah, it totally could happen.

That's why we need a little less regulation.

But

what the fuck is that?

You're saying that Trump sues you.

Okay, all right.

You get sued by Trump in this story.

In this story.

All right, let me finish.

Okay.

So he offered...

He offered Obama.

Trump offered Obama $5 million dollars if he would release his college records.

I know that itself is so gauche to offer the president.

It's vulgar.

It's vulgar.

That wouldn't happen, would it?

He's a vulgar man.

Okay.

So I, as a joke, offered Trump $5 million if he could prove he was not the son of an orangutan because we showed this picture

because he has the same color hair as the orange hand orangutan.

Yeah, there it is.

Well, we had this up.

There it is.

Okay.

So

this moron then sues me

because he went into court with his birth certificate.

I made Trump produce his birth certificate because he's such an idiot.

He went in as if it was going to say orangutan on the bottom, as if that was even possible for a human to have a baby with it.

And so he sued me for the $5 million because he proved he wasn't an orangutan.

And now he's the president.

I can't even.

He's also fundamentally misunderstood the theory of evolution.

among many other things.

I feel like it explains so much about Trump though.

It's so stupid, but he just loves to fuck with people.

And I think you can really,

you can look at so many things that he's done now in the White House and explain it by saying, oh, well, he's just fucking with people, which is not what you want in a president, obviously, which is not a partisan thing to say.

It's just factual.

It doesn't mean I'm on a team.

It's just factual to say.

Okay, we're not on the same team.

I'm Will establishing.

We're not established.

It's just not a team.

It's just not a team.

Right, let's not have a team.

I'm so anti-team.

I don't have a team.

Yeah, it's just like reality and then other stuff.

Right.

And anyway.

I go with whoever makes the most sense, which is mostly the Democrats.

Not always.

Harold, is the Democratic Party moving too far left?

Some parts of it are.

And I define left by just sort of being unrealistic about what can get done.

The Democrats came out, I guess it was a few months ago, with a plan called a better deal to help what our plan was to help grow the economy and create more jobs and raise wages.

That'll start a fire.

Right, and it didn't really resonate with anybody.

I think we've got to talk about growing again.

We've got to talk about protecting people's privacy, this Equifax thing where people, 140 million Americans had their data stolen.

We as a party have got to stand up for that, but at the same time figure out how we're going to grow businesses, grow wages, and for that matter, grow the economy.

And we can do it without taking from people.

We can do it by growing the economy.

When we do that, I think we'll begin to get on path to getting something that will resonate with more Americans.

Because something, as much as we talk about this guy, and as out of control as he is on foreign policy and economic ideas, he won the race.

And it was nine months.

It seems like it was nine years ago.

It was only nine, ten months ago that he was installed as president.

We've got to understand we're not going to win again just by complaining about him.

If he offers a tax plan, we've got to counter with a tax plan.

If he offers a health plan that's bad, we've got to offer a health plan that's better.

I think what Bernie Sanders did around the single-payer plan, I like Obamacare.

I think parts of it are working.

We've got to figure out how we shore it up and strengthen it.

To abandon it, like Bernie wanted to do right away, I don't think was the right thing to do, and certainly not what the Republicans proposed doing.

So we've got a ways to go.

We'll find our way there, and we might even get Russell Brand to help us articulate some of this.

I'll help.

That's what's required.

I don't understand a word you're saying, but I love listening to you.

I understand everything.

Thank you, Bill.

Thank you.

Sounds to me that some mistakes were made around the time of the Boston Tea Party.

Old mad King George don't seem so mad now.

That's great.

All right.

Final question.

Russell Brand, what is the sleaziest thing you ever did?

Oh, don't say that.

I've done some ever such sleazy things, and now I'm thinking about purity.

Oh, sleazy, sleaziest.

You know, in your past.

Like, what was the craziest orgy or whatever?

You know,

what is the moment?

If you're referring to the Russell Brand Easter hot tub party,

then I'm telling you, that was a religious festival.

The fact that by the end of it that hot tub looked like oatmeal is a different matter.

All right, thank you everybody.

You asked for sleaze!

You've got sleaze!

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