Trump Suddenly Sides with Ukraine & MAGA Spins Conspiracies About U.N. Escalator | Sebastian Murphy

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Speaker 3 This is the Daily Show with your host, Jordan Clever.

Speaker 3 Welcome to Dan John Jordan Club where we got so much to talk about tonight. Ukraine gets a much-needed morale boost.
The right takes victimization to a whole new level.

Speaker 3 And Donald Trump faced his greatest enemy, a short flight of stairs. So,

Speaker 3 let's get into the headlines.

Speaker 3 It's no secret Donald Trump sympathizes with Russia in its war against Ukraine.

Speaker 3 He blamed Ukraine for getting invaded, he berated its president in the Oval Office, and he made the ultimate gesture of friendship to Vladimir Putin, picking him up at the airport. So,

Speaker 3 safe to assume he spent this week at the UN continuing his full-throated support of Russia.

Speaker 5 Breaking news we were following this morning, President Trump reversed his position on the war and voiced confidence that Ukraine can regain its territory seized by Russia.

Speaker 7 Trump writing in part Ukraine would be able to take back their country in its original form, and who knows, maybe even go further than that.

Speaker 3 Damn!

Speaker 3 Trump went from Ukraine needs to accept Russian invasion to they need to invade Russia.

Speaker 3 When this all began, Trump said he'd end this war on day one and instead we've now joined both sides.

Speaker 3 I guess you can't lose a war if you're on both sides. Now, let's not overreact here.
Trump isn't exactly known for his consistent positions.

Speaker 3 He could just as easily switch sides again tomorrow if he, I don't know, gets complimented by a Russian lady or sees a photo of that dog that looks like Vladimir Putin.

Speaker 3 Oh,

Speaker 3 oh, pushes his opponents out the window. You do, you do.

Speaker 3 But still, this is a surprising development. Maybe Trump changed his position after coming to a better understanding of the geopolitical implications of the situation.

Speaker 3 Or...

Speaker 3 Perhaps it was something a bit more personal.

Speaker 9 Last month, President Trump rolled out the red carpet for Vladimir Putin in Alaska, but is now sharing frustration.

Speaker 10 I thought that was going to be the easiest one because of my relationship with Putin, but unfortunately that sick relationship didn't mean anything.

Speaker 3 This season of the Golden Bachelor is f ⁇ ing weird.

Speaker 3 Hey, you know what? You know what? Don't get down on yourself, Donald. It's not your fault the relationship didn't work out.
Who could have known not to trust Russian dictator Vladimir Putin?

Speaker 3 You're not a mind reader. But whether it was pursuing strategic objectives or merely getting tired of boys, this was a major development.

Speaker 3 Unfortunately, it was overshadowed by another international incident.

Speaker 7 The president was joined by the First Lady today as he made his big address at the United Nations. But they had a bit of trouble on the way.

Speaker 7 They were taking an escalator when it stopped working, leaving the first couple no other choice but to walk the rest of the way up.

Speaker 7 Yeah.

Speaker 3 I like how he's just looking around when it broke, thinking, do I walk up these 15 stairs or do I just live here now?

Speaker 3 But hey, this is a pretty standard inconvenience. I'm sure we will never hear about it again.

Speaker 3 Unless, of course, there's an entire right-wing media apparatus built on grievance and hyperbole that wants to breathlessly recount it as a heroine brush with danger.

Speaker 3 Trump and Milani were riding it up and it just stopped. The First Lady lost her balance a bit, but steadied herself, thankfully, and then marched to the top.
She could have been hurt.

Speaker 3 It came to a grinding halt, and you can even see them kind of slightly lurching forward.

Speaker 4 This is serious stuff as sitting ducks, if God forbid there was a security threat.

Speaker 3 They could have hurt the most beautiful First Lady in American history.

Speaker 3 Oh my God, you monsters. We're not talking about some Uggo Eleanor Roosevelt here, no.

Speaker 3 You could have hurt someone hot.

Speaker 3 It's a good thing Milania is in such good shape, and it's a good thing Trump's ankles are the size of car tires.

Speaker 3 You all laughed at his cankles, but guess who's sturdy as a redwood? This cankle-haven motherf ⁇ .

Speaker 3 Now, the UN released a statement saying somebody at the top of the escalator escalator inadvertently triggered a safety mechanism. So, it seems like the whole thing is just a silly coincidence.

Speaker 3 Coincidence or sabotage?

Speaker 6 It doesn't look like a coincidence to me.

Speaker 12 Something more nefarious happening than just simple technical glitches.

Speaker 8 Absolute sabotage.

Speaker 2 I've been caught on like five elevators in my life.

Speaker 11 An escalator has never stopped working mid-escalation.

Speaker 13 I find it bizarre that just coincidentally, all these things just don't happen to work for the president when they work for everybody else.

Speaker 3 Are we really doing this?

Speaker 3 Are we going all in on the president being a victim of escalator sabotage?

Speaker 3 Because the deep state wants him to get his steps in?

Speaker 3 Can we just have a day, people?

Speaker 3 I will admit, it's a little suspicious that the escalator just happened to break for Trump. But, on the other hand, things do break a lot around him.

Speaker 10 You know, I I pay all this money to teleprompter people, and I'd say 20% of the time they don't work. They don't work.

Speaker 11 And I apologize for those lights.

Speaker 10 The only place I don't have a light up here is... I feel like I'm in a sauna.
So I don't know what hotel this is.

Speaker 10 But you ought to try turning on the air conditioning. I think this mic stinks, by the way.

Speaker 3 So maybe it's not a coincidence. I mean, why does everything around Trump break?

Speaker 3 Is he being followed around by gremlins? Is that... Okay, yeah, maybe.
maybe that could,

Speaker 3 that's, that, that could be.

Speaker 3 That might be it. That might be it.

Speaker 3 So, conservative media is furious that Trump was attacked by a stopped escalator. And apparently, some of them are furious that his people did nothing about it.
But that's a major security failure.

Speaker 3 And I was more, you know, stunned at the reaction. Like, the leader of the free world is on the escalator and the Secret Service is looking like, what do we do? Yeah, what do we do?

Speaker 3 Do we just let this grown man walk upstairs?

Speaker 3 What do you want Secret Service to do?

Speaker 3 Wouldn't it have been more embarrassing if they had rushed in and made a big deal out of it, thrown Trump over their shoulder like a kid having a meltdown leaving the Magic Kingdom?

Speaker 3 But look, there's no point trying to reason with them now. The right-wing train is leaving the station.
So naturally, the White House is jumping on board.

Speaker 6 Well, there was some concerning reporting over the weekend from the London Times, as you pointed out, that UN globalist staffers were basically plotting to set up the President of the United States.

Speaker 6 And if we find that these were UN staffers who were purposefully trying to trip up, literally trip up the President and the First Lady of the United States, well, there better be accountability for those people.

Speaker 8 And I will personally see to it, Jesse. Good.

Speaker 3 Can you people please decide if Trump is the strongest man who has ever walked the earth or a sickly child with hollow bird bones who will crumble if he walks up three stairs?

Speaker 3 Now remember, the UN already gave an official explanation about why the escalator stopped, but see if you think the president's TV friends are buying it.

Speaker 4 The spokesperson for the UN General Secretary said this.

Speaker 4 As the videographer who was traveling, I don't buy this by the way, was traveling backwards up the escalator, reached the top, the first lady, followed by the president and Trump, each mounted the steps at the bottom.

Speaker 4 At that moment, it was 9.50 a.m. if you're counting at home, the escalator came to a stop.

Speaker 3 Dot, dot, dot. Dot, dot, dots.

Speaker 3 We're making ellipses feel sinister now.

Speaker 11 What are these dots?

Speaker 3 What are they hiding? And don't get me started on semicolons. Are you a period or a comma? Pick one!

Speaker 3 But also, why does Brian Kilmead think he knows better than the UN officials? What makes him an expert on escalators?

Speaker 4 It's never happened to me before. I do a lot of shopping, go to a lot of malls, go to the second floor where the men's stuff is.

Speaker 3 I go right to the men's floor. I don't stop at the kids' floor.
No, no, no.

Speaker 3 I shop in the men's section, even though sometimes a kid's double XL is basically a men's small and the designs are cooler, but that's totally not where I shop.

Speaker 3 Sometimes I sneak into the Spencer gifts, but my mom's not looking.

Speaker 3 Look, you know what? I'm sorry I interrupted you. Brian Kilmead, I'm sure this story is going somewhere.

Speaker 4 Go to the second floor where the men's stuff is, you know, because you walk into the first floor.

Speaker 3 It never happened to me.

Speaker 3 That's great.

Speaker 3 That's it?

Speaker 3 Your whole story about the escalator is that you also once went up an escalator.

Speaker 3 Another fascinating addition to the discourse. And if I may also add, I too have been on an escalator.

Speaker 8 That's great.

Speaker 3 For more on Escalator Gate and the controversy around it, we turn to Grace Kulenschmidt. Grace!

Speaker 3 Grace,

Speaker 3 wait a minute,

Speaker 3 why aren't you in a parking garage?

Speaker 16 Because I'm investigating Jordan. I've been talking to my sources and let me tell you, this escalator story goes all the way to the top

Speaker 16 and then flattens out and goes back down to the bottom.

Speaker 3 Wait, are you saying the Fox News people are right that there's more to this story?

Speaker 16 You better believe it, bitch.

Speaker 16 The deep state has all sorts of plans for Donald Trump. I'm talking somebody getting on his elevator, then pushing all the buttons and then jumping out.

Speaker 16 I'm talking about those car door locks that keep unlocking just as he tries to pull it open so he tries it again just as they unlock it again and he's like, god damn it, just let me unlock it.

Speaker 16 I'm talking removing the latch on the bathroom stall so he's got to do that little football squat thing where he holds the door while pinching a loaf.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 3 But what's the point?

Speaker 3 It seems kind of silly.

Speaker 16 Silly?

Speaker 16 Really, Jordan? You think it's silly that Donald Trump almost fell down a flight of stairs at the UN? Our beloved president toppling backwards, his legs flying over his head,

Speaker 16 hitting every step, going down. Doi, doi, doi, doi.
Is that funny?

Speaker 16 Landing on his butt.

Speaker 16 His pants splitting wide open in front of every world leader while the king of England says, good heavens, I saw a testicle. Would that be funny to you?

Speaker 3 Yes.

Speaker 3 It would.

Speaker 3 It would be funny, yes.

Speaker 3 Frankly, Grace, frankly, I just doubt that there is some global prank conspiracy.

Speaker 16 Oh, so I guess I just woke up this morning with my hand in a bowl of warm water for no reason? No, it's because they know I'm getting close.

Speaker 3 Grace, look.

Speaker 3 It doesn't need this big investigation. It's just an escalator malfunction.

Speaker 16 Oh, is that right?

Speaker 16 Jordan, let me tell you a story. When I was 12 years old, all I wanted most in the world was a dress for my middle school dance.

Speaker 16 So I went to the mall and I took an escalator to the second floor because that's where the teen stuff is. Because you walk in on the first floor.

Speaker 3 Is that the whole story?

Speaker 16 Yeah, I was on an escalator once.

Speaker 3 Yeah, that's great. Great schooling, everyone.

Speaker 3 Welcome back, Sebastian Murphy of Niagara Bulls. You'll be joining us.
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And then it ended up.

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Speaker 3 it's not.

Speaker 11 It's probably the first time, yeah.

Speaker 3 It's the first time. How does it feel? Does it feel good? It feels weird.
I don't know.

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Speaker 3 When it was announced on our show that Viagra Boys was coming to perform, you have a lot of fans here, including myself. We're big Viagra Boys fans.

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Speaker 3 Where did Viagra Boys come from?

Speaker 11 Well, the name came from a friend of mine who was just at the time, when we started the band, we were pretty

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Speaker 11 They're young and they, you know, everything works and then they get old and it doesn't. For me,

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Speaker 3 Is it true?

Speaker 3 I read somewhere that this band,

Speaker 3 your being a part of this band owes a lot to Mariah Carey.

Speaker 3 That's true. Yeah,

Speaker 11 that's how my bassist found out my incredible talent was

Speaker 11 we were at a karaoke show for

Speaker 11 some

Speaker 11 a friend of ours who was her birthday party and uh i sang my go-to karaoke song is we belong together by mariah carrier is that right yep yeah i can't sing it anymore i don't know why but uh i used to be able to hit those high notes

Speaker 11 but that is what drew them in but that's but then my basis song is like hey man you want to start a punk band or what

Speaker 3 this is happening in sweden is that correct this is in sweden you grew up in america grew up in america i fled uh

Speaker 3 how how how is property in sweden is there any available uh there is

Speaker 11 cheap rent's cheap. You know,

Speaker 11 you don't have to pay, what is it, like $2,000 a month to live in some shithole apartment like you do here?

Speaker 3 Hey, to be fair, it's $4,000 a month to live in a shithole apartment. And we appreciate it.
And you get to work four jobs. Whoa, yes.

Speaker 3 The American dream.

Speaker 11 Yeah, no, no, I feel like I moved to Sweden to actually live the American Dream. Yeah.

Speaker 3 How how is that? What what is it like to move there? You were like 17?

Speaker 11 I was 17. Yeah, it's it's you know, it was great.
It was a bit of a culture shock.

Speaker 11 Swedes don't really,

Speaker 11 I mean, I guess they like Americans, but they like them as a novelty, a little, you know,

Speaker 3 oh, yeah, cool. And then like, hamburgers, and then,

Speaker 11 and then they're like, yeah, yeah, go sit somewhere else, you know.

Speaker 11 But luckily, I speak, I speak fluent Swedish, so I was able to

Speaker 11 nestle myself into the Swedish culture.

Speaker 3 To get in there. What's it like coming back now, doing an American tour? I know there are some.

Speaker 11 It's scary. I was gonna say.

Speaker 3 It's scary. Well, I mean,

Speaker 3 some groups are choosing not to or they're canceling tours. Was that a conversation you guys had?

Speaker 11 That was a conversation for sure.

Speaker 11 But at the same time, I kind of feel like our fans, like, I feel like, you know, they deserve to hear, you know, resistance music as well.

Speaker 11 And, you know, I feel like I come here to play for like-minded people, hopefully. You know, not everyone has to think exactly like me, but

Speaker 11 it's not like I'm going to be like, oh, these, you know, because the people that go to our shows for the most part, they aren't the, they they aren't the ones snatching people off the streets and, you know,

Speaker 3 I mean, it is curious because I feel like your music is

Speaker 3 not to, I mean, it's,

Speaker 3 call it punk rock, but I feel like a lot of the lyricism, in many ways, it feels like, at least from an outside looking, in, you're inhabiting a character or you sort of play this heightened version or at times is written from a perspective of like a hyper masculinity,

Speaker 3 almost to the point of like dysfunctional male perspective in a way that's very funny.

Speaker 11 I mean, well, I am a dysfunctional male person.

Speaker 3 I was gonna say, yeah, like, are you satirizing something, or are you just living your truth?

Speaker 11 It is satire, but at the same time, it's you know, it's a bit, you know, that's kind of how you get over,

Speaker 11 but that's how you change as well, is you know, admitting to your own faults and

Speaker 11 doing some investigative journalism into your own soul.

Speaker 11 So, yeah, I I mean, I think it's 50-50, satire, 50-50, my truth.

Speaker 3 Yeah. For sure.

Speaker 3 How do you start with an idea there? Are you starting with that in mind?

Speaker 3 Like, it does feel like in 2025, like the punk scene in and of itself is always speaking towards or against oftentimes authority.

Speaker 3 And now we're in this weird time, in America specifically, like that feels like you're under the weight of the time that we are in. Do you grapple with that?

Speaker 3 Is that a place that you started from creatively?

Speaker 11 Not really. Like, I don't really.

Speaker 3 God, I got to move to Sweden. I got to tell you.

Speaker 11 No, but there's not too many. I mean, like, dude, it bums me out to think about that shit all the time.

Speaker 11 Like, you know, so I usually, you know, maybe, you know, I'll start writing a song from maybe just my perspective of kind of what I'm seeing around me and not instead like, oh yeah, this is what, you know, like freedom or like we need to fight for our rights to, you know, I'm not a, I don't feel like I'm a good enough commentator on what's going on.

Speaker 11 You know, I can only,

Speaker 11 what I can do is speak my, you know, what I see and how I perceive it. And I perceive things in a kind of f ⁇ way.

Speaker 11 But hopefully, you know, but it obviously resonates with some people.

Speaker 3 I mean, when you come here, what do you hope American audiences take away from it?

Speaker 11 Just that you can be yourself and, you know,

Speaker 11 and be whoever the hell you want to be. And, you know,

Speaker 11 that, you know, freaks are welcome.

Speaker 3 Freaks are welcome. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 But yeah, I mean, to be fair, on this latest album, there is a song that investigates what it's like when somebody's partner falls in love with a body that's found in a bog.

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 11 Well, that's almost, that was actually kind of a true story, too.

Speaker 3 Well,

Speaker 11 I mean, not entirely, but my fiancé,

Speaker 11 she spends a lot of time, like...

Speaker 11 Like reading on weird stuff. Like it can be...

Speaker 3 I've talked to these people before. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 11 She'll just like find one subject and then she's in it for, you know, like weeks. She's like, oh, did you know that bog bodies are bubbling?

Speaker 11 And I'm like, i don't want to hear any more about these bog bodies

Speaker 11 and then she would and then she was at a museum one day where they have a lifelike creation of sweden's most famous bog body that they made what he looked what he would look like you know made out of wax and she was taking all these sexy photos with him

Speaker 11 and kissing him and like she was showing her tits and doing all this and i was like this mother

Speaker 3 and so that's why i wrote the song and to be clear is there is is that a trope in sweden bog bodies is that there is a most famous thing. It is a thing.
It's a kink,

Speaker 3 which in and of itself is.

Speaker 11 It's a perfectly preserved corpses.

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