That have been Barack Hussein Obama. Perhaps we should ask him now. He was very nasty last night. I try and be nice to people, you know, but it's a little tough when they get personal. Please again, remember, please, sir, don't get personal. - Talk about policy. - Should I get personal? [00:00:20] Should I not get personal? I don't know, my advisers are fired now. We'd rather keep it on policy, but sometimes it's hard when you're attacked from all ends. [00:00:37] Former President Barack Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention clearly got under Donald Trump's skin. But he actually, surprisingly, managed to keep it together and not engage in personal attacks against Obama, even though you can tell he was tempted to. [00:00:55] He did attack Democrats on policies. Of course, there was a lot of dishonesty in some of those attacks. However, I do want to give you a snippet of what Obama had to say about Trump during that electrifying DNC speech. Let's take a look. [00:01:10] It has been a constant stream of of gripes and grievances that's actually been getting worse now that he's afraid of losing to Kamala. There's the childish nicknames, the crazy conspiracy theories, [00:01:31] this weird obsession with crowd sizes. Hey, don't scroll away, come back, come back. Because before the video continues, we just want to urge you to lend your support to tweet you power our honest reporting. You do it at tight.com/team and we love you for it. [00:01:47] Weird obsession with crowd sizes. And now look, when you compare Obama's personal attacks against Trump to Trump's personal attacks against Obama, obviously that seems pretty measured, right? But for Obama, those attacks were a big deal, you know, [00:02:04] because we're talking about a party that up until right now, tried really, really hard to rise above it. And hearing Obama attack Trump in the way that he did in that speech was, you know, it was rare. [00:02:20] Let's just put it that way. But what's more interesting to me in this story is the fact that clearly, Trump is trying really hard to listen to his advisers before Obama gave his speech. Yesterday, Trump actually spoke to CNN and get a load of this. [00:02:38] What he said almost a complete turnaround of what we have heard him say about former President Obama before. I like him, I think he's a nice gentleman, but he was very, very weak on trade. If you take a look at what happened to our country trade wise, it was a disaster. [00:02:54] The take a look at Japan, take a look at China. Take a look at what happened with some of these countries, what they did. But I happen to like him. I respect him, and I respect his wife. You heard that correctly. Trump says that he likes Obama and that he respects Obama and his wife, [00:03:13] Michelle, who, by the way, she gave my favorite speech of this entire event. She was incredible. I just wanted to get that out of the way. Go ahead. Okay, so a lot of juice here, but I but one mistake that I want to point out from our coverage last night, I did not see as we were doing the play by play that Obama went like this and this [00:03:31] after saying crowd sizes. And that's a reference to. Yeah. Size mattering. Right. And so to me that's huge because it doubles down on what we noticed, which is that the old line that actually came from Michelle Obama herself. [00:03:48] When they go low, we go high. Now they're going low. Obama's doing this. Okay. That that doesn't get any lower than that. Okay. So and both Michelle Obama and Barack Obama hit him and hit him hard [00:04:03] And so they were like, they're the golden couple, so they were super classy as they did it somehow anyway. Everything they do looks classy, but they were not shy about hitting him and and on a personal level too. And so now the couple have told us one he can't resist, although. [00:04:21] And by the way, I'll come back and triple down on that. Told you when we see him. Ignore that this that interview part that you just saw there for a second. So let me break it down chronologically. So they tell him, hey, now remember they're going to attack you. [00:04:38] But the Obamas are super popular if you attack them, and especially in a crass way, that'll hurt you and not them, they're not even running. Right. So any political consultant worth his, you know, worth anything would tell you that. [00:04:54] So that's why Trump's like, oh yeah I'm going to show you discipline. He goes out there he goes he's a nice gentleman. He called him a gentleman I know I was like okay. And obviously this is with the backdrop of all of the allegations that Trump threw [00:05:12] at Obama when he won his election in 2008. I want to see the birth certificate. He wasn't born here in the United States. Like that stuff doesn't just go away because Trump says he respects him and called him a gentleman one time. [00:05:27] Right. But yeah, but it does show that he is getting advice behind the scenes and he's trying to follow that advice. Right. He's trying to do what they call message discipline, right. It will not work. And I have to say, I don't know if the interview happened before or after the rally, but there he is at the rally before. [00:05:44] - Yeah. - Oh. Yes. It happened yesterday before Obama even spoke. Right. You get what I'm saying? So. Oh of course. Yeah. So he has a conversation with CNN later in the day. Obama gives his speech and then, you know, and then Trump's rally, the video we showed you at the top of this story happened today. [00:06:02] Yeah. So already message discipline breaking down. Okay. And then it's just going to devolve from here because he can touch, but not by much. Okay. Yeah, so that one wasn't too bad, right? But that goes to a second. Told you he loves the crowd reaction. And yesterday we talked a lot about this in the coverage about how he [00:06:20] can't help but react to the crowd. So when the crowd he says Kamala Harris is beautiful. They're like grumble, grumble. Then he goes, oh yeah, I'm prettier. And the guy was like, yeah, right. And so so that's why when he said, should I attack him in, the crowd goes [00:06:37] nuts and wants him to attack Obama? Yeah. And then he's like, ha, you see that? And my consultants told me or whatever he said that you wouldn't have that reaction. No, knucklehead, they're not telling you that MAGA isn't going to have that reaction. MAGA is going to love your attacks. They're telling you the general population isn't going to like it. [00:06:55] The swing voters, yes. And he can't help himself because the minute the crowd applauds, he's like me, like attention me. - Like love, please love me. - Well, he's it's. Interesting because he could actually attack his political opponents. [00:07:13] It's just that he needs to avoid doing so in a personal way. Right. So he wants to attack them on policy. Have at it. That's what the election is all about. And by the way, and I'll even you know me, I don't even mind attacks personally. And but it depends. It depends. [00:07:30] Right. So if you're saying, hey, Trump's not that bright, that's a personal attack. But it's true. George Bush wasn't that bright. It's a problem when the president's not that bright. Right. And you can make by the way, Joe Biden can't talk personal attack but true and very relevant. Right. [00:07:45] So but when you get into crazy lunatic things like, nobody shows up at a rally, she's faking it with AI, right? And and then you. Oh, she's not even black. She's just turned black. Well, that's both personal and maniacal. And the problem is the maniacal part. [00:08:01] Not so much the personal part, especially when you do the. Sorry. One last thing about that. Especially when you attack her based on gender. And you do it in a dirty, ugly way it turns off other women voters. That's what I was going to jump in on. Because, you know, I've realized that the personal attacks, whether they're [00:08:20] true or not, doesn't matter. What matters is whether or not the voters, the slice of voters that you're trying to persuade, like the personal attack that you're engaging in and the type of personal attacks he has engaged in. Ever since Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee, are the kinds [00:08:38] of attacks that turn a lot of people off. And then you couple that with the stuff that's popping up from J.D. Vance's previous interviews about how, you know, childless individuals in America don't care about the future of the country, how they're just sad cat ladies, [00:08:54] that kind of stuff, those types of personal attacks, by the way, not just on your political opponents, but on the American people not going to play. Well, you know what I'm saying? So I just want to be clear. There are personal attacks that might not even be true at all, but could be appealing to the voters that the politician is trying to appeal to. [00:09:13] So I don't think the truth matters at all in unfortunately, this arena. Yeah. And so again, if I'm advising Trump, I'd tell him, listen, brother, you want to attack her on X, Y or Z? That makes sense. And I don't want you to lose your aggression. [00:09:30] And I don't want you to lose your authenticity. Those are actually advantages for you. Right. But if you attack her in a way that makes it seem like you think all women are unintelligent, that's a disaster. But then you have to talk to him like he's a child. Because how do you not already know that? [00:09:47] So how do you not how can you not control yourself in to in such counterproductive, productive attacks? Because when you say she has no record of accomplishment and she slept her way to the top when she's been a district attorney, attorney general, senator, vice president, etc., you're not insulting her. [00:10:06] You're in it. Women will feel like you're insulting all of them, that no matter what you do, it's never enough. And you slept your way to the top. And you're not smart and we don't respect you. And it's nails on a chalkboard for female voters. So can we. [00:10:22] Actually engage in a moment of self-reflection? Because I think what you're saying is 100% right. And I think that on our side, you know, we've unwittingly engaged in some missteps in attacking Donald Trump. So a great example, in my opinion, is attacking him on the bankruptcies. [00:10:40] I know you're going to disagree with me on that, but remember, when you attack Trump on the bankruptcies, there are a lot of Americans, ordinary Americans who have gone bankrupt. And so they think about themselves and they feel like they're being attacked. - Do you get what I'm saying? - I do. I get where you're coming from because he was literally handed hundreds of millions [00:10:59] of dollars by Papa, and he lost it. I get the urge to attack him on that. But you have to think about how that comes across to ordinary Americans, who many of whom have gone through a lot of financial hardship. And. I will not debate you because you have made a good point. [00:11:17] Thank you. So what I'm going to do going forward is it's not that I'm not going to talk about the bankruptcy. I'm still going to kick his ass on that. Okay. But you're right. And what I'll start with is a preface. You'll now see me do this a lot, not just on this show, but if you watch [00:11:32] me on other shows, I'll start with. Look, a lot of people have personal bankruptcies. And oftentimes in America because of health care issues. So, you know, I run a small business. I know how hard it is to run a small business. I'm not hating on anybody who went through a bankruptcy. But this brother was handed $400 million and bankrupted six giant companies, [00:11:51] including casinos, which previously seemed unimaginable. Right. So with the preface of I'm Not Talking About You, I'm talking about spoiled little, Donald Trump over here. Yeah, yeah. I think being precise in the rhetoric and ensuring that you are not coming [00:12:07] across in a way that would turn off ordinary people is really important, and that is a skill that at least you're receptive to. Whereas, you know, Trump's trying right now. But I agree with you. I think that if there are enough insults toward him by the Democratic Party, [00:12:23] he's not going to be able to resist. Yeah. Now, if I thought of something funny as I was smiling, if I was Trump and you gave me that good advice, I'd be like, I'd go in front of the crowd and they. Nana says I shouldn't talk about his bankruptcies. Okay, but what do you think? [00:12:38] - And then the. - Crowd roars and I go. About it. Right? And so, by the way, for the young audience who's watching this now or whatever, you watch it when you see me on another show, start with now I get it. There's bankruptcies in this country from healthcare. [00:12:54] ET cetera. Like, I want you to think to yourself. And I did that. Hey, thanks for watching the video. We really appreciate it, guys, and we appreciate it if you become members, because that allows us to be independent, honest, progressive, all the things that you don't get from corporate media [00:13:10] and all of that is because of you guys. Hit the join button below and become one of us. Become a young Turk.