Oct 21, 2024
WATCH: Trump Goes On Risqué Rant About Arnold Palmer
Former President Donald Trump praised the nether regions of golf icon Arnold Palmer.
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Arnold Palmer was all man.
And I say that in all due respect
to women and I love women.
But this guy. This guy.
This is a guy that was all, man.
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During a campaign stop in Pennsylvania.
The former president Donald Trump
delivered some interesting tidbits, I
guess, about Arnold Palmer's is it tidbits
junk, which apparently is not tidbit.
It's actually, according to him,
on multiple occasions, by the way,
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Trump has talked about Arnold Palmer's,
you know, Johnson on multiple occasions
on the campaign trail.
And it's now getting attention. But like.
But why?
- What?
- Yeah.
I mean, the next time you order an Arnold
Palmer, you're going to think about it
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a little bit differently.
No, I'm not going to think about it.
Don't put that in my head,
because that drink is delicious.
And I don't want to think about that.
I just before we get on to the rest of
the substance of the story, did you notice
what Trump said there a couple times.
You saw it in the video. You can rewind.
I love women, but this guy.
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- But this.
- Guy.
Okay, so as we give you
more details about this, I don't know
how to feel about this, right.
Because I personally would prefer
not having presidential candidates
talk about other people's genitalia
on the campaign trail.
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But at the same time,
I don't know if this, like, somehow makes
him seem more human to people.
Like, I don't know. Okay.
So just think about that question
as we give you more detail.
So Trump spoke more than ten minutes
about Palmer,
who I believe is a golfing legend.
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Right. Pro golfer.
Yes. Yes.
And, you know, things started out normal.
But then Trump being Trump, you know, he
decided to take it in a weird direction.
Let's take a look.
And he loved Latrobe.
You know, he turned out to be
one of the greatest golfers in the world.
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He started off very, very poor.
He had no money, just had a lot
of talent and a lot of muscle.
He was a strong guy.
And I said, when I come here, I'm going
to tell him the real story of Arnold.
But Arnold Palmer was all man.
And I say that in all due respect
to women, and I love women, but this guy,
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this guy, this is a guy that was all man.
This man was strong and tough.
And I refused to say it.
But when he took showers with
the other pros, they came out of there.
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They said, oh my God. That's unbelievable.
I had to say it. I had to say it.
We have women
that are highly sophisticated here,
but they used to look at Arnold.
They said, man,
but he was really something special.
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I'm surprised right wing voters
are okay with that, because that was gayer
than a pride parade.
Yeah, I was going to go
with the word homoerotic,
but I think you nailed it better.
But that was like a little that was like,
you know, remember how they used
to have those things in grocery stores?
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The telenovelas are not telenovelas,
but like the little books where they would
be like women would buy where the guy.
Romance novels.
Yeah, that's what I'm looking for.
What am I? Okay.
Anyways. Okay.
It's like a homoerotic romance novel
that he was writing there.
And then the other golfers
went in the shower
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and he was all, man, he was so strong.
I mean, they thought they loved women,
but this guy.
- Okay, but this guy.
- He was a handsome man.
He was a very handsome man.
I mean, obviously age there, but look.
So what's interesting
is some of the backlash that Trump is
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getting all from the left, of course.
So Arnold Palmer's daughter
has come out and she's like,
oh, my father would have hated this.
He would have hated the lack of civility.
But I don't look as his daughter.
I could understand why she feels that way,
and I wouldn't want to think about that
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when it comes to my dad.
However, I'm going to go out
on a limb here and just say, yeah.
Yeah, I. Think your dad
would kind of love it.
Okay, you have me like you have
a major presidential campaign
talking about how big his junk is.
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- And how what an amazing, strong man he.
- Was.
All the other men in the locker room
were like, whoa, look at the size of that.
Like, I'm sure he would have loved it.
Look, I don't I don't profess to be an
expert on much, but I would like to think
of myself as a bit of an expert on men.
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And men love to have
their Johnson validated like that.
Okay, so here's a look.
I'm going to get to something real about
the campaign here and why I don't think
this hurts them at all.
It might even help them.
But but again, there's so much
weird homoeroticism here.
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Like all other guys would be looking
at his junk in the shower, would they?
I usually avert my eyes.
- I think.
- I think guys, do I think.
Yeah.
I mean, I remember doing that story
from ESPN years ago
about the homoeroticism that usually
takes place in men's locker rooms.
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Yes, I know that's.
Look. Everybody's different.
And I never showered in the locker room
because I was like, why?
I have a shower at home.
Like, why do I need to shower here?
I just don't get it.
Professional athletes,
like, they call it the clubhouse, right?
Like, they like to hang out
in the locker room in the clubhouse.
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It's like a bonding thing. So I get it.
- No, no.
- It's a bonding thing.
When you're in high school, when you're
in college, or when you're a professional.
We used to hang out on the steps
and talk about things.
Right. And that would be locker room talk.
And so that's real and that's bonding.
I don't need to bond with your genitals.
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So like this is so like
look you could be comfortable with it.
And if you're more comfortable with it
than I am great, wonderful.
And I like that you're
more evolved about it.
- But I don't go like this to.
- I don't believe you.
I think guys totally size each
other up in the locker room.
Okay. All right.
God bless.
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Okay, I agree with you that I don't think
that Arnold Palmer would mind.
And by the way, I mean,
the guy lived a life, right?
Yeah.
An amazing golfer that the people
are still talking about today.
Has a drink named after him,
and now everybody knows.
Okay.
So okay,
now to the so-called substance, guys.
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There is no substance.
No, no, there is a little bit
of substance here.
And it goes to the first question
you asked Anna, which is Democrats will
look at this and go, he's deranged.
No no no guys this is different.
So he says wild and crazy stuff,
but in two different categories.
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There's the stuff where he's mean
or he's crude like he is here.
He talks about topics
he shouldn't talk about.
And then there's stuff
where he's deranged,
like on pot where he'll be like, I'm going
to go after my political opponents.
- I'm going to terminate the Constitution.
- The enemy within, the enemy from within.
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They're poisoning our bloodlines
and stuff like that.
You have to separate those two things out,
because a lot of people
look at this Arnold Palmer stuff
and go, that's harmless, man.
Like, yeah, a presidential candidate
shouldn't be saying it, but who cares?
It's kind of funny and it makes
him look like a real person.
Looks more like someone I could relate to.
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Whereas the corporate politicians
who are always reading the teleprompter
and being super fake, right?
I don't like those guys, so this kind
of wild talk might actually help them.
Whereas the other kind of wild talk
we talked about earlier in the show
might be costing him votes with,
older voters who are
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who normally would go in his direction,
but they're uncomfortable when you say,
maybe we shouldn't have a constitution
where if I lose an election,
they're uncomfortable with you pretending
you won an election when you didn't.
So focus on his actual crazy talk,
which is dangerous,
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and do not mix it up with ridiculous talk,
which is a different category.
Yes.
And, you know,
it became a big thing over the weekend.
Jake Tapper asked House
speaker Mike Johnson about it.
And Mike Johnson, you know, was kind
of beating around the bush, beating around
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the bush, no pun intended, and eventually.
Asking Speaker Johnson.
I know, I know, the story is so much fun.
But eventually Johnson was like,
Trump's just having fun, you know?
Okay, okay.
Yeah, that's not going
to hurt him at all, guys.
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So maybe some people
who are evangelical Christian
who are worried about his abortion stance.
But, I mean, we're stretching
to find three voters.
It matters with. Right?
He has said this
on the campaign trail before.
Maggie Haberman, in her book,
noted that he had made similar comments
about Arnold Palmer in 2020.
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Yeah.
So if you're a super well-educated voter
and this offends your sensibilities
and your reaction was,
I do declare you're not the average voter.
I love you.
And we probably get along okay,
but you're not the average voter.
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The average voter doesn't mind this.
And when you say this is terrible,
it minimizes their belief in you.
When you say
terminating the Constitution is terrible.
Yeah.
That's why I'm saying don't cross streams.
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