The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Between the Scenes - How Trump Flips the Script on the Media
Episode Date: December 16, 2019Trevor breaks down how Donald Trump has used the media to leverage conspiracy theories against his political rivals as well as dodge his own scandals. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www....iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Donald Trump has figured out a really powerful and strange thing about American media and news.
And that is, if you exist without any shame
It doesn't become a scandal in the same way
I don't know how to explain it, but it's really powerful like look at look at the Joe Biden
Hunter Biden thing right as far as we know to this point everyone has investigated
journalists have gone to they've said there's nothing improper here it's not a great look that they hired Hunter Biden, but companies do this all the time they hire. their their their their their their their their their their th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. th. th. th. thi. th. th. thi, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. they've said there's nothing improper here. It's not a great look that they hire Hunter Biden, but companies do this all the time. They hire people
for the optics, you know what I mean? Netflix has ex-Obama people that didn't
know anything about TV, but it's what boards do all the time. But that's what
they've investigated. But Trump has a brilliant technique of turning a conspiracy theory. But, but, th, th. th. th. th. thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, their their their their their their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, their thi. thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii, their, thethen he's great to turning his facts into sort of conspiracy theories.
It's a really powerful thing.
Like with Obama, he's like, I don't know,
people are saying, Kenya, maybe Kenya, maybe Kenya, maybe Kenya,
maybe Ken, and then one day the news.
And then one day the news, and then one day,
the news, and the news, and then the news the then you're like, where did you hear this? They're like, I don't know, it was on the news. And you don't realize how quickly you can shift the Overton window, like what people
are talking about or thinking is normal just by the news covering it. And then he does the flip
with the things he does. You know, so they'll be like, we found Trump did this wrong. And he's fake, but they don't correct him. They just say he said it's fake. And then people at home are like, oh, it's fake.
And it's just, it's a brilliant technique.
And I promise you, I don't care who the nominee is.
Watch it for this race.
It's going to be,
Donald Trump's scandals and controversies are out in the open,
and the Democratic candidate's going to
be like, but I'm sorry I want to apologize. It's like, why you apologize? I'm like, you
should have never done it. Never done it.
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