'Tucker Carlson Tonight' host slams the media over response to the president's handling of his illness
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Good evening and
welcome to Tucker Carlson
tonight,
Donald Trump got the coronavirus.
Last week
on Saturday, some of his aides
suggested that he could die from
it.
The media happily seconded that
diagnosis
trump. They informed us, has a
condition known as clinical
obesity,
whatever
it sounds significantly worse
than cancer and far more
unattractive.
So for a time it looks like
curtains for big orange
and then an amazing reversal,
Trump strode out of the
hospital thumbs in the air.
Back from the grave tweeting
like a savage
today, he was at his desk in the
White House.
New Yorker subscribers may never
get over the shock of it all
to add to their pain and
confusion and bewilderment
Donald Trump released this video
last night.
I learned so much about
coronavirus and one thing thats
for certain dont. Let it
dominate you
dont, be afraid of it.
Youre going to beat it. We have
the best medical equipment. We
have the best medicines
dont, let it dominate dont, let
it take over your lives,
dont. Let that happen.
We are the greatest country in
the world
feeling really
good. The president, tweeted
later
dont be afraid of covid
dont. Let it dominate your life.
We have developed under the
Trump administration, some
really great drugs and knowledge
knowledge.
It was self promotional, of
course, but honestly its hard
to think of a better or more
positive message
take trump out of it.
Yes, the coronavirus is lavishly
deadly. It still killed hundreds
of thousands of people in this
country, most of them old and
sick, but the president himself
is old, not to mention
clinically obese, whatever that
is,
and yet he survives,
he appears to be in a great mood
as people who cheat death often
are.
Of course he received great
medical care hes, the
president, but there was no
magic involved in the treatment
he received.
Every drug Donald Trump Talk is
available to the rest of us. If
and when we get sick,
and that ought to give us hope
if Trump survived. So can we
that doesnt mean we should
ignore the coronavirus or behave
recklessly? Obviously, but it
does suggest we dont have to
live in a permanent state of
terror.
Dont, let it dominate your life.
Trump said:
thats advice you to give own
children,
but for the people whose power
derives from our fear, it was a
threat.
They need you to be afraid
perpetually.
Otherwise you wont obey them.
So, of course they were enraged
by what Trump said
watch.
Of course you should be
afraid of covid and how
disrespectful that is.
Now we see this tweet, which
is heartless,
dont, be afraid of covid
dont. Let it control your life.
You dont have to let it control
your life because you live in
the White House.
It is insulting to every
American who wears a mask. Whos
been laid off as a result, the
covid
everyone should be afraid of
Covid,
look what it has already done
and flabbergasted by that and
honestly, I cannot stop thinking
about it.
Donald Trump is telling you
dont be afraid of the deadly
coronavirus.
No one on earth has done more to
spread the coronavirus and
Donald Trump.
Are you following
this
encouraging hope in your country
is now heartless.
Staying cheerful is an insult of
the rest of us.
Our leaders have an obligation
to confirm our most irrational
fears. Thats. What compassion
looks like
thats, what theyre telling us
its deranged
but its also recognizable?
It reminds you of the many goals
in Washington who forced our
military to wage pointless,
mortise quartz on the
Middle EAST, but when you point
out how destructive all of that
has been, they whip around and
accuse you of insulting the
memory of our soldiers. That is
the thousands of unfortunate
young Americans who have died in
their pointless wars.
How do you respond to an attack
like that,
its almost too irrational to
rebut
thats, why they use it
and thats why they use the same
strategy here?
They wrecked our economy with
lockdowns. They keep our
children stunted and ignorant by
shutting down their schools.
They drive our entire country to
the brink of madness with
politically motivated hysteria.
But if you dare to say a word
about it, if you dare to
complain in any way, you are the
monster
in fact, youre a killer
watch this blow. Dried cable news,
wonder lose control of himself,
because somebody in the CNN
Control Room played Video of
Donald Trump taking off his
mask
and the president in that
sunset boulevard. Gesture with
his mask off in front of the
american people on the nightly
news
last night,
so as a doctor whose job it
is, take it off, please dont
even put on the screen. Please
take it off because thats
going to kill people,
take it off, dont,
even put it on the screen.
He whipped his mask off in front
of the american people.
He dropped his mask its like
pornography,
actually, its worse.
They are donors to the
Democratic Party. They are
virtuous.
This is a deeper crime than
that.
Taking a mask off effectively is
questioning corona theology, and
anyone who does that has
committed an act of spiritual
obscenity.
Watch MSNBC warn its viewers to
hide their children before they
play video of Donald Trump
talking about the virus.
It is a video of a very sick
man with very sick ideas.
Im going to show you another
deeply perverse statement that
Donald Trump made tonight on
that video, and I will let him
say it in his own words with his
own voice. You will hear that,
but with the appropriate
warning, viewers should know
that what youre about to hear
is utterly insane and dangerous,
utterly insane and
dangerous.
That is spine. Tingling.
If Kim Jong IL somehow made it a
Dracula, theyre daemonic,
demonic, Savon, the Incubus they
created would still be less
awful, less harmful to this
nation than a video of
Donald Trump assuring you that
everything is going to be okay
in the end,
according to MSNBC thats how
bad it was
okay.
So this is what peak hysteria
must look like:
cable news, cant, possibly get
more overheated than that you
must be thinking.
No, yes, it can and CNN tried
hard last night to top it.
Unfortunately, there is something
of a disadvantage. Our anchors
arent, quite as articulate as
the guys from MSNBC. The CNN
went to Harvard
doesnt have quite as many words
to choose from when he wants to
express his total outrage.
Instead, he works blue and the
knotty language lets. You know
just how mad he is
there. He is
hair blown majestically
re shooting the scene for his
own ad.
I hold rallies and I tell you to
ignore. Masks and I rip mine off
as I vanquish the virus, because
I am a leader-
fear, not covid,
what a bunch of bleep
while knotty
that word wasnt in the prompter
or anything it just came out
totally unscripted
once Crisp Cuomo without a mask,
he lost it.
He honestly wouldnt believe the
president would do something
that obscene
infected with covid yet
breathing very air that
circulates in our common
atmosphere that in the process
killing millions
standing on the Whihite House,
balcony Trump was a human bio
weapon, a WMD
it was immoral and Chris Cuomo
would know precisely how immoral
it was because he had done it
himself.
This spring Chris Cuomo got
Covid.
You may have noticed they did
like twenty seven shows in a row about it.
He told us he was quarantined in
his basement. But lets be
honest, there are only so many
squats you can do in the mirror.
It got boring, so Chris Cuomo
secretly left his house took
off his mask. Oh yes, ladies
and gentlemen, and wandered
around the hamptons
while wandering he promptly ran
into this man who wondered what
he was doing and ask himself
and Heres what happened next
and I just said: dont, you
have the coronavirus,
shouldnt
be quarantined
and I think his next words were.
What do you know about this?
What you know about the rules? I
said youre not supposed to be
out here. Nobody has gloves on.
Nobody had masks on
okay, so it turns
out Chris Cuomo doesnt think he
should have to wear a mask
outside.
This is the point in the show
where we wax outrage.
He works on a rival network. We
just cant believe he did that
we hate Chris Cuomo, because he
didnt wear a mask.
We are not going to tell you
that
we will tell you the truth, its
fine, that he didnt wear a mask
outside. We are not judging him.
Masks are great, they have their
place, surgeons, wear masks and
operating rooms. People were
masks and elevators good for
them. It probably helps
weve been arguing that for six
months before the surgeon
general himself recommended
masks,
we thought why would masks be a
bad idea,
so we are not against masks, we
never will be but wearing a
mask. While you ride your bike,
while you jog,
when youre alone in your car,
while youre walking in the
woods when youre standing on
the beach
thats just insane
thats an insult to science,
its an insult to common sense
rules like that make people
cynical when you force them to
do unreasonable things,
they will never believe you
again.
Rules like that help. No one, and
yet they are ubiquitous
in many democratic, controlled
juristic jurisdictions. Masks
are required outside
its the law.
You have no choice.
It rules like that are not about
public health
rules like that are a form of
obedience, training.
They are trying to see what they
can make you do.
They can make you do a lot. It
turns out
most of the time we do what they
tell us.
We dont say anything
partly because people like Chris
Cuomo harangue us if we disobey
the rules.
Chris Cuomo calls us immoral for
doubting the rules and then in
private he whips off his mask.
The second he can
here are pictures of Chris Cuomo
this weekend, standing at a
restaurant in long island cigar
in his hand, but no mask
again. We dont judge Chris
Cuomo,
Chris Cuomo judges, us
and thats. The point.
Nancy Pelosi, judges us too
watch Pelosi tell you that
youve got no choice but to wear
a mask at all times.
Members and staff will be
required to wear masks at all
times.
This is a mask from all over the
country of getting these masks.
Real men. Wear masks in these
masks are essentially important.
The chair views the failure to
wear a mask as a serious breach
of decorum,
but in any case im a big
believer in wearing a mask and
not sharing any. Shall we say
air unnecessarily.
Real men wear
masks
so youre a wuss. If you dont,
wear masks,
wait a second defined man for
us. If you would,
I thought you didnt believe in
gender.
You didnt believe youre, not
a real man. If you dont want
what are you even saying?
Shes not saying anything
shes, just judging you
and shes lying as she does it.
We already played to the tape of
Pelosi mocking her own command
slinking around a hair salon
with no masks
that was fine with us, but not
with her.
We also showed you
Dianne Feinstein of
San Francisco hanging around a
private air terminal and Fbl
without a mask after she called
for a law requiring you and all
commercial airline passengers to
wear masks.
So these people are hypocrites,
obviously,
but its worse than that
they are self righteous
hypocrisy and self righteousness
are twins.
They go together.
One feeds the other, but both
are poisonous habits of mind
as soon as you begin to take
yourself seriously. Thomas
Merton once rode and imagine
that your virtues were important
because they are yours. You
become the prisoner of her own
vanity.
That is true,
but theyre, not the only
prisoners.
Suddenly, all of us are prisoners
of their vanity.
This summer, the vapid governor
of California made a propaganda,
video informing his citizens of
our biggest state that, if they
dont wear masks at all times,
whether those mask help anyone
or not, they are bad people
heres part of it.
The sweaty faces in the
hidden smiles,
the foggy glasses and the sore
ears,
the determined flux and the
muffled laughs.
A simple piece of fabric mix, a
big statement
lets all do our part to slow
the spread,
wear a mask.
What happened to
all the watchdogs that are
supposed to be at protecting us
from state media and government
propaganda?
They are all nodding in assent.
A simple piece of fabric makes a
big statement I care,
but what? If it doesnt help
anyone?
Sometimes it does sometimes it
doesnt
has there ever been shallower
virtue, signaling,
underneath all of this is
cruelty. By the way and
judgment of view,
the Democrats hold every
statewide office understand that
totalitarians operate as a
society, any people to
cooperate,
so the more people turn on each
other and snatch and micromanage
one anothers lives. The easier
their job of control will be
people without loyalty to each
other are easy to command
thats the point,
and with that in mind, the
official twitter account of the
Office of California,
Governor Gavin Newsom, has taken
to dictating how people chew
their food.
This is how we are responding to
the pandemic, managing how
people chew their food.
On Saturday, his twitter feed
told us this going out to eat
with members of your household
this weekend,
dont forget to keep her mask on
in between bites. Do your part
keep those around you healthy?
What are the odds that Gavin
Newsom alone in his gated
estate keeps his mask on
between bites?
We are not bookies, but we will
tell you roughly speaking, the
odds are zero.
He doesnt do that, but he judges
you if you dont
and he didnt stop there.
The state of California wants
you to know that seeing your
friends is out of the question.
Human contact itself is
dangerous.
A solo bike ride with a mask is
a say for all alternative to
playing basketball with your
friends
thats what his office rode last
month, and there are many more
messages like this. If you want
to wrecker afternoon, read them
Orwell in doesnt to describe
it
theres so much that Maxine
Waters has decided to can ignore
the commands completely
back in July. You may remember
she was all for masks.
In fact, she told that
Herman Cain deserved to die from
coronavirus because he didnt
wear a mask at a Trump rally.
Herman Cain was a bad person.
Maxine declared he had it
coming
im, going to send my
condolences to the family of
Herman Cain, who was a
presidential candidate?
Who was a good friend of the
President who happened to have
been at the rally in Tulsa June,
a group of people around him
with no masks on and hes dead.
He died.
He of course contracted the
virus as a result of his
attendance without a mask there.
Oh, he didnt wear
a mask and he died.
He deserved it
thats what you get when you
dont wear a mask. You die and
no one mourns her passing
because youre a bad person.
It goes without saying that
Maxine Waters takes masks
seriously
laughs.
Of course she doesnt,
and today we proved it. We
talked to a man called Jason. He
told us he saw Maxine waters
recently and guess what she
wasnt wearing.
I think you know the answer
she wasnt wearing a mask,
so he confronted her
its all on video
Heres part of that video.
Your thinking about Covid
im coming out of here, my
masking
youve, got to have your mask
on right,
thats, right,
thats right.
We got our masks
thats right and I
have my mask on
not a big deal, its not looking
Herman Cain or something
we are not thinking through. The
message behind all of this or
its consequences.
Democrats are framing total and
unthinking obedience to their
policies, which are haphazard,
irrational and not rooted in
science.
They are framing obedience to
these things as a matter of
morality and the media is
totally fine with that
they dont even care when the
people who make the rules ignore
them
only the rest of us are evil.
When we disobey
how about the governor of
Virginia Ralph, Northam,
Ralph Northam, loves, masks,
Ralph Northam has been wearing
masks long before they were
fashionable
thirty years ago, when almost nobody
thought to wear a face covering
Ralph Northam was concerned
enough about public health that
he put on a hood
thats all concerned. It was,
of course, hes a doctor, a man
of science
im your mask isnt enough.
He wore a hood with little eyes
cut out of it
as Governor Northam made it a
crime in the Commonwealth of
Virginia, not to wear a mask
in May. He demanded that
everyone wear a face covering in
public
and wear a face covering in
public.
We know that when most people
wear masks, that goes a long way
towards reducing the spread of
the disease.
As I have said before, wearing a
mask could literally save
someone elses life
caught wearing a
clan hood. He got to say he
leaned into it, though
now everyone has to
amazingly, and maybe its not
so amazing, a day after saying
that he appeared in public in
Virginia Beach Virginia with
guess what no mask
guess what the media said
virtually nothing.
No one said Ralph Northam had it
coming when in the end he got
the coronavirus.
Apparently he wasnt a good
enough person to avoid the
disease.
Thats, really the message
he is sick now, just like
Donald Trump thats, how it
works right.
This is a medieval stander that
we are suddenly applying
this isnt science. This is
medieval superstition
very common. Six hundred years ago,
in the middle ages, ordinary
criminals went through whats
called a trial by ordeal.
They didnt sit through a jury.
They were forced to plunge their
hands into boiling water or walk
barefoot across glowing metal,
hot plowshares or molten lead
port on their chest.
Why
to find out whether they did it
or not.
If they died after being
tortured, they were guilty.
If they survived the torture,
they were innocent
for hundreds of years. This was
the standard in Europe:
Health, equal virtue, illness,
equaled sin
all of a sudden. We are returning
to that standard.
He is sick, therefore hes bad.
Where is this going?
How long before we start
lecturing cancer patients for
their tumors?
How long before we start blaming
people without farmers for their
dementia?
That could be coming sooner than
we think
at MSNBC. One anchor was enraged
when someone suggested the left
hasnt been consistent on masks.
He wrote this the most humane
and reasonable way to deal with
all these people. If we survived.
This is some kind of truth and
reconciliation. Commission
sounds like a joke, but it
wasnt
thousands of people liked that
post a truth and reconciliation
commission. If we survived
covid for the deniers
theyll get what they deserve,
its an inquisition, thats what
theyre calling for
thats, what any inquisition the
goal: isnt truth or justice its
power,
but on your mask in between
bites as you sit around the.
Transcript generated on 2020-10-09.