Trump Delivered on His Campaign Promises, But Only to Himself | Alexandria Stapleton

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We grade Trump's first year on a scale from one to what the hell. Lewis Black is sick of your retro bullshit and later on the director of the Diddy Doc will be here. And let's just say I have a few questions, comments, and concerns. So let's get into the headlines. This week was a major milestone because Donald Trump made it a whole year. And I gotta give him a hand. Literally. I think he needs a new hand. Because that hand's got one unopened pickle jar before it slides right off. So tonight I thought we'd do a progress report, you know, what Donald Trump promised during the campaign versus what we got so far. We'll see how he grades out. I'm guessing maybe like an A minus. Does that sound good to y'all? Okay, damn fine. A plus. I didn't realize y'all were such fans. Let's start with maybe the biggest promise Trump made during the campaign. I'm telling you, you're going to become very rich. You're going to become rich as hell. You're not going to know what to do with the money. Yes we will. It'll be 10,000 years before I run out of ideas for what to do with the money. You give me unlimited money and I run out of ideas for how to spend it. I'll just start eating it. Americans will always figure out what to do with extra money. Have you ever seen how many cyber trucks we've sold? That shit can't even drive over loose gravel and I still see one every day. Now the question is, one year later did Trump make us all rich? Considering your nana asked the whole family to subscribe to her only fan so she could pay the light bill, I would say no. If I'm being honest, I don't know anybody who's feeling richer. Go to the New York Times, Trump has used the office of the presidency to pocket more than $1.4 billion for himself. Wait, $1.4 billion off of being the president? That's so rich it makes every other president look stupid. Like, what was up with George Washington's wooden teeth? You broke bitch, you should have had the molars iced out. So I'm going to say that promise was not kept. But you can't win them all. Let's look at another one. So we're going to have more jobs than we've ever had. You will have more jobs. We're going to create a lot of jobs. We will take in so many jobs. Millions and millions of new jobs. We're going to do it like nobody else. Now did we get millions of jobs? Well, if by jobs you mean the foot jobs your nana is giving to pay the electricity bill, then yes. Look, job growth across the country has actually been down. But there's one specific block of Washington, D.C. where job growth is through the roof. President Trump, of course, serves as the chairman of the board of peace. Donald Trump naming himself chair of the other Olympics task force. Trump is also the chairman of the Kennedy Center. For the first time ever, the president served as the onstage host of the annual honors event. He touted himself as the acting president of Venezuela. Whoa, Trump, Trump, leave some work for Steve Harvey, all right? Trump has taken everybody's jobs. He's basically AI with even more hands. Hey, hey, don't look away. This man needs hands. But this is crazy. Trump promised us riches. Then he got rich. He promised us jobs. But then he got all the jobs. Wait, what if when we heard all of Trump's promises, we thought he was talking to us, but maybe he was just talking to himself? Because if you look at it that way, he might be keeping his promises. Like, look at healthcare. He's been promising to improve healthcare for like a decade now. And things are so bad, the only healthcare most people can afford is watching the pit and hoping Noah Wiley tells a patient how to treat eczema. But Donald Trump has more healthcare than he knows what to do with. President Trump says he has no idea which part of him doctors were looking at when he had an MRI in October. What part of your body was the MRI looking at? I have no idea. You have no idea? Are you getting so many MRIs they just blend together? Like, do you just get in tubes that people tell you to? I'm starting to think that if you got close enough to Trump, you could probably just give him a colonoscopy. This guy's presidency is going great for himself. Just look at free speech. We will restore free speech and we need free speech in this country. Yes, Trump promised a golden era of free speech. Not for you. They'll put you in jail just for posting memes. But Donald Trump, his speech, whew, it's so free, it seems like it's lost in the woods. She's a documentary, yes. Let me give you by a Tesla. Abra, by Jean, go, now, F. So it's go, no, F. Is that a proper pronunciation? I would say Abraham, but it's so much nicer when you say Abraham. I said, well, let's see how we say that. I said, I'm menophen. Pergoverious. Pergoverous. Pergoverous as a linguist, translator, and cryptologic technician. Wow, listening to Trump makes me feel like I'm having a medical event, which is especially bad because he didn't fix health care. But you know what? Maybe my favorite Trump promise isn't even about a specific policy. It was deeper and more meaningful. We're going to dream big again. We haven't been dreaming big at all. No, we haven't. But now Donald Trump is dreaming enough for all of us. We're showing a picture now of Donald Trump with his eyes closed, battling to keep his eyes open, struggling to stay awake. Slumped in a chair in the Oval Office today, appearing to not off. He may have dosed off a few times. Hey, hey, don't laugh at him, all right? Leave that poor man alone. He got like nine or 10 jobs. Bottom line, when it comes to Donald Trump, there's no you in us. Once you understand that, things will go a lot better for us. By us, I mean Donald Trump. I guess what I'm trying to say is that, unfortunately, we're all in his hands. Look at it. 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But now they can scroll, tap and whack off with emphysema. So why are they suddenly trading their douchebag vapes for cool guy cigarettes? It's factors stealing the shift, including nihilism about the future, the online, quote, messy girl aesthetic, celebrity culture, and the Gen Z's high level of anxiety. Wow, holy shit. That's why Gen Z is smoking. I just did it to stick it to the surgeon general. What a prick. But good for you kids. And don't listen to the haters who whine about lung cancer and throat cancer in a drastically shortened lifespan. Trust me, the way things are going, those are pros, not cons. Still, leave it to Gen Z to kill that sweet nicotine buzz by throwing in some of their idiotic terminology. There's even an Instagram account called SIGFLUENCERS created by Jarrett Oviet. SIGFLUENCERS, I guess in the simplest terms, is a mood board celebrating hot people smoking cigarettes. Wow, are you shitting me? SIGFLUENCERS, or as I used to call them, my parents. And since when does smoking need a mood board? The great thing about addiction is you're always in the mood. The point is, you don't smoke cigarettes because some SIGFLUENCERS tells you to. You smoke cigarettes because you're going through a custody battle, and unfortunately, you won. But cigarettes aren't the only trend these young Morgan banks are resurrecting from the dead. Flip phones, making a comeback. Many Americans want to ditch their smartphones for so-called dumb phones. So this is my way of taking back my attention span and deciding what rural technology plays in my life. The idea is to have a phone in your pocket that isn't constantly. You know, I've been listening to nature a lot. I've been connected. I've been thinking my thoughts. Of course you've been thinking your thoughts. Who else thoughts would you be thinking? I mean, if you were thinking my thoughts, you'd be thinking, this woman sounds like a f***ing idiot. But have it your way, Gen Zers. Use a flip phone. Hope you like 8-Bit Dick pics. Of course, once you reach my age, the penis just becomes low res naturally. When I unzip my pants, my body plays the sound of Miss Pac-Man dying. So cigarettes, flip phones, at least those trends are preserving your dignity. A Lure magazine says that tramp stamps are making a big comeback with the kids. Tattoo artists say it's coming back in a big way and it's actually a power move for women. One saying, getting a lower back tat allows women to reclaim a negative stereotype. You go girl. Tramp stamps are back. Better luck next time, Laby appearsings. But if lower back tats aren't called tramp stamps anymore, how will I know if someone's a tramp? Well, I guess the only way to tell is if they're sleeping with me. And you might be wondering where those kiddos are going to get this above the stink ink. Makes it the most retro place possible. Malls are making a comeback and it's all thanks to Gen Z. Recent surveys finding that they visit malls more than any other generation. I love going to the Apple store and buying an iPad with a friend. Jesus, how many iPads are you casually buying? How about giving the Chinese kids who make them a chance to rest? But that's right. Gen Z is hanging out at the mall and a whole new generation is about to experience Panda Express Diarrhea. I used to hang around malls all the time because I was sleeping with Annie Ann. And yes, she could twist herself into a pretzel and you better believe it made the sex way worse. But in a good way. And since malls are back, you know what that means? I can start buying my clothes at Hot Topic again. Hail Satan. But I got to give these kids some credit. I think it's great that young people are exploring the past. And Gen Z, when you discover cocaine, pick up that flip bone and give Uncle Lou a call. I'll have you snorting like a pig. Gosh. Louis Black, everyone. 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Welcome back to The Daily Show. My guest tonight is an Emmy Award winning documentarian who directed and produced the Netflix docuseries, Sean Combs The Reckoning. Please welcome, Alexandra Stapleton. Thank you so much for joining me. Thank you for having me. I watched the documentary immediately. I watched it all the way through and this thing will make you believe in the devil. It is crazy how much he got away with and everything that happened. And one of the main questions I had was like, how you got the footage that was him clearly trying to film his own comeback before he got arrested. What happened? Yeah, it's really meta, right? This footage dropped in my lap and I watched it and I watched it with my producing partner and we were up all night and we were like, oh my God. It was very surreal that at the height of his, you know, everything is on fire around him and he's got his life on the line and this is what he was doing in his hotel room. Yeah. It's crazy. I felt almost like watching someone talk about not slipping on banana peel, but there's a camera attached to a banana peel that's like right underneath them. Because the whole thing just, the way that you told the story, because I feel like so much of what's happening in the doc is things I knew, some things I didn't know, but a lot of things that I knew and I guess I forgot and I feel like that says something about how we view celebrity or how we view power that like, oh, you can kind of just take a couple on the chin to the public. Right, right. Well, he's a genius at marketing himself and marketing his artist, Bad Boy. He's an American mogul and I think that the underbelly of Sean Combs' world is a dark and mysterious and disturbing place for a lot of people. And so we had four hours to kind of take you on that ride and to kind of trigger memories and experiences that we all, I was a teenager in the 90s and grew up loving Bad Boy and his artist and to actually see what was going on behind closed doors was frightening at times. And so you compiled all of this, did you make specific choices on who to interview? Because you could talk to Shine, you could talk to Mace, you could talk to people that are mentioned in the doc but aren't on screen as much as the people that did sit down. Was there specific choices that went into who you interviewed and why? Well, you always kind of cast them at wide and so that was what we set out to do. I obviously really wanted an interview with Sean Combs and went out to him on multiple occasions and thought in my head that I was going to have the opportunity to do that. Wait, I'm so sorry to interrupt you. You went to Sean Combs. Not physically. No, not physically. But still, just you were like, hey, I'm making a documentary about you that you won't like. Hey, I was like, my job is to present all sides, right? So even though 50's name is attached to this, you should still, it'll be authentic. If you participate, we'll print it. I mean, we have your footage. So yeah. Well, he didn't know that at the time. But yeah, that would have been the Holy Grail. It was the Holy Grail for me. It didn't happen. There were a lot of people that I talked to off camera. There were a lot of people, a lot of people were really afraid for their lives, their livelihoods, to be on camera and to participate. We started this before there was even an indictment. So it was like the dark ages of the story. So it wasn't like he was in jail and people could be like, OK, I can talk now. He was still out in the streets of New York. Jeez. So are you nervous? I am in New York again. No, I, yeah, of course. People were sharing with me really like very disturbing things about, you know, what this guy allegedly is capable of. And so by default, you know, taking all of that in was nerve wracking. And, you know, for myself, you know, for my crew, when we would come to New York to shoot, you know, it was always the you could cut the tension in the air because people would come and say, I had people stand me up, you know, for interviews because they were like, oh, I got a phone call. And I think, you know, no, it's not going to happen today. I'm too scared. So it was it was wild. Yeah. Yeah. And I guess when you think of something like that, you think about people's fear then versus how there are so many sort of open secrets versus the time that's passed and him actually being indicted, arrested and everything. Do you think those people still hold that same fear? Or do you think that any, any amount of, I guess, power is diminished? Well, I think that the people that participated in the series, I think that there was a sigh of relief for them that, you know, there's power in numbers. And I think that it was very eye opening for them to watch the series because I told no one, you know, who was participating for their, for, you know, everyone's right to privacy. And when it came out, I got a lot of messages from, from participants and other people that were like, that was my story. I thought I was the only one carrying that load or carrying that burden. And so I feel like there was a sense of them being freed from, you know, whatever he had, whatever he had warned them about not sharing their silence was killing them. And so by participating in the series, I think that there was a great weight left it off of a lot of people. Yeah, no, that makes a lot of sense. And when you, when you look at this project as something that is out there now, people know what they know, you've presented your story, you try to present all sides and everything. And, and like we mentioned, there are some people who are mentioned, but not expressly, like part of the conversation and everything. And 50 Cent said that there's more footage than y'all even knew what to do with. So is there going to be a sequel of episodes to cover other stories? Or do you think that it kind of rests as it, as it is? I mean, when I finished it, it was definitely like Mic Drop, we were done. Like, because it was, you know, two years of my life, the life of my editing, my producing partners, like all of us coming together. And, but we have a lot more. We have so much footage. I mean, these interviews would go like 12 hours sometimes. The amount of archival footage that we have is, is I could honestly say it's like endless. So this was just the tip of the iceberg. I think to, to come out and to do more, you know, I'm kind of waiting to see how things are going to play out and curious to see if some other people might come out on their own. And so we'll see, you know, the, the story is not over. I think, you know, there's over a hundred civil suits that he's still facing right now. So there's a lot more to play out. Got you. Got you. So it's not a yes, but it's not a no. No, no, I can tell. Now, 50 cents also attached to the project and everything on scale of one to 10. How much does he hate Diddy? Like, is it? Like, is it 50? Don't get me. Because I just imagine y'all in the, I don't know how involved he was, but I imagine y'all in the room editing together and him just smiling. He smiles a lot, right? Yeah. Yeah, I do. Like he, no, he doesn't hate Diddy. Oh, OK. No. And to be honest, I would do cuts, screen them, you know, for him. And, and he was smiling. But, you know, he was actually, he would give me feedback about uncovering things that were actually and talking to people that were, that loved Diddy, you know, and he loved the complexity of the story. That's, you know, what made this partnership, I think, really good when we sat and talked for the first time before I started. He's a very complex, you know, he thinks about things in a very complex way. He understands the power of nuance. And so we never had conversations where he was like, put more of the bad stuff in, you know, he was like, you're doing an incredible job, you and the team of showing this other side of him, you know, it was really important to us to keep the story of hip hop in here as well and to not throw the baby out with bathwater, you know, so they say, to not cancel the whole culture because of the doings of, you know, allegedly one man. I see, I see. That makes sense. And do you think that with what we've learned about Diddy and you talk about hip hop and not throwing the baby out with the bathwater, but it seems like there's a there is a lot of crossover there. And I guess how do you reconcile trying to hold on to the parts of the of the culture that you think are about that empowerment for disenfranchised people or about artistry, about poetry, but then strip it away from the things that I guess people, most people might know it for, which is the money or the like access to women or whatever those things are. It seems like he's the best storyteller in hip hop because for a little while he was everything that the idea of hip hop had become. I think that the goal, I think we have a long way to go. And I think that the goal that I had was just to be able to have conversations like this, because we weren't even really talking about this in the space of hip hop before. And America went through a Me Too movement. Other industries went through that. But the hip hop world and I think as black people like to have this conversation amongst ourselves is crucial and very important. And so I'm just happy that people are talking. The conversations need to continue. The legal system needs to get caught up to be in a better place. There's a lot more work to do. And so this film is not the answer, but it's just it's a call to action. Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. That makes a lot of sense. And when you talk about Diddy and his marketing of himself or as the same bassenter for hip hop and everything, you know, that sort of thing doesn't just turn off, you know, like when Diddy gets out, because I'm sure you think about when did he gets out. I think about when did he gets out all the time. I think a lot of people do. Yes, I do. I have also been talking a lot. And so I wonder, though, when he gets out, do you think that he's already planned a strategy the same way that he had a camera crew following him, leading up to his indictment to basically think 10 years ahead for a comeback story that he was probably going to shoot of himself. Do you think that right now he's also figuring out how he's going to pivot? Absolutely. Absolutely. I think that he is the father of reinvention. He has reinvented himself, you know, and through horrible circumstances, you know, for decades, he's able to kind of come out of the ashes and do a Mea culpa press tour and on to the next. I don't know if it's going to work this time. But I think that Diddy is definitely, I never call him Diddy. I always call him Sean. I think Sean Combs is someone who views chaos as a ladder. That makes that makes a lot of sense, especially when you, when you watch the documentary and everything. I mean, do you have any guesses at what that shift's going to be? What that? I've heard, I mean, I've heard so many different theories. There's some people that are like, I think that he's going to manufacture baby oil. Like, and I was like, that is wild. That was one that I heard. And she was like, no, I'm serious. I'm very serious. Like she, yeah. And I was like, you know what? I could see, I mean, I don't know what he, I don't know what is going on through that man's head right now. But I mean, if I would be surprised if I'm, if I'm throwing it out there, because I've been talking about this with friends, I think he would come out of jail, he would lay low and then he would sort of resurface as like a pastor. Oh, yeah. That's deep. I think I think he would be like, Hey, I was bad. I was the worst of the worst. And then God found me in that cell and now look at, look at who I am. And look at where I am. And then, you know, see him next to. Well, we see him doing the work. Make a church pastors. Yes. Yeah. Well, there's that. Um, yeah, that is, that is very deep. Uh, I mean, maybe I'm wrong. It'll probably be the baby oil thing. But I don't know. He's good at shifting. He's a shape shifter for sure. Uh, I anything is possible with that man. Yeah. He's got a very, uh, he's got an imagination. Unfortunately. Thank you so much for joining me. I appreciate you so much. Thank you for being here. Sean Compton, Reckoning is available to stream on Netflix. Alexandra Stapleton. We're going to take a quick break, but we'll be right back after this. Thank you so much for coming on. This is your fix. I am your host, Stacey Schroeder. Welcome to Tell Me Lies, the official podcast. What's the most unhinged thing of season three? Stephen, because he's so evil. I do think he is misunderstood. You see everyone based consequences. It's intoxicating. The writers just know how to trick you. There's always a twist in this show. 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