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'I Wouldn't Have Saved Him': Trump's Honest Selfishness
from Meghan and Harry, Classic Trump, & $40 Trillion In Debt | The Tim Dillon Show #509 · #509
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Tim plays and replays the lifeguard clip, marveling that Trump says this in front of the rescued child and his father, and argues this blunt selfishness is core to Trump's political appeal compared to typical scripted politician speeches.
- Trump tells a man who saved a child's life that he wouldn't have done the same thing.
- Trump's appeal is his refusal to pretend to be anything other than deeply selfish.
- At Walter Reed, Trump asked soldiers why they joined the military when there's money and shit to be made instead.
- To become a billionaire, you have to be selfish and never put anyone before yourself, which is probably why Trump was elected.
- When Trump came down the escalator in 2016, he broke from decades of scripted political speeches about selfless service.
- Trump's pitch was different: we're getting ripped off, and we should be ripping other people off instead.
- Trump told people they should be richer and that politicians had been fucking them over—and he wasn't wrong about that.
- Tim admits 2016 felt like the most fascinating moment in American history, even if Trump wasn't necessarily going to deliver on his promises.
- Trump's campaign broke the fourth wall by openly acknowledging how the system had been rigging things, promising to stop doing it.
- The segment cuts off before revealing what actually happened instead of Trump's promised change.