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Donald Trump was tough standing up to Xi Jinping, really? He totally folded to Xi Jinping during COVID, doing nothing to try to push back on him at all. Donald Trump really, behind the scenes, cares about what the right things to do are; that he's a listener, that he's a listener—he listens to people. This is just ridiculous; we all know him. His biggest flaw is that he's a perfectionist. I mean, do you read his tweets? He doesn't even spell things correctly.
But the most important thing I want to pick on is that little exchange you had about how, oh, it's so surprising they've never met. Do you know why Trump and Kamala Harris have never met, Pierce? Did you think—have you thought about it for a second? Do you know why they really haven't met? Tell me in today's video. Tim Miller absolutely destroys Pierce Morgan in a heated debate about Donald Trump's presidency in his first term. Now, Pierce, being the diehard Trump defender he is, wants to paint Trump as some kind of perfectionist who carefully listens to his advisors, but Tim isn't having it. He calls out the obvious: Trump doesn't even proofread his own tweets, let alone make well-thought-out decisions. And when Pierce brings up how Trump never met Kamala Harris, Tim flips it right back, exposing how Trump was never serious about governing in the first place. This debate gets very intense, so let's dive in and watch how Tim Miller schools Pierce Morgan on Trump's presidency.
Because he was a toddler, and he threw a temper tantrum after he lost a fair election. And for the first time in America since the Civil War, we did not have a peaceful transfer of power. We did not have a ceremonial transfer of power with the former president, like a man goes and stands on the stage and greets the next incoming president, where he helps the incoming team with a transition, where the vice president's team meets with the other. That didn't happen last time because Donald Trump attempted a coup, and he had a temper tantrum, and he flew home to Mar-a-Lago just to go golfing. Hang the Cougars. To be clear, all of which—that's what happened. That's why they haven't met because Trump tried to coup. Well, to be clear, at the time I heavily criticized him for all the things you've just said. Uh, but it doesn't explain why. Okay, sure. But Corey comes on your show and he's like, "Oh, Donald Trump and Kamala haven't met! Oh my goodness, that's so interesting, they haven't met!" And then Corey's over there saying it's because Kamala is ineffective as a senator. No, it's because Donald Trump was supposed to be a dealmaker. Didn't meet with any of the Democratic senators. Said he was going to be the "Art of the Deal" man, but he didn't try to actually do any deals. All he did was insult people on Twitter. And then after he lost to Kamala Harris, barren square and Joe Biden, he didn't have the dignity to have a transfer of power for the first time in American history. I've just said shameful, embarrassing, an embarrassment. I've just said I agree with you. So let's park that to one side. Well, you didn't say it to Corey; you didn't challenge Corey. It was a very chummy interview. I know you want to get Trump on the show, but it was very chummy. Okay, you didn't challenge that much. Ask can be chummy too. Uh, I, I don't think I've been un-chummy to you. I don't even know you. I know, know we can be chummy. That's a close advisor to Donald Trump on the podcast. You think that you could challenge him a little bit? That's—I was, I was just going to ask you this question: the point that he made, Corey Lewandowski, was it was surprising to him they'd never met, given that Trump was president for four years before the transfer of power, January 6th. This year's that you're talking about. Why was Kamala Harris, who was one of the hundred senators in the United States at the time, why was she incapable of being able to get into a room with Donald Trump, the president? How was she not invited? Why did the president not invite her to the White House? Why didn't she—come on! Donald Trump ran on this BS nonsense, and come on this show, "I'm the art of the deal man, I'm a dealmaker," which was—which is a book he didn't even write, that got ghostwritten. It was this fake persona, it was this Hollywood persona that he conned the American people into believing that he was some dealmaker. Then he gets in the White House, and he doesn't even try to work with the Democrats on a deal; all he does is insult them. He gets—he does nicknames, you know, uh, he trashes them. He didn't—they didn't—he didn't cut any deals. Donald Trump, Joe Biden ended up being the dealmaker, deal on gay marriage, on infrastructure. So that's why Kamala didn't go to the White House. He didn't—he didn't ever invite her. How about that? Did you try that? If I was a senator, I'd make sure I got invited. Pause. If you're enjoying this video so far, please consider hitting that like button and subscribe. It helps out the channel a lot.
Now Tim calls out how Trump's refusal to accept his loss led to a failed coup attempt and broke a longstanding American tradition: the peaceful transfer of power. No handshake, no meeting, just Trump sulking off to Mar-a-Lago like a sore loser. That's why he and Kamala Harris never met—not because she was ineffective as a senator, like Trump's people try to claim, but because Trump was too busy pouting and golfing. And Tim also brought up how Trump's entire presidency was about self-interest and not leadership. Under his administration, the national debt skyrocketed by nearly $7.8 billion—one of the largest increases in history—despite his claims of being a fiscally responsible businessman. And let's not forget that his much-hyped tax cuts overwhelmingly benefited the rich while doing little for the middle class. Even Trump's trade war with China, which was supposed to make America stronger, ended up costing us taxpayers over $80 billion in tariffs, with American farmers needing a $28 billion dollar bailout to recover from the damage. So much for being a business genius. Pierce, of course, tried to downplay all of this, saying he criticized Trump's actions at the time, but Tim wasn't having it. He pushed back, pointing out how Pierce goes too soft on Trump's allies, giving them easy interviews without challenging their nonsense. And when Pierce asked why Kamala Harris didn't try harder to get in the same room as Trump, Tim just laughed it off. Trump was the one promising to make deals, but he never invited her. End of story.
Um, but let me ask you, I'm curious about your own journey. You were Jeb Bush's guy, Republican, and now you're a Democrat. How does that happen? Well, I'm not a Democrat. I left the party in 2020. Very good timing, I thought. Um, in about November of 2020, after the election, I was hopeful. Throughout 2020, I was hopeful that we could get our party back from Donald Trump and get back to a more classical liberal, traditional party that had a respect for the rule of law, that had a respect for our allies abroad, international relationships, that respect for immigration and the immigrant story and how that's an important part of America. I was hoping we could get back to that kind of compassionate conservatism. After 2020, and then what happened was Donald Trump lost, and he threw an extended temper tantrum. And rather than standing up to him, rather than doing—rather than telling him, "Sir, Mr. President, it's time for you to accept your loss and move on," all of the Republicans basically went along with it, and everybody like participated in this absurd lie and this absurd fantasy where every Republican was like, "Yeah, we, we're worried about the voting machines." And I was so disheartened and disorient—dis—discouraged by that that I wrote an article saying I was leaving the party. It ended up being totally correct. Over the next five years, that now everyone who spoke out against Trump, like Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, has been thrust out of the party, and people who are like embarrassing clowns are, are, are made to—not to be the nominee of our party, and like Mark Robinson in North Carolina or Kari Lake in Arizona, simply because they're willing to suck up to Donald Trump. It's not a—it's not a traditional conservative or a classically liberal party anymore. It's an embarrassment; it's a cult of one man, and I was—I'm very happy to leave it, and I think everything that's happened over the last five years has validated all of my criticisms of the party.
Tim made it clear that he didn't leave the Republican party because he suddenly became a liberal; he left because the party stopped being about conservative values and became a full-blown personality cult for Trump. And he was right. After 2020, rather than accepting his loss like every other president in history, Trump threw a tantrum, pushed baseless election fraud conspiracies, and Republicans fell in line behind him. And let's not forget the January 6th riot. Tim pointed out that Trump's refusal to accept his loss broke a 220-year-old American tradition of peaceful power transfer. Again, no handshake, no meeting, just Trump sulking it off to Mar-a-Lago while his supporters stormed the Capitol. That's not leadership; it's cowardice. At the end of the day, this debate just proved how empty the pro-Trump argument is. Tim brought facts, logic, and actual conservative principles, while Pierce tried to defend a man who built his entire political career on lies and grifting. And when it came down to it, Pierce simply just couldn't keep up. But this is it for today's video. I hope you have enjoyed it. If you did, make sure to hit that like button, subscribe, and share your thoughts in the comment section down below.