For some unknown reason, Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy agreed to be interviewed by Donald Trump Jr., son of the failed, one-term, twice-impeached ex-president, and the results were nothing short of a massive train wreck, with Junior don’t most of the talking and seeming to be on some sort of substance that has his amped up.
Newsweek reports the interview was part an episode of Triggered with Don Jr. this week.
The 46-second clip has been watched more than 160,000 times on Twitter as of early Saturday. The full hour-long episode is available on video platforms including Rumble, which is popular with conservatives.
Here’s a partial transcript from the interview:
Trump Jr: “Perhaps his (Donald Trump’s) greatest, maybe, political weakness was that he never wanted to show his empathetic side. I’m dealing with China, I’m dealing with Iran. I can’t be soft.”
McCarthy: “Yes.”
Trump Jr: “”I’m like, you don’t have to be soft with them but, like, show that side.”
McCarthy: “No.”
Trump Jr: “He still had that old-school Germanic sort of whatever it was.”
McCarthy: “Yeah, I don’t know if…”
Trump Jr: “He actually has so much more of that empathy.”
McCarthy: “I wish…”
Later in the so-called “interview,” Don Jr. also suggested that members of Congress need to learn how to “hustle” and that he once worked jobs that only paid minimum wage.
“I understand where I come from and my background—I get it. But my father made sure I worked minimum-wage jobs….I also worked for tips, which is something that’s really important that everybody should understand.”
What in the hell? Junior, we all know that you’re a trust fund baby and have never actually “worked” a day in your life. And if did happen to make minimum wage at some gig daddy set you up with, at night you went home to a mansion with servants.
Here, see for yourself. This is so cringeworthy that it’s hilarious.
