D.L. was ripping Trump for tearing up Barack Obama's deal with Iran and scoffing at the idea of Trump getting the Nobel Peace Prize when our Michael Babcock joined the conversation and asked the comedian what Trump would have to do to get some props ... and things escalated very quickly.
00:08Yeah, peace longer than it takes to send a tweet out. Like, it has to be that long, right? It has to be longer than that, right?
00:15Ultimately, it's interesting because weren't the Iranians and the United States and Israel at the negotiating table when he fired the missile?
00:24Like, they were at the table negotiating when he fired it.
00:26They were at the table when Israel launched its offensive.
00:30And look, you're right, it's shaky, but I've been dying to talk to you today.
00:37If this peace and the ceasefire lasts and he is able to contain Iran through the bombing and then diplomacy, does he deserve the Nobel Prize?
00:48I think that what we should talk about is the fact that he dismantled the deal that was in place that had contained Iran.
00:53So he's an arsonist who starts a fire and then puts it out.
00:58Let's be clear. The only reason we're in this situation right now, because he despises Barack Obama so much, he took a deal off the table, left it alone.
01:07They started doing whatever they thought was a specific activity.
01:10They don't even know if they reconstituted their nuclear program.
01:15But the bottom line is, where we are right now, he dismantled what was working, took it away, said he was going to replace it, and didn't.
01:22But wait a minute.
01:25No, but he said back then that he just didn't believe that it was verifiable that the Iranians were going to stop developing nuclear weapons.
01:37Okay, then put a deal in place, negotiate with them in place.
01:41This is six years, like, let's be clear, that deal, by all accounts, was doing what it's supposed to do.
01:46He hates Barack Obama so much that he took a deal off the place without having to, just like he would do to health care.
01:53Stop with this whole, and he does everything for informatics.
01:57Be the president and stop trying to win Nobel Peace Prizes and stop trying to sell telephones and do the bidding of the country.
02:04It's not that hard. It's a job you said you wanted.
02:09Stop, if he never won a Peace Prize, so what?
02:12What's with being on Time, the cover of Time magazine, and getting all these other accolades?
02:17Are you the president of the United States? Act like it. Act like it.
02:20So he would say, D.L., that they were about to go to the table with Iran when Israel started its offensive and then sort of cajoled the U.S. into joining in, right?
02:33So in 2018, they had something in place, and at Israel's behest, he dismantled it.
02:41They didn't put anything in place, nothing been in place, even for the last few years of his administration.
02:46So they had a deal that was in place. Obviously, nobody did anything about it, and now we're here where we are right now.
02:51I do not think a man who broke something should get a reward for trying to fix it. I don't think that.
02:57Okay, okay. But look, I mean, you say he needs to start acting like the president.
03:03The argument would be that the way a president—
03:06Hold on, let me make my point. Let me make my point that there are a lot of presidents who all kind of act the same way,
03:16and a lot of people think we've been taken advantage of all over the world.
03:20Donald Trump acts a different way. You just heard Donald Trump saying they're both blanked up, and he is handling it differently.
03:29If his style is able to secure what looks like a long-lasting peace, why not give him the Nobel Prize?
03:37Okay, here's the thing. Tariffs, his idea of tariffs was a different approach. Look where we're at.
03:43His idea of immigration is a different approach. At the same time—this is literally true—at the same time he's attacking Iran,
03:50he was attacking a swap meet in El Monte. So, like, I don't know—any of these things that he's trying to do would already be unwieldy anyway,
04:00but trying to do them all half-hearted and s*** at one time is probably why we're here.
04:07If—you—and let me ask him, who do we have—who does he have in place that is advising him?
04:12Name me one person, one competent person on his cabinet that can help him. One.
04:17The same time—
04:18Dio, is there anything that Donald Trump could do that you would give him credit for?
04:23Yes, he could have went to jail for starting a riot.
04:26Okay, there's the answer. This is—
04:29The things that you were saying, with all due respect, they are—they are absolute nonsense.
04:36He—he torpedoed a deal with Iran because he doesn't like Barack Obama?
04:41Do you listen to this? Do you hear what you're saying?
04:43He destroyed—he destroyed—oh, stop it. Stop it. The man—he wouldn't do that?
04:49The man who's renaming federal—
04:50Wait, give me the proof. Give me the proof. Let's talk in facts.
04:54Let's talk in facts. Let's talk in facts.
04:56Why didn't he torpedo the deal? Why was the deal—
04:58Because it's a crap deal. It's a crap deal, Dio.
05:01The whole world recognizes that.
05:03No, no, no.
05:04Barack Obama has said—
05:04Barack Obama has said—
05:05There's not—so a better deal is the one he's doing now?
05:08Stop.
05:09You've got to apologize.
05:10They've negotiated for 60 days. He said, take a deal.
05:13They didn't take the deal.
05:14Now it seems like we are on the verge of peace, except the only difference is now their nuclear program is decimated.
05:21That man torpedoes that deal precisely because he didn't like Barack Obama.
05:27Every president we have had, Dio, has said that they cannot have nuclear weapons, including Barack Obama.
05:35You whole mediocre coward who is a bullsh** president, and all of you people enable him. That's all he does is break s**t.
05:43This hurts your side. It hurts your side, Dio, because when something legitimately good happens toward the world, you can't admit it.
05:52You cannot admit it.
05:54Do you think I—no, I despise him, but if he did something right, I would say—
05:58No kidding you despise him. It's all—we hear it.
06:00I despise him.
06:00I despise him.
06:01I know you do. Everyone hears you.
06:02I despise him as much as he despises black people.
06:05I despise him as much as he despises black people.
06:06It's more nonsense.
06:09I don't—
06:09By the way, Mike—
06:10Let me ask you something. Let me ask you something.
06:12Why rename bases after Confederate generals? Why do it?
06:16Why break—why destroy black history? Why do it?
06:19Good question. Good question, Mike.
06:21Why do it? You know why? Because he's a—
06:23Well, let him answer, Dio.
06:24And you let him do it.
06:26If you're going to ask him, you have to let him answer.
06:28Why would he—why does he do it?
06:29Give me—give me the question once more, Dio. I'm sorry.
06:31Why does he rename bases after Confederate generals?
06:35I have no—I—I have no idea.
06:38Yes, you do. Yes, you do. You f***ing coward. He's a racist. That's why he doesn't.
06:41Look, you—Dio, let me tell you. It is such a sign of weakness that you cannot control your emotions.
06:46I tell you, I don't have to control my emotions.
06:47You are—you are—you are attacking me personally.
06:49Okay, okay.
06:50It's a sign of—it's a sign of weakness, Dio.
06:53We're in overtime. We are—
06:55Dio, somebody your age should have more control over their emotions.
06:59Everybody fall back. We've got to stop.
07:01Mike's down. We've got to stop for a second.
07:03Mike's down. Mike's down.
07:04Mike's down.
07:05I'll show you how weak I am.
07:06Mike's down.
07:06I'll show you how weak I am.
07:07Okay, hold on. Hold on.
07:10All right.
07:10We're going to do this civilly.
07:12We're going to do this civilly.
07:13Right.
07:13I just want to ask you one other thing.
07:15Hold on. Hold on.
07:16I get it. Deal. Deal. I get it.
07:18We're not going to do the personal attacks, and we're not doing that with you either.
07:23So, I've got a question.
07:25Suppose you're right that he's an arsonist who started a fire but then put it out.
07:32If the fire is out, I mean, isn't that better than it not being out?
07:37Let me ask you something. What was happening before? What was happening before?
07:42Well, Iran and Israel were trading missiles.
07:46The fire would be that Iran was developing nuclear weapons.
07:48Right.
07:48That would be the fire.
07:49Here's the thing. In March, Tulsa Cabaret, his information czar, basically said there was
07:56no evidence they were doing anything. Even on the plane, two days ago, he said, well,
08:01she doesn't know what she's talking about. Pardon me if I am tired of American presidents,
08:07be they him or not, saying that somebody has something. The last time we did this, 4,500
08:13troops died, 200,000 Iraqis died, and nobody found the thing that they said they were going
08:18to war for. Deal. Here's how I know how much you oppose Donald Trump. You're siding with Tulsa
08:24Cabaret. I'm not. No, I'm just giving you. No, I'm not siding with him. I know. I know. I get it.
08:30And if it was that big a deal, here's the thing. You didn't notify Congress. You never talked to
08:34your allies about it. If it was that imminent, why did any of those things didn't happen? Why
08:39none of those things happened?
08:40Well, the reality, though, I will say, the reality is you go back, and I'm an old guy,
08:45to 1964 with the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution with Lyndon Johnson, and presidents have a whole history,
08:52all of them, of not going to Congress.
08:54Right. They always ask for forgiveness, or actually don't even ask for it, rather than ask for permission.
08:59And you know what they also do? They don't also say that their intelligence operatives don't know
09:03anything. They don't do that. Well, that's true, too. That's the fair point.
09:06Let's be clear. That is weird.
09:08This man, a man, it's a disingenuous argument to tell me that you don't know that this thing
09:14has done racially motivated things. It's disingenuous. You know what he has.
09:19Yes, I hear what you're saying, but it's sort of not the issue that we're talking about.
09:24We're just talking about whether or not- I think he clearly, I think he did what he did,
09:28because he hated Barack Obama. I do. But that's going back a number of years.
09:32No, but he's saying that that's why he dismantled the deal that was there.
09:35I mean- But there was no deal in place.
09:37No subsequent deal in place. Right.
09:39I mean, look, this is a debatable issue that there are people who think-
09:44But it will be part of the conversation.
09:46With, you know, with transparency, with their nuclear program. So, you know, that's a debatable
09:54issue, I think. I mean, I hear you, but- But I think that debate is going to be, when it comes
10:00down for the Nobel Committee, right, they're going to say that's part of the discussion they're going
10:06to have as to whether or not he's earned a peace prize.
10:10He should buy one. He should buy one.
10:13As far as we know, they are not for sale, so that's not going to work this time.
10:18Here's the thing. I'm always going to tell you, it is not a fun thing for me to watch this man
10:24do things at the same time. To watch a man who is snatching people off the streets,
10:29who is letting federal officers walk around with masks on, and then doing all of this other stuff.
10:34I question the motive at every time. I've never seen him do anything that he didn't get the benefit
10:39for him, i.e., in this case, maybe a Nobel Peace Prize.
