The Trump Show (2020) s01e01 Episode Script
Episode 1
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This programme contains some
strong language from the start
and some scenes which some viewers
may find upsetting
This about right? About where I was?
I'll keep my hands above the table,
though.
Like in the Old West, you always had
to keep your hands above the table.
Well, you might be going
for your gun.
WESTERN MUSIC OK, now I'm ready.
Do I look skinny?
So I'm, like, staring into
which camera?
OK, there you go.
So who are? Who are you?
I mean, what is the topic?
It's obviously Trump, but, like
Yeah, so what happens
when a lunatic crazy person
becomes president?
SHE GROANS
OK.
I will find you, Rob,
if this gets cut down to 15 seconds
of talking about Trump's penis
and his black socks.
What you hear is, "Orange man bad."
But I gotta tell ya, he
could be in the handful
of greatest presidents
we've ever had.
So am I looking directly
at the camera now?
You just want me to look
at the camera?
Has he delivered? Absolutely!
Oh, my God! Yes, he's delivered.
I'm going to tell you
that this is literally crazy town.
Pew!
OK.
So, it's election night,
we're crowded into this room,
um, on the 5th floor of Trump Tower.
It had been the floor where
they had filmed The Apprentice.
And so we're gathered in there -
lvanka, Mike Pence,
Reince Priebus
I remember taking a bunch of video,
and we've got a projector
on the wall
with the results coming in.
Donald Trump will carry
the state of Florida.
This night is turning
out to be a real nail biter.
Suddenly someone starts to realise
we might win this thing.
And Trump was up in his residence,
and he calls lvanka
and she says to him,
he says, "Well where are you?"
And she says,
"We're down on the 5th floor."
And she said,
"Why don't you come down, Dad?"
And he's just standing there,
watching the TVs.
Everyone around him,
kinda going nuts.
APPLAUSE
WHOOPING AND CHEERING
And he's just soaking it in.
That's the moment where he realised,
"Oh, my gosh,
this is really about to happen."
Donald Trump wins the presidency.
The business tycoon
and TV personality,
with an astounding upset victory.
He was a middle finger
to the bureaucrats.
You can bleep this out -
people were ready to give
a "fuck you" to the system.
I was thinking to myself,
"You son of a bitch, you did this.
I cannot believe you did this."
It's a stunning Obviously,
it's a stunning historic upset.
The polls were wrong,
the prediction models were wrong.
I mean,
literally The New York Times
had us at 93-7, saying
that we were going to lose.
And so the idea that he blew through
the political hurdles that he did
was just unbelievable.
Make no mistake about it -
this is the biggest political upset
in the modern history
of the United States of America.
SCATTERED CHEERS
Sorry to keep you waiting.
One day, if someone were
to make a movie of your life,
who would you see playing yourself?
Maybe, uh, maybe myself.
Reality television
has taken over America.
Donald Trump
is the reality television king.
We love you, Trump! I love you too.
CHEERING
Tremendously entertaining.
The guy knows how to put on a show.
CAMERAS CLICK
Welcome back to the studio.
OK, we're good.
Is this in the shot over here?
I'm afraid it is, sorry.
Well, let me let me just go
back back to the beginning.
I mean, I've known Donald Trump
for a long time.
And he used to call me up
quite quite frequently,
usually to complain about something
the magazine had said about him,
or even more often to complain
that the magazine had not said
anything about him.
And then there came the moment when,
um, uh, he won.
Um, as incredible
as that might seem to me,
that was even more incredible to
him.
He never, ever,
not for a second,
believed that
this was going to happen.
So you almost have an experiment.
HE CHUCKLES
And the experiment is
what happened if a person,
wholly unaware
of the history of this job,
of the responsibility of this job,
as though he were just dropped
from Mars into this job,
that's what you have
in in Donald Trump.
"We don't like politicians -"
"we'll elect somebody who is at odds"
"with everything
a politician is supposed to be."
I thought that we were going to see
something about a man's character
and something about the nature
of the White House
that we had never seen.
So in a way, that's the
That's the grand experiment.
You are watching the inauguration
of Donald Trump.
It is all becoming very, very real.
The first time that we met
was in the boardroom
from The Apprentice.
We went from colleagues
who, you know,
made this great, successful show
and had great success on television
to now he was
the leader of the free world.
And and I had a front-row seat
to all of it.
OK, look, we're moving.
Hello. Hello, everybody.
Lot of Obama?
He was always selling.
Even up until the moment
we went into the White House,
he was selling, selling.
While we were preparing
for the inauguration,
I went into his office,
I popped in to brief him.
And he says, "You know,
my book is number one.
You know,
"It's the best business book ever."
You know, that's Donald Trump.
And so he he starts off
on this riff
about how great
The Art Of The Deal is,
and I'm trying to figure out,
you know, where this is
this story is going, and he says,
"You know, I'm thinking"
"I'm thinking about taking
my oath of office"
"on The Art Of The Deal."
And I was like, "What?!"
I was like, "Please do not
repeat that to anyone else."
But, you know,
that's that's Donald.
Ain't that bad a place
I was born that way
I bite my fingernails ♪
Please raise your right hand
and repeat after me.
I, Donald john Trump
I, Donald John Trump
"will preserve,
protect and defend"
Preserve, protect and defend
the Constitution
of the United States.
The Constitution
of the United States.
I love the USA
I love the USA
Fuck, yeah, this place is great
I love the USA
Stop at coffee bean ♪
This is like a dream ♪
He was so excited.
And the grandeur of it.
It's just kind of like,
"Boom, we're we're there."
I remember standing
in the Oval Office with him,
and he said, "Look around,
we're standing in the Oval Office."
In the Beast,
which is the presidential limo,
he said, "Tap on the windows,
feel how thick they are."
And I Said, "OK."
And he's like, "They're bulletproof,
isn't that cool?"
We must protect our borders
from the ravages of other countries,
stealing our companies
and destroying our jobs.
God save the king
God save the king
God save the king ♪
CHANTING
LOUD BANG It's going
to be only America first.
After the inauguration,
we literally came back to the hotel
where we are filming this right now.
It probably could be the room,
and put the family to bed.
I had two small kids.
And, early in the morning, I think
it's about, you know, 8am or so,
I get a phone call
and it's the White House operator
and she says, "You know, Mr Spicer,
I have the president on the phone."
And I'm thinking, "OK".
So he says, "Are you watching TV?"
And I, you know, I can't lie.
I didn't want to tell him that
I think we had, like, you know,
Barney or Sesame Street on.
These photographs
have just been released
by the National Park Service.
Washington Mall, half
full, with supporters.
He was furious.
And he says, "You know,
there's reports this morning"
"that our crowd at the inauguration
was, you know, much smaller"
"than Obama and I cannot believe"
"that this is what they're talking
about. We need to fix this."
And then the president said,
like, "I want you to go out"
"and address this."
And I thought,
"OK, this is silly,"
"so let me see what I can do."
We're trying to do everything
we can to come up with numbers.
And we are trying to put
together an argument
And I'm thinking, "Oh, God, this
is going to be difficult." And
you know,
I end up going out there.
Yesterday, at a time when our nation
and the world was watching
the peaceful transition of power,
some members of the media were
engaged
in deliberately false reporting.
Photographs of the inaugural
proceedings were intentionally
framed in a way to minimise
the enormous support
that had gathered on
the National Mall.
This was the largest audience to
ever witness
an inauguration, period,
both in person and around the globe.
In walked Sean Spicer,
and he proceeds to berate us.
There's been a lot of talk in
the media about the responsibility
to hold Donald Trump accountable.
And I'm here to tell you
that it goes two ways.
We are going to hold the press
accountable as well.
I will see you on Monday.
JOURNALISTS TALK AT ONCE
That was an extraordinary moment.
Donald Trump's crowd wasn't
the biggest in history.
It was not true.
We weren't allowed to ask any
questions
and Sean Spicer storms out
at the end
and The Guardian guy
sitting next to me says,
"That reminds me of being back in
Zimbabwe."
This was about honesty.
As he said, that there
were crowds
all the way to the
Washington Monument. There was
There wasn't. Yes, there was.
Wait a minute. Alternative facts?!
Four of the five facts
he uttered were just not true.
Look, alternative facts are not
facts. They're falsehoods.
You know, admittedly,
that was probably the toughest
day of my life.
I knew that this was not
a good start.
I remember,
shortly after he won the election
I went up to Trump Tower
to see Trump.
And I said, you know,
"I'd like to come
into The White House,"
"as an observer."
I wanted to write a book.
And he seemed so uninterested
in the idea of a book that he said,
"Yeah, yeah. OK, whatever."
I remember this, "Whatever."
So I became
a kind of permanent fixture
on the couch in the West Wing.
And literally before my eyes,
you saw a guy who is so
unprepared
and he doesn't really know
anybody.
And he's freaked out.
Thank you very much, everybody.
This is really
our first official meeting
and I really do, I appreciate
we'll get to know each other
very well.
We'll have these meetings
every whenever you need 'em.
Somehow he was
still the Donald Trump
from The Apprentice.
Donald just kept doing strange
and bizarre things
in those first couple of weeks.
We could be in a meeting
about the Social Security
Administration,
about housing,
and out of nowhere,
he would start talking
about the election.
He had these huge graphics
that he would pull out of nowhere.
He would say,
"Madeleine, bring in the map,"
and so I would walk in
with the map like Vana White,
and then show everyone
this big beautiful map
with tons of red.
He wanted to show you,
state by state, county by county,
how he beat Hillary Clinton.
He was obsessed about it.
He talked about it nonstop.
And I saw him early on
in the White House
struggle with that transition.
We're five days in,
you plan on signing
the order to build the wall.
Will American taxpayers pay
for the wall?
We will be, in a form,
reimbursed by Mexico,
which I've always said.
So they'll pay us back?
The FBI is investigating any links
between the Trump campaign
and the Russian government.
There was conflict after conflict.
I mean, it was crazy.
My whole thing was - hit hard,
always be on the attack.
And come out, we're gonna have
five executive orders a day,
every day, flood the zone.
Everything from immigration
to building a border wall.
He's a disrupter.
But the system needs disrupting.
Breaking news -
President Trump's
controversial executive order
bars seven Muslim countries
from coming to the United States.
They are pouring in,
and we don't know what we're doing.
The president had a checklist.
He was one of the rare politicians
that says,
"OK, this is what I promised
the American people -"
"I'm going to get it done."
But a lot of it
is getting rushed through.
Totally.
Totally, it's not a Muslim ban,
but we are totally prepared
to work it out very nicely.
This is what democracy looks like.
It was quite the scene
at airports around the country.
Police actually dispersed
some crowds with pepper spray.
It's like someone was continually
walking into a set of drums
and knocking them flying.
And bang, bang, crash, bang, wallop!
Boom, boom, boom, boom!
Another chaotic day
in the Donald Trump administration.
So I'm circulating in the West Wing,
and I'm talking to all of the people
who have come in at that point.
They were all asking themselves
what was going on here.
The kind of facial gestures
would start.
You know, they would say
what they were supposed to say,
but then they would go, "Argh!"
No-one thinks he is actually
on his own capable
of handling this job. No-one.
Thank you very much.
I'm here today to update
the American people
on the incredible progress
that has been made
in the last four weeks
since my inauguration.
But I turn on the TV,
open the newspapers,
and I see stories of chaos, chaos.
Yet it is the exact opposite.
This administration
is running like
a fine-tuned machine.
Can you say definitively
that nobody on your campaign
had any contact with the Russians?
Well, I had nothing to do with it.
I have nothing to do with Russia.
I told you, I have no deals there,
I have no anything.
Now, this is fake news
put out by the media.
I do that.
No, no, I do that.
Here's the thing, OK?
Quiet, quiet, quiet.
See, he lied about
He was going to get up
and ask a very straight,
simple question, so, you know,
welcome to the world of the media.
Could I just ask you -
thank you very much, Mr President
Where are you from?
BBC.
OK. Here's another beauty.
It's a good line.
Impartial, free and fair.
Yeah, sure.
I've barely got the first syllables
out "Where are you from?"
And I go, "BBC."
"Another beauty."
Mr President
just like CNN, right?
On the travel ban
We could banter back and forth.
On the travel ban, would you accept
that that was a good example of
the smooth running of government"?
Yeah, I do. I do.
Were there any mistakes in that?
Let me tell you about the travel
Wait, wait, wait.
I know who you are. just wait.
I sat down and I suddenly had,
on my mobile phone,
a text from my kid saying,
"He knows who you are!"
I'm really not a bad person,
by the way.
But tomorrow, the headlines
are going to be,
"Donald Trump rants and raves"
I'm not ranting and raving,
I'm just telling you,
you're dishonest people.
I mean, listen.
From the very beginning,
there was absolutely a thing
from the media that
this was not a legitimate president,
that this come-from-behind victory
had somehow been stolen
by this group
of not just outsiders,
but unworthy outsiders.
And President Trump,
I think, to a degree
I'm not saying he's naive,
but he thought that,
"Hey, The New York Times
and all these guys will accept me,"
and I said, "I don't think
that's going to happen."
Um, this is You have rejected
absolutely everything
they stand for.
It's important
to try to keep in mind
this was as strange
an experience for him
as it was
for the country watching him.
You know the the interesting thing
about Trump
is that he's this incredible
creature of habit.
You know, he's lived in Trump Tower
since 1984.
Filled it with all this odd
gold stuff.
Which, if you went there now,
it's the same stuff that was
there in 1984.
He is a man who lives in his own
time-capsule bubble.
So here he is suddenly put into
into entirely new surroundings,
new people around him,
new expectations,
and he retreats, actually,
to the bedroom.
And he has a lock installed
on the door,
which precipitates an early battle
with the Secret Service -
they can't allow that.
And then he's freaked out
by the White House staff
and the help coming in to clean
his room and to strip his sheets,
and he yells at them, he says,
"If I want my sheets taken off,
I will take them off myself."
He just seemed very overwhelmed.
All come together as Americans
Every night, they would give him
a briefing book
that he was supposed to go through
and make very important,
significant decisions
based on that information.
But we could tell
that he was struggling
with processing
that kind of vital information.
And so someone
came up with the idea
that they would allow him
to go on a victory tour.
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome
the president of the United States.
CHEERING
From the lakes of Minnesota
And New York to LA
Well, there's pride ♪
In every American heart
And it's time we stand and say
That I'm proud to be an American
Where at least I know
I'm free ♪
And I'd gladly stand up ♪
We love you, Mr President!
Thank you, everybody.
Thank you.
CHEERING
I'm here because I wanna be among
my friends and among the people.
And I saw this man
on television just now.
You. I just saw him on television.
He said, "I love Trump,
let Trump do what he has to do."
That's my guy right there.
They interviewed this man.
Come on up here.
Come on up. Guy was great.
Hop over the fence, come on.
He can do it.
This 9113/"-
So he's been all over television,
saying the best things,
and I see him standing
And didn't you get here at like four
in the morning? I did, sir.
Say a couple of words to this crowd.
Mr President, thank you, sir.
We the people, our movement is
the reason why our president
of the United States is standing
here in front of us today.
I think people
underestimate him, at their peril.
He understands theatre,
understands entertainment,
understands politics
as entertainment.
When President Trump,
during during the election,
promised all these things
that he was gonna do for us,
I knew he was gonna do this for us.
He may not have read
his briefing documents,
but his visceral sense
of what the mood is
of the American people
and how to tickle that mood,
I think is extraordinary.
A star is born. A star is born.
Thank you. Thank you.
I think he's a master
of mass communication.
He speaks from the gut,
he hits people
in the solar plexus, right?
And I think he did the smart thing
to do after he won -
Trump's out there, in your face.
They see a guy giving the finger
to the establishment every day,
and the establishment
doesn't have a response.
We have a great, great cabinet.
Wait till you see
what we have next week.
And I don't wanna tell you,
I don't wanna tell you this,
because I wanna save
the suspense for next week.
Don't let it outside of this room,
do you promise?
Raise your hand, promise.
We are going to appoint
Mad Dog Mattis CHEERING
as our Secretary of Defence.
People were selected
based on their look.
A lot of the briefing materials
would have a photo clipped on it.
Then it was almost like
a casting call.
It was tremendously entertaining.
Especially when he announced
Mad Dog Mattis
as his Defence Secretary. Yes.
I mean, the guy knows
how to put on a show.
He wanted tough generals
that kind of projected strength.
He would parade these candidates
in front of the cameras.
And I look forward to joining
the National Security team
and doing everything
I can to advance
and protect the interests
of the American people.
Thank you very much, sir.
You're going to do a great job.
Yes, sir.
Tillerson has headed
the world's largest oil company,
ranked number 25 on Forbes' list
of the most powerful people.
LAUGHTER
Hello, everybody.
Thank you, everybody,
for being here, we appreciate it.
HE MOUTHS On The Apprentice,
he always got like a little sparkle
in his eye
whenever there was conflict.
Whenever there were people
in the boardroom kinda fighting
among st themselves,
fighting between the teams,
that's when he really
kind of leaned in
and you could tell
he was so much more engaged,
and this was happening
in the White House.
There were two factions.
There was Steve Bannon and his crew.
And then there was
Reince and his crew.
Both of them were competing to get
closer to Donald.
Let them call you racist.
Let them call you xenophobes.
Wear it as a badge of honour,
because, every day, we get stronger
and they get weaker.
You have Steve Bannon,
the far-right wing, the populist
"would like to bring
the establishment down."
And then you'll have
the chief of staff,
who was Reince Priebus.
He's an establishment
Republican figure.
Absolute contradictions.
The intensity - the hatred, really -
became overwhelming
within a few weeks.
You know, that's what you felt
in the West Wing,
is this feeling of of near murder.
Let me ask you two
We read a lot about you two.
Um
What are you? You've worked
really closely with Steve,
what do you like the most about him?
Um
LAUGHTER
Hold on, let him speak.
I love how many collars he wears.
Interesting look.
Urn Uh He's not so bad.
He's not so bad!
Yeah, most of the time.
Yeah, exactly.
There was a tug-of-war going on
about which way
they would pull Donald Trump.
The two of them
tried to alter the direction
of thinking of the president.
A lot of reporting
in the last few days
about Steve Bannon
having more influence
than anyone else now
on the president.
Are you comfortable with the amount
of influence Mr Bannon has?
We value We value Steve Bannon.
Brings a strong perspective
into discussions.
OK, let's get focused.
My whole thing was sticking
to the hardcore Trump programme,
not modifying it.
You had the America First policy -
it's obviously bringing
manufacturing jobs back,
it's building a border wall.
It's about a fundamental reordering
of what the modern world has become.
I have been very, very direct.
NATO members are still not paying
what they should be paying.
This is not fair to the people
of the United States.
Then, there was
another school of thought
that, no, he should become
a gentler Trump,
whether it was the generals or
Rex Tillerson or Reince Priebus.
They have bought into
the institution, heart and soul.
They're the company men.
That's where some of the internal
fighting got pretty intense.
Rex Tillerson,
Jim Mattis, Reince Preibus
were constantly
plotting and scheming
behind the president's back
on how best to contain him.
And so they invite him
to a meeting at the Pentagon.
Wow. What a great-looking group.
You taking some pictures?
They all sit down
at a big conference table
trying to educate the president
on the post-World War ll order.
American foreign policy,
American economic policy,
American trade policy
The president hears all of this
and blows up on his generals.
"What do you know?"
"Voters turned to me,
and they gave me the keys to the car"
"and they asked me to drive it."
"They don't need you
to drive the car."
He goes, "No, no,
we're not going to do that."
Couldn't be more definitive.
"We're not going to do this."
"We gotta think outside the box."
And that leads
to full systems meltdown.
Rex Tillerson was so furious
with what the president had said,
he called him a moron.
Except, well,
he didn't quite call him a moron,
he called him a fucking moron.
And from that moment on, Tillerson
had a black mark against his head.
At first,
Trump was maybe a little uncertain,
but I think he rediscovered
that his inner voice
was the right voice.
These guys are not that smart.
Uh, I'm a genius, under pressure
No question, I'm really special
Upper echelon when I bless you
Molest you with intellectual
It's a pleasure, it gets sexual
women lemon complexion
Quick connections, then ejections
My love is so ambidextrous
I'm a genius and perfectionist,
specialist in the excesses
With excellence for evidence,
necklaces for irrelevance
In the room, I'm the elephant
Spellin' it for the hell of it
A-B-10-D-R-UK-G,
Hi-I-j L-S-D Oh, my God
Baby, baby, don't you see?
I got everything you need
Only a genius could love
a woman like she
Oh, my God Baby,
baby, don't you see?
I got everything you need
Only a genius could love
a woman like she
I'm a ge, ge, ge, ge, ge-ge-genius
A 9e: 9e, 9e, 9e, ge-ge-genius
A 9e: 9e, 9e, 9e, ge-ge-genius
He's a genius ♪
I give you a story.
It was the centennial
of the First World War
and Trump suddenly decided
really overnight,
to come to Paris.
He loves winners. He really
And for him, Macron was a winner.
He looked at Macron and he said,
"What do you think
of Merkel and May?"
Macron was very polite, you know,
really, and he said,
"Oh, I appreciate
that they are colleagues."
Really And Trump
looked at him and said,
"They are losers."
HE CHUCKLES
As good French intellectuals,
we were trying to understand
what was behind Donald Trump.
He was totally impressed
by the military parade.
I remember one meeting
to his people, he said,
"You know I want
the same military parade."
"With horses, horses -
very important to have horses."
No, it was It
was quite a shock.
In Europe, in most of the capitals,
there was a state of denial.
"You know, he will change over time,
he will get normalised."
You know, suddenly we realised
that he was there for real.
And with that,
I'll be glad to take your questions.
LAUGHTER John Roberts.
It's still upside down.
Your pin's upside down.
John Roberts,
always helping me
with the fashion tips.
Is that a distress call, Sean?
Thank you.
We have done plenty of reporting
on all of it.
You're coming
to some serious conclusions
for a guy that has
zero intelligence
Uh, classified
LAUGHTER
Give me some credit.
I'll give you some.
A little intelligence, maybe.
I wasn't done -
clearance, maybe both.
Well, come on
Once you have the first day
that I did,
and some of the events
that occurred ensued since then,
things don't tend
to turn around image-wise.
The president called
and asked that I come over
to the Oval Office to catch up.
Erm, and the president came in
and said,
"Hey, I know you need help,
you're getting killed out there,"
and he says, "I'm bringing in
Anthony Scaramucci."
Uh, uh, uh C'mon Ha!
Sicka than your average
Poppa twist cabbage off instinct
In think shit stink,
pink gators
My Detroit players
Timbs for my hooligans
in Brooklyn ♪
This was not going to be a good fit,
for a lot of reasons.
Poppa been smooth
since clays of Underroos
Never lose, never choose to,
bruise crews who ♪
Take a look at the camera,
how do I look?
I'm going to look like
an ostentatious,
nouveau riche prick, OK?
But I'm going to do it for you, OK?
I think
he has a lot of confidence in me
understanding his message and
being able to explain his message.
So the good news there is
He didn't hand me any talking points
or anything like that.
He says, "OK, go and do a good job."
That's what he always says,
actually, you know.
"Go, go do a good job."
He had seen me on television,
so we talked regularly.
He would call me
for my opinion of things,
I would express it,
and he also admired the fact that
I had some moxy,
I had some New York moxy.
I wasn't sitting there
as the typical sycophant.
I then call him, I say, you know,
"Priebus and Bannon are"
"actually bad guys,
they're going to hurt you."
"And if you want to get rid
of 'em someday, you give me a call,"
"I'll come down and fix it for ya."
Ivanka called me,
I went in to see him with her.
We were in the study
off the Oval Office.
The president basically said to me,
"Look, you were right
about these guys,
"Priebus and Bannon
are big-time leakers,
"they're very disruptive.
"Why don't you come in here
and we'll figure it out?
And then I said, "I'm absolutely
game for that, let's do it."
Anthony had
no government experience,
had no communications experience,
and I thought to myself, "OK."
And so I went in that next morning,
drafted up my resignation letter
and said,
"Mr President, you deserve to have
a clean break and a new slate,"
"and and I don't think
that can happen with me here."
I want to make
a couple of statements.
The first thing I want to say
is I want to thank personally
Sean Spicer, not only on behalf
of myself, the president,
the administration,
but Sean is a true American patriot.
I wish him well
and I hope he goes on
to make a tremendous amount
of money.
Thank you.
REPORTERS TALK OVER EACH OTHER
The president said to me,
"You know, I had a 45-year
great relationship with the media,"
"what the hell happened?"
And I looked at him, I said, "Well,
you declared war on the media."
And I said, "That is a bad strategy",
"but let's work on improving
that relationship."
The man who is, if you like,
in charge of communications now
is Anthony Scaramucci, "The Mooch",
who joins me now.
First UK interview
since you took the job
It's a pleasure to be here. Thanks
for having me. Great to have you.
Tell us first of all, Anthony,
what we should understand
I'm going to talk to the press
as honestly as I can.
I'm going to try to reset the table
about where we're going together.
I was trying to leave them
with an aura
that we were going to try to be
transparent.
I'm from a town that's
right on the border of Queens.
OK. And the president grew up in
Queens.
OK, so we have a little bit
of a different communication style.
It's a little bit more direct.
It's probably less subtle
and polite.
I sort of like the more open
approach.
You know, one of the things
I cannot stand about this town
is the backstabbing that
goes on here. OK?
Where I grew up
in the neighbourhood I'm from,
we're front-stabbers.
TAPE CLICKS ON
Anthony Scaramucci has resigned as
White House Communications Director.
More to come on that.
Wow, he's only been there for
LAUGHTER "about a week",
and you can hear the reaction
in this in this studio right now.
That F bomb profanity-laced
interview that Scaramucci gave
to the New Yorker.
I got fired.
I trusted somebody
I should not have trusted.
And I said, "if you publish that,
and you publish those quotes",
"I'm gonna lose my job."
Scaramucci came in bigger than
President Trump, in his own ways,
and received an even bigger
spotlight than the boss himself,
and as all of us who cover
this administration knows,
that is the one way to get
out of this White House.
Like getting rolled in broken glass
and then salted,
but that's life,
you know what I mean?
I went into politics,
and it's a rough sport.
It's a blood sport,
and I got hit pretty hard.
It's been a stunning week
and a stunning 24 hours.
There is no collusion,
and there hasn't been collusion.
And it was all a big hoax.
SHE SPEAKS KOREAN
North Korea, successfully testing
its first intercontinental
ballistic missile.
North Korea best not make any more
threats to the United States.
They will be met with fire and fury.
ANGRY CHANTING
We are determined
to take our country back.
We're going to fulfil
all the promises of Donald Trump.
SCREAMING Whoa!
We need to get
Move back, move back!
Three people died in the aftermath
of Saturday's rally.
The 20-year-old suspect accused
of ramming his car into a crowd
and killing one woman
will be arraigned today
on murder and other charges.
CAMERAS CLICK
We're closely following
the terrible events
unfolding
in Charlottesville, Virginia.
We condemn
in the strongest possible terms
this egregious display of hatred,
bigotry and violence,
on many sides, on many sides.
We love our country,
we love our God,
we love our flag, we're
proud of our country,
we're proud of who we are.
CAMERAS CLICK
President Trump has come under fire
for not explicitly condemning
the role of white supremacists
in those deadly protests.
Top advisors
are trying to convince him
that he needs to come out and make
a clear and unambiguous condemnation
of white supremacists.
Donald Trump has constantly
had advisors tell him
to tone things down,
and over time he just came to think,
"To hell with it!"
"It's never worked.
I got myself elected, I'm here."
"And I'm here by doing what I
thought was the right thing to do."
So, what does he do
the very next clay?
He comes out in Trump Tower
and he did something extraordinary.
"On both sides," sir,
you said there was hatred,
there was violence on both sides.
Well, I do think there's blame, yes,
I think there's blame on both sides.
Not all of those people
were white supremacists,
by any stretch. I think
there's blame on both sides,
and I have no doubt about it,
and you don't have any doubt
about it either.
Thank you all very much,
thank you, thank you.
Do you plan to go
to Charlottesville, Mr President?
REPORTERS TALK OVER EACH OTHER
I own a house in Charlottesville.
Does anyone know
I own a house in Charlottesville?
Where is it?
Oh, boy, it's gonna be
It's in Charlottesville, you'll see.
It's a It is the winery.
REPORTERS TALK AT ONCE
CHEERING
All right, let's give it up
for the 45th president
of the United States.
The president came
into office with a degree of caution
about what he could
and could not do on the job.
But, over time,
the president began
to push those boundaries.
And eventually,
what the president realised
was that he could do
what he wanted to do with impunity.
And sure enough,
over the next three years,
what you saw was a president
who no longer had any regard
for any boundary that was placed
around him by anyone.
Good afternoon, we are coming
on the air right now because
the President of the United States,
Donald Trump, has just announced
that Reince Priebus,
current chief of staff, is out.
He no longer needed
a chief of staff.
He no longer needed
a chief strategist.
Because nothing they could say
or do was going to be smarter
or more effective than what
he himself was planning to do.
Well, let me talk
about Steve Bannon a little bit,
because it was very interesting
what was happening with the press.
I remember they put Steve Bannon
on the cover of Time magazine.
And I remember having to go in
to brief Donald shortly after
he got a copy of that Time magazine,
and he lost it.
He hates for anyone to get more
attention or more shine than him.
And I remember saying to myself,
"Oh, this is the beginning
of the end."
A stunning development
inside the Oval Office.
Stephen Bannon, the chief strategist
for President Trump, has resigned.
General McMaster
had his parting of the ways
with Donald Trump.
Rex Tillerson, who's old-school,
doesn't do social media.
He was flying back into Washington,
his aids turn on their phone
to find that Donald Trump
has fired him by tweet,
and the aids
are talking among st themselves,
going, "One of us has got to tell
him that he's been fired."
To try and keep track of the people
getting fired and quit,
we have tried to keep
a running tally of who's gone,
who's fired, who's quit.
They told me in the control room
that we only have one more option
for how to find more space up here.
Where are they going to put them?
One, two, three.
Oh, we can go around the corner!
Look at all the room!
SHE LAUGHS
Now to our headline -
the Trump administration.
Omarosa Manigault Newman,
a White House aid
and former Apprentice contestant,
is on her way out.
Omarosa was escorted off
the White House grounds.
It was kind of par for the course
of what was happening
in the Trump White House
at the end of that first year -
crazy, chaotic.
"Anthony Scaramucci
is a highly unstable nut job"
"who wheedled his way
into my campaign."
"I barely knew him!"
"I authorised zero access
to White House,"
"actually turned him down many times
for author of phoney book."
"Watch what happens to him
and Sloppy Steve."
HE LAUGHS
TWEET SENT TONE
Southern nights
Have you ever felt
a Southern night?
Free as a breeze,
not to mention the trees ♪
There was a sure bet of
when President Trump would be
in a good mood.
And that was when we were Friday
night, going to Mar-a-Iago.
Right, that was always
when he was in the best mood.
We were going to the resort
that he loves the most.
And And it was a Friday,
so the week was kind of behind him.
You sometimes would see him
walking around, eating KFC,
you know?
I remember at Mar-a-Iago one time,
the president was golfing.
And I remember getting
a call from the Situation Room,
saying that, "There may be a nuke
headed to Hawaii."
There's no scenario
I can imagine that is worse than
a nuclear weapon being
fired at the United States, right?
I mean, that was about
as bad as it got.
We need to get this information
to the president,
you know, immediately.
We ran over and interrupted
his golf game.
And told him what we knew.
Immediately kind of raised
his blood pressure.
And he said, "What do you mean?"
"Is there a nuclear weapon
or is there not a nuclear weapon?"
And I didn't have any answer.
But I remember looking at the guy
who always carries around
the briefcase
that has the nuclear codes
and launch button
always by the president.
That suitcase has never had
to be opened.
And I just remember thinking, you
know, "Could this be the time?"
It was an incredibly tense time,
cos North Korea was acting
increasingly more belligerent.
Their nuclear programme was growing.
Rocket Man is
on a suicide mission for himself.
We will have no choice
but to totally destroy North Korea.
And Donald Trump threatens
to wipe North Korea off the map!
Kim jong-un's saying he takes
President Trump's threats
personally.
And then he makes this, like,
almost on a whim,
"I'll meet with the guy!"
CHEERING And on
June 12th, in Singapore,
I'll be meeting with Kim jong-un,
to pursue a future of peace
and security for the world,
for the whole world.
CHEERING
North Korea has been an avowed
enemy of the United States,
you know, for a half century,
more than a half century.
So the idea that Donald Trump
and Kim jong-un
would be having this meeting was
just unthinkable.
And the Pentagon's thinking,
"What did he just say?!"
I thought
the whole thing was a big mistake.
He had an affinity
for authoritarian leaders.
And, erm, you know, he's a big guy,
he likes being with other big guys,
they do big guy things.
It was always worrying, because
in one of those conversations,
there was always the risk
he would give something away
gratuitously to show
what a big guy he was.
CAMERAS CLICK
Mr Trump, Mr Trump!
First time an American president
meets the leader of North Korea,
there's a lot at stake there.
Stay with us here on BBC News
as we bring you the much-hyped
Kim-Trump summit.
It will be the first time
a North Korean leader
has met a sitting US president.
On Air Force One,
he wants to know
"Where will the camera positions be?"
"Will it be a straight-on headshot,
like this?"
"Or will there be a top shot"
"where the cameras
will look down on me as well?"
"How are we going to meet?
What's the backdrop?"
The theatricality.
He wanted to direct the visuals,
because he knew this was gold dust.
CAMERAS CLICK
I travelled with him to Singapore.
I could not believe what
I was seeing with my own eyes.
The Good, The Bad And The
Ugly Theme By Ennio Morricone
I mean
And then and then to see
the two of them come together,
it was mind-blowing.
I mean, it was showmanship
of the highest order.
Getting a good picture of everybody,
so we look nice and handsome
and thin and
Beautiful perfect? Young.
All I can say
is they want to make a deal.
That's what I do -
my whole life has been deals.
I've done great at it.
And I really believe
a lot of great things can happen.
This is Donald Trump
sending a message
to the political establishment
at home and internationally,
that there's a new sheriff in town,
and the presidency
was going to be show business.
Expect the unexpected.
It was totally crazy! That he was an
agent of Russia.
That he urinated on a bed.
We're about to hit him
right in the mouth.
You know what? He picked the wrong
person to fuck with.
I guess every superhero
need his theme music
No one man should
have all that power
The clock's ticking
I just count the hours
Stop tripping
I'm tripping off the power
21st century schizoid
man The system broken
The school's closed
the prison's open
We ain't got nothing' to lose,
everybody, we rollin'
Huh? Everybody, we rollin' ♪
This programme contains some
strong language from the start
and some scenes which some viewers
may find upsetting
This about right? About where I was?
I'll keep my hands above the table,
though.
Like in the Old West, you always had
to keep your hands above the table.
Well, you might be going
for your gun.
WESTERN MUSIC OK, now I'm ready.
Do I look skinny?
So I'm, like, staring into
which camera?
OK, there you go.
So who are? Who are you?
I mean, what is the topic?
It's obviously Trump, but, like
Yeah, so what happens
when a lunatic crazy person
becomes president?
SHE GROANS
OK.
I will find you, Rob,
if this gets cut down to 15 seconds
of talking about Trump's penis
and his black socks.
What you hear is, "Orange man bad."
But I gotta tell ya, he
could be in the handful
of greatest presidents
we've ever had.
So am I looking directly
at the camera now?
You just want me to look
at the camera?
Has he delivered? Absolutely!
Oh, my God! Yes, he's delivered.
I'm going to tell you
that this is literally crazy town.
Pew!
OK.
So, it's election night,
we're crowded into this room,
um, on the 5th floor of Trump Tower.
It had been the floor where
they had filmed The Apprentice.
And so we're gathered in there -
lvanka, Mike Pence,
Reince Priebus
I remember taking a bunch of video,
and we've got a projector
on the wall
with the results coming in.
Donald Trump will carry
the state of Florida.
This night is turning
out to be a real nail biter.
Suddenly someone starts to realise
we might win this thing.
And Trump was up in his residence,
and he calls lvanka
and she says to him,
he says, "Well where are you?"
And she says,
"We're down on the 5th floor."
And she said,
"Why don't you come down, Dad?"
And he's just standing there,
watching the TVs.
Everyone around him,
kinda going nuts.
APPLAUSE
WHOOPING AND CHEERING
And he's just soaking it in.
That's the moment where he realised,
"Oh, my gosh,
this is really about to happen."
Donald Trump wins the presidency.
The business tycoon
and TV personality,
with an astounding upset victory.
He was a middle finger
to the bureaucrats.
You can bleep this out -
people were ready to give
a "fuck you" to the system.
I was thinking to myself,
"You son of a bitch, you did this.
I cannot believe you did this."
It's a stunning Obviously,
it's a stunning historic upset.
The polls were wrong,
the prediction models were wrong.
I mean,
literally The New York Times
had us at 93-7, saying
that we were going to lose.
And so the idea that he blew through
the political hurdles that he did
was just unbelievable.
Make no mistake about it -
this is the biggest political upset
in the modern history
of the United States of America.
SCATTERED CHEERS
Sorry to keep you waiting.
One day, if someone were
to make a movie of your life,
who would you see playing yourself?
Maybe, uh, maybe myself.
Reality television
has taken over America.
Donald Trump
is the reality television king.
We love you, Trump! I love you too.
CHEERING
Tremendously entertaining.
The guy knows how to put on a show.
CAMERAS CLICK
Welcome back to the studio.
OK, we're good.
Is this in the shot over here?
I'm afraid it is, sorry.
Well, let me let me just go
back back to the beginning.
I mean, I've known Donald Trump
for a long time.
And he used to call me up
quite quite frequently,
usually to complain about something
the magazine had said about him,
or even more often to complain
that the magazine had not said
anything about him.
And then there came the moment when,
um, uh, he won.
Um, as incredible
as that might seem to me,
that was even more incredible to
him.
He never, ever,
not for a second,
believed that
this was going to happen.
So you almost have an experiment.
HE CHUCKLES
And the experiment is
what happened if a person,
wholly unaware
of the history of this job,
of the responsibility of this job,
as though he were just dropped
from Mars into this job,
that's what you have
in in Donald Trump.
"We don't like politicians -"
"we'll elect somebody who is at odds"
"with everything
a politician is supposed to be."
I thought that we were going to see
something about a man's character
and something about the nature
of the White House
that we had never seen.
So in a way, that's the
That's the grand experiment.
You are watching the inauguration
of Donald Trump.
It is all becoming very, very real.
The first time that we met
was in the boardroom
from The Apprentice.
We went from colleagues
who, you know,
made this great, successful show
and had great success on television
to now he was
the leader of the free world.
And and I had a front-row seat
to all of it.
OK, look, we're moving.
Hello. Hello, everybody.
Lot of Obama?
He was always selling.
Even up until the moment
we went into the White House,
he was selling, selling.
While we were preparing
for the inauguration,
I went into his office,
I popped in to brief him.
And he says, "You know,
my book is number one.
You know,
"It's the best business book ever."
You know, that's Donald Trump.
And so he he starts off
on this riff
about how great
The Art Of The Deal is,
and I'm trying to figure out,
you know, where this is
this story is going, and he says,
"You know, I'm thinking"
"I'm thinking about taking
my oath of office"
"on The Art Of The Deal."
And I was like, "What?!"
I was like, "Please do not
repeat that to anyone else."
But, you know,
that's that's Donald.
Ain't that bad a place
I was born that way
I bite my fingernails ♪
Please raise your right hand
and repeat after me.
I, Donald john Trump
I, Donald John Trump
"will preserve,
protect and defend"
Preserve, protect and defend
the Constitution
of the United States.
The Constitution
of the United States.
I love the USA
I love the USA
Fuck, yeah, this place is great
I love the USA
Stop at coffee bean ♪
This is like a dream ♪
He was so excited.
And the grandeur of it.
It's just kind of like,
"Boom, we're we're there."
I remember standing
in the Oval Office with him,
and he said, "Look around,
we're standing in the Oval Office."
In the Beast,
which is the presidential limo,
he said, "Tap on the windows,
feel how thick they are."
And I Said, "OK."
And he's like, "They're bulletproof,
isn't that cool?"
We must protect our borders
from the ravages of other countries,
stealing our companies
and destroying our jobs.
God save the king
God save the king
God save the king ♪
CHANTING
LOUD BANG It's going
to be only America first.
After the inauguration,
we literally came back to the hotel
where we are filming this right now.
It probably could be the room,
and put the family to bed.
I had two small kids.
And, early in the morning, I think
it's about, you know, 8am or so,
I get a phone call
and it's the White House operator
and she says, "You know, Mr Spicer,
I have the president on the phone."
And I'm thinking, "OK".
So he says, "Are you watching TV?"
And I, you know, I can't lie.
I didn't want to tell him that
I think we had, like, you know,
Barney or Sesame Street on.
These photographs
have just been released
by the National Park Service.
Washington Mall, half
full, with supporters.
He was furious.
And he says, "You know,
there's reports this morning"
"that our crowd at the inauguration
was, you know, much smaller"
"than Obama and I cannot believe"
"that this is what they're talking
about. We need to fix this."
And then the president said,
like, "I want you to go out"
"and address this."
And I thought,
"OK, this is silly,"
"so let me see what I can do."
We're trying to do everything
we can to come up with numbers.
And we are trying to put
together an argument
And I'm thinking, "Oh, God, this
is going to be difficult." And
you know,
I end up going out there.
Yesterday, at a time when our nation
and the world was watching
the peaceful transition of power,
some members of the media were
engaged
in deliberately false reporting.
Photographs of the inaugural
proceedings were intentionally
framed in a way to minimise
the enormous support
that had gathered on
the National Mall.
This was the largest audience to
ever witness
an inauguration, period,
both in person and around the globe.
In walked Sean Spicer,
and he proceeds to berate us.
There's been a lot of talk in
the media about the responsibility
to hold Donald Trump accountable.
And I'm here to tell you
that it goes two ways.
We are going to hold the press
accountable as well.
I will see you on Monday.
JOURNALISTS TALK AT ONCE
That was an extraordinary moment.
Donald Trump's crowd wasn't
the biggest in history.
It was not true.
We weren't allowed to ask any
questions
and Sean Spicer storms out
at the end
and The Guardian guy
sitting next to me says,
"That reminds me of being back in
Zimbabwe."
This was about honesty.
As he said, that there
were crowds
all the way to the
Washington Monument. There was
There wasn't. Yes, there was.
Wait a minute. Alternative facts?!
Four of the five facts
he uttered were just not true.
Look, alternative facts are not
facts. They're falsehoods.
You know, admittedly,
that was probably the toughest
day of my life.
I knew that this was not
a good start.
I remember,
shortly after he won the election
I went up to Trump Tower
to see Trump.
And I said, you know,
"I'd like to come
into The White House,"
"as an observer."
I wanted to write a book.
And he seemed so uninterested
in the idea of a book that he said,
"Yeah, yeah. OK, whatever."
I remember this, "Whatever."
So I became
a kind of permanent fixture
on the couch in the West Wing.
And literally before my eyes,
you saw a guy who is so
unprepared
and he doesn't really know
anybody.
And he's freaked out.
Thank you very much, everybody.
This is really
our first official meeting
and I really do, I appreciate
we'll get to know each other
very well.
We'll have these meetings
every whenever you need 'em.
Somehow he was
still the Donald Trump
from The Apprentice.
Donald just kept doing strange
and bizarre things
in those first couple of weeks.
We could be in a meeting
about the Social Security
Administration,
about housing,
and out of nowhere,
he would start talking
about the election.
He had these huge graphics
that he would pull out of nowhere.
He would say,
"Madeleine, bring in the map,"
and so I would walk in
with the map like Vana White,
and then show everyone
this big beautiful map
with tons of red.
He wanted to show you,
state by state, county by county,
how he beat Hillary Clinton.
He was obsessed about it.
He talked about it nonstop.
And I saw him early on
in the White House
struggle with that transition.
We're five days in,
you plan on signing
the order to build the wall.
Will American taxpayers pay
for the wall?
We will be, in a form,
reimbursed by Mexico,
which I've always said.
So they'll pay us back?
The FBI is investigating any links
between the Trump campaign
and the Russian government.
There was conflict after conflict.
I mean, it was crazy.
My whole thing was - hit hard,
always be on the attack.
And come out, we're gonna have
five executive orders a day,
every day, flood the zone.
Everything from immigration
to building a border wall.
He's a disrupter.
But the system needs disrupting.
Breaking news -
President Trump's
controversial executive order
bars seven Muslim countries
from coming to the United States.
They are pouring in,
and we don't know what we're doing.
The president had a checklist.
He was one of the rare politicians
that says,
"OK, this is what I promised
the American people -"
"I'm going to get it done."
But a lot of it
is getting rushed through.
Totally.
Totally, it's not a Muslim ban,
but we are totally prepared
to work it out very nicely.
This is what democracy looks like.
It was quite the scene
at airports around the country.
Police actually dispersed
some crowds with pepper spray.
It's like someone was continually
walking into a set of drums
and knocking them flying.
And bang, bang, crash, bang, wallop!
Boom, boom, boom, boom!
Another chaotic day
in the Donald Trump administration.
So I'm circulating in the West Wing,
and I'm talking to all of the people
who have come in at that point.
They were all asking themselves
what was going on here.
The kind of facial gestures
would start.
You know, they would say
what they were supposed to say,
but then they would go, "Argh!"
No-one thinks he is actually
on his own capable
of handling this job. No-one.
Thank you very much.
I'm here today to update
the American people
on the incredible progress
that has been made
in the last four weeks
since my inauguration.
But I turn on the TV,
open the newspapers,
and I see stories of chaos, chaos.
Yet it is the exact opposite.
This administration
is running like
a fine-tuned machine.
Can you say definitively
that nobody on your campaign
had any contact with the Russians?
Well, I had nothing to do with it.
I have nothing to do with Russia.
I told you, I have no deals there,
I have no anything.
Now, this is fake news
put out by the media.
I do that.
No, no, I do that.
Here's the thing, OK?
Quiet, quiet, quiet.
See, he lied about
He was going to get up
and ask a very straight,
simple question, so, you know,
welcome to the world of the media.
Could I just ask you -
thank you very much, Mr President
Where are you from?
BBC.
OK. Here's another beauty.
It's a good line.
Impartial, free and fair.
Yeah, sure.
I've barely got the first syllables
out "Where are you from?"
And I go, "BBC."
"Another beauty."
Mr President
just like CNN, right?
On the travel ban
We could banter back and forth.
On the travel ban, would you accept
that that was a good example of
the smooth running of government"?
Yeah, I do. I do.
Were there any mistakes in that?
Let me tell you about the travel
Wait, wait, wait.
I know who you are. just wait.
I sat down and I suddenly had,
on my mobile phone,
a text from my kid saying,
"He knows who you are!"
I'm really not a bad person,
by the way.
But tomorrow, the headlines
are going to be,
"Donald Trump rants and raves"
I'm not ranting and raving,
I'm just telling you,
you're dishonest people.
I mean, listen.
From the very beginning,
there was absolutely a thing
from the media that
this was not a legitimate president,
that this come-from-behind victory
had somehow been stolen
by this group
of not just outsiders,
but unworthy outsiders.
And President Trump,
I think, to a degree
I'm not saying he's naive,
but he thought that,
"Hey, The New York Times
and all these guys will accept me,"
and I said, "I don't think
that's going to happen."
Um, this is You have rejected
absolutely everything
they stand for.
It's important
to try to keep in mind
this was as strange
an experience for him
as it was
for the country watching him.
You know the the interesting thing
about Trump
is that he's this incredible
creature of habit.
You know, he's lived in Trump Tower
since 1984.
Filled it with all this odd
gold stuff.
Which, if you went there now,
it's the same stuff that was
there in 1984.
He is a man who lives in his own
time-capsule bubble.
So here he is suddenly put into
into entirely new surroundings,
new people around him,
new expectations,
and he retreats, actually,
to the bedroom.
And he has a lock installed
on the door,
which precipitates an early battle
with the Secret Service -
they can't allow that.
And then he's freaked out
by the White House staff
and the help coming in to clean
his room and to strip his sheets,
and he yells at them, he says,
"If I want my sheets taken off,
I will take them off myself."
He just seemed very overwhelmed.
All come together as Americans
Every night, they would give him
a briefing book
that he was supposed to go through
and make very important,
significant decisions
based on that information.
But we could tell
that he was struggling
with processing
that kind of vital information.
And so someone
came up with the idea
that they would allow him
to go on a victory tour.
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome
the president of the United States.
CHEERING
From the lakes of Minnesota
And New York to LA
Well, there's pride ♪
In every American heart
And it's time we stand and say
That I'm proud to be an American
Where at least I know
I'm free ♪
And I'd gladly stand up ♪
We love you, Mr President!
Thank you, everybody.
Thank you.
CHEERING
I'm here because I wanna be among
my friends and among the people.
And I saw this man
on television just now.
You. I just saw him on television.
He said, "I love Trump,
let Trump do what he has to do."
That's my guy right there.
They interviewed this man.
Come on up here.
Come on up. Guy was great.
Hop over the fence, come on.
He can do it.
This 9113/"-
So he's been all over television,
saying the best things,
and I see him standing
And didn't you get here at like four
in the morning? I did, sir.
Say a couple of words to this crowd.
Mr President, thank you, sir.
We the people, our movement is
the reason why our president
of the United States is standing
here in front of us today.
I think people
underestimate him, at their peril.
He understands theatre,
understands entertainment,
understands politics
as entertainment.
When President Trump,
during during the election,
promised all these things
that he was gonna do for us,
I knew he was gonna do this for us.
He may not have read
his briefing documents,
but his visceral sense
of what the mood is
of the American people
and how to tickle that mood,
I think is extraordinary.
A star is born. A star is born.
Thank you. Thank you.
I think he's a master
of mass communication.
He speaks from the gut,
he hits people
in the solar plexus, right?
And I think he did the smart thing
to do after he won -
Trump's out there, in your face.
They see a guy giving the finger
to the establishment every day,
and the establishment
doesn't have a response.
We have a great, great cabinet.
Wait till you see
what we have next week.
And I don't wanna tell you,
I don't wanna tell you this,
because I wanna save
the suspense for next week.
Don't let it outside of this room,
do you promise?
Raise your hand, promise.
We are going to appoint
Mad Dog Mattis CHEERING
as our Secretary of Defence.
People were selected
based on their look.
A lot of the briefing materials
would have a photo clipped on it.
Then it was almost like
a casting call.
It was tremendously entertaining.
Especially when he announced
Mad Dog Mattis
as his Defence Secretary. Yes.
I mean, the guy knows
how to put on a show.
He wanted tough generals
that kind of projected strength.
He would parade these candidates
in front of the cameras.
And I look forward to joining
the National Security team
and doing everything
I can to advance
and protect the interests
of the American people.
Thank you very much, sir.
You're going to do a great job.
Yes, sir.
Tillerson has headed
the world's largest oil company,
ranked number 25 on Forbes' list
of the most powerful people.
LAUGHTER
Hello, everybody.
Thank you, everybody,
for being here, we appreciate it.
HE MOUTHS On The Apprentice,
he always got like a little sparkle
in his eye
whenever there was conflict.
Whenever there were people
in the boardroom kinda fighting
among st themselves,
fighting between the teams,
that's when he really
kind of leaned in
and you could tell
he was so much more engaged,
and this was happening
in the White House.
There were two factions.
There was Steve Bannon and his crew.
And then there was
Reince and his crew.
Both of them were competing to get
closer to Donald.
Let them call you racist.
Let them call you xenophobes.
Wear it as a badge of honour,
because, every day, we get stronger
and they get weaker.
You have Steve Bannon,
the far-right wing, the populist
"would like to bring
the establishment down."
And then you'll have
the chief of staff,
who was Reince Priebus.
He's an establishment
Republican figure.
Absolute contradictions.
The intensity - the hatred, really -
became overwhelming
within a few weeks.
You know, that's what you felt
in the West Wing,
is this feeling of of near murder.
Let me ask you two
We read a lot about you two.
Um
What are you? You've worked
really closely with Steve,
what do you like the most about him?
Um
LAUGHTER
Hold on, let him speak.
I love how many collars he wears.
Interesting look.
Urn Uh He's not so bad.
He's not so bad!
Yeah, most of the time.
Yeah, exactly.
There was a tug-of-war going on
about which way
they would pull Donald Trump.
The two of them
tried to alter the direction
of thinking of the president.
A lot of reporting
in the last few days
about Steve Bannon
having more influence
than anyone else now
on the president.
Are you comfortable with the amount
of influence Mr Bannon has?
We value We value Steve Bannon.
Brings a strong perspective
into discussions.
OK, let's get focused.
My whole thing was sticking
to the hardcore Trump programme,
not modifying it.
You had the America First policy -
it's obviously bringing
manufacturing jobs back,
it's building a border wall.
It's about a fundamental reordering
of what the modern world has become.
I have been very, very direct.
NATO members are still not paying
what they should be paying.
This is not fair to the people
of the United States.
Then, there was
another school of thought
that, no, he should become
a gentler Trump,
whether it was the generals or
Rex Tillerson or Reince Priebus.
They have bought into
the institution, heart and soul.
They're the company men.
That's where some of the internal
fighting got pretty intense.
Rex Tillerson,
Jim Mattis, Reince Preibus
were constantly
plotting and scheming
behind the president's back
on how best to contain him.
And so they invite him
to a meeting at the Pentagon.
Wow. What a great-looking group.
You taking some pictures?
They all sit down
at a big conference table
trying to educate the president
on the post-World War ll order.
American foreign policy,
American economic policy,
American trade policy
The president hears all of this
and blows up on his generals.
"What do you know?"
"Voters turned to me,
and they gave me the keys to the car"
"and they asked me to drive it."
"They don't need you
to drive the car."
He goes, "No, no,
we're not going to do that."
Couldn't be more definitive.
"We're not going to do this."
"We gotta think outside the box."
And that leads
to full systems meltdown.
Rex Tillerson was so furious
with what the president had said,
he called him a moron.
Except, well,
he didn't quite call him a moron,
he called him a fucking moron.
And from that moment on, Tillerson
had a black mark against his head.
At first,
Trump was maybe a little uncertain,
but I think he rediscovered
that his inner voice
was the right voice.
These guys are not that smart.
Uh, I'm a genius, under pressure
No question, I'm really special
Upper echelon when I bless you
Molest you with intellectual
It's a pleasure, it gets sexual
women lemon complexion
Quick connections, then ejections
My love is so ambidextrous
I'm a genius and perfectionist,
specialist in the excesses
With excellence for evidence,
necklaces for irrelevance
In the room, I'm the elephant
Spellin' it for the hell of it
A-B-10-D-R-UK-G,
Hi-I-j L-S-D Oh, my God
Baby, baby, don't you see?
I got everything you need
Only a genius could love
a woman like she
Oh, my God Baby,
baby, don't you see?
I got everything you need
Only a genius could love
a woman like she
I'm a ge, ge, ge, ge, ge-ge-genius
A 9e: 9e, 9e, 9e, ge-ge-genius
A 9e: 9e, 9e, 9e, ge-ge-genius
He's a genius ♪
I give you a story.
It was the centennial
of the First World War
and Trump suddenly decided
really overnight,
to come to Paris.
He loves winners. He really
And for him, Macron was a winner.
He looked at Macron and he said,
"What do you think
of Merkel and May?"
Macron was very polite, you know,
really, and he said,
"Oh, I appreciate
that they are colleagues."
Really And Trump
looked at him and said,
"They are losers."
HE CHUCKLES
As good French intellectuals,
we were trying to understand
what was behind Donald Trump.
He was totally impressed
by the military parade.
I remember one meeting
to his people, he said,
"You know I want
the same military parade."
"With horses, horses -
very important to have horses."
No, it was It
was quite a shock.
In Europe, in most of the capitals,
there was a state of denial.
"You know, he will change over time,
he will get normalised."
You know, suddenly we realised
that he was there for real.
And with that,
I'll be glad to take your questions.
LAUGHTER John Roberts.
It's still upside down.
Your pin's upside down.
John Roberts,
always helping me
with the fashion tips.
Is that a distress call, Sean?
Thank you.
We have done plenty of reporting
on all of it.
You're coming
to some serious conclusions
for a guy that has
zero intelligence
Uh, classified
LAUGHTER
Give me some credit.
I'll give you some.
A little intelligence, maybe.
I wasn't done -
clearance, maybe both.
Well, come on
Once you have the first day
that I did,
and some of the events
that occurred ensued since then,
things don't tend
to turn around image-wise.
The president called
and asked that I come over
to the Oval Office to catch up.
Erm, and the president came in
and said,
"Hey, I know you need help,
you're getting killed out there,"
and he says, "I'm bringing in
Anthony Scaramucci."
Uh, uh, uh C'mon Ha!
Sicka than your average
Poppa twist cabbage off instinct
In think shit stink,
pink gators
My Detroit players
Timbs for my hooligans
in Brooklyn ♪
This was not going to be a good fit,
for a lot of reasons.
Poppa been smooth
since clays of Underroos
Never lose, never choose to,
bruise crews who ♪
Take a look at the camera,
how do I look?
I'm going to look like
an ostentatious,
nouveau riche prick, OK?
But I'm going to do it for you, OK?
I think
he has a lot of confidence in me
understanding his message and
being able to explain his message.
So the good news there is
He didn't hand me any talking points
or anything like that.
He says, "OK, go and do a good job."
That's what he always says,
actually, you know.
"Go, go do a good job."
He had seen me on television,
so we talked regularly.
He would call me
for my opinion of things,
I would express it,
and he also admired the fact that
I had some moxy,
I had some New York moxy.
I wasn't sitting there
as the typical sycophant.
I then call him, I say, you know,
"Priebus and Bannon are"
"actually bad guys,
they're going to hurt you."
"And if you want to get rid
of 'em someday, you give me a call,"
"I'll come down and fix it for ya."
Ivanka called me,
I went in to see him with her.
We were in the study
off the Oval Office.
The president basically said to me,
"Look, you were right
about these guys,
"Priebus and Bannon
are big-time leakers,
"they're very disruptive.
"Why don't you come in here
and we'll figure it out?
And then I said, "I'm absolutely
game for that, let's do it."
Anthony had
no government experience,
had no communications experience,
and I thought to myself, "OK."
And so I went in that next morning,
drafted up my resignation letter
and said,
"Mr President, you deserve to have
a clean break and a new slate,"
"and and I don't think
that can happen with me here."
I want to make
a couple of statements.
The first thing I want to say
is I want to thank personally
Sean Spicer, not only on behalf
of myself, the president,
the administration,
but Sean is a true American patriot.
I wish him well
and I hope he goes on
to make a tremendous amount
of money.
Thank you.
REPORTERS TALK OVER EACH OTHER
The president said to me,
"You know, I had a 45-year
great relationship with the media,"
"what the hell happened?"
And I looked at him, I said, "Well,
you declared war on the media."
And I said, "That is a bad strategy",
"but let's work on improving
that relationship."
The man who is, if you like,
in charge of communications now
is Anthony Scaramucci, "The Mooch",
who joins me now.
First UK interview
since you took the job
It's a pleasure to be here. Thanks
for having me. Great to have you.
Tell us first of all, Anthony,
what we should understand
I'm going to talk to the press
as honestly as I can.
I'm going to try to reset the table
about where we're going together.
I was trying to leave them
with an aura
that we were going to try to be
transparent.
I'm from a town that's
right on the border of Queens.
OK. And the president grew up in
Queens.
OK, so we have a little bit
of a different communication style.
It's a little bit more direct.
It's probably less subtle
and polite.
I sort of like the more open
approach.
You know, one of the things
I cannot stand about this town
is the backstabbing that
goes on here. OK?
Where I grew up
in the neighbourhood I'm from,
we're front-stabbers.
TAPE CLICKS ON
Anthony Scaramucci has resigned as
White House Communications Director.
More to come on that.
Wow, he's only been there for
LAUGHTER "about a week",
and you can hear the reaction
in this in this studio right now.
That F bomb profanity-laced
interview that Scaramucci gave
to the New Yorker.
I got fired.
I trusted somebody
I should not have trusted.
And I said, "if you publish that,
and you publish those quotes",
"I'm gonna lose my job."
Scaramucci came in bigger than
President Trump, in his own ways,
and received an even bigger
spotlight than the boss himself,
and as all of us who cover
this administration knows,
that is the one way to get
out of this White House.
Like getting rolled in broken glass
and then salted,
but that's life,
you know what I mean?
I went into politics,
and it's a rough sport.
It's a blood sport,
and I got hit pretty hard.
It's been a stunning week
and a stunning 24 hours.
There is no collusion,
and there hasn't been collusion.
And it was all a big hoax.
SHE SPEAKS KOREAN
North Korea, successfully testing
its first intercontinental
ballistic missile.
North Korea best not make any more
threats to the United States.
They will be met with fire and fury.
ANGRY CHANTING
We are determined
to take our country back.
We're going to fulfil
all the promises of Donald Trump.
SCREAMING Whoa!
We need to get
Move back, move back!
Three people died in the aftermath
of Saturday's rally.
The 20-year-old suspect accused
of ramming his car into a crowd
and killing one woman
will be arraigned today
on murder and other charges.
CAMERAS CLICK
We're closely following
the terrible events
unfolding
in Charlottesville, Virginia.
We condemn
in the strongest possible terms
this egregious display of hatred,
bigotry and violence,
on many sides, on many sides.
We love our country,
we love our God,
we love our flag, we're
proud of our country,
we're proud of who we are.
CAMERAS CLICK
President Trump has come under fire
for not explicitly condemning
the role of white supremacists
in those deadly protests.
Top advisors
are trying to convince him
that he needs to come out and make
a clear and unambiguous condemnation
of white supremacists.
Donald Trump has constantly
had advisors tell him
to tone things down,
and over time he just came to think,
"To hell with it!"
"It's never worked.
I got myself elected, I'm here."
"And I'm here by doing what I
thought was the right thing to do."
So, what does he do
the very next clay?
He comes out in Trump Tower
and he did something extraordinary.
"On both sides," sir,
you said there was hatred,
there was violence on both sides.
Well, I do think there's blame, yes,
I think there's blame on both sides.
Not all of those people
were white supremacists,
by any stretch. I think
there's blame on both sides,
and I have no doubt about it,
and you don't have any doubt
about it either.
Thank you all very much,
thank you, thank you.
Do you plan to go
to Charlottesville, Mr President?
REPORTERS TALK OVER EACH OTHER
I own a house in Charlottesville.
Does anyone know
I own a house in Charlottesville?
Where is it?
Oh, boy, it's gonna be
It's in Charlottesville, you'll see.
It's a It is the winery.
REPORTERS TALK AT ONCE
CHEERING
All right, let's give it up
for the 45th president
of the United States.
The president came
into office with a degree of caution
about what he could
and could not do on the job.
But, over time,
the president began
to push those boundaries.
And eventually,
what the president realised
was that he could do
what he wanted to do with impunity.
And sure enough,
over the next three years,
what you saw was a president
who no longer had any regard
for any boundary that was placed
around him by anyone.
Good afternoon, we are coming
on the air right now because
the President of the United States,
Donald Trump, has just announced
that Reince Priebus,
current chief of staff, is out.
He no longer needed
a chief of staff.
He no longer needed
a chief strategist.
Because nothing they could say
or do was going to be smarter
or more effective than what
he himself was planning to do.
Well, let me talk
about Steve Bannon a little bit,
because it was very interesting
what was happening with the press.
I remember they put Steve Bannon
on the cover of Time magazine.
And I remember having to go in
to brief Donald shortly after
he got a copy of that Time magazine,
and he lost it.
He hates for anyone to get more
attention or more shine than him.
And I remember saying to myself,
"Oh, this is the beginning
of the end."
A stunning development
inside the Oval Office.
Stephen Bannon, the chief strategist
for President Trump, has resigned.
General McMaster
had his parting of the ways
with Donald Trump.
Rex Tillerson, who's old-school,
doesn't do social media.
He was flying back into Washington,
his aids turn on their phone
to find that Donald Trump
has fired him by tweet,
and the aids
are talking among st themselves,
going, "One of us has got to tell
him that he's been fired."
To try and keep track of the people
getting fired and quit,
we have tried to keep
a running tally of who's gone,
who's fired, who's quit.
They told me in the control room
that we only have one more option
for how to find more space up here.
Where are they going to put them?
One, two, three.
Oh, we can go around the corner!
Look at all the room!
SHE LAUGHS
Now to our headline -
the Trump administration.
Omarosa Manigault Newman,
a White House aid
and former Apprentice contestant,
is on her way out.
Omarosa was escorted off
the White House grounds.
It was kind of par for the course
of what was happening
in the Trump White House
at the end of that first year -
crazy, chaotic.
"Anthony Scaramucci
is a highly unstable nut job"
"who wheedled his way
into my campaign."
"I barely knew him!"
"I authorised zero access
to White House,"
"actually turned him down many times
for author of phoney book."
"Watch what happens to him
and Sloppy Steve."
HE LAUGHS
TWEET SENT TONE
Southern nights
Have you ever felt
a Southern night?
Free as a breeze,
not to mention the trees ♪
There was a sure bet of
when President Trump would be
in a good mood.
And that was when we were Friday
night, going to Mar-a-Iago.
Right, that was always
when he was in the best mood.
We were going to the resort
that he loves the most.
And And it was a Friday,
so the week was kind of behind him.
You sometimes would see him
walking around, eating KFC,
you know?
I remember at Mar-a-Iago one time,
the president was golfing.
And I remember getting
a call from the Situation Room,
saying that, "There may be a nuke
headed to Hawaii."
There's no scenario
I can imagine that is worse than
a nuclear weapon being
fired at the United States, right?
I mean, that was about
as bad as it got.
We need to get this information
to the president,
you know, immediately.
We ran over and interrupted
his golf game.
And told him what we knew.
Immediately kind of raised
his blood pressure.
And he said, "What do you mean?"
"Is there a nuclear weapon
or is there not a nuclear weapon?"
And I didn't have any answer.
But I remember looking at the guy
who always carries around
the briefcase
that has the nuclear codes
and launch button
always by the president.
That suitcase has never had
to be opened.
And I just remember thinking, you
know, "Could this be the time?"
It was an incredibly tense time,
cos North Korea was acting
increasingly more belligerent.
Their nuclear programme was growing.
Rocket Man is
on a suicide mission for himself.
We will have no choice
but to totally destroy North Korea.
And Donald Trump threatens
to wipe North Korea off the map!
Kim jong-un's saying he takes
President Trump's threats
personally.
And then he makes this, like,
almost on a whim,
"I'll meet with the guy!"
CHEERING And on
June 12th, in Singapore,
I'll be meeting with Kim jong-un,
to pursue a future of peace
and security for the world,
for the whole world.
CHEERING
North Korea has been an avowed
enemy of the United States,
you know, for a half century,
more than a half century.
So the idea that Donald Trump
and Kim jong-un
would be having this meeting was
just unthinkable.
And the Pentagon's thinking,
"What did he just say?!"
I thought
the whole thing was a big mistake.
He had an affinity
for authoritarian leaders.
And, erm, you know, he's a big guy,
he likes being with other big guys,
they do big guy things.
It was always worrying, because
in one of those conversations,
there was always the risk
he would give something away
gratuitously to show
what a big guy he was.
CAMERAS CLICK
Mr Trump, Mr Trump!
First time an American president
meets the leader of North Korea,
there's a lot at stake there.
Stay with us here on BBC News
as we bring you the much-hyped
Kim-Trump summit.
It will be the first time
a North Korean leader
has met a sitting US president.
On Air Force One,
he wants to know
"Where will the camera positions be?"
"Will it be a straight-on headshot,
like this?"
"Or will there be a top shot"
"where the cameras
will look down on me as well?"
"How are we going to meet?
What's the backdrop?"
The theatricality.
He wanted to direct the visuals,
because he knew this was gold dust.
CAMERAS CLICK
I travelled with him to Singapore.
I could not believe what
I was seeing with my own eyes.
The Good, The Bad And The
Ugly Theme By Ennio Morricone
I mean
And then and then to see
the two of them come together,
it was mind-blowing.
I mean, it was showmanship
of the highest order.
Getting a good picture of everybody,
so we look nice and handsome
and thin and
Beautiful perfect? Young.
All I can say
is they want to make a deal.
That's what I do -
my whole life has been deals.
I've done great at it.
And I really believe
a lot of great things can happen.
This is Donald Trump
sending a message
to the political establishment
at home and internationally,
that there's a new sheriff in town,
and the presidency
was going to be show business.
Expect the unexpected.
It was totally crazy! That he was an
agent of Russia.
That he urinated on a bed.
We're about to hit him
right in the mouth.
You know what? He picked the wrong
person to fuck with.
I guess every superhero
need his theme music
No one man should
have all that power
The clock's ticking
I just count the hours
Stop tripping
I'm tripping off the power
21st century schizoid
man The system broken
The school's closed
the prison's open
We ain't got nothing' to lose,
everybody, we rollin'
Huh? Everybody, we rollin' ♪