Transcript

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It's time for Donald Trump to resign as president.

Admittedly it's been an interesting couple of days,

but for any patriotic American capable of adding

two and two and not getting 1.5 million,

this is enough.

If you voted for Trump or you support him now,

or you're saying give him a chance,

again, I'm not gonna yell at you

or call you names.

I'm not gonna try to argue any policies.

I'm not gonna debate the size of his crowds

nor whatever your conclusions are

about Saturday's marches.

In fact, I'm gonna compliment you on

your generosity toward him,

and the sincerity of your belief in his promises,

and your natural, your commendable desire

to see him and thus see our country succeed.

But this man is not of sound mind.

In office, faster and more frighteningly

than at any point in the campaign,

over the span of just a long weekend, really,

Trump has proved that not only will he

lie to America about anything big or small,

but that just as importantly, he will lie

to himself about anything big or small.

And more troubling yet, he will compel men

weaker even than himself, to lie on his behalf

about anything big or small.

And worst of all, the lies will convince

some people and they will convince

one person especially dangerous in particular,

Donald Trump.

Because what Trump does not believe

cannot be true, and that way lies madness,

and lies every evil imaginable including

the end of this country, in a literal sense.

Perhaps the end of civilization.

Because like somebody who's strung out on drugs

or somebody who's living in a complete

dream-like state caused by profound,

pulsating narcissism he will not believe

that the outcome of any of his actions

could be failure or disaster or

even something that could be harmful to himself.

A man who could accuse the Central Intelligence Agency

of trying to undermine him and ask rhetorically

of the conduct of that agency, quote,

Are we living in Nazi Germany?

A man who could do that, and then

10 days later go and stand in front of

the shrine of its fallen agents,

and insist with a straight face,

with every word he said and motion

that he made suggesting he really believes this,

he could say, quote, They sort of made it

sound like I had a feud with the

intelligence community and I just

want to let you know the reason

you're the number one stop is,

it is exactly the opposite.

A man who could insist to those same

men and women at the CIA that it stopped

raining the moment he started to give

his inaugural address when you saw

the rain falling on him.

That is the kind of man who could

convince himself that it would be

just fine to start a nuclear war

because of course he would survive

the retaliatory attack and so would his family,

and so would whatever people he thinks are his friends.

Or to use his word, his fans.

Of course they would all survive

the retaliation because he's Donald Trump,

and bad things cannot happen to Donald Trump.

At the CIA, Trump told the agents there

that he has, quote, a running war with the media.

He does not have a running war with the media.

He has a running war with reality.

His reality is what he says it is.

He has an advisor who came out and

said Sunday that when you deliberately

contradict reality that that is not lying

or deceiving but rather that's using,

quoting her, alternative facts.

You try alternative facts in your life for one hour.

Let me know how it goes.

Drive on whichever side of the road you want to.

Stop wearing the safety glasses.

Let the kids use the stove and the power tools.

Write checks for money you don't have

because ignoring the warnings and instructions

is not courting a disaster, it's just

a set of alternative facts.

This is crazy.

And even if, God willing, it never gets

to the point where this kind of delusional

thinking is employed during an

international crisis or here at home

during some kind of threat or disaster,

even if Trump's ability to turn off reality

like a light switch never actually

threatens us and our children and all we know,

what does it mean about that key promise

that he made to you, to unrig the system,

to level the playing field,

to never be beholden to Goldman Sachs

as he claimed his opponent was, like he promised?

Like he seemed to promise

before he hired three people from

Goldman Sachs and one from Wells Fargo

and one from Rothschild Investments.

You knew this before that speech at the CIA

or this crazy argument about how big

the crowds at the inauguration were

or whether it was sunny and only

he could see that it was sunny.

You may have even known this before you

voted for him and you just hoped it was

gonna go away when he took over.

But it isn't going away, it's getting worse.

He's crazy.

We will all be lucky to survive

having had him in charge.

And even if we do survive it will still be

the greatest crisis of our lives,

all our lives.

Look, I don't want a President Pence

but I will take him and his policies.

And I'll fight the policies, but the man?

We can debate the man in 2020 in the election.

This is not about policies

or conservative or liberal or rigged systems

or marches or making America great again.

This is about a man not in his right mind

who now has nuclear weapons.

It is the greatest crisis of all of

our lives right now.

But together we can fix it peacefully.

He just has to resign, or if he won't

there are provisions for the Republicans

to remove him because he is so sick.

We can fix it and then we can sleep at night again.

And you and I can go back to

yelling at each other about politics

and enjoying ourselves again.

I thank you for listening.