The Daily Show - President-Elect Trump's Conflicts of Interest
Donald Trump is the winner of Thanksgiving.
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He's got so much to be thankful for.
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He ran his campaign the way he wanted.
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Lots of people want to give him high fives.
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And he was elected president,
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which means all those time travelers clearly failed.
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Oh, on top of all of that,
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he'll also be the first commander-in-chief
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who's doing "president" as his part-time job.
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WOMAN: Conflicts of interest between Donald Trump's
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businesses and his presidency are already sparking talks
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of a constitutional crisis.
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The question arises,
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how are his personal financial interests
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potentially conflicting with the national interests
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of the United States?
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That's a very good question.
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A question you'd think would be answered
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after a 17-month campaign, a hundred debates
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and 12 billion hours of press coverage.
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(chuckling): But, I mean...
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we spent all that time on e-mails, so, I mean...
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We know so much about e-mails now-- have you noticed that?
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We know about IMAP, we know about POP3,
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BleachBits, and every type of server.
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Hell, we even know the shape and general size
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of Anthony Weiner's dick.
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But we don't know... we know almost nothing
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about where Trump's money is. (laughs loudly)
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What we do know, what we do know is that Trump definitely plans
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NEWSWOMAN: On Friday, the Trump International Hotel in DC
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entertained a group of foreign diplomats,
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marketing the new hotel's exclusive hotel's
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exclusive Townhouse suite.
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Cost per night: $20,000.
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The Secret Service is considering renting
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an entire floor of Trump Tower to set up a command post
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for protecting Donald Trump and his family
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when they're in New York-- this is a plan that would cost
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about a million and a half dollars a year
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just to rent a floor of Trump Tower.
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Wow, that's kind of a dick move, man.
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You're gonna charge rent
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to the people who are thereto keep you alive?
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You're making a profit off the Secret Service?
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You know, if one of them takes a bullet for Trump,
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he's probably gonna charge them for his dry cleaning bill.
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He'll be like, "You got blood on my suit,
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"and this suit was made in China, okay?
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You got to pay. You're gonna pay."
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How can you do that? I wouldn't be shocked
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if the Secret Service gave Trump a (bleep) nickname.
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Slum Lord is on the move. Slum Lord is on the move.
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By the way, don't do that, Secret Service.
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Now, uh, in a normal administration,
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the president making money off the Secret Service
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would be a monumental scandal
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that would dominate the news for weeks.
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They would probably make an HBO show about it,
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or at least a Showtime one-- the point is,
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Paul Giamatti would be in it and it would be amazing.
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But for Trump, that story doesn't even make
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the front page news, because just in the last two weeks,
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President-Elect Trump has been on the phone with world leaders
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every single day-- and it seems like Trump's eye
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is not necessarily on the right ball.
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For instance, in Argentina,
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Trump's companies have been struggling
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to get their permits for their hundred million-dollar,
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35-story tower in Buenos Aires, right?
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So when Argentina's president called Trump
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to congratulate him on his victory,
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Trump just coincidentally handed the phone to his daughter,
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who will now be overseeing his real estate businesses.
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Oh, just out of the blue.
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Just be like, "Oh, and I appreciate...
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"Oh, look at that. It's Ivanka, folks.
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"Oh-ho! What are the chances?
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"Oh, now, if you'll permit me,
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"I insist you two build a friendship together.
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-Tower." -(laughter)
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In fact, it seems like every time
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Trump has a conversation with a foreign official,
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it somehow includes the business of Trump.
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NEWSMAN: ...Donald Trump embroiled in a legal fight
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with the Scottish government over a wind farm
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just offshore ruining the view,
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a fight he lost less than a year ago.
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NEWSMAN: Yet shortly after his election,
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he met with British politician Nigel Farage,
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who helped lead the Brexit movement,
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and did they discuss wind farms again?
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Just today, Trump told The New York Times...
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What do you mean, you "might have brought it up"?
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This is a question about international relations,
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and he responds like a character from a Jane Austen novel.
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"I might have brought it up.
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A lady never tells." (high-pitched giggling)
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Why... why is the president-elect
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of the United States stressed about the view
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from his Scottish golf course?
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You're the president!
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Focus, Donald! Focus!
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Jobs! ISIS! The economy!
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Most people see president as their end goal.
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Trump is like, "Now that I'm president,
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I can finally be a successful businessman!"
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-(laughter, applause) -What are you doing? Focus!
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And look, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying
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Trump shouldn't make that paper,
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but at least put America's interests first.
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Because at this rate, U.S. foreign policy
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might be determined by where Trump happens to have a hotel.
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It's like the whole world's a Monopoly board
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and Trump's like, "Syria, it's fine.
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"I don't have a hotel there. Russia, you can roll again.
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You can roll again." I mean, the guy was on a call
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with the president of Turkey, and he still found the time
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to slip in a good word for his Istanbul business partner.
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Now-now, here's the thing,
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if Erdogan is nice to Trump's business partner,
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there's a good chance that Trump will owe Erdogan in return.
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Which is not good, for two reasons.
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One, no one wants to picture Trump and Erdogan
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scratching each other's backs.
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And two, if you owe President Erdogan a personal favor,
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the favor he calls in, could be for the U.S.
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to stop supporting his enemies in the Kurdish militia,
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which are America's most effective ally
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in the fight against ISIS.
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So Trump's Turkish skyscraper
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could end up hampering the battle
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against Middle East terrorists.
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And, by the way, if you think foreign leaders haven't noticed
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where Trump's head is at, well, think again.
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TV REPORTER: President Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippine leader,
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had already named Mr. Trump's business partner in Manila
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as a special envoy to the United States.
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TV REPORTER: Mr. Trump has been tied
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to Philippine real estate magnate, Jose. E.B. Antonio,
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who has been appointed the country's envoy to the U.S.
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Mr. Antonio is also building Trump Towers Manila in Makati.
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Oh, would you look at that?
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The man who Trump needs to build his towers in the Philippines
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is now coming to Washington asking for favors from America.
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Yeah. So don't be shocked when Trump goes against Obama
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and says Duterte can go on killing people in the streets,
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because then Trump will be like, yeah, you're making a killing,
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I'm making a kill, we're good.
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-We're good. -(audience exclaiming)
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Being president of the United States
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is already the hardest job in the world.
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You don't need somebody who's distracted
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by picking curtains for his newest tower.
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And I've picked curtains; that (bleep) is hard.
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It is so hard, 'cause you have to pick more than the thing
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than the space and then there's, like, the one that does that,
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and then there's the hooks, and if you get the hooks,
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and then you're like, I didn't know the hooks
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were supposed to go on-- and then the thing's falling,
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and you're like, I should have got blinds.
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-It so hard, it's so hard. -(laughter and applause))
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But all of these things Trump is doing.
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Just-just think about this, think about this.
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If, God forbid, if, God forbid, somebody decided to attack
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one of the Trump Towers in the world,
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is that an attack on the hotel?
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Or is that now an attack on America?
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Because the hotel is owned by the president of America.
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And you know that Trump would react to it.
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The guy melts down if someone insults him on Twitter.
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Is he going to invade the Middle East
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