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Making random strangers cry is all in a day’s work for Donald Trump, if the previous president is to be believed, and Colin Jost simply doesn’t get it.
“Why is everybody in Trump’s tales at all times crying?”
That’s the query Jost requested close to the highest of Saturday Night time Reside’s “Weekend Replace,” and a question that has been on tens of millions of individuals’s minds ever for the reason that former president informed a seemingly enthralled Tucker Carlson earlier this week in his first post-arraignment interview. As Jost defined, “Donald Trump claimed that New York police and courtroom workers have been crying once they arrested him.”
It’s a state of affairs the previous president has repeatedly described as taking part in out in entrance of him through the years, for all types of causes, which Jost underscored by sharing a sequence of clips during which Trump talked about “very powerful, very sturdy, very highly effective males” coming as much as him “with tears of their eyes” or spontaneously turning on the waterworks whereas assembly him. Whereas Trump presumably thinks this can be a intelligent approach to show that, no, folks actually do like and consider him, Jost thinks that—if these tales are certainly true—Trump ought to truly be form of fearful.
“You’re bragging that when folks see you they only, like, burst into tears?” a confused Jost needed to know. “And it by no means seems like excited crying, like when youngsters see BTS. It sounds extra like scared crying. Like when hostages see Jigsaw.”
For his or her half, a supply near legislation enforcement dismissed Trump’s claims as “absolute BS” and put the variety of folks fawning over Trump at zero. “There have been zero folks crying,” the supply informed Yahoo! Information. “There have been zero folks saying ‘I’m sorry.’”
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