Never Trump lawyer and frequent MSNBC and CNN talking head George Conway traveled over to Comedy Central’s The Daily Show on Thursday. During his conversation with temp host Ronny Chieng, Conway would encourage the show and its network counterparts to keep making fun of Donald Trump while claiming that “we” need to “deprogram” his supporters.
Conway was mid-ramble when he declared that Trump is “a narcissistic sociopath. He has narcissistic personality disorder and he is a sociopath. And what needs to be done is that needs to be talked about openly. It needs to be pointed out, when he is doing things that meet those criteria, and it's got to be pointed out, and it drives him nuts when people do that. And that is the other thing is what you can do is you can have this cycle where you drive him nuts by saying, he's crazy. He acts nuts. Then you have more video and say, look at how nuts he is. And that is what has to be done.”
He then offered some advice to liberals, “The other thing that I would recommend to liberals is, don't get mad. The people who support Trump like when liberals get mad. That is why they like Trump. They say, ‘oh, he makes all these people, these snotty liberals mad.’ It's like, make fun of him. Don't-- you can make fun of him and mock him the way, you know, I mean, this is what these shows are.”
Chieng observed that “you are kind of addressing the whole premise of the show right here.”
Conway agreed with the notion that late night comedians need to be partisans first and comedians second, “Right. Exactly. You all play an important role. Kimmel at the Oscars plays an important role. Laugh at him. Now, that doesn't mean you don't appreciate the seriousness of what would happen to this country, which is the other message to the rich people who want their taxes cut.”
According to Conway, the message those people need is that “If this guy is elected president, we’re going to have civil disorder like you have never seen because he will try to violate every law and people will start objecting, you’re going to see people on the streets, and what that's going to do to the economy is not great. We are going to see capital flow, both human and financial, like we've never seen from the United States before and so all of these reasons, I think, I think we are going to be able to explore this between now and November.”
Conway seemed confident that Trump will lose, but lamented that his work wouldn't be finished even if that were to happen, “I think that is the reason why ultimately I think common sense will prevail and this guy will win. But the problem will be, there will be 60, 70, 80 million people who will vote for the guy and we still have to live with those people and we are going to have to deprogram them at some point.”
While Conway muses about reeducating others, his dreams about the comedy shows will not come true. Sure, liberal audiences will laugh at Trump and his supporters, but that is just another form of an echo chamber and laughter will continue to get replaced with clapter therapy.
Here is a transcript for the June 6 show:
Comedy Central The Daily Show
6/6/2024
11:27 PM ET
GEORGE CONWAY: He's a narcissistic sociopath. He has narcissistic personality disorder and he is a sociopath. And what needs to be done is that needs to be talked about openly. It needs to be pointed out, when he is doing things that meet those criteria, and it's got to be pointed out, and it drives him nuts when people do that. And that is the other thing is what you can do is you can have this cycle where you drive him nuts by saying, he's crazy. He acts nuts. Then you have more video and say, look at how nuts he is. And that is what has to be done.
The other thing that I would recommend to liberals is, don't get mad. The people who support Trump like when liberals get mad. That is why they like Trump. They say, “oh, he makes all these people, these snotty liberals mad.”
It's like, make fun of him. Don't-- you can make fun of him and mock him the way, you know, I mean, this is what these shows are.
RONNY CHIENG: You are kind of addressing the whole premise of the show right here.
CONWAY: I'm in the right place. Exactly.
CHIENG: That is what we are trying to do here.
CONWAY: Right. Exactly. You all play an important role. Kimmel at the Oscars plays an important role.
CHIENG: Sure.
CONWAY: Laugh at him. Now, that doesn't mean you don't appreciate the seriousness of what would happen to this country, which is the other message to the rich people who want their taxes cut.
CHIENG: Sure.
CONWAY: If this guy is elected president, we’re going to have civil disorder like you have never seen because he will try to violate every law and people will start objecting, you’re going to see people on the streets, and what that's going to do to the economy is not great. We are going to see capital flow, both human and financial, like we've never seen from the United States before and so all of these reasons, I think, I think we are going to be able to explore this between now and November. I think that is the reason why ultimately I think common sense will prevail and this guy will win. But the problem will be, there will be 60, 70, 80 million people who will vote for the guy and we still have to live with those people and we are going to have to deprogram them at some point.
