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JORDAN KLEPPER: For
the last eight years,

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I've been a tourist
in the MAGA-verse.

And after attending
dozens of rallies,

talking to hundreds, maybe
thousands, of MAGA loyalists,

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I'm sick and tired
of doing this alone.

So now I'm bringing
along some friends

and traveling to
three swing states

to help me see this madness
from a fresh perspective,

and maybe, for one last
time, rally together.

[energetic music]

# #

First off, Detroit, Michigan,
where I've invited Jeremy O.

Harris the acclaimed actor
and playwright, whose

hit Broadway show,
Slave Play, received

a record 12 Tony nominations.

Who better to help me
understand the music, dancing,

and rambling monologues
that make Trump

rallies political theater?

I'm wondering what your
expectations, as somebody

who understands theater--

what your expectations
of a Donald Trump

theatrical
performance might be?

I think his theater was
much better first go around--

Mm-hmm.

No one knew where
it was going to go.

Mm-hmm.

And he still has that same
verve of like a showman.

Mm-hmm.

But the lines are stale now.

It feels like the
show hasn't evolved

over the last eight years.

No, it's like people
going to see Chicago,

who've seen it 15,000 times.

Like, they know it's
not going to change

just because, you know, a
new Real Housewife is in it.

Mm-hmm.

But like-- but
they-- but they--

they kind of love the dances,
even if everyone's a little

more tired.

JORDAN KLEPPER: So does
the show still have legs?

I have plays on Broadway,
so I think about, like,

the sort of-- like, how taxing
it is for any performer to be

in a show for a long time.

Mm-hmm.

Does it-- do you feel the
fatigue from him or anyone

else that are coming out?

Or, do you feel like
it feels the same--

I do feel the--
since Butler he has--

I think he's calmed down a lot.

I think it's a good thing.

I think he need to, you
know, cut back a little bit.

# I went to the doctor #

# And guess what he told me #

You see what Trump
is doing now, just

playing music and swaying?

[rock music]

Is he trying to workshop
a jukebox musical here?

- That's experimental theater.
- Oh.

Yeah.

And that is one of the things
that keeps him interesting.

I was going to say, because
jukebox musicals feels

like it's low-hanging fruit.

That was like
something more akin to

like a Richard
Maxwell performance.

And that's deep downtown
New York theater.

Y.M.C.A. #

What should somebody who
has never seen The Trump Show

expect?

He just tells it like it is.

Tells it like it is.

Do you know
Shakespeare at all?

I follow him a little bit.

OK.

Is he more of a Hamlet or a
Macbeth or like, a King Lear?

If you had to choose.

King Leader.

Does King Lear--
does he want to fuck

his daughters in King Lear?

He doesn't want to
fuck his daughters,

but he's very close to them.

And Trump is not a Hamlet.

No, he's not a Hamlet.

Too much introspection
with Hamlet.

- Yeah.
- Although, I will say this.

Macbeth is interesting.

Melania, more of
a Lady Macbeth.

Yes, I mean, I
think Melania probably

says unsex me, unsex me a lot.

[vocalizing]

JORDAN KLEPPER: But it's
not just the performances.

It's also his choice of venue.

A week ago, Trump dog Detroit.

He said if Kamala
gets in office,

every city's going to look
like Detroit pejoratively.

Yeah.

How do you think that
will resonate here?

- I think they'll love it.
- Yeah.

I think it's like when Matt
Rife makes fun of your wife.

You know what I mean?

Like, it's like--
[laughs] I mean, not

for me, but for that audience.

Right?

Someone who wants,
like to be negged.

That-- like, it's
a cuck audience?

Yeah, it's a cuck audience.

It's a real cuck audience.
[laughter]

Because I haven't
thought about it that way,

but that makes a lot
of fucking sense.

So what do these cucks think
of Trump attacking their city?

Our whole country will
end up being like Detroit

if she's your president.

I understand what Trump said.

With that comment, he's
looking at the blight

of the houses that
have not been torn down

or anything like that, the
abandoned factories that have

yet to have been cleaned up.

Why didn't he say that?

Donald Trump at
this age-- at his age,

he's had the eloquent
speaking sessions

of his life and all that.
- You're saying he--

He doesn't give
a fuck right now.

We already-- we're past
prime eloquence Donald Trump.

Right, yeah.

We're in like baddie--

Detroit bad, me good,
vote now, vote January.

Oops, November.

You ever seen--

The Birth of a Nation.

No, no, no, no.

The really old guy.

Gran Torino movie.
Clint Eastwood.

Yeah.

Think about the
way that Clint

Eastwood spoke in that movie.

He's an old man.

Wait, that's the racist guy.

I wouldn't say he was racist.

There's a Mexican, a Jew and
a colored guy go into a bar.

I don't think he'd
like me on his lawn.

JORDAN KLEPPER: If they
can't spot this racism,

can they spot any racism?

Trump just said today that
all of the stuff about America

being built on the
back of slaves of this

being stolen land, if that's in
a textbook, he's taking it out.

- OK.
- Yeah.

I wrote a play
called Slave Play.

And I can't teach my own
play in parts of Virginia

and in parts of Florida
because of Republican

like lies around how
our country was founded.

I can kind of see
why they don't want

that taught in the schools.

Why?

Maybe the history
should be taught

at home, maybe because it
makes people so divisive.

But what history
isn't divisive?

Like every history--

Correct.

We do not teach Jewish
history in the classroom.

Yes, we did.

What do we teach?

The Holocaust.

I didn't learn that.

It's weird to ask this,
but I'm at a Trump rally.

Holocaust, real or fake?

I'm pretty sure it was real.

Landing on the
moon, real or fake?

It was such a perfect
mission, I'm skeptical.

Interesting.

JORDAN KLEPPER: OK.

A little out there, but at
least she has an open mind.

What you do in your
bedroom or who you--

or who you choose
to have sex in front

of or who you choose to have
sex with is your business.

Free R. Kelly.

JORDAN KLEPPER:
Perhaps too open.

That was-- I
didn't-- you know--

you said-- you know what?

You got that Trump
weave going on.

We were all the way over
here and then we got an "R.

Kelly" come in there.

You have really been studying.

I did not have R. Kelly
truth on the bingo card.

It is something
interesting because it's

like the fans of
anything tell you

a lot about the
psyche of the person,

like that they're
standing, right?

I feel-- like I actually feel
like worried for America.

JORDAN KLEPPER: And there's
plenty to be worried about.

In the wake of
the Dobbs decision

and JD Vance's crusade
against childless cat ladies,

critics fear a second Trump
term would be a Handmaid's Tale

dystopia, although Trump says
he'll be great for the ladies.

As president, I have
to be your protector.

You will no longer be
abandoned, lonely or scared.

You will no longer be
thinking about abortion.

JORDAN KLEPPER: So next
up, Latrobe, Pennsylvania.

I figured I'd bring some
friends who don't buy

the whole protector narrative.

Corinne Fisher and
Krystyna Hutchinson,

host of the sex positive
anti-slut shaming

podcast Guys We Fucked.

People know you.

Guys We Fucked is your podcast.
- Yes.

Yeah.

Even as I said it out
loud, I got embarrassed

as I got to the last word.
- It's OK.

That makes me feel old.

Have you ever
had sex, Jordan?

I don't want to
talk about this.

[laughter]

JORDAN KLEPPER: OK, let's
talk about anything else,

like merchandise.

What t-shirts are
catching your eyes?

I mean, miss me bitch.

- Miss me bitch is great.
- Oh, OK.

This is what I want that.
- What?

The floaty?
- How much is this?

Daddy's home.

She's not a hoe.

I'm a hoe.

Oh, OK.

Hoe recognize hoe.

It's not her.
- Not her.

Nah.

JORDAN KLEPPER:
Corinne, Krystyna, Kevin

seem to be fitting
in, so I decided

to introduce them to some
diehard Trump roadies

and really get into the issues.

Oh, my god, a pumpkin.

This is a Grateful
Dead pumpkin?

Trumpkin.

That's a Trumpkin.

A Trumpkin, of course it is.

- You guys Deadheads too?
- I am, yes.

Of course.

I was born dead.

You were born dead.

Me too, girl.

Let me tell you, I
feel close to death

every time I come out here.
- Yeah.

[laughter]

I was curious what news
sources you guys follow

and which ones you do trust.

I ask questions
from my Lord above.

Yeah.

And honestly, I get
a lot of stuff from X.

So God and Twitter.

JORDAN KLEPPER: They were
welcome at the tailgate.

But how welcoming is a
party that also says this?

We're effectively
run in this country

by a bunch of
childless cat ladies

who are miserable at their
own lives and the choices

that they've made.

You go to the polls in
this country as a parent,

you should have
more of an ability

to speak your voice in
our democratic republic

than people who
don't have kids.

JD Vance often says
if you don't have kids,

you don't have a
stake in the future.

- Right.
- Did you have kids?

Yes.

Does that make your voice
more important than people

who don't have kids?
- Yes.

- It does?
- Yes.

- Should you get two votes?
- Yes.

- Wow.
- Oh, wow.

Yeah.
Wow.

What do you think of his
childless cat lady comments?

I know some childless
cat ladies, so--

What do you think of them?

I think he's--

I think he's pretty on.
- For abortion?

Do you have any children?

How old are you?

You're a childless
42-year-old man.

Should you have less of a say?

I mean, I'm a veteran.

I was--

What if it was the
childless woman was a veteran?

What I'm trying
to get at is--

I mean--

You got me here thinking here.

I love that.

JORDAN KLEPPER: But
there's another issue

MAGA refuses to rethink.

What do you feel
about women's rights,

like a woman's right to choose
what to do with her body?

The abortion issue, that's
a sticky issue for people.

I am pro-life.

Pro-life, pro-life,
pro-life, pro-life.

It should not be a
form of birth control.

I've never met a woman that
uses abortion as birth control.

I've seen a lot on TV.

I've seen a lot in the streets
when I'm downtown working.

Abortions on the streets?

Oh, gosh, no.

But that's not happening,
because that's murder.

Yeah.
Have you seen articles on that?

Yeah, I did read
something this past summer,

and I wish I could
cite the source.

Yeah, me too.

The past remarks that
Trump has made about women--

grab them by the pussy, you
could do whatever you want.

Like, do those bother you?

Do those affect you at all?

- I don't believe that.
- It doesn't bother me.

Just want to check.

Donald Trump was
accused of numerous counts

of sexual assault. Does that
change how you feel about him

as--
- It does not.

No.

I think if we look at the
women President Trump has been

married to, they're pretty
glamorous and pretty gorgeous

women.
- Mm-hmm.

So the E. Jean Carroll case,
I'm thinking that's probably--

it didn't happen.

She wasn't hot
enough to get raped?

[chuckles] I don't think she
was a very attractive person.

And I really don't
believe the whole story.

JORDAN KLEPPER: The
conversation with that lady,

what were your thoughts?
- I just--

It was a bit of a
roller coaster for me.

The sexual assault thing--

Yeah.

Like the going-- going down
the route of E. Jean Carroll

is not attractive enough--

You know, she's
unattractive and doesn't

get attention from men.

And so this was the only
route that she could take.

Right.

As we all know, if
you're a-- you know,

a 6, you have to accuse the
president of raping you.

Yeah.
And be on camera.

Classic woman.

Classic.

You found us out.

Girl math, baby.

JORDAN KLEPPER:
Girl math which will

no longer exist when
Trump shuts down

the Department of Education.

JORDAN KLEPPER: Next
stop, Reno, Nevada,

where Trump is bringing
his tough on crime

message to a state
that has legalized

activities most of the country
still considers crimes.

So I brought the
only cop who would

talk to me, a pretend one,
Actor Thomas Lennon, a.k.a.

Lieutenant Jim
Dangle from Reno 911!

Oh.

I assume you spend a lot,
a lot, a lot of time here.

This is my third
day here ever.

OK.

What do you think
Lieutenant Dangle

would think of a MAGA event?

The great thing
about Dangle is

I think he's
something that America

is sorely lacking right now.

He really does reach across
both sides of the aisle.

He does reach-arounds across
both sides of the aisle,

I think.

JORDAN KLEPPER: That
sounds like someone

I'd like on my side today.

Jordan, you smell that?

What is it?

Bulk ammo.

That's one of the
great Nevada smells.

[upbeat music]

We can try a cowboy hat.

Oh, I wish it didn't
fit like a glove.

When he does one of these--

When he gets this going.

The weird little
jerk off thing.

Have you been to
a MAGA event before?

I have not.
This is my first one.

What are your expectations?

Well, I would like to see
our next president, of course,

be Trump.

So not too high
of expectations.

But I would like
to see America--

Not too high of expectations.

Bend all the rallies
Trump's had here,

and I would have been
in Washington, DC.

We attended four
rallies up till then.

If we could have made it, we
would have been there too.

- Are we talking Jan 6?
- Yeah.

OK.

You regret not being what?

You wish you had been.

Probably would have
been in jail right now.

Would have got yourself just
a little podium or a little

piece of bric-a-brac?

Not a podium, per se.

You would have gotten
something, you know?

Well.

I wasn't trying
to entrap you there.

If I got in on January
6th and hear me out,

here's my version of this.

If I get in, which I do
because I'm little, I'm fast

and get them
through the window,

I get a hold of
Boebert, and I just King

Kong her right out of there.

See, if I go in on
Jan 6, I'm looking

for Hawley, Josh Hawley.

Because that guy
knows all the exits.

He's fast.
He's fast.

You're quick.
You're quick.

You're doing this.

So you're following Hawley
all the way in, right?

You're following Hawley.

And you know, he knows how
to get in, how to get out.

He knows where
people are hiding.

Yeah.
- He's fast, quick.

And he's tall, too.

So any shrapnel you know?

It's flying by, but I'm
following him all the way.

He's booking.

Oh here's the merch now.

You got to see the merch.

Let's do it.

Do you think he could
get a pee stream

going that hard and that high?

I hope so.

I call bullshit.

That's a stiletto.

Yeah.

Perfect for, like,
the niece or the nephew

who needs a stiletto.

Yeah, that's a switchblade.

And it's got a brass
knuckles, basically, yeah?

There's a rescue knife
and seatbelt cutter.

Seatbelt cutter.

There's a weird detail, which
is once you have both of these,

you can have all the merch.

You know what I mean?

[laughs]
Not yours.

Not yours.

Some people are armed.
Some people.

OK.

I'm shocked people
have an issue with you

selling this stuff near them.

JORDAN KLEPPER:
With Officer Dangle,

there were confessions even
I had never heard before.

I haven't heard--

I haven't heard the
time traveler one.

- It tracks.
- It does.

So he came back in time.
- It tracks 100%.

You know what I mean?

He'd already been
there once before.

If that's the
case, you must know

that he won because he decided
to run for president again.

I think he knows he's
going to win this time.

That's why he's so
angry about the idea,

like, if I don't win, it's
because you guys cheated.

Because I'm a time traveler.
I've seen it all.

Is this the kind of
stuff you're usually

hearing when you're ready?
- Oh, yes.

We can't be the most
far out theory of the day.

No, you're not.

No.

How much for the
Kamala toilet paper?

Controlling the weather.

We've been doing that since
Vietnam War that I know of.

Hell, what's new?

100%.

See this weather here?

See where this is going?

You know who
that's coming from?

Yeah.

Guess who lives
in that direction?

Yeah.

Paul Pelosi.

Yeah.

The Democrats are
controlling the weather?

The government.

So if Trump gets
in office, he'll

have control over the weather.

Well, they will pass
on the torch, I assume.

So the weather-- the weather
control is more of a machine,

less of like a spell.

It--

Yeah.

It can detour
things from happening.

JORDAN KLEPPER: Yes, the
government is all powerful,

but also not powerful enough.

Which is why Trump
recently called

for police to have
a little purge

to deal with rising crime.

One rough hour, and
I mean real rough,

and it will end immediately.

You support a cop purge?

- I actually do.
- Yeah?

- Of course you do.
- Yeah.

Hey, litterbugs.

[vocalizing]

Yeah.

That's the first one I'm
getting on cop purge day.

- OK.
- Litterbugs.

Yeah.
[vocalizing]

Yeah.

You'd be supportive of like,
cops and vigilantes taking--

- Yes.
- Taking up that purge hour?

Yes.

It's the running
of the bulls.

But the tourists
who have come to run

are all the pedophiles and
litterbugs and all this stuff

we have in this country?

Get them the hell outta here.

Get them in
front of the bulls.

OK.

Purge.

Purge.

You're a pedophile?

Pedophile purge.

One hour.

It's the running of the
pedophiles and the litterbugs.

Sign up.

Sign up.

You're sort of pitching in
unconstitutional rumspringa.

Rumspringa!

I just want our nation back.

100%.
100%.

What's the thing about
our nation that you hate,

that just hate the most?

Well, that's hard.

I know.

There's a lot
of things I hate.

Running-- running
of the bulls.

Purge it!

Purge it!

Purge it!

JORDAN KLEPPER: Litterbugs,
get your affairs in.

[triumphant music]

JORDAN KLEPPER: So far, I'd
taken my friends to three Trump

rallies and it's been eye
opening for them to see

what makes MAGA world tick.

But I've noticed that
Trump supporters simply

don't believe that there's any
enthusiasm on the other side.

Perhaps, it was time
for a cultural exchange

program in Flint, Michigan.

And who better to
bring than MAGA

Edward, who I've gotten to over
the last five years at rallies.

He's sort of like
your MAGA uncle

who is always about to say
something to ruin Thanksgiving.

Edward, good to see you, sir.

It's always great to see you.

You've been to a few rallies.

I've been to 93 rallies
with Donald Trump.

And how many
with Kamala Harris?

Zero.
This is number one.

What are you expecting today
at a Kamala Harris rally?

I expect to see
the paid actors who

pretend to be her supporters.

JORDAN KLEPPER: Lovely.

Let's see what lines these
actors have been fed.

You know I can--
what?

It's a free country.

I will say, I
invited him here.

I wanted to see
what somebody who'd

been in the Trump
movement thought

of the Kamala Harris movement.

How much are you
getting paid to be here?

Not enough.
I'm not getting paid anything.

So--

You were one of
the first in line.

Yeah.
Got here at 9:15 AM.

Woke up at 6:00, actually,
to get here this morning.

- Don't get cocky.
- I'm sorry.

Don't get cocky.

What time do you
usually get in line?

At least 24 hours in
advance in a Trump rally,

if you want to go to one.

If you get there by 9 o'clock,
you're not going to get in.

There'll be 10,000
people waiting by.

And 5,000 people
left 20 minutes

after he starts talking.
- No, they don't.

Oh, oh!

No, no, no, they don't.

People do not leave
the Trump rallies.

The t-shirt bugs me.

I got plenty of gay friends
and even trans friends too.

- You don't.
- Yes, I do.

If you have a problem with a
shirt, you're not their friend.

I am not for
imposing anything.

But I think there's a
rush to like the treatment

without being sure it's right.

Do you know
what we have to go

through to get any kind
of like, treatment,

as you call it?
Like--

It used to be--

Doctors, psychologists,
endocrinologists.

What do you think--
what do you think

of the trans species movement?

In one of the grade
schools, we had

a teacher who
identified as a cat

and several of her students.

Oh, my god.

Oh, come on, you know--

You're so far down
the propaganda train.

You know that's not
a real story, Edward.

You know.

I just want to thank
you for the conversation.

Thank you, too.

And just-- it's my
kid, not your kid.

[upbeat music]

How did you feel
that interaction

when somebody come over having
that kind of conversation?

Do you feel like--
- Really well.

- You feel that's helpful?
- That's right.

Yeah?

I think that's what
we need more dialogue.

JORDAN KLEPPER: It
was time to go inside.

But first, Edward
had to blend in.

I got a NPR tote bag.

Yeah, I got a friend
of mine that works

for NPR from high school.

He's a total commie.

Let's see how this
looks on your shoulder.

Sure.
I could do the NPR.

You can wear a
Friend of the Pod hat.

Friend of the Pod?
The Pod?

Do you know Pod
Saves America?

Enlighten me.

This is the podcast
that progressives

listen to feel smart about the
things they already believe.

This looks pretty progressive,
but maybe just to be safe,

could you just hold
up the Subaru key fob

as you walk around?

Nobody will bother you then.

[upbeat music, cheering]

# #

- You having fun?
- Oh, yeah.

Of course I am.

# #

Yeah.

There's an energy here that
feels like a Michigan game.

That's right.

Only at Michigan.

Michigan State game,
whatever you want to call it.

# #

I forgot to tell you a
tradition liberals do before

Kamala comes out,
we grab hands and we

all begin to sing "Closer to
Fine" by the Indigo Girls.

Hold my hand.

Ready?

OK.

Oh, lord.

All right, yeah, yeah.

[cheers, applause]

Well here we go.

[cheers, applause]

[cheers, applause]

All right, Edward.
How was that?

It seemed like you had fun.

Well, it was a unique
and original experience.

It's kind of like
climbing Mount Everest.

It can be painful, but
you can say, I did it.

You did it.

You went to a rally.

You weren't inspired
to storm the Capitol

and take a dump
on Pelosi's desk.

No, no, no, I wouldn't
do those things.

I didn't do that when I
was there on January 6.

Ah, no.

JORDAN KLEPPER: I give
him credit for coming.

It's not easy,
especially if you

think everyone is faking it.

And so Edward the debt
collector from New Jersey

went back into the
MAGA-verse, where five days

later, he magically re-emerged
as a firefighter from Scranton.

JORDAN KLEPPER: I've been doing
this dance for a long time.

And as we approach
the election,

there's a real question
about what comes next,

not only for me,
which is important,

but also for whatever this is.

Are we doing real talk here?

Yeah.

Everybody seemed
a little sleepy.

I just wonder, it's
been a long run for him.

This has been-- this
is not a sprint.

For some, it feels like
it's no longer a novelty.

It may be an obligation.

Exactly.

I don't even know what they
think they're supporting.

I think they just
want to show up

to be the loudest
and the proudest

because for them,
their presence

is evidence of its popularity.

This would be nothing,
but their presence

proves that it is something,
so they better show up.

Otherwise, what the fuck
are we doing with our lives?

In other words, they're
going through the motions.

But the silly pomp
and circumstance

hides a darkness on stage.

Whether or not that matters,
we'll find out soon.

But if the show does
go on, at least I won't

have to do it alone anymore.

You're going to
come to another?

I got what I needed.
Yeah.

One and done.

Do you want to come
to Pennsylvania with me?

Not today.

So are you going to come with
me to the next one, Harrisburg?

Or he might-- he might
be somewhere in Florida

or Georgia or Atlanta?

I got to admit, it was fun.

Yes, I would do it again.

JORDAN KLEPPER: Of
course you would.

But maybe I should
go home to my family.

Fuck, Edward, you have my keys.

[energetic music]

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