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Good evening Ricky. Well, what a
day?
Well, I’m sort of in shock, and I’m
sort of numb to it. But I have lived
through Brexit, so I feel like I’ve had a
sort of inoculation, do you know what
I mean? I wouldn’t know what had
gone wrong with the world if I wasn’t a
little bit more prepared because of the
Brexit thing; it’s exactly what happened
with Brexit really, it’s those people
who think they’ve been getting a bad
deal, whereas actually they haven’t. I
mean, how many times have you heard
these white American Christians saying,
‘We’ve had it tough.’ No, you haven’t.
You’ve had it your own way for 200
years. That’s the problem. When other
people come along and say, ‘We’d like
to share some of that equality’ and
people who have had privilege all their
lives suddenly start thinking they’re
being oppressed because someone
else wants a bit of their equality and
freedom. That’s what everyone’s got
up about. So it’s all those people who
think they’re disenfranchised but going,
‘Yeah, we’ve got a poster boy now
who cares about us.’ That’s exactly
what has happened. When he said that
ridiculous thing, ‘I love the uneducated’
I thought that’s going to be important
that phrase, and it was. It’s exactly
what got him in. What got him in was
white, non-college educated people.
What I can’t understand is with half
America being women, why did women
vote for Trump?
What with the time difference, the
hardest part of the day was watching
it all happen in real time. It was quite
unbelievable watching it unfold as I
sat at my desk…
Well, going to bed last night, I
thought Hilary might just put it through.
People might go, ‘Do you know what?
We do need a real President. We need
someone who is a politician, right? But
they’d already made up their mind. It’s
exactly the same as Brexit, because
Brexit was ‘of course they’re going
to remain’. It’s ridiculous – look at the
polls. But it’s those people that did it
in secret, and then the next day when
they’d won, they’d come out with the
placards, ‘Go home’ like the world had
changed. Like they called suddenly, ‘I’ve
always been a racist.’ Like, what the
hell, you won! You haven’t won. We’ve
all lost. Some people want to see the
world burn, that’s the problem. Some
people just want to see the world burn.
I imagine the Democrats waking
up today in shock. They haven’t
seen anything like it in America. It’s
incredible. Think of ten years ago if
someone said, ‘See that billionaire with
the funny hair, who does the Apprentice
show? He’s going to be President of
the United States in ten years.’ You’d
think, course he’s not.
Congratulations on
A Life on the
Road
. I thought it was very funny.
Thank you very much.
Obviously it’s a comedy, but I think
people are going to be surprised how
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