RFK Jr. Was Hungry And Dana White Had The Time Of His Life

0:00 So on Saturday night, as I'm sure you guys know by now,

0:03 shots rang out in the lobby of the Hilton Hotel where the White

0:06 House correspondence dinner and also about 15

0:08 other correspondence dinner events were taking place.

0:10 And what made me so sad in the immediate aftermath of seeing all

0:14 of this unfold on social media was

0:15 that I was not even surprised in this slightest.

0:18 I wasn't shocked, like this was just

0:20 a normal Saturday in the Trump administration, a normal Saturday in 2026.

0:25 Now, as I was watching all of the content come

0:27 out of this, seeing everybody's firsthand reports in the videos,

0:30 some people at the event seemed, you know,

0:32 similarly unfazed and then the memification

0:34 of the event just further drives this point home.

0:36 Like we've just been sitting on the internet making jokes about this for days.

0:39 And that's because this assassination culture that I've sat on the show

0:44 and talked about countless times now that we've all been talking about it,

0:46 is no longer extremism.

0:48 It is commonplace.

0:49 It is literally commonplace in our culture.

0:51 And while I think the people online often

0:53 make jokes to cope about things these days,

0:55 I feel like they're just making jokes because it all feels

0:57 like it is just a bad joke that we can't escape.

1:01 And so that my friends, is what we're gonna talk about today.

1:03 I wanna thank you guys so much for being

1:04 here and supporting the show and the channel.

1:06 Please let me know in the comments how you

1:08 guys are feeling after this assassination attempt Trump's response.

1:11 All of it I wanna hear, I'll be in the comments responding to you guys.

1:14 Alright, so what I am trying to say here is that after I got over

1:17 my initial fears for the people that I know who were sitting in that room,

1:21 hoping the president and the first lady were okay,

1:23 obviously I was laying awake in bed,

1:25 nursing my baby, laughing at memes, and I wanted to slap myself.

1:30 Like I was scrolling and scrolling like an hour and I was like,

1:33 Brett, what are we doing here?

1:34 This is just insane.

1:35 But also objectively the content that people

1:38 were churning out about different reactions,

1:40 jokes about what people were doing at the correspondence dinner,

1:43 like objectively that content was funny.

1:45 And I mean the jokes really wrote themselves in a lot of cases,

1:47 like a four example, just to give you one.

1:49 Like as everybody was ducking for cover

1:51 and the influencer journalists were, you know,

1:53 taking videos of themselves under tables, taking 0.5,

1:56 selfies, all of the things Robert F.

1:59 Kennedy Jr.

1:59 Was sitting upright.

2:01 He was stoic as everything was unfolding,

2:03 he was sitting up straight watching it all

2:05 take place and people were commenting and going, oh yeah, you know, this is just

2:08 an average day for somebody in the Kennedy family.

2:10 Like somebody else said,

2:11 he has seen crazier shit than this on a Tuesday afternoon on a family vacation,

2:14 not one single farm, fresh, organic fuck given.

2:17 This next comment was also incredible.

2:19 This is something I was chuckling about, you know, at 3:00 AM in the dark,

2:21 this guy said his brain worm mapped the trajectory

2:24 of all of the shots and told him he was safe.

2:26 No need to fuck for cover.

2:27 Another person replied to leading report who said that Robert F.

2:30 Kennedy Jr.

2:30 Was seen not ducking for cover.

2:32 And this guy replied and said, no need, he has his lucky raccoon penis on him.

2:35 Like I wouldn't put it past him.

2:36 He's got like a rabbit foot hanging from his shirt or something.

2:39 But the thing is like it wasn't even that the internet

2:42 was ascribing all of this to him, like his son.

2:44 Soon after everything transpired,

2:46 he boasted a screenshot of the Kennedy Family Group chat.

2:48 Everyone was asking, you know, are you and Cheryl okay, is everybody good?

2:51 What's happening?

2:52 And this is how RFK Junior replied, he just said, I'm really hungry.

2:56 He's unbothered, he's hungry.

2:58 I hope somebody had a good rancher steak waiting for him when he got home.

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4:49 Now speaking of food and continuing on with the examples

4:51 of the things that I was seeing on social media,

4:53 the other clips that have gone the most

4:55 viral from this event are also having to do

4:57 with food like the New York City CAA agent who also did not duck for cover.

5:01 He simply continued eating his salad.

5:04 As you can see right here he is watching everything transpire.

5:06 He's poking at his food.

5:07 Apparently the salad was brought up,

5:09 so I understand I would not have stopped eating either.

5:12 Apparently he, it was a new tux, he's kind of a germophobe.

5:14 He didn't wanna get on the floor is what he told the press after the fact.

5:17 But like guys, this is the culture that we are living in in 2026.

5:20 We are watching a nonchalant assassination attempt take place,

5:24 casual, continuing on eating their salad.

5:27 Like after Trump was shot in Butler, we had a movement that was reignited.

5:31 We had people on the left who contributed to all this violent

5:33 rhetoric who suddenly woke up and realised what they had done.

5:36 There was empathy and it felt restored on both sides.

5:39 That was when people, you know,

5:40 came together across the aisle in Unity to try to make the country better.

5:43 That was in large part because of what we all witnessed on July 14th.

5:47 And now like two years later, well we gotta make sure we finish our salads.

5:50 The barta is not going to eat itself.

5:52 Like now the journalists are filming

5:54 vain tiktoks under tables, they're evacuating,

5:56 but not before they steal the leftover

5:59 alcohol that was still sitting on the table,

6:01 as you can see right here, like just watch this clip for example.

6:03 It's just unreal.

6:04 So what you have here are journalists doing more 0.5 selfies,

6:07 holding up all the champagne they're taking,

6:09 and then watch this woman, this is the one that's really gone viral.

6:11 She's in the fur coat, whoop, picks up a bottle of champagne, that's not enough.

6:16 She then gets the bottle of wine.

6:18 Like that clip in and of itself is just insane.

6:20 But you actually need to hear what the news,

6:22 what the reporter is saying over these clips as they're playing on television.

6:25 Listen to this, it's tragically, we've covered shootings,

6:29 we've covered all sorts of scary and terrible events,

6:33 tragic shootings, scary terrible events.

6:36 And the journalists are like, let,

6:38 let get my, let me get my booze before I leave.

6:41 I mean, it's just like, it's insane per usual.

6:44 It feels like a scene out of a sitcom.

6:46 And I promise I'm going somewhere with this.

6:48 I'm not just here to react to all these clips because while

6:51 we have all of this footage of people being totally chill, totally nonchalant,

6:55 some of those same journalists are now going on the news 24

6:58 hours later and talking about how they are actually recovering from trauma.

7:02 Watch this.

7:03 My sources, my contacts, my friends who were in the room with me,

7:07 they're processing the traumatic stress.

7:09 And I know for me personally,

7:10 the memories have been flooding back today I remembered talking

7:12 to House speaker Mike Johnson two minutes before all this went down.

7:16 And then I remembered as we were crouching on the ground,

7:19 hearing people shouting, get down and wondering if there was

7:22 some assailant who was loose in the ballroom.

7:24 So those memories are coming back, the- Trauma, it is flooding back.

7:27 Like, did you remember taking the champagne?

7:30 Did you remember the selfies, the fit checks?

7:33 I mean it's just, it's just absurd.

7:35 And I'm not trying to downplay something.

7:37 It was obviously a tragic and awful, terrifying event.

7:41 Especially if you are somebody who is in that room,

7:43 you're hearing the shots ring out, you have no idea where they're coming from.

7:45 You have no idea if a shooter is being neutralised.

7:47 Apparently there was no service in the room,

7:49 nobody could contact anyone and like that, that is awful.

7:52 It objectively is tragic.

7:53 But we also have to admit the ridiculousness

7:55 of watching all of this unfold live and seeing how

7:57 many people were being so cavalier about it all

8:00 to now it being trauma 24 hours later on CNN.

8:03 And if we are being truly and devastatingly honest about

8:05 this, I feel like a lot of people are just unfazed like,

8:09 like take Dana White for example.

8:10 He was in attendance at the correspondence dinner

8:12 and apparently using words from his own mouth,

8:15 this was basically the coolest night of his life.

8:17 Like he walked out of that room, he talked to the press and he said

8:20 this,- It started getting noisy tables getting flipped over,

8:23 guys running in with guns and they were screaming, get down.

8:28 I didn't get down.

8:29 It was fucking awesome.

8:30 I literally took every minute of it in and, and it was,

8:33 it was a pretty, pretty crazy unique experience.

8:37 I mean, this man, it looks like he just watched the greatest fight of his life.

8:41 He was like, I'm not getting down.

8:42 I see SWAT teams coming in.

8:44 This is sweet.

8:44 He can't stop smiling because of how epic it was.

8:47 And he is not lying.

8:48 Like this was him in the room.

8:50 Look at this, zooming in on him, this man is so happy.

8:54 And that is not the only clip.

8:55 Him still in that room, there are clips now that are circulating of him,

8:57 like sending up, looking around,

8:59 pulling out his phone, trying to take a picture.

9:00 Like, I mean he truly is just taking it all in.

9:02 It's a normal Saturday night.

9:04 He basically looks like the Andy surprised gift from Parks and Rec.

9:07 And then just to top it all off, to drive this point home of people online,

9:10 like I showed you at the beginning with the comments of the jokes on RFK Jr,

9:13 the jokes are all rolling.

9:14 Like whether it is about him, whether it is about Dana White,

9:17 the journalist selfies,

9:18 the fact that the Mentalist was the performer and he was,

9:21 you know, predicting Caroline Levitt's baby name,

9:23 but did not predict that there was an assassin waiting out in the lobby.

9:26 And like what I'm trying to say here is I

9:28 don't feel like this is a, if you're not laughing,

9:30 you're crying situation anymore.

9:32 I feel like people just wanna laugh.

9:33 Like it's all just a joke.

9:34 It's ridiculous that security wasn't tighter at an event like this.

9:38 It is insane that they arrest

9:40 a wannabe Trump assassin essentially every single month.

9:42 It is insane that it feels like after years of this nothing changes.

9:46 We're still doing the same thing.

9:47 So no wonder people are making jokes.

9:49 It's like, well what else are we gonna do?

9:51 At this point?

9:52 Like I was racking my brain this morning before I sat down to film.

9:55 I almost didn't do this episode because my genuine feeling,

9:57 I had like such a black pill moment.

9:59 I was like, genuinely, what is the point?

10:01 I had been scrolling online all weekend, all morning,

10:03 watching people react to old Hassan clips where they

10:06 call for Trump and mag and conservatives to be, you know, killed in the streets.

10:10 Yeah, kill them a result.

10:11 Kill those motherfuckers and murder those motherfuckers in the street.

10:13 Let the streets, let the streets soak

10:16 in their fucking red capitalist bloods, dude.

10:19 And you actually wrote about this and, and it

10:21 was a great video where you talked about, you know, someone has to do it.

10:28 See, when I say that, everyone knows exactly what I mean.

10:31 People condemning Jimmy Kimmel for his disgusting

10:33 joke about Melania being an expectant widow.

10:37 Our first lady Melania is here, look at so beautiful Mrs.

10:40 Trump.

10:40 You have a glow like an expectant widow,- SNL just a couple

10:44 of weeks ago joking about Trump getting shot at the Kennedy center,

10:46 like all of these types of videos.

10:48 And I think that's cool that the president is going to the theatre.

10:52 I mean, what's the worst that could happen?

10:55 I mean, it is all disgusting and I know

10:57 why people are reposting them and reacting to them.

11:00 Like I've sat on this show on my old show,

11:02 I've reacted to video after video just like that.

11:04 I've done entire episodes dedicated to this saying that, you know,

11:08 things need to change.

11:09 They must change.

11:09 I don't wanna raise a child in a world like this.

11:12 Like, and I just sat there watching it and I was like,

11:14 is it worth it to do that again, to feel like anything is actually changing?

11:18 And that was an awful, awful feeling.

11:20 Now obviously I'm sitting here, I'm doing this episode,

11:22 but it was like a gut punch that that was the way that I instinctively felt.

11:27 Now what really did stand out to me

11:28 about this assassination attempt and everything surrounding it,

11:31 unfortunately it still didn't shock me.

11:32 It was the shooter's manifesto that really stood out to me in this attempt,

11:36 because unlike so many other mass shootings and assassination attempts,

11:39 this was not some they, them having a mental breakdown,

11:42 you know, scribbling satanic verbiage in a journal, texting their trans lover,

11:47 like they're from the 18 hundreds like it was none of this, this manifest,

11:49 I dunno if you guys have read it,

11:51 I don't wanna read it here, but it was totally coherent.

11:53 It was jovial even.

11:55 He started it out by saying, hello everybody.

11:57 So sorry to be doing this, but alas, it must be done.

12:00 I mean, this man was a teacher.

12:01 He left a note at the end of the manifesto for a student saying,

12:04 I'm so sorry kids stay in school.

12:06 I don't want you to ever have to do this.

12:07 He thanked his parents, he said, I love you guys,

12:09 thank you for raising me so well.

12:11 He confidently and coherently laid out why he believed he had

12:15 to do this to save the country because of how awful Trump was.

12:17 And that was that.

12:18 It was very matter of fact.

12:19 Again, so incredibly coherent.

12:22 And this was so unbelievably chilling to me because

12:24 he just seemed like a normal guy, a normal teacher,

12:27 well educated man, somebody that any of us might

12:30 have known or might have even been friends with.

12:32 Like my mom.

12:32 Actually, this is just like awful timing.

12:34 But my mom was visiting family this week that she hadn't seen in a while,

12:37 family who once was not political in the slightest,

12:40 chose to stay out of it, you know, prioritise relationships and you know,

12:44 their passions in life over politics who

12:45 have now become completely and utterly radicalised.

12:49 Who confidently told my mother to her face that the only way

12:52 we were going to save the country was if somebody took out Trump.

12:55 And that's just one example.

12:56 I mean, Alex and I both know people you know from previous

12:59 times in our life who say the same thing confidently and publicly,

13:02 who were confident enough in these feelings to text and say

13:04 that they didn't even feel bad when Charlie Kirk was shot.

13:07 That they had no empathy for his children, for his family,

13:09 that they were actually happy about it because they felt like he deserved it.

13:12 Posted about it, texted about it in group chats, totally comfortable.

13:15 These are normal people, normal people from Middle America, frat pros.

13:20 They are not the freaking blue haired BDSM fetish loving authors,

13:24 writing trans children's books fighting for anarchy.

13:26 They're not the bald,

13:28 bearded booby Oxford University tutor that is going viral right now,

13:31 which you can see here like absolute freaks.

13:33 Like they are normal friends and family people

13:36 that we have grown up with that attended our wedding,

13:39 who sent us presents for our son,

13:41 all of whom have been successfully radicalised or the things that they say

13:46 in post aren't far off from what this man wrote in his manifesto.

13:49 And that is what stood out to me.

13:51 That is what was so unbelievably chilling.

13:53 And it is also just on a personal note, it is so disorienting.

13:56 Like, how can you call me when I am freshly postpartum and check in on me?

14:00 How can you send Alex and I presents for our newborn

14:03 baby son and then post on Facebook about how you think

14:06 Trump and all of MAGA and all of his voters should

14:08 be shot and do that all in the span of one week.

14:11 It is sickening.

14:12 And unfortunately, that's just the world that we live in.

14:14 It's so atrocious.

14:15 And then you go online and you're laughing at jokes about

14:18 all of it because I guess that's all we can do.

14:20 And like, and I, I'm sitting here and I wish I

14:22 had an answer or solution for where we go from here,

14:24 but I genuinely have no idea.

14:26 And I don't think most people do either.

14:27 Like I look around at my generation, I read y'all's comments,

14:30 the things that you DM me and send me,

14:32 and I just see us all existing in this chaos,

14:35 laughing at memes and making jokes because it's easier.

14:37 And honestly at this point, it is our normal, as gross and sickening as it is,

14:41 it is so commonplace now that again,

14:44 when I saw this news, I went, okay, another one.

14:47 And that is such an awful feeling like to bring

14:49 it back to what I was talking about at the beginning,

14:51 RFK, like, are we just all Kennedy's now?

14:53 So accustomed to horrifying, tragic, awful events that now when it's,

14:58 when it's all over, when consuming the news is over,

15:00 when the doom scrolling is done at 3:00 AM we

15:02 just shoot our family a text wondering what's for dinner,

15:04 wondering if brunch is still on for next Saturday,

15:07 because we just move through the horrific events because they're commonplace.

15:11 And so what do we do?

15:11 Do we try to fight back against the people who won't talk to us,

15:15 won't listen, won't reason want us dead and spit on the graves of our friends?

15:19 Or do we just say, I'm done and I, I'm disconnecting from it all.

15:22 I'm not gonna scroll, I'm not gonna consume it.

15:23 I'm not going to engage.

15:25 That's honestly, even though I, I do this show and I'm in media,

15:27 like it's a question that I wrestle with literally every

15:30 single day before I sit down in front of this microphone.

15:32 Now the good thing is,

15:32 and thank God for this, as many problems as our party has,

15:36 especially right now, as many criticisms as voters are expressing at the moment,

15:39 I am proud to say that when it comes to this, we

15:42 are not like the other side and I hope we never will be.

15:44 Our decency and morality generally is still intact.

15:49 So thank God for that.