Trump Heckled & Called "Pedophile Protector," Fox News Questions Trump on Iran Claims: A Closer Look

The president was heckled at a rally a few days after bombing at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, and now even Fox News is asking questions about the war in Iran. For more on this, it's time for A Closer Look. ♪♪ The president got a rough reception at the White House Correspondents' Dinner last week as even the crickets in attendance sat quietly, wondering when the jokes were going to start. Trump bombed harder than I did at my first open-mic night. In fairness, that's when I was still doing a ventriloquist act Mitch, tell everyone what your favorite hobby is. Being alive. That's right. Mitch loves being alive so much that every nine days, he proves he still is. Show him today's paper, Mitch. It wasn't even when he was telling jokes that things were going badly for Trump. He also had to sit there while reporters for The Wall Street Journal won an award for their story on Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein. The Journal's courageous reporting on President Trump's past relationship with financier Jeffrey Epstein triggered the release of the so-called Epstein files, thousands of documents that might otherwise have remained hidden from the public. And despite the president's threat of a lawsuit, the Journal published a story about a provocative letter to Epstein bearing President Trump's signature. That's how bad Trump's jokes were. The clip we just showed was the funniest thing to happen all night. Also, this award was presented before Trump had to go up and do his jokes. And as a comedian, I can tell you, that's not ideal. When you're about to go on stage, you want the emcee to say something positive, like, you know him from his hit Netflix special or he's performed on The Tonight Show, not, you've seen his name all over the Epstein files. In fact, one of the few laughs Trump did get during his speech came when he complained about the award. Wow, that was very beautiful, but this has not been an easy evening, all these awards. Do I have a say in those awards, all those awards? No, you don't get a say on the awards. And the winner for closest ties to Jeffrey Epstein is, oh, well, he's having quite a night. It's Donald Trump again. Oh, my God, I can't believe it. Another one, another Eppie. Thanks to Jeffrey, wherever you are, though, let's be honest, it's probably hell. I can say that. He was my friend. So the night did not go well for Trump, which is why he retreated to the safety and comfort of one of his MAGA rallies. At the Correspondents' Dinner, his weird, cult-like digressions were met with icy silence. But at his rally, you could at least count on some mild applause when he said weird sh-t like this. The people that count, those people love Trump. Because I've done more for you than your parents, okay? Your parents are good. I'm not gonna knock your parents, but I have been better to you than your parents. That I can tell you, and they would agree with me. Yeah, my parents would definitely agree. I mean, if Trump wasn't around and I had to do a closer look about my parents every night, this show would suck. And that's when I said, yeah, Dad, I know you have a crush on the lady from Yellowstone. Everyone knows. Seriously, if you're gonna say something as cult leader-coded as I've done more for you than your parents, at least dress the part. Give us the Jim Jones haircut and glasses. Trump said a lot of weird stuff at his rally and was clearly thrilled to be back in his element among his fellow weirdos, This is a great gentleman, heads up, transportation. He's also world championship tree climber, five-time champion tree climber. Can you imagine? I only hire these crazy people that do things like that. He was the lumberjack. He was the world champion going up a tree 100 feet, right? That's high. I saw an old picture of you doing it. I said, he's crazy. That's why I like him. That's right. The secretary of transportation used to be a competitive tree climber, the absolute slowest and worst mode of transportation. So next time you're on a highway full of potholes or an Amtrak that's late, just remember, the guy in charge doesn't care that much because he can always just hop from Redwood to Redwood. In fact, because this rally was theoretically supposed to address autoworkers in Michigan, Trump tried to talk about transportation, but as always, he did it in the weirdest way possible. I had a wonderful father, right? And he was a hard worker. He was in the real estate business. And for him, super luxury. This is the only way. He didn't want planes. They didn't have planes in those days, I don't think. Yeah, they didn't have planes back then. You have to remember, this was in the 1800s when Trump's father was born. He was best friends with Grover Cleveland and John D. Rockefeller. And wait, what the...am I talking about? Trump's father died in 1999. I'm pretty sure they invented planes If not, there definitely would have been an episode where Samantha had a three-way with the Wright brothers. Sometime there are two Mr. Wrights. Is that so wrong? Not a bad Samantha. Not a lot of places to use it, but not a bad one. It's important to remember that Trump's ideas about the history of transportation are all over the place. Remember, this is a guy who once claimed there were airports during the Revolutionary War. The Continental Army suffered a bitter winter of Valley Forge, found glory across the waters of the Delaware, and seized victory from Cornwallis of Yorktown. Our army manned the airport. It ran the ramparts. It took over the airports. It did everything it had to do. Yeah, we all remember the famous Battle of LaGuardia where Washington and his men crossed from Terminal A to Terminal B. And surprised the British Army that was camped out at the Shake Shack. So you think there were airports in the 1700s, but no planes until after your father died in 1999? Yeah, back then, there were no planes. It was just Cinnabon and Hudson News, and the soldiers couldn't text their wives because their phones died, and it was hard to find an outlet. I like how he's moving his head during that speech. Over the ramparts and the airports. So Trump needed a reset after the White House Correspondents Dinner and thought he was escaping into the comfort of his MAGA bubble. But once again, reality interfered when the president got heckled. It was causing tremendous problems for your jobs. But now all of that is changing because I placed historic tariffs on foreign producers and manufacturers, including a 25% tariff on foreign automobiles, something that no other president He's a communist. He's a communist. Man, if that heckler keeps it up, Trump might have to sit there while he wins an award. Also, if someone calls you a pedophile protector, calling them a communist is not a great comeback. You're covering up for sex traffickers! Oh, yeah? Well, you want the workers to own the means of production, so... Ya burnt. Trump just can't get away from this Epstein thing. You know the new Trump coin they're releasing? He okayed it before flipping it over and checking the other side. Son of a gun. So Trump bombed... Somebody should have told me they're two sides. So Trump bombed at the White House Correspondents Dinner and got heckled at his rally in Michigan. I have to assume things went more smoothly at the funeral for his friend Lindsey Graham, right? President Trump appearing to doze off during Senator Lindsey Graham's funeral at Washington National Cathedral. Some commenters say President Trump appeared to doze off while listening to another eulogy. Trump returned to his seat, at various points struggled to keep his eyes open for the remainder of the ceremony. There's a lot of times it's easy. It's easier to bow out. It's easier just to go a different way, the path of least resistance. But he stayed the course. Look, I don't know if he nodded off or not, but he definitely looks like he's fighting sleep hard. He looks like me after I've had three white claws at the beach. And look, I get that running the country is an exhausting job, but you're not sleeping enough, bro. You need to get eight hours instead of reposting A.I. Slop at 3 a.m. What can we do to keep you awake? Should we have that heckler follow you around just to wake you up whenever your eyes close? I think you deserve tremendous credit for the transformational aspect of our foreign policy. For the first time... Trump also seemed to miss some important information, like when his friend Sean Hannity got up and refuted some common mischaracterizations of Graham's legacy. -"Lindsey, he was often unfairly characterized as a warmonger. I've heard that false criticism a lot. It's not true. The truth was the opposite." Yeah, I don't know where people get this idea that Lindsey Graham was a warmonger, that he loved war, that he never saw a war he didn't like. It's ludicrous and offensive, and it's certainly not something the president would say -"He was extremely hawkish. I will tell you, he never saw a war that he didn't like." It was literally less than 20 minutes before Hannity spoke. So when Hannity said, I've heard that false criticism a lot," he meant 18 minutes ago at this podium from the president of the United States. People call Lindsey a warmonger. It's not true. They say he wanted to take over the airports during the Revolutionary War. It's ridiculous. They didn't have planes before 1999. Paul Revere spotted the British Of course, the war Graham very much liked was the war in Iran, which the president had either stopped or started or paused or unpaused or restarted or claimed is over more times than he's fallen asleep on television. And again, this week, he claimed Iran was begging him to make a deal. -"Iran took a beating over the last 14 days, and they asked us very nicely, please stop. Let's meet. And that's where we are right now." Of all the conversations that never happened, Iran called you up and said, please stop. Are you talking about a country you're at war with or your neighbor during a house party? Yeah, Terry called me up and said, please stop blasting Steely Dan. I said, sorry, no can do. It's only 3 a.m. Party's just getting started. So he called me a pedophile protector and hung up. Communist. When you heard the president, Iran called and said, please stop. Let's meet. And that is exactly what happened. We have video just in of air defense crews A statement from Central Command says it happened a bit more than two hours ago. Multiple ballistic missiles aimed, CENTCOM says, at U.S. forces in the Middle East. -"U.S. Central Command says that along with Saudi forces, it retaliated with strikes on Iran-backed militants in Iraq." What? So now this war involves Saudi Arabia and Iraq? I thought Iran called you and said, please stop, not keep the party going and invite all my neighbors. I should have known Trump was lying. He also said Iran doesn't have... -"Planes." So Trump's claim that Iran had asked to stop the war and make a deal was obviously not true. And even Fox News was confused. We hear that you're talking right now with leaders on Iran, but Iran has come out publicly and said, we're not talking to the U.S. We're going to pause as long as they're paused. We are talking a little while ago because... So could you tell me who you're talking to, Mr. President? For some reason, for some reason, we can be in the midst of a beautiful discussion, and they'll come out and say, we're not talking, or we didn't discuss nuclear. Well, that's all we discussed because they'll never have a nuclear weapon. They understand that. And we have had some very good talk. I mean, at this point, when Fox News asks, could you tell me who you're talking to, they might just mean them. Mr. President, do you recognize my voice? It's your friend Brian. You doing okay, bud? Even the president's biggest supporters are asking him where he's getting his information. This is like when your 80-year-old grandpa tells you he just opened a new account at a bank you've never heard of. A nice lady called and said, if I give her my Social Security number, I could win a free cruise. Grandpa, wait, what nice lady? From the bank. What bank, Grandpa? It's called the Bank of Iran. We had a nice phone call. Grandpa, who are you talking to? You should be nice to me. I've done more for you than your parents. Not only are we mired in exactly the kind of work Trump promised to keep us out of, but now it seems like there's no end in sight. Meanwhile, prices for everything are soaring, but don't worry, if you can't afford apples or bananas from the grocery store, you can just become a... World Championship tree climber. This has been A Closer Look.