Louis C.K. has given an insight into how Donald Trump operates behind the scenes, as the fallout from the GOP presidential candidate’s despicable comments about women into a hot mic continues.
“When you’re a star they let you do it,” he tells TV personality Billy Bush in the recording, which The Washington Post first reported Friday. “Grab them by the p***y. You can do anything.”
*Later that evening, C.K. appeared at a panel discussion at The New Yorker Festival with a story that captures the GOP presidential nominee’s remarkable selfishness and insatiable desire to satisfy his whims ― be it for material wealth or attention from attractive women ― he simultaneously feels no need to respect as human beings.
C.K. explained how, as a struggling comedian, he worked at a casino that Trump owned and witnessed its day-to-day operation.
“I saw this thing happening where buses would show up but with little old ladies. They would show up from places like Ohio and Tennessee to Atlantic City on a bus ― like some of them would’ve died on the way,” joked the comedian, who wrote a strong letter against Trump earlier this year.
“They have nothing! And they take that little, tiny nothing, and they turn it into chips,” C.K. said. “As an employee, he watched guests file into the casino and “pour buckets of money into his [Trump’s] machines.”
When Trump appeared at the casino, however, his demeanor was striking in its contrast to the environment around him. For one, he didn’t acknowledge any of the guests patronizing his business.
“It wasn’t like, ‘Hi, folks, thanks for coming!’ It wasn’t like that at all. That’s not what he represented; that’s what was fascinating to me. He didn’t say ‘thank you’ to anybody. He just walked around.”
Still, C.K. observed people around them greeting the brash businessman excitedly. He recalled Trump’s expression while riding the same elevator later. “It was just miserable,” C.K. said. Certainly, anyone who’s been vaguely following the presidential election can picture Trump’s expression:
The comedian’s time at the casino left on him a lasting impression of the former reality TV personality.
“They’re giving him everything. And he has everything, right? And they’re leaving on the same bus with nothing. They’re ruining their lives. And I saw this, like, a reverse charity,” he said, to laughs from the audience, before adding, “He needs it!”
“He has a $10 billion deficit in his heart, so if he doesn’t have that much money, he’s nothing. ... Now, of course, he’s running for president. So he was like, ‘Thank you for your money. Now, I need control over your lives.’”
At least it’s some kind of thank-you.
Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.
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