President Trump Welcomed By The Royal Family; Sen. Julian Castro (D-TX) Is Interviewed About His Presidential Run And His Talking Points About Certain Issues
CHRIS CUOMO, CNN HOST: Now that is something worthy of repeating. Thank you for watching. "CNN TONIGHT" with D. Lemon right now.</s>DON LEMON, CNN HOST: We were like, say what? Did he say if the president was more of a queen? You said more like a queen.</s>CUOMO: More like the queen, D. Lemon, the queen. Look at you. Don't hurt yourself laughing at your own jokes, D. Lemon.</s>LEMON: Well, that would be better -- I mean, that would be better too. I mean, I feel the same way you feel, sorry.</s>CUOMO: You are something. Listen, I'm just saying, I'm not a royal person, I'm not an Anglophile but I do think he could learn something, and he seems to love them. I just wonder if it's the right reason.</s>LEMON: I feel the same way about royalty. Like, I don't get the whole thing. I'm not enamored with it. I don't get it. I did enjoy going to Meghan Markle's wedding. I thought that was -- or at least covering it being over there. It was interesting. But I get it. I think it would be better, too, if he at least would show some dignity. He shows no dignity. He has no couth, he has no dignity, he has no class. Money does not buy class. If he did, he would not act the way he does. He would not -- he wouldn't be -- there wouldn't be a controversy about calling someone nasty. People with dignity don't do that. People with class don't do that. You don't say, omit her comments. Still, don't do it. You're the president of the United States, you should be above that. You shouldn't be calling people, like the mayor of London, what did he say, a total loser or whatever. I did that -- actually, I didn't do that. I knew people around me who did it in grade school. So, I just think it's --</s>CUOMO: It's so unlike where he grew up too. I have to tell you.</s>LEMON: Really?</s>CUOMO: We had A.G. Holder on, another Queens guy. Yes, they grew up in --</s>LEMON: Do you think --</s>CUOMO: But it was -- it was Queens. And I have to tell you, I'm telling you, you did not run your mouth like that. If you were the big man, if you were proud of yourself, if you felt good about yourself, if you were confident, you never punched down. You never punch down. That's why I let you say whatever you want. I'm not going to smack you around like I could because, you know, it's not what the bigger man does. He never acts like the bigger man. Don't tell me you're scrappy again.</s>LEMON: By the way, I'm not going to react to --</s>CUOMO: Don't react to because you're looking again --</s>LEMON: -- that you'd be looking for a reaction. I'm rubber and you're glue, I mean --</s>CUOMO: Whatever.</s>LEMON: You know what I'm saying.</s>CUOMO: What I'm saying is, he's going at the mayor of London. Why, why, why take that fight, you're president of the United States. One of you the most powerful man in the world.</s>LEMON: I don't even get it when he tweets about us. Like, why is he tweeting about us. Like, why would you, if I was president of the United States, I'd be like, who, that guy on CNN who has no fashion since in the toupee at 9 o'clock Eastern Time.</s>CUOMO: That's me you're talking about.</s>LEMON: Yes, exactly. I would be like, I don't care what he says about me. Who gives a crap? I'm president of the United States.</s>CUOMO: Chris Ruddy says that the president was standing next to the queen and start talking about coming on our somehow.</s>LEMON: yes, right next to the queen and he's like, go on the show. But then he disparages CNN because he gets there and he's like, wait a minute. He forgets the worldwide power of CNN, over 200 countries around the world, he likes to think that it's just like maybe the New York Post, which I'm not disparaging the New York Post, which is a local New York paper. He like to -- he probably thinks it's an American institution and then all of a sudden, he gets out of America and he is reminded of the power and the presence of CNN all over the world and he can't stand it. It drives him crazy.</s>CUOMO: So much so that he calls for the boycott of a company. You know, we've not seen an American president do that before.</s>LEMON: Yes.</s>CUOMO: There are certain examples of people doing things in wartime, but not like this. John Kennedy, President Kennedy did cancel his subscription to a newspaper because he was pissed off at what they were saying about him.</s>LEMON: Come on.</s>CUOMO: But to boycott a company 268,000 people and they'll say he's just joking. When does the president have to be start being responsible for his own mouth, you know.</s>LEMON: Yes. Everyone is always making excuses for him. He didn't mean to say that. This is what it meant. They call it Trump-splaining. And we're going to talk about that a little bit more. Just good, old fashioned gaslighting. Thank you, my brother. I'll see you -- did you get your boat fixed?</s>CUOMO: Nope.</s>LEMON: Nope.</s>CUOMO: You love that, though, didn't you? D. Lemon --</s>LEMON: No, I felt bad for you.</s>CUOMO: Right be up by me being towed.</s>LEMON: Can I tell you -- can I them what happened? So, we're coming back this weekend, and I'm driving back with my fiance and the dogs and we're like, is that Chris and he's got Sito (Ph) is pulling them into the harbor.</s>CUOMO: They were great. Loved Sito. The guy was great. It was amazing how he throws my boat around like it was in his hip pocket. But man, that's --</s>LEMON: I haven't had to use them yet.</s>CUOMO: It's not the biggest man in the room I met. I thought my son was going to jump into your boat. He was like, Don.</s>LEMON: No, no. It happens. Listen, it happens. And you should --</s>CUOMO: Sucks when it's you.</s>LEMON: I was not happy seeing that.</s>CUOMO: You were trying to be nice about it. You're like these are rich people problems.</s>LEMON: I can say that.</s>CUOMO: It feel a lot worse. It's not like I got cancer. This sucks right now. Anyway, do your show, pal.</s>LEMON: I'll see you later. Take it easy. Have a good night. This is CNN TONIGHT. I'm Don Lemon. You know, for a president who would like to believe that he is royalty this trip has got to be right up his alley, the pomp, the pageantry, the president toasted by the queen herself.</s>QUEEN ELIZABETH II, QUEEN OF THE UNITED KINGDOM: Ladies and gentlemen, I invite you all to rise and drink a toast to President and Mrs. Trump, to the continued friendship between our two nations and to the health, prosperity and happiness of the people of the United States.</s>LEMON: There may be no one this president would rather stand next to than the queen. He's been impressed by the British royals since he was six years old. In the "Art of the Deal," as a matter of fact, Donald Trump tells a story of his mother, his mother who was an immigrant from Scotland who worked as a housekeeper for a time, riveted by watching Queen Elizabeth's coronation on TV. So, it's no surprise that the president would like to believe that he is a big hit on this trip in particular. Tweeting that. "There were tremendous crowds of well-wishers," and that he didn't see any protests. OK, there's a reason for that, because the streets were cleared by security before the Trump motorcade passed through. But President Trump started his trip to the U.K. with insults. OK, in fact, before Air Force One even touched down the president tweeted an insult at London's mayor, calling Sadiq Khan a, quote, "stone cold loser" for being foolishly nasty to the visiting President of the United States. And speaking of nasty, there's more. Listen to what the president told Rupert Murdoch Sun's newspaper about Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Meghan, who's now the Duchess of Sussex --</s>DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Right.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Look, we've given her a different name. She can't make it because she's got maternity leave. Are you sorry to see her? Because she wasn't so nice about you during the campaign. I don't know if you saw that.</s>TRUMP: I didn't know that, no.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.</s>TRUMP: No, I didn't know that. No, I hope she's OK. I did not know that, no.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She said she'd move to Canada if you got elected. Turned out she moved to Britain.</s>TRUMP: Well, I think that, there are a lot of people moving here. So, what can I say? No, I didn't know that she was nasty.</s>LEMON: But you didn't hear him say that. The president would like you to believe that he didn't say what you heard him say about Meghan Markle, tweeting that "never called her nasty." He did. Putting his people out to make excuses and trying to rewrite history. That should be no surprise if they're trying to gaslight you, after all, this is a president who told you this.</s>TRUMP: And just remember what you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening.</s>LEMON: And the president isn't the only one, OK, trying to gaslight you. Trying to convince you to ignore what you've seen with your own eyes and what you've heard with your own ears. So, this is his son-in- law. I want you to listen to his son-in-law, also senior adviser as well, Jared Kushner in an interview with Axios.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez she calls, she has called President Trump a racist. Have you ever seen him say or do anything that you would describe as racist or bigoted?</s>JARED KUSHNER, SENIOR ADVISER TO PRESIDENT TRUMP: So, the answer is, no, absolutely not, you can't not be a racist for 69 years and then run for president and then be a racist. And what I'll say is that when a lot of the Democrats the president a racist I think they're doing a disservice to people who suffer because of real racists in this country.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Was birtherism racist?</s>KUSHNER: Look, I wasn't really involved in that.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I know you weren't. Was it racist?</s>KUSHNER: Like I said, I wasn't involved in that.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I know you weren't. Was it racist?</s>KUSHNER: Look, I know who the president is and I have not seen anything in him that is racist. So, again, I was not involved in that.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Did you wish he didn't do that?</s>KUSHNER: Like I said, I was not involved in that. That was a long time ago.</s>LEMON: Wow. That was a tap dance. I wasn't involved in that. Was birtherism racist? Of course, it was racist, Jared, you know it was, come on. It wasn't such a long time ago and, in fact, the president reportedly still believes the birther lie, behind closed doors, that's what we're told. Now, let's never forget, this is a president who said this about deadly white supremacist violence in Charlottesville.</s>TRUMP: People that were very fine people, on both sides. You had people in that group, excuse me, excuse me, I saw the same pictures as you did.</s>LEMON: The president who doubled down on it again and again. This is a man who danced around the question of whether he disavowed David Duke, the former leader of the Ku Klux Klan.</s>TRUMP: Well, just so you understand, I don't know what you think about David Duke, OK? I don't know anything about what you're even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists. So, I don't know. I mean, I don't know did he endorse me or what's going on? Because, you know, I know nothing about David Duke, I know nothing about white supremacists. So, you're asking me a question that I'm supposed to be talking about people that I know nothing about. Honestly, I don't know David Duke. I believe I've never met him, I'm pretty sure I didn't meet him. And I just don't know anything about him.</s>LEMON: There is an interview from, I think it was NBC, years before where he talks about David Duke. But he doesn't know anything about him. This is the president who called African nations shit hole countries, who called NFL players who kneeled to protest racial injustice sons of bitches. And I could go on and on, but I only have so much show. Jared Kushner is trying to gaslight you, the president is trying to gaslight you. Remember when he told me this?</s>LEMON: Are you racist?</s>LEMON: I am the least racist person that you have ever met, I am the least racist person.</s>LEMON: Are you bigoted in any way?</s>TRUMP: I don't think so. No, I don't think so.</s>LEMON: That's what the president wants you to believe, he wants to gaslight you. He's trying his very best to gaslight you. Are you letting him get away with it? Are you going to believe him or are you going to believe what you have seen with your own eyes and what you have heard with your own ears? Gaslighting. In the midst of all the royal pomp, circumstance, the president is really barging into British politics and breaking diplomatic norms and he's got another big day ahead of him. We're going to dig into that with Mehdi Hasan, Susan Glasser, and Michael D'Antonio, panel next.