Tim Miller

I was feeling embarrassed for him, but also for all of us.

What was your reaction to our president?

Yeah, definitely more embarrassed for all of us than for him.

The guy is absolutely shameless, and I've been...

thinking lately that the problem is not Donald Trump, right?

The fault lies not in our stars, but in ourselves.

And I keep saying, no, we have to remember that before this guy started beating Democrats, he first beat the institutional Republican Party.

And there's something that happened inside of the base of that party that made them susceptible and vulnerable to this vulgar authoritarianism.

And now, obviously, his spell has taken hold

across deeper pockets of the country.

But there's another interesting thing about last night, Tim.

You just said you had to watch this because of your job.

Vast majority of folk are not watching this stuff.

They're not paying attention the way that you and I are paying attention.

But last night, many were forced to because they were waiting for Survivor or whatever else they wanted to watch at 9 o'clock at night on TV or 6 o'clock on the West Coast.

And all of a sudden, this figure, who's kind of sort of in the pop culture all the time, and sometimes they're entertained by him,

He shows up and he's yelling and he's screaming at them without any of the negative charisma that he's had these last 10 years that keeps you watching all the time.

It actually felt like a really bad Trump impersonator.

It was humorless.

And even when he said Merry Christmas and Happy New Year at the very end, it sounded like he was putting a curse on us.