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Just made me think, like, it is a truman show operation. it is a world that revolves around telling him that everyone loves him. >> yeah, but i think that goes back to trump tower, if anyone he sends journalists handwritten notes to say thank you. i think it's more about making people feel special, playing to people's ego because he likes his own ego played to. i didn't read so much into that. i do wonder as well how upset he was today if at all or if there is a part of him who thinks this is like pro wrestling, he understood what it was like when he was in the ring with vince mcmahon and shav...

The game, so donald trump had last night an unscripted moment in front of the approximately 55% of the country that is not a fan. [ crowd chanting "lock him up" ] >> joining me now to discuss the president's relationship to the majority of the country that disapproves of him, washington correspondent for "new york" magazine, olivia nuzzi. a great story titled "the zombie campaign" out this week. sam seder. hosts the majority report and an msnbc contributor. since you're here, sam, let me start with you. it's striking. all politicians have managed events. >> right. >> part of being a politician...

>> that line got some chuckles and eye rolls, but it's probably as good a description of the core of trumpism as anything. it really is not an overstatement to say when the president stands before a crowd and incites it to chant "send her back" or the nazi term for the lying press. >> that's right. >> lugen pressa. or when trump traffics in that, he is quite literally drawing from the well of the worst, most dangerous impulses that humans have in politics. and i think it's kind of important to remember that. those are the stakes of what our politics are at this moment. does this darkness conti...

Sam, the president had a rally again tonight and it was insane for me to see not wrongly the news cycle, will the racist president incite the mobs at his rally to chant racist things tonight as a story that was really sort of an open question. >> yeah, well, a legitimate question. you know, i think my answer would probably be probably. if it's not going to be tonight, it will be in a week from now or two weeks from now or three weeks from now. it always gets back to me to those who have enabled him, really enabled him. and, you know, i think he's been able to tap into something, but i think it...

>> well, yeah. >> they view it as they're going to try to win with 46% again. what that means is they have to drive down whoever is on the other side as much as possible. >> yeah. strap in, baby, because this is beyond a bumpy ride coming up. this is going to reach new depths. there are more bottoms to hit. to sam's point, yeah, the president may behave himself tonight and may try to hush the crowd and probably has passed the word from the campaign, let's not do the chant thing tonight because everyone is watching, but he's right. it will happen again. it will be encouraged further on down the...