Brett Cooper — RFK Jr. Was Hungry And Dana White Had The Time Of His Life

- So on Saturday night, as I'm sure you guys know by now, shots rang out in the lobby of the Hilton Hotel where the White House correspondence dinner and also about 15 other correspondence dinner events were taking place. And what made me so sad in the immediate aftermath of seeing all of this unfold on social media was that I was not even surprised in this slightest. I wasn't shocked, like this was just a normal Saturday in the Trump administration, a normal Saturday in 2026.

Now, as I was watching all of the content come out of this, seeing everybody's firsthand reports in the videos, some people at the event seemed, you know, similarly unfazed and then the memification of the event just further drives this point home. Like we've just been sitting on the internet making jokes about this for days. And that's because this assassination culture that I've sat on the show and talked about countless times now that we've all been talking about it, is no longer extremism.

It is commonplace. It is literally commonplace in our culture. And while I think the people online often make jokes to cope about things these days, I feel like they're just making jokes because it all feels like it is just a bad joke that we can't escape. And so that my friends, is what we're gonna talk about today. I wanna thank you guys so much for being here and supporting the show and the channel. Please let me know in the comments how you guys are feeling after this assassination attempt Trump's response.

All of it I wanna hear, I'll be in the comments responding to you guys. Alright, so what I am trying to say here is that after I got over my initial fears for the people that I know who were sitting in that room, hoping the president and the first lady were okay, obviously I was laying awake in bed, nursing my baby, laughing at memes, and I wanted to slap myself. Like I was scrolling and scrolling like an hour and I was like, Brett, what are we doing here?

This is just insane. But also objectively the content that people were churning out about different reactions, jokes about what people were doing at the correspondence dinner, like objectively that content was funny. And I mean the jokes really wrote themselves in a lot of cases, like a four example, just to give you one. Like as everybody was ducking for cover and the influencer journalists were, you know, taking videos of themselves under tables, taking 0.5, selfies, all of the things Robert F.

Kennedy Jr. Was sitting upright. He was stoic as everything was unfolding, he was sitting up straight watching it all take place and people were commenting and going, oh yeah, you know, this is just an average day for somebody in the Kennedy family. Like somebody else said, he has seen crazier shit than this on a Tuesday afternoon on a family vacation, not one single farm, fresh, organic fuck given. This next comment was also incredible.

This is something I was chuckling about, you know, at 3:00 AM in the dark, this guy said his brain worm mapped the trajectory of all of the shots and told him he was safe. No need to fuck for cover. Another person replied to leading report who said that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Was seen not ducking for cover. And this guy replied and said, no need, he has his lucky raccoon penis on him. Like I wouldn't put it past him.

He's got like a rabbit foot hanging from his shirt or something. But the thing is like it wasn't even that the internet was ascribing all of this to him, like his son. Soon after everything transpired, he boasted a screenshot of the Kennedy Family Group chat. Everyone was asking, you know, are you and Cheryl okay, is everybody good? What's happening? And this is how RFK Junior replied, he just said, I'm really hungry.

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He simply continued eating his salad. As you can see right here he is watching everything transpire. He's poking at his food. Apparently the salad was brought up, so I understand I would not have stopped eating either. Apparently he, it was a new tux, he's kind of a germophobe. He didn't wanna get on the floor is what he told the press after the fact. But like guys, this is the culture that we are living in in 2026.

We are watching a nonchalant assassination attempt take place, casual, continuing on eating their salad. Like after Trump was shot in Butler, we had a movement that was reignited. We had people on the left who contributed to all this violent rhetoric who suddenly woke up and realised what they had done. There was empathy and it felt restored on both sides. That was when people, you know, came together across the aisle in Unity to try to make the country better.

That was in large part because of what we all witnessed on July 14th. And now like two years later, well we gotta make sure we finish our salads. The barta is not going to eat itself. Like now the journalists are filming vain tiktoks under tables, they're evacuating, but not before they steal the leftover alcohol that was still sitting on the table, as you can see right here, like just watch this clip for example. It's just unreal.

So what you have here are journalists doing more 0.5 selfies, holding up all the champagne they're taking, and then watch this woman, this is the one that's really gone viral. She's in the fur coat, whoop, picks up a bottle of champagne, that's not enough. She then gets the bottle of wine. Like that clip in and of itself is just insane. But you actually need to hear what the news, what the reporter is saying over these clips as they're playing on television.

Listen to this, it's tragically, we've covered shootings, we've covered all sorts of scary and terrible events, tragic shootings, scary terrible events. And the journalists are like, let, let get my, let me get my booze before I leave. I mean, it's just like, it's insane per usual. It feels like a scene out of a sitcom. And I promise I'm going somewhere with this. I'm not just here to react to all these clips because while we have all of this footage of people being totally chill, totally nonchalant, some of those same journalists are now going on the news 24 hours later and talking about how they are actually recovering from trauma.

Watch this. - My sources, my contacts, my friends who were in the room with me, they're processing the traumatic stress. And I know for me personally, the memories have been flooding back today I remembered talking to House speaker Mike Johnson two minutes before all this went down. And then I remembered as we were crouching on the ground, hearing people shouting, get down and wondering if there was some assailant who was loose in the ballroom.

So those memories are coming back, the - Trauma, it is flooding back. Like, did you remember taking the champagne? Did you remember the selfies, the fit checks? I mean it's just, it's just absurd. And I'm not trying to downplay something. It was obviously a tragic and awful, terrifying event. Especially if you are somebody who is in that room, you're hearing the shots ring out, you have no idea where they're coming from.

You have no idea if a shooter is being neutralised. Apparently there was no service in the room, nobody could contact anyone and like that, that is awful. It objectively is tragic. But we also have to admit the ridiculousness of watching all of this unfold live and seeing how many people were being so cavalier about it all to now it being trauma 24 hours later on CNN. And if we are being truly and devastatingly honest about this, I feel like a lot of people are just unfazed like, like take Dana White for example.

He was in attendance at the correspondence dinner and apparently using words from his own mouth, this was basically the coolest night of his life. Like he walked out of that room, he talked to the press and he said this, - It started getting noisy tables getting flipped over, guys running in with guns and they were screaming, get down. I didn't get down. It was fucking awesome. I literally took every minute of it in and, and it was, it was a pretty, pretty crazy unique experience.

- I mean, this man, it looks like he just watched the greatest fight of his life. He was like, I'm not getting down. I see SWAT teams coming in. This is sweet. He can't stop smiling because of how epic it was. And he is not lying. Like this was him in the room. Look at this, zooming in on him, this man is so happy. And that is not the only clip. Him still in that room, there are clips now that are circulating of him, like sending up, looking around, pulling out his phone, trying to take a picture.

Like, I mean he truly is just taking it all in. It's a normal Saturday night. He basically looks like the Andy surprised gift from Parks and Rec. And then just to top it all off, to drive this point home of people online, like I showed you at the beginning with the comments of the jokes on RFK Jr, the jokes are all rolling. Like whether it is about him, whether it is about Dana White, the journalist selfies, the fact that the Mentalist was the performer and he was, you know, predicting Caroline Levitt's baby name, but did not predict that there was an assassin waiting out in the lobby.

And like what I'm trying to say here is I don't feel like this is a, if you're not laughing, you're crying situation anymore. I feel like people just wanna laugh. Like it's all just a joke. It's ridiculous that security wasn't tighter at an event like this. It is insane that they arrest a wannabe Trump assassin essentially every single month. It is insane that it feels like after years of this nothing changes. We're still doing the same thing.

So no wonder people are making jokes. It's like, well what else are we gonna do? At this point? Like I was racking my brain this morning before I sat down to film. I almost didn't do this episode because my genuine feeling, I had like such a black pill moment. I was like, genuinely, what is the point? I had been scrolling online all weekend, all morning, watching people react to old Hassan clips where they call for Trump and mag and conservatives to be, you know, killed in the streets.

- Yeah, kill them a result. Kill those motherfuckers and murder those motherfuckers in the street. Let the streets, let the streets soak in their fucking red capitalist bloods, dude. And you actually wrote about this and, and it was a great video where you talked about, you know, someone has to do it. See, when I say that, everyone knows exactly what I mean. - People condemning Jimmy Kimmel for his disgusting joke about Melania being an expectant widow.

- Our first lady Melania is here, look at so beautiful Mrs. Trump. You have a glow like an expectant widow, - SNL just a couple of weeks ago joking about Trump getting shot at the Kennedy center, like all of these types of videos. - And I think that's cool that the president is going to the theatre. I mean, what's the worst that could happen? - I mean, it is all disgusting and I know why people are reposting them and reacting to them.

Like I've sat on this show on my old show, I've reacted to video after video just like that. I've done entire episodes dedicated to this saying that, you know, things need to change. They must change. I don't wanna raise a child in a world like this. Like, and I just sat there watching it and I was like, is it worth it to do that again, to feel like anything is actually changing? And that was an awful, awful feeling.

Now obviously I'm sitting here, I'm doing this episode, but it was like a gut punch that that was the way that I instinctively felt. Now what really did stand out to me about this assassination attempt and everything surrounding it, unfortunately it still didn't shock me. It was the shooter's manifesto that really stood out to me in this attempt, because unlike so many other mass shootings and assassination attempts, this was not some they, them having a mental breakdown, you know, scribbling satanic verbiage in a journal, texting their trans lover, like they're from the 18 hundreds like it was none of this, this manifest, I dunno if you guys have read it, I don't wanna read it here, but it was totally coherent.

It was jovial even. He started it out by saying, hello everybody. So sorry to be doing this, but alas, it must be done. I mean, this man was a teacher. He left a note at the end of the manifesto for a student saying, I'm so sorry kids stay in school. I don't want you to ever have to do this. He thanked his parents, he said, I love you guys, thank you for raising me so well. He confidently and coherently laid out why he believed he had to do this to save the country because of how awful Trump was.

And that was that. It was very matter of fact. Again, so incredibly coherent. And this was so unbelievably chilling to me because he just seemed like a normal guy, a normal teacher, well educated man, somebody that any of us might have known or might have even been friends with. Like my mom. Actually, this is just like awful timing. But my mom was visiting family this week that she hadn't seen in a while, family who once was not political in the slightest, chose to stay out of it, you know, prioritise relationships and you know, their passions in life over politics who have now become completely and utterly radicalised.

Who confidently told my mother to her face that the only way we were going to save the country was if somebody took out Trump. And that's just one example. I mean, Alex and I both know people you know from previous times in our life who say the same thing confidently and publicly, who were confident enough in these feelings to text and say that they didn't even feel bad when Charlie Kirk was shot. That they had no empathy for his children, for his family, that they were actually happy about it because they felt like he deserved it.

Posted about it, texted about it in group chats, totally comfortable. These are normal people, normal people from Middle America, frat pros. They are not the freaking blue haired BDSM fetish loving authors, writing trans children's books fighting for anarchy. They're not the bald, bearded booby Oxford University tutor that is going viral right now, which you can see here like absolute freaks. Like they are normal friends and family people that we have grown up with that attended our wedding, who sent us presents for our son, all of whom have been successfully radicalised or the things that they say in post aren't far off from what this man wrote in his manifesto.

And that is what stood out to me. That is what was so unbelievably chilling. And it is also just on a personal note, it is so disorienting. Like, how can you call me when I am freshly postpartum and check in on me? How can you send Alex and I presents for our newborn baby son and then post on Facebook about how you think Trump and all of MAGA and all of his voters should be shot and do that all in the span of one week.

It is sickening. And unfortunately, that's just the world that we live in. It's so atrocious. And then you go online and you're laughing at jokes about all of it because I guess that's all we can do. And like, and I, I'm sitting here and I wish I had an answer or solution for where we go from here, but I genuinely have no idea. And I don't think most people do either. Like I look around at my generation, I read y'all's comments, the things that you DM me and send me, and I just see us all existing in this chaos, laughing at memes and making jokes because it's easier.

And honestly at this point, it is our normal, as gross and sickening as it is, it is so commonplace now that again, when I saw this news, I went, okay, another one. And that is such an awful feeling like to bring it back to what I was talking about at the beginning, RFK, like, are we just all Kennedy's now? So accustomed to horrifying, tragic, awful events that now when it's, when it's all over, when consuming the news is over, when the doom scrolling is done at 3:00 AM we just shoot our family a text wondering what's for dinner, wondering if brunch is still on for next Saturday, because we just move through the horrific events because they're commonplace.

And so what do we do? Do we try to fight back against the people who won't talk to us, won't listen, won't reason want us dead and spit on the graves of our friends? Or do we just say, I'm done and I, I'm disconnecting from it all. I'm not gonna scroll, I'm not gonna consume it. I'm not going to engage. That's honestly, even though I, I do this show and I'm in media, like it's a question that I wrestle with literally every single day before I sit down in front of this microphone.

Now the good thing is, and thank God for this, as many problems as our party has, especially right now, as many criticisms as voters are expressing at the moment, I am proud to say that when it comes to this, we are not like the other side and I hope we never will be. Our decency and morality generally is still intact. So thank God for that.