WEEKEND WAS ALL ABOUT THE BRUTAL STRUGGLE FOR POWER AND WARRING

HOUSES.

OF COURSE, I'M TALKIN' ABOUT PETE BUTTIGIEG'S FOX NEWS TOWN

HALL!

( APPLAUSE ) MAYOR PETE SAT DOWN WITH CHRIS

WALLACE, WHO PRESSED HIM ON HOW HE'S GOING TO RESPOND TO TRUMP'S

ATTACKS -- >> HE IS ALREADY MAKING FUN OF

YOUR NAME.

HE'S MAKING FUN OF YOUR LOOKS.

HOW WOULD YOU HANDLE INSULTS AND ATTACKS AND TWEETS AND THAT?

>> TWEETS ARE-- I DON'T CARE.

( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) >> STEPHEN: AW, SO HAPPY FOR

( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) >> STEPHEN: AW, SO HAPPY FOR

YOU, PETE, THAT YOU DON'T HAVE TO CARE ABOUT TRUMP'S TWEETS.

UNLIKE YOU, SOME OF US NEED TO READ THEM OUT LOUD EVERY NIGHT

JUST TO FEED OUR FAMILIES!

( LAUGHTER ) HE SEEMS VERY NICE.

BUT BOOT-EDGE-EDGE THE DOES UNDERSTAND

WHY THE TWEETS GET SO MUCH COVERAGE.

>> I GET IT, IT IS MESMERIZING.

IT IS HARD FOR ANYBODY TO LOOK AWAY.

ME TOO.

IT IS THE NATURE OF GROTESQUE THINGS YOU CAN'T LOOK AWAY.

( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) >> STEPHEN: HE'S RIGHT-- TRUMP

OPERATES ON THE SAME PRINCIPLE AS AN OLD-TIME CARNIVAL FREAK.

(AS CARNIVAL BARKER) "STEP RIGHT UP AND SEE THE

INCREDIBLE SMALLHANDED BOY, THE MAN BORN WITH A SHRUNKEN HEART,

A HOLE WHERE HIS CONSCIENCE SHOULD BE, AND GROTESQUE

INSECURITY TATTOOED ON HIS MONSTROUS FACE!

WATCH AS HE UNHINGES HIS JAW AND SWALLOWS OUR REPUBLIC IN A

SINGLE BITE!

NO PHOTOGRAPHS, NO PAPIER MACHE, HE IS ALIVE!"

( LAUGHTER ) BUTTIGIEG, GORILLA, GORILLA,

GORILLA, BACK IN TIME!

( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) PLEASE, PLEASE, NO BREAST

FEEDING MOTHERS.

YOUR MILK MAY CURDLE IN THE TEET!

RAFF LAUGH.

>> Jon: WHOA, WHOA.

WOW, LEVELS OF ENGAGEMENT.

( LAUGHTER ) >> Stephen: BUTTIGIEG DID

CRITICIZE THE RHETORIC OF SOME FOX NEWS HOSTS,

BUT DID HIS BEST TO REACH OUT TO REGULAR FOX VIEWERS.

>> I ALSO BELIEVE, EVEN THOUGH SOME OF THE HOSTS ARE NOT ALWAYS

THERE IN GOOD FAITH, A LOT OF PEOPLE TUNE INTO THIS NETWORK

WHO DO IT IN GOOD FAITH.

>> Stephen: WHILE OTHERS ARE DONALD TRUMP.

WHO RAGE TWEETED BEFORE THE TOWN HALL EVEN STARTED --

"HARD TO BELIEVE THAT @FOXNEWS IS WASTING AIRTIME ON MAYOR

PETE, AS CHRIS WALLACE LIKES TO CALL HIM.

FOX IS MOVING MORE AND MORE TO THE LOSING (WRONG) SIDE IN

COVERING THE DEMS.

THEY GOT DUMPED FROM THE DEMOCRATS BORING DEBATES, AND

THEY JUST WANT IN.

THEY FORGOT THE PEOPLE DOT DOT DOT DOT DOT DOT DOT DOT DOT WHO

GOT THEM THERE."

(AS TRUMP) "WHAT HAPPENED TO LOYALTY, FOX

NEWS?

YOU'RE THROWING ME UNDER THE BUS LIKE SOME KIND OF JEFF SESSIONS,

KIRSTJEN NIELSEN, STEVE BANNON, BILL SHINE, SEAN SPICER, REINCE

PRIEBUS, H.R. MCMASTER, AND THE REST!"

( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) ( PIANO RIFF )

AND TRUMP TWEETED ON: "CHRIS WALLACE SAID, "I ACTUALLY THINK,

WHETHER YOU LIKE HIS OPINIONS OR NOT, THAT MAYOR PETE HAS A LOT

OF SUBSTANCE... FASCINATING BIOGRAPHY."

GEE, HE NEVER SPEAKS WELL OF ME" (AS TRUMP)

"COME ON, CHRIS, ANYTHING MAYOR PETE CAN DO, I CAN DO BETTER.

I CAN MARRY A GUY-- I'LL MARRY "TWO" GUYS!

THEN, I'LL LEAVE 'EM BOTH FOR A YOUNGER, HOTTER GUY."

( LAUGHTER ) I'LL DO IT.

DON'T PUSH ME.

I WILL DO IT IN A MINUTE.

I WILL!