“Daily Show” correspondent Jordan Klepper on Thursday detailed a shocking second with a Donald Trump supporter that didn’t result in any main breakthroughs, however did result in a “softening” in relations.
Klepper has spent years trolling the MAGA trustworthy outside of Trump’s rallies, the place Trump supporters usually troll him proper again. In a clip posted on-line, Klepper defined how a Trump supporter recognized for carrying a swimsuit with a picture of brick wall on it began “hounding” him and his crew exterior a rally in Wisconsin final 12 months.
“He was live-streaming, and he was saying, ‘fuck these guys, don’t speak to those guys, these guys are faux information,’” Klepper recalled. “And to be honest, he’s proper.”
Klepper stated the Trump supporter even tried to arrange a digicam to catch him and his crew in a “gotcha” second.
“It was a protracted, hellish day of filming,” he stated, including {that a} snowstorm made all of it worse and cancelled his flight residence. He went to the airport the next day to search out his new flight was 3.5 hours late ― and to see that the person within the brick swimsuit was ready for a similar flight.
“He appears to be like at me and he says, ‘do you need to speak?’” Klepper recalled. “And clearly I’m like, ‘fuck no, I don’t wanna speak.’ It is a nightmare.”
However they did speak, and so they had an open dialog as they realized about one another.
“There wasn’t a center floor that we discovered, however there was a softening in these relations,” Klepper stated. “I’d prefer to let you know like that Brick Go well with Man was loopy, and he’s not. He was a wise man.”
They spoke for 3.5 hours ― and ultimately, Klepper bought the person within the brick swimsuit to giggle.
“And to me, that’s the entire thing,” Klepper stated. “He wasn’t offended. He didn’t take it personally. He discovered humor in that second, and I discover optimism in that.”
The person in query, who goes by “Brick_Suit” on X, shared Klepper’s video on his feed.
“It’s an excellent story that’s price a pay attention,” he wrote, then added a postscript:
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