Uh, and that also turns out to be true

between Trump and most Republican leaders.

Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud.

I'm very concerned for our country if we nominate him.

This is gonna be a disaster for the Republican party.

He's very dangerous for the country,

I think he's very dangerous for the party.

Donald Trump, as president, I believe, would be a disaster.

This party does not prey on people's prejudices.

Donald Trump does not represent me,

and he does not represent my party.

Donald Trump does not represent the, uh, Republican party.

He doesn't represent the Republican party or its values.

Wow.

That's, like, new stepdad levels of hate.

Like, (bleep) you, Donald,

you'll never be my dad... I mean, nominee!

I get-I get why the party's so upset

that Trump's heading towards their nomination, you know?

Because he says and does some pretty out-there things.

Uh, but along with their concerns, surely Republicans

are asking themselves how they got to the point

where there's a possibility that the next face of their party

also happens to be the face of a butternut squash

who wished on a shooting star

and became a real, live boy.

Like, in other words, they must be asking themselves,

"How the (bleep) did we get here?"

And tonight we take a look at exactly that

in our ongoing coverage, How the (bleep) We Got Here.

♪ ♪

(cheering, applause)

So, this is the big question for Republicans:

why is their voter base going for someone like Donald Trump?

A man they say isn't even a true Republican.

But isn't he?

Well, let's start with what's pretty much his central message.

This country is a mess.

You don't hear good news about this country.

We just never win.

We don't win with the military.

We don't win with trade.

The country is going to hell in a handbasket.

We have to rebuild our country.

We're like a third-world country.

Uh, n-no, Donald Trump,

you're not like a third-world country.

I'm from a third-world country.

You wish you were like a third-world country.

Yeah. Talk to me when ostriches

chase you on the highway.

That's the (bleep) that goes down in my country, my friend.

Hashtag third world problems.

(cheering, applause)

So, even though the U.S. has the world's strongest military,

the lowest unemployment in nearly a decade,

and more people covered by health insurance

than ever before, Donald Trump still thinks

America is in grave decline.

And if he's not a true Republican,

why are there so many Republicans

who've been saying the exact same thing?

There may be no turning back for America.

Our country's on a very bad course.

President Obama's placed us on a path of decline.

Our enemies don't fear us, and our allies

don't believe that we can be relied on.

I think we're on the verge of losing it all.

President Obama's mortgaging our future.

He's turning the American dream into the European nightmare.

Oh, the European nightmare.

That's the one where my penis turns into a baguette

and then a mime eats it.

That is a...

Well, that's-that's more of a dream than a nightmare,

now that I... now that I look at it,

that's, uh, that's not so bad.

So, so, Donald Trump's main message is basically

the same doom and gloom a lot of Republicans

have been preaching for years.

But they're saying he's not the kind of candidate they want.

So, what kind of candidates

have Republicans been looking for?

We need someone who's truly gonna be outside Washington.

You need an outsider that will walk into Washington, DC.

We need people from outside of Washington.

Government of the insiders,

by the insiders, for the insiders.

We are governed by a permanent political class.

I'm not of the Washington scene.

I'm the only guy that hasn't spent time in Washington.

Yes, yes, and congratulations, Mitt Romney,

'cause you still haven't spent any time in Washington.

Perfect record, yeah.

Who's more of an outsider to Washington than Donald Trump?

And honestly, the more you look at it,

you know, the more it feels like Trump and the Republicans

are in one of those romantic comedies

where they still don't realize

that they're the perfect match for each other.

Think about it.

The GOP has always found one thing very sexy,

and that's a man who handles his business.

Washington needs to be run like a business.

I'm a businessman.

We've got a president today who's never run a business.

I have a huge business and a great business.

Put more of our fellow Americans back to work.

Real solutions to grow the economy to create jobs.

I love creating jobs, I've done so many jobs,

tens of thousands of jobs.

Yeah. I'm not saying the GOP's a gold digger,

but they ain't messin' with no broke people

or, uh, black people.

Why can't the GOP see this? I don't understand.

Even though Republicans think Trump's all wrong for them,

they're a match made in heaven.

They both think America is crashing,

they share a love of outsider businessmen,

they could practically finich... finish each other's, uh,

xenophobic sentences.

They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime.

They're rapists.

They weigh 130 pounds, and they've got calves

the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds

of marijuana across the desert.

I will build a wall. It'll be a great wall.

Drugs will not pour through that wall.

Drug and human smuggling, home invasions, murder.

Complete the dang fence.

You can say what you want about the Koran.

You can say what you want-- there's something there.

You have to be monitoring Muslim communities.

Uh, that's-that's where the threat is gonna come from.

Total and complete shutdown

of Muslims entering the United States.

Ah, so much xenophobic hatred.

♪ Ivory and ivory ♪

♪ Together we hate in harmony ♪

And by the way, Republicans, uh,

there's no need to be so scared of foreigners.

We're-we're just like bumblebees.

Yeah, we're way more afraid of you than you are of us.

All right? Come on, GOP.

The man checks every box. And I get...

I get that you may not trust him, you know,

since he's always saying things that aren't remotely true,

like how Mexico's gonna pay for a wall

or how he still owns a steak company

or how his hair just naturally does that.

Uh, but what could be more Republican

than bending the truth a little?

You're asking us to trust

turning power over to the government

when there clearly are people in America

who believe in-in establishing euthanasia.

The president thinks we ought to take away

Second Amendment rights of people

who have never broken a law.

There is this attempt to gradually ease Sharia law

and the Muslim faith into our government.

The president of the United States will be taking a trip

over to India that is expected to cost the taxpayers

$200 million a day.

Uh, I'm sorry, what?

Have you ever been to India?

You couldn't spend $200 million a day if you tried.

Everything's cheap there, everything.

I bought the Taj Mahal for, like, 40 bucks. Yeah.

And it came with a rice pudding I didn't even ask for.

They just gave it to me. They just gave it to me.

(stammers) That's not even the point.

Trump can't help it if he gets some things wrong now and then.

Like, he speaks from the hip. He's not like

these scripted politicians, which is another thing

the GOP has always seen as arousing.

I think we've had, uh, too much political correctness.

Political correctness is killing this country.

Now, more than ever, in America,

we need a commander in chief who will tell it like it is!

Somebody has to come out and tell it like it is.

I'm not reading the teleprompter.

I'll leave that up to President Obama.

I'd love to use a teleprompter. I'd have one here, one here,

and I'd go like this, "Ba-ba, ba-ba, ba-ba."

(laughter)

Is this Trump's way of telling us he can't read?

What...

what are those words?

"Ba-ba, ba-ba, ba-b..."

Republicans, open your eyes.

Donald Trump is the man of your dreams.

You can deny it all you want,

but you can't mess with destiny.

And the sooner you realize that

and the sooner you see that what you think is passionate hatred

-is just really passion, -♪ ♪

the sooner you see that,

the sooner you can get it on.

My advice, Republicans:

get a convention room,

take hold of Trump's tiny little hand,

and then, when the time is right,