Rick Harrison on Trump’s personal apology and running for governor | Trending Now

0:01Hey everybody, it's Graham and it's Friday, which means today we get to bring you another trending clip. What you're about to listen to is trending this week on our Facebook page. Hope you enjoy. President Trump, how did you get to know him? Originally, he wanted me to be on The Apprentice. This is before he was president. I worked with some other Republicans here in town, and then Don Jr. called me up. I wanted to know if I'd do a little video to help out the Republican Party. And I started hanging out with Don Jr. And then met Eric, hung out with him. And then I started hanging out a little bit with Trump.

0:45Yeah. What do you enjoy about spending time with him? He is a brilliant guy. I mean, like, I know the press vilifies him and everything like that, but I've had dinner with him. He can tell you out of business deal, he did it in 1988. He can tell you the names of the eight different people that were in the deal, the percentage each one of them owned, how much each one of them made. I mean, his memory is that good. And you have to often think about it like this. I mean, he is the only president we've had probably at over 100 years with a net worth of less when he came out of office in 2020. He really does give a s***.

1:33Okay? I mean, like when my son died last year, he called me up the next day. I just think he's a good president. I mean, like the insanity with government's got to end. We can't be spending money like we have. If the debt keeps on going up, we will have maximum inflation. We will be Venezuela, Argentina. In the 1930s, Argentina had a per capita GDP of right around 80 % of the United States and was on track to beat us. Okay? Higher GDP than the U.S. per capita. And then they started socialism and big government. And like what happened? And it happens every time. I'm sure probably 49 % of your watchers don't like Trump, but I think he's doing a good job for our country.

2:16Well, but that's what makes a democracy great, right? Like everybody has their own political views and that's what makes America great. Even 10 or 15 years ago, you could have a, Republicans and Democrats could be friends. Now it's like there's this dividing line and they've just... Right, and both parties are responsible for that. Like, you know, most people are center slightly, or center slightly right. And political figures used to be able to compromise to do what was in the best interest of the electorate. And that shouldn't be a political scenario. I mean, I've had friends on both sides of the aisle and like back in the day, I was like, you know what, let's not even debate it, dude.

2:55Yeah, let's go bowling. Most memorable time you've ever had with Trump.

3:01When he called me up and apologized to me. For what? So this is kind of crazy. So this is in 2018. He's having a rally here in town for a guy running for Congress, someone running for Congress and Senate. And they wanted me to announce him at the rally. So I show up with my son, Jake, and my daughter, Serena. White House staff, hey, Rick, how's it going? Come on, come on this way. And we go to backstage, and, like, Secret Service goes, he's not on the list. And they're going, like, but it's Rick Harrison's friend. He's, like, not on the list. Doesn't matter. and I'm literally trying to call a U.S.

3:44Senator and some other people, some congressmen. I can't get a hold of anybody. Secret Service throws me into the public and I am getting mobbed and we had to leave. We could not stay there. And I'm pissed. We're on the freeway on the way home and Senator Heller calls me up and goes, Rick, so, so, so sorry. Just come back down to the convention center. It was a screw-up. It'll be fine when you get there. We're like, dude, all the roads are closed. I can't get back down there. The president's in town. They close the roads, you know? And like, you know, in a few little... Because I have no filter because I worked in a pawn shop my whole life.

4:21So we had to drive it home. I dropped Jake off. I'm so pissed off. I'm going to the bar. All right. Because I'm really, really mad. And it's kind of embarrassing, too, when you're in it. Yeah. Well, the thing that upset me was, like, my son. He's 16 years old. He told all of his buddies he's going to be the president. Da-da-da-da-da. So I get like a block from the house and then like, Senator Heller's number pops up on my truck. I'm like, and like Senator Heller knows I have no filter. So the first words out of his mouth is like, Rick, before you say a word, the president of the United States would like to talk to you.

4:55And the first words out of Trump's mouth were, Rick, I am really sorry, this is all my fault. Because my White House staff, they work for me, they screwed up, that makes it my fault. I'm sorry. They should have informed the Secret Service, so I'm sorry. Will you please come back down to the convention center? We'll try and make this happen. And you're not going to tell the president of the United States no. So I'm just like, yes, sir. I will do whatever I can to get there. The roads are closed, though. So I turn around, go back to the house, grab my son, Jake. He says, the president wants us to go to the convention center.

5:30Where do we get there? But it was funny. So we're driving down there, and then I got a weird phone number pop up on my truck there. Some guy goes, like, this is such and such with the Secret Service in D.C. I have the Secret Service guy in Vegas on location. We have the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Undersheriff. And all these people are on the phone. The big guy says, get you the convention center. Where are you at? What are you driving? I'm saying, when I'm driving, I have a gray raptor. I'm going down Desert Inn right now. He goes, like, where are you at? I'm going, like, I'm right at Durango.

6:03So when you get to Decatur, whether the light's red or green, stop, flash your headlights. So we literally, the light is green. We've got people honking at me. I stop. And all of a sudden, like eight cop cars that come out of nowhere, I get a phone call. Follow us. And I got my son there going like, Dad, who do you know? I'm like, I guess I'm kind of important. And they got us to the convention center. My son got his picture with the president. Didn't you just open for him recently? Yeah, recently, yeah. How was that? They have done this to me multiple times. Okay, it's not the president's fault.

6:35It's like the people running these rallies. You know, they ask me, hey, you want to come to the rally? Sure. Show up at the rally like, oh, you're speaking in five minutes.

6:44Oh, okay. In the immortal words of Mark Twain, it usually takes two or three weeks to prepare for an impromptu speech. Do the nerves get going? No, I just like, f*** it, man. Yeah. I've done it plenty of times. You have implied interest before in being governor. I thought about it. Any political ambition on your end? Give it a few years, I might. You know what, I would... You know, I know I can't completely change the world, but I would like to leave it in a better place. Just change it a little bit, to make it a little bit better. I do a lot of work with charity work and stuff like that. I'm proud of that.

7:28So maybe. I think I do a good job at it. And that's this week's fan favorite. To see more popular videos, go to our YouTube channel at youtube.com slash Graham Benzinger.