Samantha Bee says Donald Trump wants to make America 1968 again, so he can be Nixon 2.0

As the Democrats kicked off their own chaotic national convention on Monday, Samantha Bee took a last, profanity-tinged look at last week's Republican National Convention. The theme of the GOP convention was that the world is scary and Hillary Clinton's Democrats are trying to divide the nation, a leitmotif Bee found both puzzling and ironic. "It takes a lot of balls to call your opponents divisive when your party is tearing itself in half because you nominated a sociopathic 70-year-old toddler," she said on Monday's Full Frontal.

If you watched last week's Republican convention, you might remember that Donald Trump was merely the last person on stage to portray a dark, broken, dystopian America — but it sounds much scarier when Rudy Giuliani, Florida Gov. Rick Scott, and other speakers are talking terror over the dramatic strains of "Dies Irae" from Mozart's Requiem. Forget "Morning in America," Bee said. "It's the middle of the night in America and someone's kicking in your door — oh, and also, Hillary took your guns away."

After playing some of Trump's speech, Bee said, "Oh, my god, is Donald Trump running for Batman?" But then she reconsidered, arguing that he's re-running Richard Nixon's 1968 campaign. "Now I'm pissed that people are picking on Melania — at least she plagiarized someone good," Bee said. "Like Trump, Nixon courted old, white middle Americans made anxious by civil unrest," a group Nixon called the "silent majority." But Trump won't be just like Nixon, she added. "Nixon got 15 percent of the black vote." There is some mildly NSFW language, but if that doesn't bother you, watch the rest of Bee's Trump-Nixon comparison below. Peter Weber

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