Tom Arnold may be best known as Roseanne Barr’s ex-husband, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s co-star in True Lies, or the host of the Best Damn Sports Show Period. If his newest show is successful, Tom Arnold will go down in history. He is hosting The Hunt For The Trump Tapes on Viceland.
On The Hunt for the Trump Tapes, Tom Arnold is looking for recorded evidence of Donald Trump being racist, misogynistic and otherwise offensive. The show does not air until September, but if Arnold obtains a tape, he would spoil the show by releasing it immediately.
“First of all, I wouldn’t withhold it,” Arnold said at a Television Critics Association panel. “If it’s going to help our country, I would not withhold it. Number two, this network couldn’t hold it. We’re going to continue filming until each episode goes on the air and you’ll see this. You’ll also see documentation of the pee-pee tape and by the time you see this, you will know for sure there is a pee-pee tape.”
“Pee-pee tape” got an audible giggle from professional journalists in the TCA ballroom. That was only the beginning.
“In my show, I will prove this one point about the pee-pee tape,” Arnold said. “Trump says, ‘Oh, it couldn’t be me because I’m a germaphobe.’ Jane Mayer, the biggest thing she ever broke in her huge career — Koch brothers, Dark Money — she proves without a doubt that Trump is not a germaphobe, because how many germaphobes raw dog that many porn stars? I mean, she lays it out. That’s a medical, scientific fact.”
Even if Arnold finds the pee-pee tape, in which Trump is rumored to have paid escorts to pee on a bed in which the Obamas slept, would it change anything? The 40% of America that supports Trump is unwavering.
“I don’t give a sh*t about the 40%,” Arnold said. “I’m going to do this until he resigns. He is a crazy person. He’s putting our country on the precipice of a war, literally right now. I’m working on the show right now with people that are much more talented and much more connected than I am. There are things going on right now that affect our world, that are scary. For some reason, I am in a position to do something and it is working and I am going to continue to do this until that guy resigns and the world is a little bit safer. It is going to happen.”
While many feel hopeless that the worse it gets, the stronger Trump gets, Arnold sees forces clamping down on Trump.
“Since Helsinki big things are breaking about that knucklehead,” Arnold said. “It’s putting more pressure on him and he’s acting even crazier and we’re getting closer and closer to him saying, ‘Okay, you know what? I’m quitting on my terms.’ That is going to happen, okay? And his 40%, f*** ‘em, okay? Seriously. Okay?”
Arnold believes there is video of Trump using the N word. But would the people who already defend his racism be swayed if he used that particular slur?
“50% of the country knows he’s racist,” Arnold said. “Hearing that, the N word, I think we’re going to have to do that too. Black people know he’s racist, I know he’s racist, but there’s some people that are like, even after they hear it, they’re going to be like, ‘Yeah, but that was a one-time thing.’ Well how about five times? ‘Okay, it was a five-time thing. Everybody does that. Every 72-year-old man does that. I’ll tell you, everyone from New York does that.’ It’s all bullsh*t. And it’s really on the person that’s covering for him. It’s all these people that are protecting him.”
The N word tape isn’t even Arnold’s Holy Grail.
“The tape I want [is] one 12-hour day of Trump Tower in that room they used to have the board room and those 18 cameras,” Arnold said during his Television Critics Association panel. “That’s what I want to show America that. I’m going to just keep hammering Mark Burnett until he shows America that, because he’s got $500 million. People are at the border, they’re getting their kids snatched from them and it’s cruel. Mark Burnett says he’s a Christian and he lets that man do all this bullsh*t and he’s in this town making money and people are working for him. He let a sexual harasser work on his show. One thing I have learned from doing this show, four times the producers pulled Donald Trump out, the producers of The Apprentice and they had to pull him out and say, ‘Whoa, whoa, hey bud, you can’t do that on this show.’ That’s something you’re going to see on my f***ing show, okay?”
There are other powerful people working for Burnett too. Arnold cryptically suggested that they could help him under the table.
“At a certain point you say to Mark Burnett, you say, ‘You’re supporting this guy that’s obviously a racist,’” Arnold said, promoting The Hunt for the Trump Tapes at the TCA event. “Then you say about Mark Cuban on this other show that is a Mark Burnett show, although Mark Burnett doesn’t show up over there, but [Shark Tank]’s a Mark Burnett show. Here’s Donald Trump going again at the NFL, out of nowhere, and it’s obviously because he hates black dudes, right? The kneeling thing, because Donald Trump doesn’t give a sh*t about America. He doesn’t give a sh*t about the troops. He’s never been to Afghanistan to entertain the troops.”
The Hunt for the Trump Tapes premieres September 18 at 10:30 on Viceland.
