Transcript of Roy Wood Jr. is fed up with Trump and Harris campaigns asking for money | Have I Got News For You

All right, Michael and Alex, your turn. Watch the clip. Tell me, what's the story?

That's a balloon jump. That happens at the end of any political convention, and that also happens at every political convention. That happens at some. Oh, boy. Don't... I guess it's a secret. So there's secret money.

There's hush money.

There was hush money. There's hush money, and there's the convention. I'm guessing it's a lot of dirty money somehow being funneled into these campaigns.

See, when you all work together, you all get points. All right. This This week, the Harrison Trump campaigns released their fundraising numbers from July through September. Democrats joint fundraising committees, taking in $652 million in donations over the Republicans $340 million. Those fundraising totals include both small donations of under $200, as well as huge donations from a small group of billionaire mega donors. The thing I don't like about all this campaign donating, I don't like how they text us to need the money. Then they'd be putting out these, We raise 600 million. Then you don't need my $40.

Pamela Harris texted me the other day, and she said, What will you tell your children you did in this moment. That you ain't got no kids.

Back in 2016, Trump's campaign made almost half their money from small donors and did about the same in 2020. But this year, small donors have made up less a third of his funding, which means they have to rely on huge donations from those billionaire mega donors. Can anyone name the only one of those top 10 donors that gave to Democrats? Mark Huber. It's former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg. Mayor Bloomberg. Considering the way what's happening in New York City, you miss them dearly. Miss that reign of Terror. You couldn't buy Mike Bloomberg with a flight to Turkey.

He stole all his money before he got into office. Exactly. They're good for him.

The American way. The biggest single donor to any party in the 2024 election is Banking Aaron, railroad tycoon, Timothée Mellon. Can anyone tell me what lost artifact Tim Mellon has spent a lot of time and money trying to find?

The heart from Titanic.

The The answer is Amelia Earhart's plane. You spent a lot of money trying to find it, but it hasn't gone smoothly. What did Tim Mellon think he discovered in the search for Amelia Earhart?

The Lost City of Atlantis? Is that right? Oh, that's got to be...

Don't even answer, Roy. That's the answer.

That's the right answer. According to the New York Times, Mr. Mellon was convinced he had seen Earhart's He had his head on the sea floor in a cellophane bag.

What is this? Futurama?

Others tried to explain that he was only seeing rocks and coral, but Mr. Mellon insisted he could discern items they had missed. A Banjo, a severed hand, even 75-year-old rolls of toilet paper.

Why would your head be in a cellophane bag?

That's the mystery, Sam. We don't know, and that's why we got to get to the bottom of it. It's an easy way to settle this. If you're a billionaire, you want to know what's down there, get your submarine and go on down there, big dog. You're going to be okay. Get you a PlayStation controller. Who can tell me who is the second biggest single political donor this election? Jesus.

Oh, my Christ. Is it Miriam Adelson? It is Miriam Adelson. It's got to be Miriam Adelson. $100 million.

Double points. It's Miriam Adelson, seen here, showing us what it would look like if Laverne finally hooked up with Lenny. In 2018, Trump awarded Miriam with the presidential Medal of Freedom. But it didn't cause a lot of controversy until this year. Why was Miriam's Medal of Freedom an issue?

Because he was comparing the Congressional Medal of Honor, which you only receive from acts of tremendous valor and heroism in combat and saying that wasn't quite as good as the presidential Medal of Freedom, which can be purchased for $100 million.

Trump somehow managed to diss soldiers who received the Medal of Honor when talking about Miriam's Medal of Freedom.

Everyone gets the Congressional Medal of Honor that soldiers, they're either in very bad shape because they've been hit so many times by bullets or they're dead. She gets it, and she's a healthy, beautiful woman.

Can I just make just a political calculation about this statement? Please do. I just want to reiterate.

Please, please do.

He is such a dick.

You know what? This is such a departure because he's always said such nice things about the military before him.

To be fair, this is one of the few times Trump is on camera saying something nice about a woman. But there's also a new face in the top 10 biggest political donors this year. Coming in at number 6, does anyone know who gave 75 million to Trump's PAC?

Is it the Menendez brothers? Yeah.

Mark Kelly.

Elon Musk is the answer.

Richest man in the world, but only coming on number 6.

Don't tempt him. It's more than enough money, Elon. We're very proud of you. You're a big deal.

Well, Trump is still doing what he can to boost those small donations. What strategy has his campaign been using to get more money from average Americans?

Just shaking people down. Yeah.

So, robbery? Yes. It's contests and sweepstakes. A recent New York Times analysis of Trump's campaign emails found that one-third of them offered small donors some prize or reward, including a chance to win the CPAC flag that Trump hugged, a roll of Let's Go, Brandon, wrapping paper, and a chance to leave comments on a Valentine's Day letter for Melanium.

Who's the gift from? Let me guess. It's the one uncle who's a problem.

Trump is running all of these scams on top of selling a $100,000 Trump victory watch that he launched this fall. And despite being advertised as having, Swiss made power and precision, can Can anyone tell me where? A CNN investigation revealed that those watches are actually coming from. Where is it? It's a shopping center in Northern Wyoming, where Trump's watch brand, the Best Watches on Earth, LLC, is registered. Also registered to that same address in Wyoming is a company called, The Best Honey on Earth, whose website sells something called Male Enhancement Honey, which the Food and Drag Administration has warned people not to consume after they found it contained the same drugs used in Viagra. Male Enhancement Honey. That's why Winnie Dupou don't wear draws.

He ground up Viagra and put it in honey? Mm-hmm. He's an innovator.