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Trump calls Obama overrated and divisive. Stephen A. Smith turns the question back on him.

Stephen A. Smith: “If you could run for president again, so could Barack Obama. What would Donald Trump do if he had to square off against Barack Obama for the presidency of the United States?”

Donald Trump: “I got many more votes than he got, and I got many more votes in the states. I have all the state records of the big states. If you take a look at Texas, I have the all-time record. Florida, I have the all-time record.”

Stephen A. Smith: “Are you saying you would beat Obama?”

Donald Trump: “Yeah, I think I’d beat him easily, yeah.”

Stephen A. Smith: “Easily?”

Donald Trump: “I think he’s highly overrated, yeah.”

Stephen A. Smith: “Oh my Lord. How is Barack Obama overrated?”

Donald Trump: “I didn’t think he was a good president. I thought he was a divider.”

Stephen A. Smith: “A divider? And what would you classify yourself as being?”

Donald Trump: “As a person that brings people together.”

Stephen A. Smith: “And you bring people together, how is that?”

Donald Trump: “Through success, because our country is so successful and you’re going to see the results, pretty much starting now because of the trillions of dollars. We have 22.2 trillion dollars being invested in the United States…”

Stephen A. Smith: “Billion or trillion?”

Donald Trump: “Trillion, trillion. It’s the biggest number ever in history by many times, not just by a little bit, by many times.”

Amanda Seyfried reveals she lost all sympathy for Elizabeth Holmes after spending months portraying her in The Dropout.

Amanda Seyfried: “The only research I didn’t do was meet her. I had many, many, many, 10 hours of deposition tapes, in terms of the voice and the mannerisms, and the way she speaks, and how she uses her mouth, and her hands, and even to the way she listened.

“This was like, I was rich with information of this person being themselves.

“My job as an actor is to connect and relate to as much as possible and have compassion for my character. Or I’m not going to be able to do it.

“When I was finished with the show, I struggled finding any compassion anymore because I used it all up, which I didn’t expect.

“It was really hard to not, like, be so angry with her by the time I stopped shooting, and I was not expecting that. She fucked up so hard.”

Jerry Seinfeld admits his biggest regret from the entire series was a joke Larry David wouldn't allow.

Jerry Seinfeld: “This is what my greatest regret of the entire series is.

“We had this bit on the show where, if you wanted someone to keep a secret, you would say to them, ‘Will you put it in the vault?’ And they would go, ‘It’s in the vault.’

“There was an opportunity for a character to say, ‘But it’s in the vault,’ and the other character would go, ‘Oy, the vault.’

“I said, ‘Larry, we’re never going to get a chance to make this joke ever again in our lives. To go, “Oy, the vault.”’ Do you remember this conversation?”

Larry David: “Yeah.”

Jerry Seinfeld: “And I begged him, and he didn’t want to do it.”

Michael Jai White says Black audiences helped save Hollywood, but the industry left them behind when it no longer needed them.

Michael Jai White: “There was a generation that Blaxploitation movement saved Hollywood.

“Until the ’70s, what basically was in the inner cities? Big movie theaters and nothing but Black people, because white people left for the suburbs.

“So we had movies that made so much money, so much money, it saved studios.

“People are watching television. They didn’t have to go to the big theaters. So they were dying.

“So Black people came to the inner city and the theaters and drove it up. And then 400-some-odd movies in a short, like, four-year period of Black movies that got people in there and bankrolled. Bankrolled.

“And then, okay, well, now you got these suburb things and Jaws and all. The blockbuster.

“And they said, ‘We don’t need you anymore.’

“But the thing that wasn’t dealt with is Black folks being on the other side of the camera. The business part of it.

“We still love Jim Brown, we still love Fred, still love everything, everybody. But they said, ‘Well, we don’t need y’all. We did, but we don’t need you now.’”

Mehdi Hasan challenges PBD after he questions whether Muslims can coexist with the West.

PBD: “Do you think Muslims can coexist with the West?”

Mehdi Hasan: “I’m Muslim, do you think I can coexist?”

PBD: “I think you can coexist. You’re educated, you’re a worker, you’re now a capitalist, you’re contributing, you’re creating jobs. I would say you’re a net positive.”

Mehdi Hasan: “Do you not think most Muslims do that?”

PBD: “If their countries did a good job, why would they leave it?”

Mehdi Hasan: “War that we caused? The top three nationalities on those boats crossing the English Channel are Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq. Are you telling me we’re not responsible for the mess in Afghanistan and Iraq?”

PBD: “Iran has plenty of oil. How come they’re not performing like the Gulf states?”

Mehdi Hasan: “Of course I’m going to say sanctions. We backed Saddam Hussein. Were we not supporting the Iraqi invasion of Iran?”

PBD: “You don’t put that on the IRGC, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard?”

Mehdi Hasan: “I put it on the country that invades the other country. That’s how the world works. I blame Russia for the Ukraine war. They invaded.”

“That war cost Iran a million lives, plus $600 billion in damage. You’re saying that doesn’t play any role in Iran’s economic future?”

PBD: “Do you think Iranian leadership with the IRGC is diplomatic?”

Mehdi Hasan: “No. I think they’ve been horrific in their leadership. They’ve given their opponents a stick with which to beat them.”

PBD: “Do you think Khomeini was good for Iran?”

Mehdi Hasan: “No, in hindsight, of course not.”