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attention. He loves to be on television. His ego is enormous. Meg Lamaniac, but he just loves

it. And then, and I don't know if the media is is helping to stroke that ego because they

ran most of it live. I don't remember any cabinet meetings being run live for that long.

And he's unhidged. He just rambles even with a script in front of him.

Yeah, it's unbelievable. He rambles. He spends like he gives the floor to a bunch of people

basically so they can do these public glaze fest with a cabinet.

Cabinet members all just kissing his ass going around the circle. He's the greatest man who's

ever lived. Yada Yada. And then he veers off tangents. And today, he has basically contradicted

himself. I'm not sure if you caught this out of the two hours so far. It's still long. As we're

recording this, he, as part of that said, basically that Iran's begging for a deal, but he doesn't

know if we're willing to do that. So he's kind of like walked back. I thought we had productive

talks. I thought the war was one. And we had productive talks on Monday.

Was that just marketing manipulation? Clearly. Yeah. Well, and then he says, and I teased you,

I teased you guys with a gift. And he's like, what the fuck is he talking about? I mean,

you're right. Basically, it's a circle. You know what? Because they're just all doing that.

But yeah, he contradicted himself. The thing is, is that, and who is he negotiating with?

I do think that there is some truth to this idea of market manipulation. I have been saying

that Donald Trump has imaginary friends in Iran that he's speaking to. Like, I had imaginary

friends when I was a kid, but I grew out of it. And I, and you know, I'm not trying to figure out how

to end a war that I started for no reason. So, you know, I just don't understand. He's sitting

there, coming through the book. I was looking for like something that, you know, the folder.

And it's all laminated. And it's written out for him. And so he reads a little bit of it.

And then he goes off on a tangent. And you see, Marco Rubio's like,

he'd hexed at this. I

because they don't know where he's going to go and what he's going to say. And none of it makes

sense. He took questions. Didn't really have a good answer. Why, why are we allowing this

to do this?

Looney. Looney person to run our lives and to run the country. Why? That's a question I wake up asking

myself every day. It's absurd. It's insane that we're allowing this guy to be in this position. He's

the worst possible president for this moment. And we have this situation where he's effectively

being managed like a child himself. Like you said, they have the papers on in front of him.

There's reporting yesterday from NBC News that he's getting just his, his briefings are now just

two minute montages of things blowing up. A official told NBC News. So all the positive

successful strikes. He's not getting the negative information because they're trying to protect

his fragile ego. And then you have the Republican party inventing fake awards for him.

You got a new America first award after you got the FIFA piece prize. Like they're treating him.

They believe he's a child. That's how they're behaving. And effectively,

a participation trophy is what he got. They have they rail against like everybody gets a trophy.

Everybody's people are such snowflakes and they're doing the same thing. You're right. They're

treating him like a, like a juvenile, like a child. Yeah. They're treating him just like a child.

And that's how he's behaving. His decision making is, I mean, have you seen anything like this?

I mean, you've recovered in this, you've recovered yourself for decades. Is there ever been a president

that's been managed, stage managed like a child holds two hour cab in the meetings of people

glazing him? No, no, no, no. I'm glad you said that because that was really my next thought. It's

that he's sitting there doing, you know, talking about he's going through the thing and he's like,

and then we have bombs here and bombs there and this there and we've done this. We've taken this.

We've had this sort of, what do you call him? Mine, whatever or shat mine, whatever we're doing this.

And it's like anytime you are talking about, you know, what you're blowing up and how big it is

and how bad it is, it means that something is not going right. I've never heard any president

go through the specific artillery and what we're doing and it's as if whoever's advising Pete

Hexeth or maybe Pete Hexeth is advising him. It's the same sort of macho shit. It is the

cabinet room version of a courtroom where you're losing and you start pounding the table rather

than giving evidence of what's really happening. That's exactly what's happening because

there they know that they've lost the public on this. We see repeatedly over 60% of Americans

oppose the war that he's making terrible decisions. And then like you said, he's just pounding the

table because they know that they've lost the plot here and that's desperately wants out.

Monday morning, he's sitting there sending out posts saying, oh, we have very productive talks

with Iran because he desperately wants to win that day and get those oil prices to drop so that,

you know, I guess, I don't know. We don't know exactly whether or not his buddies are selling off

those shares because we sell that spike $580 million of oil futures flood of the markets 15 minutes

before his post. So he's got that going on while he's simultaneously over here just contradicting

himself left and right. And it's I just can't Republicans just need to do better, man. It's

insane that they we accept this behavior from the president when these Republicans wouldn't accept

this behavior from their own children. Well, you're right about the Republicans. And there was

I don't know if you saw the Republican guy who was on C-SPAN and the caller called in and said,

why are you turning your party over your letting this country and you're just you're acquiescing to

they called him a pedophile. It's crazy something. They said it goes, why are you doing it in the guy?

Never really defended Donald Trump. He just said, well, I act as an individual and I work on a

bipartisan basis, but didn't really address the question. They cut the guy off. But what I want

to say is that when I say that, you know, lunacy or bonkers, it is because of the contradictions.

And no one can tell me that something is not up when you have them saying because he said during

this cabinet meeting things like I'm very disappointed in NATO. Our allies wouldn't didn't want to

help us. And then in the next breath, he says, we don't need them. We don't need our allies. And

it's like, well, if you don't need them, then why are you talking shit about them? And then, you

know, the UK said that they were going to send aircraft carriers after the fact, but we don't need

if you don't need them, then why are you pissed? Or we have won the war. If the war is won,

why are you asking for more help? If you don't need your allies, why are you asking for more help?

Why are you mad at them? If the war is won, why are you asking for more money?

And but no one stands there and challenges them. Like the press, they just, it's like, why are you?

Why? And then if they do it, it's just like one question off and then on. It's like, you know,

so it's not a bit makes sense. We have destroyed their nuclear capabilities. But we're in there

because they had nuclear capabilities that they were about to use on someone.

What are you talking about? It makes no sense. We're living in the volatility of this guy's mind.

He's negotiating with the voices in his head. Like what? He's just left and right. He's going back

and forth. Like you said, one second, the Iranian, you know, the the Iranian and Richmond sites are

pleading obliterating. Like we talked about last time, Tulsi Gabbard saying basically that

there are no more. There's no more nuclear threat. But then suddenly,

it's imminent within day. So we have to go in. And then now, apparently the war is one,

but the trade of hormones is still closed simultaneously. So that doesn't make any sense.

The war is one, but we need to send more troops in. But then now actually, no, the war is not one.

Today, today, yesterday, the war was one, but today in the cabinet meeting, war is not one.

He's saying it's up to Iran, whether the war ends and whether they come to the table and negotiate

and good faith. But wait, I thought on Monday that we had, we were, they were already at the table

that we had productive talks. It's like every other day, it's so hard to keep up within hours.

The entire narrative changes because he is a walking contradiction. And we're just supposed

to accept that this is normal and at the end of the war time, that the president is aspirating

like this. I just can't. It's unbelievable, man. I mean, is he just, is he possibly, I don't know

if it's possibly, that he doesn't really know what's going on. But he is the slogan guy that can

sell, when you bring in, you bring in the analytics people and the facts, and then you bring in the guy

that's the closer. And so maybe they realize, or they believe that he's sort of the slogan guy

and the closer, but he doesn't really understand what's going on. And so they are feeding him, as the

report says, the positive information that he wants to hear in order for them to continue to do over

here with one hand, what he's not understanding, what they're doing the other hand doesn't see it.

So maybe he's just a slogan guy and maybe he truly believes what they are telling him,

but he's such a good liar that there's also that aspect on top of it. He lies at every turn.

However, he is the salesman and he is the closer, but he doesn't really know what's going on.

He's not really making any policy decisions. It's the folks around him and maybe

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It's like maybe they're the puppeteers. I think that's a reasonable that's a reasonable

possibility. I mean, I think it's very clear he's not in the details. He's not in the weeds. I

think he gets these two minute briefings of stuff blowing up. He gets told you're great. You're

incredible. Wars being won and then he might hear some off report maybe from Fox News of some

negative information. That's how he gets reporting and that's how he discovers some new information.

And I think right now he's like A.D. testing different outcomes in real time. There you go.

There you go. You know, it's like out of both sides of his mouth. He's saying one, like that's

what he did them like the weekend, the war started. He was calling different reporters and in

the same day had six different objectives, six different justifications that were all

contradicting each other. He's trying to see which one works. But that's not how it works in

war, man. This isn't a marketing department where you can A.D. test Facebook ads. This is war,

you know, like, but if you're I mean, if you're just seeing what they're showing you and they're

showing you things that the America the United States is blowing up or Israel. Maybe they're not

even showing all of what Israel's blowing up. But if you're just seeing that and then you actually

turn on the news and you hear, wow, you know, Iran is still bombing Israel, but they told you that

we've obliterated this and you're like, wait a minute, how are they still bombing Israel and how

are they still going back and forth? If we have obliterated, the news must be wrong. They must be

lying about it or the straight of hormones or if there's going to be ground fighting or if it

they're saying maybe maybe the cabinet people are saying, well, we're negotiating with these people

and we're this is the right people to negotiate with. And then Iran is saying, I don't know what

you're talking about. And so when he's watching the news, he's like, that's why he keeps hitting the

news. It's the fake news. They're not reporting on this. Yes. Maybe the fake news knows and you don't.

Yes. That's exactly you hit the nail on the head. That's what's happening. They're literally

gaslighting him. That's what we're getting from these reporting is that they're literally telling

him like you're you're the most handsome man on earth. The Iran is fantastic. Here's a two-minute

montage of you blowing stuff up. Actually, everything's going well. We don't really even need

him in the straight of hormones. He turns on even Fox news. Now go back to the residents with your

McDonald's and Diet Coke and hamburger sir. And he will take care of the rest. Go go sit there,

watch, you know, watch some TV, you know, let's watch reruns of old Fox news from your glory days

and just go back and sit sit there and relax while we try to manage this stuff. That's what's

happening. And then he turns on the TV and Fox news might report on something negative.

On the washroom journal or people will come up to him. He said something during the cabinet

with Pete Hesseck next to him that was like, I don't know Pete. I mean, I thought you were doing

a great job. But someone came up to me yesterday and said, you're not doing too good, but I told

them no. I told them I told them you're doing a great job. He said someone told them he made a mistake

in a pointing exit. So it's like he's getting negative information from outside and it's causing him

this cognitive dissonance of confusing. Yes. Thank you. And he said that to Pete Hesseck's

space like, wow, earth, would you say some shit like that? It's he's trying to embarrass him.

He does. Yeah, he does his power. And then he like, he like slapped his arm like he's like, you

know, he's like, oh, kiddo, you're doing well. He was like, he was actually, he was like, actually

know, you're doing fantastic, buddy. And it was really just amazing. Oh my god. Oh my god. So

yeah, cognitive dissonance. You're right. That's what he's like, what? This does not compute.

What are we talking about? We are winning. We are winning. Do you actually think that the cabinet

believes that they are winning this war? No. And I think the best evidence of that, the best

evidence of that is Marco Rubio and JD Vance going into the background. They think they're going to

be 2028. They're going to start to come more in the foreground as the war is wrapping up so they

can take credit for ending it. But the fact that Marco Rubio and JD Vance are stealth mode right now,

mostly you came out for that one presser slipped up on the Israel comment, dipped out,

haven't heard from him since they're not on the Sunday shows. I think that's one of the real

representations of where the cabinets appetite is the people who are the people are hiding.

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What did I want to say shoots and lost my train of thought, because I wanted to talk about,

I'll get it back. About him, him not understanding, oh, this is a self-inflicted wound or a

self-inflicted conflict that he's going to try to claim that he won, right? Some sort of,

that he, that there was a problem that he fixed it and therefore he won. There was no problem.

The problem is that he went to war without consulting with Congress. The problem is that there

was no imminent threat. There is no evidence to show that there was a need to do what he did. He was

trying to deflect from something. And all of his deflections on that, I say it every time,

every time he tries to deflect from the Epstein files or whatever it is. The deflection is worse

mainly than the actual thing he's trying from which he's trying to deflect people, right?

Yeah. And the news media, it's worse. So now he has gotten us into a war, we're in a quagmire.

He thinks that he can get us out of it. Even if Donald Trump says right now, we are done. We're

pulling the 82nd Airborne or whatever it is. We're pulling those people out. We're taking

our ships and we're coming back. Israel and Iran are like, okay, see, but we can still keep

fighting. And guess what? Iran's going to say, we're pissed at you, America. So look out, we are

coming. So it's not for like the war is over. We're done. It's not like Venezuela. This is not

Venezuela. These people, if he thinks he's going to go over there and take a carg island,

he's got no thing. There's going to be some nasty ground. I mean, it's going to get nasty.

No, they're exactly right. And like on the deflection point, he literally now has to deflect from

the deflection because he keeps making the deflection worse than the original thing. And you're

right. And you're right here with Iran. The objectives are totally going to shift because now it's

it appears to me. I mean, first it was about nuclear capability or then they moved it to missile

to missile capability. And now I'm pretty sure it's just going to be opening the

straight of war moves, which was a problem that was caused because of the war. So he's saying,

so it's like, we're just going to call that a W that we finally got to reopen the war moves that

was open before the war. And you're spot on here that I ran in Israel, just going to keep going

with regardless. And then now, you know, like you said, it would require like,

it would require so many, so many more resources to actually do. If he goes to carg island,

it's going to be a bloodbath. And do we think Trump understands the context of Iran and how far

away from Venezuela? It is like the fact that it's not, it's not some regime you can just replace

that head of. They're still pissed at the US and the UK for engineering the coup in 1953.

They're still mad about that. They're mad about the decades, you know, I rack Iran war. They're

mad about the IRGC has been pissed for a long time. You think they're just going to be like,

you know what? Actually, Donald, you know, you killed, you killed hominay, but you know what? You

you really have a good point. We're just going to shut down our nuclear capabilities.

They big mad and they've been big mad for a long time. I know it's there, but I like to say they

been, they've been big mad for a long time. And here's the thing that I've heard. Also, I heard

Richard Haas for former head of the council forum relations saying, look, Iran is going to start

looking for other ways to come back this and get back at the United States. And that could spill

to this country and they will do whatever soft targets and expose and take advantage of

whatever soft targets they can. And that is a concern for Americans. And if we continue to do that,

I'm just saying that's what we've been talking about for weeks. And we talked about the

extremism risks. And also people need to talk more about Lebanon. Now there's before it was,

you know, a few hundred thousand that were displaced. Now it's over a million people displaced.

And Lebanon, as is real, is moving in there and striking there. We're going to see more extremism

risks as the region continues to destabilize. So I really think it's just going to be something where

you can't just, you can't, I like this phrase, you can't talk all this war. You can't talk all

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