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Course, correcting is the absolute opposite of what he does. Trump is strictly a double down guy for various points. that has been impressive, even charming to lots of people. But at various other points it's it's calamitous. Suddenly starting to really look at the countdown to the, to the midterms. Instead of answering those issues, what he's, you know, few mean about the fed fuming about the ballroom. You can't tell him you can't say, hey, this is this is where.

we're really heading for disaster here. Michael. Joanna happy, you know, and you're you're going to say what's going on. And I want to rush in first before I have to say that. To say that nobody knows what's going on. Yeah, I have to say no. I was going to say happy 101st. Hey, I'm going on next hundred. We? Yeah, here we are.

Not a second hundred. All right, now I'm gonna say what the heck is going on. And because literally, I mean, that is the profound thing that is happening as of this moment. Nobody knows what's going on. We're in the middle of a war which, you know, has has an international dimension to it is affecting almost. everything, every political calculation, every economic calculation. And yet nobody knows what's going on.

Is the Strait of Hormuz open or closed? I know if you were. If you were, what is it? Captaining a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, would you would you be trying to what would you be doing? Would you be idling with your desperate, desperate crew? Well, I you could be a more existential. Would you be alive or dead? Do you think that Trump has any idea what's going on? Yeah. No, no, no, I, I think that he absolutely does. No I think he's trying to he's trying to.

will this into a happy ending and trying to spin it into a happy ending. I mean, he just did he was at turning point, blah, blah blah. And. and basically doing his, his, his thing. We won the war. The war's over. Don't pay attention to this anymore. Don't think about this. Everything is great. Now, that was a turnaround from the day before yesterday when he pushed out,

Hague Sith to say, you know, we're. we're we're going to bomb everybody back to the Stone age again. And the day before he had said no, no, no, no, no, it's we've we've won. So we've gone to we've won. Bomb them back to the Stone age to, we've won again. And the Strait of Hormuz is open. Except except then the Iranians say, no, no, no, no, it's not open. And and we're in charge, and we're, and we're going to blow you up if you come in our direction.

So meanwhile, this energy shock rippling. throughout the world and Europe is saying. we may only have six weeks worth of reserves for jet fuel. Well, that's the other interesting thing, too. That's, that's that's going on, which no one knows because the price of oil, really went down. yesterday or a day and a half a half ago. So the markets,

the markets have a view on this, but their view, that view. may well not be right. Well, but it was a it was a good week for the markets. Right. So that's also confusing that we're at war. 20% of the world's energy appears to be held hostage. And yet the markets were no. And that's and that's what one of the things that Trump is counting. on, one of the, one of the things that he tells everyone around him. that, you know, don't worry about anything, don't.

worry about any, you know, the midterms don't worry about politics. because because the market is going up, the stock market is going up. And and for the past ten years, basically again and again and again, he's he's attached his fate. to the stock market and not without some, wisdom. Yeah. I mean, I mean, that has basically in many instances worked for him.

Of course, those other instances that have not worked for him remember he was defeated. But yes, that does that, that that has been consistently. something that he can turn to and get results from. But only half, only half the, only half of Americans are in the stock market. I mean, I think it's well, not anywhere near it. That's that's a lot of Americans. So I wouldn't I would not necessarily underplay that,

but it's actually, and actually the figures are, are significantly different from, from that. If you look at Americans who are, who are wholly vested in this, I mean, who, who's whose, whose lives are meaningfully. changed by their investment in the stock market. And that's and that's significantly fewer. And I think that's what you're going to see right now. You're seeing the the disillusionment of people's actual lives.

And that that would be that issue would be the affordability issue. And then all of these rich people getting so much richer, and, and remember, you get rich in the stock market because you are already rich. The stock market is not taking people. who are ordinary people and suddenly giving them better lives. The stock market is precisely designed to give people.

who already have a lot of money, more money. And I think that is the central that is going to be a central, a central 2026 issue. So do you think the people he was talking to at Turning Point yesterday. or in the stock market, I mean, that most of them were young people. He kept saying, I've never seen so many young people here. And obviously he's going in to try and revive a turning point, which has been badly hit by the death of Charlie Kirk. I mean, you saw earlier in the week they had, JD.

Vance was addressing them and the, stadium was almost empty, actually. I mean, it was shocking how few people I mean, I don't think the MAGA troops care. about the stock market. That's not one of that's not particularly one of their their issues. The people who care about the stock market in New York, people and his, and his old, and his Palm Beach cronies and, and I suppose and the, the tech community, the the, the MAGA. people's issues are, are,

are, are clear and separate. And among their major issues is the war. And he went to a turning point. to say, basically, that's not an issue. It's the war is over. Don't pay attention. I've done this, I've solved this. I told you it was going to be short. Well, it was a little longer than I thought, but it's over now. So the question is, do they, Do they believe that? And fewer and fewer of them are believing that.

And certainly there are there are a pretty clarion MAGA voices. Tucker Carlson are obviously one among them. saying this is this is not only not true. Is the war not over? But he has Trump has saddled, has saddled us with another situation. that is going to have to play out over a long period of time, consume enormous amount of American.

resources, lives quite possibly. And, and, and be one and and and be yet. another one of those those diplomatic. foreign policy fiascos. that is going to cost a future generation, i.e. these people, these young people, these young MAGA people. You don't just want to lose weight. You want to look better and feel better.

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It's also going to. cost Republicans seats in the midterms. We assume, just finishing on the wall, though. I'm I'm a bit confused and you may have more clarity on this. Who is in theory in charge from the American angle at this point. in terms of the negotiations such as they are. And Trump suggested that there were going to be more negotiations. So JD was initially then.

Marco Rubio was sent in Wyckoff and Kushner, or. what do we call them, Kush. Kush off as we think of them. The two of them joined together like Beavis and Butthead, as sort of hovering in the background. But it's unclear. who's showing up from the Americans and what they're trying to get done. Well, let's let's extend that out. I mean, I think that has that has been one of the problems. of this misadventure from the beginning, that everybody who knows something,

everybody who has experience in dealing with this, with this issue and there are many, several generations of people. who've had experience dealing with the Iranians, have have been forced out. They've been excluded from this process. And the people who have been. running this process, and that's been a shifting cast of characters. I obviously don't have experience. Principal and and at the head of the at the head of the line, you have Wyckoff and Kushner who have,

no, no, no relevant experience at all. for anything that might be, germane, the Iranians, the nature of diplomacy itself, the military, they know nothing. Well, maybe they could do some leasing deals while they're there. Well, I'm sure that they are now. Well, I mean, yes, we we don't. That's not even,

you know, the, the, the, the comedy of that is actually immediately replaced by the reality of that. Of course, that's one of the things that they are trying to do. Of course they are seeking a solution to this. in the context of who makes money off of it. Right? The grift, the endless grift. So we've no idea if the street is open.

I definitely wouldn't want to be a captain shepherding a tanker in that. And I think there are 450 tankers at the moment. just sitting there idling with crews who can't, you know, see their families. The whole thing is. just a, a logistical nightmare. How does this impact the midterms? And the thing I'm I'm surprised about is. why aren't more Republicans anxious about it? Well, I mean, you know, actually, I mean, a several conversations.

I've had with white House and white House adjacent people over the past, past couple of days is that it's suddenly it suddenly does. seem to be, oh, my God, that since the midterms are coming, you know, and it hasn't really seemed that that way. And this is, this is one of the things that always happens in politics. Politics is a lot like like journalism in in that regard. It's always, what's the deadline today and the deadline that's months away.

You know, we'll deal with that months from now. And and that's, that's, that's what largely has been happening. with, with the midterms there as they come into view here. I mean, they should have been planning. I mean, you should have had a long run, the longest run way possible. I mean, in effect, they should have come in, in on, on, on, January 20th, 2025.

And said, okay, what are we going to do to get to the midterms? They didn't do that. They said, what are we going to do until we get to the next month? And the month after that, we're going to say, what are we going to do until we get to January the 21st? Yeah, because it feels like that. It's very much day by day. But but if you Trump, are you beginning to panic. because it does seem like, you know, we saw his attacks on the Pope. We saw his crazy post this week of him being close to Jesus.

We saw him then saying that he was going to read some biblical passages. to appease some evangelicals and some Catholics who've been anxious. about this sort of blasphemous truth social thing that's going on. Is he panicked? Well, no, he's not panicked. He's gets angry. I mean, Trump doesn't really panic. I mean, it's not panic in that sense that that oh, I got a I got a problem here. and I got to do something. I got to solve the problem.

Rather it's a different kind of response. It's it's blaming someone. It's rage. It's it's, it's it's anger. So it's anger rather than panic. And he's starting to feel that, I think, and. so and I would say that there are two there, there are the people around him in the white House. These are political professionals. who are seeing this and saying, we're in, you know, we're in some danger here.

This is we could lose our jobs or people we work. with could lose their job, their jobs. I mean, this is this is a this is a political problem. And and those are the people who are saying to Trump, okay, we got to we have to or as, as. diplomatically as possible saying to Trump, these are our issues and we have to start to address them.

And that becomes and that's what politics politicians do. That's that's called course correcting. And and you look at the polls and you analyze the polls. and you look at the movement, the potential movement that we have. If you if you adjust adjust here on this issue and adjust the messaging. on this issue, the problem with that is that Trump doesn't do that. Course correcting is the absolute opposite of what he does.

Trump is strictly a double down guy. And it's and it's, you know, and it's and it's. kind of part of his political charm in it's way. I don't pander, I don't give a shit. I just do what I'm going to do and. and for various points that has been. impressive, even charming to lots of people.

But at various other points, it's it's calamitous. And, and I think, I think we're at one of those, those, those points so suddenly in this going into these. starting to really look at the countdowns to the, to the midterms. instead of answering those issues, what he's, you know, fuming. about the fed, fuming about the ballroom. I mean, he's even back in these conversations that I've had over. the last couple of days to talking about wait for it.

Greenland. No, he's talking about Greenland again. Again, again, again. You know, and it says, though, and he does this. kind of kind of weird thing where there's no acknowledgment. that any progress has been any advance has been made in that discussion. So you would think he would understand. I tried the Greenland Gambit. I got an enormous, enormous amount of, of blowback.

It really came clear that this could not happen. in any way and in any dimension. So you think he would get that? And at least have a new idea? I've got a new great I new idea about how we're going to go and get Greenland, but it's not it's as though he's right back at the beginning of this discussion. What a good idea it would be if we had Greenland. And why can't we have it? So, Yeah. Yeah.

So everybody around him, you know, there's a. and and I think their response is. Frustration. But I think they have to convert that into, into patience. And because you can't tell him, you can't say, hey, this is this is we're we're really heading for disaster here. They are heading for disaster. No one can say that. And there's there's.

I mean, there's a lot of talk the the the the pope. Thing is, is is bad. It's really bad. It also seems that for the most part, and we've said this before, what people like about Trump is he's not a regular politician. And he's definitely. Well, he's not a regular man. So that could have been. it's just possible that because he appears to to say it like it is. or that's what people think that they like about him, that.

there could have been some advantage to perhaps taking issue with the Pope. over a single thing, but to sort of take him on in the way he has done. And for the Pope to not back down and say. it is for the mighty not to start wars, it just seems like he's lost his instinct. And I wonder if that's to do with him getting older or. it's to do with the fact that some people say he's starting. to show the same signs of dementia that his father had.

But but it feels like he's off his game. Well, it's an interesting the the he doesn't seem to understand. the politics of that, that either the politics of the Pope, which. Yeah. So the politics of the broader politics is Trump. Trump. Trump is a is a success, has been a successful politician. because he's he's he's managed to,

to become the, you know, the Christian voice. He's Christianity as a, as a political faction has been on his side. And that would be two aspects of it, the evangelicals and the Roman Catholics. And he's he's brought them over basically because their own interest. joined around a whole set of family values stuff. And, and, and to abortion would be family values. Yes. Okay.

But he gave them the Supreme Court. Exactly. So the problem with that, however, is that the evangelicals and the Catholics are not the same. And so by suddenly alienating. or at least forcing a lot of Catholics to ask questions of him, he's he's he's putting a wedge in that key constituency. and part of that key constituency, of course, in and which had yielded.

great results in 2020 for for him were the Latin Catholics. So, so it's he's pissed off the Hispanics because of ice. and because of masked men scooping up Brown and because of the pope. Right. And he's capped that off because of, because of the pope. So he's now split his own coalition. I mean, the evangelicals don't care about the pope. That's fine. And he's probably I'm sure that he still has them. And can do. And they show no sign of leaving him.

But Roman Catholics make up a very significant part. of that Christian coalition. It is one of the great mystifying factors other than the Supreme Court, that the evangelicals would back the thrice married Trump, who, you know, was in court for how many weeks over the Stormy Daniels trial? Well, I mean, I think that that's just. I mean, the only conclusion you can come to there because it's so it's.

so ridiculous is that it's purely transactional. I will give you everything that you want. And, and I will bow to your particular. version of sanctimony and, you know, and I'm in your pocket. A thing that happens, however, with Trump and that's happened. now with the with with the Catholics that. that he comes to think you you get this, you're my coalition.

and you're my people and and in Trump's. mind that that becomes your loyalty to me. rather than I'm loyal to you, you're loyal to me. And, and the fact that you would in any way take issue with me. or challenge me then becomes something that is going to send me into a. into a rage, into into a fury, which is what happened with the Pope. You're Christians.

You're supposed to be my people. I did things for you. I'm the best thing that ever happened to you, etc., etc. and, so the Pope takes issue, steps, steps out and he goes bananas. And compounding his problem, it's also exciting to see someone like the Pope standing up to Donald Trump. and saying he's not scared of him, and the the name of his, social media. platform, Truth Social, is ironic.

when we've seen Congress basically lie down in front of him. What? You see, no Republicans, apart from perhaps Thomas Massie. and the three women announcer over the Epstein files, stand up to him. It's exhilarating to see someone like the Pope. You know, I mean, it's an interesting. dynamic there because, you know, people have many, many people have stood up to Donald Trump before, and he's.

then turned them into his enemies. to great profit for himself. And so the, you know, the these are this is a really subtle. tonal thing of why it works for Trump. And while and and in the instances when it doesn't work for Trump. and this seems to be very much at this point, an example of it not working, it not working. bigly.

It not working bigly. All right. So is there any sense in which. the Republicans could pull off the midterms, do you think? I mean, when you what? No one. I'm sure that there is we could we could go on. But no one has that sense now. Right. I mean, no one, you know, at. I mean, I think, I think that there's. a couple of levels of, of, of perception to this right now. And I think and I think on a, on a 40,000ft.

objective level, you it's not unreasonable to say. that this is, that this is coming apart day by day. It's coming apart and nothing really good is going, is happening for, for him. He is a, I mean, midterms always go against the party in power, and then he's in the in his second term, which even compounds the problem because because he's a lame duck.

Then he's, you know, he has a, he has a, a troublesome economy. Always the worst thing that you can possibly have. The ice stuff is, you know, I don't think we. yet have have a clear picture of how bad this is, but this is bad. And and the the war. The war. It could it could it be. could it be worse to have gone to war?

And the best you can do, the best you can foresee. is coming out of the war having gained no advantage at all. So it also looks like he's he's desperately trying to change the subject. So at the turning Point event we're recording this on Saturday morning. So the Turning Point event in Arizona was him on Friday night, where he also let slip that the Pentagon, as well as, one hopes, paying attention to the war in the straits of, as you would say, Hormuz,

is about to release some. interesting documents that reflect, what we know about alien life and UFOs, which, again, seems to be playing to very much to the margins. and could not be less relevant to what Americans are experiencing at the moment. There's not heavily invested in the stock market. And, so we've got aliens coming up and then but at the same.

and then at the same time, you know, you know, he can't stay away. You know, there's this compulsive, you know, this OCD thing. he can't stay away from, from issues that are even, you know, that are unpopular. I mean, I mean, the fed to bring the fed to heel. Nobody wants that. I mean, nobody nobody in the business community wants that. And I think in the greater world, it's just seen seen as as a one more thing. Why is why is Trump doing this?

You know, the ballroom obsessing about about the ballroom, which I, I, I can't believe is a popular issue with anybody. I mean, the issue is, what are you doing to our white House? And then, as I said, then the Greenland thing, that. is a dementia sign. And and of. course, the pope, which I'm sure he's going to keep coming back. to and back to and back to, you can't stay away.

That's the first time I've ever heard you, I think, admit that it could be. a sign of dementia. We've had this argument before, you know, and I'm very much against these kind of diagnoses. which, which, which you engage in on a constant basis. I very much hate in them. Yeah. Except the Greenland, the Greenland thing is so weird. Well, the other thing that I think is weird, I mean, it was weird in the beginning, but. And to keep going on with this, well, well,

two of the people that I listen to about the dementia issue, one is Mary Trump, who says that she literally can. look at Donald Trump and see echoes of her grandfather, who started getting dementia symptoms at around this age. So that's not except just to be a little thing. She can see her grandfather, but she has not literally looked. at Donald Trump in real life for, we can see it for more than 14 years, but it's just I'm just pointing out.

But we can all see Donald Trump, as Doctor John Gartner, a regular guest on the podcast. And I know you think that doctors shouldn't be able to diagnose people, without actually meeting them and talking to them. And normally I would agree with you, except Doctor Gardner's point of view. is that Donald Trump honest about Donald Trump. No. When someone has been in public life. as long as he has, you have a base against which to measure them. And one of them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, but it is true that language is.

one of the most powerful things to judge them against, and it's clear. that his language is a slip, that his vocabulary has got smaller, that he seems less with it than he was. He's less funny than he was. Now, arguably, he's the president. Well, not arguably he is the president. So he has harder, harder things to grapple with. And perhaps he's. not in as good moods as he could be. But even with the DoorDash lady. who delivered McDonald's to him this week, he could.

You know, they told him very clearly, all you have to do is make this about tips. And he can't resist saying, what do you think about men. and women's sports? Because he's hoping to get an extra moment out of it. And to her extreme credit, she refuses to go there. and she just says, oh, I'm here to it's about taxes on tips. And then, of course, it turns out that she's a grandmother. And, you know, it's actually rather tragic that she's DoorDash. Allison, I have no idea what's going on with with with with Donald Trump.

I have always said that he is, not like, you nor me, nor anyone else we know. And that has been the case since this, his earliest political moments. I, I sat through ten years. and paying rather close attention, to Donald Trump, and he's, he's, a martian, a moron, a martian, a, and and and and we could go on.

Is that is that a dementia? I don't think it is. I think this issue is is is vastly more serious than that. He he, he is he is unqualified. He is unfit. He is, un he's, he's, he he has no, no mental abilities, no intellectual abilities to grasp the nature of this job. So whether it's dementia or not seems completely irrelevant to me, but.

And the the more important fact is that everybody this was all on display, not just the doctor, John Gartner, whoever he is, but, to the American public. And they voted for him. I know that's that. That's the difficult thing to reconcile oneself with every morning, but it feels like they're not going to vote for him in the midterms. Yeah. No, I mean, the and I, I spend some time every day.

thinking, thinking, how how could he get out of this situation? I mean, if you were a. a normal politician, that's what you would be thinking of. Of now, how do I, how do I recover at least some advantage here? And I don't think he is. And in all ways in his mind,

in Trump's head, his view of that question is. I need to just trust my own instincts. Those are the things that always pay off. That's what I have. I have some I channel what people want. I can do that. I don't know how I do that, but other. But the evidence is that I do it and I do it successfully. During the 2024 campaign, in the in the summer.

after Kamala Harris replaced Joe Biden and they were they were really worried. I mean, the polls were shifted immediately against him and, and the whole. the whole team was, was worried and everybody was about. you have to focus on, on this, and you have to focus on the economy. I, you know, I'm you, I actually that was the central thing. The economy, the economy, the the economy like that.

They actually set up this this, there was there was a press conference. in, in Bedminster, and they put out all kinds of groceries. On this was in the summer. I well, I, you know, big display of groceries and their prices and, Bedminster has always had a fly problem. And, and and these foodstuffs out there just increased it. So everybody anyway, but.

the point is that he actually didn't do that. He just said, no, I have to just keep focusing on her. I have to demonize her. She's horrible. You know, in his basic language. She's horrible. She's terrible. And I'm just going to I'm just going to say that over and over again. because you need a person is what he that, that that perception, you know, food economy. You need a person.

You need an enemy over. And, you know, and last he was right. Yeah. Well, that's interesting because right now he does have an enemy because there is. no national leader of the Democrats for him to go after or that represents, the larger Democratic tent, the only Democrat we've really seen him with having. a relationship is with Mamdani, the new mayor of New York. And they sort of cozied up together so he doesn't actually have an enemy right.

now. In terms of representing. the midterms, though, it seems clear that he's as as you have pointed out. over the last few weeks, realize that the anti-vaccine message isn't good. And this week he put in a doctor to lead the CDC. The CDC had been leaderless. And she's a normal doctor. She's a normie. She believes in vaccinations. So this is kind of thwarted. Your friend RFK junior, somewhat, who as we know, is launching a podcast.

So he's clearly looking to a future beyond. being the Health and Human Services secretary. Now, now, the interesting thing there. So, so, so there could be a very clear course. Correct. Fire RFK. which, which I think that there's a pretty good likelihood that will happen. Except that's going to give him problems on the MAGA side too,

because, RFK still has holds. that, that anti-vax, a part of this MAGA movement is united. It's strong, it doesn't waver. And the rest of the country does. On this issue. Nobody wants this issue, but it is a Trump issue. Yeah. And and the Ma Make America Healthy Again crew are all saying. they're not going to even vote in the midterms because they sense.

that RFK junior is being marginalized. And and clearly he is being marginalized. And then, of course, I mean, we've talked about other people that are likely to be fired. If the war goes wrong, then US will be fired. And that's why he's being pushed out, out front to sort of take responsibility for things. And then the Atlantic had a big piece on Kash Patel. saying that Kash Patel has frequently been intoxicated, that at one point.

the FBI had to get some sort of ballot battering ram equipment. because no one could could reach him, and he appeared to be locked in a room. And I think they were. The implication was they were concerned he was unconscious, from from a lot of alcohol. So he doesn't necessarily look long for this world either. And even there and again, the broader the broader point, which I think I think has been, made.

loudly and clearly to just about everyone, that none of these people in this cabinet are, are qualified or, or people. that anyone should have any confidence in. Right. Well, then, of course, Kash Patel's office have declared. that this is nonsense and that, you know, unsourced FBI, employees are, unhelpful.

They've been trying to shop. This story about Kash Patel in The Atlantic has bought it, but, they've spoken to several people, and, and certainly we've seen. Kash Patel drinking openly. Apparently, he's a fond, a fond drinker at Ned's, the rather groovy club which is run by a British guy in DC. I'm not sure you really have to do much convincing. of of, of of anyone on these things. Well, it must be very difficult to go from Hawking t shirts to running the FBI.

I was just thinking whether that's true or not. I think it probably is true. I think it's probably very true. Talking about Mamdani, you had an observation. Well, I think it's there. Was he he announced, the other day that he would not be attending. the ball.

So. And I just want to sing because I, I think that we should begin. to think more about about Democrats both as the midterms approach. and then ultimately as, as if we're still here. as 2028 approaches. The Democrats, have or although things are just terrible for Trump again, and I want to repeat this, I think we should keep keep repeating this. The end is, has begun. The end is in sight.

And the only thing that might stand in the way of the Trump end. is if the Democrats screw it up again, as they so reliably do. Well, a an incredible week for Eric Swalwell, who who stood down after multiple accusations of sex abuse. and actually that there is a big difference. between someone like Eric Swalwell, who seems to represent the Democrats. I don't want to say off the past, but he's like a generic politician.

He came out of the mold with someone like, he's also kind of kind of that, that, that open and proud. I'm a sleazeball. And and this was the open and proud about being a CEO. I mean, everything about his everything about his smirk, everything about his. not shaving, everything about his level of of of arrogance. It's it's. it's a broadcast sleaze ball.

And everything about him being a relentless and charming. media whore, is sleazeball ish, so. And I'm not even talking about the accusations here. But even before the accusations, I think. I think he was that kind of Democrat that said, you know, that. that one might have easily said him, him or is this what we got? Is this the best we can do?

So and just to come back to the Mamdani thing. and in which is not to necessarily single him out as a democratic savior. in any possible way, but it is in the minor particular, I think, worth singling out that he did the right thing. Don't go to the Met Ball. Why would a politician go to the Met Ball? I mean, the shallowest, the sleaziest, the most irrelevant, the most pandering thing?

That you could I mean, it's. a, an event that politicians. should clearly not be part of a payola thing. Terrible. I mean, I mean, gross, so don't go. Why? How could you how could you even think that's a good thing to show up to? So he does the the basic and the obvious. and the logical and the respectable thing. I'm not going to go to that event.

Well, but why would he make an announcement about it, I suppose, to make political capital out of his decision. Well, I think he's also making it. I think he's making the symbolic point. This is, you know, these these people are not my people. These people are not good people. This is not where we want to go. This is not who we want to be associated with. Well, what if he'd gone and he'd done like AOC did when she went? She wore a dress that said tax the rich. What if he'd gone with a shirt that said tax the rich? And his wife could have perhaps gone with some of,

that. Yeah, but that looks like AOC. First thing she looked for. She looked craven. If you if you go over for this was this is. you go to the Met Ball for one reason. Because you want to go to the Met Ball. You're pleased as punch to be at the Met Ball. And that is corrupt. Nothing was less. appealing than Eric Adams at the Met Ball, swanning around as if he'd. sort of made it and you're like, oh, dude, that's completely the wrong look.

It's completely the wrong look. Also, I've been once I went the year. that Oprah was, a co-chair of the Met Ball because, as you know, they have co-chairs to raise money and then people have to, pay to support them for the tables. And it was full of lots of celebrities. and lots of models, most of whom seemed to be gathered in the lead. loo asking when they could flee.

And I think the more fun events are. at the Mark hotel, which is across the road from the met. The Metropolitan Museum and, Everybody's having drinks saying, that's absolutely ghastly. Thank God we managed to get out when we did another, another, just another level of corruption. Yeah. You're on a tear this morning. It's rather exhilarating. Well, is this because you've never been invited to the Matt Ball?

I have been invited down. And you've never gone? Of course not. Who invited you? Let's. I was, I think, what you call a Condé Nast insider for, Oh, quite a period. Of course. So when you were at Vanity Fair, when you were writing at Vanity Fair, it would have been de rigueur for you to get. And I know you like wearing a tux, actually,

I have a very good tux, in fact. No, I'm sure you have a very good tux from Sanderson and Shepard, which is, you know, tailored with an inch of your frame. Michael. But good for you. I went because there was a three line whip, and, frankly, because I was very curious. I'm always curious to go to something once, but, like, F1. I'm not holding it against you. Well, that's a relief. That's really.

all right. I tell you what we do have, we have some limericks, which I was going to read out. By I mean golf, which has really kicked off, a trend here. All right. The once was an old man who led a life. so sordid, demeaning and dread in an attempt to reset, he gave his wife Kristy's jet, but he still wasn't allowed in the bed. That's pretty good. That's from edits. Edit z.z.

Okay. And then we've got Taryn Lindsay, who says Trump is a madman. I say his brain is withering away. He must be impeached. Consensus is reached. Removal is needed today. That's a good one. Taryn Lindsay okay. Miles Jackson 3222. There was an old man from Hormuz who showed us a few of his moves. He sunk a few ships as bargaining chips. to insure the Americans lose.

I thought that was also a very good thank you, Myles Jackson. And then we have Godfried. The once was a Trump at the helm all alone. who steered a Hormuz strangled war overblown as hexes would spin, while RFK chimed in till chaos was all he could claim. as his own. Thank you everyone. These are great. The kind of fun and what's fun is when people post them in the comments,

everybody else, other commenters join in and it's a. it's a very fun thread of, of, well, poetic energy. Should we say. poetic energy. You know, sometimes you feel that one's that our view of Trump. could possibly be extreme. And perhaps because we have to do this all, all, all, all of the time, we're we're in a we're seeing things, things.

in more dramatic terms than, than perhaps we ought to. And so it is curiously reassuring that people see him. as even more of a threat. and a joke and a moron than even we do. Yes. And especially people who live abroad. We get so many comments from Europe, we get so many comments from Canada, and from Australia. Just saying. America, what happened to you?

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