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I flew to DC three times in the last month to try to convince Trump not to do this. It didn't work. It happens. I'm looking at this and I'm thinking, boy, this is not going to get better. So then I think I'll fly up again and ask him. I mean, I I don't know if anyone else is doing it, so I'm going to try uh to just declare victory and go home. Like, you killed an 86-y old cleric. Let's just call that a win and and then pull back.
And so then meantime, he he got convinced to denounce me. Okay, I I don't care. I'm going to fly up anyway and see him, right? Even though he's like denouncing me. So, I call over there to see, you know, call someone who knows him to see. I said, I'm just going to fly up anyway and and tell him this because I think it's so important. And the person says, don't bother because he's being shown polling that this war is like a 9010 win for him. And I said, I don't know where that polling is coming from. It's like I you know I guess you can make any kind of poll and it's he's watching Fox News which is telling him the same thing and he's getting fake polling. I guess they're only polling Sean Hannity's viewers or something. And so I don't not sure that there's a sense as if this was yesterday cuz I was getting so agitated and worried.
I don't think that there's a sense that this is unpopular. Like I think uh there's an information vacuum here. There is a massive information vacuum and you know for the president and the administration who declared victory based on internet and vibes and podcasts. Let's take a survey shall we of every podcast that he appeared on and how do they feel about the Iran conflict. You can you can look very clearly for yourself. You can look at a lot of the polling of that same demographic which they were very excited about. Young men in particular, how are they feeling about this conflict? And you know, if you were saying 9010, it's not even true in the Republican sense. I mean, the latest one that I saw was like 72% Republicans, which by the way, Mr. President, and everybody in the administration. Bush had 93 for Iraq. And how did that turn out for him? So, let's not put, you know, to put all of our eggs in the basket of just because Republican voters are here that this is all going to be like sunshine and roses. And I also would not make the spurious claim that it's all about Iran. It's about compounding effects. the gas price effect of the Iran conflict is going to be dramatically more important to the White House's political chances in the midterms than anything that's actually happening on the ground. I don't think it should be that way, but that's reality. And I do think also, you know, your your your uh your inclination to get him to try and declare victory, that's the correct move from a strategic perspective, an economic perspective, from every political perspective. You don't want the entire country's national discourse focused on Iran.
I'll give you a good example. Just yesterday, the White House did a uh summit where they were trying to address rising electricity prices on data centers. In another world, no Iran, that's a main topic of conversation on my show, a major topic, maybe one of your interests as well. But in the middle of war and peace and death and everything that's happening, the amount of coverage that got is zero. The president just gave his state of the union. He had a lot of things in that state of the union. Iran, what it didn't come until the 70th minute, I think. What was the rest of it about? The economy, about gas prices, about jobs. Mr. President and others, like that's what people really vote on. And so there's also in Washington and in media, there is literally zero sub whenever it comes to people's attention, the news's attention, media. And it's not like we're doing the wrong thing. Matters of war and peace are unironically more important. then data center electricity potential plans. But if you want people to be even acknowledged that you're focusing on those types of things, you cannot be having foreign adventurism run a muk in the Middle East and be declaring things like unconditional surrender, which is going to be the headline of every major news, you know, every news organization in America. You know, whenever we're make Iran great again, whether you're pro or anti, that's all people are going to be talking about for the foreseeable future. Not to mention oil prices and just I mean the sheer imagery of bombs literally flying over people's head.
So big picture and again I'm always rooting for the United States and its president no matter who it is in the case of this president. I know him really well for many years and I I will always like him. I don't care what he says about me. Um I will always have affection for him. But I also think if you think about it like this is the end of something. voters take a guy from completely outside the political system because they're so frustrated with the system and they like him or don't like him or whatever, but it's the system that is on trial here and the system has been found wanting it. It doesn't actually respond to voters in the way that it should. It's not improving the country. So, they bring this guy from completely outside the system to shock the system and to tame it, to drain the swamp. And now, I think we can say that that failed. And so what now?
That's uh Well, we have a three more years to go. I put a book behind me, the George W. Bush book, and it gave me no pleasure to do so because of the parallels I'm watching already to 04 to08. Let's think about it. We've got a squishy economy with some problems. We've got a Middle Eastern conflict, potential energy crisis. We have an AI potential bubble which could pop at any moment. We have Democrats who are ra radically enthused with no leader at the top, meaning they get to have an o open debate in their party. They can say things that are a lot more honest than the person who has a leader at the top of their party. They can have real function and they can actually debate things out of the open. It's very healthy for a political party. And that's exactly how the Democrats really ascended from power from 2004, the failed John Kerry campaign to winning what 55% of the vote under Barack Obama. That was a very good process for them. Well, I'm watching it all play out step by step by step and it's very similar like you just said about the revol there was a revolutionary aspect to the Donald Trump campaign. The second one more so than the first in my opinion and affirmed I think with the popular vote where it truly was revolutionary in terms of it you have this president he'd been president before. I mean literally like he was almost assassinated. There were all of these potential indictments against him. You know, the imagery, the sheer like imagery and idea of somebody like that being able to ascend again to the highest office of the land is insane. And then in the initial moments, you have Doge and you have, you know, people you would never see in power like RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Hegsef. There was a real excitement for or Cash Patel origin or at that point, not at this point, but these people were seen as revolutionary actors who were going to come in and throw a bomb inside of the system. But then if you watch the US government do the exact same thing that it did under all these past presidents, your revolution starts to look a lot more like the status quo which was deeply hated and which you exploited to your great political benefit. And right now I am watching the same type of revolutionary aspect take place in the Democratic party. And if you want any part of that and not to just be run over in future elections, they need to get wise very very quickly.
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