[00:00] because we're not getting out of this.
[00:03] This thing's not going to go this
[00:04] thing's not going our way. And you know
[00:07] that you can feel it. It's it's a you
[00:10] can feel that it's not going our way.
[00:12] You can feel that it's not working. You
[00:14] can feel that Trump wants out of it.
[00:18] You can feel it. This is not This is not
[00:22] what he does. He's not a real fighter.
[00:25] He's like a talker. He's a casino
[00:28] kingpin. He's a reality star and if you
[00:32] like reality stars I'm selling actually
[00:34] pretty well there at the Wilturn
[00:36] Theater. But that's what he does. This
[00:40] is not Patton.
[00:42] He's not a general. He's a reality star.
[00:45] He's a talker. He's very
[00:48] comfortable in that game. Late night
[00:51] firing off tweets at Elizabeth Warren.
[00:53] That's his game.
[00:55] Talking with Ma and Joe. Morning
[00:59] Joe. He's comfortable doing that all day
[01:02] long. No, a rally. Forget it. Standing
[01:06] there for three hours talking
[01:08] extemporaneously off the cuff. He's all
[01:11] in and that's what he does.
[01:15] This is not where he shines and he feels
[01:18] uncomfortable. You can tell he's not
[01:20] happy about this because this is not
[01:22] what he does. This is also further
[01:24] reason you can feel that he was really
[01:26] pushed into this. he felt like he he had
[01:29] to do it for whatever reason. Um but
[01:32] there's no way that he wanted to do this
[01:35] because this is not where he lives. This
[01:38] is not what he's good at. It's not what
[01:41] he's good at. Trump's the guy who was
[01:42] like walked around a military base was
[01:44] like or I I believe Walter Reed or was
[01:46] an army hospital and he was basically
[01:47] like, "Yeah, why do they do this?" Like
[01:49] because he doesn't get it. He's like,
[01:51] "Why would you go sacrifice for the
[01:53] country?" He's like, "Don't you want to
[01:54] be rich and get pussy?" Like he didn't
[01:56] get it.
[01:57] He doesn't get it. Like that's who he
[02:00] is. So he's this is not a place where he
[02:05] feels comfortable. This is not what he
[02:07] does. So the idea that he wanted to do
[02:09] this, I think he was sold on it.
[02:13] He was sold on it, but he didn't know
[02:15] what it was cuz he'd never done it.
[02:18] Everything was like kidnapping Maduro or
[02:21] uh you know, we're going to kill
[02:22] Solommani, this Iranian general. We're
[02:24] in light touch. Boom. I I destroyed
[02:26] ISIS. Whatever. Did he? The one of them
[02:28] is running Syria. It doesn't matter.
[02:30] It's a light touch. No one cares. It's
[02:33] akin to reality TV
[02:36] because that's what he's the master of.
[02:38] He's the master of creating
[02:42] um a reality that's true enough. That's
[02:46] what reality TV does. If you watch it,
[02:49] you know it's not real, but it's real
[02:53] enough. Yes, they're actually on
[02:55] the Real Housewife show. Are they put in
[02:59] these situations and plied with alcohol?
[03:01] That is also true. Are these things
[03:04] arranged to make them more entertaining?
[03:06] Of course, you suspend disbelief. But
[03:09] it's true enough.
[03:13] The divorces are real. People don't like
[03:16] each other. You know, these things are
[03:20] true enough. And Trump lived in that
[03:21] world for a very long time. So
[03:23] basically, he's a master at creating a
[03:25] reality that has elements of truth.
[03:29] But the things that are glaringly
[03:31] untrue, you don't care because it's
[03:34] entertaining.
[03:35] Because it's entertaining. So it doesn't
[03:38] matter the components of the things that
[03:41] are provably untrue, like indisputably
[03:45] lies. He doesn't care. And neither do
[03:48] you cuz you're laughing. You're smiling.
[03:51] I can't believe he said that. It's
[03:53] entertaining. This is not a good show.
[03:58] That's the biggest problem here for DT.
[04:02] This is not a good show. And he knows
[04:04] it. He knows this is not a good show.
[04:07] Trump is well aware of why he is the
[04:12] president. He knows this country better
[04:14] than most people, maybe anyone.
[04:18] And it's not a nice thing. It's the line
[04:20] from the end of Succession when Brian
[04:22] Cox looks at Jeremy Strong and goes,
[04:24] "They're having dinner and he goes, "I
[04:26] know things, not nice things, and that's
[04:28] why I turn a buck." I know things, not
[04:32] nice things, and that's why I turn a
[04:35] buck. Trump knows
[04:38] that when Zalinsky was in the Oval
[04:40] Office and Vance and Trump were berating
[04:43] him, that was great TV.
[04:46] Trump knows when he said to Hillary,
[04:48] "Because you'd be in jail." That's great
[04:51] TV.
[04:53] This is the opposite of great TV.
[04:58] It isn't exciting.
[05:01] It's not nearly
[05:04] as engaging
[05:06] as it needs to be. So, what you have is
[05:11] a bunch of people that are checking out,
[05:14] which he doesn't like.
[05:16] They're tuning out. They're turning it
[05:18] off. And so when they turn it off, you
[05:22] got to remember they go out into the
[05:24] world, the gas prices are high, the food
[05:28] prices are high. Why is this
[05:30] war,
[05:32] but they're not watching his show
[05:33] anymore. So he cannot tell them exactly
[05:36] why things are the way they are because
[05:40] people are turning this off. They
[05:43] don't understand why it happened. It's
[05:45] embarrassing. Our military bases have
[05:48] been blown to smitherines. It's
[05:49] embarrassing. The limits of our military
[05:52] power have been exposed. It's embarrass
[05:54] People don't want to watch that show.
[05:56] That's not a feel-good show.
[05:59] That's a terribly
[06:01] embarrassing and depressing show. So,
[06:05] people go, "I'm out." And and Trump
[06:08] knows that. So, so he's doing these
[06:11] little things to try to get them back
[06:12] in. There's aliens now.
[06:14] Are you are you back watching? Can you
[06:17] come and watch again? There's aliens and
[06:20] they're under the water. Or even this,
[06:22] we're moving dark eagle hypersonic
[06:26] missiles towards our It's the final
[06:28] blow. He keeps using words like that,
[06:30] the final blow. But there is no final
[06:33] blow.
[06:36] So eventually people just turn it off.
[06:39] It's like a soap opera. You never see
[06:42] the last episode of a soap opera. You
[06:44] turn it off. You get sick of it. You
[06:47] grow up. You get a job. You get a
[06:49] boyfriend. Whatever.
[06:52] What this has become for Trump
[06:55] is is a a a total unending
[06:59] nightmare. And he's in this weird
[07:02] stalemate where no one's really doing
[07:04] anything. And he keeps like threatening.
[07:06] Now hopefully he just keeps threatening
[07:08] and we never go back in there. Hopefully
[07:10] nothing even happens. Hopefully the
[07:12] trade opens up, things normalize,
[07:15] everybody apologizes, whatever. Seems
[07:18] unlikely, but that's kind of what needs
[07:21] to happen. And he just keeps tweeting
[07:22] final blow. You know, TRUTH SOCIAL LIKE
[07:24] FINAL BLOW. IT'S THE FINAL BLOW is
[07:26] coming. This is the first time that I
[07:31] have watched Trump where it feels
[07:35] boring.
[07:37] And when I say that, I don't mean to
[07:39] take away from the horrific loss of
[07:41] life. By the way, I'm not taking away
[07:44] from that. None of that's boring.
[07:46] Obviously, it's a terrible tragedy.
[07:49] Trump himself seems
[07:52] to be
[07:54] over it. He doesn't want to do this
[07:57] anymore. He's he's he's
[08:00] stuck in a web.
[08:03] If we pull out now,
[08:06] it's a an admission to the world that
[08:09] America's military might has, I believe,
[08:11] is, you know, a lot of people look at
[08:13] that and say it's been greatly
[08:14] overstated
[08:16] and that we're we're not going to make
[08:18] commitments to our allies. We're not
[08:20] going to make commitments to the the
[08:22] things we say are important, right? So,
[08:24] he doesn't feel like he can do that.
[08:28] But also, this final blow, a world war,
[08:33] dropping a nuke,
[08:35] all of this
[08:37] isn't possible. The generals have told
[08:41] him, "We can't do the things you want to
[08:43] do." Now, Trump, no one told him this at
[08:46] the Apprentice.
[08:49] Everyone was pretty much like, "Yeah,
[08:50] what do you want to do?" Yeah, we can do
[08:52] that. We'll find a way to do that. We'll
[08:53] find a version of that that will be
[08:56] okay. It'll be true enough. It'll be
[08:59] true enough. And that can't happen here.
[09:04] So, they have to start with the aliens.
[09:07] They have to start with the aliens.
[09:10] There's nothing they can really do now.
[09:13] He's stuck. And it sucks.
[09:16] And And more than that,
[09:19] he knows he's losing eyeballs. They're
[09:22] leaving him. They're going elsewhere.
[09:26] They don't care.
[09:28] They've given up.