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