Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 2, 2026
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was saying look at genetics, look at vitamin D. And correct, correct. So you have to give me those check marks. That doesn't mean I'm right on everything and when I'm wrong you should point it out. And yeah, obesity and being African-American and you know a whole bunch of things that increase your risk. All right. Trump was in California yesterday talking to Gavin Newsom and people about the fore…

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asy stuff. This president waves his hand at the easy stuff but I don't think he's good at it. I don't think he's good at it.

But here's the thing. The president, and the reason that I've supported him from the start, he can do things that are impossible. So here's the frame. The president can do things that are literally just impossible. He's just not good at things that are easy. Now the good news is the easy stuff doesn't seem to matter as much. Does it matter that he turned the entire psychology of North Korea around so that they're not really our enemy anymore? Yeah. Who thought he could do that? It seemed impossible and then he did it. Did you think that there would be two peace deals in the Middle East? Nope. It seemed impossible and then he did it. Did you think that when he pulled the forces out of the area that the Kurds were in in Syria and all the smart people said no no no they will be slaughtered, that'll be the worst thing in the world, and then it didn't happen? It was impossible to pull our troops out without a slaughter and then he did it. It was fine. It was impossible to move the embassy to Jerusalem. He did it. It was impossible to recognize the Golan Heights and he just did it. It was impossible to get unemployment down to what it was before the coronavirus and he did it. How about telehealth? Just a tiny little example from a mountain of things that he changed with executive orders. Did you think it was possible that we would have telehealth that's now legal across state li

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nes where it had been banned before? I didn't think so. I mean technically anything's possible but I didn't think it was going to happen and he just signed a piece of paper and it happened and that was like the law of the land essentially. And so that's the frame. Not so good on little unimportant stuff where you have to say things just the right way. But when it comes to things that are literall…

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