's because his hair is not as orange so they have to tone down the face makeup as well. Whatever it is, it works. So I'm just going to say I like it. It's a good look. So if he keeps it I think that'd be a pretty good decision.

But let's talk about what he said which wasn't so good. The part about him talking not as good. Not as good. And he has one mistake that he seems to want to make over and over again which is saying medical stuff that non-medical people just shouldn't say. Now of course you all know he got in trouble with hydroxychloroquine because he's not a doctor, not a scientist, and was a little enthusiastic about that and that didn't work out for him politically. But then he has this Regeneron and several other drugs, remdesivir, and I don't know what else, vitamin D, etc. And he gives this video and he says that it was the Regeneron that made all the difference. And when he said that I just said, oh don't say that. I know why he's saying it. Makes perfect sense to say it. But he's again falling into the trap of making a medical claim that presidents should not make. You know if a medical person made this claim you could at least take it seriously. But I just don't like to see the president say I took six drugs but this is the one that made the difference. Because I don't think you could know that. I don't think you could know which of the drugs made you feel the way you feel. And on top of that he's taking that other drug that's got a long name that's a steroid. The steroid I believe makes you feel better even if you're not better. Somebody needs to fact-check me on that. And any doctors want to fact-check me on that: would not the steroid just by itself, wouldn't that make him feel better even if the underlying problem wasn't that much better? So when he says I felt immediately better after the Regeneron, I gotta ask myself what else were you taking about the same time? So his credibility on medical claims could not be lower. And so I think it was a mistake for him to promote this. But I have to say I didn't see that much pushback. Maybe because there's other news that's more interesting. But he might have gotten away with it. I think they'll double back on that later.

But here's the thing. He's trying to present a story in which the therapeutics are the savior and the vaccines will be great and that the vaccines will finish it off but the therapeutic, especially Regeneron, if it's real and if it's working, is here now and it's a big difference. So he wants people to feel safer about the odds of catching it. So that's good. So he's dealing with the fear. How's he doing? Let me ask you this. When you saw President Trump go into Walter Reed, how much fear did you have about coronavirus? Probably a lot. You started with a healthy dose of fear for somebody in their 70s. Maybe you weren't afraid for yourself but you were certainly concerned about anybody in their 70s. And when he went in the hospital you were really concerned probably if you were a supporter. And when it turns out that this drug, if this is true and it could be true, the Regeneron made him feel instantly better, if that's true that makes you feel a lot safer, doesn't it? And again not safer necessarily for yourself but safer on behalf of the exposed vulnerable population. So I think that part's probably good. To the extent that he's sold the story that there's a therapeutic that can really make a difference. Big Pharma pushes new meds even at Walter Reed. Yeah, so Big Pharma was using this as a marketing opportunity. That's true. And successfully.

Now I hope we will not find that the president has any financial tie to Regeneron. I believe he used to have some stock in that company but doesn't anymore if that reporting is correct. I'd need a fact check on that. So I love the fact that he's selling the story that the therapeutics are already here and that will keep you alive in almost every case. That's a pretty good story and it is compatible with reopening the country.

In related news, in an unprecedented move it's been called, the editors of the New England Journal of Medicine have publicly condemned the Trump administration for their COVID pandemic response and calling for the current U.S. leadership to be voted out of office. That's pretty unprecedented because it's a medical organization and they don't usually, maybe never have, gotten involved in politics. But in their opinion the treatment of the medical part of his job, if you will, the pandemic, that according to them he's botched so badly he should be voted out of office. And they should break their long-standing tradition to make that case.

Here's what I get out of this. This is exactly why you can't let doctors make decisions. This is exactly why you shouldn't listen to doctors on big political decisions. Now should you listen to your doctor about a medical decision? Sure. Of course. Of course you listen to your doctor on a medical decision. Is the pandemic handling a medical decision? Nope. Nope. It's a very big decision. It's a national decision. It's a national defense decision. It's an economic decision. It's a mental health. It's a physical health. It's a medical decision. It's a lot of things. It's not a medical decision. This demonstrates the stupidity of doctors as well as just about anything could. They have ignored the economic part of the equation. That is stupid because they're at least smart enough to know they don't know that, right? It'd be one thing if you didn't know what you don't know. But doctors are smart in general, right? They're smart people. They're people with high IQs. They know they don't know economics and they know that that's the other part of the decision. And they have consciously decided to just ignore it. They know that freedom is the thing and the people want it and the people will willingly take a risk of dying to get it. Did they talk about freedom? Nope. Wasn't part of the conversation.

So doctors having a limited talent stack — meaning they could have all the talent in the world at doctoring — they know they don't have those other things. They know they don't speak for our freedom. They don't speak for your soul. They don't speak for your quality of life. They don't speak for the economy. They don't speak for national defense. But the president does. And the president took all of those things into consideration and made the decisions that he did. I believe he followed the medical decisions in every case. But I looked for a specific example because obviously if doctors are going to make such an unprecedented move they're going to have to give the reasons, right? So here are the reasons. For example they say in their statement, for example, masks work. What was there a point when the president said masks don't work? The only point that happened is when the doctors told him to say that. That's the only time. The only time Trump said masks don't work is when doctors told him to say it. That's it. As soon as the doctors reversed, Fauci and the surgeon general, etc., as soon as they reversed, Trump reversed too. Now he of course doesn't want to overdo the masks but he always said they worked. He's always promoted them. He carries one in his pocket. So the first part is just not true.

And then they say social distancing works. Was there ever a point where Trump said that doesn't work? No. These are just lies. They quarantined in isolation work, right? Again there's nobody including