Back to episode — Episode 1220 Scott Adams - Good News on COVID-19, Biden Warned us About Himself, Historians Screwed
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rent histories? How do you write a history book at let's say the college level that would include this era? What would you say about the Trump administration? Would you say Russia collusion was real? Would you say the fine people hoax actually happened? Would you say that the president really did suggest drinking bleach? Because these are the things that will become the permanent record. They beco…
← Previous segment →s, and your government is going to be one of those two things. Or if you're lucky it could be deadlocked. But I think there might be something that's even better than that, which is alternating Trump-like presidents with Biden-like presidents. In other words, the best situation might be not a Trump-like candidate forever and not a Biden-like candidate forever. It might be — and I would make a strong argument for this actually, and I'm going to right now — that your best situation is to alternate. And the reason is that they have different skills and there are some problems that some of them can solve the other cannot.
So let me give you an example of some things that I think Trump was uniquely qualified for. And if he hadn't done what he had done, much of it will be lasting I think. If he had not done those things, another president I don't think could have done these things. But I'm going to tell you that also there might be some things that Biden can get done that you would want to get done, things that you would want that even Trump couldn't get done because he was sort of polarizing to say the least.
So here are things that Trump probably did that are close to impossible. The Middle East peace deals. Making North Korea sort of a little buddy that doesn't bother us too much. Project Warp Speed, incredible success. Decoupling from China. I don't think you would have seen that from really anybody else. I don't think anybody would have been as effective with ISIS, and we haven't had much terrorism problems, have we? I don't think anybody would have done as good a job with Iran if you think that that approach to it was the right way to go, to put them in a position where they'll have to negotiate, which is about where they are now. Trump got not just good employment, he had record low unemployment. I don't know if another president could have done that. He did the NAFTA deals. He's done other trade deals that probably wouldn't have happened. He broke records for appointing judges. If you'd like
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that kind of judge, probably you needed Trump to have — if Trump had not gotten elected against all odds, all of those positions would have gone the other way. And that's a pretty big deal if you like that kind of judge. And I would argue that even Trump's wall design for the wall with the border of Mexico, that even if Biden says he doesn't like it and doesn't want to build a wall, he's a little…
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