ont side of the whiteboard I'm having people come at me today and say some version of this: Scott, now will you admit that you were wrong all along about Trump? Now you can admit from day one, Scott, Scott, Scott, you were wrong about Trump and now is the time to admit it. They say to me. To which I say, unlike my critics I can do a thing called math. I could also compare things without being emotionally overwhelmed while doing it. Watch me do it right now. Watch how I am not emotionally overwhelmed by simply looking at the costs and the benefits of a situation.

Now a lot of people can't do this. For example here would be my impression of a Trump hater trying to evaluate the pluses and the minuses of President Trump. We'll start with the minuses because his critics deal with those most productively. Now I give you my impression of a Trump critic speaking about the Capitol riots, which most people believe Trump had some role in directly or indirectly encouraging. This is the critic talking about President Trump's flaws. Oh what a flaw. Whoa, did you see that Capitol? Oh yeah, look at it right there. I'm not imagining it now. Yeah look at the flaw. It's right on television. Even Republicans, even Republicans are saying it's a flaw.

So that's a Trump critic talking about the Capitol protests. Man are they happy. They're really happy. Now I'd like to give you an impression of that same person talking about the good things that President Trump did. Mr. Trump critic, what do you think of what Trump did for the economy at least before the coronavirus? Well, find people, drinks bleach. No I'm just asking you, just limit it to the economy. Let's say jobs. How do you do on just jobs? Orange man, orange man. Okay, how about you've heard that he's been nominated for two Nobel Peace Prizes. So how do you think he did in the Middle East? Move the embassy, probably gonna start a war, ISIS.

So you can't really even have a conversation with anybody on this topic. You literally can't have anything like a conversation.

So here's the way I look at it. For those of you who are going to ask me do you still think it was a good idea to support the president, to which I say all presidents are deeply flawed just in different ways. Do you think Jimmy Carter was a winner? George Bush junior. We have a lot of bad presidents. So here's how I do it. I make a list of the benefits you got from your president and this would apply to any president. So I could be talking about Bill Clinton here. If I were talking about Bill Clinton he'd have a pretty big list of good stuff he did but he might have some negative things too. That's the way I would look at any president.

So do I regret, do I apologize for supporting Trump despite the fact that we all agree he had a role in a very bad incident this week in which at least five people died? Horrible, horrible. But it doesn't make the other stuff go away. You can be against his rhetoric and his personality and you know certainly you could be totally against everything that happened this week but that doesn't mean that he didn't appoint lots of judges, defeat ISIS, become the first president to take China seriously and push back. He's got two Nobel Peace Prize recommendat