Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 23, 2026
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Bump, bump, bump. Whoa, how's my shirt? Oh my god, my shirt's on inside out. Hey everybody, I'm wearing my shirt inside out, and if that doesn't tell you how tired I am, nothing will. There's nothing like realizing that your shirt is inside out after you've started the Periscope. Sorry I'm late.

Four people had lots of speculation about what a Trump presidency would look like. Now I also had speculations, as most of you did. So let's... hey Colleen. Colleen said say my name, so I did. Don't try that trick again. It only works once.

So let's check our predictions and we'll see if the critics were more accurate or I was. And you're probably on the same page as me. So let's compare ourselves to the critics.

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These are the predictions before President Trump took office. He would deport 11 million undocumented aliens. I said he wouldn't. His critics said he would, because he said he would during the campaign. But of course he did not, and there's really no chance that that's going to happen. His critics said he would move us toward nuclear war. It appears the opposite has happened. We appear further fr…

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