all up? It's ambitious. I would have said huge, huge, enormous. If you said enormous, there would be no opinion in there. But as soon as you say ambitious, that's an opinion. And the New York Times is already defending against Project Veritas for their opinions that they're packaging as news. Here's another example. That's an opinion packaged as news.

All right. Here's some fake news that probably fooled you. Did you see that on Twitter the phrase "Uncle Tim" was trending? Obviously an insulting play on the phrase Uncle Tom. And it was because of Tim Scott, Senator Tim Scott's rebuttal. How many of you saw that trending and then you said to yourself, my God, these liberals are so racist. God, they're so racist. They're so racist that not only would somebody use this phrase "Uncle Tim," very insulting, but so much it would be trending. How many of you fell for that?

Do you know why it was trending? Do you know why? Because one guy said it in a tweet and conservatives went crazy and retweeted it saying, my God, look at this. The conservatives retweeted it so much — one guy, just one guy — then it trended. And then once it trended, the conservatives said look at how bad these liberals are. They made this thing trend. But of course it was the conservatives. It was one guy. Look at all the tweets. They're all pointing to the same guy. One idiot. And you got fooled into thinking that the liberals are all saying Uncle Tom. It was one guy. If you don't see how this happens, you're missing a pretty big part of the media.

My biggest problem with Tim Scott is that he's got a pretty good shot of being president, I would say. But he shares my name and I'm not cool with that. Because if we ever had a President Scott, and of course people refer to the president by just their last name, you know, Biden and Trump, Scott, I would have to wake up every day hearing what Scott did that people don't like. And I can't have that. So while I think Senator Tim Scott is a very qualified guy, certainly has every qualification I would look for in a president, but I just can't have it. I just can't have somebody with my name as president. That would just be too annoying for four to eight years.

So a lot of people on the right loved Tim Scott's rebuttal. I listened to it this morning and I didn't see it, honestly. I was expecting Senator Scott's speech to be like — I heard a number of people saying it's the best one they've ever seen, which I don't doubt, by the way. It might actually be the best one anybody's ever seen for a rebuttal because the bar for rebuttals is super low, right? You know that the rebuttal people are usually pathetic in my experience. You get your Adam Schiffs being the rebuttal guy. If you have Adam Schiff be your rebuttal guy, you don't even care about the rebuttal. I mean, you wouldn't put that guy in there, but that happens, right? So to have anybody do a solid job looks like the best that's ever happened.

So he did a solid job. I would say that the senator is a very capable speaker and he had lots of themes about coming together, etc. I don't think any of it matters because it just looks like conservatives talking to conservatives. So I don't think that Senator Scott has language that is penetrating the other side. And when he said America is not a racist country, everybody with good reading comprehension said the following: Oh, he means that the country is not racist by design because everybody can move up. But obviously he's not saying there are no racists in the country. Obviously he's not saying that everybody's starting from the same place. Obviously. But because he made this statement, which I think was just a pure mistake in my opinion, that America is not a racist country, there are lots of ways you could have said that that would have avoided the problem that you walked into, which is that it will be taken out of context easily. And in a context it already is, and it's being used as a sign that Republicans don't understand racism exists. So he dug a hole and he fell into his own hole. So it was a huge persuasion mistake in my opinion to say the phrase "America is not a racist country," even if you believe it's true and even if you're pretty sure Republicans will agree with you. Because you're trying to persuade the other side or what's the point? I mean, talking to your own side is not really persuading anybody. So I would say that that was a mistake because it opened up easy attack vector.

And you know, Van Jones weighed in here. He said that the United States is still struggling with racism in every institution. Did Tim Scott disagree with that? No, no. Tim Scott never said anything that is in disagreement with that. But they can make it look like it is. And that was his mistake.

And then Van Jones also said, to Tim Scott's credit, he said how different he sounds from