Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 12, 2026
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u put on a private anonymous report of something? Well not much, right? But in this case it is. Do you remember that all the leaks from anonymous sources about Trump were negative for Trump? But here's a leak, I guess it'd be a leak, about a story about Joe Biden that makes Joe Biden look extra good behind closed doors. Not only is Joe Biden fighting for the migrant children, but he's even beating…

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ixing this problem turned out to be really hard and it wasn't just a case of whether you were Republican or Democrat. It's just hard to fix it. So even Biden with all the resources in the world and all of the good intentions apparently, he couldn't even get his own hand-picked person to fix it well enough. So I think that gives us a little perspective about Trump's performance on that same topic.

Now I also asked on Twitter how many executive orders did Trump make in which he cut regulations? Do you know the number? Because I remember I feel like it was reported at one time because he was doing that thing where they'd cut ten regulations for every one that they introduced. What did the number get up to? Can somebody tell me in the comments? Google that for me and tell me how many regulations he got rid of. Is it in the hundreds or is it in the thousands? It's a lot, right? So I think it's at least high hundreds. Am I wrong about that? Somebody's saying 500 but I don't know if you actually know the number. All right, so let's say some big number whether it's hundreds or low thousands, somewhere in that range.

How many of them have

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been reversed by Biden? Do you know what percentage? We hear about some specific ones, right? You've heard about some of his executive orders that have been reversed. But reversing an executive order is different from reinstituting some regulations that Trump got rid of with an executive order, right? So we do know that executive orders have been reversed, but what percentage of the, let's say, hu…

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