perience, the Trump experience caused so much fake news in the United States coming from official sources that the citizens of this country learned that news is fake or can be or is narrative and all those things. And I don't think we knew that five years ago. Like as a country we didn't know it. We suspected it, you know, people talked about it, but we didn't know it. Now we know it.

Now we know we shouldn't trust our own sources, even American seemingly patriotic entities such as our intelligence agencies. We know we can't trust them. I think this is the best possible spin on the situation, which I like to give you anyway. I think the United States will be the most inoculated country when the future waves of enormous fake news start washing over the rest of the world, as they will. It'll probably have, but I think this is healthy in a weird way. Nobody would have asked for it, but if you survive it you get stronger, right?

I think we survived the worst fake news attack that any country in the modern world recently has seen. I think, yeah. The next question, as Guy is saying on Locals, the next question is has it always been this way? Has it always been this way? And my guess is it has, but the targets were different. Meaning that the public has always been brainwashed to be patriotic, for example. But we haven't been brainwashed to be divisive against each other. We've been brainwashed to be on the same team, brainwashed to be consumers, brainwashed to like capitalism, brainwashed to like freedom, brainwashed to like everything that's American.

So we certainly have always been brainwashed, and certainly the news has bias toward that brainwashing. But I'm not sure any of that was negative. Was it? Steve is saying, Steve is saying read Mark Twain on the news. Yeah, the news has always been full of BS. But I think the BS before might have been just more entertainment BS as opposed to dividing the country BS. But I would imagine that the journalism of yore was pretty darn bad.

John Adams says democracy never lasts long. Well, it's because we're not a democracy. That's probably why we are a republic. Yeah, let's get those bike paths. Good comment.

All right. As you all know, CNN finally fired Chris Cuomo, their biggest star, whose show appeared between Erin Burnett and Don Lemon. Wink wink. Those of you on YouTube have no idea why that's funny, but the people at Locals are already laughing. And I guess there was some more information that came out and blah blah. But Chris Cuomo was the top-rated star. Yeah, as Fox News liked to proddingly say, he was their only star. I still laugh at that. The Fox News characterization of their competitors: they only had one star and he had to get fired. Their best guy. Well, they just lost their best guy. He got fired for being awful.

I'm sure he will emerge and be fine. But you know, I think CNN had to do what they had to do. So there's not much of a story there except that, look at the difference of the cast of characters when 2014 rolls around. Think about how many people were the main people you were listening to back in the beginning of the Trump presidential era. So many of them are gone, cancelled, right? That's a lot of cancelling.

Now here's another one. How many dynasties did Trump destroy? How many dynasties did he destroy? Well, he destroyed the Bush dynasty by taking out Jeb. He ended that line. He took out the Clinton dynasty by beating Clinton. And depending on your point of view, he may have taken out the Cuomo dynasty just simply by existing, you know, and causing them to sort of be on the other team, which puts heat on them, which creates an indirect series of events that probably took out another dynasty.

I think Trump has taken out three American dynasties. The McCain family maybe. Am I right? Cheney, I don't know. And Romney, nah, not so much. They weren't dynasties. But who has destroyed three dynasties before? And who taught us about fake news? I'll tell you, the legacy of Trump is unparalleled at this point. You know, he, I don't think historians will ever give him credit for teaching us about fake news, but he did. It's probably one of the greatest accomplishments of any president, teaching us about reality. It's the first time anybody told us what reality actually looked like.

All right. You may have seen a clip, and if you haven't I recommend it. Trump, I guess he crashed a wedding in Mar-a-Lago and he was giving a speech and he was talking about General Milley and about the Afghanistan pullout and how he had conversations with Milley. And Milley was telling him it would be cheaper to leave all the assets there than to take them out. And Trump talked about the wisdom of that a little bit. And at the end of the story Trump said — and I'm going to swear a little bit, send the children away, send the children away, I'm just quoting Trump — then Trump said on video to a full room of people about General Milley, who was his top general at the time, he said, quote, "That's when I realized he was a fucking idiot."

I'm in love. Trump, you're so much trouble. You're so much trouble. Why do you make me love you? Why? I mean, he's got flaws. I've seen them. I'm not blind to his flaws. You know, he's an expensive president. You get some good stuff, but it's going to be expen