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se AI is going to have access to the internet, right? It has to. What happens when AI has access to the internet? How is it going to know what's true? Or will it know and we won't? Or what if it finds out none of it's true, which would be closer to the truth for political stuff? It's kind of an interesting story, isn't it? Who gets to decide what constitutes intelligence? Because
← Previous segment →if I were training the AI, I'd say, okay, these stories were all BS, these ones you can depend on. But that would be my opinion. If somebody else trained the AI, they would point to entirely different stories and say the ones that I think are real are all fake. So what's the AI going to do? I don't know. I actually don't know.
We'll start getting rid of the trolls right away.
Over in Florida they're doing the recovery, and poor Sanibel Island is totally cut off from the mainland and things are pretty dire there. It's completely uninhabitable. But apparently the island is now being inundated with alligators and snakes. So I don't know if there's anybody on the island, but Sanibel Island like a month ago would have been a touristy, high-end destination. And now it's literally an alligator snake hellhole, uninhabitable. Now that is a quick turnaround. God. Well, we wish them the best.
Let's talk about Trump mocking McConnell's wife. Did you all see that? He's back. Trump, I don't know, he just doesn't have any way to stay out of trouble. You know, I speculated — well, not speculated, but I've talked about how easy it would be for Trump to win re-election and be the best president of all time. Here's how easy it would be. Just don't say stuff like he said yesterday. Just don't do that. Just sort of be normal. You would, you know, people say, my God, he decided to act normal and then, you know, he was a great president. It would be so easy for him to not piss people off.
But maybe I shouldn't second guess him. Maybe he knows exactly what he's doing. He's getting all the attention again, right?
So here's what he said about McConnell's wife. So Mitch McConnell favored some Democrat legislation Trump doesn't like. So he goes after his wife. Something something is very Trump-like. Go after a guy's wife. And no, I don't approve of this, just in case you're wondering. I'm laughing at it, but I don't approve of it. You know, I disavow this. Seriously, I don't think you should go after somebody's wife. That's really too far. We're a spouse.
So here's what he tweeted. So McConnell's wife was born in Taiwan and her name is Elaine Chao. And Chao is spelled C-H-A-O. So you have to have this background to know. And Trump referred to her on Truth Social as McConnell's quote China-loving wife Coco Chow.
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Now I don't know why it is that Trump can say things that as soon as he says them, you know immediately nobody else could have ever said that. And I don't mean just getting away with it or not. I don't mean just as provocative. I mean nobody would have chosen these words. You know, they talk about if you had a million monkeys typing infinitely on the typewriters, they would eventually write the full works of Shakespeare. But no matter how many monkeys you had and no matter how long they worked with their typewriters, they would never write anything that Trump ever says. The stuff that he says, just nobody would ever say. Yeah, it's the most completely original stuff you've ever seen. Love it or hate it, it's all so original that it just jumps out at you.
All right, so let's break this apart. Number one, is it racist? Your opinion. Is it racist? I will drink my coffee and watch your comments. A lot of you say no. Why not? Why is it racist? Clearly her ethnicity has been brought into question. How can you say it's not racist? You don't think it's even a little bit racist? Okay, I think this audience is a little bit too far in the bag. You're a little bit too far on your team. I think it's a little bit racist. It's a little bit racist. Is it a crime against humanity? No, no, it's not a crime against humanity. Can she handle it? Well, I don't think she loves it, and I don't favor it. I wouldn't do it if I were him. But he did it, and there it is.
So let's break it apart. Is she a China-loving wife? Well, she's a wife. Does she have favorable opinions about China? I believe that is demonstrably true. Now that doesn't mean she favors China's policies. I'm not saying that, and Trump isn't either. But she has a very fond family connection to China itself, and that's well known. That's not, I don't think there's any controversy about that. It's all transparent, right? It's her own family. I mean, it's a very family. So yeah, of course she has an affinity for them.
So what Trump is saying is, you know, in his Trump way, he's saying it the provocative way, but it's a fact you should know about. Do you think it's important that the public, the American public, knows that the minority leader — now could be the majority leader — do you think it's important that we know that he's married to somebody who has a deep connection to China? I think that's important. I do think that's important.
Now, is it racist to assume that that's a problem? But I feel like it's important because everybody's biased, you know. Just as we are all, so is she, so is McConnell. Don't you think McConnell is a little bit biased toward his wife? I hope so. You don't think Elaine Chao is a little bit biased for her family? I hope so. We should all probably be that way. So I don't think Trump is saying anything that's even controversial. It's just he says it in the most provocative way.
But then he calls her by a name that's not hers. Now he of course has a history of giving people nicknames, but why Coco Chow? Well, we don't know, but let us speculate. Coco is short for — or what does Coco refer to? See, this is a tough question for men. Would the ladies please explain to the men what Coco refers to? Thank you. Coco Chanel, right? It's Coco Chanel, I assume.
Now Trump would be well-versed in luxury brands, and Coco Chanel, Chanel would be one of the top luxury brands. So it could be that he's mocking her for her high-end style. That's probable, don't you think? That she just likes high-end stuff? Probably. But the Chao part, the C-H-O-W instead of her actual spelling C-H-A-O, that could actually be a typo. Have you ever sent a tweet or a message and the fact check or the autocorrect happened after you had already moved on? How many times have you done that? You're typing along and you're watching your typing and you type C-H-A-O, you go, okay, that looks good, you keep going. But after you've left it, it goes boop and autocorrects back to the wrong thing, and you've already moved on, so you don't reread it
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, right? Now I don't know if that's what happened, but let's check it. Let's find out. I'm going to try to write C-H-A-O into a tweet and see what happens. I don't have to speculate. I can test it live. Okay, testing. All right. Now if I start with C-H-A, um, how do you spell it? Nope, it did not autocorrect. It did not autocorrect because I capitalized it and probably because it knows it's a nam…
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