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mically. I don't know what that means but I'm going to say that the consensus of experts will be way worse than the economy. And I'm going to base it on some sort of a rule of thumb type stuff without a lot of analysis. Number one employment stays high. Number two we've had enough time to adjust our supply lines. You know maybe enough. Next every other country will be doing worse than us which I t…
← Previous segment →ty much the most fundamental part of our national DNA is that George Washington walked away from power. I would argue that nothing is more essential to the United States success than George Washington walked away from power and everybody learned it. You learned that when you were whatever grade right.
Trump will be projected to sweep the field. Everybody thinks he could get the nomination and I think any Republican can win now. So if Trump decided not to run he would be the first president ever who could do a legitimate George Washington. And if the reason he gave was that he was too controversial and there are other Republicans let's say who have similar policies but less controversy he would not only redeem himself for losing the first election but he would pass into legend territory. It would be legend. If he does a second term half of the country will think it was the end of the world and will always imagine it that way and half will think he did a good job probably. If he walks away when he's guaranteed to win and allows a Republican let's say to get in there and just do a good job—could be DeSantis, somebody else—he would be legend. You would be legend and you could never take that away from him. Even the Democrats would say oh the only problem we had with him was he was too provocative and he didn't want the country to go through that again. Think about it.
Now I don't think he's going to do it so this is not a prediction. It would seem counter to everything he's done. It would also be a big risk because it would take him out of the game like too early because he's not done. Like he's got more to do clearly. So unless he had more to do let's say we're working on Truth Social or we're working on fixing the media. If Trump left and said I'm going to work on fixing the debate so I'll host a debate show so you can see which side works. If Trump hosted a legitimate debate show he would run the country without being president. Doubt me? Go ahead tell me I'm wrong
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about that. You can't. If Trump said I'm not going to run because I don't think people this age should be president. But if Trump said I've aged into the job and I'm a little too provocative he would be legend. He would ascend basically. You would ascend to just god-like territory in the annals of presidents in my opinion. That would be my opinion that nothing could be a higher accomplishment than…
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