Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 9, 2026
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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 t…

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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 that. And I'm right that I'm wrong? Yeah he's not going to do it.

So the trouble with my prognostication here is that everything you like about Trump tells you he won't do that am I right? Everything you like about him is he doesn't give up, doesn't apologize, doesn't quit. Like those are all the things you liked. So if he apologized and quit—I guess it wouldn't be an apology but it would be accepting his own limitations I guess—if he did that that would be so out of personality that you can't even imagine it really. I think he needs to win now. Imagine he won with a strong vice president. Imagine he wins with a real strong vice president and then he steps down in two years because he's not feeling well. That he still keeps the option but that would not feel as selfless because it would be stepping down and putting your own chosen vice president in charge. So that's not exactly George Washington material. Yeah and I don't see any I don't see him stepping down under any condition. I don't think that Trump would pick Kerry Lake. Tell me why. Go tell me why Trump will not pick Kerry Lake as a VP. Well too soon. That's probably all the reason you need. Too strong. Yeah too strong. You don't want to pick somebody that people will continually say you know maybe you should make her president. You don't want that conversation to happen at all. And that didn't happen with Pence did it? Was there a lot of conversation about how Pence should have been the top of the ticket? I don't remember hearing that even once. Yeah Pence was perfect. That was just—I can't say enough good things about Mike Pence. I don't want him to be president but my god do I respect that man for the service he did to the country.

All right I think we've done everything we need to do today. Let's go do some other things. Am I right that this was the most amazing livestream you've ever seen? Did I pull my theme together? Peak absurdity. Anybody? Did I make my case? I think I did. I think I did. All right well then in that case we've done what we need to do today and I'll see you tomorrow.

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about Mike Pence. I don't want him to be president but my god do I respect that man for the service he did to the country. All right I think we've done everything we need to do today. Let's go do some other things. Am I right that this was the most amazing livestream you've ever seen? Did I pull my theme together? Peak absurdity. Anybody? Did I make my case? I think I did. I think I did. All righ…

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