ike it's expensive for him. He's going to take a lot of hits and it appears purely good for the country in the sense that it expands our productive conversation about everything. And I could not say enough good things about what he's adding to the process right now. He's adding a lot and I think he's going to make Trump stronger. I think he'll make the Democrats have to up their game hopefully in a productive way. So I don't know if he's going to win or lose. And by the way I don't agree with everything he says but that's also not necessary, right? If he says his view clearly, backs it up with his reasoning and I still disagree with him I'm cool with that. That's a good situation. I just want to see good arguments without any like. And he provides that. So far all I've seen is complete honesty and he's not pulling any punches and he's such a good communicator that every topic he touches gets better. That's my view. Everything he touches gets better through his clarifying clear language basically. He's I think he made his money in tech I believe.

Don't let your thoughts get divided against Trump. Here's what I'm going to do with talking about Trump. I think everybody knows who he is right so there's not really any explaining that needs to be done about Trump. He's just such a well-known entity at this point that I don't really need to change anybody's opinions about anything. I wouldn't feel any impulse to even try. So I think at this point the best way for me to talk about Trump is the warts as well as the benefits. Do you think that's fair? If I cover what I don't like about his campaign but I also cover what I like. Everybody okay with that? Because he's not exactly a flawless candidate but people understand that. It's transparent. Trump's flaws are so transparent like we all see them.

The funniest conversation I have with the Democrats, we'll see if any of you have the same experience. The funniest conversation I have is when they remind me of the bad things he's done and they think that's a reason that I shouldn't want him to be president again. And I look at the list of bad things he's done and I say I know about all those. I know about Trump University. Yeah I've heard of that. I've heard of Stormy Daniels. I know all of that. I still think he's the best choice probably. I mean we'll see what the candidate situation shapes up as. I can change my mind. Now my first choice would be Vivek because he's younger. I don't know if he has a path because Trump's position is so dominant it's hard to say. But I think I could be consistently saying that I'd prefer Vivek. At the same time I can say Trump brings a set of benefits that the country needs as well.

My biggest concern with Trump is that he brings so much controversy that we get lost in that. If the only thing we could get is Trump's policies like on energy for example that would be cool. But what he brings is so much consternation from the other side that you can't get anything done. And that's got to be part of the analysis. It's not his fault entirely. You can argue it is but it's more of a media phenomenon. On the other hand do the Republicans not get to have their first choice just because the media won't like it? That's not a good enough reason to keep him out of office. So we'll have to deal with that I guess.

He isn't owned. You know that does seem to be the case doesn't it? Could you say at this point that no matter what you liked or didn't like about Trump do you feel that he was owned by anybody? Because I'm actually curious. I feel like now yeah owned by his ego. Somebody says well we're all owned by our own egos. You say he's not owned but he's manipulated. Well I don't know manipulated. One of the things you hear about Trump is that he can change his mind. Who was it was saying that Trump will listen to an argument and then listen to the next argument and then change his mind to the new argument. I want more of that not less of that. That's being presented as a flaw. The ability to change your mind with a better argument is sort of an advantage. Now if it's a bad argument and it changes his mind that's a problem but he does seem pretty good at spotting BS so we'll see. Oh yeah Kimberly Guilfoyle said that.

If Trump somehow goes to jail or collapses in the primaries I've got a feeling that Vivek is your emergency spare. So I would keep him totally inflated if you know what I mean. If you're a Republican you should have a backup plan to Trump because anything could happen. Part of it's age. Anything could happen. But there could be some legal thing you didn't see coming. Anything. So I would say even if Vivek is your first choice you realistically Trump's leading the pack but he could self-destruct pretty easily or somebody could destroy him easily. Could happen. I don't think it will. I think the odds are that Trump will sail right through and be in the general election but you have to be ready for that.

Here's my current view on DeSantis running. These smart people seem to have reached a general agreement and it goes like this. If he runs in 2024 DeSantis will be so destroyed by Trump that he might be done forever. He might be done forever. But if he just continues to do a solid job in Florida