Back to episode — Episode 431 Scott Adams - Update on War With the Enemy of the People
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Now there was a hilarious but possibly shocking poll that we just saw go around. David Axelrod sent a poll around and I tweeted it, in which the priorities of the country were ranked. Of course stuff with the economy and healthcare and stuff were up toward the top, but way down at the bottom of the list of priorities, second from the bottom, was climate change. After all that's been said and done…
← Previous segment →All right, so we're watching CNN and the anti-Trumpers in general open what I call the portal to fake news hell. And that's in the form of primarily Michael Cohen. He's sort of the first demon out of the portal to fake news hell. And they have to work hard to come up with something because the president's got such a strong hand this week. First of all, whenever the president goes overseas, good things seem to happen, at least in terms of the public's opinion of his competency and everything else. So the fact that he's overseas at all is positive for the president because it always is. The fact that China is starting to talk about meeting at Mar-a-Lago because everybody's expecting things to turn into an agreement is fantastically good for this president. Can you imagine anything more mind-effing to the anti-Trumpers than if, we don't know this is going to happen yet so I'm getting ahead of myself but I do predict it will happen, what will the anti-Trumpers say if Trump comes up with a pretty good, and I won't even say great, if he comes up with a pretty good improvement on our trade agreement with China? And let's say it includes a lot of the intellectual property stuff. Now nobody would expect China not to try to cheat on stuff because you know it's the real world. But if we have an agreement that's got some teeth in it that says if you do cheat these things will happen, we might have something really good coming out of this. Don't know, too early to say, but suppose it happens. What would that do to the people who thought he was a crazy maniac? It will show that his approach is the best we've ever seen. And by his approach I'm going to describe it this way: being respectful and personal to the leaders of countries that are in some ways antagonistic to us, sometimes enemies, sometimes just competitors. But he's respectful and personal and very complimentary to the leader at the same time he acts tough as possible in the negotiations. That formula is probably going to be the formula that forever is considered the standard, assuming things go well with China.
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And then I'm also going to assume that things go well with North Korea because I think they are now. I'm still seeing people on social media saying to me, "Scott, you idiot, you idiot. Can't you see that the president has accomplished nothing in North Korea?" And that's a real head shaker because how could you watch the news for the past two years and conclude that the president has accomplished n…
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