Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 24, 2026
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us. I'll give you some examples as we go. All right, we'll just talk about the headlines, but watch how this thesis comes together. Well, here are some things that I think you would all agree that Trump looks better today than he ever did, right? Immigration. As France is burning, do you think Trump is looking good on immigration? Never better. Never better. He is at the all-time peak of looking…

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So I still think that CO2 probably adds to warming. I just don't think the projections about it are necessarily credible. However, this situation is very Trump-friendly, isn't it? Imagine if we go another year without anything that looks like significant warming. By the way, let me say carefully that would not disprove climate change. You could have five or even 10 years of not much warming or even a little cooling, and that would not, I want to be very careful about that, would not disprove climate change. It would certainly make you scratch your head, right? It would make you look a little more closely at the other numbers. It would certainly raise a red flag. But it doesn't get quite to the level of disproving it, because you would need a much longer time period to do that.

Because even the pro-CO2 people, the people who are saying it's beyond the warming, even they don't say it's the only factor. Nobody says that. So the other factors could bounce it around. But the idea would be over time it's definitely going to trend up, even if a few years is down. I don't know what's true. But in the context we're talking about it today, I will say that that situation is more friendly to Trump than at any time in the past. Would you agree that there's never been a moment in modern America, let's say last 20 years, there's never been a moment when the external facts were friendlier to skepticism? Is that true? Would you say that the data is supporting the skeptics, albeit temporarily and albeit not proof of anything, not proof of anything, but it just happens to be moving in their direction at the moment?

So how about Ukraine? About the situation in Ukraine. We'll talk about the false flag. But does that look like it's friendlier to a Trump administration? Yes. Yes it is. Because people actually do believe he could end it in a day. Do you think the Democrats believe that? Do you think the Democrats believe that Trump could end the Ukraine war in a day?

Now I will, if you remove the hyperbole, if you remove the hyperbole, he doesn't literally mean a day, right? He doesn't need 24 hours. But he could. I think it's actually possible. It's within the realm of possibility that he could do it in one day, because you just have to agree to a ceasefire and then work out the details. But I don't think so. I mean, if I had to bet on it, I wouldn't bet anything happens in one day ever. You know, we don't live in the one-day world.

But do you think that Democrats doubt, do you think they doubt that Trump could end it? I don't think they do. I think that they grudgingly, and not all of them of course, right? Some are so dug in that they would never say he could do anything. But there's got to be a solid 25 percent of Democrats who are saying to themselves, well, Biden definitely is not getting us out of this war. That seems clear to everybody. Biden is not getting us out of any wars. But would Trump? You don't know. He might. He would try. Nobody's trying right now.

So you don't think that 25 percent of Democrats kind of prefer peace no matter how hypnotized or bra

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inwashed they are about Ukraine? You don't think 25 percent are solidly holding out with independent thought and they have an anti-war bias and they're thinking, I hate Trump. I freaking hate Trump. But he might stop this war. Everything's going his way right now, like in a very substantial way. How about Hunter's laptop and the corruption that we all saw there? It just proves everything about Tr…

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