Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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the country over to Trump. Well he's right. But what is behind the selfishness? I don't think the selfishness is he wants to be a two-term president. Biden might be the first legitimate president who said you know one term is fine. I don't know if anybody ever said that, but he might be the only person who ever legitimately expected to and wanted to have one term. Might be the only one because of…

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ink that? Yes? Okay, that's crazy. That's crazy.

Most of these are legal immigrants who had the wherewithal to get to America because they wanted to work in this system. Are you kidding me? Let me say this unambiguously. 50 million immigrants in the United States is financial gold. That's financial gold. Now hold on. If you're shocked by that, it's because you're confusing the troublemakers with the average. Don't confuse the troublemakers with the average. The quality of immigrants to the United States is probably unparalleled, even with as much trouble as we have with the illegal crossings. If you're looking at the whole picture, oh my God, do we get good immigrants. We get really good immigrants in general. Now at the moment we've got a quality problem because we're not vetting anybody. They're just running over. That's different. And I would grant you if all 50 million just ran across the border from every part of the world, you don't know which way that goes. But given that most of the immigrants came under some kind of a system where you had to be adding something to the economy, you need to get this straight. This is something you need to get right.

The United States has a declining population. We would be dead without immigrants. It's the difference between thriving and just being dead. So I'm saying people disagree with that. If you're disagreeing with that, you're completely off base. Yeah, that's not, this is

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not a matter of opinion. This is not a matter of opinion. I believe 100% of economists would agree. 100%. Find me one economist who disagrees with me, and not about illegal immigration but about the 50 million. You will not find one economist, left or right, who disagrees. I don't think. Right now again, everybody who's disagreeing with me, you're having the same problem. You're imagining that the…

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