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st use the same word. So the problem is that narcissism can mean this good kind where people are just trying to do something great for the world and actually makes them better at doing those things. What's wrong with that one? So that's the kind that I see Trump as. He actually feels he has some role to fix the world and then he goes out and he kind of does it. So wasn't it good that he had that o…

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n't even care that he walks like a statue. I don't care. I wouldn't even care if he was stealing money from Ukraine. I wouldn't care if his son was coked up and firing bullets in the air if their policies were even a little bit okay. The border is open. Are you kidding me? We're spending our money in Ukraine for God knows what. Are you kidding me? Inflation through the roof. It's crazy. Really, Charlamagne, the policies are good, it's just the way they're talking about it that's the problem? No, nobody thinks that.

All right, but what he said about the messaging was funny and good. He used three examples of good messaging from Republicans and you'll be amazed who he picked. He picked Senator Kennedy, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Trump as three examples of good messaging and a way to talk to the public. Specifically what he said is you should talk like people talk and that people don't want to hear a politician talk, they want to hear a real person talk and that whether you like it or not. So he's not endorsing what they said, just the quality with which they said it in a way people can relate to. Totally agree. That was a good observation I think. And by the way I've been saying that since Trump came on the scene. Remember in 2015 everybody said he's talking like a sixth grade vocabulary and I kept saying you mean the best way you could ever talk? Well but you don't understand, he's talking like a sixth grader. And then I would say again, okay but you're complimenting him right? Don't you understand he's communicating like a sixth grader? Okay I'm hearing you but do you understand that's the best way to talk to the public?

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And eight years later Charlamagne says you know that's the best way to talk to the public. Trump did that to you. He went from why is he talking like a child to we should all be talking like that. I mean that's the way to talk. That's what works and he's right. Gavin Newsom being Gavin Newsom at the border. He's in full lizard mode and he's got a little video in which he's talking about how he's…

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