Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 2, 2026
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So Mulvaney did a little press thing and he got attacked for his performance but I watched it and I thought it was quite good. I thought Mulvaney should be doing more of these actually. Now the point of contention is that he said that it's normal business and you should get over it. Talking about any president negotiating any kind of quid pro quo with another country. That's exactly the right answ…

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The Kamala Harris campaign accidentally did something right but then they quickly reversed it so they continue to be the worst campaign I've ever seen. I mean they're actually humorously bad. So what happened was, you all remember the famous photo of Nancy Pelosi at the meeting recently about Ukraine? No the meeting about Syria. And Nancy is standing up and pointing at the president and you know it's a roomful of older white men so it makes the picture even more interesting because of the contrast. Well the Harris team humorously replaced President Trump with a picture of Kamala not sitting but standing and posing with her arms crossed. And the caption was, you know, it's time for an upgrade. So they were showing Kamala replacing President Trump in that room situation with, you know, time for an upgrade.

Now apparently that was deleted. I guess the campaign manager or somebody put that meme up there but deleted it because people were changing the photo and photoshopping it and turning it into anti-Kamala stuff. Here's what I say. It was the best thing the campaign has done so far. Not because it was necessarily that funny. It was funny enough. I mean it gave me a little charge of that's pretty funny. I like what they did there. And it wasn't the funniest thing in the world but it was funny. It was funny enough. So on that level as just a meme, pretty good. But here's the great part about it. The great part about it is it allowed you to imagine her president and working the job. And that's one of the biggest persuasion objectives is you first have to be able to imagine any of these candidates in the job.

This is what I wrote about and talked about extensively when President Trump was candidate Trump and he was running for office and you couldn't imagine this orange force of nature becoming a president. You literally couldn't put it in your brain. Trump in the White House. And then he did Saturday Night Live and he greenlit it because of course the candidate has to approve whatever they appear in. So he approved the skit in which he showed himself as the president working in the Oval Office doing the job of a president. Now there were jokes but we don't remember any of the jokes. We remember the visual. There was the president, the non-candidate Trump looking like he was already in the job. It was great persuasion.

Then what did Hillary Clinton do? She also went on Saturday Night Live and she accepted a skit in which she played somebody at a bar drinking too much. She actually approved an image of herself drinking. Trump approved an image of himself as the working president. Those are not equal. Those are not equal. One of them did it right. One of them did it as wrong as you could possibly do it. Kamala's team accidentally apparently did exactly the right thing. They allowed us to imagine her working the job. And because of the gender thing surrounded by all these unhappy looking men it was just a powerful meme. And the fact that their campaign deleted it because I guess there were some funny responses, all that was also a mistake. Well that was the mistake. The mistake was deleting it because the more attention the original picture got, even if the subsequent ones were more insulting, the better it is for Kamala. The better it is. So that happened.

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All right. One of my favorite stories of the week is that Trump has decided to select his own Doral golf course as the site for the G7. So just when we're talking about Hunter Biden and conflict of interests and all this, from a list of I don't know ten places, coincidentally out of all those ten places the very best place was Trump's own resort. I love this story. Here's why I love it. What the p…

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