. Like they're just trying to steer him toward the stairs more. It's like, well, there's no term limits, but how would you like to go upstairs and meet in the room upstairs? Oh, well, I have to do my McConnell impression. Can I do a McConnell impression? I've never tried this before.

"Hey, Mitch, why don't you come upstairs? We'll meet in the conference room upstairs, third floor. No, no, not the elevator. No, no, the elevator's for idiots. No, no, you're fine. You're fine. Just take the stairs."

Oh, all right. I think I nailed it. That probably would be the clip that takes over the internet today. So yeah, they hate him.

Let's talk about Trump and Gaza some more. So most of the complaints about Trump wanting to own Gaza or the United States own it is based on the opposite of what he said. So we're not going to spend money in Gaza. No, he said we're not going to spend any money. We're not going to put those boots on the ground. No, we're not going to put any boots on the ground. Well, but we're not going to spend any money. No, we already covered that. We're not going to spend any money. We're just going to help organize the people who do spend the money. But those boots on the ground, again, no boots on the ground. No money, no spending, no boots on the ground. I don't know. My problem is all the spending and the boots on the ground. Are you even listening to me? No spending, no boots on the ground.

That was the spokesperson, Caroline Leavitt, trying to answer questions. Yes, there'll be no expense. But what about all the expense? I just said no expense.

So do we think this would work? Well, let me tell you what I love about today. I love the fact that when it became clear, let's see, I guess Mike Waltz, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, said directly he said that Trump's proposal to take over Gaza is meant to pressure neighboring Arab states to come up with their own solution. Now, most of you knew that, didn't you? Just think about how far we've come. And I'm going to take a victory lap on this one.

Imagine that Trump says something wildly provocative like America should own Gaza and we'll take care of it. And then your head explodes, as mine did. And then after the explosion subsides, I think about it. I go, oh, okay, this is just Trump. He's just creating some options out of nothing. And he's shaking the box, and he's trying to get the other people to hate him as the common enemy so that they can come up with an idea that does work instead of their dumb ideas that don't work. Basically, nobody had any other idea. If you think about it, nobody, not a single person, had an actual real practical idea of what to do. So Trump comes up with his arguably impractical but maybe possible idea. And now they've got to fight with a real thing. Now they've got to say, uh, we hate it. Yeah, but what's your idea? Well, my idea is I hate his idea. No, no, what's your idea? We're all ears. We'll abandon Trump's idea in a heartbeat. Let's hear your good idea. Uh, his plan won't work. No, again, you're only talking about his plan. Let's hear your idea, the alternative idea. What are you going to do? Trump's racist.

So that's sort of the way it's been going. But now they've got something they actually have to wrestle with. Because like I always say, he's not bluffing. It's persuasion, but it's not a bluff. If nobody comes up with a better idea, he's just going to say, all right, we'll take it and you have to pay for it. And if you don't pay for it, we'll just own it and it'll just sit there. We don't care if it doesn't cost us any money and we don't have any boots on the ground. We'll just let it sit there. If you want to help us, we'll organize that, make sure it gets cleaned up and ready to go. I definitely don't want to see any American forces cleaning up unexploded bombs and toxic debris. I would like to see no Americans do that. That's the job for Israel. If there's any unexploded ordnance, that's all Israel. You got to take care of that, guys. That's all on you.

But here's what I like. I like that as soon as it became clear that it was more of a negotiating, you know, just shake the box idea, did you see the number of people on social media who said, I knew it. It's the first thing I thought. That's completely new. In 2016, if Trump said something like this, that we're going to own Gaza, people would have said, well, I told you he was crazy. I told you he was crazy. He doesn't have a single smart idea. He has no experience in government. He doesn't know how anything works. He's a clown. He's probably just wants to put his friends in charge of it so they can make some money. It's a grift, right? That was the way you understood anything he said that was provocative.

But today, the entire at least the right-leaning news, the left-leaning news is just propaganda, but the right-leaning news and the right-leaning social media, almost every single person said, I know what that is. I know what that is. That's the thing he does. That's where Trump creates options out of nothing. He's doing it again. I feel like, or at least AI says that I'm the reason that people can see politics as persuasion. When before I got involved, people saw it as policy differences, and they would have treated this as a policy difference. Wait a minute, my policy would be better than that. But nobody sees this as a policy. They see it as pure persuasion. And I'm pretty sure that's me. I think that's almost entirely me. And not entirely me alone, because if I teach people to recognize it, they teach other people to recognize it. They write articles, and other people recognize it. So yeah.

So here ar