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Back to episode — Episode 2769 CWSA 03/05/25

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that says he's part of the Secret Service. And then there was a moment that was the best moment. So I think the kid's name was DJ, and the kid just looks at it. He's just blown away. It's like the happiest thing. It's just what he loves. And he just goes in for the hug. He just grabs this guy he never met, this white guy who's just the head of the Secret Service I believe, and the 13-year-old jus…

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y Trump gave the stink eye to somebody because he was sort of glad-handing and saying hi to everybody and then he did this look to the right and just gave this look and then looks away. And I think he was looking at the pink suit lady.

Anyway, what else happened? So basically I've been making fun of the Democrats for not being authentic where Trump is completely owning the authentic part of the argument. And so the Democrats in order to be more authentic they have this entire theater kid skit. They're trying to put on like a competing play so that they get more attention than Trump does. So they're dressing all in pink and they got their little signs that say stuff like "Musk steals." Even the little signs are stupid. So they got these little douchebaggy signs and their little douchebaggy pink outfits.

And CNN did an instant poll to see how the public was taking it, especially the Democrats interrupting. And 80%, 80% said the Democrats interrupting was inappropriate. It means they couldn't even get their own team on their side. They were so just wrong in every way.

And then CBS News, YouGov, did a poll and found that 76% of the viewers approved of Trump's speech. 76%. How in the hell do you get 76% to approve of any president's speech? Is that even real? Now I realize these are not the most scientific polls. They're kind of instant polls. But even a non-scientific instant poll, if it's on CBS or if it's on CNN, you sort of expect it to lean in one direction. But it leaned pretty hard in the other direction. So the whole 80-20 thing kicked in again.

The Democrats found the only thing they could have done which 80% of the public would disagree with in the context of being the party that's being accused of always being on the wrong side of every 80-20. They created a whole new topic which is the disturbance of the president's speech and they turned it into an 80-20 against themselves while they're being accused of being the idiots who can't find an 80-20 topic. It could not have been funnier.

Anyway, so all the theater kids got together and put on their little douchebag play and it didn't work out.

And then Trump, of course I've always been a big fan of Trump's nicknames, but I have to be honest there was one nickname that when he first came up with it I felt this doesn't feel like it's up to his usual standard. And I never embraced it and it was Pocahontas. Now I'm not sure why I didn't like it. I guess it was maybe it was too on the nose or somehow disrespectful to Native Americans or something. I don't know. I didn't have a specific complaint but that one I felt like not really on point.

But what I've learned is that if you stay in character and you relentlessly stay in character and you just never leave your character, which is what Trump does better than anybody, you can eventually normalize anything. And Trump has normalized his nickname thing to the point where if he didn't do it you'd be disappointed.

And my best analogy to this is John McEnroe, tennis player. So if you're not old enough to remember, John McEnroe was like a bad boy

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brat, always complaining about the refs and yelling stuff like "you cannot be serious." And everybody loved to hate him because it was just so inappropriate. You're not supposed to do that. Tennis is supposed to be a dignified sport, sort of like politics. Politics is supposed to be a dignified thing. But you know there's Trump giving all these nicknames. And there's McEnroe yelling at refs. Oh yo…

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