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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 a…

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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 you don't yell at refs at every little call you don't like. Come on.

But eventually since McEnroe was just always McEnroe, by the time he was playing the senior tour he'd have to throw in some complaints even if he didn't care because people expected it. It was just part of the act. So once you are relentless and you're authentic, authentic is the thing. McEnroe was authentic. He really felt the things he was saying and everything about it was just him. That was just his personality.

So Trump has this personality that if you're first exposed to it you go whoa whoa whoa what's going on here that's way too far you've gone way too far. But by the time he got to essentially a State of the Union that wasn't one because he just started, he's in the most dignified room in the world doing the most dignified thing you could ever do which is a presidential address, and he starts talking about Ukraine and how some people want Ukraine to last forever and then he calls out Pocahontas. He goes, well you know maybe Pocahontas.

And by the time he throws a Pocahontas into the State of the Union you just have to surrender to it. You have to just give up. You just have to go, okay, she's Pocahontas. There's nothing we could do about it. And now it's just funny. And somehow he normalized that to the point where you just couldn't complain about it. And even she tried to smile when the camera hit her. I don't know if she was smiling on the inside but I'd like to think that even Elizabeth Warren could understand the moment. And that was funny.

Anyway, so then one of Trump's moments was he started talking about the potential for fraud in the government spending. He was talking about the Social Security list of people who were getting Social Security and he starts with there are over four million people who are getting paid from Social Security who are over 100 but younger than 109. And you hear that number you're like holy cow all those people they might be getting it. Now let me say I don't know if that means that people are getting paid. It might mean that there's just a data error in the database and some other database corrects for it somewhere else. So I'm not sure that it's an indication of actual crime or corruption. But what it definitely is is something that everybody can understand when he talks about it, which is what makes Trump special.

Like even his critics will say we got to find somebody who talks like the people. Trump talks like the people and he's just so good at it that this is another example. So then he starts going down the list and then you've got this many people on this age and he just keeps getting older and older in the ages. So he gets to the middle of his list he's like between the ages of 160 and 169 and now it's just hilarious because everybody knows maybe there's somebody who's over 100. There could be people over 100 who are collecting Social Security but there's nobody over 160 and certainly not 120,000 of them. And then he just keeps going until he gets to like people who I guess it was one person over 300 years old according to

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the database, not reality. Now again it's not my understanding that we know for sure that these are indications of fraud and I've heard an argument that they're not. But everybody understands that if your big database of who should be getting money has errors like this in it you've got a problem. Now the problem might be you need better data or the problem might be there's massive corruption goin…

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