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Back to episode — Episode 2823 CWSA 04/28/25

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write the story and they believed it. That's a wrap-up smear. So this is an example of that, but happening in real time. Do you know the author Malcolm Gladwell? He looks like one of those dandelions. You know, when a dandelion goes bad and it's got that big crazy white hair, he kind of looks like a big dandelion. Anyway, he's getting a little more political and he's suggesting that somebody like…

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ic, they would say no one's above the law. And then now we've got these judges who were helping the illegal immigrants try to escape, which would be very illegal. Instead of saying no one's above the law and it makes perfect sense to arrest the judges because they broke the law, now it's turned into well, it might be illegal, but it's heroic really. So if Trump does it, it's just a case of no one's above the law, so it's cut and dried. Goes to jail. But if a judge does something that's deeply illegal, helping an immigrant who's not here legally get away, that turns into a heroic moment. So good catch, Mike Benz.

Remember when Cory Booker did that filibuster thing where he talked for many hours and nobody knew what his point was and it was the biggest waste of time, but he got some attention? Well, now Cory Booker and Hakeem Jeffries, the Democrat leader, they've decided to hold an anti-Trump sit-in on the Capitol steps. Now that was yesterday. I don't know if they're still there. I'm not sure how long a sit-in lasts. But Just the News was reporting this and I was thinking, what exactly were they trying to accomplish by sitting on the steps and what was that conversation like?

All right. All right. Trump is winning everywhere. We've got to change the conversation to the leaders of the Democrat party are sitting on steps. At what point did that sound like a good idea? Like we could turn things around if we sit on steps and then people will come talk to us because we're sitting on steps. Did I tell you it's going to be a long time? We're going to sit on those steps for a long time. Yeah. Yeah. We finally got a strategy. What is wrong with the Democrats? That's their strategy, to go sit on some steps. You never see Republicans stoop to anything that stupid.

Anyway, so here's a summary of what I see happening in the news and politics. Trump has given us the following proposition. He hasn't said it in these words, but he's very clear about what he wants. Trump would say if you asked him, we need to make a long-term structural change to our economy to survive. A long-term structural change. Now some of that would be DOGE, but a lot of that would be the tariffs, which should lead to negotiations, we hope. Now those would be long-term structural changes.

So if you have a president who's proposing that we do long-term structural changes, what does the media and the Democrats do? We need to obsess over the first 100 days because 100 is a big round number. For the last several days, the Democrats have just been all over his first 100 days. His first 100 days. Why? Because 100 is a big round number. It doesn't make any sense. It's like sitting on the steps of the Capitol.

Well, let's talk about the importance of the number 100. It doesn't really have any importance, especially if we're doing a long-term structural change. Yes, but let's obsess about it and we'll run some polls.

So the Media Research Center did a poll and found out that ABC, NBC, and CBS had 92% negative coverage of Trump. 92% negative

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coverage of Trump. So if they had 92% negative coverage, what do you suppose they found when they did a poll to find out if Trump's plans are popular? So the news told people that almost everything Trump did was a mistake. And then they did a poll to ask the opinion of the public. Where do you think the public got their opinion from? The public didn't do their own research. They got their opinion…

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