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

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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'…

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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 from the news. And if the news is 92% negative, which is a pretty good indication it's just biased and not real news, of course the public's going to have a low opinion of his first 100 days. Of course they will. And then they sell that to us as if it all makes sense.

Now if you didn't know that the news was 92% negative on Trump, you would look at the polls and you'd say, whoa, looks like the public has really turned on Trump. Nothing like that happened. And pollster Mark Mitchell of Rasmussen Reports, he did a deeper dive, which I won't get into. You should look at his account on X. But he did a little summary of the idea that Trump is less popular and he said, okay, here's the most important takeaway from all of my posts today. Trump approval drop is a scam. And according to Mitchell, his policies are popular and will remain popular. Biden was a failed president and Trump is polling mostly like Obama.

Now which of the major news entities said to you, well, it looks like Trump's taking a dip in popularity, but it's not really that different than Obama? That's kind of important, right? Now would I say that Obama's first 100 days were critical? Not really. Nobody's first 100 days really matter too much. Is there any president who's ever been judged by history on their first 100 days? Never. They're only judged on the entire body of work. So why in the world are we obsessing about the one thing that we know no historian is going to care about in ten minutes? Like when he gets to 120 days, nobody's even gonna care about the first 100 days. But yeah, so Mark Mitchell says it's a scam. Sounds about right.

All right. You wonder how dumb the Democrats are. Well, when you watch Bernie Sanders and AOC go out on their oligarchy tour. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but I might be the first person who said to you when I heard about that, that's going to be a huge fail because most people don't even know what oligarch means. And time goes by and then the Democrats themselves are saying Bernie and AOC, people don't know what an oligarch is.

So Senator Elissa Slotkin is one of those people who's criticizing Bernie and AOC for talking about oligarchs. But here's her suggestion for improving the messaging. Are you ready for this? She said instead of saying oligarchs, you should say kings. That Trump wants to be or his cronies want to be kings. Now that is so dumb. So dumb

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. That has no persuasive power whatsoever. And then I saw Chuck Schumer. He tried that out on some interview. He's like, they want to be kings. And I just said to myself, how many kings can you have? Can you have multiple kings? And if you have multiple kings in the same country, wouldn't that be the same as no king at all? Because how can you have multiple kings? This is so dumb. It's like there…

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