. 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's nobody who knows even the least bit about communication or persuasion who's guiding these poor Democrats. But oh my god, kings is an improvement over oligarch. No, the entire approach needs to be changed. It's not that they use the wrong word. You know what it is that the Democrats always say when they make giant mistakes? When the Democrats make gigantic mistakes that have lasted a long time, do they ever say, wow, you know, we should just retool this and stop doing that gigantic mistake thing? No, they always tell you it's about how they messaged it. And that's what's happening again. They're trying to say if we'd only picked the right word, you know, this could have been a genius move. If we'd picked the right word. No, there's no right word. The entire approach is just stupid. So there's no word that fixes that.

So that's funny. And then Bernie pushes back. He goes, well, gee, as he was asked about it in an interview. He said we had 36,000 people in LA and 34,000 in Colorado. We had 30,000 people in Folsom, California. He goes, I think the American people are not quite as dumb as Ms. Slotkin thinks they are. To which I say, Bernie, you didn't even answer the question. The reason people showed up is because of star power. It had nothing to do with whether you were saying oligarch or king. Do you think there was anybody who said, hey, look, Bernie and AOC are going to talk. And then their mate or their boyfriend or girlfriend says, but are they going to talk about oligarchs or kings? Because I know what a king is. I don't know what an oligarch is. No, they just said, is it Bernie? Is it AOC? Oh, they're celebrities. Okay, I'll go watch because I don't like Trump.

So every part of this is stupid. Just almost mind-bogglingly stupid. And it's wonderful to watch.

You've probably seen all the interviews on the street. There's been a bunch of them where somebody will go up to one of the Tesla protesters or Democrats protesting and they'll say, why are you protesting? And they'll say stuff like Trump is a monster and Trump is a dictator and Trump is Hitler. And then somebody will follow up and say, can you give me an example in which Trump is a fascist or a dictator or can you give me a policy you don't like? And they're always stumped. They don't have any idea what they don't like. They actually are on the streets protesting and they can't give you any details about what it is they're protesting against.

Now you might say, well, those are very entertaining, but I feel like Republicans could do a lot more with that. I don't know exactly how. You'd have to experiment with it a little bit. But I would love for these street interviews and maybe even other interviews, whenever the right-leaning press is talking to the Democrats, I'd like to see that they had a list of maybe ten questions to see if the Democrats could answer them.

So here's one of the questions. If tariffs and trade barriers are so bad, why does China and every other country insist on having them? That's an unanswerable question because the real answer that Democrats can't get near is that these countries have been taking advantage of us and we should stop them from taking advantage of us and so Trump is using tariffs to negotiate until they stop taking advantage of us.

Now I had a back and forth with a probably a Democrat, I can't tell, on X today, and they don't seem to understand that if we don't put tariffs on these other countries that we will just be the victim of tariffs like we have been, and that we're just giving our money away. They don't seem to understand that concept. Is that really that hard? But they don't.

Here's another one. How do you know that the tariff situation won't work out? How do you know? Because they act like it's already a fact that the tariffs have destroyed the country. That's not even close to true. I don't know how it'll work out either. But if you're telling me that you know now how everything works out with tariffs, well, that's just stupid because they're at the beginning part of negotiating and the first part Trump has gotten everything he wanted, which is the full attention of the other countries. They've made it one of their top priorities because they have to. And if you were to judge how it's going so far, I'd give it an A+. But there's still a possibility that it goes off the rails, we don't get a deal, we have shortages and then our businesses have to close. That's possible, but we don't know that. And certainly there's enough time to right the ship and get some deals or get the framework of some deals before any of those bad things happen or at least the bulk of the bad things. So how in the world can you say that the tariffs have not worked? It's way too early. It's just stupid to imagine that you know how it turns out in four months or maybe in a year.

How about this one? The people who say that DOGE was a big mistake. How would you know that? I mean it could turn out to be not successful. But how do you know after the first few weeks when maybe there was a little bit of uncertainty about how things were going? How do you know they didn't adjust? How do you know they didn't move to your beloved scalpel system and make sure that the normal elected officials are the ones who make the actual cut decisions? How do you know? How do you know which of their claims are going to prove out? Some