e of you hated it. But you're still willing to let me talk, right? You're not hating on me. You might not like that opinion. You might disagree with it, but that doesn't make us enemies. We're still on the same side, right?

So the positive message here is that you can have pretty strong disagreements, but as long as you're pro America, America first, and we're all aiming in the right direction, but some of us have a difference of how to get there. That's all good. That's all fine. We're not Democrats, right? So we're going to talk about something else in a minute that will be a similar thing where you might not like what I say, but it won't make much difference in terms of the size of my audience or anything else because you allow that, which I appreciate a lot.

Anyway, so I'd love some answers on that question.

Meanwhile, let's check out the photo op competition. You call them riots, some call them protests, but apparently there are now 19 states with 200 rioters busted in LA. So according to the New York Post, the rioting slash protesting is going to Atlanta, Chicago, and Seattle. Hundreds of protesters here and there, thousands stormed the streets in 35 cities in 19 states, blah blah blah. But I see it all as a photo op competition.

So the game that's being played is about who can get the best video or iconic photo that will get burnt into people's minds as the brand of what happened this summer. And so far Trump is winning because he's done the most clever thing. If you assume that people who watch the news are mostly just casual watchers, maybe 5% of the public really digs in and figures out the context and knows the numbers and stuff like that, but 95% of the country is just looking at the pictures. And if they see a strong picture and they see it a lot, then that will change their opinion.

But what Trump has done cleverly is he sent in the Marines, but they haven't been deployed. So I've seen no picture of any Marines. Secondly, he's deployed the National Guard sort of over the complaints of the governors and they've been as far as I know they've only been deployed to protect federal buildings which don't appear to be under any special kind of attack. And then having deployed two branches of the military with no connection whatsoever to the protest like not one of them has touched a protester or been in a conflict or arrested anybody that they're all just sort of staying out of the way. What does Trump do after deploying two branches of the military and then having them do basically nothing?

Now guarding federal buildings is not nothing, but if it causes the protesters to go somewhere else, well then it ends up looking like nothing. So there's no pictures. So you've got zero pictures of Trump's military doing anything bad or illegal. Somebody's saying that the Home Depot thing is a hoax. I'm not going to read that, Andy, because while I know the story about the individual Home Depot stuff is not necessarily true, I'm using the Home Depot as an example of people who are not criminals who might get picked up. So it's an example. It's not based on specific Home Depot situation, but let me finish.

So Trump says, I've been laughing about this all morning. He says, "If I didn't send in the troops to Los Angeles the last three nights, that once beautiful and great city would be burning to the ground right now." But what exactly did the Marines and the National Guard do in Los Angeles? Were they putting out the fires? It's sort of perfect. He can claim success without any visible evidence whatsoever. And at the same time the pictures that are being produced are still of the flag waving people in fires. So he's winning the photo op competition hard, but also he's winning the did you respond quickly and with enough vigor to meet the situation? And almost anybody watching would say, well yeah. I mean if you've already pre-deployed the military, two branches, but they haven't done anything dangerous. They haven't hurt anybod