climate change as an existential threat? Has it ever happened? Because it's never happened where I've been. I've never even seen anybody interested in climate change, much less afraid of it. No interest whatsoever.

So is that different than your experience? Because I'm very skeptical that 40% of the public thinks it's like our biggest problem. And yet nobody's ever, not once, 40% of the public and not once has anybody brought it up where I could have heard it in person. Nobody. Now how many of you are having the same mental experience I had this morning, which is, oh yeah, how could it possibly be true if nobody's ever brought it up around me? Because there's nothing else they haven't brought up, right? You've heard people say bad things about Trump. You've heard things about Ukraine and Gaza, the Middle East. You've heard all kinds of things, but I'll bet you've never heard anybody complain about climate change. Yeah, I don't believe it.

The Pentagon has announced it's removing those National Guardsmen from Los Angeles. Remember, they were placed there to guard the government facilities because there was a lot of protesting that was getting out of hand regarding the ICE stuff. Well I guess the protests have wound down and the National Guardsmen never really had to get directly involved as far as I know, but they're being withdrawn. Would we include that as a Trump success? I would. Wouldn't you? The point of the National Guardsmen was in case they're needed, but also as a deterrent. So they were there to deter bad actors doing violent things against government properties. And as far as I know, they succeeded. So the fact that there was no bloodshed or direct confrontation seems to be another Trump success.

There was a CEO according to The Post Millennial, Thomas Stevenson's writing about this. CEO of a marketing group that apparently is in the business of organizing protests and the CEO of one of them says he was offered about 20 million as a contract to organize anti-Trump protests and he rejected it. So he decided not to take it. But the CEO of the company called Crowds on Demand, and he didn't want to do the protests that are going to happen on the 17th, which would be tomorrow, I guess. I guess a bunch of protests are going to kick off nationwide tomorrow.

And how alarmed are you that there is a commercial entity that organizes protests that are meant to look organic and he's completely public about it? I feel that Trump is letting this one, he's going easy on the protests, but maybe because they haven't been that big or that bad for Trump. But I feel like the protests need to be branded as unnatural or non-organic or at least paid. So I don't know how many of the protesters are paid, but if the organizers are paid like a lot, it's not really a real protest, is it? It's like it needs some other name.

If you call it a protest, we have a long history in this country of saying, oh, protest. I'm glad we have free speech. Everybody gets an opinion. Protest is good. But it's not really a protest because that would, you know, protest kind of implies that people had this opinion and they felt so strongly that they had to just band together. But if you're organized by paid people who were paid to do it, that's not exactly a protest. What would you call it? Somebody says mercenary mobs. Oh, that's not bad. Mercenary mobs. But that sounds like you're killing somebody. What would you call it? Indeed. Some kind of persuasive nickname. Kind of a Trumpism. It needs something we can call it that makes you not want to do it. So we'll work on that. I don't have an idea for that, but maybe Trump does. I've just been calling them organized and non-organic, but those are not really catchy. Those are just descriptive. We need something catchy. Inorganic protests. No, it's not catchy enough. We could do better.

This autopen story refuses to die. To me this is a summertime story where there's not enough regular news, although there's more regular news under Trump than I've ever seen before in the summer, but you always need a little extra for political purposes. So I guess this autopen story, the White House is going to review more than a million documents under the Biden administration and they just want transparency. But to me all they're doing is making sure the autopen stays in the news because it's really sort of a winner for Republicans, wouldn't you say? It reminds you that the Democrats fooled you into thinking that Biden was functional. And that's one of the biggest hoaxes, if not the biggest in the history of the United States. So as long as Trump can make you think about Biden and how that was covered up and how that wasn't a real government, Trump wins. So I would argue that nobody really cares about the autopen. Probably I doubt that Trump really cares. But it keeps it in the news. So autopen is more about making you think Democrats are bad people. I guess it's working.

CNBC's Rick Santelli on the TV. He says that Trump's tariffs are not dooming the economy according to the Daily Caller News Foundation. So there might be a little bit of inflation, but it's too small that you can even know for sure. And I guess the CPI numbers were pretty close to expectations, the inflation numbers. So some say we're still waiting for the inflation that will come from these tariffs, and some say enough time has already gone by to conclude that we're not going to see that inflation. I don't know.

But I will tell you this and I'm going to credit Dana Perino for this thought because I agreed with it completely but she said it first, which is the right take on the tariffs was always "I don't know." That was the only honest and kind of useful opinion on the tariffs because there were people who were absolutely positive it would destroy the country. Well, it's not the opinion that's the problem. It's the certainty. If you had certainty that the trade wars and the tariffs were going to tank our economy, well you were wrong. I mean whatever happens, it's not going to be gigantic or destroy the economy. I think we can rule that out now, right? So if you were sure that it was a disaster, your certainty was sort of revealing that you're not good at this.

But likewise, if you were just as sure that because Trump said it would make everything right, if you were just as sure that it would and it would replace maybe income taxes and all these other good things, well that wasn't a good take either. The only take that I respect is I don't know. You know, we can reverse it. You know, it's a sort of thing that is a really big ask and if it worked, it would be a really big deal. If it didn't work, there would be some discombobulation in the economy, but probably you could just reverse it in a week. All you'd have to do is say, all right, all right, that didn't work. I changed my mind. Tariffs are dropped.

So from a risk-reward perspective, was it worth trying it knowing that if it didn't work, you could just sort of reverse it? And if it did work, it would really change America forever in a positive way. So I'm going to give Trump an A++ for risk management on our behalf. It was exactly the right risk management because the upside was really good if everything worked out and the downside was all manageable. If it didn't work, well reverse it. You'll be fine in about a week.

Governor Newsom was on the Shawn Ryan podcast and if you haven't watched Governor Newsom speak on a podcast or in public lately, you have to see what's going on with his jazz hands. Do you know what I mean by jazz hands? So jazz hands is sort of a comical way to refer to dancers who are doing jazz dancing and their hands get involved a lot. So you know if you're watching me on video, jazz dancers like tada. So their hands are really involved. But when you watch Newsom talk, I do not recall him being that animated as he is now. And his hand motions are not only far bigger than they used to be, but they're a little bit creepy. Like he was talking about some nuance in a bill and he does the piano playing. Nuance. All of this nuance. And it is weird.

I'm going to be honest, it looks like drugs. If you've known anybody who was on any kind of uppers, I don't know what it could be. I'm not going to make a specific accusation, but he acts like somebody who's on some kind of an upper. But again, I don't have any evidence of that. It's just that his behavior is different. And if you've ever been around people who are using some form of stimulant, you would say to yourself, oh, that looks familiar. I think I've seen that before. And I hate to say it, but it's hard for me to imagine it just happened sort of on its own and that he just decided to change his method of speaking or something. I don't know. I feel like there's something going on there. But just to be clear, I don't have any factual evidence that would suggest that's what's going on. It's just how it strikes me. So as an impression, it gives me that impression.

But then also, I forget who it was. Was it Mark Cuban or maybe somebody else who was talking about how Democrats need to swear more and do more cursing? And I thought to myself, is that real advice? Like really? The Democrats feel that in order to get the male vote or to be a little bit more manly or maybe just a little more powerful looking that they could match Trump's use of curse words. To which I would give them this advice. You know when you should use curse words in public? When you're Trump. You can't just take that strategy and apply it to somebody who's not Trump. The reason Trump could get away with it is that he's always in character, meaning it's who he really is. It's not in character. It's genuine.

When Trump curses, which isn't that often, you can tell how strategic it is. And you know that he knows he's giving you the sound bite for the next 24 hours. He knows he's doing it and he's really good at it. His cursing is never, it never seems gratuitous. It just feels like dropping one of those bunker buster bombs right down the ventilation shaft twice in a row. That's what it feels like. He lands the curse word just perfectly and he's done it so many times that you know it's not an accident.

But then I watch New