Back to episode — Episode 2975 CWSA 10/01/25
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of course. And Trump apparently had some Trump 2028 hats prominently displayed on the Oval Office desk. So all the cameras would make it look like Hakeem Jeffries and Schumer had to look at them. There was a story that he gave them the hats, but that didn't happen. I don't think it happened. Well, you may have seen the Pete Hegseth clips and the meeting of the generals and admirals. Now we're tol…
← Previous segment →tical about the value of this all hands meeting, but I'm not now. I thought Hegseth did a stellar job. I thought he did a really good job. He got rid of the beards and the beardos. He called them the beardos. So anyway, good job Pete Hegseth.
Then the president spoke and I'm going to echo something I believe Steve Bannon noticed too. Trump looked dangerously tired yesterday in at least two different events. Now, he has a right to be tired because he's doing about four jobs and I've never seen anybody work harder, but it's unusual. It's unusual to see him that tired. It makes you wonder if he's taken on too much. Maybe he's not getting enough help from his staff. That's what Steve Bannon was suggesting. Maybe people need to step up, give the guy time to take a nap. I think this is good for any president and Trump, of course, is famously the highest energy president. Well, Clinton was pretty high energy, but nobody doubts his energy in general, but he looked like maybe he was, I don't know, coming down with something or he lost some sleep recently over something. I don't know, but I am worried about him. And if all it is is exhaustion because he's taking on so much, well, I act like that's nothing. I guess that would be the best case scenario if it's just he's taken on too much, but keep an eye on that. I'm concerned for his health and safety at this point.
MSNBC has cats. All right. Troublemakers. They have found the highest point in my office on top of some equipment. Don't break anything.
All right. MSNBC, as a number of people noticed, is back to calling Trump Hitler, or at least some of their guests are. And they don't like the fact that Trump referred to the enemy within which is all the wokeness stuff is the enemy within. And he wasn't making a big deal about diversity being a value might actually be a disadvantage in the military. Certainly you don't want too much diversity of opinion in the military. You kind of need everybody to do what they're told. So MSNBC learned nothing. Still a bunch of Hitler stuff.
And other big news, although it might take a while for this to be implemented. So the White House has announced that they're going to have a website for selling pharmaceutical products. Not all of them. There'll be a limited number. First it would be only Pfizer products and not all of them. Just a few of them. And you would be able to buy them directly on that website and bypass the middle people. So, you'd save money by bypassing the middle people.
Now, I think that means that Pfizer still gets their full profit. I have a lot of questions about this, so don't believe what I say yet on this topic. It seems to me that we don't know if Pfizer took any hit because maybe they just agreed to be on this website, you know, primarily so that the middle people lose their profit but not Pfizer. But there is at least one category that prescription Medicaid drugs, I guess the prescription Medicaid are the only ones that are going to be on this at the beginning. So Medicaid but not Medicare, right? Why Medicaid but not Medicare? I don't know. Seems like the argument for one would be the same as the argument for the other.
And anyway, but Chris Clump, who was, I guess, in charge of putting that deal together, says it's the first of many deals. So, I guess what we'll find out is how much this grows, how successful it is. It's going to take a while for this to be implemented and we'll see if it has any impact on Mark Cuban's business selling lower cost meds. Initially it might actually be positive because any pressure you put on the pharma companies and any efforts to lower their costs probably works for everybody who wants to do the same thing. And Cuban has a several year head start in doing that kind of business. So, we'll see.
And why wouldn't it be available on the government website, but also on the Mark Cuban
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business model? Is there a reason that Pfizer wouldn't make the same deal available to both? I don't know. A lot of questions. We shall see. Well, pollster Frank Luntz was on CNN and probably didn't give them the answer that they wanted. So, there's a new poll that says that Trump is losing quite a bit of support among groups that put him over the top like Hispanic voters and voters under 30. And…
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