personal risk for the benefit of the public? Yes, very much so. He's had two assassination attempts. That's as much risk as you could put on anything.

So while I understand all the criticisms and I understand why people would be wary that it might turn into something else, I get that. But we are experiencing the golden age. I hate to tell you, but you could not design a better government than a strong leader who is stronger than an ordinary leader, stronger than a president, and is taking every opportunity, every possibility, every opening, pushing every door, opening every window, and trying to make stuff happen but doing it transparently right in front of us so we could watch. And being a second-term president so he's got the experience, he knows what he's doing now, he's got the right staff. This is sort of ideal. I will go so far as to say that we might never have a government again that's as good as the one we're experiencing right now. Obviously it can't, it's not magic so it can't do everything it wants to do right away. But we could not do better than a strongman Trump who likes operating in public and likes to be liked, which is important. He likes to be liked. So that eliminates all the things that might be good for him but we wouldn't like it. He just doesn't do those things because he likes to be liked. It's the perfect situation. He's an authoritarian strongman, kind of a bastard type, but for us. He's our bastard, right? He's being a bastard for us and he's doing it well. I don't think he could do better. Honestly, and maybe we'll never do better. This might be the best presidential situation we'll ever experience or anybody will ever experience. It's such a unique situation that somebody wants to be liked but also has that strength and that experience at this point. So we might never see it again.

Speaking of strong, Trump ordered yet another drug boa