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Back to episode — Episode 2982 CWSA 10/08/25

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ved it. I loved it. It's like Scott Jennings on steroids or something. You know how much we like Scott Jennings because he always has that calm measured well thought out response to the craziness but seeing somebody who is a smart thinking person you know high level executive very serious made it to the highest levels of government seeing that person realize that the situation itself is so absurd…

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think the people who are dealing on the word level, even though those words do play through into polls, which would make it look like it's a closer debate than it really is on the visceral physical level, this is a blowout. It's an absolute blowout. But it won't be until after it works that 80% of the country will see it was a blowout. But you can't beat I'm going to keep you alive. You can't beat that. How do you beat that? And by the way, it's close enough to true because everybody feels that, you know, the impact of crime. Everybody feels it. So it hits exactly what you're thinking and feeling in the strongest possible way. So I think Trump's got the leverage, as we say.

Here's something else Trump said being funny. He was talking to Carney from Canada and separately he said Democrats have no leader. They remind me of Somalia. Okay, that's just so perfect. They remind me of Somalia. How am I not going to quote that? I mean, seriously, Democrats have no leader. They remind me of Somalia. If you take out the Somalia part, would I quote it? No, of course I wouldn't. It would just be sort of an ordinary statement. You know, I say it, you say it, we all say they don't have a leader. The news says it. It wouldn't be anything. But as soon as he adds, they remind me of Somalia. Part of your brain goes and then it like it burrows in and it persuasion wise it becomes an association that you can't lose. Will I ever forget ever for the rest of my life? Will I ever forget that Trump compared the Democrats with no leaders to Somalia? No, I won't forget that for the rest of my life. Well, the rest of my life might not be that long, but the rest of you, you might remember it too.

And then he had another witticism. You had to see this one to see how well he pulled it off, but that so Mark Carney is sitting in that official chair that the leaders always sit in next to the president, you know, so the two of them are facing out on these chairs. Fox News is reporting on this. So Mark Carney is talking and then the part that's hard to explain unless you see the video, which is worth seeing, is that Trump interrupted him. All right, so it's hard to tell his story with an interruption in it, but he interrupted him. And so Mark Carney starts out by saying, "This is in many respects the most important." Trump interrupts him and he finishes his sentence with the merger of Canada and the United States. So Carney laughed like genuinely laughs and you know he said no oh no not that the people attending all laughed. They all laughed and you know how people always say that Trump never laughs. He was totally laughing like he doesn't do haha you know he doesn't laugh like I do but he was laughing. He had a smile wrapped around his face. He knew he pulled it off. So you know, he was happy about it, I'm sure. But I don't know if I told you this story, but it reminds me of a joke I heard from Jared. And I wondered if there's any influence there that with jokes there are only about a hundred jokes in the world and everything else is just changed in the names of the people in the joke. So it makes me wonder if Trump would expose this. And I may have told this story before, but I'll tell it again.

So in 2018 when I was invited to meet with Trump just because it was summer and he was just meeting with some supporters, nothing important. And I was waiting in the outer waiting area to be allowed into the Oval Office. And Jared comes walking by through the outer office on the way to work. And he was with another gentleman and I guess he recognized me from I don't know probably the podcast and so he makes a point to stop and introduce himself but of course he introduces the person that he's with as well so he introduces himself and he says this is so and so he's the f

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inance minister of Mexico and he's here to pay for the wall now the finance minister belly laughs Jared laughs. I belly laugh because it was a great line. Like that the humor depends not just how clever you are, but where you say it and in front of whom. If you do the right joke in the right audience in the right time, it's magic. And that was kind of magic. It was just brilliant. But doesn't that…

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