just chewed him out. Why are you so negative? Take it as a yes. Now, how many people, presidents or non-presidents, would have been smart enough to know to treat that as a yes? Because once he treated it as yes, he could bully people into a yes. But if he treated it as a no, people would just dig in. But if he says, "You just said yes. I say yes. You say yes. The other side just says yes. We're working on a yes, people. We're working on a yes." Then you've changed reality itself. You've changed how they see the possibilities. Nobody else could do that. Nobody else can do that. He's the only one.

And I feel good about the fact that even his critics, you know, his biggest TV news critics, they also say Biden couldn't do that. They also say that Trump's bullying, and here's the payoff, authoritarian strongman personality might have been just exactly what they needed for the situation. Has anybody ever said that before? That maybe this whole authoritarian strongman thing is a lot better than you thought it was.

Could it be, and here's the fun part, could it be that the consistent Democrat messaging that Trump is strong, unpredictable, authoritarian, dictator-like, is it possible that that made it more likely he would get a deal because Hamas would look at the same stuff and say, "Oh my god, this guy's nothing can stop him. He's a power-hungry guy." I feel like the more they talked him up as a powerful leader, the closer he got to being able to bully both sides into a deal, maybe.

So here's the part I predicted. I predicted that the only way he could make this work is not through negotiating, but changing reality. And