espian, an actor. And he does have those skills. He just brought them to politics after he was done with TV. And watching him manage his face is a whole other level of persuasion goodness that you can learn by watching him.

This brings me to the following. We’re going to talk about Trump in Japan. He had a little face management problem there. He looks tired to me. Does he look tired to you? I mean, he should be. It’s an international trip with a million points of energy he needs. So he should be tired.

But I saw him smiling for the camera and he had the fakest camera smile you’ve ever seen. His eyes were not into it. But I believe it’s because he’s actually not happy. The way he’s even walking seems a little bit slower than normal. Have you noticed that? Seems a little bit more bent over.

And there’s some talk that he got an MRI but didn’t need one. When do you get an MRI when you don’t need one? So there might be some minor medical thing he’s battling that he’s trying to keep from the public, which should be fine. I mean, if it’s minor, it would be on brand, totally on brand, for him to be in continuous pain and still do the full job. That would be so Republican. I try to model that myself as best I can.

We’ll see.

In other surprising news, the biggest union in the country, the American Federation of Government Employees Union, is demanding that Democrats end the government shutdown. So that’s amazing. The fact that it’s the biggest union in the country and unions are almost always pro-Democrat, this is big news because the Federation of Government Employees, the biggest one, is basically blaming the Democrats for keeping the government closed.

That would also signal something like the total collapse of the Democrat party, which I’ve been talking about for a while now. If you lose a… I mean, would this be the beginning of any other unions flipping? And they’re not flipping to Republican. They’re just flipping on this specific issue. I don’t know. Might be the beginning of something. We’ll see.

Meanwhile, Speaker Johnson says that the GOP is working on a Republican healthcare plan. So they’ll have that healthcare plan already to propose should the government reopen. Emily Brooks of The Hill is writing about this. Do you believe that? Do you believe that there’s a credible or even might be a credible Republican plan for healthcare? Nope.

No, Speaker Johnson, I do not believe anything you said about that. I do believe it’s important to say you’re working on it. And I do believe they probably had a meeting or two, maybe more than that. But if you want me to be serious that Republicans are working on a healthcare plan that’s a Republican plan, there’s only one thing I need to say: Who’s on that team?

Because if they’re doing a healthcare plan with the usual bunch of idiots, you know, just your normal elected people who are willing to do it, that’s not going to get it done. We don’t have people in Congress who are smart enough to do that kind of work. Not even close.

The only way I would believe that there was a quote Republican healthcare plan is if I saw that a team had been appointed by Trump and they were sufficiently MAGA and they were sufficiently outsiders and they were sufficiently—and here’s the important part—brilliant. Not even just regular smart because healthcare is not a normal problem. This is not a normal problem. This is one of the biggest problems anybody’s ever had anywhere at any time. The complexity of it alone is overwhelming.

It’s like I don’t even know if DOGE could have figured it out with all their big balls and geniuses. This is the big, big, big problem.

So if you tell me, “Oh, I got these three senators working on it who you never heard of,” no, that’s not a plan. Nope. You started with the wrong people. That goes nowhere.

Let me tell you what it would look like if it were real. It would look like Trump announcing, “All right, I’m going to put together this team and we’re going to have… I’m going to throw out some names of smart people. Not necessarily that they should be on this team, but just to make my point.”

So if he came up and said we’ve asked David Sacks, Mark Cuban—who’s not Republican, not Republican, but he knows a lot about healthcare and drugs specifically—Mark Cuban and RFK Jr. to be the triumvirate and then they can also in turn get people to work for them, but they’ll be the three. If Trump came out and said these three guys—and we could add women so we’re not sexist—these three guys will be in charge of figuring out how to figure it out. They don’t even have to be the ones to figure it out. They have to be in charge of figuring out how to figure it out.

Could those three people do that? Do you think if David Sacks, Mark Cuban, and RFK Jr. sat in a room and said, “All right, it’s all on us. It’s on us, but we have unlimited support from the president and they will take us seriously even if we suggest something that takes some pain.” That’s what I would call a healthcare plan. Even before the plan. If you at least have a plan to get your best people to figure out how to figure it out, that’s a lot because we’ve never done that before, right? Never done that before.

And the reason I throw into the mix a Mark Cuban and an RFK Jr. specifically is that they’re not identified as MAGA absolutists. So the Democrats don’t need to disagree with them automatically. They might, but they don’t need to the way they would need to if it was just standard MAGA people.

So I throw those names out as patriots who are above the bar of smart enough to figure out how to figure out. Again, not to figure out, but to figure out how to figure out. That’s three people who could do it. And especially working together if they wanted to.

So I don’t mean to put any kind of actual pressure on those three individuals. They’ve got lots to do and they’re doing it well. But you get the idea, right? I don’t want to hear Speaker Johnson tell me that three turtles are coming up with an idea that we’ll never see and will never work. Just don’t even tell me about it. I don’t care. It’s not a real thing.

And the other problem that the Republicans have with the healthcare plan is it’s hard to imagine anything they could come up with that didn’t also reduce access to healthcare because they’re not the just-adding-money-to-it party. They’re the