All right. Yeah, Trump tweeted that this virus is the Chinese virus. So that just happened. I got a mixed opinion on that and it goes like this. In ordinary times I wouldn't have any problem with the president doing his usual provocative stuff. And you know he knows how to do it. You know, say something provocative and then people would say ah you racist, stop calling it a Chinese virus. And then he would say but that's where it started, has nothing to do with racism. And then he would get all the attention. And you know it looks like a play that he's played lots of times before. But it doesn't feel right in a crisis, does it? It feels small. So I wish he hadn't done it. I think it was a mistake. Yeah I've never said he's made more communication mistakes than this week. But I also think that you know the experts are doing a great job and the country's doing a great job and I think the president did what he needed to do. Just the communication, he's just not, he had a communication this week that's like a little tone deaf or something.

But here's the softening of that. The president might be preparing us for decoupling. Now let me say it a different way. The president is preparing us for decoupling. And if calling it a Chinese virus makes you feel worse about China, it makes it a little easier to decouple and bring our supply chain back, well okay. You know I'm going to give him a pass. So I can have two opinions on this and I think that they can live together. One opinion is I didn't like it, wasn't the right time. Under normal circumstances sure, have some fun with it. But right now, not the right time. However we are in crisis mode and nitpicking the president's words is sort of beneath all of us. But you asked the question. I'm just trying to be conversational here. I think you got to let that stuff go for now. Yeah, whether it's the president, whether somebody else, whether it's your most heated pundit on TV, you just kind of gotta let the little stuff go just for a while. Yeah you can get back to chewing each other to death whenever we're back to normal.

But the president is preparing us for decoupling. If that's what he had in mind when he was framing it that way I'd say hmm, yeah okay I can see that. It's just maybe not the perfect time. All right, it is a Chinese virus. Say what it is. Name your enemy to effectively fight. Well I don't think there's any chance that it's an intentional, you know any kind of bioweapon. So I think we need to leave that behind. Do we all agree? For a long time I was open to the question of gosh where did this come from? I'm still open to the question. It could have come in you know some kind of a laboratory. But I reject the idea that it was designed and deliberately released. So I don't think it's designed and I don't think it was deliberately released. But it might have come out of some lab that had a lot of samples of one thing or another. That's entirely possible.