Back to episode — Episode 3060 CWSA 01/02/26
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ied and apparently has never been applied before, which is the weird part. How long ago was it that you learned that science was mostly fake or at least the science that we cared about? You know, we never really had safety tests for a lot of medicines, but we thought we did. I mean, I think I thought the same thing you did for years, which is the most tested would be pharmaceutical stuff. Turns ou…
← Previous segment →ifferent polls. They have very different answers. I think one said he's at 44% approval, which wouldn't be bad. Another poll I think said 50% approval, which would be very impressive, 50%. But you know how much you really trust claims of popularity or approval, I guess. But here's what Trump does. So in the midst of these sketchy numbers, Trump says that the polls are rigged and he claims his real job approval rating nearly a year into a second term is 64%. 64%. No, I don't. As a representative president, it was 64%. I think there were maybe around the first, what was Bush's approval during the first Gulf War? It was really high, right? So Trump says he's got, he goes, the real number is 64%. And why not? Our country is hotter than ever before. Isn't it nice to have a strong border, no inflation, blah blah blah, happy new year.
So if you're a Democrat, would this drive you crazy? If you saw that the president was claiming a 64% approval but had no poll whatsoever to back it, it would make you crazy. How does it make you feel if you support Trump? Well, I'm in that category. And to me it's just as funny. I love the fact that he just throws that out there because he knows that his critics are going to go crazy and it doesn't make any difference whatsoever to his supporters. We just watch the show. So when he does that salesmanish
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thing and he just throws out this giant number that can't be supported, it just makes me laugh. And I don't think anybody else would know that that could be like a workable strategy instead of insane. Oh, speaking of which, Trump also had a physical. He claims he's in quote perfect health and that he aced the third cognitive exam he's been asked to take in his time as president. He says the White…
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