Now with that little bit of positivity, let's talk about some things that are less positive. You are all aware of the story of Samantha Bee, who said some things that people found quite disturbing about Ivanka Trump. Now you may say to yourself — and this is I'm going to call this the old way of thinking — you probably said to yourself their side took out Roseanne for reasons that you don't think are valid. Our side should take out Samantha Bee for the same reason. If we don't fight back just as hard as they're fighting, they'll walk all over us.

I'm going to challenge that thinking. I'm going to challenge that thinking. At this point, probably the best thing that you could do to help Roseanne is to not go after Samantha Bee. And I would like to propose that we all take a moment, step back from the battle that is this pitched left-right battle, and just reassess whether the battle still makes sense. We're not really in campaign mode anymore. There was something about this last election where people never got out of campaign mode. And so we still want to fight as hard as we can because we think that is the right strategy. It's not just that we're mad, you know, both sides. It's that we think it's the right strategy to get something we want.

I would submit that that was the right strategy during the election: fighting hard, pointing out the flaws on the other side. That's election talk. You know, that's when you take off the gloves. That's when you're supposed to fight. Well, when there's a winner, when the boxing match is over, you're supposed to shake hands. The handshake never happened. We're still locked in campaign mode where we're going at each other.

So I would suggest this: if you want Roseanne to be forgiven — you know, if "forgiven" is the right word — forgive Kathy Griffin, forgive Michelle Wolf, forgive Samantha Bee. And let's talk about Sarah Silverman. All right, I'll talk about her in a moment. I'm going to suggest that the best, smartest, strategic thing that Trump supporters could do for the summer is to be nice. And I would suggest that you should be nice in a specific way, which is that go after people's ideas as hard as you can but don't go after people. Give up the boycotts. Just don't go after people, right?

So that's my suggestion. Let's make this a summer of love. Yeah, somebody just said we won. The war is over. President Trump's in office. You know, the other side has some reasons to be mad. They didn't get their way. The people who support the president are looking at record unemployment — you know, record good unemployment levels. Wages are up. I saw that today. Things are going in the right direction with North Korea. We hope they'll go well.

If you're a Trump supporter, it's time for you to lead. Don't follow. If you're attacking the left in the same fashion that they're attacking you, you're following. This isn't the campaign. You can take an up-level. You can get out of that mode. You can take the lead of President Trump. Ask yourself, what was the last time President Trump was sort of a jerk in public? You know, of course he fights hard on the issues. Of course. But have you not noticed a genuine turn — really only the last 30 days or so — in which the president has taken on a more — what would be the term? — nice tone.

You know, he's done some pardons of people. Yeah, the Jack Johnson pardon. You don't do that for any other reason than to inject some niceness into the world. You know, so he's sort of on a nice campaign with North Korea because it's functional. He's being nice in office in general, I think, because it's functional. The president, I've said from the beginning, knows when to crank up the insults, when to crank them down. Have you watched it yourself? When North Korea was in a battle of words, he matched it. Now we're in a different phase.

If you don't believe the president can control how he insults and what mode he's in, just watch this. You just watched him go from super high provocative statements to "hey, let's all get along. We can help you get rich. Be our friend." And by the way, one of the patterns that the president hasn't yet mentioned but I think is important is a lot of people are saying to themselves, well, would it pay North Korea to be friends with the United States? And I would say look at our track record. When any country says we are your friend as opposed to getting rid of nuclear weapons, that's a different thing, right?

If somebody just gets rid of their nuclear weapons but they're not our friend, well, they're not our friend. But if you're Japan, you get rid of your military for the most part and you become our friend, it's all good. Germany — they didn't just surrender after World War II. They became our friend. Being our friend, the United States, is a super good deal. And I don't think that that pattern has been quite reinforced as much as it should. And I think that you're seeing this with Iran as well.

The overtures from the United States and even Israel — if you saw, by the way, if you saw Netanyahu's video, I tweeted that yesterday, in which he was making a super friendly gesture toward the Iranian people, blaming essentially their regime for any problems that they have. It was a direct call for friendship with the Iranian people. Now let me ask you this: is being friends with Israel in that region a good deal? It's a really good deal. It's a really good deal because being friends with the United States is a good deal. It's a really good deal. So that's a pattern we should reinforce.