Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
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Well, what a 24 hours. I’ll tell you, the news doesn’t get any more interesting than it has been lately. And I’ll tell you something else. There’s something else you need to know right now. You need to know Morning Joe is freaking out. Good.

So if you’re not watching this Periscope either live or on replay, you’ll have no idea what’s happening in the world. I’m going to give you a little trapdoor to get out of all this stuff that’s happening, to get to a little higher vantage point, kind of look at it with some perspective. Some of this is very funny.

My favorite part of the morning is I just retweeted, so you can see it in my Twitter feed. A lot of you don’t know that Senator Rand Paul is actually a physician. How many of you knew that Senator Rand Paul is actually a trained physician? I did a clip in which he’s diagnosing a case, a really bad case of Trump derangement syndrome. Normally you don’t get to see a video of an office meeting between a physician and his patient, but I want to show you a little bit of a clip from it. His patient is this guy named Wolf Blitzer. Like, that can’t be a real name. But Dr. Paul...

“Joining us, let me get right to the question. Do you believe that President Trump’s meeting with Putin made America safer?”

“You know, I think engagement with our adversaries, conversation, is a good idea...”

“Even in the very...”

“Comfortable. Let’s hear from the patient.”

“Sounds like a would-be an example of derangement. He’s getting excited. I see some spittle. He’s melting down.”

“Doctor, save him, doctor.”

“All right, now the doctor gets to talk. Full meltdown. Oh, full TDS.”

All right, well it goes on like that. But if you haven’t seen it yet, you have to watch it until the final sign-off of the interview. It’s a classic.

So there you have it. And I’m not making this up. Senator Rand Paul is actually a trained physician, and he’s diagnosing Wolf Blitzer. Now what’s interesting is that the little label on this clip from CNN says, “Rand Paul sides with Trump over U.S. intel.” Does that look like what happened? Okay, first of all, this is absolute fake news. Rand Paul did not side with Trump over U.S. intel. Nothing like that happened. Nothing. So you’ve got CNN with just the most obvious fake news, because you ca

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n just listen to what people said. Nobody said anything like that. Let me tell you how to sort this all out and keep your sanity. So let’s talk about all the lying from yesterday. And there was some good lying yesterday. Let’s start with Putin. Many of you saw the interview in which Putin talked to Chris Wallace. And Chris Wallace, by the way, gave a great interview. He didn’t hold back a bit, an…

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