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e simultaneous sip. All right, we got stuff to talk about. I just retweeted a tweet from your favorite economist, Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize-winning economist. So let me frame this by saying you don't really win a Nobel Prize unless you're pretty smart. All right, I'm talking about the scientific economic prizes. You don't win those unless you're really smart. So Paul Krugman, by any objective m…
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Yeah, so watching people try to compare calling somebody sleepy eyes or saying that Megyn Kelly has blood coming out of her whatever to compare angry — not angry but to compare insulting tweets to dismembering somebody with a bone saw, not exactly the same thing.
Somebody's saying that they came up with "jobs not mobs." You know, let's talk about jobs not mobs. So you've seen that it has caught on and now the president is using it multiple times. You've seen the other politicians sort of picking up on it and it's a gigantic meme now.
People are asking me if I started it. No, I was not the inventor of "jobs not mobs." I did help popularize it, meaning that I tweeted about it when it was in its infancy. And just the way numbers work, if somebody with a blue check tweets something it's more likely to go viral than if somebody without a blue check did not tweet it. So I don't know if I was the first blue check to tweet something like that but I might have been among the first. So I gave it fuel and I helped explain why it was powerful. But I did not invent it. And I saw it. I just saw it on the internet.
Somebody says Ali Alexander is giving me credit. Now he's only giving — I saw what you were talking about. I saw his Periscope. He's only giving me credit for popularizing it. He's using the same word I'm using right now, popularizing, and he's very clear about that. So I appreciate the clarity that he's talking about my involvement. So I don't want to exaggerate that.
But here's my point about that. You know, the president is the best brander you've ever seen. But it's bigger than that. The president is very clearly, through his staff probably not directly, but he's very clearly sco
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uring the internet for the memes, the approaches, the attacks, the tweets that work. So people are clearly looking at what the Trump followers are doing collectively, finding out what is popular, what gets a lot of clicks, what gets a lot of likes, and then taking that to the boss at some point, one assumes, or taking it to the speechwriter, which ends up being very similar because the boss is goi…
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