using us and they're gonna come over anyway.

Because I don't know how much money it takes to stop immigration but I'm feeling like ten point six billion spread across several countries probably not enough. Yeah it feels like a drop in the bucket. So the optics of it are horrible for Trump's base I would think. Which is different from saying it won't work because I'd like to see an argument for it. But it just doesn't feel like a lot of money. Doesn't seem like it's clearly not the whole solution. But maybe we're just testing to see if any of it makes a difference. Sounds like bribes to politicians. That might be it. Might be partly bribes.

The wall is immediate. Somebody says that's not true. It would take ten years to build the wall at least.

Yeah. So let me ask you this. Let's say you're President Trump and you're looking at endless investigations once the new Congress gets in place. What would you do if you were President Trump and you had nothing to look forward to but endless investigations, just you know endless being picked to death by the other side? I would at least consider resigning. Yeah, I would consider resigning. And I mean that seriously by the way. So this is not a mental game.

Because here's what would happen if he resigned. He would be replaced with Pence and that would activate sort of a mutually assured destruction. Meaning that it would look like a bad idea to force out a president because you would get something you liked less. It wouldn't hurt, probably wouldn't hurt Republicans that much because they'd still get their judges, right? So they'd still get their judges.

And here's the weird part. President Trump may have already solved all the hard parts. You know North Korea's going pretty well, probably would keep going that way. The economy and jobs are looking good. The stock market you know is gonna do its thing one way or the other. But as long as jobs are good we're probably in pretty good shape.

It might be the best thing for him and for the country is to just resign. And suppose he doesn't. Suppose that they just hound him into ineffectiveness, which there's a good chance that that would happen. What's going to happen to the next Democrat who becomes president? Is there any doubt that the next president will be hounded out of office?

The only thing that stops people from hounding anybody out of office is that they don't want to. That's the only thing that stops it. Because if you have unlimited money to initiate unlimited investigations about anybody who makes it to the presidency you can pretty much take out any president. You just have to be willing to do it. And until now nobody's been willing to do it.

So we see the Democrats absolutely willing to take out the president. And I would argue that if we don't see some good bipartisan stuff happening in the next few months, and by the way the prison bill is good, looks like the prison bill may be a positive step. But if all that happens is we're just bombarded with more Cohen Russia stuff, I don't know. I'd be tempted to quit.

He would be the most successful president of all time in two years. And then he wouldn't have to put up with it. But he'd have to make some kind of a deal for Pence to pardon him for all actual and future crimes or something. He will need to do some pardons first. Yeah, maybe so. Pardon everybody and then leave.

It would be even funnier if he pardoned, I've said this before, the best way that Trump could pardon himself or pardon anybody on his team if he thought he had all the pardons that he's ever gonna need is to pardon Hillary Clinton at the same time. Just pardon her. Because if he throws her in the mix it's just gonna complicate the whole thing. It would be hard to disagree with it.

Somebody reminded me that there's apparently gonna be a ban on bump stocks. And that feels like a fair thing to do. Bump stocks were not really useful for self-defense. Bump stocks are not useful for hunting. They didn't really have much of a value. So might as well get rid of them.

Yeah, I'm keep in mind, we should all keep in mind that we're in the crazy holiday season when all of this legal jeopardy stuff for the president is all we have to talk about because there's not much happening. So if the only thing we have to talk about is this legal jeopardy stuff it looks like it's more than it is. But it could be that when we hit the new Congress it will be ten times bigger than it is now. And if that's the case, well maybe it's just time to quit and give you President Pence.

You need another cup of coffee, Scott? I probably do.

You know there's the thing they say about dogs that chase cars. You know what if the dog catches the car? If the dog catches the car the dog doesn't know what to do with it. It's all about the chasing.

If Trump were to resign, and I'm not recommending this by the way, this is not a recommendation, but if he were to resign what would the Democrats do? They would have effectively ruined the government by forcing a president out of office over, right? They would have effectively ruined the government of the United States. They would have to live with that. But they would also have to figure out how to govern. And Trump would be leaving them with the biggest federal debt, the biggest federal deficit in the history of humanity. Maybe not as a percentage.

He would never resign. How about this? What if the president said if you give me 25 billion for a wall I'll quit? He's not going to say that but wouldn't that be interesting? Suppose the president said for 25 billion dollars, if you believe what you're saying, suppose you made this offer to any Democrats. If you believe what you're saying about me that all these bad things are my fault, I'm ruining the world, if you believe those things, 25 billion dollars is cheap to get rid of me. Build the wall and I'll quit today. What would they say? Think about it. Would they take the deal?

Because if they don't take the deal it shows that they don't think he's that much of a problem. And it's just... if they do take the deal he gets his wall. He has the most successful presidency of any president in two years. In two years he will have done more than any president. Pence will keep the momentum going without maybe changing much because everything's kind of going in the right direction right now. Maybe get China wrapped up, that sort of thing. They'll rescind after he's gone. Yeah, maybe so.

Him about Trump switches parties? No I don't think so.

Scott you are a leaf. Somebody says I'm a leaf. I don't know what that means.

All right. Now I saw somebody who's trying to raise money to show that the government has brainwashed us all with trigger words and now we're getting all excited about words and we pick up moist robots. That's all true except I don't think it's the government planning it. I think it's just the effect of the business model of the press.

You know, I think the greatest magic trick of the past couple years is that the anti-Trump media has created the problem and then they complain about the problem they created. Let me put it in some context. Roughly I don't know 15 years ago or so I wrote a book called *The Dilbert Future*. And in that book I said that the news media's business model would cause them to kill people, actually murder people, to create news so that it would be good for business. So that was my prediction 15 years ago. The news media would start killing people to create news because it would be good for business.

Now you could argue that they killed Princess Di because they chased her into a dangerous situation and she died in a car accident. But look at this situation with Trump. It seems to me that everything the press is chasing could have just as easily been minimized or largely ignored. Likewise the Democrats are behind it but the Democrats' power depends entirely on the media. If the Democrats were just complaining about Trump no matter what they complained about and the press ignored them it just wouldn't mean anything. They need the press to do the heavy lifting.

And so the press had, because of their business model, is effectively assassinating the president in slow motion. And we're all watching it and there's n