attack the media so that is a real thing. But there was another explanation which I have been presenting for a while. And that other explanation is this. What if the media deserves the criticism? Why do we act as if that's not one of the options? Because if the media is an honest purveyor of news that just makes some mistakes now and then it would be very inappropriate for the president of the United States to criticize. Likewise it would be very inappropriate for an elected Congress person even a freshman to criticize the press if they were honest brokers of fact even if they made some mistakes.

But I've suggested that our press is nothing like that anymore. It used to be but today the press is all about clickbait. It's about supporting a side. It's about being on a team. In such a world where the press is really just on a team, they're not really objective reporters of facts anymore, under those circumstances is it valid for a sitting president to criticize them? Hell yes. Not only is it valid it would be a dereliction of duty for the president of the United States to not criticize the media the way it's currently constructed. Their current business model requires them to chase exaggerated stories and to chase rumors and to chase things that don't matter but might make the other team look bad. So for the president to criticize that is the most valid thing I could ever think of. And that is now demonstrated by the fact that AOC, as we call Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, watching her do the same thing for exactly the same reasons validates my movie. My movie said no the problem here is not the president criticizing the media. The problem is that the media has never been this bad at least in our modern times. They've never been this bad so they do deserve criticism. I am justified. So my movie has proved out.

Now let's say you're in the other movie. Let's say you're in the movie that says the president is a big old dictator who can't get anything done. He's incompetent and he's a racist. So that was the movie that half the country has been under right? Incompetent dictator racist. What has happened this week? Well the racist thing's having a little problem because it turns out that both Democrats and Republicans really really want strong border control. They want to call it different things but they're basically in complete agreement. So if you were criticizing the president for wanting strong border control what happens to your worldview when the Democrats come out and repeatedly say no no we want strong border control too we just want a slightly different technology to get there? So doesn't the whole the president is a racist because he wants to be strong on the border kind of go to hell when the Democrats take his exact position? They just differ on the technology because it wasn't the technology that made him racist. There was nobody who said you know that president wants strong border control that part doesn't bother me. The problem is that he would use a wall instead of a fence. It's the wall that makes it racist. Nobody said that. It was always about controlling the border as well as you could was the racist part. So the Democrats have now fully embraced the president's position. They've only disagreed on what to call that thing. Is it a wall? Is it a fence? Or is it as I call it a wall. We'll talk about that in a minute.

So that story had to be very confusing for the people who said he was a racist when their best piece of evidence for it is the same thing that their team is doing and nobody can dispute that.

Next we saw prison reform. Something that Republicans have stopped forever but the Trump administration managed to push it through. Even on CNN yesterday and this it was wonderful to watch actually. I'm watching CNN and the most anti-Trump pundits including Bill Kristol, you know one of the most anti-Trump people in the world said let me just say this. I'm paraphrasing him. He said let me just say this. I'm a huge critic of the president. Everybody knows that. But on this one thing, prison reform, the president nailed it. The president gets the credit. Even went so far as to say yes Jared Kushner was critical to this but it's still the president who gets the credit. All right that was a very generous thing to say from one of the president's biggest critics. And other pundits were saying the same. They even went so far as to say that there's something about this president that made that possible in a Nixon goes to China way. Because the president was such a strong on crime personality it allowed him to negotiate in a way that other Republicans couldn't get away with.

So the crime bill I think everybody would agree is primarily going to benefit or at least disproportionately will benefit the African-American and other minority communities. So how do you hold the frame that you have the most racist president ever who just did the most human rights act we've seen since when? Let me put this to you historians and fact checkers. If you were to look at the history of human rights there was the end of slavery, there was the Civil Rights Act, you know these are the big things. And then there have been other things that have moved the ball forward. Name some. What was the last thing that happened that was this big in terms of civil rights? Was it Lyndon Johnson? Is that the last big thing that the government did? Gay marriage, okay if you throw that in. I was t