Back to episode — Episode 528 Scott Adams - Manufactured Word-News, China Trade, Russia, Iran
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← Previous segment →a lot of so-called news today. Let's get right on it. As you're watching the tensions flare with Iran and the United States, are you having the same feeling that I'm having, which is that I'm glad that Trump is president and not really anybody else? And I'm not sure we could have said that two years ago. You know, two and a half years ago we would all sort of be guessing what Trump would do if he were president. But now we have a better idea, and we know that the last thing that Trump wants to do is start a war with Iran. It's just the last thing. But we also know that he's famously unpredictable. So there's one thing that Iran can't be sure about. Iran can't be sure that he doesn't want to start a war with Iran.
Do you remember the days when people would say that dumb old unpredictable Trump, he'll be no good on the international stage because he doesn't know anything, he'll start a war or he'll be impulsive? All the things that they said about him. But now what do we say about him? The things we can say about him now is that he seems pretty consistent about not wanting to get into unhelpful wars. And war with Iran would be pretty darn unhelpful. So he's created a pattern where the country actually trusts that the last frickin' thing he wants is to get into a war. It doesn't matter if it's Iran, doesn't matter who it is. The last thing he wants is to get into a war.
Now you know John Bolton is part of the administration. You people of course are saying, well we're not so sure about John Bolton. You might want to get into war. He loves war, they say about him. I'm not saying that but people say that. I don't know that they're wrong. I'm just saying that people say that. But don't you feel comfortable that John Bolton cannot convince President Trump to get into a war unless Trump really wants the war on his own? And I don't think he does. Do you see any chance that John Bolton times ten other John Boltons could change this president's mind? You don't, right? It doesn't even seem like you even hold that as a fear. I see zero chance that John Bolton can change Trump's mind to make him get into a war that he did not want to get into. It's just I can't hold those thoughts in my head that Trump's mind can be changed by John Bolton. But I don't know that I would feel the same about any other president. I feel as though any president we knew less well, you'd say I
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don't know, maybe they can get talked into it. At the same time we also feel confident that if President Trump needs to take some kind of military action, should events transpire that makes that more obviously a good choice, you also are positive he could do it. You know President Trump could pull the trigger if events require that. So it's sort of the perfect place today at the moment. And every…
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