citizens of the United States pushing back on this idea of eliminating Iran. And if the citizens are not pushing back on it, and I don't think we are in general, obviously there's always people on both sides of everything but I don't think the public's pushing back on it. So imagine you're over in Iran. You're looking at the biggest military ever assembled in the history of the galaxy. It's pointing all of its guns at you. You've got the most unpredictable president who, it should be said, wouldn't mind redoing the Middle East if he had a reason, if he had an excuse. At the moment he has no excuse. At the moment there's not an immediate need for him to remove the regime in Iran. Not at the moment. Do they want to give him a moment? Do they want to create an excuse that would give this president with the biggest military ever created in the galaxy in the history of humanity, do you want to give him an excuse to use some of those weapons? You don't.

So what I love is the clarity of it. I think a normal president would have said something along the lines of, "Iran, if you mess with us there will be a big response," right? Big, generic. "If you do something to us all options are on the table." Now I do like it when our government says all options are on the table. I like that as a, I've always liked that as just a standard, a good thing to say. Keeps all your options open, makes them wonder. But when Trump does it he goes way beyond all options are open. He makes it binary. If you screw with us we will end your whole country. That's as clear as you can get.

Now again the whole country does not mean, yeah, and I think we all agree does not mean kill all the people in there. And because we kind of like, not even kinda, we like the Iranian people. By the way if you've ever spent any time with Iranian people in America they are unusually warm, awesome people. The average Iranian who lives in this country, whether first or second generation, are really great people. So I'm pretty sure anybody who's had any contact with an Iranian in this country has by and large a pretty positive opinion. So we certainly don't dislike the people of Iran but we have some problems with their government and the president's very clear about that difference. And Israel's very clear about that difference which I believe is legitimate by the way. I think the Israeli people don't have a beef with Iranian people. I just don't think that's much of a thing. It's really a government-to-government problem and it's good to keep it that way.

Of course the headlines are all about the Game of Thrones finale last night. I would like to show you in a one-act play my reaction to the finale of Game of Thrones. Yes, I slept through these parts of the finale. What I took away from the finale was people died and it was over. But I don't want to talk about Game of Thrones because that's not interesting from this Periscope. What I'm going to talk about is their Game of Thrones. The finale is about a third of all the news today. Something like a third of all the real estate and the time spent, I'm talking about news, is about a TV show. Can you have a better administration than the Trump administration then to make one third of the news about a TV show? Do you have any idea how much that signifies the golden age?

Let me tell you what the golden age looks like. I remember the golden age. I define it as a time when most of your problems are solved or on the way to being solved. Alright so here are the headlines from the golden age. There's stuff about Ford cutting workers. Now that would be negative, right? There's a very big company. They're cutting workers. Except that the context is the strongest economy the United States has ever had. So really it's one company having some trouble which is news. It's definitely news. It's not good news but it's not about the economy. It's about one company. So that's probably a quarter of the page.

Another big piece of this is CNN's ho