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So I haven't checked the news. Is there anything in the news about President Trump that I should know about? Let me check, check the news. That's right. President Trump has stirred the pot. He's used the troller in chief. He's at it again.

So in case there are two or three people in the entire universe who are not aware, the president did some tweeting. He did some tweeting, and I'm going to read you the entire three-part tweet. I could read you the whole thing in case anybody missed it, and then we're going to talk about it because it seems the people's hair is on fire.

All right, so this is what the president tweeted: "So interesting to see progressive Democrat congresswomen who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world, if they even have a functioning government at all, now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came? Then come back and show us how it is done. These places need your help badly. You can't leave fast enough. I'm sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements."

All right, so how does CNN cover this story? Well, CNN covers the story the way they cover all stories about President Trump. The way they covered the fine people hoax, the way they covered the feeding the koi fish story. You could probably think of a few more. The way they cover this story is they leave out stuff, because if you don't leave out stuff it doesn't sound nearly as bad.

So let me translate for you what this tweet means. Now, a lot of people have been translating it from English into racist, and I'd like to translate it into one additional language, and it's called New Yorker. I want to show you how this works. We'll go to the whiteboard.

So this is what these words mean. If you were to say "go back where you came from" and that's all you said, that would be racist by general agreement. We don't know what you're actually thinking, but society would generally say, well, that's sort of racist if the person you're talking to happens to be a different race than the speaker. However, if you say what the president said — go back where you came from, fix it, and then come back and show us how it's done — that's called New Yorker trash talk. New Yorker trash talk.

All right, so if you include the entire quote, and I'm paraphrasing here but that's the essence of it, it's New Yorker trash talk. And it doesn't mean anything really, because he's not actually telling her to go back or telling anybody to go back anywhere. Nobody's literally being told to go anywhere because that would be ridiculous. Nobody's going anywhere. Nobody's expected to go anywhere. Nobody is going anywhere. It's New Yorker trash talk.

But if he'd said it the way CNN reports it without the second part — go back where you came from — well, I think we'd all agree that that would be a little bit too far, wouldn't it? So with great interest I decided to check CNN's reporting to see how often they add the second part where he says come back after you figure it out and come back and fix it for us. You would think that the comeback part would make it pretty clear that this is just regular New York trash talk.

Somebody says, "Scott, you're going down if you back this one. I'm going to delete you. You are gone." I just don't like the gloominess. Will I go down if I back this? Here's why I deleted him. I don't back things. If your framing of this situation is who is backing somebody or who is not backing somebody or who is endorsing the tweet or not endorsing it, I don't want to talk to you anymore because you have a frame that's bad for the world. Bad for the world. So if somebody wants to tattoo this tweet on me, you

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're welcome to do it because it's a terrible world full of terrible people, but I'm going to block you. Okay, all right. So let's talk about this strategically. What we can't know is what the president is thinking, but we can know that there's a reasonable interpretation and an unreasonable one. The reasonable one is that he's just trolling. He knows exactly what this tweet is going to do, and we…

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