Back to episode — Episode 598 Scott Adams - Trump’s “Go Back” Tweet, Possible Iran Nuclear Deal
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hing better. It's the simultaneous sip. Go, go, go. Ah. To those of you who made it just in time for the simultaneous sip, notice how much better your day will be. Wow, it's gonna be a good one. 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 th…
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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'll get to the strategy behind it in a moment. But he had to know — I think it's fair to say, would you all agree on the following statement? The president had to know this would be super provocative and that he would be accused of exactly what he's being accused of. Do you agree that that part we probably all agree on? He knew what the outcome would be.
So let's look at this tweet in terms of how it played out and how it's likely to play out. Now if I describe what happened and is likely to happen, you understand you're all smart enough to know that's different from saying I embrace the message or it's my message or I'm backing him. I'm simply describing it and then I'm describing what might happen. We're all adult enough to simply describe things, right? To understand them. Let's do that.
So what's the first thing that this tweet did after it set your hair on fire? It took all of your attention. If you go to CNN — well, let me do that. Let me go to CNN top page and see what they're talking about today. I'm looking for the news about the ICE raids because that's pretty big news, right? Seems like just before this tweet came out that was the biggest thing going on, and maybe that wasn't the best thing for the president. So let's see what happened.
Oh, it's about the president's racist tweets. Second thing is about AOC responding to it. Next thing is about a Fox News host laughing at his tweet. Brian Stelter is left speechless about the tweet. Other analysis about the tweet and then there's an opinion about the tweet and there's Trump tweeting again. So that's the top left of CNN. Did you see how much of that was about the ICE raids? None. Zero.
But let's keep going be
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cause the middle column on their top page is sort of the news that's not as important as the top left but still pretty important. Cam Kittle on Trump's racist tweets. Okay, we're still on that. And then acting immigration chief says he doesn't know the details of the ICE raids. That's not much. Oh, and then way down, Biden unveils his health care plan. Biden unveils his health care plan. It is so…
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