Back to episode — Episode 598 Scott Adams - Trump’s “Go Back” Tweet, Possible Iran Nuclear Deal
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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…
← Previous segment →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 far down the news funnel there's like it doesn't even exist.
I actually read the news this morning before I got on this Periscope and I didn't even see that the leading Democrat announced his plan for fixing one of the leading issues in the entire nation. Yeah, and it just doesn't matter. Nobody cares. Nobody cares.
All right, so the first thing that the president did was he erased the rest of the news. There is other news but he erased it. Nobody's gonna care about the rest of the news for a while. All right, so if he was trying to just distract from the ICE raids which were getting pretty bad publicity, it worked. Unless you think that this new thing is even worse than the ICE raids, in which case you'd have to say, well then it didn't work. You made things worse. You made it twice as bad. You had a problem, now a bigger problem.
But here's what we know. President Trump's approval r
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ating among Republicans just hit something like 90 percent. Does anybody believe that the Republicans who have supported the president up to this point are going to bail out because CNN won't report the entire tweet? Maybe a few. I think some people will say this is the last straw. I backed him up until now but now I'm going over the edge. Somebody said 94 percent. 94 percent approval. That would…
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