the news and he reported that the book says that President Trump was taking a dump on the Resolute Desk while asking questions about nuking the moon.

Now it's funny because the Bolton book is so ridiculous and is so filled with obvious lies, at least obvious to me, that there's nothing that you couldn't expect would be in it. I mean so yeah, so I said that he was on the Resolute Desk while asking about nuking the moon. And here's the comment I got from Unstoppable Chuck Testa, who's a Trump supporter. He says, that's it. I baked desk into the cake when I voted for the guy. I've been laughing for two days at that. I baked desk into the cake when I voted for the guy.

That's so perfect. Because again the reason it's funny is because if you are CNN, if you were CNN and you read this comment you wouldn't know he was joking. You actually wouldn't know he was joking. If you were Brian Stelter you'd look at this and say like I think they would vote for him if he on the Resolute Desk.

Well, so we also in the news, here's a tweet by President Trump. Let's see if you can see the foreshadowing of this tweet. Now I think the president does this a lot. He sort of broadcasts or he suggests where things are going before the decisions are made. Sort of testing them in advance. And here's, I think this is a test balloon.

So Trump tweeted, it was not Ambassador Lighthizer's fault yesterday in committee in that perhaps I didn't make myself clear. That the U.S. certainly does maintain a policy option under various conditions of a complete decoupling from China.

Thank you. The president just tweeted that we're keeping open the option under various conditions of a complete decoupling from China. Do you see that news on any of the front pages? It's the biggest news of the last 50 years.

Here's what I think. I think the president has been so rightly embarrassed by China's unwillingness to be a good negotiating partner. And I think the president gave them every opportunity to be friends, which is exactly the right way to do it. I don't think the president should have gone hard at China. Should never have used the word decoupling. The president never should have used the word decoupling in the sense of maybe it's an option two years ago. If he had said it two years ago I would have been, whoa that's crazy. You're negotiating with him. We don't know if it's gonna work out yet. Maybe it'll work out. Maybe you can get something done. It'll be hard but maybe it can be done. So you certainly wouldn't say decoupling two years ago.

You go in with friend, friend, friend. You're my friend President Xi. I respect you. And then you see what you can do.

Now what was the net effect of the president's completely smart strategic original approach, which is if you can get something done as friends, well that's always gonna be the first choice, right? First choice always. Didn't work. Not only did it not work but China doesn't even look like it was serious about any of it. It looks like they were just playing.

Now he has more options because now that he's completely drained any options of them being good players and responsible and good world citizens, no that's all gone now. So now he can just put it on the table. Give us what we want or go die. Which is what this tweet said. You have to read between the lines but let me read it to you and then I'll read between the lines.

So he's saying that the U.S. certainly does maintain a policy option under various conditions of a complete decoupling from China. Under various conditions. Do you know what the various conditions are? Give us what we need or go die. We're decoupling. That's it. It's no longer a negotiation, people. Now it's an ultimatum. He's putting it in the form of diplomatic talk. Well if you do this we'll do this. But it's now an ultimatum. He just put decoupling on the table.

And China, if you're listening, China I think you are listening. Now one of the questions you might be having, China, because I'm pretty sure they have people who monitor most of the political talk in the United States. I don't know if they watch me in particular but let's say they do. China, you're probably wondering, is that a bluff? Would the president actually decouple from China? I mean I know it's something that people say on Twitter but the president just used that word. Is he bluffing?

Well let me say it to you as clearly as I possibly can in China. Nope. Nope. Zero percent chance he's bluffing. Zero. There's no chance. If you think he's bluffing about decoupling, you're wrong. You're wrong. This is real.

Now of course it depends, like he says, on various conditions. Because China can always offer concessions and take decoupling off the table. They have an option. But it's pretty clear that they don't have any intention of doing that. Would you say it's pretty clear that they're just gonna push and take advantage anywhere they can? And you can't really do business with somebody who has that strategic attitude. You can't do business with somebody who only wants to screw you and is looking for every opening to do it. That's just not somebody you can do business with. So you have to decouple if you're dealing with something like that.

So yeah, the president doesn't tweet this unless he means it. That is absolutely serious, China. That when you don't give us what we want, and you won't, he's gonna decouple. And it will be the greatest thing that ever happened to this country because China has been dragging us down for a long time. Took 40% of our manufacturing. Well we're getting it back. We're gonna take it back. China, you've got problems there. Your problems now.

Let's see. The John Bolton bombshell is that according to John Bolton, who is a mind reader, I don't know if he knew this but John Bolton among his many qualities can read the inner thoughts of the president. I can't do it. Maybe you can't. But John Bolton can. And he wrote a whole book about his mind reading of the president's inner intentions. And here's what he found. He made a bombshell claim in his book that President Trump wanted to do good things for the country but only for his own selfish purposes.

Yeah, yeah. The president was trying to get a good trade deal with China just to get elected. I don't know. This is almost as bad as that like a store selling you a product and they say it's good for you. They say you'll like the product and it will have advantages and solve your problems. That's what they say when they sell you things. But I have a suspicion the