Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 2, 2026
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all seemed to have a flavor to them of strength, right? When he talked about the Tennessee Valley Authority, which frankly most of us, maybe none of us, really understand what the hell that is, but it's some kind of a quasi-public-private government situation. I don't know. I was too bored to look into it. But when the president said, you know, we have some problems with their leadership, I fired…

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he first few times. After you've heard it 50 times, you start thinking, oh, I guess that's just a pandering thing he's going to do every time. After you hear it a thousand times, it's just true, right? So you've watched the transformation from a pandering kind of thing that any president would say to — he has said it so many times, so consistently, so disciplined, and in my opinion quite incredibly. It doesn't look fake or artificial in the least. He has transformed that impossible thought into you believe it now, right? Do you believe that the president literally cares that Black lives matter in the context of unemployment especially? He cares. He cares.

And the thing that people seem to forget is that the truth is the presidency is pretty transparent, and you can't do a good job for the country, you can't do a good job for yourself unless you've done a good job for the country. The only way this president comes out ahead is if he does the work. That's the only way. It's so transparent. There's no scenario in which Trump is thinking to himself, I think I'll just ride this and milk it and see if I can make some money in my side job as the Trump guy. I can't even imagine it. There's no way he would be so unaware of his environment, I guess, that he would not understand that the one and only path he has for the rest of his life, his other business interests to do well, the one and only path is to do a really good job for the public. Short of that, it just doesn't work. You know, you can't just leave the job and say, well, you know, don't you love me anyway even though you don't like what I did? That's not a thing. He has to do a good job. He has to. And he has to do it for Black Americans, for everybody.

So I think the fact that he always highlights it went from a pandering-sounding thing to a "well, he's got to mean it at this point." I mean, that's pretty disciplined to say it so often. The other thing that doesn't get enough play is that if you're a Black voter or just a Black citizen, do you want open borders? No. Do you want less choice in school? That's what the Democrats are offering you. Less choice in school. If you're Black, do you want that? No, no you don't. Do you want fewer cops while you live in your high-crime neighborhood in too many cases? No. Not most people. Most people want some good policing. They just want it to be better. Of course we all do.

So if you tell yourself that this 36% Black approval at Rasmussen is an outlier, I would say to you, could be. Anything's possible. You could have a presidential candidate bitten by a bat that might be rabid. Maybe not anything's possible, but I feel like — let me put it a different way. I never understood why it wasn't already 36% in my mind. If you have any appreciation for what Black voters want out of life — and again, not treating them as a monolith, I don't want to go all Joe Biden on you, but it is true that while there are many diverse voices in every group, it is true that the Black community, one would expect, would see the same benefits that you and I see. Why would it be different? And I think the whole cries of racism are disappearing every day that Biden does another — what did Trey Gowdy call it? He appeared on The Five yesterday. Great appearance on The Five. And he went through the list of what he called Joe Biden's racially curious comments, which is just the freaking best framing for this. Because I don't think anybody thinks Joe Biden is some kind of a r

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acist, but if you make enough, quote, racially curious comments, then it starts sounding like a dog whistle, doesn't it? But because it's Biden, the people who are on the left must be thinking to themselves, okay, there are a lot of racially curious statements he's made throughout time. Do they form this pattern? Because if this were a Republican, it would be a pattern, right? But because it's Bi…

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