Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 12, 2026
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ixing this problem turned out to be really hard and it wasn't just a case of whether you were Republican or Democrat. It's just hard to fix it. So even Biden with all the resources in the world and all of the good intentions apparently, he couldn't even get his own hand-picked person to fix it well enough. So I think that gives us a little perspective about Trump's performance on that same topic.…

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been reversed by Biden? Do you know what percentage? We hear about some specific ones, right? You've heard about some of his executive orders that have been reversed. But reversing an executive order is different from reinstituting some regulations that Trump got rid of with an executive order, right? So we do know that executive orders have been reversed, but what percentage of the, let's say, hundreds of regulations have been reversed by Biden because he really liked those regulations? Why don't you know that? Why don't I know it? Why is there no headline on that? How big a story is that? It's pretty big, right? Because that would tell you if Trump did something that's amazing. You know, he got rid of a whole bunch of regulations and when they were looked at carefully

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even Biden didn't want them. Is that what happened? Because I don't know that that's what happened. Is it possible that they're privately being reversed and it's just not being reported? Because I feel like it would be reported if there was any big action on it. So one of two things is possible. Either Trump did an amazing job of getting rid of unnecessary regulations or Biden is reversing lots o…

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