Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 2, 2026
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ry. The story is that the Bidens, Joe Biden and Jill, don't recognize the, can we say illegitimate, the unmarried daughter of one night of fun between Hunter and a woman who may have had stripping in her past. And the story is that the staffers at the White House have all been informed to say that Joe Biden has six grandchildren and she would have been the seventh. So the story is that he's ignori…

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often reported with a frame or a framing or some context left out. There's always something important left out. Don't you think there's something important left out of this story? I don't know what it is, but there's something important being left out.

Now, it could be, if you had to speculate, maybe there's something about the mom that if they mixed it, it just becomes unbearable. But that doesn't really explain why you would deny the existence of the child. You could simply not invite them to official things. So wouldn't you say there's something terribly missing in the story? Because as written it doesn't make any sense. If you tell me that Jill Biden doesn't want to recognize her own granddaughter, yeah, I don't think there's any chance of that. I'm sure she does. So there's something going on. I'm just going to leave it here. I'm going to leave it with there's some fact about this that's just not true or not being reported. And it could be that there's a reason that the Bidens don't want to tell us about it. It might be something that's private or sensitive or creepy. There could be 50 reasons that they don't want to talk about it. So that puts them, that makes them vulnerable. So anybody else can frame it the way they want because they're not talking about it.

Anyway, it's just a summer story and I don't believe it's true. And that's the nature of all summer stories. They're not true, or at least they're framed in a weird way.

All right. Ending affirmative action, according to polls, was pretty popular. This year's breakdown according to one poll: 75 percent of Republicans are in favor of it. Doesn't that seem low? That only 75 percent of Republicans are in favor of ending affirmative action? Only 75 percent? How could you actually be a Republican and be in favor of it? It's almost like a definitional problem of some kind. Anyway, but 75 percent of Republicans, independents are at 58 percent supported, and even a solid 26 percent of Democrats approve of it. So that's a winner.

Now let me ask you this. I'm no expert on Supreme Courts and Supreme Court history and stuff, but can you answer this question for me? With the affirmative action ruling having happened the way it did, overturning it, if Trump had never been president, if Trump had lost in 2016, are you sure? It's no, because if he lost the conservative judges would have been liberal judges and they would have kept it, right? So why is nobody calling this a Trump win? Why is the news not reframing this as one of the most popular things Trump ever did? This is, oh, Jackson, I mean, right? So doesn't that seem like an obvious oversight by the news?

All right. I remind you of my best prediction. My best predictions are the ones that are most contrarian. All right, so this is a super, well, I think it was contrarian actually. Maybe it's not. Maybe this is not contrarian because you might agree with me. When Trump lost the election in 2020 I predicted that Trump would be seen as a better president the longer time goes by, that the longer you waited the better he would look. Right now, look at the things that now that we've waited. You know, I had an experience with affirmative action. It took me out at least four of my career attempts, you know, four in a row I think. And I was very happy that Trump did it.

I mean, you're confirming what I thought, that Trump was the agent of that change. That's huge in my mind and in my life. It's really big. It's a really, really big deal. And it's so big that unless Trump had started a war I would be happy if he only did that. If that's the only thing he did I'd say he's one of our best presidents. So there's that.

But what else did Trump get right? Well, let's look at how correct Trump looks right now. And I'm going to give you one word and then you tell me if Trump looks smart and prescient. All right? One word: France. All right? Am I right? Trump warned us. He warned us about France. He tried to stop it here and he may have actually stopped it because I don't actually know what the current situation is with immigration. But we must be doing something right in this country even under Biden. What happened to Islamic terrorism? What happened to it? Where'd it go? How in the world did it just stop in America, in the homeland?

Now, my speculation is that the, what do you call it, the surveillance state. I figure is the reason we're not getting a huge terrorism problem. I think that the government actually is sort of listening to everything and probably using AI so it's not people listening to us. But I'm sure AI is listening to all of our traffic. Wouldn't you assume that to be true by now? The AI is listening to all of the traffic everywhere. It's just picking out the keywords and looking for terrorists. But it must be good at it. It must be good at it. And I would imagine there's a reason it's good at it because AI is built on pattern recognition, specifically language pattern recognition. But you don't think that language pattern recognition could identify a terrorist pretty quickly? I'll bet that's one of the easiest things it can do. There's no way that a terrorist talks like everybody else. They would almost certainly have a pattern to the way they approach things.

So yeah. And you know, was Trump behind that? Well that would be a top top top top top secret thing. But I assume so. I assume so when he was in office. And I would assume that Bi

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den's behind it too. And whatever they're doing that's working because we're not hearing about it. So I assume that France is wide open. Immigration is what causes them all the problems. All right. I'm going to give you one more word and you tell me if Trump gets the win for a problem. Ukraine. Right now we don't know for sure. We don't know. But there's a reasonable argument he could stop it soo…

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