hat hurt Trump or help him? It helps him, right? Because Trump is the "the experts have lied to you" guy. That's who he is. He's the "experts are lying to you, let's figure out what to do about it." So in a world in which all of us are becoming convinced that the experts are flawed way more than we understood, the guy who's been saying it for years is looking pretty smart.

So if you put that all together, France, affirmative action, Ukraine war, climate change, and then trust in the elections, and then you throw in energy policy where Trump dominates, you throw in Biden's embarrassment. Do you remember when we used to say that we'd be embarrassed if Trump went overseas and represented the country? Doesn't that seem funny now? We were told we'd be embarrassed as citizens. We'd be embarrassed if Trump was the person who represented us overseas. How's that feel now? It's 2023. We're sending Joe Biden's decomposed bag of bones to represent us. You feeling good about that? Oh yeah, America's back. We're back. We got Joe Biden over there tearing it up overseas, man. Do they respect that guy? Oh, they respect him. So not like Trump. Oh no, no, no. They were just laughing at Trump behind his back, I'm sure. They've never laughed about Joe Biden behind his back. No. Do you think Joe Biden has ever done anything that would cause an overseas leader to chuckle a little bit when they're drinking their tea with their pinky? I think so.

So you could pretty much go right down the line of everything that Trump was pilloried for. Is that a word? I've never used that before. I've never used that word, pillory. I've read it. I think it fits. Does that fit here? He was pilloried, right? Like put in a pillory. I don't know where that comes from but he was pilloried. A very good word. If you're at home and you're listening to this, go with your impulse because right now you desperately want to say "pilloried" out loud if there's nobody around but your pet, which is the way you should consume this. Yeah, you can consume it with a pet while jogging on the beach or even boxing with your brother. Any one of those things is fine. But say "pilloried." All right, you know you want to.

All right. Here's the funniest tweet of the week. I'm giving credit to Rikki Schlott, who I think is a real woman, R-I-K-K-I, Rikki. But there's also a big story about, remember I told you a story about a woman I wasn't sure she was real but then she apologized. I thought she was. Now people are saying there was always a bot. It's pretty disturbing because anyway. But this is a different story. So New York Times reported this. So here's a tweet from the New York Times: "To build a diverse class of students, the medical school at UC Davis ranks applicants by the disadvantages they have faced. The disadvantage scale helped turn UC Davis into one of the most diverse medical schools in the U.S. Can it work nationally?" So that's what the New York Times tweeted. And then Rikki Schlott tweeted this: "Because everyone wants their brain surgeon to be as disadvantaged as possible."

If I had a microphone now I would drop it. I'm going to use my spare lavalier plug-in drop. That's right. Yeah. When I pick a brain surgeon I'd like to know that they had a really tough life. Maybe you still have an attitude about it.

Now when I talk about reality and parody merging, here's your perfect example. Because what makes this funny is that she didn't make anything up. That's why it's funny. It's funny because you can simply describe it in accurate terms and it'll make you laugh. You can describe it in neutral accurate terms and it will still make you laugh. That's absurdity and reality merging. See, if it were just an absurdity that you needed to make up some fun stuff about it to make fun of it, that would not be reality and parody merging. That's just parody. But when you can just simply describe it with ordinary words and it's hilarious, that's a problem. That's too far. That's too far.

But I look forward to a time five years from now when a highly qualified Black doctor will be judged to be one of the best doctors because otherwise how could you get through that whole system? And I honestly feel like Black Americans got a huge promotion. I don't think they feel that way. I understand it because something is taken away from them in the short term and it definitely is. So they're losing something in the short term. But what they're getting back is respect. You only get one and you made the right choice.

You know what's weird? I want to see if I can get agreement on this. It's a weird observation. So white people have had this interesting time lately with the affirmative action ruling where we get to sort of hide in the crack and we get to say, "Well, you know, this is sort of between you Asian Americans and you Black Americans and we're just watching. Yeah, leave us out of this. You guys duke it out. We'll just call the plays as we see them but this is not about us. Keep us out of this. You guys go wild. Hey, you guys work it out. Work it out. We'll just go with whatever you decide. Hey, whatever you guys decide, that's okay with us. We're not part of this."

But here's the thing I realized the other day. I was in a conversation recently that was some class that had exactly one or two Asian Americans in the whole class and one of them was valedictorian, right? And we both laughed. It was just both laughed because it's sort of stereotypical. Now here's the thing. A hundred percent, I'm going to make an exaggerated claim but I want to see if you agree with it or not. A hundred percent of white people are completely aware that Asian Americans kill us in academics. Would you say that's true? That a hundred percent of white Americans are completely aware that we're being lapped in academics by Asian Americans? All right, we agree.

Now here's the trick question. You ready for this? Have you ever heard a single white American say something negative about that ever? You have? Negative? You've heard somebody say negative about that? Seriously? What state do you live in? In what state is somebody complaining about Asian Americans doing really well in school? I don't believe that. I don't believe you've ever heard that. No. And here's the thing. White Americans are just saying, I don't know why, you know, maybe it's cultural, maybe it's something else