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s to measure such things. So in other words maybe you could measure the outcome of something. Maybe there would be a way to measure poll results and opinions before and after somebody's involvement. So I don't know how it could be done, but I suspect it could be done. Somebody says, lol, are you referring to yourself? Yes, yes of course. Now if you're new to this Periscope you're not aware that I…
← Previous segment →is in India with one of his favorite leader buddies, Modi. They get along really well. And this is one of those cases where I say to myself, the Trump haters, what did they say when they watch Trump go to India and being treated as a celebrity, you know, a superstar? They love him. What do people say about that? Because the complaints against Trump fall into this weird category of things that are hard to measure.
So here are some of the things that you hear about from the anti-Trump. Now they're running out of complaints so they're getting wordy. They're just using words put together to complain about something. But if you looked at the actual real impact of it, there's nothing there.
So here's an example. They say that he is degrading the office of the presidency. I don't know. Is he degrading the office of the presidency? And if he did, how much money did that cost you? Did your taxes go up? Did you lose your job because the president had degraded the office of the presidency? What actually is different? All I saw was a lot of stuff that entertained me. And I'm sure that both sides think that if the other side is in power they're degrading the office of the presidency. It means absolutely nothing.
They also say that the other president is costing the United States prestige and respect around the world. Have you seen the film coming back from India? Trump just talked to 110,000 people in a packed stadium cheering for him and their own leader, and we're talking about trade deals and everything else. What part of that looks like the United States losing respect? And if we did, what's that costing us? Did that hurt our trade deals? No. Did it make me less healthy? No. Did it do anything? No.
Here's another one. The president is dangerously expanding the powers of the presidency and he's destroying our norms and conventions. Okay, and because my norms and conventions got destroyed that did what? Cost me money? I don't know. Made me unhappy? Well not if I say it. Clearly obviously it's making some people unhappy. Did it make me late for dinner? Nothing. If they're just words, they're just words put together. There's absolutely no meaning to their complaints at this point.
And one of the things that I think escaped much notice because it didn't get talked about but might have been really important for the people paying attention: we watched Joe Biden, who is not really the favored candidate by the anti-Trump left press. We saw — I don't forget what it was but somebody challenged Biden about the kids in cages. And there was somebody on the left who said, you know, Obama built those cages and he put some kids in it. And then you had to watch Biden try to explain why his administration putting kids in cages is so completely different than the Trump administration using the same cages on the same set of laws and rules essentially. There just happened to be more traffic so there were more of them.
Now I feel as though putting Biden in that position and making it so visible for the first time kind of made that kids in cages thing a little toothless. Did that? Because once it became news on the left that they were Obama cages, well maybe they'll talk about something else when they're complaining, right? Because we have this problem of the news silos. Everybody on the right who is consuming Fox News and Breitbart and those sources, everybody who was watching that news was fully aware that these cages were built and used by Obama. And it wasn't Trump's fault that there's more people, caravans, etc., who tried to come across the border. Trump did everything he cou
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ld to discourage it. In fact no president tried harder to discourage kids from coming here because what are we going to do? We have to separate them from the adults because we don't know who the real parent is. Some of them, too many of them, are being trafficked. What are you gonna do? So I think the Biden candidacy had a weird effect of making Trump look better. And I don't know that it's somet…
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