#293 What I Really Think About Trump and Media Bias

From my point of view, it was totally rational at that point not to care what was on Hunter Biden's laptop. And the truth is, I still don't care given that Trump is looming over the 2024 election. Given the choice we had in 2020, given how much we know about both Trump and Biden stretching back decades, there is absolutely nothing that could be on that laptop that is relevant to me.

If Trump were a better person, he would be worse in many ways. If he were brave and self-sacrificing and idealistic, if he were capable of being strongly committed to something beyond his narrow self-interest, he would be capable of creating much greater harm in the world, but he's not. He is a child in a man's body. He lies as freely as he breathes—and just as compulsively.

When I say that wherever you are on Earth, you could probably walk a thousand miles in any direction and not meet a less admirable human being than Trump, I mean it.

Trump isn't the answer to wokeness and leftist hysteria, because he has done more than anyone to produce that hysteria. If you want to see how crazy the left can get, just elect Trump for a second term in 2024.

If I thought Trump was literally the next Hitler, I should want him assassinated. Is that even controversial to say? Is there anyone who doesn't wish that one of the plots against Hitler had succeeded? Unless you're a Nazi or just crazy, you, too, wish that Hitler had been assassinated.

Unlike bin Laden, it is patently obvious that Trump isn't psychologically normal. He really is missing something that almost every other person on Earth has. He is an absolute black hole of self-regard.

I'm not a fan of Joe Biden, and I wasn't a fan of Hillary Clinton; I'm a fan of a normal range of political and ethical chaos. Trump lives far outside that range, and he has dragged as all out there with him.

To say that Trump lies incessantly and with a velocity almost never encountered anywhere else in human life is a fact. It is demonstrable. It is nearly self-evident and has been for decades. It is as true and uncontroversial as saying that he's around six feet, two inches tall.

Trump is, without question, one of the least honest and most malignantly selfish human beings I have ever come across.

This is the real Trump derangement syndrome—to be defending the indefensible. What we are witnessing now among Republicans is not normal politics.

Trump is a narrowly selfish con man. He doesn't appear to think big at all. If he wants anything, it appears to be only fame and money. He seems content to do things like rack up millions of dollars in fees at his hotels and golf courses and apartment buildings by doing things like oblige the Secret Service to stay there.

Viewing the Hunter Biden laptop as Russian disinformation or some other sort of disinformation was quite reasonable when the story first broke.

I have an audience that wants to know what I think—and more important, how I think. And if you are a true member of my audience, and you're not just listening to this because you hate me, you are here because you enjoy the ride, whether you agree with everything I think or not.

We tend to want to hold people to the worst possible interpretation of what they said, even when it's belied by other things they said in context and continue to say.

Being engulfed by a tsunami of hatred definitely gets your attention. And you get to see who your friends are and who is almost your friend and who your former friends were always in the process of becoming.