Ben Rhodes

Unfiltered, perfectly imperfect.

No telling what I'm going to do and what I'm going to say at any time.

We've allowed people to beat us down so much that all we did was wallow in COVID.

That's all we did and we no longer believe.

This is a city of swagger.

I always tell people, give me a Mother's Day card, please, because I get called you mother often.

And it's from people on wings of both parts.

It would really be a Father's Day card in that sense.

But calling me a mother...

Well, you're not the mother.

I mean, Tim, we are in the most absurd timeline here because essentially we have to just live with the truth, right?

Not the true social post, but the actual truth, which is that Donald Trump launched a war against

thinking that there would be quick and easy regime change.

None of that happened.

He killed thousands of people with this war.

He spent hundreds of billions of dollars.

He probably wiped out trillions of dollars in price increases.

You've got countries where people can't even access fuel.

He decimated what was left of our international relationship.

The rest of the world kind of looks at us warily like a rogue state that could knock anything over at any time.