Ben Rhodes

So we'll see the soap opera that is the succession in North Korea.

I mean, this matters, by the way, just because Kim does not look like he's in perfect health, Eamon.

I don't know what you think here.

But anyway.

No.

He's one of the few leaders you still see smoking in public at events.

Right, exactly.

I want to end on one positive note here because we've had a dark thing.

We're going to pour one out for Rick Grinnell, Twitter troll, previously ambassador to Germany in the first Trump term, acting director of national intelligence, supporter of the big lie after the 2020 election.

Called, quote, one of the most nasty, dishonest people I've ever encountered by friend of the pod, Susan Rice, who got to know him in the UN context.

Look, I don't want to go through Grinnell's bio here, but there have been a number of stories recently that say that he's clearly fallen out of circles.

He overplayed his hand.

He offended Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff.

You know, she seems to hate his guts.

One embarrassing example that came out recently, I think it was in the Daily Mail.

Grinnell thought he arranged for the Serbian president to meet Trump in Florida, but Susie Wiles blocked the meeting, which left Grinnell looking like an idiot.

He can't even seem to do his corruption right.

He was working on that half a billion dollar real estate deal in Serbia with Jared Kushner.

That's now been called off.

Kushner's pulled out of it.