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Ben Smith

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Trump's War on Blue America

But – and he's also – he does watch TV, mostly Fox.

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Trump's War on Blue America

Fox is more sort of consistently pro-Trump than it was in his first term.

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Trump's War on Blue America

He – and there's also these other right-wing networks he can watch.

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Trump's War on Blue America

He does – you know, he reads the papers.

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Trump's War on Blue America

He reads the New York Post and other papers.

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Trump's War on Blue America

But –

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Trump's War on Blue America

But I think people around him, both people who like him and don't like him, have started to think like, oh, maybe he's not seeing everything.

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Trump's War on Blue America

There was this odd instance where he had talked to the governor of Oregon and he got off the phone and said, yeah, you know, she said one thing to me and I've been seeing this other thing on TV and hearing things from my staff.

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Trump's War on Blue America

I'm like, I'm not really sure what's going on.

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Trump's War on Blue America

And then I saw the other day that Kathy Hochul, the governor of New York, I guess told him that the federal government had cut off funding to New York and that was news to him.

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Trump's War on Blue America

And I think in some sense the biggest question is like what is he hearing about the economy and like how good is the information he's getting?

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Trump's War on Blue America

And I think that's – I mean I didn't like – I don't really know.

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Trump's War on Blue America

But basically the core of this situation is that there's an aide named Natalie Harp who follows him around with an iPad and that people who really, really, really want to get his attention, particularly in the conservative movement, have her number and text her things and hope that she will go then play the video to him.

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Trump's War on Blue America

And that's like the key, key gatekeeping function.

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Trump's War on Blue America

Yeah, I was assuming that's why you looked so ageless, Tommy.

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Trump's War on Blue America

You know, I think he's just on Truth Social seeing memes.

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Trump's War on Blue America

And if you look through, he's like re-truthing some like really terrible memes that like I think he's just seeing like, oh, here's somebody who likes me saying something nice.

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Trump's War on Blue America

And I assume that's what the med bed thing was.

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Trump's War on Blue America

It seemed vaguely positive.

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Trump's War on Blue America

It said that he was giving everybody special med bed cards.