Ben Smith

No, I figured.

And I think you have chosen a sort of, if you can't beat him, join him, strategy to the way you're talking about this stuff.

You talk, you know, you...

You know, you're running around distributing knee pads to CEOs.

And I think it does... I'm not handing them out.

Though I do have a few if you'd like.

But I want to read you a couple of things the U.S.

government has said about you in the last 24 hours or so.

How about the U.S.

The Treasury Secretary described you as Patrick Bateman meets Sparkle Beach Ken.

The White House Communications Director.

I have a couple more, and then you can respond.

The White House Communications Director called you Gavin Newsom.

Newsom.

And an official White House account, a federal government account, described you with a very online sexual slur that people here probably don't want to hear at 8.30 in the morning.

And you're, in some sense, responding in kind.

Well, I fight fire with fire.

Do you think...

Should you?

I mean, is that kind of discourse from you, from them, good for America?