Bill Kristol

And I want to say to you over the weekend, I feel like we're overwhelmed. Of course, they have the whole federal government like doing stuff for them, you know, and we have like the board. The fine team that we are, that will work as staff. And Congress has its small staffs trying to fight back. It is a big advantage being president of the United States.

And I want to say to you over the weekend, I feel like we're overwhelmed. Of course, they have the whole federal government like doing stuff for them, you know, and we have like the board. The fine team that we are, that will work as staff. And Congress has its small staffs trying to fight back. It is a big advantage being president of the United States.

And I want to say to you over the weekend, I feel like we're overwhelmed. Of course, they have the whole federal government like doing stuff for them, you know, and we have like the board. The fine team that we are, that will work as staff. And Congress has its small staffs trying to fight back. It is a big advantage being president of the United States.

And for all their clownishness and incompetence, you know, having some people who know what they're doing and loyalists who are willing to do everything Trump wants and foreign leaders who want in some ways to – Work with Trump or, you know, use Trump, let's put it that way, you know, and give him some token victories occasionally or not rub his face in it. It is a big advantage being president.

And for all their clownishness and incompetence, you know, having some people who know what they're doing and loyalists who are willing to do everything Trump wants and foreign leaders who want in some ways to – Work with Trump or, you know, use Trump, let's put it that way, you know, and give him some token victories occasionally or not rub his face in it. It is a big advantage being president.

And for all their clownishness and incompetence, you know, having some people who know what they're doing and loyalists who are willing to do everything Trump wants and foreign leaders who want in some ways to – Work with Trump or, you know, use Trump, let's put it that way, you know, and give him some token victories occasionally or not rub his face in it. It is a big advantage being president.

If you think of your four years in office as, you know, just defeating your enemies and rewarding your friends, not doing something good for the country, it does feel like they're constantly coming at us with a lot of forces. Yeah.

If you think of your four years in office as, you know, just defeating your enemies and rewarding your friends, not doing something good for the country, it does feel like they're constantly coming at us with a lot of forces. Yeah.

If you think of your four years in office as, you know, just defeating your enemies and rewarding your friends, not doing something good for the country, it does feel like they're constantly coming at us with a lot of forces. Yeah.

also it's a good point and you know i don't watch many reality shows i'll be honest but i get the impression they keep everyone interested and excited based on ludicrous little things right oh the couple broke up i don't know and some like married you know whatever the thing is married at first sight and oh they didn't break up they're having a fight you know it is like that i mean trump obviously has internalized what you keep people interested with with what are if you step back for two seconds are trivial or you know not important things but hey there's drama you know

also it's a good point and you know i don't watch many reality shows i'll be honest but i get the impression they keep everyone interested and excited based on ludicrous little things right oh the couple broke up i don't know and some like married you know whatever the thing is married at first sight and oh they didn't break up they're having a fight you know it is like that i mean trump obviously has internalized what you keep people interested with with what are if you step back for two seconds are trivial or you know not important things but hey there's drama you know

also it's a good point and you know i don't watch many reality shows i'll be honest but i get the impression they keep everyone interested and excited based on ludicrous little things right oh the couple broke up i don't know and some like married you know whatever the thing is married at first sight and oh they didn't break up they're having a fight you know it is like that i mean trump obviously has internalized what you keep people interested with with what are if you step back for two seconds are trivial or you know not important things but hey there's drama you know

I mean, it's marginally good for the world economy and for our economy. So that's good. It's still marginally bad compared to where we might have been if we just continued to

I mean, it's marginally good for the world economy and for our economy. So that's good. It's still marginally bad compared to where we might have been if we just continued to

I mean, it's marginally good for the world economy and for our economy. So that's good. It's still marginally bad compared to where we might have been if we just continued to

biden's policies at this point or to more traditional low tariff policies but yeah i mean liberation day that was such hoopla just over a month ago it turns out the markets like it whenever there's a relief from liberation day when we're like unliberated liberated from liberation day and i mean trump is just shrewd enough student of public opinion of the markets to maybe keep following that but he's also once you launch the tariffs it's not quite so easy to unwind them so we're seeing that with with china and and uh

biden's policies at this point or to more traditional low tariff policies but yeah i mean liberation day that was such hoopla just over a month ago it turns out the markets like it whenever there's a relief from liberation day when we're like unliberated liberated from liberation day and i mean trump is just shrewd enough student of public opinion of the markets to maybe keep following that but he's also once you launch the tariffs it's not quite so easy to unwind them so we're seeing that with with china and and uh

biden's policies at this point or to more traditional low tariff policies but yeah i mean liberation day that was such hoopla just over a month ago it turns out the markets like it whenever there's a relief from liberation day when we're like unliberated liberated from liberation day and i mean trump is just shrewd enough student of public opinion of the markets to maybe keep following that but he's also once you launch the tariffs it's not quite so easy to unwind them so we're seeing that with with china and and uh

The other point I'm so struck by is it's all so lawless. He decides he's had some meeting in Geneva and suddenly tariffs are down to this for 90 days. Because, of course, if it became a permanent thing, someone might say, hey, don't we have like Congress that ratifies these things? Like I seem to I'm old enough to remember a huge fight over NAFTA. What was NAFTA about?

The other point I'm so struck by is it's all so lawless. He decides he's had some meeting in Geneva and suddenly tariffs are down to this for 90 days. Because, of course, if it became a permanent thing, someone might say, hey, don't we have like Congress that ratifies these things? Like I seem to I'm old enough to remember a huge fight over NAFTA. What was NAFTA about?