Carl Higbee

Well, my rent's not going up.

I know that.

The cost will go up, but the rent won't.

And Trump's response, he's like, she's running for, of course you say that.

It doesn't mean anything.

And it's like, he was saying it out front that he called, she called him a jihadist.

And he's like, yeah, but you know that she's running.

In Trump's brain, he's like, yeah, you just say stuff.

And then what you do is what matters.

I think that in a lot of ways, there's obviously limits to that, but in a lot of ways, that is true.

that you're going to get free buses.

They think that the mayor can just do that.

It's like, no, this is the rhetoric that makes dummies like you go to the polls because you're going to get free stuff, and it never happens, and they've forgotten about it.

As someone who was never a fan of Dick Cheney to begin with, this is always very fun to kind of watch people go in all these directions.

But the two people in the last 50 years who have expanded the powers of the presidency the most, and it's not close, are Dick Cheney and Donald Trump.

That was Dick Cheney's project from the time that he was in the Ford administration and seeing the post-Richard Nixon kind of Watergate rollbacks of executive power.

He made that his desire and drive under George W. Bush.

He wanted to expand those powers

Donald Trump, who campaigned against the Bush family very effectively and very daringly in the 2016 primary and against Cheney and the forever wars and all of this stuff.

Trump's picked up all of those powers.