Curt Mills
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jaundiced cynicism of the democratic side. So it was less effective. They assume that the, despite it all, despite all of the failures that you've announced, that you've reported on fairly tirelessly, they assume that the people in DC know what they're doing. And I'm not sure that's the greatest default assumption.
I mean, look, respectfully to the president, I mean, Donald Trump, again, is the only U.S. president who was not a general or a former statewide official or federal official to get the presidency. And with all due respect to the new president, A healthy country doesn't elect something like that. It had that level of outsider.
That level of outsider could only exist within a polity that was deeply sick. And I think he knows that. I think he recognizes that. And the fact that the Capitol doesn't imbibe that lesson, I think they're imbibing a little bit more, but it's like... I mean, it's still bizarre, 10 years on.
I mean, Trump, June 2015, so June this year, 10 years of Trump, longer than Obama at this point, the Trump era, in spirit, in length. It's like, well, maybe there's something wrong with this country, but it's like a 5% recognition. It's not a 95% recognition.
It is an actual choice. It's an actual choice. We cannot do the border if we do the Middle East.
I agree. But it's very upsetting, not only to leaders of some foreign countries. And this is not just the Middle East. We didn't even talk about Russia, Ukraine. But like, I mean, that perspective is obviously very, very relevant for extricating the United States out of the Russia-Ukraine war. And almost every European capital is unhappy with that.
And, you know, you can have a conversation with a nice Danish person and you might agree on immigration or trade or wine. But you mentioned like, hey, I'm not really sure the United States should be underwriting quagmire in Ukraine. And like the conversation shuts down. It is stunning.
Just shut up, okay? The Churchill thing is really essential. It's just played out. It's played out. I mean, it's played out in... But there's a gamble that some of this stuff isn't played out, though. I mean, there's a gamble that, I mean, I think people have, this country has a generational problem, right? Generations don't cut along. I think that's fair to say. For good reason. Yeah.
And I think there's just a bet that a lot of the voters that made the decisions in the 90s and 2000s are dumb and don't care about their kids' future and will vote for the exact same thing. Clearly they don't. Yeah. Sorry. And will exert pressure on the new administration to do the same thing.
And I think there's a bet that the president is a desperate cynical man who will do whatever it takes when he's pressured. And I think the early evidence is that it's untrue. I mean, I don't, I mean, the- The evidence is that Trump is less cynical than even his supporters thought he was.
I mean, do you want to discuss the Pompeo, Brian Hook stuff?
Is that what the free press argued?
Yeah, I mean, details roll off. The government doesn't usually advertise it.
I think the interesting thing, so it's very easy to just glaze over Trump fighting with officials, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You know, and sort of the error example of this is Trump versus Bolton. And we can talk about that and it's fun, but it's kind of over, right? Bolton's not in the mix, or at least with Trump.
Yeah, so... Pompeo and Hook. I mean, look. Tell us who they are. Yeah, so Mike Pompeo was the former Secretary of State, former CIA director, former Kansas congressman, former West Point valedictorian. Harvard graduate. Harvard law graduate. Ozempic user.
Okay, right. And he was... I'm so bitchy.
The Bolton-Trump feud is old. The disagreement with Pompeo is potentially quite new. And so, by all available information, Pompeo was in the mix for Secretary of Defense, most likely, in the days after the
election, so much so that his son, Donald Trump Jr., intervened in a sort of online campaign, and other allies within that milieu stopped both Pompeo and the former UN ambassador and South Carolinian governor, Nikki Haley, from getting administration posts.
One of Pompeo's former deputies, Brian Hook, who ran something called the Iran Study Group and had various other portfolios and titles at the State Department. He's actually someone Pompeo inherited from Rex Tillerson, his predecessor. He kept him on.
brian hook at uh various points throughout the transition in the last 100 days was reported to be running the state department's transition at some point then was rumored again rumors i don't i've just rumored i don't i don't post about it i don't tweet it out i don't write about it but it was rumored to have been fired very unclear uh
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