Daniel P. Driscoll

That's how they get their ad dollars.

And so the entire system has been set up to tell a story, create a headline, to get a person to click on it so you get rewarded.

It's classic like Pavlovian behavior.

And so if you think of the Army parade, the Army parade was to celebrate 250 years of our United States Army.

We are older than the United States of America itself.

I tell soldiers often they and the people that came before them and the ones that are coming after actually built and are sustaining this great nation.

I don't know if you remember the headlines, but so many people wrote about this militarized parade, that it was going to go down D.C.

with these tanks, and it was going to destroy the city and destroy the roads.

And, I mean, I can't tell you.

I would guess there were thousands of articles written about this in the months leading up.

This was President Trump's big act to do something despicable is what a lot of people wrote.

The parade happened and nearly, I think it ended up having more views than the Super Bowl this past year.

Yeah, I think it had 148 million views.

And as far as I know, we had $800 worth of total damage where one tank nicked one curb.

And almost everyone I know that watched it said, man, that was good, wholesome television.

And our recruiting numbers, like the number of people wanting to join skyrocketed that day, that week, and the month that followed.

So from my perspective, it was everything we and the president said it was going to be.

And then when I was sitting with these reporters, I asked them, I thought many of them wrote the story on the front end about how bad it could be, but did any of them write a follow-up story to say, actually, it was exactly what they said it was going to be.

And the slippery slope argument that they continue to make to sell headlines doesn't tend to ever actually happen.

And so for the average American,