Dave Weigel

people are ready to sacrifice uh are they I just haven't seen not to be too cynical just I haven't been in a few states the last Alaska weeks New Hampshire and Texas I haven't seen that at all I just haven't seen any attitude that Americans who are still angry about inflation which has been at two percent or less than three percent for years and prices have not gone down I don't see that a country that is still frustrated the costs have not dipped to what they were in 2020 is happy to pay higher costs for this war and so it he could explain that we don't see nothing in the previews and it's not in his nature

No, I'm glad he brought that up.

And this is how the president interprets a lot of information that he not just watches highlight reels given him by staff, but he watches a lot of television.

You'll see in how he talks about rival politicians or people, people in the Democratic Party.

It often you can trace it back to just a highlight on Fox News.

So that's that's.

not unexpected for how he operates and how he communicates and how he has described the war.

The time he spent in this period we're talking about, this last month, when he has cameras in front of him, even if it's about the war, he usually diverts to something else.

But right, when he talks about the war, he brings up highlights of things that have been destroyed.

Now, this is not playing out like...

My reference point is kind of old, the Gulf War in 1981.

People are not watching live attacks.

The media is not there to watch them.

This has not been communicated back home.

Even the way that the strikes in 2025 in June against Iranian nuclear sites were, where the administration could go out.

You don't need footage necessarily.

You can explain tactically what was done, what was achieved, why you did it.

He spent more time talking about Europeans not being helpful enough.

And I don't like to be patronizing and say, oh, Americans don't know what the Strait of Hormuz is, etc.

I was a part of a focus group last week with voters who were swing voters.