Jessica Tarlov

Like job losses as a result, privacy issues, revenge porn, chatbots.

you know, people having romantic relationships with chatbots, it's infiltrating, you know, the average person's experience.

So I thought it was a good choice.

Did you like it?

100 percent.

I was going to say that, like Trump, and this happened in the first administration to a much lesser degree, but it brings into stark focus how much of this country runs on norms versus laws.

And you just think we wouldn't elect someone who would be like a maniac to the level that they would do X, Y or Z things.

And we have met our match.

in Donald Trump.

But I would just add to the list of things that you were just talking about that Donald Trump has affected and kind of what I think is his main practical impact, which is reshaping the Middle East.

And I don't know how we can ignore that from, you know,

bombing Fordow, the Iranian nuclear facility, backing this new Syrian government, lifting sanctions there, his relationship with Israel, and all of the transactions that are obviously benefiting the Trump family that are going on across the Middle East and bringing players to the table that would not sit at the same table under any other circumstances.

That is enormous.

And by extension...

the kind of meta thing that Donald Trump's administration has shown me or changed my perspective, and I guess implicit in this is admitting that I'm a bit of a Pollyanna, but

I guess I didn't really believe that everything that went on in government was as transactional as it actually is.

You know, when he says you can always get a deal done, right?

You just have to find the thing that the person wants.

And I'm watching, you know, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff sitting there on 60 Minutes.

And I'm thinking this is all just a game of money chess for these people, right?