Joel Pollak

He's big on gold.

The Nobel Prize is gold behind his desk.

Everything's gold.

He likes gold.

It's almost a joke, you know, like, what's he going to build in Greenland?

Like a giant gold tower, you know, on the ice floor or whatever.

But that was very powerful.

The gold medals, the...

The hockey team coming in.

It also showed that he could break the opposition because half the Democrats stood up and he pointed that out.

He said, look, half of them are standing.

The other ones aren't.

But anyway, so I think that was a way of making this speech different and better and more effective than the other ones was basically framing it as a victory speech.

I'm not trying to make the case for you that I'm better or that I'm succeeding and that you should vote for my party in November.

The case I'm making is we've all already won.

And that was, I think, what made it very effective.

And that's why people are upbeat about it today if they like the president and why Democrats are trying to find a better answer.

for it.

And they may just try to forget about it and move on because they think they have the upper hand as the opposition party in the midterm year.

But it was a very effective speech.