Jon Lovett

And you always can go back to, like, I could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and they would never abandon me part.

And so I think what he cares most about right now is being a historic figure, building monuments to himself, even if it's politically unpopular, the ballroom, the Iran war, whatever else.

Yeah, he doesn't have to face the voters again.

Yeah, he doesn't give a shit.

All he wants to do is, for the rest of his life, go to the Kennedy Center, the Trump Kennedy Center, when they rebuild it, and with the fucking marble armrests, and go in and have people be like, oh, Donald Trump...

The greatest president in the history of the world who's made the world safe for freedom and peace.

And even if only like his sycophants are saying that, that's good enough for him.

And then he can feel good about himself.

Yeah.

I also think he's learned.

Yeah, because he doesn't have to face his voters anymore.

Yeah.

I think he's also learned from Soleimani.

He learned from the previous Iran strikes.

I think he learned from Venezuela that he can give the hawks.

what they want without pissing off the base too much as long as the conflicts end quickly and there aren't troops on the ground and there's not too much economic consequences why i think to tommy's point why he's out there today saying it's an excursion which by the way again is a despicable word to use to describe something which you know you know 175 kids were killed among many others among seven americans to describe it as an excursion like we're just sort of the the the the amount

of glib and un-American language coming from him as he describes this aside.

He wants to get out of this because he thinks he can give the Graham people what they want without losing the people that he needs who don't want American misadventures around the world.

Yeah, and excursions when you go on a zip line at Club Med, it's not like multi-week bombing camping.

Yeah, it's when you get on the tender to go to St.