Rahm Emanuel

Famous anecdote, in the middle of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Ally Stevenson, our UN ambassador, goes to see Charles de Gaulle.

The Cuban, Stevenson is going into his briefcase to bring the photos to show from the flight overs about the Russian nukes.

Charles de Gaulle, the president of France, says, put those away.

I have the word of the president of the United States.

Now, do you think today, Macron, Starmer, Mertz, anybody, Secretary of State shows up, you think any of them say, well, the president said it, so obviously I believe it.

Not a chance.

Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

I mean, when you have the largest economy in the world, the largest military in the world, and you still are a dominant cultural attraction, what Professor Nye refers to as soft power.

Yes, we are a leader.

Has the credibility and capacity of the United States been degraded?

100%.

So I wrote this piece about a month ago in the Wall Street Journal, rethinking of the world.

There's no reset button on the Resolute Desk.

So you just don't go in and go, the rule of law.

Well, like, okay, you did that before, but you broke it, so you don't, no.

And I don't think Democrats and Republicans

mainly Democrats, fully comprehend what Prime Minister Carney said from Canada when he said, this is a rupture.

There's no superglue to put it back together.

There's no rubber band and chewing gum that's going to put this pottery back together.

Yeah, Mark's pissed.