Rudyard Griffiths

As disastrous as this war is for him politically, I think as a serial narcissist, it is giving something to him that he has extracted at various other points over the last 12 months through other vehicles, like his tariffs, were as much an economic policy, I think, as they were, again, some kind of psychological threat.

aid that he demands and desires, which is in an intention economy, which is a big part of how our economy functions these days.

It's about commanding people's attention through apps, through television screens, through

through politics, in an attention economy, he is always insatiable in his desire to command and drive attention.

And this war certainly has delivered that for him.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's a good point.

My last point in this segment would be that the media and all of us should not play into his game.

That so much – and this week is an example – so much of what the media seems to cover hour by hour –

is just flotsam and jetsam that comes out of his mind onto his phone, into his keyboard, and out through his truth social platform.

It's inconsequential.

It's the President of the United States, and it's strange to say that, but it is almost like a stream of consciousness as opposed to something that actually demands and deserves, maybe more importantly,

I'll leave you the last word, Janice, but I'm really disappointed by the press because they talked about his first term and learning this lesson about him.

and not succumbing to his social media addiction, as you correctly have identified it.

Yet here we are, back doing the exact same thing.

And more importantly, maybe with more significance, we're now covering a major war that's having big impacts on the global economy, potentially all of our lives.

in the modality that he has chosen for us.

It's bizarrely disempowering when we, in fact, have the agency to do something very, very different.

Yeah, I'm just so tired of seeing serious journalists who I respect, even The Atlantic, convening White House correspondents and then covering the week as if this was somehow normal.

You know, in that all of this deserved dissection and analysis and basically trying to impute some strategy to what, like demonstrably, it must be mostly, if not all, a kind of,