Saagar Enjeti

It's great news for you.

How so?

As a Jimmy Carter fan.

that Trump could transmogrify into Jimmy Carter of all people.

Listen, I would be very happy if Trump was doing a Jimmy Carter presidency right now.

It would be vast improvement over what we've actually got.

But the other piece here is the military literally having to keep him out of the room because of what a mess he is.

That doesn't seem like a great sign either.

Yeah.

And also, I mean, I don't think this would be a surprise to anybody, but, you know, behind all the public bravado, because obviously he never shows any doubts about whether his strategy is like, oh, we're going to negotiate today or, oh, I'm going to murder your entire civilization today.

He never displays any sort of, like, personal insecurity about the strategy, even when the strategy is all over the place.

But clearly behind the scenes, he's not...

stupid enough to think this is going well for him from a political perspective.

He recognizes there are perils.

I read into these leaks people who want to establish the narrative pretty clearly that this is all this guy, right?

Trump is, he is driving the train, he is piloting the aircraft, he is the guy.

And we're all, it reminds me of the New York Times leaks where you had the TikTok of basically everybody in the room expressing some kind of concern.

about the idea of starting this war and Trump deciding to do it anyway and bringing Netanyahu into the Situation Room and all of that.

So to me, that also serves the narrative of like, it really is on the sky, so that if you're a Marco Rubio or you're J.D.

Vance and you want some sort of future in politics, now I don't think this strategy is gonna work,