Tim Miller

He's going on platforms.

He gives open access to reporters on his plane.

When he's walking on the lawn, he'll pop into the briefing room.

So there's a way that he is so accessible that a baseline of his narcissism and mendacity has been normalized for us who are attentive, who are paying attention to the news cycles.

But for folks who are trying to watch Survivor last night, who are watching it to be distracted from the difficulties that they have in their lives,

They don't have that same sense of accessibility.

Instead, there's this weird figure that comes out who is screaming at them that things are fine and that they need to get over themselves.

And they're not really sure that that's what they paid for.

You mentioned it also the other way where I think he's maybe losing his North Star with his own voters or the people that supported him.

is the attention overseas.

And you mentioned how last night he uses MBS and these foreign dictators as validators, saying they say we're doing great, so what are you complaining about?

But the other thing, before the speech, there was some discussion.

Tucker Carlson even said that he thought that the speech was going to be about declaring war on Venezuela.

Yeah.

They are now focused on this potential war in South America and the Caribbean.

Trump sent this bleat yesterday.

I just want to read some of it.

Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest armada ever assembled in the history of South America.

It will only get bigger until such time as they return to the United States of America all the oil, land, and other assets that they previously stole from us.

I'm ordering a total and complete blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers going into and out of Venezuela.