Tim Miller

But the problem with that is Trump in each press conference he's giving is escalating and de-escalating simultaneously, sentence by sentence.

It's like kind of comma-Kristen-ing her after every question, like, oh, you're too dumb to understand the brilliant strategy that we're employing, Kristen, that has skyrocketed energy prices and worsened the economic situation.

He also, there was a

There's kind of like a 50 days to bend the curve, you know, 50 days to stop the spread element of his remarks also this weekend.

Like, you know, this is, we have a limited period.

Stuffed shirt.

Very stuffed shirt.

Yeah.

And he thinks that he can get out of everything.

And, you know, this is an area where he has power rather than dealing with Congress when he gets to Congress in a second.

One more thing on the economic part.

So oil remains about over 100 bucks a barrel.

Prices did go down a little bit this morning after Trump, you know, indicated he wasn't going to do mass bombing campaigns on Iranian oil and energy infrastructure.

But, you know, you talked to Catherine Appel about this yesterday.

You know, people can go listen to that.

But

every day that this goes on like the potentially unintended consequences and ramifications of of screwing with the supply chain you know become harder and harder to unwind and like that is the other kind of element of this that he has sort of lost the rope on in my view and that is going to impact obviously people here and him politically but it has global ramifications and like they're trying to do these little things right now like taking off the sanctions on russia and iran while we're in wars with them and

and releasing, you know, some of the reserve, but like, it's not sufficient to the scale of the disruption.

Yeah, Edgar was on this this morning, too, on the madman theory, right?

Like there's a moment where people convince themselves that maybe it is better to have crazy Trump in there because the counterparties don't know how to respond to him.