Timothy Snyder
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 28 Jan
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That's it.
I've got well-tailored suits, I've got people around me, and I'm going to die in Egyptian cotton sheets in the White House.
That's it.
It doesn't go any further than that because he's not really a very rich person.
And for most of his life, he hasn't been.
And he actually, I think, does have some idea of what – he's never been poor, obviously, but he has been – he's been mathematically poor.
He's been in debt.
He's been able to imagine what it would be like not to have any money.
Yeah.
Whereas somebody like Musk, that is a completely different world.
I mean, I think when you cross 10 billion, you get into a different zone.
Or maybe it's 20 billion.
But then when you're in a Putin-Musk sort of zone, you are in a different world where...
your sense of what's meaningful touches on the fantastic so i'm going to live forever i'm going to i'm going to invade mars i'm going to invade ukraine right ukraine doesn't really exist and those fantasies are what become important to you because those fantasies are what make you in some way you imagine immortal in fact they make you ridiculous and murderous but um because they're you know incredibly damaging but you're living that in the world of fantasy
I think one has to just see Trump as a servant or an instrument of somebody like Musk in that sense, right?
Because Trump has never really been a rich guy.
Americans look at him and think, oh, that's a rich guy, but he's never really been a rich guy.
Therefore, the Putins and the Musks of the universe have some leverage on him because he knows the difference.
He can see, okay, those guys have 100 times more money than I do, even though I'm president of the United States.
Well, first of all, a lot of it actually goes back to our oligarchs.
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