A Florida woman who says she s divorcing her husband in part over his inability to deal with her love for the commander in chief. According to divorce records, former Palm Beach State Attorney Dave Ehrenberg and his wife Lynn, a former Miami Dolphins cheerleader, are parting ways for a variety of reasons, ranging from a willingness to have children to her politics to her support for President Trump. The couple also said she felt increasingly isolated in their marriage, their public relations release stated, Even though Dave is a Democrat, Lynn is a Republican. "It wasn't an issue at first, but that was before the Hillary Trump saga, and as that built, the tension in our relationship built. She says she took selfies with Trump and her husband didn t like it. He wouldn t let me take pictures of it. I didn t listen to him. He would ask me not to take pictures, and I didn't like it either. And then he wouldn't let me do anything about it. And so we decided to separate. a few lessons from this tragic tale of marital woe: 1. People of different political preferences should think seriously before tying the knot. 2. Politics often reflects deeper values, and while we're fond of papering over those differences because of love, the reality of marriage requires that two people share a set of values in order to live a successful life together. 3. People tend to see feelings about Trump as a referendum on character. And that speaks to the character of politicians. 4. The point of politics is that they only matters insofar as it speaks to trustworthiness and capableness of the person making promises. 5. The character of a politician is what matters. 6. People are a lot. 7. People can t be trusted unless they make good decisions. 8. They are a vehicle for a good politician. 9. They can be good at it. 10. They have to be a good person. 11. They need to have a good idea of who they re going to be great at it, and they need to be able to do that. 12. 13. You can t have it all, right or not? 14. You need a good one, right? 15. They won t be good enough, or they won t get it? 16. They ve got to be someone who s good at something they can t do it or they don t need it
00:00:00.000President Trump is making single life great again, at least for one Florida woman who says she's divorcing her husband in part over his inability to deal with her love for the commander-in-chief.
00:00:08.000According to divorce records, Palm Beach State Attorney Dave Ehrenberg and his wife Lynn Ehrenberg, a former Miami Dolphins cheerleader, are parting ways for a variety of reasons ranging from a willingness to have children to her politics.
00:00:19.000Quote, a staunch Republican and supporter of President Trump, Lynn also said she felt increasingly isolated in their marriage.
00:00:25.000Their public relations release stated, Ehrenberg is a Democrat, Lynn is a Republican.
00:00:29.000It wasn't an issue at first, but that was before the Hillary Trump saga, she explained, and as that built, the tension in our relationship built.
00:00:36.000Dave Varenberg was tangentially involved in the 2016 election when he dropped assault charges against then-Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.
00:00:42.000He worked with Trump at Mar-a-Lago for years, but after Trump's political rise, he tried to distance himself.
00:00:48.000I'm walking through the red carpet, Lynn stated, and he's sneaking through the bushes.
00:00:55.000She says she took selfies with Trump and her husband didn't like it.
00:00:58.000Obviously, Lynn is hungry for some publicity, but there are a few lessons from this tragic tale of marital woe.
00:01:03.000First, two publicity-hungry people probably shouldn't marry each other.
00:01:06.000This seems like a lesson that the Scaramuccis have also learned in the recent past.
00:01:09.000Their agendas obviously weren't aligned, and if Mrs. Ehrenberg's agenda deviated from her husband's, she seemed happy to ignore his agenda in favor of her own and vice versa.
00:01:18.000People of different political preferences should think seriously before tying the knot.
00:01:23.000Politics often reflects deeper values, and while we're fond of papering over those differences because of love, the reality of marriage requires that two people share a set of values in order to live a successful life together.
00:01:34.000Finally, the Trump era has polarized people in a unique way.
00:01:37.000That's because Trump himself is polarizing.
00:01:39.000He's loud and he's brash, with a thousand character flaws that endear him to some and alienate others.
00:01:43.000People tend to see feelings about Trump as a referendum on character.
00:01:47.000And that speaks to the problem with treating our politicians as celebrities in general.
00:01:50.000The point of politics is that we have certain policies and ideas we would like to see promulgated.
00:01:55.000And politicians are a vehicle for those policies and ideas.
00:01:58.000The character of politicians only matters insofar as it speaks to the trustworthiness and capableness of the person making promises with regard to policy.
00:02:07.000But now, policy has taken a backseat to the attitude of politicians.
00:03:18.000I was not expecting it to be, to be honest with you.
00:03:19.000I thought that it was going to devolve into name-calling and nastiness because I'd seen Chang's debates with Ann Coulter and Dinesh D'Souza the last couple of years.
00:03:27.000But Cenk really did stick to the topics, which is fantastic, and I think I did too, and it was a really good back and forth.
00:03:32.000I'll let you be the judge of who you thought won, but it was really great.
00:03:36.000We're going to play some clips of it tomorrow.
00:03:37.000We're pulling all the clips of it today, so we'll have some material tomorrow.
00:03:41.000It was fascinating and interesting, and I think really good.
00:03:44.000I think we need more of those kinds of debates.
00:03:46.000Also, we're going to get to everything Trump-related, the replacements in the cabinet, where he stands, what happens with tax reform, what's going on with Trump, a lot to go through there.
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00:05:25.000There's still debate over whether he had resigned the previous day, so remember, we have to reverse course for a second, remember, Anthony Scaramucci was hired as the new White House head of comms, and Scaramucci had designs on being the guy closest to Trump, that meant that he wanted to oust Priebus.
00:05:40.000So, he did an interview on the record with the New Yorker, in which he suggested that Steve Bannon wanted to perform anatomically impossible acts upon himself, and suggested that Reince Priebus was a paranoid schizophrenic who was always afraid someone was out to get him.
00:05:53.000It turns out someone was out to get him.
00:05:54.000A guy named Anthony Scaramucci, as it turns out.
00:05:57.000And after that interview happened, Trump didn't discipline Scaramucci.
00:06:00.000He didn't say anything about Scaramucci saying anything bad.
00:06:02.000He didn't say that that was inappropriate.
00:06:16.000He really is, in terms of personnel, a lot like the Joker from Dark Knight.
00:06:20.000You know, break this pool cue, there's only one slot available.
00:06:23.000Apparently he was angry at Reince Priebuses, according to reports, which is just hilarious.
00:06:26.000He was angry at Reince that Reince didn't fire back at Scaramucci.
00:06:29.000So he liked that Scaramucci was saying that Reince was a paranoid schizophrenic who didn't have Trump's best intentions at heart, and he was angry at Reince that Reince didn't slap Scaramucci back so he could watch the slap fight, which is just a very Joffrey Baratheon thing to do.
00:06:51.000He went on a plane with Trump to Long Island, where Trump did a speech to some sort of police event, which was controversial in and of itself, because Trump said something about how if you're a police officer, you don't be too gentle with suspects, like putting a hand on the top of their head when they get in a car so they don't bump their head.
00:07:20.000While they're on the plane, Trump tweets out that Reince has been fired and he's been replaced by General John Kelly.
00:07:25.000Kelly is the head of the Department of Homeland Security.
00:07:27.000So Reince says, I resigned yesterday, but that doesn't explain why I was on the plane.
00:07:30.000So they get out of the plane and Reince gets in a car with apparently Dan Scavino, who's one of the comms directors over at the White House, as well as, I think it was Bannon, was the third person.
00:07:40.000Scavino and Bannon get out of that car, get in another car, and drive in the opposite direction, and Reince Priebus just drives off into the sunset.
00:07:48.000It really was very much like the scene from The Godfather.
00:07:51.000You know, leave the gun, take the cannoli.
00:07:53.000And Reince is sort of left there by himself.
00:08:39.000In the Trump administration and from Trump followers, that now that Kelly, who's a general, is in charge, in terms of the White House Chief of Staff, that there will be a little more structure to this, because so far we have seen the exit of the National Security Advisor, the firing of the FBI Director, Trump attacking his own Attorney General, we've seen the ouster of Reince Priebus, and we've seen the ouster of Sean Spicer.
00:08:57.000In any organization, that's a lot of turnover.
00:09:00.000Like here at the Ben Shapiro Show, we've actually had the same staff since day one, because we did a pretty good job of selecting our staff.
00:09:05.000Trump said he had selected the best people,
00:09:07.000Yeah, hard to argue that when you're firing somebody every couple of months.
00:09:10.000I thought there was a funny tweet from somebody on Friday that says, Is Trump aware that he doesn't have to fire somebody every Friday?
00:09:15.000Because the Friday before was Sean Spicer and then last week was Ryan Spiebus.
00:09:21.000And this is one of the reasons why you're seeing his approval rating plummet among Republicans.
00:09:25.000There's a feeling that Trump is in over his head and that he doesn't actually know what he's doing.
00:09:29.000The combination of the fact that Trumpcare went down in flames last week, even skinny repeal went down in flames, and Trump came into office pledging, this is going to be easy, I'm going to repeal Obamacare, I'm the greatest dealmaker who ever was, and then none of that gets done, and he doesn't even really campaign for it very hard.
00:09:45.000A lot of people were very upset about that, and then you combine that with all of the turnover in his administration, and it feels like he doesn't really know what he's doing.
00:09:52.000So there's a Rasmussen poll out today.
00:09:54.000Rasmussen has been the friendliest poll to Donald Trump.
00:09:56.000He's down to 39% in the Rasmussen ratings.
00:09:59.000Ten days ago, he was at, excuse me, 44% in the Rasmussen poll.
00:10:14.000He writes a piece today about this Rasmussen poll, and it's appropriately brutal.
00:10:18.000He says, the failure of the Obamacare repeal bill, maybe for forever, is inexpressibly demoralizing and infuriating to Trump supporters.
00:10:24.000Whether or not you blame the president for the failure of the Republican Party to keep a seven-year promise, a promise that defined them and justified their existence as a majority, Trump still assured and reassured us he would make this happen.
00:10:34.000Trump ran on getting things done, and on top of tax reform and a border wall between the U.S.
00:10:38.000and Mexico, repealing Obamacare was one of his three biggies.
00:10:41.000The Obamacare repeal knocks some of the luster off of Trump and his biggest selling point, his deal-making skills.
00:10:46.000Secondly, the chaos in the Trump administration finally became real with the resignations and firings of Press Secretary Sean Spicer, Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, and the newly installed Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci and his gobsmacking, unforgivably hypocritical, breathtakingly obscene comments, leaks to New York Magazine.
00:11:03.000Scaramucci is the man Trump hired to get the White House Communications Department in ship shape and to stop all these leaks to the corrupt media.
00:11:11.000That's appropriately brutal language, I think, from John Nolte, who's been a strong, strong supporter of President Trump throughout the primaries, throughout the general, and as president.
00:11:30.000He's getting it from all sides, is Trump, and I think deservedly so at this point.
00:11:35.000Now, one of the things that is frustrating about the way that the Priebus firing was done is he was fired in such a brutal and demeaning manner that when Priebus then went on national TV and said, everything's okay, nobody believed him.
00:11:45.000So he went on national TV and he talks about how everything is just spectacular.
00:12:19.000Okay, so I think he's right to fire me and replace me.
00:12:22.000I mean, this sort of kind of kiss-assery from Reince Priebus comes off that way because everybody knows the kind of chaos that's going on inside.
00:13:01.000He dropped $100,000 to the studio so he could get, like, a five-second cameo in Wall Street 2, one of the biggest bombs in recent history.
00:13:09.000It's all about image creation for Trump.
00:13:11.000If you want to create the image of a president who's in charge, knows what he's doing, this passive-aggressive tweeting, and then sending out your director of comms to talk about how Steve Bannon wants to suck his own clock, that does not actually, that does not actually forward the agenda in any real way.
00:13:27.000I mean, on the same day that Priebus was saying that everything is on board, everybody's great, this is all terrific, he's now going on national television having to deny that he's a leaker.
00:13:37.000Are you the leaker in the White House?
00:13:49.000All that makes Reince Priebus look like he's a weakling because if you really wanted to honor the president, the president's the one who hired Scaramucci.
00:13:54.000So what you have is the look of people who are trying to be loyal to Trump like Priebus.
00:14:00.000And the people who are trying to be loyal in the way Scaramucci is, attacking all the people they perceive as Trump enemies, they look like sycophants.
00:14:06.000None of this is good for a White House that is trying to project calm
00:14:09.000into an American political system that is really riled up at this point.
00:14:13.000Now, there is some good news in all this, which is the economy continues to grow, 2.6% growth in the second quarter, which is good, strong growth.
00:14:20.000Trump has been saying he wants 4% growth, not gonna happen.
00:14:23.000But if he got us to 2.6% growth every quarter, that's strong growth, that would be fantastic.
00:14:27.000That is largely because, and this is, I think, a point that a lot of Trump supporters make that is correct,
00:14:33.000There is a feeling that no matter what Trump does at this point with the Republican Congress, at least it's not going to make things economically worse.
00:14:39.000You're not going to see him passing lots of regulations.
00:14:41.000You're not going to see him taking a lot of harsh stances against the business community.
00:14:46.000The success of business relies on predictability.
00:14:49.000If you're a business owner, what you don't want is your taxes being jacked up every five minutes or lowered and then jacked up and lowered and jacked up.
00:14:56.000You just don't know how to hire people under those circumstances.
00:14:59.000Trump, even his incompetence, provides a certain level of stability
00:15:02.000Because you know that nothing is going to get done.
00:15:03.000So you may as well assume the system that's in place now is the system that's going to be in place six months from now.
00:15:08.000But in terms of foreign policy, this does have some real ramifications, which I'm going to talk about in just a second.
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00:17:10.000As I say, the chaos, when it's being shrugged off, but there's just more evidence of chaos, it makes people feel discomforted.
00:17:16.000We've heard now, for well over a year, that there was going to be a reset at some point that was going to make people feel solid.
00:17:22.000First, the reset happened with Bannon, and Bannon did a pretty good job with the campaign.
00:17:25.000As much as I dislike him personally, you gotta give credit where credit is due.
00:17:28.000He did a good job with getting Trump under control for a lot of the campaign.
00:17:32.000And then after the election, after Trump was mouthing off, there was a feeling, oh, he's assembling this fantastic cabinet, and they will keep him under control.
00:17:39.000And then he starts firing people in his cabinet.
00:17:42.000And now, again, we're getting the same routine.
00:17:44.000Now John Kelly is coming in, and now he's coming in as a strong replacement.
00:17:48.000Finally, things will be under control at the White House.
00:17:50.000Here's John Karl from ABC News making that case.
00:17:53.000He comes in as a much more powerful Chief of Staff than Reince Priebus ever was.
00:17:57.000If you remember, Martha, when Priebus became Chief of Staff, he was announced along with Steve Bannon as the Chief Strategist, with Jared Kushner as a Senior Advisor.
00:18:07.000Now, the power of all three positions, theoretically at least, will reside with General Kelly.
00:18:12.000He will have authority that Reince Priebus never had.
00:18:14.000But as you know, the issue throughout these first six months is that the real Chief of Staff in that White House has been Donald Trump.
00:18:23.000So the question is whether or not he will truly cede that authority to General Kelly, and if he'll listen to him.
00:20:10.000Is this a White House that is prepared for disaster?
00:20:12.000Is this a White House that is prepared for bad things to happen?
00:20:14.000Remember, with all the chaos, with all the tumult, with all of this happening, nothing externally bad has happened to the Trump administration.
00:21:04.000I don't want to risk my own image and political capital to do anything.
00:21:07.000And you could see America's enemies start to take advantage.
00:21:09.000That's why Mike Pence was flying over to a lot of the NATO countries.
00:21:12.000Trying to reassure them that they were protected from Putin.
00:21:14.000If I were a NATO country right now, I would be a little less sanguine about the prospects that President Trump would intervene should Russia start to actually get aggressive in any serious way.
00:21:25.000Trump is the image of the presidency matters.
00:21:40.000Right now, he looks like he is presiding over a chaotic household.
00:21:43.000He looks like a stepfather in a chaotic household where no one knows where dinner is coming from the next night.
00:21:47.000That is not what you need from the President of the United States.
00:21:50.000It has some predictable effects for healthcare as well.
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00:23:23.000So the impression of chaos inside the administration has real policy ramifications.
00:23:27.000One of those ramifications, as we saw last week, was the fact that Trump was not able, in any real way, to rally support behind any form of a healthcare bill.
00:23:35.000And you saw him, like last week, he tweeted out, Republicans, pass healthcare, make it better, do it.
00:23:43.000And Jon Podhors from Commentary Magazine, he said, what exactly is it?
00:23:50.000So when Trump supports something, you don't know what it is that he is supporting.
00:23:54.000And so I think Trump actually made a bit of a boo-boo.
00:23:56.000So Trump has been saying openly and publicly, we need to let Obamacare implode, let it collapse, let it implode, let it collapse, let it go down in flames.
00:24:21.000Ted Cruz says, we're not going to fund Obamacare from the congressional side, and we're not going to pass a budget that includes funding for Obamacare.
00:24:30.000And Obama says, fine, I won't sign a budget that doesn't include funding for Obamacare.
00:25:13.000He was clearly shutting these open-air war memorials where, again, it's an open-air memorial.
00:25:17.000It's literally just a statue in a park, and he was closing them down and putting chains around them and preventing people from getting in, preventing war veterans from getting in to visit memorials to their war buddies.
00:25:26.000He was doing all of that in order to up the pain factor, and we on the right were going nuts.
00:25:30.000I remember we were saying, he's doing this on purpose because he's trying to make something that isn't that bad into something that is absolutely terrible so that he can put pressure on the American people, and that's gross.
00:25:41.000He got away with it because he was smart enough to recognize that he couldn't openly say that.
00:25:44.000Now imagine how that would have gone if he had said that.
00:25:46.000If he had said, listen, we're in the middle of a government shutdown, you know, and in a government shutdown, I understand things aren't that bad, but I'm going to make things worse.
00:29:35.000That's the routine that they are pushing toward.
00:29:37.000So again, how you approach the issue matters.
00:29:40.000I want to see Obamacare go probably far more than President Trump does.
00:29:42.000I've said from the beginning Obamacare actually corrupts the soul of the country, but
00:29:46.000You know, President Trump is pursuing the right goal in the wrong way, and every time you pursue the right goal in the wrong way, you end up not achieving the goal and actually undercutting the goal.
00:29:56.000You can see how this is all a Democratic ad, right?
00:29:58.000Chuck Schumer yesterday starts to use it as a Democratic ad.
00:30:43.000President Trump, as you know, is hoping to revive the effort to repeal and replace Obamacare.
00:30:48.000He needs the vote of one more senator in order to flip someone's vote, whether yours or Murkowski's or McCain's.
00:30:55.000The president appears to be threatening to cut off funding for the health care plans that members of Congress receive.
00:31:01.000Would that kind of pressure change your vote?
00:31:06.000No, but, you know, the ball is really in our court right now.
00:31:11.000There are serious problems with the ACA.
00:31:14.000We're seeing collapsing markets in some areas of the country, where even though people have subsidies, they're not going to be able to buy an insurance policy.
00:31:28.000And what we need to do is to remember my friend Lamar Alexander's words, which is that he says that Congress doesn't do comprehensive well.
00:31:39.000We need to go back to the committee, to the health committee and the finance committee.
00:31:43.000So what he's doing, so is Trump really driving a unified health plan from the right and the left?
00:31:47.000Or is what he's doing actually creating an opposition to himself from the quote-unquote moderate Republicans like Susan Collins and the left that's going to blame Trump for everything now?
00:31:57.000Bernie Sanders, again, he actually did this last night, right?
00:31:59.000This was Bernie Sanders yesterday saying, Trump wants to say, they're trying to dump it on Trump, and Trump is making it easy because he's actually not doing the one part of his job he's supposed to be best at, the imaging, right?
00:32:08.000That's the part he's supposed to be a master at.
00:32:10.000That's the part where he's supposed to be dominant.
00:32:13.000Here's Bernie Sanders, looking all weird with his tongue out of his mouth here, talking about how, great freeze frame guys, talking about how Trump is going to threaten all Americans as well as my pudding cup and perhaps my second vacation home.
00:32:26.000You know, I really think it's incomprehensible that we have a president of the United States who wants to sabotage health care in America, make life more difficult for millions of people who are struggling now to get the health insurance they need and to pay for that health insurance.
00:32:42.000Maybe the president should put down his, stop his twittering, tweeting for a while, and understand that America today is the only country, only major country on earth, not to guarantee health care to all people, and the solution is not to throw tens of millions of people off of health insurance that they currently have.
00:33:05.000Okay, so this is their whole shtick, and they're going to continue beating those drums.
00:33:08.000Trump needs to do a better job with this.
00:33:09.000Now, that said, I think there's a critique that's growing among some people who were not pro-Trump during the last election cycle that I think is wrong.
00:33:18.000And I think it's actually wrong-headed.
00:33:20.000So John Kasich says that because of John Kasich, God help us, that... John Kasich, the current Ohio governor, a raisin in the sun, John Kasich, talking about how Trump's first six months have him worried for the country.
00:33:34.000I'm worried about our country, obviously, Chris.
00:33:37.000And here's the thing, you know, the White House is an amazing institution.
00:33:42.000But when I think about the people who have been able to lend voice to amplify that power, what we need, and I think perhaps the president can get there, I sure hope so, is sort of the sense of unity, of hopefulness, not of division, but of lifting.
00:33:59.000And I think we're not seeing enough, we're not seeing that right now.
00:34:19.000We may have lost what we were supposed to be.
00:34:22.000I think similarly today, the party has lost its way.
00:34:25.000We've given into nativism and protectionism, and I think that if we're going to be a governing party in the future, and a majority party,
00:34:37.000We've got to go back to traditional conservatism.
00:34:39.000Limited government, economic freedom, individual responsibility, respect for free trade.
00:34:45.000Those are the principles that made us who we are.
00:34:47.000Okay, so I agree with his basic principles, but the idea that the party is given into nativism or any of this stuff, I think that's an over-read into what 2016 was.
00:34:54.000Listen, I've worried about this stuff too.
00:35:02.000What I'm actually saying, and it's encouraging to me, is I'm seeing that there are still people, people with whom I disagree on a lot of this stuff, who still have standards for Trump.
00:35:12.000Because the fact is, either your standard is going to be the man, or your standard is going to be the principle.
00:35:17.000Now, your principles may differ from mine, but at least if your principles are still there, then we can argue about the validity of the principles.
00:35:24.000We're not just arguing about Trump the man.
00:35:28.000As I've said before, politics used to exist on the basis of principles, right?
00:35:32.000There was a right-left spectrum, it was the x-axis on politics, and it was from right to left, you know, if I was all the way out here on the right.
00:35:39.000Now, there is a y-axis, and that is Trump.
00:35:42.000And people now judge each other based on whether they are pro-Trump or anti-Trump.
00:35:46.000Because I'm at a zero on pro-Trump or anti-Trump, sometimes he's great, sometimes he sucks, I don't care, you know, I'm still all the way out to the right here, but because I'm zero on the Trump scale, there are a lot of people who tend to think that I'm moderate, which is bizarre, because I'm the most right-wing person that I know.
00:36:00.000The problem is that if you're on the Y spectrum, and all you care about is the Y spectrum,
00:36:05.000Then the x-spectrum completely disappeared.
00:36:53.000Tucker Carlson, Newt Gingrich, they're starting to say the same things.
00:36:56.000That means that there is some standard.
00:36:57.000Again, I may not agree with their standard.
00:36:58.000I may think that they waited until too long to get upset about what Trump is doing.
00:37:02.000But at least it means that there is still a rational debate that can be had along that x-axis because I can have a discussion with people who differ from me where they are in the x-axis.
00:37:12.000I can't have a discussion with people who just want to talk about why Trump is God or why Trump is Satan.
00:37:16.000That's not a conversation that's worthwhile having.
00:37:19.000Here is Laura Ingraham basically, for once, being critical of President Trump.
00:37:23.000And I think this, I'm sorry, I like Scaramucci, I think he's really talented, but this episode is humiliating to the president.
00:37:43.000So you can see that Elora is still trying to cater to people who are all the way up here on the Y-spectrum, but she at least has a breaking point.
00:37:49.000If you have a breaking point, you can be part of the political conversation.
00:37:52.000If you don't have a breaking point, if you'll stand for anything, or if you'll stand for nothing from Trump, then you're not part of a rational political conversation.
00:37:58.000You're either part of a pro-Trump cult or an anti-Trump cult, and I'm not interested in having a conversation with either of those things.
00:38:04.000Okay, before I get to things I like and things I hate,
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00:40:05.000And as I said on Friday, one of the problems with the Trump administration and one of the glories of the Trump administration is that if you duck out of the room for five minutes to take a dump, you miss three news cycles.
00:40:14.000Scaramucci has contributed to this in magical ways.
00:40:36.000And since I now root for entertainment, not just policy victory,
00:40:40.000I'm starting to give up on policy victory, unfortunately, because I don't see this Congress being effective and I think this president needs to get his act together.
00:40:46.000Now that I root only for entertainment, Scaramucci must stay.
00:40:49.000It is imperative that Scaramucci remain as part of this administration no matter how many times he says that other administration officials are attempting to perform bizarre sex acts on themselves from SNL skits with Will Ferrell performing yoga.
00:41:03.000In any case, I've decided to do a whole series of references to Scaramucci this week in honor of the new White House Communications Director.
00:41:10.000This one is basically eight versions of Scaramucci in a suit.
00:41:16.000It is Wall Street, starring Charlie Sheen.
00:41:18.000In the 1980s, Oliver Stone had a series of films that were really quite good, like Back to Back in the 1980s.
00:41:23.000This is the film that he made directly after Platoon, and of course has become famous for Michael Douglas' terrific performances as Gordon Gekko.
00:42:23.000And you can trade everything you believe in.
00:42:34.000Obviously, the take on Wall Street is that Wall Street is all based on insider information, which is not true.
00:42:38.000First of all, there's a good libertarian argument that insider information should actually be legal.
00:42:41.000The reason that they say this is because they say that otherwise what you end up with is that the public actually has less information generally.
00:42:48.000You could follow a few key players, and if you just followed what the investors were doing who actually are at the company, you'd immediately know something was going wrong at the company and sell your stock.
00:42:57.000This is the case made by libertarians.
00:42:58.000I think it's actually a pretty strong case, economically speaking, that insider information shouldn't be barred because people are going to do it anyway.
00:43:05.000And in fact, the people with the ultimate insider information are people in Congress who know which legislation is going to be passed impacting the economy.
00:43:12.000In any case, it's a really cynical take on Wall Street that is far too broad.
00:43:17.000The truth is that the vast majority of stock pickers do not actually outperform the market.
00:43:21.000One of the great myths of stock picking is that if you invest your money at Goldman Sachs, the particular trader, that that guy's going to be just a wild success for the next 10 years.
00:43:29.000The number of people who have been wild successes, who outperform the market, you know, who pick stocks just they're great at picking stocks,
00:43:36.000The market is highly transparent, and it is very difficult to beat the market.
00:43:40.000The idea that you can just beat the market is, you may do it on a one-off basis, but doing it repeatedly is nearly impossible.
00:43:46.000But the film itself is really good, and it's funny because Gordon Gekko is supposed to be the villain, but his greed is good speech, which is basically sort of an Ayn Rand take on economics.
00:43:56.000Not a bad summary of Ayn Rand's objectivism, and actually, true.
00:44:00.000One of the things that's really funny about this is that they make out, this movie, I could do a whole shtick about the economics of this movie, but they make out the unions as the great winners in all of this.
00:44:09.000Okay, the unions in this case, one of the things that happens in this movie is that the union, which is run by Charlie Sheen's dad, Martin Sheen in the film,
00:44:16.000He's trying to bargain with an airline.
00:44:17.000The airline is losing money, and the unions are still trying to claw for their peace.
00:44:21.000Now, he makes the unions a lot more conciliatory than they actually are in real life, but Gordon Gekko looks at this and he says, okay, well, I'll buy the airline.
00:44:31.000It's cheaper to do that, and I'll make more money that way than bargaining with these unions.
00:44:35.000And instead of you saying, well, maybe the union should cut a better deal with management in order for them to operate an airline at a competitive price, right, and stop losing money,
00:44:44.000It makes you feel like he's the bad guy for coming in and buying a company and then redistributing the airplanes, basically selling the airplanes to more efficient companies.
00:44:52.000But from the perspective of the consumer, what Gordon Gekko does is better from the perspective of the consumer than what the union is attempting to do in Wall Street.
00:45:34.000He's backed for years the Hugo Chavez regime in Venezuela, which is now garbage.
00:45:39.000But it's pretty... He is a talented filmmaker for sure.
00:45:44.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:45:50.000Okay, so first thing that I hate, there's this run-in between Chris Christie, the governor of New Jersey, and a Cubs fan that's at a Brewers-Cubs game, and Chris Christie's getting a lot of crap for this, but that does not seem appropriate to me.
00:46:29.000Apparently the guy said, I yelled his name and told him that he sucked.
00:46:32.000I called him a hypocrite because I thought that it needed to be said.
00:46:35.000Again, I think it is one thing for Chris Christie to catch a ball at a Mets game, which I liked last week, and then he got booed, which I thought was just generally hilarious.
00:46:41.000But don't, like, harass the guy on a personal level, okay?
00:46:44.000Like, as somebody who is in public a lot, it would be very irritating to me if you just heckled me on a personal level.
00:46:54.000But for people to be getting all over Christie because Christie went to him and said, you know, you're a big shot before walking away from the fan, I can't get on Chris Christie's case for that.
00:47:05.000Okay, the other thing that I hate today is J.K.
00:47:07.000Rowling, people are so eager to nail Trump that they are just saying things about him that are plainly untrue.
00:47:12.000So there was a video of, it looked like a kid in a wheelchair trying to shake Trump's hand and then Trump not shaking his hand.
00:47:19.000But the problem is that that's not true.
00:47:22.000Trump spent more time with the kid in the wheelchair than anyone else.
00:47:24.000There's actual video of Trump with the kid in the wheelchair and it is not It's obvious that he's not ignoring the kid in the wheelchair, but that didn't stop JK Rowling We actually what do we have the video?
00:47:34.000So this is the actual video of Trump with the kid in the wheelchair So
00:47:53.000There's that cute little kid in the wheelchair.
00:47:54.000And people were trying to suggest that Trump was ignoring the kid.
00:48:29.000Number two, on the imitation of disabled reporter, this is one of those things where the more I've watched, I've watched it now probably ten times.