The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - March 06, 2025


A 30+ Year Friendship Ended Over Trump (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_798)

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Gad Saad
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Donald Trump Tucker Carlson Sam Harris George Floyd
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Length

7 minutes

Words per minute

148.4

Word count

1,142

Sentence count

72

Harmful content

Toxicity

5

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Hate speech

1

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Summary

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In this episode, I discuss a recent loss of a friendship and how it was handled by a family member, a cousin, a friend, a colleague, a former student, and a former classmate. I also talk about a tweet I wrote that has received over 32 million views on my social media accounts.

Transcript

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00:00:00.480 Hi everybody, this is Gad Saad. Yesterday on my X feed, I posted the following post, which has thus far received 32.8 million views.
00:00:12.980 I'm going to read it for you verbatim and then talk about some of the sequela of that post.
00:00:19.280 I want you to stop and think about this for a moment.
00:00:22.160 All of your children are being educated by academics, 99 to 99% of whom think that Kamala Harris would have been a far superior president to Donald Trump.
00:00:34.020 These academics have used their minds to conclude that Harris better encapsulates the values of the United States.
00:00:42.800 Choose your universities wisely or better yet, send your children to whichever university Gad Saad is at.
00:00:51.540 I hear that he's great.
00:00:53.820 Okay, so earlier today I went to my LinkedIn account and I saw a private message from a friend whom I truly love dearly.
00:01:08.440 Even though we haven't been in the same city for very long throughout our friendship, we originally met at Cornell many, many years ago, you know, in the early 90s.
00:01:20.640 We were fast friends during Cornell.
00:01:23.880 Then after when we went our separate ways, we stayed in touch.
00:01:26.960 Then he came and hung out with me when I was at UC Irvine.
00:01:32.100 Then I met my wife, then many years later in 2013, I reached out to him because I was visiting Atlanta.
00:01:39.760 He was living there and we went out to dinner.
00:01:42.540 And now I was going to Savannah last week.
00:01:45.640 And so I thought, oh, he might be in the area.
00:01:47.280 Let me reach out to him.
00:01:48.640 And I received an email, a message from a private one where he basically said that in light of my positions regarding Trump,
00:01:57.120 and he referenced specifically the tweet that I just read you, where I'm basically saying, look, all academics, 95 to 99% of them think that Kamala Harris would have been a better president.
00:02:09.140 He did not see a path forward for our friendship.
00:02:13.240 And I repeatedly had mentioned to my wife throughout all the years that, you know, of all people that I have met in my life, and I meet a lot of people,
00:02:22.900 I really held a unique and special affection for him.
00:02:27.300 There's a sweetness, a kindness to him that I always appreciated.
00:02:31.800 By the way, he happens to be black.
00:02:33.040 The reason why I say this is because in his, you know, final goodbye to me, he says, you know, you're supporting someone that is, you know, targeting my community.
00:02:46.400 Now, that could be taken in many ways, but certainly the black element is there because I know that a few years ago, I think when the George Floyd stuff was happening,
00:02:55.560 I can't remember what had triggered it, but he had sent me something that was, you know, white supremacy and so on.
00:03:00.220 So I saw dark clouds in the future, but I never imagined that this person with whom I've had nothing but positivity, fun, kindness, love towards, and I'd like to say vice versa,
00:03:15.640 he thought that I was now just beyond the pale.
00:03:18.580 I was just morally damaged because I was saying something that could be construed as positive against the president that was targeting his community.
00:03:34.480 Now, I should mention also, by the way, before I go back to this gentleman, that my cousin with whom I went through the Lebanese Civil War,
00:03:43.740 my closest friend growing up in Lebanon, who is a cousin, also disowned me a few years ago when I, you know, dared to have the audacity,
00:03:57.100 the temerity of going on Tucker Carlson's show and then saying something that seemed to be warm about Tucker on my ex-feet.
00:04:05.660 Thank you for your hospitality, Tucker. It was great for my family to meet you.
00:04:09.820 And, you know, he responds publicly, you know, have you no shame and so on and disowns me.
00:04:14.880 We haven't spoken since.
00:04:17.360 So a cousin disowned me because I dared accept an invitation from Tucker.
00:04:26.340 And a friend of 30 plus years who I had nothing but the deepest of affections for said,
00:04:34.680 there is no path for us moving forward.
00:04:41.540 I replied, by the way, to him very politely.
00:04:44.060 Let me just read you something.
00:04:48.300 From the Parasitic Mind, page 172.
00:04:52.380 If your Facebook friends are posting comments with which you disagree, engage them and offer an alternative viewpoint.
00:04:59.960 Do not fear the possible loss of friendship.
00:05:02.580 Anyone who is willing to end a relationship because of a reasoned difference of opinion is not worthy of your friendship.
00:05:11.300 If you are sitting at your local pub having a conversation about a sensitive topic, do not refrain from speaking your mind.
00:05:19.200 If your politicians are succumbing to suicidal political correctness, vote them out of office.
00:05:25.460 Donald Trump won the United States presidency in 2016 because a silent electoral majority in the middle of America shouted from the ballot box,
00:05:33.780 quote,
00:05:34.200 We are tired of being patronized.
00:05:36.160 We are tired of politically correct platitudes.
00:05:38.280 We are tired of identity politics and the ethos of victimhood.
00:05:42.100 We are tired of the extraordinarily biased mainstream media.
00:05:45.600 And by, close quote, and by expressing their frustration on election day, they won.
00:05:50.940 Now, Donald Trump won, I think, what was it, 70, 70 million votes.
00:05:56.080 He won all seven swing states.
00:05:58.400 He won the House.
00:06:00.160 He won the Senate.
00:06:01.200 He won the popular vote, which was the first time in many years. 0.95
00:06:04.520 All of those people, according to my former black friend, are all morally deranged, without a fault. 1.00
00:06:14.480 He's not racist, you see, because he believes that no real black person could ever vote for Trump. 0.85
00:06:22.080 And, you know, we don't forget that as Jews of color from Lebanon, we're, I guess, also people of color.
00:06:28.800 So, how could I, a person of color, be voting against the guy who is seeking to eradicate all of our communities?
00:06:38.140 By the way, I subsequently wrote to my current, one of my current black friends, who is a neighbor,
00:06:50.180 who moved from San Francisco to Montreal with his wife, who used to be super anti-woke and hated Trump,
00:06:58.340 and now is a super pro-Trump supporter.
00:07:01.160 And I wrote to him a text.
00:07:03.920 I have the text with me.
00:07:05.560 I wrote to him.
00:07:06.540 I said, you know, here's what happened with this other gentleman. 0.93
00:07:10.220 So, I'm presuming that you're not a black man because you are for Trump.
00:07:16.800 And he said, no, I am a white man. 0.92
00:07:19.880 It's a figment of your imagination.
00:07:22.180 He joked with me.
00:07:23.220 He had humor.
00:07:24.180 He used to be woke.
00:07:25.300 Now, he's no longer.
00:07:26.520 He appreciates the fact that people can have differing opinions, change their opinions.
00:07:31.100 My former friend doesn't.
00:07:33.780 There is nothing more dangerous in the history of humanity than a parasitized mind.
00:07:40.980 Take care, everybody.