Michael Weiss

They're all quiet.

Not dead, just there's the blankets over them, so they go to sleep, which I wish I could do that with my child, but it doesn't work.

Yeah, although he was also using the tariff tool to punish enemies or perceived enemies of the United States.

I mean, one of the things that was interesting about the Graham Blumenthal bill, which is basically dead in Congress to impose secondary sanctions for countries that import Russian oil and gas, petroleum products and so on, a lot of Democrats didn't like it because it was basically tariffs, right?

instead of actually just sanctioning institutions and entities in the Russian Federation.

So it kind of cuts both ways.

I mean, for some reason, Trump alighted upon tariffs as his preferred lever for, you know, economically battering friends and foes.

And now I guess he can't do it or can't do it as much.

I don't know.

Yeah.

You know, I mean, first they came for the soybean farmers and I wasn't a soybean farmer, but I still voted for Trump.

And then they came for the Epstein files.

And now I'm very angry about that.

And now, you know, I mean, his coalition is is splintering and fracturing over Trump.

a myriad of issues, including now possible war with Iran, which, I mean, you remember this guy campaigned and they were chanting at his rallies, no more wars.

And he just seems to be starting wars now.

All to live long day.

And, you know, I mean, declassifying things to distract us from real problems in this country.

Like, you know, this season is the X-Files in America.

Like we're doing aliens and UFOs because Barack Obama made some stray remarks.