Tressie McMillan Cottom is back on the podcast. Tressie, Trevor, and Christiana discuss Donald Trump’s Tesla infomercial at the White House, the psychology of the American voter, and why so many of us unwittingly vote for candidates whose views are actually the opposite of ours. The three also explore our tendency to not appreciate what we have until it’s gone, and how that ties into America’s current war on women. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: How does Donald Trump influence American politics?
Well, Kanye, I think he has a brain injury. He kind of went through a car. Right? He had that. He's got traumatic brain injury.
No, I've never thought of it that way.
To me, it's like, you know those athletes with CTE? Yes. Who like kill their wives.
And it changes your whole personality. I'm like, this guy has a trip. I've never thought of that.
He's got traumatic brain injury and bipolar and a billion dollars. Put those three things together.
That's my Kanye thing. Oh, that's your theory.
Yeah, I'm just like, yeah, I think he's got TBI.
I can't believe I never thought of that. He displays all the traits. The violence, the, yeah, the unpredictability.
But I don't know if, yeah, I'm conflicted on that because I often go, how much time should we spend trying to understand how people got there? And I almost feel like maybe the two can happen. It's not binary. On the one hand, we can say it's good to understand it because maybe if we understand it, we can try and figure out how to not let it happen again.
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Chapter 2: What was the Tesla infomercial at the White House?
So these were hot women who went online and they created profiles.
Yes.
And then they linked up with Republican or conservative men.
Yes. Because they are apparently, according to the data, as you know… They are at a disadvantage on apps, conservative men. They all complain about it. Nobody wants to date them. Then January 6th happens, and I think this started as someone said they recognized a guy they thought they saw on one of the apps once in the videos. Oh, my goodness.
So the women start going on and going, yeah, yeah, yeah. I know that guy. I've seen that guy. And so they were catfishing them, pretending to be conservative or interested in conservative men. And then the chat would go, yeah, so where were you last week? That is so interesting. And it like outed like three or four people.
You know, I always say to my friends, I always say this. I go to all of us. I go, guys, I don't know. Like amongst us, I'm like, I don't know what our downfall will be, but I know it'll be a woman.
That's exactly right.
I don't care who you are.
That's right.
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