Episode 153: Scott Adams Talks About President Trump’s ALL-CAPS Tweet to Iran
Date: 2018-07-23 | Duration: 8:13
Topics
President Trump’s warning tweet to Iran’s President Rouhani
Transcript
[0:08] Pom pom pom pom pom pom poms. Hey everybody, can you hear me? I’m not sure my sound is working right now, but if it is, you know what time it is. It’s time for the simultaneous—it’s time for Coffee with Scott Adams. It’s time to talk about ourselves in the third person. And now join me, if you will, for the best sip of the day. I call it the simultaneous sip, and here it comes. Oh, good stuff.
So, some of you remember there’s an old story in the news. I’m not sure when this occurred; maybe you can fact-check me. I think it was a year ago. Approximately a year ago, the President had a summit with Putin. Oh wait, it wasn’t a year ago. It was one—
[1:11] Wait, it wasn’t a year ago; it was one week ago. You can barely remember. What did I tell you a week ago when the summit went bad? I said in a week, you’re barely going to remember it happened because there’s going to be so much that happens between now and then. Well, I was not disappointed.
Last night President Trump tweeted in all caps. I will read the tweet, and I’ll read it in all caps. If you’ve ever read something in all caps, it reads completely differently. To Iranian President Rouhani, in all caps: “NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE AND DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!”
That’s somebody at my door. Oh, I’ve got room service. Stay with me for a minute.
[2:18] I’m live on video, but go ahead. Yes, please. So let me finish reading this tweet. There are several things to talk about here. Number one is this is his first all-caps tweet. There are several things going on here. Number one is that this has turned up the heat higher than you’ve ever seen before. And does this play—
[3:21] —look exactly like the Rocket Man / dotard exchange? Does it look familiar? Don’t you think you’ve been here before?
So it looks to me that the President is responding to Rouhani’s comment about messing with Iran being the “mother of all wars.” But interesting, Rouhani also said it could be the “mother of all peace” to have peace with Iran. So I think Rouhani wants some peace, but I think both he and the President needed to ramp it up all the way to get to the next level. So let me try to do math and talk to you at the same time.
[4:24] Thank you. We’re having a bagel, and I’ll show you. Let’s take this simultaneous sip to the next level with actual hotel coffee, not something out of a paper cup.
Anyway, yes, this seems to be a North Korea replay where the President takes it up to the highest level, scares the pants off of everybody, including our own people. Now, at the same time, a couple other things happened. I think Mike Pompeo said something in a tweet yesterday about supporting the Iranian people. I thought that might have been a mistake because I don’t think the United States should look like it’s behind a revolution, because that just gives the Iranians something to—
[5:25] —push against. It gives them a common enemy on the outside. I think any revolution that happens in Iran needs to be Iran’s internal business, because we could wait forever. We’re not really in a hurry, and there isn’t much chance that the Iranian leadership will survive forever.
Now, we also saw the President or the administration—whoever did it—accused Iranian leader Khamenei of having a 95 billion. I don’t know how true that is, but it’s out there. And apparently, we’re looking at ramping up the sanctions to whatever level got them to the table last time. So, I need to eat—
[6:27] —my breakfast, so I’m not going to stay around for long. It looks to me like we’re just seeing exactly the play that seems to be working in North Korea, so that’s good.
And apparently, the UN had a vote in which they almost passed a resolution that blamed both sides for the Israeli situation. It almost blamed Hamas, when normally the UN only blames Israel for everything. But they narrowly almost passed something that blamed both sides. So there does seem to be a big shift coming; that was the tone of the article on that. I think Nikki Haley and David Friedman and somebody else wrote that memo.
[7:29] All right, go eat? I think I will. Yeah, and some implication of Obama in Spygate; I don’t know about that yet. I literally just woke up.
I need to go eat. I just wanted to talk about that. This tweet is doing everything it needs to do—the President’s tweet in all caps—because it changes the news cycle. It put America back on the offensive, scares the pants off of everybody (which is exactly what he wants to do), and it sets things up for maybe a good result. So we’ll see, and I’ll talk to you later.