Episode 387 Scott Adams: President Trump’s Tweet Saying he Would Wait

Date: 2019-01-24 | Duration: 10:57

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President Trump’s tweet, saying he would wait to do the State of the Union

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[0:05]

but pom pom pom pom pom pom hey everybody and when I say everybody I mean there won't be many of you because I'm doing this at night it's a rare coffee with Scott Adams without the coffee hello everybody we're doing the water tonight so we're just gonna pop in and do one topic and then all I might eat it again tomorrow would you like to join me for the simultaneous sip of water it's a good time for water [Music]
mmm okay if you don't already know what President Trump tweeted that he will accept Pelosi's suggestion of waiting to do the State of the Union until after the the government shutdown is ended and of course tomorrow there will be lots of chatter about that about oh he blinked or or she wand and he gave it and things

[1:05]

or or she wand and he gave it and things like that but I wanted to give you a little context he probably won't hear if you don't hear from me number one timing timing is everything a week ago if I have my time correct I think about a week ago I suggested when this first came up when Pelosi first said he was disinvited I and many other people said hey so what he can just go do his own thing to a rally it's more fun he won't be constrained by the State of the Union stuffiness it'd be a great time but something happened between the time that it seemed like a good idea to just go off and do a do a great rally and get some attention that way something happened the Covington kids and the Covington kids makes it impossible for him to do a rally right now do you see

[2:07]

him to do a rally right now do you see it yet if the president gave an off-site rally open to say you know just supporters or anybody who wanted to come but it would end up being supporters what would they wear to the rally that rally would be full of red hats even people who didn't think they would wear one before might be tempted to wear one just as you know solidarity how would the media spin the visuals the visuals would be spun like it was a KKK event now a week ago I don't think it would have mattered at all because he's done lots of rallies people wear the hats it's it's one of the more normal the sites that were used to but because the the press has taken advantage of this covington situation to completely you know ruin the symbolism

[3:08]

completely you know ruin the symbolism of the Hat and turn it into literally a racist symbol which of course it was never intended to be but you know the the persuasion game of the Dems is solid right if I'm gonna be consistent if I'm gonna be consistent and complement the president when he makes a good persuasion play I'm gonna do it for both sides the Democrats and their you know their teammates the media have actually turned the most successful campaign symbol of all time the the mega hats and I think you did great right it wasn't it the most successful branding and campaign you know symbol of all time I think I think that's fair to say and they actually succeeded in destroying it they destroyed it I'm not sure it can come back and I think the president would be wise to pick a

[4:09]

president would be wise to pick a different design maybe something you know more flag related or something for for the next one so somebody say this is a BS argument so I think those who were who are resisting what I'm saying are probably saying to themselves nobody can tell us what hats to wear and that's true nobody is suggesting that the law be changed you know you've got freedom of speech you can wear a hat but because it's so close to this Covington situation and the hats became sort of the you know the focal point of all the hatred at this point a big visual with nothing but Trump supporters wearing that hat would be the absolute worst thing that this president could ever do it would be the the most immense persuasion mistake of all time it mean it would be epic and I gotta say that none of that would

[5:10]

and I gotta say that none of that would have been true except for the Covington story so close to this this event so our our minds kind of conflate the two and you know one story bleeds into the next and I'll become one big continuum but beyond that beyond the fact that it really wasn't impossible so there just wasn't an option anymore to do that rally because of the Covington thing so he took the bet probably the best option that was still available which was the high ground maneuver so instead of calling Pelosi names or giving her a nickname instead of and by the way I heard I heard the president say he was talking about Pelosi and he goes I call her Nancy and I thought he doesn't even have an insulting nickname for her he's completely playing it like you know he's showing respect so what the president has done is he's taken the high ground because there was this the

[6:10]

high ground because there was this the childish tip for tat with the you know canceling the flight to Afghanistan and she cancels the State of the Union so instead of just doing more tit for tat she abandoned the high ground with her latest move of cancelling the State of the Union so the high ground was just open there was nobody at the high ground she had joined him in the mud and completely abandoned in the high ground and the high ground was he just respects that she's she's the Speaker of the House and that the house gets to decide and he's respecting the tradition and he's respecting that the that the government is closed and he's respecting that people are getting paid and he's respecting that maybe you should wait so all of the things that you think Trump isn't he just did you think he's impulsive and crazy you think he doesn't respect anything you think he's a you

[7:11]

respect anything you think he's a you think he's a dictator whatever whatever the critics are saying about him simply by accepting that yes you get to decide you get to decide you know if I'm invited or when so we'll do it later as you suggest so he's becoming the adult in the room because there weren't any you know he sort of dragged he dragged the Democrats down as as he often does but once they got down to his level they had abandoned the high ground so it turns out it was his only path because he couldn't really do a rally because of the visuals so here's why I wanted to do this tonight this move is so reasonable so reasonable that the critics are gonna have to you know be against it and it's going to make them look like petty children they're going to be talking about who did this or that they're gonna be talking about what he's really thinking

[8:12]

talking about what he's really thinking but they're they're gonna be sort of bickering in the weeds and he's just not even gonna be part of that conversation because he just said yeah it's your decision and that's it that's it I respect the tradition I respect the house I respect that isn't it you know Pelosi's decision now there's one other the possibility here and I want to just sort of put this out here there is one other possibility that he might not want to do the State of the Union really soon that possibility is that there's something bigger percolating and I don't mean bigger on the same topic I don't mean about the border necessarily and I don't mean about the State of the Union it feels like maybe he needed to clear his schedule so that's just you know one hypothesis that's not a prediction but there are you know a couple of reasons that he might do what he's doing and one

[9:14]

that he might do what he's doing and one of them might be that there's something bigger he needs to spend his time on so I would I would make a prediction that there might be something going on somewhere in the world could be Middle East could be a Venezuela could be China could be North Korea North Korea is always a good guess so there just might be something bigger percolating and he might need to work on that and you didn't want to have a rally anyway because the red hats were just good to be a bad visual this week yeah maybe in a month nobody cares about that but this week it would be super divisive can you imagine a State of the Union which is supposed to bring the country together yeah it's the one thing everybody agrees at least its intention is to get you know try to get people on the same page but if he did it as a rally it would

[10:15]

but if he did it as a rally it would just be his supporters and they would it would send exactly the wrong message so as much fun as it would have been to do his State of the Union trump style in in full entertaining mode would have been great but it just couldn't work this close to the Covington thing and and the the visual with the hats all right that is why I wanted to get on at night to get ahead of some of this and that's all I wanted to talk about I'll talk to you in the morning bye for now