they will be incredibly disappointed, and they will be giving their white neighbors the hairy eyeball tomorrow. tucker: in other words, abc is telling us, andrew gillumke lost because of his skin color, and he lost because of the behavior of people of a certain skin color. abc knows that. you hear things like this all the time. every day. and yet curiously, nobody ever bothers to prove any of it. or even try. why? because it is unprovable. and that is the appeal. racism is now anything you don t like, a racist as anyone who is in your way. hurling allegations of bigotry are, from the perspective of the left, the quickest way to get. what you want. that is why they do it. it happened again today. on the campaign trail, you called yourself a nationalist. some people saw that as emboldening white nationalists. president trump: that is such a racist question.
the measure of gdp, and certainly just the average gdp for the whole country, is not the only measure, it is probably not even the most important measure. we should be looking at median incomes, that is how much the middle class is actually bringing home in their pocket. most of those measures of wages and income have not grown as fast as these broader measures of how corporations are doing and stuff like that. tucker: do you think there is any more important measure of a country s long-term prospects than how many young people get married and have kids? what would be a more important measure than that? i agree with you that that is an important one, though there are a lot of things going on, that has been a trend for a long time, that people are getting married later and startingng families later. tucker: but if you look at the surveys on it it is complex, as all human behavior is, but the main driver is economic, we can t afford it.
some people say that the republican party is supporting white nationalists because of your rhetoric. what do you make of that? president trump: why do i have my highest poll numbers ever with african-americans? i love our country. i do. you have nationalist, you are a globalist. i also love the world. and i don t mind helping the world, but we have to straighten out our country first. tucker: it happened at the president s briefing, so you might not have seen it because you are living a life not glued to the internet, but if that happened a few years ago, it would have been everywhere. it would have been international news.fen an accredited white house reporter calling the president of the united states a white supremacist? holy smokes! but now it is just any other day on cablest news. nobody really believes that the reporter means it. it is posturing. and, therefore, it is boring. the claim racist! is losing its power from overuse. diminishing returns have been reached.
they mean it. they lost a few seats in the senate last night, already they are denouncing the senate itself as somehow undemocratic. the talking points have gone around, they are all reading them. watch joy behar today trying to read them ultimately sheou misread the talking points, but she gave it her best on the view. democrats won the popular vote last night by 8 million votes. right? but they lose u.s. senate races in red areas. gerrymandering. that is the constitution. the districts are gerrymandered, but the states are part of the constitution. tucker: you can t gerrymander a senate election, of course, because it isis statewide. joy behar doesn t know that, she doesn t really know what the senate is, but she knows power, and like a lot of democrats you see on television, she will say whatever it takes to get power. republicans should understand that.s but it is not just democrats who
the only thing i would the only thing i would highlight i m not meaning to minimize that, it is important. it is also important,ni in moden society, that people get as much education and skill as they can, because that is going to raise their wages. and when people go to school for longer, that tends to put off when they are getting married, when they are starting their families. tucker: which do you think as a philosophical question, which is moreyo important for a society? being successful at an investment bank, or having children? i would definitely vote fort the kids, over the investment bank, but at the same time, we want people to get education and raise their skill level, that will allow them to provide for their families, that will allow the economy to grow, that will allow it to be spread more than just in a very concentrated wayl tucker: but the opposite has happened. you are a professional academic, so maybe don t want to admit it,