there is a north star when he said he wants to be a president of america first. that is in fact his north star and he will challenge much of the international rules based order that the u.s. construct and led since world war ii. he said he could care less if the european union dissolves. he walked away from the transpacific partnership and the implementation of a day to day and week to week, we will see a lot of zigging and zagging. what he saw here was vladimir putin and ukraine and benjamin netanyahu with a settlement that took the statements as perhaps even more of a green light and now they are trying to dial it back, but the general direction he set out of embracing netanyahu and trying to melt the chill and be more accommodating,
conference today, we re no longer a country that doesn t look like it doesn t know what it s doing. look at the white house and the amount of mixed messages back and forth this morning, we haven t even talked about his attempt to deescalate tensions with mexico. hour long phone call with the mexican president, puts out a joint statement saying we re going to work together. trying to tone it down, but just moments before, he s got his advisor kellyanne conway on tv sort of trashing the mexicans, again. he s tweeting just moments before that call took place about, you know, how mexico is taking advantage of us. he s really sort of zigging and zagging in a way we ve never seen from a white house before. betsy, to put another metaphor, there are so many balls in the air right now just again, this is the first full week. another one. we were talking about this a minugo with hans nichols, it was the subject of torture. with donald trump, several interviews this week. again at the press con
could have done changing the direction, getting tough with wall street, making it easy to form a labor union, any of these things would have made a dent in those numbers in this big picture sort of disaster that we re talking about that has be fallen middle america. he didn t do those things. and now we have gone you know, now our hope and sort of curdled into dispare. final thought when i think of when i look at that initial graph is that there wasn t so much zigging and zagging. indulge me, put it on the screen one more time, but there was a pretty steady decline from 1940 to the present day which tells me there it is which tells me that frankly this hasn t been because of any particular administration. it makes me wonder, jd, have things been so good for so long in this country, do so many have flat screens and do so many have a home that it couldn t always continue the way in which it had been? you get the final word. well, i think it s important
that hope and this, sort of grand picture inequality, the deterioration of the american dream did not reverse itself. you think of all the things he could have done to change the direction of the country on this. getting tough with wall street. making it easier to form a labor unionme union. starting to enforce anti-trust laws, for pete s sake, any of these things could have made a dent in the big picture disaster we re talking about that has befallen middle america. he didn t do those things and now we have gone, now our hope has sort of curdled into despair. but, you know, j.d., final thought from you, what i think of when i look at the initial graph, not so much zigging and zagging. indulge me, put it on the screen one more time but there was a pretty steady decline from 1940 until the present day which tells me, there it is. frankly, this hasn t been because of any particular administration. it makes me wonder, j.d., have
zagging. so whatever step, i wouldn t necessarily think it would be a dogmatic answcillary. i think he has proved he sees the market niche doing something different, that s often being at odds with other republican leaders and their priorities. rush limbaugh loses a lot of elections. as a cheerleader, he ends up being the cheerleader for losers. he doesn t seem to lose any influence through that process. and if donald trump is more in the rush limbaugh mold than in the romney mold or, you know, the mold of previous losers of presidential races, it seems to me that donald trump would be able to wield whatever power rush limbaugh continues to wield. i just don t agree with that. donald trump promised that he d win so much that we d be sick of winning. after three defeats, if that s what happens, we re going to be