Welcome to the Post-Trump Era

0:00The Lincoln Memorial has a beautiful reflecting pond or lake. they called it a pool lake and pond everything is different but the word reflecting is a good term it was built in 1922 and it was built out of granite and various stones on the bottom and it never looked great because it's not really meant to be a stone that's underwater for that much of a period of time it's about a foot and a half to two feet deep you all know it well that's where Martin Luther King gave his great speech and he had a million people and I had the same exact crowd, maybe a little bit more, but they said I had 25 ,000 people in July 4th.

0:41I had pictures of Martin Luther King's crowd, my crowd, the exact same everything, but it was 70 years difference. The exact same crowd, but I actually had more people, but that's okay. They gave him a million people. They said a million people. I had 25 ,000 people, but these are the things that you get with them. Yeah, welcome to the post-Trump era. There's a certain kind of silence coming from the White House that's hard to detect unless you're paying really close attention. It's about what's not being said rather than what is. It's about Trump's frequently falling asleep on camera. It's his raspy and distant voice that no longer commands the room.

1:19It's his lack of energy. And not just how he waddles around on the golf course and the White House lawn, but a deficit of just general enthusiasm about anything coming out of his office. With no other clear direction other than a coup in Venezuela and a botched standoff with the Iranians, the entirety of Trump's bandwidth has been reduced to dial-up modem status. Our country's back. We have the hottest country anywhere in the world, so it's pretty cool, right? But you've never had a better friend in the Oval Office than me, and I'm proud to officially name the undisputed... When did this come out?

1:58Welcome to the post-Trump era. It is all downhill from here, thankfully. Because there's no way his team or the military will be able to divert attention away from the disaster in the Middle East in the roughly 1 ,000 days that we have left until January 20th, 2029, when this president is finally behind us once and for all. That's not to say that he can't and won't cause much more damage over the next 1 ,000 days, but it does mean that he's already got his hands full and is way over his head. similar to his first attempt at being our president. How do we fix this country? How do we come back together?

2:34I'll tell you something that's going to get me in trouble, but I couldn't care less. This man no longer cares and clearly isn't even trying to keep or win over his own base anymore. We see them all standing there with their smiling faces and frightened eyes as they crowd around Trump for the cameras to capture the moment just before he predictably nods off and they all pretend that it's not happening. I say that now is the perfect time to celebrate this setting sun. But be warned, because when the sun sets, darkness falls, and the void that follows in the wake of such a massive vessel like Trump might just pull us all under the current if we're not seriously careful.

3:14The greatest damage that Trump has inflicted upon the United States is the toxicity that will remain long after everyone has forgotten his name. And without a conscious effort from a wide swath of the population taking a stand against identity politics of both major political persuasions, we will not survive the coming civil culture wars. There's another kind of eerie silence emanating from the leadership on the left in the United States. It's not just right-wing radio silence that I'm detecting at the moment. On one hand, it's pretty easy to see how the Democrat's strategy is just to get out of Trump's way because he's capable of damaging his own brand far more efficiently than the left has ever been able to do.

3:57But another part of them are learning more from Trump than they ever could from their own advisors or academics. Lousy Democrats. They're learning just exactly how much the public will let them get away with if they simply act like Trump themselves. Only this time how to do it with some corporate rebranding to look and feel like leadership when it's just as much of a tyrannical king as Trump himself. What do you think the Democrats heard when the The Supreme Court told Donald Trump that presidents have sweeping immunity for whatever they want to do in office. Not total immunity, not a blank check, but something just broad enough that a guy like Donald Trump would walk away from the conversation thinking that he can do whatever he wants.

4:36A president has to be given immunity, and this has nothing to do with me. This has to do with every single president. You have to give a president full and total immunity. Did they recoil at that or did they realize that this kind of power does not disappear when Trump does? A doctrine built in his name, interpreted through his instincts, and then handed to every president below who follows the president. They noticed. Is it any wonder then that the system has been so inept at harnessing and regulating Trump's behavior with our elaborate and complex system of checks and balances? One might start to assume that this was by design.

5:14rather than an accident that should be easily mitigated. In the post-Trump era, the man has already left the White House. And what we see on our screens is now just the empty husk of a malcontent billionaire who was allowed to have anything and everything he ever wanted in life, but was never satisfied with any of it. Now he deserves the Nobel Prize for sure. Give it to him. I can't think of anybody in history that should get the Nobel Prize more than me. Because he's paved the way for every other mutant grifter to come along and to stand on his shoulders to build another collapsing empire after another.

5:51Until they become so good at it, they get their own TV show. And eventually, the keys to the highest office in the free world. That's it for this week, and until we can do it again, it's Newsweek Radio. I'm Jesse Edwards. Catch you next time. Bye. And we say bye-bye! Newsweek Radio is a member of the Trust Project. Our country's back. We have the hottest country anywhere in the world, so it's pretty cool, right? but you've never had a better friend in the Oval Office than me, and I'm proud to officially name the undisputed. When did this come out? Oh, hey, look at that. Today's episode of Newsweek Radio will be an op-ed on Monday.

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