Unhinged: Trump goes off the rails amid Epstein loss - Another Day - Brian Tyler Cohen

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It's been a bad couple of days for
Trump, but he'd rather talk about
something else. Anything else? This is
just another day.
Over the last two days in Washington,
the seemingly impossible happened. And
before you get your hopes up, no, Donald
Trump didn't tell Eric that he loved
him. What I'm talking about is the
collision of an unstoppable force, the
Epstein files, and DC's immovable
object, Donald Trump. And contrary to
everything he believes about exercise,
Donald Trump actually moved. Here's what
happened. Despite making Epstein
transparency a huge part of his
re-election campaign, Trump has been
doing everything in his power to keep
those files from seeing the light of
day. But even MAGA nut jobs have their
limits.
President Trump's approval rating
falling to 38%. That is the lowest it's
been in his second term. People are
unhappy with Trump's handling of
consumer prices. And yes, the Epstein
files.
That's right, Donald. You can make us
sell our own hair to afford a carton of
eggs, or you can hide the secrets of a
pedophile. But you can't do both. So
yesterday, with public approval at an
all-time low and allies in Congress
defecting, Trump saw no other choice but
to reverse course and encourage
Republicans to vote to release the
Epstein files. But let's be real, we all
know how that made him look.
It was a humiliation. Trump saw that he
was going to lose 60 to 70 Republicans
who were going to vote against him.
A humiliation. And the president is not
into that. Except in bed. In bed, that's
actually kind of his thing. And now
you've seen it and you can't unsee it.
But now that the release of the Epstein
files is inevitable, it's time for
Donald Trump to do what he does best.
Change the conversation. And it's not
going to be easy. But they're trying a
few tactics. First up, say nothing.
We're not going to say anything else on
that because now it is a pending
investigation in the Southern District
of New York.
Any any questions about that? I have
nothing to add to it. I think the White
House comm shops already answered all
those questions.
They're not talking. Okay, seriously,
when it comes to the Epstein files,
Steven Miller has less to say to
reporters than he has to say to his
barber. But that doesn't seem to be
enough for these tenacious reporters.
And so Trump decided to debut a new
tactic, getting big mad.
Mr. President, why wait for Congress to
release the Epstein files? Why not just
do it now?
You know, it's not the question that I
mind. It's your attitude. I think you
are a terrible reporter. That coming
just days after the president snapped at
a Bloomberg reporter attempting to ask a
follow-up question about
Epsteinating.
Now look, an amateur might think that
Donald Trump was just being a sexist
to those reporters, validating a
long sorted history of disgusting
behavior at the hands of an accused
serial sexual predator who was just
months ago found liable for sexual abuse
and has been contending with dozens of
credible harassment and sexual assault
allegations. But actually, he was just
trying to convey that the Epstein files
are so degrading to women, you can't
even talk about them without degrading
women. Show don't tell. It's
storytelling 101. But even being in
fight mode wasn't enough because now the
Epstein files are going to be released.
Trump's trying something new. Having a
cooler head about the situation.
What I just don't want uh Epstein to do
is uh detract from the great success of
the Republican party. Let let the Senate
look at it. Let anybody look at it, but
don't talk about it too much because
honestly, I don't want to take it away
from us.
Yes, Donald Trump doesn't want the
Epstein files to distract from
everything that Republicans have
accomplished. Do you know how hard it
was for them not to come to work for two
months during the government shutdown?
Jim Jordan had a tank full of exotic
fish in his office. You think it was
easy to let them starve? No. But he was
willing to make that sacrifice so that
the American people could also starve.
But here's the thing. While things may
look bad for Trump, while his approval
ratings may be in the toilet, his
control over Congress may be waning, and
some very bad about his
connections, Jeffrey Epstein, maybe
about to hit the fan, Trump is actually
right where he needs to be. There are
moments that Trump was made for. Because
when you want people to talk about
anything other than exactly what they're
talking about, no one is better at
throwing every batshit notion against
the wall to see if anything sticks. And
what better venue to try that out than
the US Saudi Arabia investment forum
this morning. He started by filling the
audience in on some of the good things
that he's been doing for America.
Tariffs have been frankly the best thing
that's ever happened to our country.
This has been according to those that
seem to say it and I will say it. I
would never say a thing like that
because I want to be very modest. I
always want to be modest as modest as I
can. and they say this has been the best
nine months that any president
has ever had. Look, I know what you're
thinking, but Trump's not lying. He's
manifesting. Good things don't just
happen. You've got to speak your truth
into existence. And by the way, Trump
isn't just making America great again.
He's making the whole world great again.
I've settled eight raging conflicts.
Eight wars. I've settled eight wars. I
have one to go. You know what that one
is? I'll tell you what the prime
minister of Pakistan called me. Thank
you very much. He actually said, "I
saved millions." And he said it in front
of Susie. He said, "President Trump
saved millions and millions of lives."
Azeraijan, you know what was happening
there. I settled that. That was going on
for many, many years. Actually, Putin
called me. He said, "I can't believe you
got that one settled. We've been trying
to settle that one for a long time." I
said, "Don't worry about that. Just let
me settle your freaking war." See what I
mean? Trump's having the time of his
life. I haven't seen him this happy
since he threw an incredibly ill-timed
let them eat cakestyle Gatsby party
while families were losing their food
stamps. Seriously, thousands of children
usually have to miss a meal for him to
smile that big. And what fun is being
president if you can't meddle with the
global financial system?
He's got some real mental problems. No,
there's something wrong with him. It's
just sweet. I I be honest, I'd love to
fire his ass. He should be fine. Guy's
grossly incompetent. And he should be
sued for spending $4 billion to build a
little building.
I'm building a ballroom that's going to
cost a tiny fraction of that. And it's
bigger than the whole thing put
together. I love the Fed job. To me,
it's the easiest job in the world. You
play golf for 28 29 days. Then you go
and make a little speech.
tell everybody
in the case of the current guy the wrong
information because he has no clue.
But if you have good instincts, you
know, it's all based on instincts.
Uh all based on instincts, you know, I I
kind of assume that no one really knows
what the is going on with the
economy since it seems to tank every
decade or so. But I don't want my
president admitting it on national
television. Please just pretend there's
a science to all of this so I can
pretend to be surprised the next time my
401k disappears. Of course, you can't
give a crazy rant without a little
nostalgia.
I'll never forget I met with uh
pollsters the day before I got the news
about CO, but I met with two pollsters
because we were starting to think about
the next election. They said, "Sir, if
George Washington and Abraham Lincoln
came back from the dead and they aligned
and they went for the president, vice
president as a combination, you'd be
beating him by 25 points." Uh, obviously
Trump would be beating them. Who wants
to elect a pair of ghosts? They're
ghosts. They have no skin in the game.
And how can you understand the struggles
of everyday Americans when you can't
even die? But by the end, the guy was
just freestyling crazy.
The windmills are a disaster. I am the
biggest negative person on windmills.
They ruin your locations. is a ruin.
When I look at some of these countryides
that are littered with windmills,
her graduation got cancelled because of
CO. But I say if her name were something
else, they probably wouldn't have
cancelled it. A lot of the Saudis that
are sitting here saying, "What the hell
is he talking about transition?"
They don't do Yasser. They don't do a
lot of transitioning. not allowed to
mention the word coal unless you prece
ited by saying clean beautiful. So I
have my people in the office. They're
talking about coal, right? And they're
going, "Sir, a clean, beautiful coal is
doing very well, sir." And then two
minutes later, "Clean, beautiful co."
Then he mentions a third time, "Sir
Cole, no, it's clean and beautiful
because it needs a public relations
help. Cole needs a little help." From
windmills to Tiffany Trump's graduation
to trans people to rebranding Cole, no
subject was too random for Donald Trump
to riff on. Part of me thinks he just
loaded a book of Mad Libs into the
teleprompter just to see if anyone would
notice. But let's be clear, he doesn't
go off the rails like this because he's
out of control. He does it because now
instead of the Epstein files or his low
approval ratings or his bad week with
Congress, we're talking about some goofy
speech that he made. Donald Trump may be
incompetent as a president, but as a
master of distraction, dude's a
Jedi. Insane diversions are his chess
game. They keep the conversation away
from what a truly terrible job he's
doing because he may have done it
before, but Trump has no clue
how to be president. Don't judge by his
words.
They say this has been the best nine
months that any president
has ever had.
Judge by his actions. He's not taking
any of this seriously. He has no
strategy, no skills, no plan except to
enrich himself. Honestly, I wonder what
he thinks qualifies him to be president.
You know, it's all based on instinct,
right?