Hey friends Americans living abroad can legally vote in the U.S. election register or get tailored support at votefromabroad.org Look state deadlines are super close so don't waste another second go to votefromabroad.org now and click "Request My Ballot" Ask to receive it by email all you got to do is fill it out and send it back in Don't miss this chance to shape the future don't delay votefromabroad.org Here is today's conflict we'll go after the court today the court is the enemy The logic is only the conflict who is my enemy let me vilify my enemy so I have to and he's in an awkward position here These are the people he appointed these are the people he appointed because of their conservative beliefs So now they are turning against him it's pathetic of course it's intellectually pathetic but from his point of view it is the thing it is This is what he's bringing to the mega core you like conflict I like conflict everybody's having a good time here Michael are you looking forward to our trip to Los Angeles where we're going to be live on October 20th at the Terra Grande Ballroom Well you know I never look forward to any trips I do look forward to to a live audience I like an audience I like a live audience too what can I say well it's going to be fun if you're in LA or you need a trip to LA Or you just want to hear us live come head to the beast dot pub slash ITH live that's beast dot pub slash ITH live to grab your ticket Or you can go to ticket master and I suppose you type in inside Trump's head Terra Grande Ballroom LA October the 20th be there or we're in the Terra Grande Ballroom do we know it's in downtown Los Angeles Like downtown downtown really really don't do that Yeah I know who it is come on all right Michael will be live Mitch McConnell is Looking half the size he was before and this isn't about age really because you have Bernie at 84 who's never seemed more youthful But I just want to go back to the to your your conspiracy the daily beast conspiracy about poor Mitch And it turned out not to be true poor Mitch was just ailing seriously ailing but but he was everything that he said Everything the Mitch camp said was the situation turned out to be he's just was Well actually we have no idea because he wasn't allowed to be filmed speaking and he said almost nothing He said in a hushed whisper he was looking forward to to some votes and then he was wheeled away didn't take questions Joe you think you think that he's just a body being wheeled out and casting votes by an unseen hand What I think is he is too old and in firm to be a working senator and the people of Kentucky deserve better I completely agree with that but I'm just going back to the conspiracy that you previously propounded It didn't look like Mitch McConnell yesterday given his wheeling out to an audience And it didn't look like he could have a conversation he didn't want to take the conspiracy continues Okay, we'll see well sometimes things are happening right in front of us and we see them and we call them And Mitch McConnell did not look well Okay, just just to be established the record here you're calling the conspiracy the Mitch is just a body that has been wheeled out No, I'm not saying he's just a body I'm not saying I'm not saying he's just a body I'm saying I thought it was really weird That his aides weren't and that didn't allow any journalist to film him speaking Okay Whereas we can film you speaking Perhaps not perhaps I am A.I. You are many things Michael but you were definitely not A.I. Even A.I. couldn't A.I. Michael Wolf But we are obviously going to talk about Trump's response what's going on inside Trump's head to the whole A.I. Freak out this week and Trump's answer obviously that the only thing that A.I. needs is a smart president and how lucky that we have him We're also going to be talking about the Supreme Court's pushback on Trump's attempts to reign in mail in voting It's fine if you have a mail in ballot you're allowed to send it in fact send it ASAP We're going to talk about Trump's revenge on the climate will it ever be safe to breathe American air Now he's threatening Oman and I would like to throw in the New Yorker piece on Jared Kushner Which I haven't read Brick Well, you need to set aside an afternoon to read it because it's very long but it is an appalling indictment of Jared Kushner Not how he basically has reduced American diplomacy to his business strategy An appalling indictment of Jared Kushner that seems like not a news story Not a news story but it's a detailed story and it's basically Jared going around the Middle East shaking his affinity partners begging bold and demanding more investment And as someone said until he started that the only thing he'd invested in was his 401k Let's do also the Kennedy Center this is a story that I'm really taken with Let's start with the Trump social because it was a well if not a work of art a work of Trump It was 500 words basically his response to scotus deciding that mail-in voting could go ahead just as it has done Can I should I read some of it? Because people may not it's just dropped actually so it's possible that not everybody's ready Okay, I could do I know my Trump impression is not very good but it isn't very good All right, so I won't do it right Republicans just got another bad decision from the United States Supreme Court One that the court system took forever to give and then blamed it in part on no time left to implement a solution to our totally corrupt And out of control mail-in voting disaster which is a laughing stock all over the world and where we are the only country that has to endure such a nation destroying scam That's the first sentence And just remember just set this that this court is his court This is the court that he has overwhelmed he has appointed more justices to this court than any president in the last three terms I believe But go on it's a big loss for Republicans in America itself and makes cheating by the radical left double threats of mail-in ballots A much easier thing to do and now they have an open field to do so The Supreme Court has really let our country down Exclamation point certain justices are petrified of these crazed and depraved Democrats And are totally unable to show the courage necessary to save our America that would be the three justices that he appointed Kavanaugh, Gorsuch and Amy Kemy Barrett Their horrible decision on tariffs will be costing the USA for many years to come Trillions and trillions of dollars they didn't even state money paid does not have to be paid back Much to the benefit of entities that truly hate our country and have been ripping it off for years Unnecessarily costing us immediately billions of dollars and then I'm just going to read one more line Likewise the Supreme Court's decision on birthright citizenship is a complete and total disaster for America And has already led to massive corruption with respect to citizenship in our country It's just this broad horizon of all things of all things that the court has done of all things that Trump wants I want I want I want I want but let me let me give you I can give you the background to this to how this a post of this length comes together Okay, give me the background So he's saying he said I'm going to do I'm going to do a put let's do a post about about about the court It's all fucked up. Let's go and get them blah blah and then he says and let's include and then somebody has to run somebody else is writing the the bullet points there Well, isn't it nationally, huh? Give me a line. It could be Natalie Harp. It could be Dan Scavino. It could be it could there could be any number of contributors to this But a long he can't write a long post like this
So, let's run 500 words, he cannot write. - Okay. - So, therefore it's that. You do the, okay, and then he'll say, throw in birthright citizenship, and then somebody will give him, will give him the line on that. So, this is all Trump saying, okay, I mean, this is the thing that he always looks for. This is the conflict. Here is today's conflict. We'll go after the court. We'll accuse him of doing, of doing everything. Today the court is the enemy. So, and it's, he's personifying. So, it isn't the issue at hand, which is mail-in voting in that, and which would require a complicated explanation. It's the court. The court is at fault. (dramatic music) - A new season is always a good excuse to upgrade your routine. And if you've been thinking about giving your hair or skin a little more attention, Irostore is worth a look. The Irostore Elite combines lasers and LEDs to deliver red light therapy across the scalp. While the Illumina face mask uses red infrared and blue light, and what's particularly interesting about the Illumina is that you can use all three wavelengths simultaneously. Both are designed to be easy to work into your routine at home. The Elite can be worn while you're working, reading or relaxing, relaxing, and the cordless Illumina mask takes just 10 minutes a few times a week. And right now, Irostore is offering some huge discounts on their red light therapy devices. You can save on customer favorites like the Irostore Elite helmet and the Illumina face mask. Just head to irrestore.com and use code beast. That's
[email protected]. Please support our show and tell them we sent you. Give your hair and skin the upgrade they deserve so you can feel confident and refreshed. So what does he mean when he says, he says here a little bit later on, this Supreme Court is bullied and cagel by the radical left into making decisions that have set America back at least 100 years. These are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court. They are merely a shell of their original selves. What is he talking about? What does he think has happened to them? Is he blaming John Roberts here? How have they gone from being these people that he interviewed to, you know-- - Well, that's it, it doesn't. - No, there is no logic here. The logic is only the conflict. Who is my enemy? Let me vilify my enemy. So I have to, and he's in an awkward position here. These are the people he appointed. These are the people he appointed because of their conservatives beliefs. These are the federalist society people. All of this thing. So now they are turning against him. So what does that mean? Well, it just means that we will have to come up with a rationale for why they are not the people I appointed. This is all-- - Well, but surely they must be sort of very weak people if they've been manipulated by the radical left. At the end he says, "It's not easy for me to write this criticism "of the United States Supreme Court. "It will likely cost me dearly for years to come, "but I feel it my obligation and duty "is president to do so for the America we love." - Yeah, that's extraordinary. But also this is part of, this is campaign stuff. So they only have one issue in the midterms. The radical left, the democratic socialist, all that is their singular issue. So it's how to get that into everything. Repetition, repetition, repetition. Put it in here, make that the issue. - But this really truly seems pathetic. As you say he's put three justices on the court. It's a conservative court and somehow they've been hijacked by the radical left. - I mean, it's pathetic, of course. It's intellectually pathetic, but for what Trump is doing, it's identifying a conflict and having him stand up. Now, this is not going to get him democratic votes certainly and not independent votes, but from his point of view, it is the thing, this is what he's bringing to the Maga Corps. I am standing up for, I am the guy. I am here, these are our enemies together. And also you like the conflict. You like conflict, I like conflict. Everybody's having a good time here. - Well, you know where they're not having a good time. The Kennedy Center, that is not a good outcome. I mean, it's not a surprising outcome. - Well, it's totally, I mean, this is extraordinary. So 18 months ago, you had a thriving enterprise. Trump comes along and. - Are you talking about America or are you talking about. - I'm talking about the Kennedy Center. - Right, I know you want that. - Okay, 18 months ago before Trump becomes the president for the second time, the Kennedy Center is a thriving cultural institution. Pays for itself, it sells a lot of tickets. Everything is as it has been for the last many decades. Trump comes along 18 months later, it's on the edge of bankruptcy. With Trump essentially saying, "If you don't give me what I want, I'm gonna kill the place." So, you kind of, I mean, you have that perfect Trump metaphor what he takes, he breaks, what he can't have, he wants more of. I mean, and go back, I mean, the, what happened here is Trump becomes the president of the United States. He scuttles the board, the Kennedy board as it exists. He installs his stuages and then demands that they vote to change the name of the Kennedy Center to acknowledge him. This means that the performers and the audience be to retreat, meaning that the financial viability of the Kennedy Center is suddenly under threat. The court then says, no, Congress made the Kennedy Center the official memorial to John F. Kennedy. You can't put your name on it, take it off, which is theoretically has been done, although it's still behind a curtain. Trump then says, no, you have to put, you have to find a way to put my name on the Kennedy Center. And if you don't, I will not help you raise the money that you need to cover the deficit caused by the fact that I demanded, you put my name on the Kennedy Center. So this is kind of pure Trump. He fucks things up and then he fucks them up even more. And because of his rage, petulence and, you know, really, I want what I want abusive power, everything he touches turns to shit. - Yeah. And so the Kennedy Center joins a pile of things that Trump has been involved with that end in bankruptcy, Trump stakes, Trump water, Trump university, Trump champagne, all of it. I mean, and also his name will go on the building, but as the help in terms of renovated and refurbished by Donald Trump. - Well, even that, that's up. It's not clear that he can do that either. I mean, that's what he's now insisting on. You have to find a way to put my name on the building. And if you. - Well, they could put bankruptcy by Donald Trump. - Well, apparently the court has said his name can't appear anyplace on the building. So this is a, this is a problem, but the interesting thing is that it's in financial extremists because of Trump and Trump is now saying, I'm the only one who can get you out of this financial extremist. - So what do you think happens? - You know, I think I bet that Kennedy Center will close. I mean, I think that, I mean, this is all, this is Trump and just think about Trump. This is, if I don't get what I want, I take my marbles home. That's, you know, he's, the petulence here, the crybaby nature of this, this phenomenal lack of, well, maturity of course, but this is all rich, rich behavior. - It's just, it's remarkable. And so the National Orchestra has no home. There's nowhere for people to play on a large stage in, in Washington. It's just incredible. The country's sort of foremost,
And also the other thing is it's a memorial to a slain president. Yeah, yeah, no, no, this ought to be all, I mean, one of the things here in this is particularly Trumpian, all that is obvious and yet he is willing to diss it. He is willing to challenge it. He is willing. So the fundamental logic of this, the logic that there is, you know, a thriving art center that reflects, that reflects well on the nation's capital that has been named after the slain president. Nevertheless, Trump can wave it away and demand that it be remade in his own image. But I mean, even, I think I'm pretty well grounded in what's inside Trump's head. But this is even a leap for me to understand. Yeah. Well, except it's his baby, you know, it is the baby thing. You can't understand it because it is like a child. He is like a child and it's possible that he's getting worse, that you know, the look that Mary Trump, his niece says she can see in his eyes is the look that his father had when he was beginning to get dementia. I mean, you saw it. You know, he was sleeping through the 90 lessons. Yeah. I mean, yes. It's very possible. But I think that almost gives him an out. That's an explanation. And the the truer explanation is he's a fucking asshole, you know, and he doesn't care. So it's rage, it's petulence, and it's I can do anything I want. So that's not dementia. That's Donald Trump. Okay. That's not dementia. That's Donald Trump. I don't know which is worse, actually, a president with dementia or Donald Trump doing Donald Trump. All right. So the other thing that he went sort of furious about was AI. All friends, Steve Bannon is meeting with Bernie Sanders today to talk about AI. And Bernie Sanders, could I hand it to him at 84? You wrote this a few months ago, but Bernie Sanders is still a very relevant voice. Anyway. Okay. But let me just say that both Bernie Sanders and this can be said about about many, many people in this AI debate about about the entire debate, but particularly Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon know nothing about AI. I mean, they're both kind of famously computer phobic. They are, they know nothing. They could not explain to you what AI does, how it works, what are the implications of how it works, nothing. But I mean, let's not single them out. This is true about everyone. And in fact, I find it true about the leaders of the leading AI industry, of the, of the a leading AI company, the frontier labs. Yes. When they start to explain this to me, it's to you, you think, what the fuck are they talking about? This doesn't make any sense at all. It is remarkable that the leaders of the AI companies aren't able to articulate the real benefits of AI. They keep saying, oh, it's incredible. It's incredible. What I know is that it's going to help medically because it can, you know, is that AI at its basic is just pattern recognition, right, at scale and an enormous speed. Yeah. I mean, you can sort of sort of get that and we sort of, you know, many of us use AI and we see that we see the certain, the kind of extraordinary benefits that it can, that it can return a, you know, a fairly articulate sentence. But then this other thing, remember, we've moved on. The AI is now going to destroy the world, a 10% chance, a 30% chance. What are they, what are they, what are they talking about and be, tell me how you have not told me how the AI is going to destroy the world. I think it's to do with paper clips that if you tell an AI, but, you know, that make paper clips, it will make paper clips until it's killed everybody. I mean, it's sort of ludicrous. I couldn't agree more. I don't understand that leap. It will make paper clips until it kills everyone, which was this was actually in the, in the New York Times story, without the New York Times being able to say what the devil that means. And that is also true because the, the media who was covering this story, they don't know. They can't explain AI and the ultimately though, the one person who really can't explain AI. I know what you're going to say. Who is the pivotal voice now in this debate is Donald Trump? Is Donald Trump? Say he said yesterday, there is a sick conspiracy going on against AI and data centers. And the only one that is happy about this is China, whoever wins AI wins. We are leading China and all others and will continue to do so. Conspiracy theorists, treasonists, traitors and leakers, bearware. I mean, it's the very CEOs and founders of these companies who are saying, if you're not careful, AI is going to kill you, i.e., we're going to kill you because we're the founders of these companies that have created these things. Even, I mean, the weird thing for me is the way they keep distancing themselves from the product they are making. So they're like, well, it's got away from us. It's AI, AI is going to kill us. Dude, you're the guys who are responsible for this. If you are a car manufacturer, if you are a plane manufacturer, you would be responsible. So why are they behaving as if they're not responsible? I mean, let's go. And the China thing is interesting because this is a case that you've argued. Well, and I do, I mean, who benefits from this? China does benefit from this. This is always the canard. We have to get more weapons because Russia has more weapons. We have to do this because China does all of this stuff historically has turned out not to be true. And to set up that straw man, we have to do this because they are going to do it. They have the same problems as we do, or they have more problems than we do. And so suddenly setting them up as an exemplar of what should happen and what is going to happen is a logical fallacy of the worst kind. I think your bigger point is that nobody understands how to talk about this. And sure as hell, Mitch McConnell being wheeled into the Senate is not someone who's on top of this either. I have no confidence that our elected representatives, for the most part, can talk about this stuff. Let's let them know. And they don't know. I mean, here's another view that leaders of the, so, I mean, we have a couple of things here. The world economy is now highly dependent on AI growth. And that's probably, that's not only of vulnerability and the weakness. It's almost in inevitability that that will collapse or that there will be serious problems there, which will bring down the economy, which will bring down obviously the value of these AI companies. I thought you were going to say it brings down actually more than that, I mean, it brings down politicians. It brings down everything with it. It totally makes sense. But from the AI company's view, you know, all of the leaders of this industry, they're kind of thinking, oh my God, you know, we're looking at this. The demand is really not there, the costs are exceeding what we thought of. So, so we're going to be in a problem. Our shares, our, our share price is going to face problems when we start to see significantly lower growth. So, here's a solution. We're going to say lower growth is good. I mean, this is all at every level, obviously, a scam because people who are, who are running this, this, this debate, who are unable to explain exactly the terms of what they're talking about and of this, this debate, all have a financial interest in this, including Donald Trump. There was a hilarious interview, actually, with Dario Amadei, the co-founder of Fantropic yesterday with Anderson Cooper. And Anderson Cooper just looked bill-wilded throughout because Amadei was really not making very much sense at all. He's spoken long, ridiculous cliches about how we have to manage this and we have to temper growth. And, and then he would say things like we need good policies, not bad policies and we have to create good policies, not bad policies. And you look, man, what are you saying? You have no idea what you're saying. Okay. Let's look at these people. Him, Elon Musk, Sam Altman. First thing, these are people so rich, so rich that they are far removed from the humanity that they seem about to destroy. Well, there was one, there was one moment as well when in the Anderson Cooper interview where he asked him about regulation and should open AI and everybody's talking about this thing that I think Scott Galloway started. It's about whether or not AI should actually be owned by the government, should you have technology.
as powerful as this in private company hands. And that's what Anderson Cooper asked Dario Amadeh, who's worth 15 billion, who said, "Well, that's not for me. That's someone above my pay grade." And you're like, "What are you talking about? Who is above that pay grade? No one in government is above that pay grade." Okay, these are all of these people, Elon, Samultman, Dario, what's his name? You know, are exceedingly peculiar people. And they're all men, they're all men, they're all men of roughly the same age. And on top of that, they are profoundly inarticulate. So therefore, this is the fix we're in. I don't think the fix is necessarily a technology fix. The fix is that we is a very human fix. These are people who we should not be trusting. These are people who should not really be leading this debate about this technology. The problem is that other people outside of these companies and this technology can't lead to the debate because they don't understand the technology. So what happens? We all end up dead in 10 years. Yeah, I don't know. It's insane. It's very, very strange. There's a famous story by the science fiction writer Ray Bradbury. I think it's called something like Dial Double Zero. Written in the early, I think the early 60s, late 50s in which he posits that a spontaneous life form is created in the telephone lines. And I mean, this is sort of interesting because among the reasons this is interesting is because this story seemed no one can find this story. This is just sort of the rumors about this story. And I don't know, I don't really have a point here, except for the fact that life was not created spontaneously within the telephone lines and the telephone business itself went out of business effectively. So we're in that one of this thing. What is the future here? And I think you can, one of the things that you can say safely about the future is that no one predicts it accurately. No one predicts it accurately. That is a good thing to say. And also, these AI companies demanding to be regulated. Why can't they regulate themselves? Well, companies don't particularly regulate themselves. I mean, and I think it's, I think it is. That's the job, that's the job of politicians, but it's a problem because politicians don't understand this. And the thing that politicians, the last thing that politicians want to do and the last thing the media wants to do is look stupid, but they are stupid. Agree, except that if your product, if you yourself as the CEO and co-founder of these companies is saying it might kill everybody in 10 years, you would think you would want to self-regulate. I mean, you might welcome external regulation, but you would think I need to get on top of this. Otherwise, I've got a product out there. I mean, you couldn't, you couldn't do this with a food. You couldn't, you know, have a, have a farm where one in 10 people died of eating your product. You would have to self-regulate. Otherwise, you'd be closed down. Yeah, I mean, let's go back to Donald Trump, which is who has inserted himself as a key figure in this. And Donald Trump, who himself has a vested financial interest in this? Well, it's John Oshoff said he's really compromised. Yeah, on a personal level, he has a financial interest, but also on the interest that if AI goes, if there are the more questions that are raised about AI means that the slower the growth will be, which will impact on the economy and he will be blamed. So he needs this, he needs AI growth to continue for the next two years. After that, I'm sure he doesn't give a shit. Well, I'm sure he doesn't give a shit anyway, as long as he continues to get rich. And you know, who's benefiting from this, you know, who's looking sensible, you know, who looks like the leader that we want back to Mark Carney in Canada, who said on Monday that he favored the creation of a global technology stability body to oversee AI. There's a need for coordination, Mr. Carney said, ultimately, a technology stability board in our views along the lines of the financial stability board would make sense. That sounds scary too. Sounds less scary than leaving these guys in charge. This is a natural segue into climate change. And Donald Trump saying that again, two things that again, claiming climate change is a total hoax and who and the dismantling of, you know, essentially all of the progress that has been made against climate change in the last 20 years. So, you know, I mean, actually, this is probably significantly more serious than the AI debate, which remains theoretical. This remains the climate, the climate issue remains is a present and immediate issue. And not only is Donald Trump not helping to solve it, but Donald Trump is making it worse, which is to say back to he, he fucks things up and then fucks them up even more. Right. And what he's actually done here is the raised limits on climate pollution from power centers, from power plants. And so, and again, this is that kind of thing. This is, this is, I want what I want. And the hope, the point here is, is has nothing little to do with climate change, which again, Donald Trump does not understand, certainly has not spent the time, the time trying to figure out what is true and what is not about about climate change. Rather, rather he is opposed to the people who favor climate change. Therefore, he will, he will undo the progress that they have made. So, they lose he wins. But again, nothing to do with the fundamental issue. Do you think he's now unraveling? I mean, he hit the ground running faster than any president we can think of at the beginning of Trump too. He had project 2025 all laid out. He had his people in place. Every single one of his policies appears to have backfired on him. Is he conscious of that, do you think, or does he just lurch from moment to moment as we've discussed, not really concerned about everything flailing around him? Yeah, yes, obviously he lurches from moment to moment. But all of these things, and in fact, in fact, project 25, I think that's inaccurate to say that that was his plan. That was a plan by people around Trump, which he was happy to have them ultimately try to implement because first thing, it's a level of detail that he could be less interested in. He can't be interested in, and it also sets up, again, it's the nature of the conflict. Climate change, I don't, he doesn't care about climate change. He clears cares about opposing the people who are in favor of climate change. So it is again, this, this is, he thrives on conflict, he exists on it, he benefits from it, he embodies it. So right now, not only, I don't know, the idea of Trump melting down confuses me because he's always in a process of melting down because melting down is more conflict, it's more emotion. It's more him being at the center of attention. That's what you, when a child melts down, the child is at the center of attention. That's what the child wants. That's what Donald Trump wants. So there is a strategy here, although I'm, of course, reluctant to use the word strategy, but there is something at the core of this that Donald Trump understands. There is a method to his madness, essentially. I know what I can do here to get attention, to make people not be able to look away from me, to make this all about me. I am the performer. And I know how to command an audience. So do you think there was conflict between him and Don Jr. when it emerged that Ungar Kremlinlev, a companion of Vladimir Putin, turns out to have paid for a large part of the celebration of Don Jr.'s marriage to Bettina Anderson. Although I think as Don Jr. put it, our friend Omir. His friend, very generous friend and Bettina said,
sometimes there's no motive behind a very, very generous gift of several hundred thousand dollars when your husband is the oldest son of the president. This is a good question. I mean, a really interesting thing. Does Trump himself would have been perfectly understanding of this? I mean, he did take the airplane. But he is resentful when his kids do the same thing. So it was described to me, for instance, when Trump moved back to Mar-a-Lago after his defeat in 2020 and after he left office in January 2021, moved back to Mar-a-Lago and the family followed him to Mar-a-Lago. And Don Jr. bought a house for ten million dollars in Palm Beach. And so a screaming match was described to me between Trump and his son. With Trump demanding to know, where did you get that money? You don't have that money. Where did that money come from? And again, this was cast not as the fact that Don Jr. did something that Trump wouldn't have done, but that Don Jr. somehow went around his back to get this money. So I think that this is probably what the there will be another screaming match about the wedding after party. The after party. Right. The after party. Yes. It was a sort of cockamami Instagram post by Bettina saying, yes, this is true. They're responding to excellent reporting in pro-publica that broke the story about Kremlev's very generous hand on his checkbook. Bettina then came out very quickly. Obviously, I'm assuming with the knowledge of the White House, but perhaps not saying, yes, yes, he paid, but actually it was all a bit a bit strange. We were all meeting up anyway and it was a party, but then it turned into an after party, but it was a wedding gift. So strange logic there, but apparently he paid for the hiring of the Bahamian islands. I think that's how you say Bahamas Islands and the firework display. And then she released that all firework, which you are the only person who like me finds fireworks boring. And as you once said to me, like, is it the finale? When's the finale? Can this be the finale? I agree. Why don't they just go straight to the finale with fireworks? Because there's always 15 minutes of throat clearing before you finally get to the big bang. And she then released 20 photographs of the wedding, which I must admit I poured over, actually. It also looked like Don Juni was wearing kind of linen pajamas. It wasn't a very good look for him. I was intrigued, nevertheless, and I intrigued anybody listening or watching us. If you have information on this, apparently Don Juni had a chin treatment, a chin straightening treatment. So I didn't know if he'd actually broken his jaw and had it reset or whether or not it was a kind of fermarge type treatment where you have lights that flash into your skin to boost collagen, which gives you a tightening effect. And how do we know this? I miss this. I must confess. Well, I think it was in the, I think it was in the main piece that the pro-publica piece that he had a chin tightening treatment. So he had this for the wedding for the wedding. He had it for the wedding for the photos, because everything's about the Instagram photos. You know, you're an Instagram star. Everything's about the gram. And there were lots of pictures. Can I just say one more thing? There were just lots of pictures, which, and I've noticed this now as a guest of occasional weddings, the force with which the bride has to smile with her mouth open as if caught mid laugh for the photos. It's all about the photos and the gram and the showing off. And we should at least do a little tip of the hat to Kimberly, Kimberly Guildfoyle in Greece. I feel bad for her. Why do you think she's the one that tipped people off about the wedding being paid for? Oh, very good. Well, there's a theory. There was speculation on X yesterday that that might have come from. And that might have come from Kimberly. And I thought one interesting theory. Yeah, no, we should, we should definitely run with that. I mean, someone, someone leaks that story, right? Someone leaks the fact that Kremlev or Mark Kremlev, Rendo Putin paid for the wedding. Yeah, no, absolutely. But what we will sit here, the Trump's response was this. We're going to go, I mean, he's going to be pissed at Don Jr. But he will then go back revert to the Russian hoax. This is again, the Russian hoax. Democrats trying to pin Russia, which I mean, I don't, I don't see how you, what, what, what better example is, could there be that Vladimir Putin's friend is sporting Don Jr. to an after party? Right. And also that, I mean, he can say it's a Russian hoax, but Bettina fast up to it very quickly. Bettina, graduate of your old Alma Mater Columbia. But nevertheless, it's, the Russian hoax will, will mean not that the Russians didn't do this, but, but the, the hoax is that that Donald Trump and the Trump family is being connected in any way to, to Putin and Russia in a way that might compromise their, their, please don't say integrity. There was, I was, I was looking for a word that, yes, exactly. You got there. That was saying, compromise there. What? Yeah. But the odd thing is that Donald Trump Jr, according to Forbes, is currently worth 300 million. So why couldn't he pay for his own wedding? Who would want someone else to pay for their wedding? I think it's bizarre. Well, don't you understand that the way you, because you get to be worth 300 million dollars is to take money from other people. Right. Right. You never get to the point, I have 300 million dollars. I don't have to take any more money. No, because I don't have a billion dollars. I have to keep taking money to get to a billion dollars or in Donald Trump's case to get to 6.4 billion dollars. Yeah, it's never enough. It's never enough. Do we want a drive by? We shouldn't forget we're still in a forever war. And now Trump is threatening one of our allies, opposed to our allies. People who've been involved in trying to, you know, create some kind of a broker-a-piece deal between Trump and Iran. Oh, man. We're apparently going to, or at least we're threatening to bomb Oman for what reason. I think nobody has any idea. Well, probably Leastable Heggers. And who knew we had the bombs? Who knew we had the bombs anymore? Well, we haven't bombed Oman. And we probably will not bomb Oman. We will just threaten to bomb Oman for what reason? No one has any idea. Meanwhile, the Russians are going after trains. There was a drone attack on a train that David Patreus had been on. And again, Russian attack on a train in Ukraine, because the Ukrainians don't have enough patriot missile interceptors. We used to supply them, but we've stopped doing it because we've been too busy bombing Iran. Because we've run out of them. Yes. Boris called for the money that's been held, I guess, in some sort of international escrow, because it's sanctioned money against Russia. He immediately called it for it to be released to the Ukrainians for them to replenish their munitions supply. Which seems like a great idea, except for the fact that there are no munitions. There are nobody to buy these interceptors from, because we've used them all up. Good times, Michael. Good times. So maybe it's-- So just to make and I think it's important, this is an important theme to keep coming back to, that Donald Trump could not hold two ideas in his head at the same time, which is that if we went to war against the Iranians, we would use up the supplies, or at least if he had been able to think beyond the first week of the war, we might use up the supplies that would be instrumental in gaining an advantage against the Russians in Ukraine. Therefore, losing that advantage, we open up Europe and the world for a for a new level of aggression from the Russians, which we might have stopped dead in its tracks. If only we had had those bombs that we expended in our Iran for no real advantage at all. Well, happily we've got Steve Wickoff.
and Jared Kushner, who are going to solve everything. And I will recommend Dexter Philkin's piece in the New York, or it's very long. And rather ominously, it's said at the top, it would take 59 minutes if you were to listen to this article. That's quite a recommendation. That's probably using AI too. But a sort of fascinating look at how Jared views everything as a deal and now through the lens of affinity partners. So what's in it for him? And then there's great detail on the Albania situation and the fact that Jared and Ivanka are trying to build their luxury resort in Sezan, which is an island that is sort of nature reserve island, has actually now that the prime minister of Albania, who is supposed to be helping him, is now being basically driven out of office by the decision to help them. But it's a really interesting piece about-- more about Jared than Wickoff, and just how inexperienced and proudly critical he is of all the diplomats who've gone before him. It's interesting that he's still inexperienced after spending a term four years in the White House as pretty much the second most important person in the executive brand. Well, also interesting. They describe a day, well, one day he's doing Russia in the morning. And then he's trying to do Iran in the afternoon. He's shaking his begging bowl, which I think has now got $5 billion in it from Middle East investors, largely the Saudis. And so essentially, he looks at the world through what's in this business-wise for me. How is my fund going to benefit from this? And he's got management fees, which means that he suddenly got a large chunk of money coming in, even though much of the money is not yet invested. But it's just the price for doing business with the president. And this was the deal, basically. I mean, he was not coming into the second administration because of his desire to run his own fund and make his own money. So the deal to bring him back in was that you could continue to do this without a worry. And the worry might be that he would ultimately be held to account by a future Congress and administration. But that will not be a worry because he will be retroactively, proactively pardoned by his father-in-law before he leaves office. Great. And then I guess the challenge for any Democrat coming in is how do you undo what is essentially the privatization of US diplomacy? I mean, we've got over 100 countries at the moment that don't have anybody in the ambassador's seat. So that soft power of just talking to leaders and understanding what's going on in countries has vanished. That expertise has vanished. Well, that will be-- No, I mean, this is a major topic. And we'll shortly start to become the major topic of, as we get beyond the midterms, how do you then begin to envision a post-Donald Trump world? A post-Donald Trump world, perhaps there won't be one, perhaps AI has seen the Donald Trump world and is like, you know what? Enough already. I'm ending it now. And then even more immediately than imagining that we should spend some time thinking what happens to-- what happens when Donald Trump loses this election? Then what are the final two years of this administration of a raging, petulant, abusive power guy? What does he do in that situation when the world turns against them? A raging, petulant guy who may not agree that the seats that have been won by the Democrats, assuming there are some in the midterms, are actually, you know, true. He may just deny all of it. We will certainly, yes. I mean, that's my anxiety. That they're just going to spend the next two years in bullshit legal cases, challenging things that are completely, obviously, fine. Well, what's going to happen? There's-- yes, and that may-- in a close election, there's a close election that he wins and is close because of the way he's manipulated things. Or there's a close election that his manipulation has managed to make close, but he still loses. And then he will rage against that as long as he can. Or-- and this is obviously what we might hope for-- that there will be-- and this is what the polls are now looking like-- that there will be a massive vote against him, which he will-- and reality will have spoken in a way that cannot be denied. Well, I think he can deny almost anything, can't he? Well, yeah. No, actually. I mean, there is some level in which it is the-- even the pure math of it overwhelms Donald Trump. And if the Democrats vote in the way, it is now seeming that they will, along with independence, then Donald Trump is going to face a new reality. Well, which is even hotter than that he's insisted. And we saw this Trump of Paloos at last week that he's on the ballot, that people should vote as if he were on the ballot. That's how they do. And perhaps they will. Yes, exactly. To his detriment, yes. OK, we will be back on Thursday. I'm just reminding people who want to come and join us live, October the 20th at the Terra Graham Ballroom in LA, which is downtown LA. Downtown LA. So make an evening of it, but yourself dinner. And I think there are some tickets that you can actually come and talk to me and Michael before or after the event. And I can assure you that Michael is very good with a live audience. So head to beast.pub/ithlive. That's beast.pub/ithlive. Or you can go to ticket master and tap in inside Trump's head Terra Graham Ballroom October the 20th. If you have been, thank you for joining us. As always, if you've been watching, if you've been listening, and big thank you to our production team, Michael. 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