Against the advice of basically everyone around him Donald Trump looks
like he is in fact gonna do it.
He pleaded today, hopefully today will turn out to be one of
the most important days in the history of our Country.
I don't think it's going to, you announcing you're gonna run for
president is interesting because you're doing it so early.
It is a massive show of weakness that seems to have been lost on you.
Nobody sees it as a sign of strength buddy.
It's very pathetic, maybe historically pathetic.
But I think that's the only reason it will be remembered.
Anyway, it's coming tonight, he's gonna give a speech at Mar-a-Lago,
he's gonna announce that he's running.
That part, we all know about.
The only thing that remains to be seen and remains to potentially be relished by
me is how viciously he's going to attack his potential opponents in his speech.
I had assumed as of a week or two ago, that he's gonna slow roll the attacks,
maybe wait until the actual election start, the debate start,
see if they're attacking him.
But that has not been the case,
he's already been quite vicious with Ron DeSantis.
We're gonna give you an example of that in just a little bit
Jessica what are your expectations for the announcement tonight or
do you think it's way too premature to even care?
That's a great question.
I think that it's gonna be one of those situations where Fox news and
all of the conservative pundits do the same thing that they did when he
first took a shot at Rhonda Santa saying he's Rondy sanctimonious.
They're gonna for freak out.
They're gonna be like mom and dad are fighting, which is something they directly
said the last time that they were arguing with each other.
And I think it's just gonna be these two guys having an ego contest against
each other.
But I think the Republican party is gonna lean to Santis and
we're gonna see trump completely meant meltdown.
Yeah, I'm, I'm really trying to think this through, okay for once.
I don't normally do that with this job.
I mostly coast, but
I think you're right that they are going to line up behind him and I would say
that they're even doing it more publicly than I expected they would at this point.
I thought that there would be a lot of talks behind the scenes with donors and
you know, like people who had dabbled in never trump, but no, like they're pretty
openly after the midterm saying that they wanted to be Rhonda Santis.
The issue remains to be seen though.
How much does any of that matter if all of the establishment republicans line up
behind Rhonda Santis and a bunch of the big donors lined up behind him.
Does any of that provide anything more than a paper shield against Rhonda Santis
standing on a stage with donald trump and Donald trump calls him a little girl and
all the Maga people like charcoal to themselves and that's it for
Rhonda Santis.
That may not happen.
Maybe he won't do that.
I don't think that's super likely or maybe it won't work.
Maybe Rhonda Santis has bought enough like investment from
the Maga people the last two years by like endlessly focusing on
like bisexual second grade teachers and trans people reading stories.
I don't know whatever culture war stuff he's focusing on,
let alone all of the covid stuff where he willingly sacrificed tens of thousands of
Floridians to look cool.
Maybe that will be enough to protect him.
But I still think that donald trump while not possessing many talents can
viciously take apart toadies like Rhonda santos and I expect he's gonna do it.
And I think that the republican base loves that stuff.
I think they're gonna jump into the mockery of Rhonda Santis.
But I don't know do you disagree?
Do you think Rhonda Santos is gonna be able to defend himself on debate stage?
I don't know. I think there are a lot of people
who really like Ron DeSantis and are gonna be super torn but
I know it's gonna be entertaining for all of us throughout this primary.
It's gonna be the most fun primary ever for us to watch Ron de sanctimonious and
donald trump tear each other apart.
But at the end of the day, I do think the republican party base whether mega or
typical conservatives will line up behind Rhonda Santis if it's Rhonda Santis,
I don't know what will happen if trump wins this primary again.
Yeah, look, I think here's why I want the fight,
I want the fight because it is just gonna be fun.
That's it.
I know that I'm supposed to have loftier ambitions or whatever, but
like honestly everybody get off my back,
my mind has been ground down to a nub doing this job for the last decade.
Can I have fun for one political season, please.
But beyond that, I think the prospects for donald trump versus Rhonda Santis in this
primary, very similar to the Republican strategy in the middle of the Democratic
strategy in the mid terms of like, like literally supporting people like mass
Triano and Boldak, it was a very risky move that credit to the horrible neo Libs
in charge of the Democratic Party seems to have paid off in a number of these races,
credit where credit is unless like somehow do.
But it is risky.
I think donald trump being the Republican nominee raises the odds that a democrat
wins, but it also raises the stakes if a democrat loses.
I think that trump would be more dangerous than Iran de Santis.
So I don't know,
I'm gonna have to see it's gonna be very exciting no matter what.
But anyway, I love the also that you've jumped into
the ronde sanctimonious you like that.
I was pushing for him to switch to Ron de sadness.
I thought that was dumber.
Although I did see something, I'm trying to find who said it in the chat.
It was just Rhonda Santis.
You get it.
It's like Rhonda Rhonda Santis.
I could see him doing that.
It's no stupider than cocoa chow or glenn young kin or whatever Rhonda Santis.
It could get real dumb up in here really fast.
We'll have to see.
And Rhonda Santis pronounced his own name in an ad de Santis.
I'm Ron de Santis.
He did, yeah.
And where are we getting this wrong?
Is he getting his own name wrong?
Who's wrong here?
I don't know, maybe once trump said it that way and
he felt to get the market, people like him, he had to keep saying it