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Back to this use of the word sovereign and sovereignty.

Did you hear a buzz word or a dog whistle and repeated use of that word?

He was going to talk a little bit about that because they had given us a little bit of a preview.

No words or anything. But we were expecting this theme but it was just way more.

It was just over the top. It caused me to go back through and count how many times.

He used that word sovereign or sovereignty 21 times. It was definitely the word.

That's a loaded term. This is a favorite expression of authoritarian leaders from China,

to Russia, to African dictatorships. We all have different values.

Don't preach to me about human rights. You've often heard that kind of rhetoric pushing back in America saying democracy open society is the way forward.

So to hear an American president, that's a real departure from the public comments and really a tenet of US foreign policy,

Democrat and Republican for decades about not just the US as a democratic example but supporting democracy abroad.

You had a president here say, you know what, we're not going to impose what you do inside your borders as your business.

Interesting. Maybe the single dumbest analysis of the speech I've ever heard.

I took it. There are gymnasts who've won gold medals who could not twist rhetoric with that skill.

I took in a lot of echo chamber on the speech yesterday. Most of it pretty positive, including from like the Washington Post, David Ignatius and others.

I didn't hear that conversation. I missed that one.

That is a bizarre interpretation of the use of that phrase. The way they leapt from he used the term a number of times to, you know, I've heard dictators use that term.

And I'll explain why in a second.

To this is a real departure for American policy. You can do whatever you want.

I don't get how you get that out of that speech.

But again, they are making their living on bashing Trump and they have to find a reason to do it.

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