Hello and welcome to the Bullard podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller.

Delighted to welcome to the show, the campaign manager for Barack Obama in 2008, and then advisor to Kamala Harris's campaign

in 2024. It is David Pluff, who's here for the first time. I don't know why. Huge oversight.

How you doing, man? It's always good to be with you, Mr. Miller. Thanks for having me.

Welcome, man. Yeah. This will be much better than being in the MS now boxes together.

No doubt. We can actually talk. It's good. Yes.

I want to start. You had a kind of a buzzy op-ed in the New York Times last week about how, while things went good last November for the Democrats, there's still big changes. The party's got to make. I want to get to that to get to that of course but you know the president is forcing us to talk about some other things his delusions and manias instead so we'll start there the world is gathered in davos have you ever been to davos never thankfully really yeah that is surprising i had you pegged as. No, no. I've had to support people going to Davos, but I personally have never been to Davos, which I'm quite thankful for. Yeah, same. I don't get it. It looks chilly. They're all in their Montclair jackets. I don't know. It's just hard logistics. Yeah, right. Yeah, tough. So anyway, they're in Davos.

And here's a couple of things that's happened just this morning. We're taping this Tuesday morning.

He's posted Greenland as USA memes. He posted a meme trolling, the other world leaders he's going to meet with like it was when they came to the Oval Office to meet him about about Ukraine but it's Photoshop to make it seem like he's telling them that we're taking over

Greenland he has attacked the United Kingdom for quote planning to give away the island of

Diego Garcia which houses a UK-US military base there was an agreement to give that back

to Mauritius. Earlier, actually,

you'd be surprised to learn. The Trump administration said they were on board with that because

it secured a long-term stable and effective operation. Now Trump says the UK is stupid for doing that.

He leaked some texts from the head of NATO in France. Margruda called him Dear Donald.

Macron asked him to have dinner in Paris.

Both complimented him on his work in Syria.

I don't know, man.

It's a little different than kind of how your old boss handled this stuff.

But what is your big picture reactions on what we're seeing?

You know, Tim, you'd always like to laugh at this stuff.

But, you know, this is an incredibly serious moment.

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