Lots of stuff coming out of President Trump's face. Yeah, lots of stuff. And most of it isn't very good.

Plus, some staffing chaos over at the White House. We'll talk about all of these things and more.

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yesterday, the president of the United States decided that he was going to hold another one of these

open meetings with Democrats and Republicans in front of the cameras. Now, usually in front of the cameras,

the president tries to please members of both parties. The president above all is a performer. He's a guy who's on reality TV, he's been on the cover of every magazine. He's been performing every single, you know, all the time, for years on end. And that performance does not stop just because he's the president of the United States. So when a camera is on, when the red light is on, he's performing. And what that usually means is that he's trying to cater to the people in the room. So when he's performing at CPAC and the red lights are on there, he's saying what CPEC wants to hear. And when he's in front of the NRA, then he is saying what the in front of a bunch of Democrats and Republicans, he's saying what he thinks a lot of the Democrats want to hear. And that's basically how it went yesterday.

Now, we're going to analyze this on two levels. he is in front of a bunch of Democrats and Republicans, he's saying what he thinks a lot of the Democrats want to hear.

And that's basically how it went yesterday.

Now, we're going to analyze this on two levels. One is, did he mean any of this? Is it real? And two is, what did he just say? Because we sort of always have to separate out these two things. What he said, and is it important? These are two separate questions because the president says a lot of stuff, a lot of crap comes out of that face.

So the question is, was the stuff that he said good or was it bad? And two, was it important? We'll answer the second question first. I don't think the stuff that he said was important. He's going to have to get through legislation through Congress. Republicans run Congress. They're not going to do any of the things that he wants them to do here because they don't have the votes for it. The reason I say this is because the president is exactly the same thing with DACA.

You recall that he wants them to do here because they don't have the votes for it. The reason I say this is because the president did exactly the same thing with DACA. You recall that he had a meeting with a bunch of Democrats, and at that meeting on DACA, he specifically said that he would be fine with passing a clean DACA bill. We mocked him up and down for it. It was ridiculous. He said that he was fine with a clean amnesty bill and no border security measures. And Kevin McCarthy, the House Majority Leader, had jump in and say, Mr. President, you mean that you want border security. And Trump said, yeah, that's what I mean. I mean, I want a clean bill with border security, which is not originally what he said. Now, of course, all of his overtures to Democrats in that meeting meant nothing. The same thing is probably happening here on guns, but it is important to note. The president only became an advocate of gun rights relatively recently. Up until 2012, the president was a gun control advocate. The president was not a big fan of guns. And so when it goes back to the gut level for President Trump, when he goes back to his gut on this issue, there are certain issues where the president's gut is very much in line with sort of conservative policy.

Guns are not one of those issues.

On guns, this is a guy whose gut is from New York.

And New Yorkers, people from New York City, they're not particularly big into the Second Amendment rights of all of it.

So the president has this meeting yesterday, and he says a bunch of things that are just laughably awful.

So he starts off in a conversation with Pat Toomey. So Pat Toomey is the senator from Pennsylvania. Now, in order for you to understand how absurd it is, what President Trump says right here, you have to understand that Pat Toomey is one of the leftmost members of the U.S. Senate on guns. So in 2013, it was Pat Toomey who proposed a piece of legislation

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