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expressvPN.com slash Ben. All righty. So yesterday was President Trump's big triumphant moment.

And as we said earlier this week, he gave the state of the union address, excellent state

of the union address, theatrics, brilliantly constructed, well delivered. And I said at the time, if President, if President Trump were like this, all the time, he'd win 55% of the vote.

And pretty much everybody said that, right? His advisors were saying that. People around Trump were saying that, people in the media who are long-time allies of President Trump were saying that. They were saying, if you could just be contained to Mr. President, if you could just be the guy who focuses in on what it is the

American people care about, Mr. President, then you would be near dominant in elections, who'd be

almost impossible to stop you in elections. And then yesterday, President Trump was celebrating

his acquittal, which happened the day before, and he decided that he was just going to down eight

red bulls bust through a wall like the Kool-Aid man and just take a

giant dump on the Democrats and all the Republicans were cheering. And on the one hand, of course,

on the one hand, of course, because come on. I mean, President Trump is President Trump.

And this was hilarious. It was entertaining. It was Trump doing peak Trump. In one way, the state of the

Union was peak Trump because it's the best Trump can be. It is the best version of Trump and the best

version of the best version of Trump. But this was the best version of sort of normal Trump,

which is Trump being Trump riffing, doing comedy. And that has its upsides and it has its downsides.

The upside is wildly entertaining.

The downside is, well, is this going to win him any additional votes? The downside is, do people feel like he's the adult in the room? See the beauty after the state of the union is that Nancy Pelosi looked like a child and Trump looked like an adult. Now everybody just looks like children. It's just that Trump is a much more entertaining child. So in any case, President Trump, he gave this big presser yesterday, and he went off on his opponents.

And again, I understand the emotional drive to do so. I understand it. I understand why he'd be angry at Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi. I understand why he'd want to browbeat them. I'd understand why he'd want to go out there and hold up the newspaper and never stop holding up the newspaper that says Trump acquitted. This is a guy who's been put under the gun by the Mueller investigation in Russia for two years. It turns up nothing. And then immediately he gets hit with this Ukraine stuff. And then that is not sufficient to oust him. And so he feels like a survivor. And he gets to have himself a little party. So he brings out the pinata and he starts beating it up. So President Trump yesterday, he comes out swinging. He says to the witch hunt started the day I came down the elevator. He was in the east room of the White House and man, he was letting it all hang out. It was a word salad. I mean, if you had to make a word cloud for this thing, it is cloudy with a chance of meatballs because weird things just flying out of the sky. References to Bobby Richardson, the former New York Yankees' second baseman, full-on descriptions of Steve Scolese getting shot. I mean, everything that you could possibly want and not want in a Trump presser was here. Here was President Trump, though, beginning by explaining the witch hunt started the day, I came down the escalator. But a tremendous thing was done over the last number of months, but really if you go back to it

over the last number of years, we had the witch hunt. It started from the day we came down

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