He often says terrible things about his children, including Don Jr.

In one of his frequent riffs in the past has been, has been, I really regret giving him my name.

No.

Oh yes.

That's fairly damning.

All of these, these, you know, his children in their own way are kind of, I mean, certainly the sons kind of broken

by their relationship with him. Is Don Jr. competent?

Of course not. He has spent his life as his father's lackey. He's spent his life in a,

in a business that is of, of, you know, very little consequence except to

support his father.

Huh.

Gives me the shivers.

Michael.

Joanna.

So we're going to do a special episode today because one of the things that we've been thinking about a lot is what does succession look like after Trump?

I mean, we had the Victor Orban election last week. He conceded quickly. Trump is coming to the end of certainly his cognitive stage.

Well, let's also put in terms of strictly political timeline, he is shortly to be, in a very formal sense, a lame duck. He cannot run again,

no matter he huffs and puffs and whatever he says. He can't run again. Also, he's about to be

80 years old. And he enters that period which all presidents enter in their second term,

if they get a second term, in which power starts to ebb because other people start to step up.

The party, one's party begins to think beyond, beyond the current, the current

presidency and to hope that there will be another presidency. And if you are a second-termer,

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