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It's hard to take apart a Donald Trump speech because, I mean, it is just like the first 44 days of his time in the White House

an overwhelming avalanche of things to process. He said it himself in the speech again and

again. We have been the most productive, you know, in the history of blah, blah, blah, blah,

blah. And while, you know, many, many,

many things in his speech were untrue, that one is true. He really has broken the record when it

comes to just how much he has done in the first 44 days when it comes to executive orders.

And that has had the effect of overwhelming people in conventional media, which is, you know, why it has been so hard to process this stuff.

So in this case, the litany of things that came at us in this speech can make it feel overwhelming.

So what I choose to do is step back from it a little bit and think about a couple of bigger dynamics.

So here's one of them.

I don't think Donald Trump has a huge amount of experience, at least not recently, in speaking to a room in which half of the people, I guess, slightly less than half mathematically, are openly hostile to what he's doing. You know, having a group of

people not cheering him on one side of the room clearly disturbed him. And it speaks to the kind of

bubble he's been in in the most, you know, in the recent part of his life. He's been surrounded by

people who continually tell him what a great job he is doing

and how he should keep going.

And being face to face with such an enormous group of people who really don't approve of

what he's doing and are, you know, in the same halls of power he is, I think he didn't

find it exactly unnerving because I don't think he processes things that way.

But I think it was unfamiliar for him. And it drew him into little strange moments.

One thing that happened right away that I thought really was going to maybe, you know,

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