Welcome back to the Potsay of the World.

I'm Ben Ritz.

So Ben, I genuinely thought Trump might stage some sort of like dramatic military operation

for the day after his Wido House correspondent speech to match the 2011

Obama bin Laden operation weekend. I didn't see this coming. No. Not that it was staged.

No. But it was bad. But it was dramatic. Not that it was staged. I, uh, it was bad. First

of all, it's always bad. Violence is bad. Don't you hate feeling like you always repeat that line? Yeah. No shit, it's bad. When was it ever not bad? And by the way, it's just, it's idiotic, it's wrong, and it doesn't do anything to help what that guy seemed to say he cared about. No, it's going to help Trump politically.

I did think that I'm just going to go there, Tommy.

There's not a Trump point, actually.

You and I've been at dinner a lot of times, and I feel bad that that was like an unsettling,

potentially scary situation.

It is also the case that that ballroom is about like a football field walk down a densely carpeted hotel room, past magnometers,

down a flight of stairs or an escalator into a heavily secured cavernous ballroom. And so let's just say

some of the media is putting itself at the center of this as if they survived like, you know,

the battle of the bulge was that that was the part of the discourse that, I mean, yes, I expect the Republicans

to cynically blame Jimmy Kimmel or whatever, and that's always frustrating.

But like the number of people that acted like they just went through, you know, like literally

the Battle of the Bulge here was that much to me.

Look, I don't blame the reporters for being scared.

I would be scared shitless of all of a sudden there's gunshots going off.

But like the Republicans who were trying to compare what happened over the last weekend to Butler, like that's a crazy comparison. A bullet hit his ear. Yeah. As you said, this guy was nowhere near. He wasn't to the max. Yeah. If he'd done this thing like 30 minutes earlier, he might have had a lot of people in range to fire at. You never know. that's the scary like scenario well this guy clearly had no

idea what he was doing i mean look there there there are serious questions actually that are

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