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Well, Michael Goodwin, the finest columnist in America.

You can read his column every Sunday and every Wednesday in the New York Post,

and all the columns are up on the New York Post website.

Michael Goodwin. How you doing?

Good morning, Mark. Thank you.

Great column yesterday.

The world has seen now the full Trump effect. Uh, hey, do you realize if they hadn't, uh,

changed all the rules in 2020, Trump would probably have gotten reelected? And Democrats would

be rid of them now. He'd be leaving on Monday. Yeah, they, uh, they just pushed off the inevitable, didn't they?

Yeah.

But you know what, Mark, on that point, I actually think it's better for him too now.

I think he learned a lot from being there the first time and then being away for the four years. And certainly

the contrast with his term and Biden's term helped him. And so I think he's in a much stronger

position now than he would have been had he been reelected in 2020. And I also think that he's smarter and

wiser about the situations that he faces and how to handle them. So I think the break was

probably served him well.

Hey, this Trump derangement syndrome, you know, it's not really the policies. There's no policy or anything

he did in office. It's that outrageous. What is it? Is it just his manner? The way he talks,

the bragging, the Don Rickles side. What is it that sets them off? Yeah, it's a good question.

I mean, I think a lot of it had to do with Hillary Clinton,

that she was going to be president. She was entitled to that.

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