Marco Rubio folded up a little note, handed it to Trump.

Trump opened up the note.

I think it was like, go back to the guy from Chevron.

And Trump just read it out straight because those parts of his brain just aren't working anymore.

But if you're Stephen Miller, you know, you hand him a note and you say, take over Greenland, or you hand

him a note, and you say, white people only, or you hand them a note, and you say, let's shut

down the Fed. And, and Trump goes, uh-huh, you know, you know, am I going to get credit for that?

I'm Joanna Colt. This is the Daily Beast podcast, and I'm so excited to bring the conversation.

I've just had a rousing conversation with David Rothkopf, who just lists everything that is going on right now.

And it's as if Donald Trump has tried to erase the entire 20th century. And we take a fascinating,

wandering by the way, about what it was actually like working with Bill Clinton when you knew

he was having all these extracurricular, romantic, sexual activities. David worked for the Clinton administration.

He was also the editor of Foreign Policy magazine, and he just brings such a clear, frankly,

bomb-throwing perspective on what's going on right now.

I can't wait for you to join us and for us to get into it.

David Rothkopf, where do we begin? I mean, is it Iran, Venezuela, Minneapolis, Jerome Powell,

Trump staring vacantly out of the window, Trump trying not to grab Carolyn Levitt. I want to grab

Carolyn Levitt, but not for the same reasons, I think. Where do we begin, David?

How bad is it? You know, we talk periodically, and I think one of the things that we're talking more

frequently. No, I know. I like it. I'm not complaining. But what I'm saying is, I think we have to say

that the decline of Donald Trump is accelerate. right? I mean, this, we,

you know, sometimes people talk about like late stage capitalism. We're in late stage Donald Trump.

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