I'm Charlie Sykes. Welcome back to The Contrary Podcast. You know, and it occurs to me as we get into the month of February that Donald Trump can kind of on a roll lately and not in a good way. I mean, you kind of run down the last couple of weeks. You know, the on again, off again invasion of Greenland, the Epstein files that Davos blather, they push back from the Europeans. And then, of course, you had his attempt to

spin the ice murders, which has not gone well for him. The insult-infested prayer breakfast.

And then, of course, the racist videotapes that blew up in his face, that he was kind of surprised that people

actually thought that posting a video depicting the Obama's as aped.

He might cross some red lines.

So what could possibly go wrong?

We have a lot to talk about today.

Well, who better to introduce the month of February than our good friend Peter Wainer trying to make sense of all of this.

Welcome back to the podcast, Peter.

Well, let's start with something that happened last week.

I know that because people are going to be hearing this on Tuesday and something happened on Friday,

so it feels like ancient, ancient history.

But that extraordinary moment where the White House actually put out a video,

a blatantly, rancidly racist, radioactive in his racism depicting the Obama's as apes. They tried to spin it.

They eventually pulled it down, blamed it on a staffer. But as of now, Donald Trump is refusing

to apologize. That's pretty much on brand, isn't it? Yeah, I'm not sure that he's really

apologized as much for anything in his life. And I'm pretty

confident that there's nothing in his life that he's ever felt that he needs to apologize for,

whether at times he feels like the political conditions are such that he has to bow in the direction

of an apology, maybe. But it is his psychological nature that he that he um you know he's a

malignant narcissist so he never he never wants to never believes he needs to um to to to to apologize

and and it what's interesting about it why it's in some respects an important insight into who he

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