Welcome to Inside Trump's Head. If you haven't visited this podcast before, come with us on a journey

to a strange, dark place where Michael has been for the last 10 years. I am a more recent visitor.

But today, we're going to be discussing the president's health and we're going to be discussing

what are the oversight committee members looking for with their investigation into

more Jeffrey Epstein stuff? But before we go there, I just want to make the further point about

what we're doing here, that there's a way of reporting about Donald Trump that you would

have reported about any

president in the White House. You look at his actions, you try to judge this in terms of

political cause and effect. But I've always found that that lacks the primary dimension for understanding Donald Trump, that really he thinks

differently, he behaves differently, his whole response is different from any politician,

journalists have ever covered, or that Americans have ever elected. And that's what we're here

trying to do, to understand that difference, to understand what makes, what motivates Donald Trump.

And I come at it from the point of view of character as destiny and that it's no use looking at this man through the lens of policy or actually political reporting as we know it.

This is a different force and it's having a massive impact.

You know, I have said all, and because people obviously ask me about this,

is he crazy, is he whatever? And I don't know the answer to that. I don't know how to exactly

characterize that, but I can say that he is not like anyone I have ever met or anyone I know has ever met or I think I think he may

ultimately be and has to be judged as completely sui generis which which would indicate

probably I guess that he is crazy.

Okay, so you're going to get some fancy Latin words as we go on a very strange voyage.

So strap on your crampons.

We're going inside Trump's head.

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