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SECTION 15
HOW ELITES REJECTED DONALD TRUMP
AND CREATED THE MAN HE BECAME
Version 1 ... February 2025

the education to do very much with their anger so they Bluster to you know over
one too many beers you know these Canadians they are whatever you know it
it normally would it wouldn't be taken as as much but when he
blusters it validates their Bluster and that's his function I think
that's what he doing he may be aware of I don't know if he's aware of it I might guess this he is you remember early on

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How Elites Rejected Donald Trump and Created the Man He Became

in his career he liked to say I could go out on Fifth Avenue and
shoot someone and people would still applaud what I'm doing he he stumbled onto
a connection his own life and that of large numbers of people
they vibrated together he was dismissed by the upper
echelons of American corporate Society he was you know a gifted child that is
the father left a lot of money to the kid his father who had real estate in
Brooklyn and left the chunk of money to his son so the claim that he worked hard
to make his money is silly and that was used against him a lot he

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suffered from that he's none too bright and so he didn't do very well in school or he is bright and he you know spent
time grabbing parts of anatomy and drinking too much uh and so there wasn't
much there he got out of the army by his b own
Spurs doesn't look very good and the ruling Elites didn't there were his
crudeness his he didn't learn at the University what so many people do how to
act I had to learn that it was important to get a tweed jacket when I went to
college it was important to get a tweed jacket with a leather patch over here
whether I needed it or not I learn I learned how to speak if you think I
speak well I did I learned how to my parents are immigrants they were not adepts at the English language I didn't

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speak English until I was five you know I spoke German and French um
but I did learn a certain way of acting a certain way of presenting myself I
don't think he ever did he was naughty in various ways as you grew up and was
therefore an outsider and and bitter about it not able to break in you know
um an associate you know his daughter marries the son of another real estate
dealer who's in jail H this is not what is this this is very
strange uh um so I I think he's
belligerently angry at an establishment that excluded

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him and that gives him a solidarity with masses of Americans who are also bellig
belligerently angry at another establishment that they feel rejects him
and they get a lot of that and I don't deny that for a minute there are an awful lot of people
who like Mr Hansen live in the world of the elites and and they feel one one
group is problematic because they think they are the elites and the other group is problematic because they think
they're oppressed by an elite I disagree with the analysis out of which both
positions come I I have no idea what Elite
means if if you're talking in the gener realities it's usually presented I don't know what what what it means people in
California and New York work in different Industries have

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different communities and see the world somewhat differently than if you live in Arkansas or Tennessee I I get that has
always been true in this country I don't you know recasting it as it's a game I I
understand why you play it I understand the purpose of it I I don't like it cuz I know where it can go well may not go
there I hope not but I know where that can go that's that's a little bit for me
like listening to someone
explain Larry Summers remember him he's been on the show okay he got himself
into a lot of trouble yeah when he was the president of Harvard gave a speech where he explained
why women can't do something science as well as men now in my humble opinion
that's real stupid uh since I don't admire him I don't mind saying that's real

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stupid but it it lost him that position it hurt him
badly uh but the interesting question for where would this come what are you
doing what are even if you believe that what are you doing
talking like that don't you have a you don't know enough about American culture
to know that this day and age in this Society you can't do
that right I mean it says something about you that you are way out of touch
with the invi you know what it it's
astounding that a that is the qualific ation to be bounced out of harbard not
because you don't do economics not because you can't run Harvard and of course you can but this is a level of

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some word insensitivity obtuseness out of touch inness that really disqualified me
Whoa by the way he said other things that you could also maybe you know them go after him about or it now it's
possible I don't know him personally so but it's possible he's naughty too that
there's a part of him that wants to be able to say such a thing and it leaked
out he maybe wasn't all that careful I don't know I don't even know what he thinks about it in retrospect but it's
another example of Wow and his mistake unlike
Trump's Trump discovered the audience that responded positively
poor Larry didn't he delivered that dumbness to the
wrong audience in the wrong place at the wrong time and he got punished for it Mr

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Trump had he tried that Bluster up at Harvard would have been shot down you
know or Yale or any of the other places no no he understood where he go look where he is
now his base is the South part parts of the Midwest and those kinds of folks
around elsewhere but he learned who his supporters were and he went there you
know earlier he didn't understand that he earlier he was a Playboy in New York
you know his excitement was going to the Playboy club his excitement was being a
junior member of the rich in New York City he hated being Junior all the time
which I get and the naughtiness was inre encouraged by that so he was
angry about being excluded and then was NY which assured

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his exclusion and he was trapped in that contradiction without the ability you
know I don't know if he can spell contradiction let Al use it analytically
but as a as one of the Senators whose name I forget once said there is no
intelligence requirement to be a senator yeah it's a good one well the the the

Why Donald Trump Wants to Take the Panama Canal (And the Actual Best Reason to Control It)

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second of these rhetorical topics that I wanted to address you've already mentioned but I think it might also be a
good opportunity as a throwback to some of our earlier more pedagogically focused episodes for a bit of a an
economics or a trade lesson but what is the Strategic importance of the Panama
Canal for us and why would Trump make the hint well they're not hint
the claims about taking it as he has been well I can I'll give you the