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TRUMP
WE KNOW HE IS OLD ... BUT HOW INFIRM?
Times Radio: Anthony Scaramucci: Trump is unwell ... Feb 26, 2025
WE KNOW HE IS OLD ... BUT HOW INFIRM?
Times Radio: Anthony Scaramucci: Trump is unwell ... Feb 26, 2025
Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU3Jslfjh2g
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Transcript
- 0:00
- but he's not well I think that's the
- number one thing that we have to explain
- to people Anthony scaramucci was briefly
- Donald Trump's White House
- communications director he is the
- founder of skybridge capital and the
- co-host of a great podcast the rest is
- politics USA with Katy k his book the
- little book of Bitcoin what you need to
- know that Wall Street has already
- figured out is out now Anthony
- scaramucci good afternoon from us how
- are you it's great to be on and I I like
- the way you said briefly you didn't say
- that I was unceremoniously HED because
- you're a polite person but that that was
- very nice of you thank you well like
- your podcast colleague Katy we're
- English ladies Anthony and we behave
- accordingly okay now Bitcoin uh you say
- I'm going to tell her you said that by
- the way when she's overly riffing me I'm
- going to say that she's an English lady
- and that she needs to behave accordingly
- yeah okay well you you suck it to her uh
- you've got our permission uh so make the
- case for Bitcoin I mean I'm very scared
- of it I wouldn't go near it but you say
- it's portable it's valuable it's
- incorrupt
- 1:00
- and it's good for the unbanked uh
- why well I mean for all of those reasons
- that you just said but I mean at the end
- of the day uh what was created about 16
- years ago is a
- decentralized ledger and so if you think
- of your bank your bank is basically a
- spreadsheet you know your your assets
- are on one side of the bank my assets
- are on the other let's say that you work
- for an auto dealership and I wanted to
- buy a car well we're just moving digits
- from my account over to your account and
- then you deliver me the car and so when
- you stop and think about a transfer of
- value it's really a technology between
- us um money is effectively a technology
- that we're using so that we don't have
- to barter with each other and so these
- computer programmers known as satachi
- Nakamoto figured out a way to create
- this immutable unbreakable system that's
- quite scar there's only 21 million of
- these tokens on the internet and uh they
- 2:00
- made the case that if this proliferated
- this would be a very hard asset you know
- the bank of England couldn't make any
- more of it the Federal Reserve Bank of
- the United States couldn't make any more
- of it and so it had a little bit of an
- inflation hedge to it as well and so uh
- what we're saying here at skybridge and
- what I wrote In the book is that this is
- a form of digital gold uh now it may not
- be people of your or my demography but
- younger people our children particularly
- my children in their early 30s have
- accepted a digital world and they they
- recognize that they can use this
- decentralized uh fully transparent
- spreadsheet as a way to transfer value
- between each other and the reason why I
- think it's good for the unbanked is that
- you don't need a bank account to do it
- you know I I had some officials here in
- this office from the government of El
- Salvador during the UN General Assembly
- meetings in September of last year and
- they said that wallet to wallet
- transfers between their EXP Patriots
- 3:00
- that live here in the United States to
- their moms and dads in El Salvador if
- they could do it over the Bitcoin
- Network versus having to pay a Western
- Union or some other wire service they
- could save over $400 million a year and
- so this is uh this is going to be part
- of our future this is sort of like an
- operating software for Value transfer
- value
- transactions uh and it's cheaper the
- same way you and I are doing this phone
- call or this Zoom call and it's
- virtually Costless but if we did
- something like this uh 40 years ago we
- probably couldn't have a television
- connected to it but we could have a
- phone call together it would have cost
- us uh the telephone company was charging
- us per minute 40 years ago well the
- banks are still thinking like that they
- charge us per transaction or if you have
- low amounts of money at the bank at
- least here in the United States they
- charge you a monthly service fee to have
- that money and that's why millions of
- Americans are unbanked uh but Bitcoin
- provides them this other alternative
- 4:00
- it's sort of a a way to transact without
- having to use the third parties of the
- banking system okay I think you've made
- a spirited case for the Bitcoin or for
- Bitcoin I should say can we move on to
- what's going to be a pretty seismic day
- in British politics tomorrow when our
- prime minister saki starma goes to visit
- Donald Trump at the White House how
- should he play it
- Anthony I mean okay l i mean everyone
- doesn't want to say this cuz he's the
- leader of the Free World but Trump has
- obviously got something wrong with him I
- mean I I don't know if you saw that
- artificially intelligent uh um Trump
- Gaza video that he posted on his own
- truth social network and so anybody
- looks at that uh whether you're a
- clinical profile for MI6 or the CIA I
- mean you don't have to be a rocket
- scientist to know that something's wrong
- with Trump it's like if someone in
- British football broke their leg and the
- bone was sticking out you don't have to
- be an orthopedic surgeon to know that
- there's a broken bone so I would say to
- 5:00
- kir Storer the guy is unwell and he's
- surrounded by willing sycophants that
- want to pretend that he's not unwell and
- you'll do yourself and your country of
- service if you are polite to him and you
- give him some gratuitous flattering but
- you try to stay away from him if you can
- uh don't get too close to his orbit
- because he'll end up eating you he he
- harms everybody in his path he's uh uh
- you know he's not well-liked he's not
- well-liked by his family members not
- well-liked by his St uh but they're
- there because it it's he's a powerful
- person I I just Stormer stay away from
- him because he's he's a dangerous guy in
- a couple of years he'll burn himself out
- uh the United Kingdom will exist and
- Donald Trump will be long in our
- rearview miror yeah so you work for him
- and you liked him well enough to do that
- um millions of people voted for him um
- what's
- changed well I did I did work for him
- and uh I did like him I'm not I'm not
- 6:01
- I'm you can't corrupt history I have to
- own the mistakes that I've made in my
- life uh but what I didn't see in him
- which he's now shown to the world uh is
- this he's he's a in singular service for
- himself and the attention that he's
- getting and the money that he can
- potentially make he's not in service of
- the world he doesn't think about himself
- as the leader of the Free World the way
- I think you or I or other people would
- like to think about that role and that
- frankly respons ibility and so no I
- didn't see that I made that mistake I've
- owned that mistake um and but then again
- you know there's shortcomings on the
- Democratic party because the way they
- handle themselves with this improper
- intergenerational transfer yeah of power
- in their party they they could have
- beaten Donald Trump remember he only won
- by one and a half% of the of the votes
- uh and that was with the party in full
- disarray uh with a with the with a
- president unfortunately that was a
- cognitively sunsetting and then they
- 7:02
- they they forced vice president Harrison
- to the raise 107 days we just the
- election we don't have too much time
- Anthony and I know that you have on X
- recently said that you think that Marco
- Rubio the Secretary of State might
- eventually perhaps quite soon just give
- up just he just can't do it anymore do
- you stick by that well just take a look
- at his body language look at the body
- language that he was with mcon in the in
- the Oval Office Rubio has stood with the
- west and ruia stood with the liberal
- democracies I don't think he loves the
- secretary of state that we're voting
- with North Korea Russia and China on
- certain issues and we're basically lying
- about who started the war in the who
- started the Ukrainian war and so so for
- me I I I think he's going to break I
- think he's a principled guy generally as
- principled as politicians can be and I I
- expect him to say no moss and to and to
- walk away from this I don't think he's
- going to be able to do this much longer
- and I I probably was almost unshockable
- 8:01
- when it came to Donald Trump but
- actually the AI video that he shared
- today and you've already referenced it I
- mean is it a new low can things get
- worse well there's no there well first
- of all there's no level of low okay so
- as low as you think he can get you know
- if Dante was writing about Trump there
- wouldn't be nine circles of hell there
- would be an infinite level of circles
- you know you can't get any can't get low
- with Donald Trump he's GNA find a way to
- get lower and so next week there'll be
- something uh even more disturbing but
- he's not well I think that's the number
- one thing that we have to explain to
- people and we have to be honest about
- that people fear Him uh they fear his
- rep retribution they fear people like
- cash Patel uh but this is the United
- States we still live in a free country
- and have uh the right to speak out and
- we'll see how long that lasts here in
- the United States but I have a tendency
- to believe that our government and our
- people will Outlast the corruptable
- forces of Donald Trump well We've Ended
- 9:01
- on a positive note um thank you very
- much Anthony uh love the podcast which
- is the rest is politics USA with Katty K
- that was Anthony scaramucci and his book
- on bitcoin is out now