The most amazing moment in Donald Trump’s three-hour sit-down with podcaster and comedian Joe Rogan came about forty minutes into the interview. Leaning slightly forward, his hands spread out in front of him, Trump told Rogan the “most beautiful word in the dictionary.” This word is “more beautiful than ‘love.’” That word is “tariff.”
Joe interjected:
Rogan: Did you just float out the idea of getting rid of income taxes and replacing it with tarrifs?
Trump: Well, ok. . .
Rogan: Were you serious about that?
Trump: Yeah, sure. Why not? Because . . . our country was the richest, relatively, in the 1880s and 1890s. A president who was assassinated named [William] McKinley, he was the Tariff King. He spoke beautifully about tariffs, his language was really beautiful. . .
If you, too, made it through all three hours of this conversation, you might quibble about whether that was really the standout moment. This was a conversation, after all, where Trump dropped large hints about what he might or might not know about UFOs and the John F. Kennedy assassination. There was a very long tangent on how to rank various Ultimate Fighting Championship fighters. At one point during a discussion of the impact of windmills on whales, the former president said, and I quote, “I want to be a whale psychiatrist.” Strangeness abounded.
But the McKinley moment was the most revealing as to the absurd disconnect between Trump’s views (and his record) and the way both friends and enemies often describe him as an antiestablishment “populist.” Nothing could be further from the truth.
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Auteur: Ben Burgis
