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People, Personas, and Politics 2 – Trump, Summers, and Palin Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner March 21, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: If Trump and the House, the House or the Senate—I don’t know—if Trump and Congress were of opposite political parties, it would be much more likely that somebody would try to—that Congress would try to impeach Trump. We’re still waiting to see how some of the stuff Trump has done shakes out to see if it rises to an impeachable offense. Things that might be that nature include is that he colluded with Russia for the release of damaging information against the Democrats. But that’s not news. We can talk about approval or disapproval. There are levels of approval and disapproval. That once you hit them, it seems extremely unlikely based on other presidents that you can recover. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: This is not only disapproval that’s unprecedented. It’s a significantly unprecedented level of disapproval. RR: Yea! He came in with approval numbers—something like, at least, 10 points lower on average. More than 30 points lower than the average incoming president. SDJ: You know the economist Larry Summers? He was in the Obama White House as well. He was the President of Harvard University. He made a statement about Trump and the economy as being akin to a “sugar high.” I remember watching an interview a little while ago with him. I think that the approval rating for people that were really gung-ho about Trump being in the White House might be akin to another kind of a sugar high. Super popular, but then a massive drop, a ‘sugar crash’ – so to speak. RR: Trump fits that characterization with regard to the stock market, but not with regard to the—American’s statistically are not giving him the benefit of the doubt that they are giving every other president. There’s been no honeymoon period for Trump. In fact, that honeymoon period and benefit of the doubt has been declining from president to president for at least a half-dozen presidents. There was some euphoria over Obama, but, for the most part, you see increasing levels of political division with lower overall approval ratings for presidents. SDJ: That’s a good point. I want to revise what I said then. The “sugar high,” politically, that around what Sarah Palin called the “Hopey-Changey Stuff” of Obama. The “crash” could probably be considered a little bit delayed, but the Trump phenomena could be considered that. People disappointed and disenchanted and go for a demagogue because of that – because a lot of people, apparently, that voted for Obama voted for Trump. RR: When you look at the circumstances of his election, losing popular vote by 2.8 million, saying horrible things about everybody, obviously benefitting from Comey’s interference and from Russia releasing all of the emails, many people feel it is an unfair outcome. Also, the boisterous glee of rabid Trump supporters that, in some ways, tends to not be sporting or not feel entirely American because it is ungenerous and kind of racist, and just not—just kind of saying, “F- you,” to everybody. [End of recorded material] Authors[1] Rick Rosner American Television Writer [email protected] Rick Rosner Scott Douglas Jacobsen Editor-in-Chief, In-Sight Publishing [email protected] In-Sight Publishing Endnotes [1] Four format points for the session article:
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AuthorAccording to semi-reputable sources, Rick Rosner has the world’s second-highest IQ. He earned 12 years of college credit in less than a year and graduated with the equivalent of 8 majors. He has received 8 Writer’s Guild Award and Emmy nominations, and was named 2013 North American Genius of the Year by The World Genius Registry. He has written for Remote Control, Crank Yankers, The Man Show, The Emmy Awards, The Grammy Awards, and Jimmy Kimmel Live!. He has also worked as a stripper, a bouncer, a roller-skating waiter, and a nude model. In a TV commercial, Domino’s Pizza named him the World’s Smartest Man.He was also named Best Bouncer in the Denver Area by Westwood Magazine. He spent the disco era as an undercover high school student. 25 years as a bar bouncer, American fake ID-catcher, 25+ years as a stripper, and nude art model, and nearly 30 years as a writer for more than 2,500 hours of network television. He lost on Jeopardy!, sued Who Wants to Be a Millionaire over a bad question, and lost the lawsuit. He spent 35+ years on a modified version of Big Bang Theory. Now, he mostly sits around tweeting in a towel. He lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife and daughter. You can send an email or a direct message via Twitter, or find him on LinkedIn. ArchivesCategories |