The 43 strangest lines from Donald Trump's interview with Lex Fridman
Whoa boy.
Donald Trump continued his tour of chatting with popular podcasters on Tuesday when he sat down with Lex Fridman.
You can listen to the whole conversation here. Or watch it here.
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The stuff you really need to see is below.
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To the lines!
“I don't like losing and I do like winning.”
Same. And away we go!
“Arnold Palmer was the nicest guy you'd ever meet. And then you have some champions that aren't really nice.”
I did not see this interview starting with a golf conversation. But here we are!
“Well, you win at that game by getting the word out and by using sense.”
The question? How do you win at the game of politics. Also:
“You can't necessarily just go what's popular. You have to do what's good for a country if you're talking about countries.”
Donald Trump on leadership: “You can't necessarily just go what's popular.”
“And I go traditional also, you know, you have traditional television, which is getting a little bit older, and maybe less significant. Could be less significant, I don't know. But it's changing a lot.”
Donald Trump on the future of media: “You have traditional television, which is getting a little bit older, and maybe less significant. Could be less significant, I don't know.”
“The whole plane of platform is changing a lot.”
“Plane of platform.”
“But from a political standpoint, you have to find out what people are doing, what they're watching, and you have to get on.”
[nods head slowly]
“I have a lot of people that are in business that are successful, and they'd like to go over to politics. And then you realize they can't speak, they choke.”
“Choke like dogs,” you might even say.
“And you know, for many people, it's virtually impossible to get up and speak for an hour and a half and have nobody leave.”
Ahem.
“I have somebody who wants to go into politics so bad, but he's got a little problem. He's got stage fright. Now, he's a total killer, but if he gets up into a stage in front of people, he doesn't do well.”
Is it Dee Reynolds?
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