Finished listening. Trump is seemingly much more moderate in his views than Joe is now, because of Joe’s shift in recent years. He gently chided Joe for being antivax, mentioning how important the polio vaccine is. When Joe tried to get onto the notion of big pharma conspiracies to allegedly intentionally destroy everyone’s health Trump wasn’t on board and said he had a great relationship with pharma companies.
Must’ve been Joe’s dream to ask a POTUS abut aliens, but Trump said he didn’t have much interest (“a little interest—not a big interest, but a little interest”) and gave him a smoothed over response that he hasn’t seen anything convincing but talked with some reputable pilots (“solid guys”) who had claimed to see strange phenomena. He also made some vague mentions about opening the JFK file half way and not seeing much of note, but that he’ll definitely open it the rest of the way once reelected. Creating FOMO for people interested I expect.
There were a lot of very dull parts with Trump’s usual stump rhetoric. Joe tried to steer away from it in the first hour without much success. Things got more relaxed after that but it was still a lot of Trump being the best and most successful guy ever in politics, you wouldn’t believe how successful, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln put together wouldn’t have been able to do what he did. Joe groaned uncomfortably. Kamala being a low IQ individual, “a low…IQ…individual,” for emphasis, and so forth. Made me want Shane Gillis to be there to do his impression.
Trump had a lot of appreciation for Elon and said he was on the phone with a powerful and influential person and left him on hold indefinitely, forgetting he was on the call, to watch the Super Heavy booster catch when it came on TV, because it was so mesmerizing and impressive.
On the Ukraine front, Joe tried to bring up corruption in Ukraine and the money being “wasted” helping them, but Trump had no interest in criticizing our defense of Ukraine other than saying the Russians are a meat grinder war machine that is difficult for Ukraine to handle long term, and the war would not have happened if he had been reelected since Putin would not have dared to do it, and he’ll sit down with Putin and “the other guy” to sort it out. He didn’t remember Zelenskyy’s name but said he had a good relationship with both of them. The usual rhetoric.
Nothing really groundbreaking. If Trump ends up winning I guess it’s reassuring that he’s not aligned with a lot of Joe’s nonsense.