News · moment 11 of 15
Trump's Stormy Daniels Indictment and DeSantis's Boringness
from The Art Of Happiness | The Tim Dillon Show #340 · #340
11 min
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Tim argues Trump's indictment over Stormy Daniels hush money payments is a minor charge that will backfire and only help Trump, compares Trump's fighting energy favorably to a boring, cop-like Ron DeSantis, and notes the WHO's reversal on vaccine recommendations for healthy kids as an underused political angle against Trump.
- Paying off Stormy Daniels feels like nothing compared to torture, warrantless wiretaps, and drone strikes that previous presidents authorized.
- Tim believes the indictment is a stunt that will backfire and only help Trump, since every attempt to take him out has served to strengthen him.
- Trump is great at fighting but terrible at governing; he's held back by ego, pettiness, and disloyalty.
- Ron DeSantis is boring—he looks like a cop trying to get you to rat on your friends, lacking the chaotic energy that makes Trump entertaining.
- DeSantis has the energy of a school cop showing up to a drug incident, whereas Trump projects riverboat casino tycoon psychopath energy.
- DeSantis holding rallies on Long Island is desperate; he's trying to win over locals who show up excited with a bacon egg sandwich.
- The World Health Organization now says healthy teens and children may not need COVID vaccines, contradicting what Trump called his administration's greatest success.
- If DeSantis hit Trump on the vaccine without being boring, he might actually have a real attack, but the indictment story dominates instead.
- The campaign finance charge over porn star hush money is something nobody cares about, making the whole prosecution pointless and only helping Trump.
- Tim thought Trump was finished months ago, but the indictment has actually given him a better shot at the nomination because he's now fighting again.
- Trump got sharper during this campaign and became more dangerous when indicted, digging in to fight rather than fading away at Mar-a-Lago.
- Tim gives Trump a better chance now than he did before, though he could still crumble.
Ron DeSantisDonald TrumpStormy DanielsBarack ObamaWorld Health OrganizationBill ClintonNelson MandelaPaula Jones