rant · moment 9 of 19
Trump's Miriam Adelson Moment and Rich People's Playful Cruelty
from The Real Katie Porter & A Special Guest | The Tim Dillon Show #466 · #466
3 min
Tim analyzes the video of Trump teasing Miriam Adelson about loving Israel more than America, framing it as a window into how billionaires reveal damning truths while being playful and unserious.
- Trump asked Miriam Adelson which country she loves more—the United States or Israel—and she refused to answer.
- Tim on how the ultra-wealthy talk about people in trouble: playful cruelty that doesn't register as damning because it's just poking around.
- Rich people reveal substantive, damning things while being playful because they have the luxury of not taking anything seriously.
- Trump says things at dinner-table level to the world because he doesn't know how to be anything other than Trump.
- Certain politicians are liquid—they reshape themselves into whatever container holds them, like AOC shifting left and right depending on the audience.
- Lindsey Graham epitomizes the liquid politician: loving and hating Trump, being neocon and populist, whatever helps him survive politically.
- Trump and Katie Porter are the opposite—they can't be anything other than what they are, so eventually the moment finds them.
- Katie Porter doesn't know how to be anything but an angry mom with a stain on her shirt who's had it up to here.
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