Aug 8, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min · 17 segments
What will political power look like after the Trump era? Brian Tyler Cohen — #1 *New York Times*-bestselling author, MSNBC contributor, and creator of one of the most-watched independent political…
Brian Tyler CohenGuest
Don LemonHost
Because we're talking about the degradation, just how much of an effort it is to live every single day and not to open an alert or turn on the television and go, oh my God.
First of all, okay, have you ever tried to take an X-Acto knife to a swimming pool? You really can't do that much damage to it, right? And so maybe the damage came from driving your big ass, what do you call it? A motorcade into the reflecting pool.
Also, you got to imagine, he keeps saying that they have these elusive vandals who drove 350 feet through the reflecting pool.
You think Trump is going to exercise discretion about releasing that video? No.
The guy released an AI slop of him dumping shit on protesters for the No Kings rally.
But when it comes to the reflecting pool that would prove out his point, that's when he's going to exercise some discretion?
There will be, I wouldn't dedicate my life to this if I didn't think that there was hope that there was something better on the other side of this thing.
What my goal was for this was, look, we have a, a very disillusioned electorate.
We had a disillusioned electorate on the left, which in large part led to Republicans winning in the way that they did in the aftermath of 2024, and there was a massive realignment, which is why Republicans run the House, the Senate, the White House, and won the popular vote.
Now we have more disillusioned voters because of Trump's glaring inability, his unwillingness to actually deliver on what he said he was gonna do.
He said he was gonna lower prices, prices are rising because of his trade wars.
Because we're talking about the degradation, just how much of an effort it is to live every single day and not to open an alert or turn on the television and go, oh my God.
First of all, okay, have you ever tried to take an X-Acto knife to a swimming pool? You really can't do that much damage to it, right? And so maybe the damage came from driving your big ass, what do you call it? A motorcade into the reflecting pool.
Also, you got to imagine, he keeps saying that they have these elusive vandals who drove 350 feet through the reflecting pool.
You think Trump is going to exercise discretion about releasing that video? No.
The guy released an AI slop of him dumping shit on protesters for the No Kings rally.
But when it comes to the reflecting pool that would prove out his point, that's when he's going to exercise some discretion?
There will be, I wouldn't dedicate my life to this if I didn't think that there was hope that there was something better on the other side of this thing.
What my goal was for this was, look, we have a, a very disillusioned electorate.
We had a disillusioned electorate on the left, which in large part led to Republicans winning in the way that they did in the aftermath of 2024, and there was a massive realignment, which is why Republicans run the House, the Senate, the White House, and won the popular vote.
Now we have more disillusioned voters because of Trump's glaring inability, his unwillingness to actually deliver on what he said he was gonna do.
He said he was gonna lower prices, prices are rising because of his trade wars.
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