Your homework for this Friday night:

1) Read his answers out loud.
2) Tell me he's not out of his mind.

Here is the exchange, in context.

The Times' artful wording has naturally Raised An Important Question, namely: What precisely did the White House communications director call me to dissuade me from contacting Stephen Miller directly?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/b...

Getting on 40 years of doing this, and never once imagined I would be writing a lead like this -- not about someplace in South America or West Africa, but right here. In America.

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

NEW -- Trump's White House is hiding the vast majority of the transcripts of his remarks.

Why? The White House won't say...

But maybe reading the following might offer a clue:

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

NEW — If political leaders and investors around the world listened to Trump in the Oval Office for clues of what to expect, this is what they heard:

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NEW — Trump constantly complains about China’s expanding influence, but simultaneously has undermined American “soft power” to counter it.

In the first term it was pulling out of TPP. Now it’s eliminating USAID.

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...