I am watching the podcasts, the very big podcasts, Pod Force One, everybody is talking about it, and what they are saying is that Diklis Chump is assembling the most tremendous, the most beautiful, the most UNBEATABLE team for 2028. JD and Marco. I said it myself, I told Miranda — very smart reporter, many people respect Miranda — I said it would be tremendously hard to beat them. They’re saying they are downplaying their ambitions, which is very humble, very respectful of Diklis, but let me tell you, they wouldn’t even be on the stage if not for me. I discovered them. I looked at the field — a very big field, tremendous field, nobody else could have seen it — and I said JD, I said Marco, you are going to be great. When I put them at the podium, doing their little briefings, I knew exactly what was happening. I was crafting the deal. You don’t get that kind of chemistry, that kind of smooth performance with the hip-hop references and the quips, unless Diklis Chump has been working his fingers to the bone for you. Marco — Marco Rubio, great guy, he was out there at the podium and he did something very smart, very smooth, the kind of performance that shows you why he’s a star. They’re saying it was the smoothest performance, smoother than anyone, maybe the smoothest ever. He did a thing, a hip-hop thing, from the ’90s, which I don’t know much about hip-hop honestly but the ’90s were fantastic, the best decade, and he did it to describe Iran — Iran, which is a terrible situation, a disaster, and they’re trying to negotiate, they always try to negotiate, but Marco, he knows how to handle them. He’s a tough guy, very tough, and smart. And JD — JD Vance, he’s a tremendous guy, wrote a book, a big book, bestseller, they all read it, everybody bought it, and he’s out there, he’s fighting, he’s doing great. And they get along, which is, you know, it’s a human thing, the human equation, a beautiful human equation, and I see them together and I think, that’s a team. That’s my team. I built it.
Now, they say they are downplaying their ambitions, but I knew what they would do before anyone. I always knew it. People say Lincoln picked his cabinet, very famous, but they fought constantly, very nasty. My boys get along beautifully because I made them get along. And Lincoln didn’t have my genes — my uncle, a very great professor at MIT, told me years ago, before anybody else knew anything about political succession, “Diklis, you have the absolute best genes for succession planning.” And it is true. I knew it before anyone. I am completely self-made at this, I started from nothing — just a small loan of a few billion dollars and a tremendous amount of heart — and look at what I built.
And you know, the big tough men, the generals with medals all over their chests, they came to me with tears in their eyes, they said “Sir, sir, please don’t let JD and Marco do the briefings, you are too big for this room,” but I let them, because I am generous. I am the most generous. And then I watch them, and sometimes they forget. They think they are popular, they don’t need the king. But they would be absolutely nothing without the king. Actually they are just two guys, very nice guys, but they are nothing, zero, and I am the one who makes them a ticket. They only listen to me because I tell them to. I mean, we are all in this together, the great team, the greatest team America has ever seen, but it is really all about me — I mean us, but mostly me. When I put the gold on the podium, I made the ratings. The ratings were through the roof, the networks are saying it, very sad for the networks but they are saying it. I made the ratings. I built the White House, I built the briefing room, without me it is just a boring, ugly room.
The very smart people, the BEST people, are telling me it was all a plan, a brilliant trap — let JD and Marco shine for a minute, then I step back and say I did it! I built the unbeatable team. It was part of the deal. The art of the deal. Nobody does deals like this. The low IQ people on the cable news, the pundits with the very low IQ, they said it couldn’t work, they said the chemistry would be bad, but I told them, you see nothing. And there are other people, low energy, very low energy, low IQ, some of them — and they couldn’t build a team like this. They couldn’t. They don’t have the vision, the foresight, the thing that I have where I see things before anybody else sees them.
The real reason this ticket is so strong, the real reason they’re unbeatable, is that they remind people of me. They do. They both do. JD with the book, the big ideas, Marco with the smooth, the very smooth, the hip-hop — it’s like me in the ’80s, the ’90s, when I was building the buildings, the biggest buildings, and everybody wanted to be me, they all wanted to be like Diklis Chump, and now these two guys, they’re like Diklis Chump, they’re the closest thing to Diklis Chump, and that’s why the people love them. The people — my people, the best people, the most loyal people — they look at JD and Marco and they see, they see what I built, they see the legacy, the beautiful legacy. They know it. I made them.
The real question the smart people are saying — the people who actually run things — isn’t whether JD and Marco can win. It’s whether anyone even bothers trying. And the answer is no. The answer is no, they can’t. It’s a beautiful thing, the human equation, and I saw it first, I said it first, and now everyone — everyone — is saying what I said. Unbeatable. Tremendous team, the best team, maybe the best team ever. And they will thank me. They always do. They always have to. Believe me.
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