Joe & Neal Brennan on What People Look For in a President

There's some weird thing about human beings where they gravitate towards a big leader, towards someone who claims they have the answers and seems very confident and can speak reasonably well. There's almost like a cheat code where people just like, they get locked into that. It feels like order. It just feels like order. If you go, if somebody says, I know, and they're tall, first of all, if they're tall, that gets you like 60% of the way there. That helps. If they're tall and says, I know what we should do. Good looking. Charismatic, good looking, fit, attractive to women. It just makes you feel like a daddy's here. Some daddy's here, a different daddy. It's like, oh, all right. That's what people like about travel. That's what people like about Obama. Most presidents are some form of that. Reagan, certainly two termers, George W. Bush in a weird way, former, you know what I mean? George Bush, George W. Bush, guy walked like he had a fucking two foot cock. Guy walked like he had to leave room for two dicks. That's how wide his gait was. He said he used to practice it. He practiced his gait. George W. Bush used to practice his gait. Really? Look it up. He'd be talking about it in interviews. Can you imagine walking around your house practicing your impressive walk? Yeah. Can you imagine anyone more than him doing it? The exact guy that would do that, like, practice walk. Bush's renewed confidence, this is 2005. Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called walking. That's how President Bush described himself during his acceptance speech at last year's Republican National Convention in New York City. But for much of this year, the president seemed to have lost the ... Okay. Let's just ... Yeah, but I've seen other interviews where he talked about- He talked about actually practicing his walk. Yeah. Well, they were originally from Maine. They're like kind of fake techs. Come on, Joe. Yeah, they were from Ken Bunkord. No, I know. They're like ... They couldn't be more blue blood. George Bush Sr. was head of the CIA. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Which is weird now. I wonder if that would help him now, politically. I was the head of the CIA. Didn't hurt him then. Didn't hurt him, but only one term. Yeah, but that was because of ... What's his face? Parrot, yeah. Yeah, Rash Parrot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll tell you what's going on. Okay. Fucking that's great. That guy, he fucking threw the whole thing out the window. When he bought television at the time, like primetime television time, he was like, I'll just buy it a whole hour and gave the networks money so that he could run his speech and talk about how you're getting fucked by the IRS. People at home were like, what the fuck? Literally was like one of the very first internet speeches. Absolutely. He made himself go viral and he appealed to people that were not ... There's like a whole part of the country that's not spoken to by, I mean, mass media. You can call it liberal media. I don't even think ... I think there's like a level that people just don't want to talk to him. It's like people that aren't especially rich or sophisticated or any of the stuff that people think is great and that advertisers want to appeal to, and then Ross Probs was like, look here. It's like a beacon for people. It's like a siren to people. What's that? This guy and that, by the way, a billionaire. It's not about ... People think it's about, he didn't seem like a billionaire. That was his ... That's Trump's appeal too. He doesn't seem like a rich guy. Seems like a regular guy. That's funny. Dr. Oz lost. How? Because he seemed like a liberal. Fetterman seemed like a conservative. Because I think so much of it is just looks. You can speak to this yourself. People are against you because you're fit. There are people that are like fucking meathead. He's not a meathead. Book and yay is. It's because you look ... People wouldn't believe that you and I are friends. Do you know what I mean? It's like when a turtle hangs out with a fucking python and the turtle's just riding the top of a python. People go like, how are they? It's like we're unexpected animal friends. I just think it's so much of it is looks. So much. A lot of it is. Way more than people would admit. Anybody that saw the Fetterman debate would go, oh, this guy needs help. I literally couldn't watch it. I knew that's going to ... It feels cruel or something. It is cruel. It's cruel to put a guy in a position like that who's recovering from a stroke. You're not supposed to be under that kind of stress.