this week headliner, michael eric, the professor michael eric dyson. thank you so much for joining us. an upfront thanks for having me. my friend, former us president donald trump, has officially announced his bid to run for president in 2024. what do you make of this? well, this is the perfect storm of unmitigated narcissism meets political opportunism. ah, it is certainly wrecking the potential fortunes of the republican party. i think they've rejected the whole contests and have settled on figures like if not exclusively governor ron de santis of florida. he, after all, is the re max of donald trump equally authoritarian. ah, but with a, a panache and a style, a kind of palatable autocracy, if you will, that donald trump simply doesn't have, he's more brutal. he's more blunt. and i think it's really forcing the republican party finally, ah, to come to grips with the effect of trump ism. so the republican party is really going to have come to jesus moment because of his candidacy. there is a quote from speech that people are repeating a lot. he said,