rp daily: what do you see?

on may 29th, 2020, donald trump tweeted the message “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” in response to protests that erupted in the wake of george floyd’s death in minneapolis. today, tom and rp discuss leadership, divisiveness, and trump’s support leading up to the november elections. rp says “every great leader wants a crisis,” but how has trump handled his? will his actions and reactions have an effect on his unchanging core voter base? and why is this voter base unchanged in the first place? tom and rp reference New York Times columnist david brooks’s may 29th op-ed, If We Had a Real Leader. tom scott is chairman & co-founder of the nantucket project. rp eddy was the architect of the Clinton administration’s pandemic response framework and the United Nations response to the global AIDS epidemic & is CEO of global intelligence firm Ergo. rp is co-author of the best-selling award-winning book Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes with Richard A. Clarke, Former National Security Council counterterrorism adviser.