Donald Trump

“So Trump's innovation, so far as there is one, is that valence of media coverage doesn't really matter. It's not how it, what matters is not what how the media covers you. It's whether the media covers you. And he's willing to absorb a tremendous amount of inc…”

“He hired actors to flesh out the crowd at his announcement speech. He really did, meaning he didn't think that people were actually even going to come to his announcement”

“Trump is the tiny outgrowth of a vast sociological phenomenon that's been going on and will go on over the course of the next 30 years.”

“It's ironic that we have this guy running for president who would seriously move us backwards on a number of those topics.”

“So in the presidential campaign, I've been reading everything, like all the post-game analysis, and one of the things that really struck me was in Hillary's television advertisements, or in Donald Trump's television advertisements, 10.2% of his ads mentioned H…”

“Hillary Clinton spent eight times more on software than Donald Trump did.”

“Now that you have a change of administration, it's conceivable that the Congress and President Trump will substantially rein in the CFPB, if not eliminate it altogether.”

“I know of exactly two Trump supporters in Silicon Valley.”

“An example of this in politics would be that political advertisements don't work at all when people have decided that they like Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, but local elections will where the viewers don't know either of the candidates involved, right? Tha…”

“Four years before that, five years before that, Xi Jinping became president of China. And what does his banner say? If colloquially, make China great again.”

“This book about 20 years ago is called, ah, Private Truths, Public Lies. And it basically tells the story, the theory that he basically has, he calls preference falsification... It so happens to be, I think, highly relevant to what's happening both on the left…”

“Ben and I had dinner with the former president 10 days ago at Bedminster his golf club in New Jersey and had a three hour dinner.”

“For a little tech we think Donald Trump is actually the right choice”

“Mark mentioned we met with President Trump. We did meet with White House, many White House officials including Jeff Zeitz, the Chief of Staff and Jake Sullivan, the National Security Advisor, Gina Raimondo, the Commerce Secretary, and so forth. We have not met…”

“And, you know, and it's proving out instantaneously, which I did not expect. I figured, you know, you'd have to go. And then actually change the policies, but the policies are just changing in anticipation.”

“The Amish decided to come out and vote for Trump because the Biden administration, and this is so wild, like, raided their farms because they were selling unpasteurized milk.”

“Within literally 24 hours of him getting elected, the stock market had its biggest, its fifth biggest day in history.”

“In less than two months since he took office, he's already secured more than 1.7 trillion dollars in new investments across the United States.”

“Yeah, it was actually a big thing in Trump's Middle East speech where it was such a, Remarkable speech in the sense that he advocated for the Middle East living or evolving from their own culture as opposed to being changed into our culture, which is a massive…”

“He's done wildly more press questions, press conferences, press briefings in the first, you know, whatever, 70 days of his new term than, you know, the, than the previous presidents did for, you know, their entire, you know, for their entire runs.”

“Twitter elected Trump, and then Twitter deplatformed Trump, and then ex-elected Trump.”

“Since Trump announced his quote unquote liberation day tariffs, we've seen deterioration in manufacturing PMIs purchasing orders you know, investment plans. Every indication of manufacturing you've had is slumping now and notably beginning directly after Trump…”

“I think if the long run is you know, anywhere upwards of a few years, I think it will. I think the question is how long does it take to actually change investment decisions? And then how long does it take investments to come online? But I would expect to see t…”

“What Noah had just said about some of these other factors that, that I think are really important as well, because you know, I think both in terms of what it takes on tariff policy, if you really want these tariffs to work, stability and certainty is, is, is i…”

“He's brilliant at it. You know, he understands how to sell. He understands how to use PR. He understands where leverage comes and when it doesn't exist. And how to zig and zag when it doesn't work.”

“What Trump has done well is learn how to flood the zone so that no matter what that algorithm finds for you, he's gonna find a way to you. Whether it's a positive or negative and then you look at Kamala and Brat Summer and, you know, fell off a coconut tree. S…”

“He learned from Trump. He's the progressive Trump. Just lie. You know, Day one, groceries are going to be cheaper. I'll just, I'll open the grocery store because I'll sound more progressive that way, right? Day one, buses are free. And then everything else, he…”

“He will replace Powell at some point.”

“I think he has Trump derangement syndrome. He just hates Trump. That's why he artificially lowered rates to try to get Kamala elected. It is indefensible cutting 50 basis points off in, you know, last fall.”

“He's gonna solve all the problems he inherited in the first two years. Like, if you think about immigration, basically solved. If you think about the Middle East, on its way to being solved, he'll get Russia and Ukraine solved, I'm pretty sure.”

“Daniel had a good conversation with the president and asked him to hold back, and you know, the president agreed and is giving him time to implement his solutions”

“People talk about Trump as the internet candidate, but he's really a hybrid in that he cares enormously about what's on TV and he's on TV a lot.”

“The federal government is down. Estimates are as much as 400,000 workers in the federal government since Trump took office the second time.”

“If you look at Donald Trump's interviews in the eighties, they're very old media interviews. He's actually restrained. Sorry. And then, you know, like, he did figure out new media, and he's always, like, super entertaining and interesting, which is kind of the…”

“President Trump, like, endorsed me on stage to run for president, and then backstage was like, I think you should really do it, etc.”