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“I think someone like an AOC becomes president. I think there's going to be a wave this year, and then there's going to be a bigger push in 20, 28, because I don't see the arithmetic or the fiscal situation changing.”

“Sitting behind the office of the president. You need to understand that you cannot change everything. Ok. You need to be very specific and always keep in mind that changes will come probably after you leave the office.”

“From memory, it was actually one of the first executive orders that the president signed that where they said that they wanted to quadruple our domestic nuclear supply.”

“If there ever was a leadership position that needs to be taken by any, ah, president, it's on AI regulation right now, not just the United States, but convening with China, with all the other our purveyors are, to make sure that we don't do something that has …”

“I think we're, we got to spend, like, three hours with the president a couple weeks ago”

“I mean, the president has made it clear he loves tariffs. You know, I've tried to dissuade him from this point of view, but unsuccessfully.”

“If this happens, Wyckoff, Kushner, and the president all deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. If even 80% of it works out, I think it's worthy of a peace prize.”

“Presidents doing exactly what you said, right? They speak with both sides of their mouths. Inside, they do one thing to the donors and boards that are coming with a particularly different worldview. They speak in a different way.”

“The president signed an executive order about breaking down these silos.”

“The first time in US history that a president has fired a Fed governor.”

“Ultimately with the ability to use the power, the apportionment power that the president has to turn off funding if it's not necessary until he can make sure that bureaucracy isn't wasting money on things that are inconsistent with his administration.”

“The things we need to do to enhance the power and the functionality of the modern Congress actually require an over empowered president to make them happen. Like otherwise Congress won't do it on its own.”

“In talking to Jared and, in talking to, ah, the president, It was, well, we didn't go hard enough. You know, we kind of were too differential to the system, which has probably shocked a lot of people because they're like, they were differential. But they were …”

“On day one, what I would propose to the president is let's put the tariffs on ice. Let's sit down and renegotiate the Kuzma in a very quick turnaround. And in the meantime, let's be tariff free.”

“The president has the authority under the budget act to send a bill to Congress saying, Hey, here's a bunch of spending cuts that I think are appropriate. And I don't want to spend this money. And it in the Senate only requires a majority vote.”

“The thing about the FBI is the FBI can withhold information from the president, from other folks. If there's an ongoing investigation, sources are like secret and they would be in jeopardy and national security concerns.”

“The future is the president will have a podcast.”

“There's roughly three million people who work for the federal government. Of those, the president basically appoints 3000, and it takes forever to get them through.”

“None of the easy decisions show up in the Oval Office. All those get settled elsewhere. And when somebody is sitting in behind that big desk, they have to have people who walk in and can lay out the different options that they have pluses and minuses, and then…”

“The president received a letter from like a 180 scientists saying that When you look at those life cycle emissions, it's almost, or could be worse than coal, and you're locking this stuff in for, like, 40 years if you build these big export facilities.”

“History shows that presidents, once they win reelection, are more likely To get us into war rather than less because they don't have to fear voters.”

“And so this, the kind of the rule, this, you know, the latest piece of proposed legislation is that the, you know, the president would be able to designate specific Social media apps as national security risks and require them not to be controlled by a foreign…”

“And I think that this conflict was unnecessary if we'd had a president who was savvier about how to handle it”

“Over the coming set of elections, we will have a pro-Bitcoin, pro-cryptocurrency president, because crypto and Bitcoin are naturally going to grow.”

“I keep hearing from people, you know, mutual people I know who know Bob Iger very well, that he's like very serious about running for president.”

“We're going to have a creator president very soon. We almost did with Trump, but yeah, like a YouTuber president is going to happen.”

“Especially podcasts. It's impossible after one hour podcast. This is who you really are. That's why presidents really don't go on podcasts more than one hour or two hours. It becomes, you know, the third hour is like, that's where you make the mistakes.”

“Generally speaking, you know, like for example, the only people who become CEOs have very strong alpha tendencies. The only people who run for president have very strong alpha tendencies.”

“I'd like to go on the record with my fifteen-year projection then, or which is that The Rock is gonna run for president.”

“Ultimately the U S the election cycle is four years. You can print and print money to get re even reelected for a second term. The second four years, give out UBI, like that pattern you just articulated where prices keep increasing so much. You can't write eno…”

“The only way you could know if a president did a good or bad job, I mean, short of, you know, being treasonous or something ridiculous that's obvious on its face, but you really couldn't tell If a Democrat had been elected, if the economy would be doing even b…”

“A lot of people are just thinking politically, and when you ask them, how's the economy, they think, do I like the president?”

“The ability to answer a president's question without giving 10 caveats, which no president's going to listen to, is the difference between a junior analyst and a senior analyst, right?”