Donald Trump
Former President, United States. On 6 shows, 2 appearances, plus 9 compilation re-airs not counted. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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6statements
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1,740said about them ↓ Everything Donald Trump said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Trump: Musk Opposed Spending Bill Because EV Mandates Were Cut
“All of a sudden he had a problem, and he only developed the problem when he found out that we're going to have to cut the EV mandate, because that's billions and billions of dollars, and it really is unfair.”
Trump states he will close the Department of Education early in administration
“One other thing I'll be doing very early in the administration is closing up the Department of Education in Washington, D.C., And sending all education and education work and needs back to the states. We want them to run the education of our children.”
Trump Requires Tech Giants to Build Power Plants for AI Data Centers
“Tonight I'm pleased to announce that I have negotiated the new rate payer protection pledge.
You know what that is?
We're telling the major tech companies that they have the obligation to provide for their own power needs.
They can build their own power plants…”
Trump: Tech Companies Must Build Own Power Plants Under New Pledge
“We're telling the major tech companies that they have the obligation to provide for their own power needs. They can build their own power plants as part of their. Factory so that no one's prices will go up and in many cases prices of electricity will go down f…”
Trump: Musk will criticize me personally next
“He hasn't said bad about me personally, but I'm sure that'll be next.”
The other half of the tape: Donald Trump's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 1,686 times in 308 episodes across the shows. 54 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most John Coogan 448Brad Gerstner 165Jordi Hays 132Bill Gurley 43Molly O'Shea 36Stephen Lacey 34Codie Sanchez 34Delian Asparouhov 21
Statements about Donald Trump, by other people (54)
Andreessen: D.C. AI Meetings Forced Decision to Endorse Trump
“In D.C. In May where we talked to them about this, and the meetings were absolutely horrifying, and we came out basically deciding we had to endorse Trump.”
Asparouhov: Biden Admin Rejected Early SpaceX Return Due to Musk's Politics
“What's incredibly clear is SpaceX offered to bring the astronauts back sooner And because it was in the middle of the election cycle, and because Musk was campaigning for Trump, the Biden administration turned down that offer.”
Andreessen: Horrifying White House Meetings Drove Trump Endorsement
“In D.C. In May where we talked to them about this, and the meetings were absolutely horrifying, and we came out basically deciding we had to endorse Trump.”
Saudi Arabia expands tech investment agreements from $600B to $1T
“And the agreement that we are signing today and tomorrow, we're going to announce that we are going to increase that, that's six hundred billion to almost one trillion dollars.”
Cuban: Trump executes policies Democrats were not smart enough to do
“I am giving Donald Trump all his flowers because he is doing things in a way that the Democrats aren't smart enough to figure out to have done themselves.”
Cuban: Trump is executing Bernie Sanders-style economic policies better than Democrats
“He's turned into Bernie Sanders. He literally has, you know, only he's a better salesperson. This is fantastic. I give him credit though. I'm not knocking him, right? I am giving Donald Trump all his flowers because he is doing things in a way that the Democra…”
Power: Kalshi's 18% odds on Trump reviving manufacturing are severely underpriced
“I think the answer is yes. I think the answer is yes. I would take that bet. I think they're selling, you know, dollars for 18 cents.”
Intel Converted CHIPS Grants to Equity to Meet Trump Requirement
“So in order for the government stake to reach 10% demanded by President Donald Trump, Intel had to convert billions in manufacturing grants advanced under the 2022 CHIPS Act, plus 3.2 billion dollars of contracts from the Department of Defense into equity.”
Trump will allow Nvidia H200 sales to China for 25% cut
“Trump says that the United States will allow Nvidia H 200 chip sales to China and get a 25% cut.”
Tusk: VCs who participate in political favor-trading will regret it
“From a long-term American standpoint, I actually think that we're gonna, VC as a sector, for those who participated in this, unless they just made so much money and only just care about how much money they have and nothing else, are gonna really regret it.”
Tusk: Trump undermines core economic pillars that venture capital relies on
“Trump has undermined every single one of those things. So I would argue everything that makes the American economy great, that venture capital totally relies upon at the end of the day, is being undermined significantly.”
Trump taxes Nvidia and AMD China chip sales at 15 percent
“Trump struck a deal with Nvidia and AMD for the federal government to take 15% of their chip sales in China in return for allowing the exports.”
Smit: Trump deep-sea mining order covers international and foreign waters
“And I think the other important thing about the executive order is that it has stipulated that it's not just US territorial waters. This is international waters as well as other exclusive zones.”
Mohnot: Trump tariffs aim for reshoring, not reciprocal trade
“I think that's bullshit because, like, you have Lutnik saying, like, we need millions of Americans screwing in tiny iPhones or whatever. And you, and they also say that the tariffs are going to replace income taxes. So if those things are true, then it's not a…”
Gerstner: US tariffs will ultimately settle around $300B to $400B
“I think we're going to land the plane here closer to three or four hundred billion in tariffs, not six or 700, and certainly not a trillion in tariffs.”
Gerstner: Enacted US Tariffs on China Will Not Land at 54%
“There's no, no way that lands, I think at 54%. That's the headline tariffs.”
Frank: Sub-$10M e-commerce brand shutdowns have surged since Trump's election
“What we're seeing right now is a wave of shutdowns in smaller sub ten million dollar brands, right? Like that's always been a trend, but it's really ramped up the past like three to probably the past three months since Trump got elected because they just can't…”
Gerstner: Trump will commit to balancing budget in March State of the Union
“I think in the President's State of the Union address in the first week of March, he's gonna make a commitment to balance the budget in his first term in office.”
Coogan: YouTube did not shadowban Joe Rogan's interview with Donald Trump
“I don't think it's shadow banned at all. ... I think it's widely available. I don't think you can get thirty four million views on a shadow band thing. I think it did, I think it was getting pushed in the algorithm and stuff. I think it's, I think YouTube is v…”
Voss: Donald Trump gained admiration simply by refusing to ever apologize
“Whatever you think of Donald Trump, love him or hate him, nobody's in the middle. I think he gained so much admiration by refusing to back off of what he said. And every politician prior to him, they'd say something and they get criticized and a politician say…”
Domenech: Trump will pivot DOE Loan Programs Office rather than eliminate it
“I don't think that the Trump administration immediately comes in and reflexively never uses the loan program again. I do think that the projects that they pick to invest in might be different. You might see a heavier investment on nuclear, for example. Hydroge…”
Domenech: US emissions declined as fast under Trump as Biden
“Well, emissions declined at about the same rate under Trump as they have under Biden. In fact, they declined more in the first two years than they did under Biden. And a lot of that was driven by U.S. Natural gas.”
CZ: Xi Jinping is easier to predict than Donald Trump
“I think the President Xi in China is easier to predict than President Trump.”
Zimmer: UTA canceled Oscar party to protest Trump travel ban
“We represented this, ah, boy, I'm embarrassed, I can't remember his name, a fantastic Iranian director who directed a movie called The Separation. And we represented him, and he was nominated for Academy Award, and this is in the first Trump presidency where h…”
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the Green Blueprint 97
BigDeal 94
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2026 283 mentions in 93 episodes 3 per episode
- Trump-Xi Summit, Space Data Center Debate, Inflation Up | Diet TBPN
- Thinking Machines X Nvidia, Meta Acquires Moltbook, BYD Mulls F1 | Diet TBPN
- Jersey Mikes's IPO, AI Lab Nationalization, SpaceX AIPhone | Diet TBPN
- Swatch & AP Collab, Cerebras Boosts IPO Price, Trump to Visit China | Diet TBPN
- Apple-Intel Chip Deal, U.S Adds 115K Jobs, DeepSeek Eyes $50B Valuation | Diet TBPN
- Kevin Warsh as Fed Chair, Google targets Chinese Cyber Weapon, WSJ Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- The AI Power Backlash, the NYMag David Ellison profile, Google Personal Intelligence | Diet TBPN
- Intel Rips, Thrive Launches Eternal, GPT 5.5 | Diet TBPN
- 85 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 921 mentions in 151 episodes 6 per episode
- Weekly Recap: Taylor Swift Gets Engaged, SpaceX Launches Falcon 9, Dr. Drew
- Stargate, Executive Orders, TikTok, DOGE, Public Valuations | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- The END of LUXURY GOODS? (Trump’s Tariffs)
- The Trump Family is PRINTING MONEY (Here's How)
- The END of TikTok?
- Project Stargate, The T Word, Ramp Treasury, Audience Ad Reads, See You at Davos
- NVIDIA: OpenAI, Future of Compute, and the American Dream | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- Liberation Day, Tariffs, US v China Open Source, OpenAI, $CRWV, TikTok | BG2 · Bg2 Pod
- 143 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 446 mentions in 50 episodes 9 per episode
- Trump's Secret Career (ep7)
- Inside JD Vance's Portfolio (ep8)
- Tulsi Gabbard: Who Actually Runs the U.S. Government (And What We Should do About it)
- Political Climate: Is the IRA under political threat?
- Low T levels at Y-Combinator (ep9)
- The Secret Billionaire Party (ep6)
- What is the TRUMP BUBBLE? (ep11)
- BG2 Thanksgiving Roundtable: DOGE, EV Tax Credit, Tariffs, Conspiracy Theories, Invest America · Bg2 Pod
- 42 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 22 mentions in 8 episodes 3 per episode
- Unpacking EPA’s newly proposed power emissions rule
- LNG exports: America’s hidden ‘climate bomb’
- Why electric cars are driving the auto strikes
- The storylines of the energy transition in 2023
- Can California pull off its clean energy ambitions?
- Will America’s commercial kitchens go electric?
- What’s driving a surge in renewables opposition?
- Stunning new data on coal vs renewables
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
2022 13 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
2021 1 mention in 1 episode
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| TBPNLEDGER | 2 +4 | 5 | 100% 1/1 | full record on TBPN → | |
| BG2LEDGER | 0 +1 | 0 | — | full record on BG2 Pod → | |
| BIGDEALLEDGER | 0 +1 | 1 | — | full record on BigDeal → | |
| CATALYSTLEDGER | 0 +1 | 0 | — | full record on Catalyst → | |
| GREEN BLUEPRINTLEDGER | 0 +1 | 0 | — | full record on the Green Blueprint → | |
| SOURCERYLEDGER | Former President, United States | 0 +1 | 0 | — | full record on Sourcery → |