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“I think over time it's inevitable. Again, I thought it would happen four years ago, but I'm pretty confident it will happen now that we'll have the Saudi Israel normalization, hopefully under president Trump. And I think that that will lead to a lot of the inn…”

“We need to get the Gaza issue resolved, and I know President Trump and Steve Wyckoff are working incredibly hard on that, and I do believe that they will be successful, and then big progress will be made soon thereafter.”

“And then the Biden team was worried about the global oil prices. They stopped enforcing the sanctions. They've sold over a hundred fifty billion of oil, which has allowed them to refill their coffers.”

“I was in the most covered building in the world, yet most of what they wrote was not accurate about us”

“I think that with what could happen with President Trump, I think that the things that he's focused on, which is figuring out how to curtail the migration and curtail the power of the cartels, I see that only as a net positive for Mexico over time. So I think …”

“We were faced at a situation where the government was just very unprepared for what was occurring, and there'd been a lot of mistakes done by the CDC with the testing”

“I get the sense this will be much more guerrilla style. I think it's gonna be fascinating what it's gonna uncover, and I think the benefits to our country in the long term Will be incredible.”

“I think that when people see the depth and the range on what he is able to talk about and the way he thinks about things, I think people will realize that he's truly gonna be one of the great leaders of the world, I think, for the next 3040, 50 years, God will…”

“And then the other criticism is that they were helping fund Hamas and they have the office there. But the reality is, is that that was always done at the request of the US government and the Israelis were working hand in hand with them in order to work that th…”

“It's already a massive shift of not having all of the Islamic extremism that was as prevalent in 2017 based on the reforms that MBS worked on with president Trump on his first visit to Saudi Arabia.”

“Iran was on a glide path to a nuclear weapon, having just been given a hundred and fifty billion dollars in cash through the disastrous JCPOA deal that that Kerry and Obama negotiated.”

“So number one is I don't think there's any viability to a one state, and I don't think that that's something that will ever occur.”

“I actually think they're gonna become a very significant, not just investor, but also partner in creating AI tools and capabilities that can then go from there to the rest of the world.”

“The next phase of that is, is Phoenix, which is a monster company, is now looking at investments in Saudi Arabia, investments in UAE, and basically thinking, how can they start deploying their huge amounts of capital into infrastructure projects In the region …”

“I know Antonio Gracios has done amazing work helping figure out how to get, you know, make sure we're only paying social security. I think he saved over ten billion a year so far from that.”

“In some cases with President Trump, he would just eliminate the status quos and then force people to try different status quos.”

“You want to tie everything together with Saudi-Israel. That was pretty much ready when President Trump was leaving office.”

“It's a shame it didn't happen in the last years, but that's something that I believe President Trump could bring to fruition very quickly.”

“I think that what Ilan and Vivek will find at Doge is way more inefficiency than what he found at X, and I think the fact that they're building a lot of popular support for people to go in and find ways to make our government run more efficiently, I think ther…”

“And I think that this time he has a lot more confidence. He knows what he wants to do. I think he'll have an exceptional team. So I think it's going to be a really around the clock nonstop effort towards bringing transformational change.”

“The reason I got into it was basically because my conversations with Saudi, they said that they couldn't normalize with Israel until the Issue with Qatar was resolved.”

“In the raid that Israel did in retaliation, they took out all of their air defenses and a lot of their Long range missile making capability, which means they don't have the ability necessarily to sustain a long conflict.”

“And with Trump coming in, there's a super high probability that their ability to sell oil in the future is going to go down.”

“So to give you a sense, when Obama left office, they were selling 2.6 million barrels of oil a day. When Trump left office, they were selling about a 100,000 barrels of oil a day. The Biden administration didn't enforce the sanctions, and now they're selling o…”

“We had our first exam from the SEC and we got a no action letter.”

“If you're going to go and criticize and say nasty things, they're not going to work with you and they don't have to.”

“Ironically, Biden has done nothing with the First Step Act. They have not implemented it the way that it should be,”

“I think getting Saudi done will be key because there's another 10 countries that will happen Right after that, whether it's Pakistan, Indonesia, we had a whole bunch of countries that really wanted to go, and I think there's a lot more work to do there, which …”

“But ultimately I think the topic that will probably Be the most impactful of the next four years will be how president Trump deals with artificial intelligence and what could be AGI or super intelligence and how this is coming very rapidly.”

“Israel's a nuclear power.”

“So the notion of a Palestinian state really didn't emerge till about 1987, 1988 which is the same time that Hamas actually, you know, came about and they came about really from, they were in offshoot of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.”

“Under Obama, when he left, they were selling about 2.6 million barrels of oil a day. Under Trump, when he left office, they were selling a 100,000 barrels of oil a day.”

“They were dead broke. Now they're back up to three million barrels a day of sales. They've done over a hundred billion dollars of oil revenue since we left office.”

“When I was in the White House the first time under President Trump this was part of the efforts that, that he was saying he wanted to focus on, and at his direction, actually, I reached out to TSMC and was in touch with them then to Push them to try and start…”

“We invested then at about 37 dollars a share. Today, the stock's almost 120 dollars a share. Because we needed a approval from the regulator, we bought 4.9 then, and then another 4.9 later. So we're able to use better leverage because the shares went up quite …”

“If the Ukraine-Russia situation is dealt with, I think the Iranian situation becomes much more manageable as well.”

“You saw when Elon Musk put out an idea for how to navigate the situation in Ukraine, he got blasted by a lot of people.”

“A lot of the work that President Trump did with China in his first term was about having them acknowledge that they were not following the rules that were set in the global trading sphere.”

“And I said, with all due respect sir, you don't have a messaging problem. You have a fact problem.”

“And we just basically pushed all the bureaucrats out of the way. And started figuring out how to make decisions as quickly as possible.”

“One of the coolest things, which actually led to, I think some of the success we had with Operation Warp Speed was I got a call one night at about 10 o'clock from Ken Griffin, who basically called and said, Jared, one of the best investments you could ever mak…”

“And so through that, we were actually making great progress where we basically were going to get about 400 testing sites up from nothing in about four or five days.”

“And we did four finalists, and there was only one person we interviewed who said they could do it in under a year. All the experts said it would take us two to three years to do it. It was a guy, Dr. Monsef Slaoui.”

“And one thing also that I loved about the first Trump administration, I think will be about a hundred X in the second Trump administration, is that Trump is a businessman, and he was a pragmatist, and he brought a lot of businessmen with him to Washington.”

“I think that people for the next couple centuries will really study the economic turnaround that they're doing in their country, and it doesn't come without risk.”

“The controversies you hear about them are around, they're funding a lot of these colleges and universities, but From what I've looked into that, it shows that they're basically funding the universities that have built campuses in their country because they car…”

“They all agreed, and so over the last year, we closed a billion and a half extra capital and extended the investment period of the fund to 2029.”

“Now he's coming in much more popular than last time, way more accepted than last time.”