Trump
88 statements across 65 episodes · 29 bullish · 34 bearish · 26 people on the record · first statement Apr 11, 2020 by Chamath Palihapitiya · across every show →
Everything said about Trump, oldest first
Apr 11, 2020 bullish
May 21, 2020 positive
Sacks: Lockdown backlash will supersede COVID response incompetence in November 2020
“The unwillingness to end the lockdowns gives Trump an issue for November, assuming this continues that supersedes the incompetence of the COVID response, which is that, you know, our lives and livelihoods are not owned by politicians to You know, meter out and…”
Sep 19, 2020 positive
Oct 16, 2020 negative
Nov 4, 2020 bullish
Nov 4, 2020 negative
Chamath: Trump prematurely declaring victory is the market disaster scenario
“There's one thing and so far it hasn't happened and if we avoid it, we're going to fade a really big out here. Which is Trump declares victory right now. I think that is the disaster scenario because I think Biden's going to get up there.”
Nov 4, 2020 bullish
Nov 4, 2020 neutral
Newman: Trump win would force Democrats toward Sanders-style economic populism
“If Trump's victory in 2016 laid waste to the Republican establishment, if he wins again tonight, it will lay waste to the Democratic establishment. And the theory of the case that they've had for 20 years, the sort of, ah, Share a emerging democratic majority …”
Nov 4, 2020
Nov 4, 2020
Nov 11, 2020
Nov 11, 2020 neutral
Dec 18, 2020 negative
Sacks: Elite media abandoned neutrality to target Trump, destroying public trust
“The media, starting with the New York Times and other sort of elite media, they ripped the umpire jersey off their backs to go after Trump. Well, they got him, but at what cost? Half the country will never trust them again. This makes conspiracy theories more …”
Jan 8, 2021 positive
Calacanis: Impeaching Trump is right to prevent a 2024 presidential run
“If you are impeached successfully, you can't run again. So I think that this is a way to put the nail in the coffin of Trump even having the ability to run in twenty-twenty-four, which I think is why the Democrats are on the right side of history on this one.”
Jan 8, 2021 negative
May 1, 2021 negative
May 30, 2022 neutral
Oct 7, 2022 negative
Nov 12, 2022 negative
Nov 19, 2022 negative
Dec 3, 2022 negative
Calacanis: NYT pivoted to partisan activism to drive subscriber growth
“When Trump came in, a generation of new journalists became activist journalists. They didn't want to tell stories and take it straight down the middle and let the facts tell the story and let the audience make their own decision. They felt an existential risk.…”
Dec 24, 2022 bullish
Mar 31, 2023 neutral
May 5, 2023
May 12, 2023 positive
May 12, 2023 neutral
Jul 21, 2023 negative
Sacks: Biden likely wins 2024 rematch against Trump barring recession or Ukraine collapse
“I think right now it looks like we're on track to have a Biden-Trump rematch, and right now Biden probably looks like he's gonna win, barring a recession happening or the Ukrainian side collapsing in, in the war.”
Aug 26, 2023 positive
Chamath: Trump nailed the three major consensus issues facing America
“What Trump nailed was three ginormous lanes that turned out now we can all agree with. None of us wanted these wars. Everybody basically believes that the border needed to be closed and everybody believes that China has taken advantage in a way that is really …”
Sep 8, 2023 negative
Sep 8, 2023
Sep 18, 2023 negative
Oct 13, 2023 bullish
Sacks predicts Trump will waltz into the White House in 2024
“By the way, I mean, at this rate, the way things are going in this country right now, both economically and internationally, he's gonna waltz into the White House. He's gonna spend all of his time in the next year in, in the courthouses battling all of these l…”
Oct 13, 2023 bullish
Oct 13, 2023 positive
Nov 11, 2023 positive
Nov 11, 2023 positive
Mar 16, 2024 negative
Apr 5, 2024
May 24, 2024 negative
May 24, 2024 neutral
May 31, 2024 negative
Jul 12, 2024 negative
Sacks: Biden's staff set strict debate rules expecting Trump to decline
“I believe that Biden's staff created conditions for the debate that they thought would be untenable to Trump, right? They said that we're going to choose the hosts. They're going to be hosts who've basically already called Trump Hitler, right? So it's like the…”
Jul 19, 2024 negative
Jul 19, 2024 positive
Jul 26, 2024 positive
Aug 23, 2024
Aug 23, 2024 neutral
Aug 30, 2024 neutral
Hoffman funded ads highlighting RFK Jr.'s anti-vax stance to hurt Trump
“My thing was actually, in fact, making people aware of RFK's anti-vax, you know, statement, his anti-science stuff, because I thought that would be relevant in the polls in November. That, that was the actual strategy that, that I believe, and I think that wou…”
Sep 12, 2024 positive
Sep 16, 2024 bearish
Sep 17, 2024 negative
Oct 3, 2024 neutral
Oct 25, 2024 bullish
Oct 25, 2024 bullish
Chamath: A Trump victory will push up gold, Bitcoin, equities, and rates
“And if Trump wins, which it looks like he's increasingly going to do, and if he wins by the margins that it looks like it's going to do, you're going to see a lot of these things exacerbate. Gold's going to go up more probably. Bitcoin will probably go. The sh…”
Nov 8, 2024 positive
Nov 8, 2024 neutral
Nov 23, 2024 positive
Dec 13, 2024 positive
Dec 20, 2024 negative
Levie: Democrats reflexively oppose initiatives associated with Elon Musk
“There's a classic, you know, sort of reflex within, within probably Democrat Party on, on, at this point, just because of Elon's support of Trump, that, that if something is a, is an Elon project, they're gonna, they're sort of gonna instantly respond no matte…”
Jan 28, 2025 positive
Dalio: US is financially better off under Trump than Biden
“Yes, I do believe we are in the financial context, because in terms of profitability and the likelihood of cutting, I think the Republicans are probably more likely to make these moves than the Democrats, but you also have to take into consideration the impact…”
Mar 8, 2025 positive
Mar 15, 2025 neutral
Mar 15, 2025 negative
Mar 29, 2025 neutral
Apr 4, 2025 negative
Ben Shapiro: Trump's tariff policy rolls the dice without an articulated strategy
“It's why I'm being critical of the tariffs. It's not because I want Trump to lose, it's because I want Trump to win, right? I think he's doing too many important things, like the stuff that Antonio's doing. There are too many important things happening to take…”
May 3, 2025 positive
May 4, 2025 negative
May 25, 2025
Sen. Johnson: Biden averaged $1.9T annual deficits, doubling Obama and Trump
“Obama, his average, he averaged about nine hundred billion dollars a year deficit. Trump, before the pandemic, is about eight hundred billion. You know, but Biden's up to almost two trillion, it's 1.9 trillion dollars average deficit.”
May 31, 2025 negative
Calacanis: Trump lacks leadership by not pressuring Congress on spending cuts
“I, I'm in complete agreement with you, and I think it's a lack of leadership on Trump's part. If Trump is going to criticize Taylor Swift and Zelensky and Putin and everybody, you know, all day long on Truth Social, he can criticize Congress and the Democrats …”
Jun 13, 2025 negative
Jun 13, 2025
Jun 13, 2025 positive
Jul 4, 2025 positive
Jul 7, 2025 neutral
Jul 7, 2025 neutral
Jul 7, 2025 negative
Aug 28, 2025 positive
Sep 7, 2025 neutral
Sep 9, 2025 negative
Tucker Carlson: Pre-Trump U.S. government made no effort to serve popular desires
“Clearly, we're on, sort of like, or were, up until Trump's election, sort of at one end, where there's no demonstrable effort by the government to meet, like, the basic desires of the population, doing just the opposite.”
Oct 10, 2025 negative
Oct 30, 2025 negative
Chamath: Biden was inaccessible while Trump listens to broad feedback
“The reason why it was likely under Biden is because it was so difficult to actually talk to him, he wouldn't talk to anybody. The difference with Trump, just so it's clear, is that he'll talk to everybody, he'll make his own decision, but he gets the broad tap…”
Dec 31, 2025 negative
Shirley: Small YouTube channels were demonetized for political content in 2020
“Back in around 20, 20, you couldn't even make political content on YouTube without work with, without being demonetized. For instance, if you were to put Trump in a YouTube title or thumbnail on my channel, you would get demonetized because I was a smaller cha…”
Mar 9, 2026 negative
Graham Allison: No evidence Iran was about to attack U.S. or acquire nuclear weapon
“The arguments that were made that that Trump has actually repeated that Iran was about to attack us, I see no evidence for that. That Iran was about to get a nuclear weapon, I see no evidence for that. That Iran was building an ICBM that was going to attack th…”
Mar 9, 2026 negative
Graham Allison: The U.S. military conflict with Iran is Netanyahu's war
“This is Bibi's war. If your reader or your listeners don't remember Moby Dick, they should go look at it again. Ahab had this fixation, obsession, with the white whale, and tried to find a way to kill the white whale whenever he could. For the last two decades…”
Mar 13, 2026 neutral
Apr 3, 2026 positive
Jun 10, 2026 negative