Trump administration

“The Trump administration, leaving Trump aside, there were a lot of people in the administration who were effective at getting things done. So But this administration seems just to not have like the drive to just get it done. That, that that, that's why it's, t…”

“There were executive orders on the rare earth magnetics industry specifically, both in the Trump administration and in the Biden administration.”

“So much of the work that happened in that administration turns out to have been right. And that's what's so frustrating for me. The work on the border wall, we didn't like the messenger, so we killed the message. Turned out it was right. Issuing long-term debt…”

“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.”

“In a year and a half, we renegotiated NAFTA, and it got over 80 votes in the Senate.”

“We armed Ukraine, but we also told Ukraine, you know, don't even think about raising NATO as a membership, as a way to go.”

“Well, we ended up negotiating with Japan and Korea and everyone, and we got basically 95% of the market access that was in TPP without giving up any of the things that would have absolutely decimated our auto industry.”

“We actually brought climbers in, Mount Everest climbers to climb, and we built a very hard wall to climb.”

“And so now the number of encounters at the border is about the same as what it was right before the pandemic under the Trump administration.”

“It is going to be obscene how many M&A deals and IPOs are going to occur. There is such a huge backlog.”

“So I think you're going to see real tariffs, like, especially against China, And the Trump administration is completely committed to reducing inflation, the cost of eggs, you know, and groceries, and I think those things can be reconciled.”

“And I think that they're going to get a deal done given the position with China. I think that they're very likely to kind of get a deal done.”

“It is the enormity of the files that are going to get declassified and released by the Trump administration. I think it's going to be Unbelievably interesting, salacious, useful, good, earnest, All of the above. So the JFK files, the Epstein files.”

“Well, on Monday we're gonna see a flurry of executive orders. I think it'll be in the neighborhood of a hundred executive orders. I'm optimistic about them. That's the number they're talking about. It, it's going to be in that neighborhood.”

“When the administration was getting formed, one of the things that happened, I had an opportunity to work with some of the folks. To write some proposals for what theoretically could happen in some of these bigger government organizations where there's just hu…”

“We're going to set a goal by twenty-twenty-eight. We want to get back to the long-term average. We're going to deflate it slowly.”

“So we're actually we should probably be announcing it in about 10 days. We're going to have an affordability czar. But it's going to be someone with a lot of experience in supply chains figuring out what are a lot of the quick fixes we can do.”

“So when you connect the dots, the way that I interpret it is that I think companies will be much more aggressive on M&A. Jason, it's what you've been asking for. I think you're gonna get it, and I think the reason why you're gonna get it is you're gonna have a…”

“They are looking, Gavin, also at military spending and maybe cutting that eight percent a year every year for a couple years.”

“This is why they, I predict, this is why they will lose the midterms if they continue to do this type of stuff.”

“And if the, and if it goes sideways, then what you're going to get is a populist revolt on the left and a populist revolt on the right that is going to take down everybody who is even remotely connected with this idea of free market capitalism.”

“Yesterday, in anticipation of this, Israel, which had very, very low tariffs on United States goods anyway, announced they'd removed all tariffs. On American goods, right? There were no tariffs on American goods anymore. And the administration that afternoon l…”

“They're gonna go through with this and they're gonna see it through. I don't think you're gonna see this grand capitulation.”

“I think that the way that the tariff plan was rolled out is about as bad a rollout as you could do.”

“The Trump administration does not care about the stock market.”

“The numbers of the border have just Plummeted to almost zero. I mean, the lowest numbers in recorded history, and that is an unmitigated success.”

“As a result, the Trump administration had to issue two support payment checks to farmers that totaled twenty eight billion dollars in 2018 and 2019.”

“I have never seen a single iota of any form of anything other than just gathering information from the Trump administration. They've never asked me for anything. They've never tried to direct me to do anything. They just want to know what's going on.”

“I can assure you that your experience is not the experience of quite a number of the nation's major law firms. It is not the experience of quite a number of the nation's business leaders. It is not the experience of quite a number of the nation's universities …”

“They shook down Eric Adams. That's my, that's a direct accusation that happened in public. They shook down Eric. They shook down Eric Adams because they could put him in his pocket.”

“And I think in traditional game theory, and again, in traditional game theory, I think the right thing to do is when you're playing poker, you play street by street. What's the flop? Make a set of actions. What's the turn? Make a set of actions. What's the riv…”

“But also earlier this week, they made it so that auto parts are not subject to the tariffs. They created a huge exemption.”

“Those who are not here legally, they need to go back, they need to self-deport, but that we will ensure that there's some sort of program in place That will help make sure that our farmers on this side have the labor that they need.”

“One of the resolution copper, we're just in the process now of issuing them a permit. It's taken about three months here in the Trump administration. They started this process over 29 years ago.”

“What the president has said is, number one, we're not going to do amnesty in this country.”

“You know, if you basically are now relegated to a choice between the winners that are picked by the Trump administration and the winners picked by the Biden administration, you know, from a political point of view, I'm going to pick the winners picked by the T…”

“The goal of the Trump administration is to reverse that strangulation of nuclear and let it fly again, but you're right, it'll take some time.”

“We're dealing with a very highly politicized FBI at the time that was so politicized, they were willing to use what they knew was false information to obtain illegal surveillance warrants from the FISA court to spy on Members of the Trump administration, when …”

“So I think the administration ultimately will support this.”

“By the way, what's the reason why your Robinhood stock is through the roof? Because of the crypto policies of the Trump administration.”

“The only thing that we've done at the Trump administration is the president signed an executive order saying that the government would not procure ideologically biased AI.”

“They've gone through, like, every government website, right, and deleted anything that could accidentally be a reference to climate change.”

“We can't get speakers to come on the show because of the association with the Trump administration. We lost money on that event in June that I spent 12 days of my life working on.”

“So instead of building sixty billion, you build a hundred and sixty billion. And we agreed.”

“But we settled on A country specific model. Much more complex, much more difficult, but much more nuanced, much more clever and much tougher.”

“In the Trump administration, we have not cut one dollar of NIH funding.”

“On November of 2025, Lilly cut a deal with the Trump administration. I saw this to drop the price on terzepatide pretty significantly. I think it's like 50 bucks on Medicare.”

“We set a target for 20 35, for example, for that. We have been one of the most forwardly administrations in the history of this country on nuclear energy, and we're trying to get that up to speed and running and supplying energy for Americans as soon as humanl…”

“We should meet the best scientists wherever they are. If they're at a university, we should fund them. If they're at a focused research organization, we should fund them. If they're on their own in their garage doing incredible work and can pass a merit-based …”