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White House

also referred to as: the white house

25 statements across 20 episodes · 5 bullish · 6 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Mar 5, 2022 by David Sacks · said 511 times in 182 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

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brought up most by Jason Calacanis (149), David Sacks (129), Chamath Palihapitiya (76), David Friedberg (48), Joe Manchin (9), Donald J. Trump (8), Brooke Rollins (7), Mark Cuban (5)

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2026 72 mentions in 28 episodes 3 per episode
2025 249 mentions in 62 episodes 4 per episode
2024 68 mentions in 27 episodes 3 per episode
2023 39 mentions in 19 episodes 2 per episode
2022 42 mentions in 23 episodes 2 per episode
2021 24 mentions in 12 episodes 2 per episode
2020 17 mentions in 11 episodes 2 per episode

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Everything said about White House, oldest first

Mar 5, 2022 neutral
Assertion Supported
Sacks: White House confirmed no radiation or core explosion at Zaporizhzhia
“We find out very quickly the truth, which was confirmed by the White House, which is no radiation, no explosion. The fire was sort of tangential. It wasn't core to the plant.”
David Sacks Mar 5, 2022 ▶ 11:33 E71: Russia/Ukraine deep dive: escalation, risk factors, financial fallout, exit ramps and more
May 19, 2023 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Sacks: Alexander Soros visited the Biden White House around two dozen times
“Well, apparently, there was an article that Alexander Soros has visited the White House like two dozen times during the Biden presidency.”
David Sacks May 19, 2023 ▶ 1:26:46 E129: Sam Altman plays chess with regulators, AI's "nuclear" potential, big pharma bundling & more
Jul 9, 2023 neutral
Opinion
Chamath: White House cocaine likely belonged to overworked staffer, not Hunter Biden
“I actually don't think it was Hunter Biden. I think it was probably, like, some young kid who has working, like, long hours, and was like, I need a little upper here to stay up, and was like, I need a bump, and so the kid brought some nose candy to her.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jul 9, 2023 ▶ 1:19:37 E136: Hacking the pod, Threads launches, Fed minutes, immigration, balloon farce, heart health
Aug 18, 2023
Prediction Held up
Sacks: Prosecutions will send Donald Trump to prison or the White House
“They're either gonna send Donald Trump to the big house or to the White House.”
David Sacks Aug 18, 2023 ▶ 1:19:42 E142: "Rich Men North of Richmond" hits #1, upward mobility, real estate capital crunch, Trump RICO
Sep 8, 2023 negative
What-if
Christie: Trump would have willingly accepted overturning the 2020 election
“I don't think he would have any, he would have had any problem with the election being overturned. And I think if it was, he would have been more than happy to have his rear end sleeping in the white house tonight.”
Chris Christie Sep 8, 2023 ▶ 1:34:42 In conversation with Chris Christie
Oct 13, 2023 bullish
Prediction Held up
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…”
David Sacks Oct 13, 2023 ▶ 1:04:21 E149: Hamas terror attacks in Israel: fallout, reaction, next steps
Apr 5, 2024
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Friedberg: White House will confirm Blinken's Ukraine-NATO remarks as official policy
“At the next White House press conference, you will hear the question asked by reporters, is this the White House position? And they will say, yes, it is.”
David Friedberg Apr 5, 2024 ▶ 1:21:50 E173: Google buying HubSpot? FTX depositors not made whole, AI job fears, Ukraine joining NATO
Jun 29, 2024
Disclosure
Chamath: Biden White House ignored repeated podcast invitations
“I couldn't even get an email back when I was consistently asking them to be on the pod.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jun 29, 2024 ▶ 7:56 Presidential Debate Reaction, Biden Hot Swap?, Tech unemployment, OpenAI considers for-profit & more
Feb 7, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Sacks: White House is actively developing a new national AI action plan
“What the president said in his EO is that we should devise a new AI action plan to replace that Biden EO, and we're working on that right now.”
David Sacks Feb 7, 2025 ▶ 45:33 DOGE vs USAID, Crypto Framework, Google's $75B AI Spend, US Sovereign Wealth Fund, GLP-1s
Mar 22, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Chamath: Elon Musk's White House office contains only a desk, screen, and phone
“Elon works in one of the smallest offices I've ever seen. All he has is a desk with an enormous screen and his phone.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Mar 22, 2025 ▶ 9:15 White House BTS, Google buys Wiz, Treasury vs Fed, Space Rescue
Mar 22, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sacks: Sriram Krishnan leads White House AI policy
“The header of the door is so small that Sriram, you know, who does AI policy, he's six, six.”
David Sacks Mar 22, 2025 ▶ 14:24 White House BTS, Google buys Wiz, Treasury vs Fed, Space Rescue
Apr 19, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Calacanis: The White House froze $2.2 billion in grants to Harvard
“Later that day, the White House responded by freezing 2.2 billion in grants, sixty million in contracts.”
Jason Calacanis Apr 19, 2025 ▶ 29:37 Trump vs Harvard, Nvidia export controls, how DEI killed Hollywood with Tim Dillon
Jun 4, 2025
Disclosure
White House staff prepped Isaacman on his political donations before Senate hearings
“When you fill out your questionnaire for the Senate committee, which is public, it asks you to list every donation. Before you go in front of a single senator, before you do a hearing, you do these prep sessions at the White House, where people pretend to be s…”
Jared Isaacman Jun 4, 2025 ▶ 53:07 Jared Isaacman: What went wrong at NASA | The All-In Interview
Jul 7, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Friedberg: White House pledged appropriations bill to cement DOGE cuts
“The White House has publicly declared that they are going to move forward with an appropriations bill to try and cement some of the Doge actions.”
David Friedberg Jul 7, 2025 ▶ 0:47 "What The F Are We Doing?" David Friedberg On BBB’s Deficit Increase & Trump vs. Elon
Aug 1, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Calacanis: Biden administration barred tech leaders from visiting the White House
“And if we compare that to Biden and Kamala, like, they weren't even letting people come to the White House.”
Jason Calacanis Aug 1, 2025 ▶ 7:47 Trump AI Speech & Action Plan, DC Summit Recap, Hot GDP Print, Trade Deals, Altman Warns No Privacy
Aug 1, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Friedberg: Full Trump endorsement depends on progress with DOGE spending cuts
“My full-throated endorsement will come around when Doge actions are taken seriously and or the White House puts pressure on Congress to take action on spending and the budget.”
David Friedberg Aug 1, 2025 ▶ 8:45 Trump AI Speech & Action Plan, DC Summit Recap, Hot GDP Print, Trade Deals, Altman Warns No Privacy
Sep 7, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Sacks: Tech CEOs act like kings in Silicon Valley, backbenchers in D.C.
“In their own worlds, they're like kings, but in the White House, you're a backbencher.”
David Sacks Sep 7, 2025 ▶ 11:10 Inside the White House Tech Dinner, Weak Jobs Report, Tariffs Court Challenge, Google Wins Antitrust
Sep 7, 2025 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Sacks: Melania Trump chairs White House AI Education Task Force
“Earlier that day, we did an event at the white house with the AI education task force, which she's chairing. And she's very passionate about making sure that every school child in America has access to AI so they can get AI education. And we had dozens of comp…”
David Sacks Sep 7, 2025 ▶ 15:22 Inside the White House Tech Dinner, Weak Jobs Report, Tariffs Court Challenge, Google Wins Antitrust
Sep 15, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Tenev: The Biden administration never invited Robinhood to the White House
“I mean, just by nature of how many times I've been to Washington the last administration didn't invite me to the White House once. I asked for meetings, and they wouldn't even meet in person.”
Vlad Tenev Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 7:51 Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on tokenizing stocks, expanding access to private shares, fintech's future
Sep 17, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Trump claims Joe Biden ignored White House marble maintenance
“You think it got it with Biden? I don't think so. You think he does this? Do you think he says, that marble's not looking good. We have to replace that marble. Nah, he doesn't do that.”
Donald J. Trump Sep 17, 2025 ▶ 11:19 Oval Office Tour with President Trump
Sep 17, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Trump: White House is building a new ballroom near East Room
“And as you know, ah, we're gonna be building a ballroom. For a 150 years, they wanted a ballroom at the White House. When a dignitary, a big dignitary, the head of China, the head of any country your name would come over, they would, ah, build a tent in the la…”
Donald J. Trump Sep 17, 2025 ▶ 6:21 Oval Office Tour with President Trump
Jun 19, 2026 negative
Assertion Supported
Sacks: Anthropic CEO refused White House request to take down Fable
“They tried to call Anthropic, They tried to call Dario, and there were a number of conversations, and the TLDR of it is Dario refused, meaning refused their request to take down Fable until this jailbreak could be fixed.”
David Sacks Jun 19, 2026 ▶ 41:26 World's First Trillionaire, Anthropic Fable Banned, The New Oligarchs, Iran Peace Deal
Jun 19, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Sacks: I am not a White House employee and was not involved in Anthropic letter
“I'm not a day-to-day employee of the White House, and I only got the readout of this once the letter was sent. So, you know, I wasn't involved.”
David Sacks Jun 19, 2026 ▶ 58:14 World's First Trillionaire, Anthropic Fable Banned, The New Oligarchs, Iran Peace Deal
Jul 24, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Sacks: White House has made no decision to ban open-source AI
“Well, look, I mean, I have it on good authority that there is no decision by the white house to ban open source models.”
David Sacks Jul 24, 2026 ▶ 3:04 The Fight Over Open Source AI, Anthropic's $1.5B Payout, NYC Socialists: Evictions = Violence?
Aug 12, 2026 negative
Opinion
Emanuel: The White House Has Lost Strategic Focus on the Indo-Pacific
“The White House becomes a one ball juggler. Okay, this White House is consumed with what's going on, and they have lost focus on the Indo-Pacific, and it's quite evident.”
Rahm Emanuel Aug 12, 2026 ▶ 23:16 Rahm Emanuel: Trump's Foreign Policy, China, Europe's Decline, Immigration & DSA vs Democrats
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