Donald Trump

29 statements across 21 episodes · 15 bullish · 6 bearish · 19 people on the record · first statement Jul 27, 2021 by Stephen Harper · said 409 times in 62 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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brought up most by Joe Lonsdale (177), Jimmy John Liautaud (27), Wilbur Ross (23), Senator Eric Schmitt (16), Ambassador Kelly Craft (16), Tom Cotton (14), Joe Gebbia (11), Scott Kupor (10)

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2026 90 mentions in 13 episodes 7 per episode
2025 163 mentions in 23 episodes 7 per episode
2024 79 mentions in 10 episodes 8 per episode
2023 36 mentions in 9 episodes 4 per episode
2022 31 mentions in 4 episodes 8 per episode
2021 10 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode

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Everything said about Donald Trump, oldest first

Jul 27, 2021 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Harper: Before Trump, no Western country agreed China was a threat
“Prior to President Trump, there was not an agreed There was not an agreed posture in any Western country that China was actually a long-term threat. Now, it happened to be my view, but it was, I can tell you, it was not really shared by very many people.”
Stephen Harper Jul 27, 2021 ▶ 16:13 Stephen Harper: Rejecting Wokeness, Addressing China, and Defending Western Values · Joe Lonsdale
Jan 14, 2022 neutral
Assertion Supported
Khanna: Nine of the top ten sites on Facebook are conservative
“I mean, I looked the top nine out of the top 10 sites on Facebook are conservative sites with Donald Trump and Hannity and Ben Shapiro and others.”
Rep. Ro Khanna Jan 14, 2022 ▶ 13:56 Rep. Ro Khanna & Joe Lonsdale Debate Income Inequality and Regulating Big Tech · Joe Lonsdale
Jan 11, 2023 negative
Assertion Supported
Yang: 8 of 10 pro-impeachment House Republicans lost primaries
“Eight out of 10 of the House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump didn't make it [828] Andrew Yang: Yeah, back even through the primary.”
Andrew Yang Jan 11, 2023 ▶ 13:39 Andrew Yang Will Change How You Think About Politics · Joe Lonsdale
Jan 11, 2023
Opinion
Yang: Trump's 2016 Victory Resulted From Manufacturing Job Automation
“So I marched around the country for six years trying to help entrepreneurs and startups and growth companies in Detroit, Cleveland, Birmingham, New Orleans and so I saw the aftermath of the automation of manufacturing jobs and then Trump wins in 2016, so I thi…”
Andrew Yang Jan 11, 2023 ▶ 6:24 Andrew Yang Will Change How You Think About Politics · Joe Lonsdale
Feb 2, 2023 negative
Opinion
Holiday: Media dislikes Trump the most while giving him the most publicity
“You know, like, look, there's no one the media dislikes more than Trump, and there is no one who has gotten more free publicity from said media than Trump, right?”
Ryan Holiday Feb 2, 2023 ▶ 3:52 Ryan Holiday: How Stoicism Changed the World · Joe Lonsdale
Feb 22, 2023 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Pompeo: Internal opposition and late timing prevented Trump's TikTok ban
“Oh, a little bit of bureaucracy, and then frankly you had senior leaders in the administration who didn't want to close the deal out. There were a couple of us advocating for it, and we ran into a buzzsaw, and then there was, we were a little late, Joe, to be …”
Mike Pompeo Feb 22, 2023 ▶ 20:39 Mike Pompeo: Negotiating with Tyrants, Spy Balloons (or UFOs?) & Why Trump Didn't Ban TikTok · Joe Lonsdale
Feb 22, 2023
Disclosure
Pompeo set explicit diplomatic negotiating margins with Trump before meetings
“And so I was always incredibly diligent to say, sir, I'm going to meet with so-and-so. Here's where I think this lands. I may end up in this position that's -10%, this position that's plus five. Good to go with any of those, Mr. President. And he'd say, nope, …”
Mike Pompeo Feb 22, 2023 ▶ 10:09 Mike Pompeo: Negotiating with Tyrants, Spy Balloons (or UFOs?) & Why Trump Didn't Ban TikTok · Joe Lonsdale
Feb 22, 2023 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Pompeo: Kim Jong-un walked away from agreed terms in Hanoi
“Chairman Kim kind of walked away from what we understood he had agreed to, what he had told me himself.”
Mike Pompeo Feb 22, 2023 ▶ 10:54 Mike Pompeo: Negotiating with Tyrants, Spy Balloons (or UFOs?) & Why Trump Didn't Ban TikTok · Joe Lonsdale
Mar 8, 2024 negative
Opinion
Lonsdale: Court rulings against Trump and Musk are weaponized persecution
“And we talked about the use of the state's judicial systems to persecute political enemies both of course with Donald Trump and Elon Musk recently with rulings that, you know, even though I looked into them in a lot of detail, they both seem to be BS and to be…”
Joe Lonsdale Mar 8, 2024 ▶ 9:23 Ep 80: Leonard Leo Knows How to Win and How to Save Our Country · Joe Lonsdale
May 16, 2024 negative
Assertion Supported
Lonsdale: Politico Labeled Event with Keynote by Schumer as MAGA Event
“Literally last week, I was in Washington, D.C., and we had a bunch of people speak on the right, and Trump did a video in, but then a bunch of people spoke on the left, and Schumer gave the keynote of this big event, And the guys at Politico who are on the way…”
Joe Lonsdale May 16, 2024 ▶ 11:37 Why Reparations Won't Work & Why Standardized Tests Help Minorities -- Coleman Hughes · Joe Lonsdale
Aug 30, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Ross: Icahn and Ross Were Publicly Adversarial to Trump Before Supporting Him
“When the bonds collapsed, Carl Icahn, who's a good friend of ours, became the largest bondholder. So the two of us were quite adversarial in a very public way to Trump then. But interestingly, both of us turned out to support him.”
Wilbur Ross Aug 30, 2024 ▶ 8:35 A Conversation with Wall Street Legend & U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross · Joe Lonsdale
Aug 30, 2024 positive
Opinion
Ross: 2017 Syria strike during Xi visit deterred warfare under Trump
“I think it's a big part of the reason that single event, big part of the reason we didn't have much warfare during Trump's whole administration.”
Wilbur Ross Aug 30, 2024 ▶ 14:08 A Conversation with Wall Street Legend & U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross · Joe Lonsdale
Apr 3, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cotton: Trump and Hegseth are willing to order military strikes against cartels
“President Trump is certainly willing to do that. Obviously Pete Hexeth is too.”
Tom Cotton Apr 3, 2025 ▶ 33:49 Billionaire vs. U.S. Senator: Should TikTok Be Banned? · Joe Lonsdale
Apr 3, 2025 positive
Assertion Open · timeframe Apr 2028
Cotton: American investors are buying global ports from Chinese operating companies
“Now President Trump's already getting some results, and a group of American investors are buying out those ports, not just in Panama, but around the world from that Hong Kong company, and I think he, he's committed to taking more action like that, reducing Chi…”
Tom Cotton Apr 3, 2025 ▶ 16:28 Billionaire vs. U.S. Senator: Should TikTok Be Banned? · Joe Lonsdale
Apr 3, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cotton: Trump views Mexican cartel terrorist designations as an initial step
“Declaring them foreign terrorist organizations, unlocking all the tools that we would use against Al Qaeda and ISIS. Around the world is an important step, and I know that President Trump and Pam Bondi and Kash Patel and others who are directly overseeing this…”
Tom Cotton Apr 3, 2025 ▶ 32:33 Billionaire vs. U.S. Senator: Should TikTok Be Banned? · Joe Lonsdale
Apr 17, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Thiel: Trump's Second Term Will Accomplish More Than His First
“Normally the second term does less than the first term, This is going to be the, I think will be the real first term.”
Peter Thiel Apr 17, 2025 ▶ 21:46 Tariffs, DOGE & Fixing America: Peter Thiel's Skeptic Solutions · Joe Lonsdale
Jun 19, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Hilton: Trump's 6.1M California votes exceed the threshold to win a midterm
“If you look at the data on roughly what you could expect in terms of turnout in 20, 26, it's about 11.7, 11.8 million votes. It's based on the average of the last two midterms. So to win, you need about 5.9 million. Trump just got 6.1 million.”
Steve Hilton Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 48:17 Why California is Collapsing From Within · Joe Lonsdale
Jun 26, 2025 positive
Opinion
Rubin: Trump's Second Term Has Been 'Basically Flawless'
“I think it's basically been flawless. It's been as good as you could possibly imagine.”
Dave Rubin Jun 26, 2025 ▶ 42:16 Tucker, Shapiro & The New Right—Dave Rubin Calls for an Honest Debate · Joe Lonsdale
Jul 22, 2025 positive
Opinion
Vought: Trump Budget Cuts and Tariffs Cover One-Third of Deficit Gap
“The president just secured one and a half trillion dollars consistent with the fiscal framework in our first six months that I would, I think tariffs included is, is, is heading us dealing with a third. Of what's necessary to get to a balanced budget.”
Russ Vaught Jul 22, 2025 ▶ 19:24 New Face of DOGE Agenda Explains the Big Beautiful Bill · Joe Lonsdale
Sep 25, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Zachary Levi: Famous Hollywood Figures Secretly Supported Trump but Feared Career Fallout
“I know a lot of people, like you were mentioning, there's people that, you know, people I know, very famous people in Hollywood that are intelligent enough to recognize that that's the way they needed to vote, but they also were like, oh, but I don't know what…”
Zachary Levi Sep 25, 2025 ▶ 8:47 What Happens When AI Can Do Every Job? · Joe Lonsdale
Sep 25, 2025 positive
Opinion
Levi: Charlie Kirk Was a Massive Factor in Donald Trump's Election
“Charlie Kirk was a huge part in getting Donald Trump elected. I mean, a massive part in getting Donald Trump elected and getting Bobby together with Donald Trump, which is a big part of getting Donald Trump elected.”
Zachary Levi Sep 25, 2025 ▶ 17:01 What Happens When AI Can Do Every Job? · Joe Lonsdale
Oct 3, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Lonsdale claims D.C. carjackings dropped 83% after National Guard deployment
“President Trump showed that we don't have to live like this. He sent in the National Guard. Carjackings are down over 83%.”
Joe Lonsdale Oct 3, 2025 ▶ 1:15 How this Governor is Proving Trump Right · Joe Lonsdale
Nov 21, 2025
Insight
Ridley: Global Populist Waves Show Broad Forces Matter More Than Individual Leaders
“You know, you get, you know, Donald Trump in America, Georgia Maloney in Italy, Nigel Farage in Britain, you know, you get similar characters, not exactly the same, but similar characters emerging at the same time in different places, and that suggests That th…”
Matt Ridley Nov 21, 2025 ▶ 34:57 What Steve Jobs Knew About Innovation That You Don't · Joe Lonsdale
Dec 18, 2025
Disclosure
Kupor: Marc Andreessen connected him to Trump transition chair Howard Lutnick
“The truth of the matter is, you know, like I sent Mark and Ben an email when they were getting more involved in the campaign last summer, and I was like, hey, like, you know, if Trump wins and there's something that's interesting that works out, I'd love to at…”
Scott Kupor Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 10:14 America’s New AI Strategy: "We're Building a Tech Force" · Joe Lonsdale
Jan 20, 2026 positive
Opinion
Gebbia: Presidential power was entirely sufficient to solve the border crisis
“And lo and behold, you know, we had a lot of excuses in the last administration about why the problem couldn't get solved. Oh, you gotta wait on this, that, and the other. And in the first couple months of the Trump administration, it became very clear that th…”
Joe Gebbia Jan 20, 2026 ▶ 4:25 The Secret Team Fixing America's Broken Systems · Joe Lonsdale
Jan 20, 2026 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Gebbia: The White House ballroom project is completely privately funded
“And by the way, doing it without costing taxpayers a dime. This is all privately funded.”
Joe Gebbia Jan 20, 2026 ▶ 36:54 The Secret Team Fixing America's Broken Systems · Joe Lonsdale
Mar 3, 2026 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Jan 2029
Isaacman: NASA will return to Moon before Trump's term ends in 2028
“We're going to return to the moon before end of President Trump's term. We're going to build a moon base so we can stay.”
Jared Isaacman Mar 3, 2026 ▶ 15:31 Why this Billionaire Just Took Over NASA · Joe Lonsdale
Mar 19, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Wu: Anti Fund incubated Trump-endorsed deodorant brand W in Walmart
“We incubated a, you know, a deodorant company and I think the president basically. Yeah, called W. Available nationwide Walmart, and the president was, like, basically, you know, endorse that as long as well as endorsing for future political office.”
Jeff Wu Mar 19, 2026 ▶ 12:34 Jake Paul on Endorsing Trump & the AI Economy · Joe Lonsdale
May 19, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Helberg: Trump maintains a very good rapport with Xi Jinping
“The president has been clear that he wants to have a positive impact. Constructive relationship with Xi Jinping, and he does. They actually have a very good rapport.”
Jacob Helberg May 19, 2026 ▶ 30:03 Trump’s Plan for AI Dominance · Joe Lonsdale
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