Donald Trump

“Vivek Ramaswani has declared his position in it, and he's gonna do like a mini Elon Trump thing to BuzzFeed, where he like, you know, at the cost of nothing, because the company's worth nothing, ends up doing this.”

“I just feel like this is over, right? Which I know is not what you're supposed to say, and, like, that helps purpose with town out and the whole nine yards, but, like, you know, Trump just had, like, one of the all-time ten-day periods ever, right?”

“Musk, in my mind, you know, makes strategic business decisions all day long and then waits for a headline to announce them to make it seem like the assassination attempt got his endorsement or that a new law in California around LGBTQ kids caused him to move a…”

“Well, I just think, you know, who knows at this point in history what's real and what's not, but there's a clear pattern of write a big headline check or let, let a headline sit and then step back from it.”

“I'm into the fact that she is not playing race and gender cards, and it's just playing, let's talk about policy, let's talk about Donald Trump if you must, but like, I actually really appreciate that. I think that's winning her a lot of white male votes of lik…”

“Three very well-known tech CEOs reached out to me over the weekend with an op-ed arguing against a Trump presidency and what it would mean for tech. Well-known names. You know them all. Every, every listener of this pod will. And it was a very, it was almost t…”

“It seems like Bezos, like, by the way, every other major CEO I know, is really scared of a Trump presidency.”

“Elon has no pull. With the voters that matter in this, right? Because Elon's community, this is the thing about the right creators, is Elon those people are gonna probably vote for Trump anyway, right? The people that he speaks to”

“Like if you just get down to how do you run a modern campaign with targeted influencers in the places that matter with an open pipe versus mass media, you know, biggest voices like Trump, just like either intentionally or by happenstance has exactly the right …”

“So I think the mood I'm hearing, but I'm interested in what you guys are hearing, is more of like, okay, you know, yes, there's some very specific deregulatory things We can be excited about, but also a lot of concern about how the tariffs and other potentiall…”

“That's not going to happen with Trump as president.”

“And I think everyone has confidence that Trump's ego is very tied up in the economy going up. Which, you know, that alignment is, Probably good if you're in private business broadly.”

“Elon is glued to Trump's hip at Mar-a-Lago sitting in on every single meeting and, you know, has uncle status according to his grandchildren.”

“I'm going to go with less because I think at some point he's going to have to Roughly, you know, screw Elon, and that will create some real tension.”

“I'm gonna take the more on this. I guess all the things you've all have said are quite true. I think he's a pragmatic long-term player. Elon and likely, I think just what you said earlier is probably true as well that, you know, it's hard to find friends when …”

“But like when you then compound, you know, Elon in there, it's like night and day in terms of, you know, one side is going to just reduce the regulation. It's going to be driving, it's going to be a growth oriented, you know, more dynamic, you know, kind of dr…”

“Say what you will about the team. Say what you can argue about whatever you want, but it's very clear that they're putting into place a bunch of people who are players and characters and want to do things as opposed to NPC They kind of like run the script of w…”

“Do you throw Trump and Elon a bone? Like it's kind of costless to do so. So why not?”

“No, because you wouldn't have had the opening to it, but it's not, that, that, a hundred percent not, right?”

“Politically, I'm very surprised to find Mark on bended knee at this moment.”

“Clearly Meta and Amazon and Apple, to a lesser degree, Google, Definitely Empire Elon are all quite in alignment with Trump, right? And I think, like, have decided to really, like, lean in in every way to this administration from, like, you know, the money the…”

“Elon needs bargaining chips with China. In fact, probably his whole move towards Trump you know, in addition to getting his space regulation and all that kind of stuff, was to get more bargaining chips with China.”

“Your rank and file PM is going.”

“Behind President Trump's family was not his cabinet members or, you know, people who have served in his administrations in the past, but the CEO of every major large tech company, except Microsoft, which we could circle back to Bezos, Zuckerberg, Pichai, Elon.”

“Nobody's, I think the Trump people's view is you can't start throwing people overboard, so I think no. And in fact, they seem to be madder at Mike Waltz that he had Jeffrey Goldberg's number in his phone than they are mad at Pete Hegseth.”

“If we unwind the clock and ask ourselves why Elon Musk decided to endorse and help elect Donald Trump, I actually think the fate of Tesla in China was a not insignificant part of the equation, and what was happening at the time was the Chinese government hadn'…”

“This team, the minute the meeting stops, they all come out and they all call people. And so you get these fascinating different narratives. They're all leaking about each other. They're all spilling information on each other.”

“Cozying up to him doesn't appear to save you from anything. If anything, it actually makes them think you're weak.”

“He's banning states from actually getting into any AI regulations over the next decade. He's centralizing federal control over AI regulation.”

“Gavin Newsom just out of the blue, just like called for the resignation of the president of Harvard for doing like any deal with Donald Trump.”

“Trump signed an executive order yesterday, which was called the Genesis Mission. It's a lot like the Manhattan Project. He is calling a national effort to accelerate scientific discovery and innovation using AI.”

“We had a great podcast episode and I can't promote it because we mentioned the DT name.”