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ard-thinking things I've heard from a president ever. He also is considering completely removing the federal tax code. He hasn't decided to do it but he's looking into an idea that's so radical and so different I'd never even heard of it. Can you imagine that there was a potential tax policy that I'd never heard of? Now whether that's a good idea or a bad idea, if you think that being 78 is hurtin…

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, but he talked about how pilots had seen things and they were very credible pilots and there were multiple of them and he talked to them personally and he had every reason to believe that what they were seeing was at least not a lie. Doesn't mean it's aliens but he was convinced that their stories were accurate observations of what they saw. But what they saw is still of course a question. So he's open to it. He thinks that the people reporting it are credible but here's the thing. Isn't the real story whether or not we do have warehouses with 12 alien captured ships as the news and certain whistleblowers keep telling us? Well he said directly, Trump did, that he does not personally believe that aliens have been present on Earth.

Now think about those things. That's actually a perfect answer. The perfect answer is here's the evidence, they're very credible, it's a big world, anything's possible but personally I'm not convinced. Do you think he would say personally he wasn't convinced if he'd taken a tour of UFO debris? No. I think Trump doesn't know if there are aliens. Nobody's telling him and he was asked that directly. Do you think they would tell you? You know what if they were there and it's like one of these John Brennan secrets they don't tell you. I feel like they would tell him and I don't think he's lying. I think that the government literally doesn't have any captured UFOs because he would know about it. You don't think he could figure that out? So in my opinion this is confirmation that the whistleblowers are full of it which always seemed obvious to me by the way.

All right then Trump talked about Elon Musk and had very positive things to say about him and how impressed he is about the rockets landing to be reusable and everything. Very, very praising him. But then separately Elon was asked at some event about Trump and he said this. Elon said about Trump he goes quote he does call me out of the blue for no reason. He's very nice when he calls. I think a lot of his friends now have Teslas. He's a huge fan of the Cybertruck. Now as I saw Cernovich comment on that that it's sort of a Trump superpower that he will call people and he works the Rolodex as Mike said. That he does this thing where he just connects to people that were good to connect to. I can tell you from personal experience that once he personally connects with you for anything it's very persuasive. So any personal contact no matter how minimal just bonds you to him because he's so important. When he uses his time to give you a little bit of it that has such an impact because he's not a regular person. He's somebody who should be doing important stuff. So if he takes one second to give you some attention you changed forever. And apparently it's just part of his lifelong process of sending people notes. Long before he was president George Bush Senior was famous for this. I saw a story once where every night before bed he would dash off a whole bunch of private thank yous and you know just nice to have you in my life and stuff like that. And people would wake up you know in a few days and open the mail and it would be George Bush even when he was a much lower level successful candidate. You know from the early days you just write thank you notes.

Now I have a friend who does the same thing and has been doing it for years. Very effective. And I can tell you from my own experience several months ago when I mentioned the idea of Trump and building the cities from scratch which I loved somebody printed that out and showed it to Trump and then he signed it and thanked me for liking the idea and then somebody mailed it to me. When you open your mail and you see a personal message from somebody who had recently been president and might again it changes you, right? You can say oh I'm objective but you can't be. It's just too powerful and I feel it like I feel like it's like a weighted vest that I wear. Oh I feel his influence on me and that personal touch is just so strong and I imagine that's the same thing he's doing with Elon because he likes everything that Elon's doing. Many of us do and he's just giving him a touch and Elon's feeling it.

Well you probably saw the video of Biden at the G7 where he was wandering away apparently from the group like he was lost and then Italy's Prime Minister had to kind of go get him and turn him back toward the

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camera and stuff. I have two comments about that. Number one is they're renaming the G7 to the G6.1. Anybody? It's no longer the G7 it's just 6.1. Okay. But the second point about G7 is I think there's a little bit of a rupar video edit problem because when it looks like Biden is just turned backwards to the rest of them and looking at nothing, he's not looking at nothing. There's something over t…

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