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e world, and he'll show you why. Meanwhile, trust in physicians and hospitals has decreased by 31% since 2020. Oh, surprise. So there's very little trust in hospitals and doctors these days. And I've said this before but I'll say it again. You may find yourself in a situation where you need to explain to your doctor that you trust your doctor but you don't necessarily trust the system that constr…

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ill be getting in and doing his thing, that might reduce the government burden on business. And oh I didn't mention this but in my conversation with Naval Ravikant he mentioned that he put out the word that he would be willing to help in the Trump administration. And not I'm not talking about taking a cabinet position but maybe in the way that Elon's helping. You know, something that he would be uniquely qualified to do. And he is uniquely qualified to do a lot of things. So if you ever wanted a dream team, oh my goodness is the dream team coming together.

So there are some predictions that our GDP could be insane compared to what it has been in the past. You know, inflation is always a problem if that happens but that's a problem I'll take because I think we may be on the verge of an economic boom like we've never seen. The stock market certainly thinks so. I mean the market's just crazy last three days.

Well apparently Don Jr. has floated the idea with Alex Jones of some kind of rotating press secretary thing where Alex Jones would be the press secretary but you know just for a month and then somebody else would come in. Now how do you like that idea? I think there probably still needs to be a regular employee press secretary but the idea of having guest spots, it's a good idea. And there's never been an idea that's more perfectly Trumpian, is there? You know, the greatest showman on Earth. Why would the greatest showman on Earth be satisfied with these press events that are the most useless boring things on Earth? Greatest showman on Earth, most boring stupid useless process ever that you seem to do anyway. Now in the past I think he's just skipped them, right? Sometimes he just said ah it's not even worth it. I talk to the press enough.

But it seems to me the most perfectly Trumpian thing would be to figure out how to make it interesting. And you do a little guest appearances and there's no way that the news could not talk about it. I'm seeing Roseanne's name come up a number of times. Can you even imagine showing up, you know, for your job? You're just a reporter and you're just going to hear this boring denial of everything and then all of a sudden Roseanne comes in with a binder and just the energy in the room goes crazy because they thought they were going to do something boring again but Roseanne walks in and you're like I don't know what's going to happen now. And suddenly it's going to be a headline.

One of the things that the news tries to do, or actually the politicians try to do, is fill all the shelf space with stories that at least don't hurt them. And that would make at least one story maybe once a week or more in which the press would just have to write about it. They just have to. Now they probably find some way to say a negative like oh he's not taking the job seriously but I feel like they're over that. I think they know that he wants to be president for being president reasons. I think they finally figured he actually just wants to do the job right anyway.

Chief of Staff has been chosen by Trump: Susie Wiles. I'd not heard that name before but if

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you're on X and you're seeing the comments from people who have worked with her for a long time, I've never seen anything like it. I've never seen such a complete endorsement of anybody politically or for anything. So whoever Susie Wiles is is apparently very well regarded and I guess it's a good pick. Everybody who knows her says it's like a home run. Now here's what's fascinating about it. Do y…

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