er. But don't you think there are more killers literally killers in the government than there are in their prisons? Because most of the prisoners are not murderers but there's a whole lot of people in the State Department the military and the government who have been in the military and literally have killed people right?

So if you're trying to downsize and take away something that's valuable to the largest group of literally killers that we have outside of the military itself you know the active military it's dangerous. So Musk actually said on X yeah I have to say that cutting this much waste will make a lot of bad people angry. We need extra tight security. But Joshua Hartley on X took it to another level and I boosted this one. He said maybe we should skip the massive inauguration ceremony. Too much security risk given who you are planning to expose, fire and dismantle have been waging shadow wars domestically and internationally for the past 60 years. Celebrate when balance and order are restored.

You know what I agree with that. As much as I think an inauguration ceremony is sort of good for the body of the country you know it gives us moments and these moments create the country you know these moments where we all focus on the same thing. But I think it's too dangerous to put this government outdoors at this point in time and it's outdoors right now. All it takes is, well I don't have to give the bad guys any ideas right? I think maybe the era of large outdoor events where you have multiple members of government there like are we going to put our president and our vice president on the same stage? Are we really going to do that? Because if any one of them is on the stage the other one needs to be in the bunker or you know at least the vice president does. So and what if somebody says it's more than a twofer? You know what if you get several of them like some kind of event that kills more than one person? This is really scary.

Now Trump is not likely to back down so I think he is most likely to go ahead and do it publicly. But let me just say from the perspective of one citizen this is just my opinion. This is not worth the risk to me. So I'll just say personally that level of risk of going in public with these people that you've chosen especially that's more risk than I'm willing to accept for the benefit of just having a TV event that you didn't really need to do. So maybe some of you disagree with me and I would respect that disagreement but we really are in a different time and we don't know the size of the risk. And I think all of us have said why are the Democrats so quiet? It's almost like they have a plan and I don't like any of it. So without knowing what the plan is I would assume the worst. Just assume the worst.

Now it's possible that the reason Democrats are so quiet is that they've been thoroughly destroyed and even when they talk among themselves all they can do is argue about whose fault it was probably. So there could be two reasons. One is they're completely dismantled. There's just nobody to talk to anybody or have any good ideas. But the other is that they do have a plan and that one's scary.

We're still waiting for more announcements and more nominations. The one that excites me the most although I'm really excited about all the ones we have so far would be hopefully the head of HUD will be Bill Pulte if he's willing to take the job. I think he might but he has the whole talent stack. People like he's got the building industry experience. It's in his blood. He was literally born to it and worked with it. He's an entrepreneur. He's pro-Trump. He's one of the best communicators I've ever seen in my life. I saw one of his hits yesterday on one of the networks I think it was Fox Business and I was just sort of looking at the quality of his answers. Oh my God you know you know how impressed you are when you watch Vivek or you watch JD Vance and you say to yourself we don't have people who talk that well. Like this is a whole new game where somebody's answer isn't just complete but it's right on target, hits every point, hits all the persuasion points and shows intelligence and empathy at the same time. And that's what Pulte has. Right you have to watch it. If you haven't seen him talk just watch how well he answers questions and you tell me that Trump doesn't want more of that. He does.

So we don't know if this is going to happen but HUD right now is the Housing and Urban Development but I think it would be the natural place that the Trump freedom cities would be focused and I think that's the most exciting thing for the future of the country. You know AI will be part of it and self-driving cars will be part of it and all that but we need to redesign cities. So I don't know if I've ever said this directly so maybe there's a reason you don't know why I'm so excited about designing cities. We need to figure out how to design one that works really well and then reproduce it. What we're not going to be able to do is tweak the existing cities. They're just too structurally hard to change. You're going to have to figure out maybe a variety of different flavors of cities designed with completely different intentions and different organizational assumptions and just see which ones work. Some will work for some kind of people some will work with others. But there's nothing more important because our expenses and our jobs are so focused around building and homes everything from the furniture to the carpenters that if we can reinvigorate the building industry in a way that's not just do some more building that's like one or two percent on the GDP I mean we're talking we're talking really fun then. Then we're really having fun.

Anyway the head of Polymarket which we talked a lot about has been I guess his phones and electronic devices have been seized by authorities and we don't know what he's charged with if anything or if he will be. But it made Mike Cernovich point out that his own comments about his phone suddenly getting slow. Did anybody have the experience that their phone started slowing down in the last month or so? Because I had that experience too. My phone went from battery life lasting all day to maybe an hour or at least it seems like it. Like it's almost useless. My phone is almost useless because I always just have to worry about charging it now. I thought that Apple was doing that thing where they make your phone bad just in time f