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tors. Says the Wall Street Journal. So they're talking about doing things with the FDIC and the Department of Government. Oh yeah the FDIC. So the FDIC is what ensures customers' accounts and most of us feel that that's a necessary, very valuable thing. But the news is telling us that Trump's DOGE people might want to get rid of those departments. Is that real news or fake news? Let's see if you g…

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d simplifying it but still making it available might be exactly what you want to do. Like how many people do you need in that department? Probably it's bloated. So probably if you combined it with something else and kept one management you'd save some money. So no, it is not true that anybody on the Trump team is considering getting rid of federal deposit insurance. It is true because it's common sense it's true. I don't have to do any research to know this is true. They're looking at all the places that they can combine departments to reduce costs. So I think that's a real story.

Trump rang the opening bell to the New York Stock Exchange yesterday and people were chanting USA, USA. And even MSNBC said they'd never seen the energy there like that. And of course he was ringing the bell because he's also on the cover of Time Magazine. And let me say this about Trump. We're seeing a different Trump. He's a different guy. And if that surprises you, you maybe haven't been paying attention because he's quite adaptable even at his current age. And here's my take. A Trump who has not yet won whatever it is he's trying to win, let's say the presidency, can be pretty contentious. He can be pretty scrappy. He can go too far. He can make you cringe a little bit and go, "Oh that was a little too far. Even if I like him I wouldn't have gone that far." But Trump who has already won and is in his last contest because he can't be president after this, that Trump, he is great. Just sort of watching him simply being in his moment, you know, ringing the bell and watching the people react to him. He has nothing to prove in terms of getting the job. So once he's out of job application mode he is really good at just being the thing. So I think he will be—there's a really good chance that he would go down as our greatest president. Now it's going to be tough to beat the Louisiana Purchase and stuff. But you know if you happen to be in the right place at the right time you get some lucky breaks. Although it was pretty smart to buy the Louisiana Purchase. So depending on the events that are outside of Trump's control there's a lot that could happen. Could go well, could go poorly. But he has a solid chance of being the best president we've ever had and maybe even a model for other countries anyway.

So how did MSNBC cover Trump being on the Time cover? Well you won't be surprised to know that Joy Reid compared him to Hitler. You could give them any story and it's a reason to compare him to Hitler. Now it is valid to point out that Time Magazine has had Putin and Hitler and Stalin, Kanye. And the point of

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it is not who's awesome but rather who is significant that year. So it's about who's significant not who's good or bad. And you know I get the point right. I think I said the same thing which is it doesn't, it's not an endorsement by Time Magazine. It definitely isn't. But the fact that you would spend your whole show or a segment of it just making this big visual comparison to dictators, they are…

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