All right. One of my favorite stories of the week is that Trump has decided to select his own Doral golf course as the site for the G7. So just when we're talking about Hunter Biden and conflict of interests and all this, from a list of I don't know ten places, coincidentally out of all those ten places the very best place was Trump's own resort. I love this story. Here's why I love it. What the president does better than anything in the world is control your attention. It's not an accident that he puts this out here just when everybody's complaining about Ukraine and everybody's complaining about Syria. It gives you a new thing to complain about. But do you notice how less important it is? That on the scale of things you should care about, where is your level of caring that he chose his own golf course? Which they plan to do at cost. So really it's gonna be priced at cost, they say. How important is it? They picked his own golf course. In the world events it's the least important thing that happened in the entire world. There's nothing less important than that. And if it makes everybody talk about that even as a criticism, they're talking about the least important thing that they could possibly be talking about.

Do you think anybody's going to vote for him or not vote for him because he chose Doral as the location? No. Nobody cares. Nobody cares about that. I mean it's something to talk about. Nobody cares. Especially if the price is at cost or anything like the cost.

Now here's my second part of that. Was there a better place to have the G7? Because that's really the question, right? If there had been a better place then I would say there was a better place. So this is looking a little sketchy. But was there a better place? Now it turns out that the facility apparently is well suited for it. But don't you think that out of that list of ten places, isn't it reasonable to assume that at least one other place was also suitable? So there had to be at least one other place that was as suitable as that. So I don't think you can say it was the best physical place bar none. Maybe it was. I mean it's possible. But there probably was something close.

Here's why it was the best idea ever. What's the point of the G7? What's the point of it? Why do we have it? It's so leaders can meet socially. Is that why we have a G7? So people can get together and have a few drinks and shake hands and go home? No. It's a functional meeting in which negotiating and persuasion and even your personal relationships are the top ticket. You're trying to negotiate, persuade, make connections. What's the best place in the world for President Trump to negotiate, persuade, and influence people to be allies and stuff? His own house. Now I say his own house meaning his property. This president understands that before you walk into the room to negotiate you have, you've heard me say this before, set the table. That's right. He uses the phrase all the time. He talks about it in The Art of the Deal. You always set the table. You create the situation so that before you negotiate you've already put variables in your favor.

What is better than waking up in your own property and walking... I don't know, I mean I assume he'll probably stay at his own property, right? He'll be comfortable. It will be familiar. He will have everything he wants. He will have no jet lag and he'll just get up feeling fresh and like a daisy. Now what will the other leaders feel when they're not only talking to the President of the United States but they're doing it at his luxury resort which I understand is impressive? In other words the leaders are going to look around and say not only do I see the President of the United States but everything here is his. Think about that. The whole point of the G7 is to influence these other leaders. The home-field advantage. He gave it to himself. Anybody who says this isn't the right decision doesn't really understand how things work.

Now I get the people saying hey it's a bad look. This is gonna look like you just did it for yourself. And maybe you did. Yeah well I'm not a mind reader. Maybe he did it primarily to bring attention to his resort. Maybe he did. It's still the best decision for the country because you want your president to wake up in one of his own beds feeling good, feeling familiar, having everything he wants with no question. You know the food he wants, the type of service, environment he wants, everything he wants. You want him waking up into that while all the people he has to influence are also waking up to it. They're waking up to his place. It's amazingly smart. Why am I the first person to say that? Let me ask you. Have you heard anybody say what I just said? That the purpose is negotiating. You always set the table. The president just set the table better than you've ever seen. You've never seen anybody set a table that well. You've never seen it. It's completely outside of our experience how smart that is. So it's just an invisible... I think if you'd seen this happen even once before you'd say oh yeah that's what Eisenhower did or you'd say yeah Nixon did the same thing. It's smart. You have your home territory.

Somebody's saying in the comments that Mike Cernovich said the same thing. And just before I read that comment I was going to say I was actually gonna mention him and say he probably said the same thing even though I didn't see it because he would have noticed the same thing.