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X? I don't know. I think they would have had other pressure from Democrats, but the Democrat Party just fell apart and DOGE and Musk and Trump are doing great. So it makes perfect sense if you're a big American company to get on the side of the winners. There's nothing wrong with that. There's nothing wrong with saying, you know what, I think we'll adjust our track and try to be more compatible wi…

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p-loaded weapon and he can point Richard Grenell at any situation and you feel confident that the right person's taking care of it. So I'm surprised Richard Grenell doesn't have an official job in the administration. And I don't believe he has an official title, but just the fact that he's sort of available to do missions is kind of awesome. Would you like to have just a Richard Grenell on call so that when Trump needs to send somebody somewhere and get something done in another country, you just send the one who knows how to get it done?

I suspect that Grenell is more effective because when he walks into the room, if the other country has done their homework, they know he's talking for Trump. They're not going to put a wedge like, we'll get this guy to see our side of it or something like that. No. When Grenell walks in the room you know that Trump's preferences are going to be there and that's the end of the story. So that probably makes him a lot more effective, that and the fact that whatever he does in general seems to be effective. So I love this. So he got six Americans out of Venezuela.

Meanwhile Colombia, which gave Trump a hard time very temporarily for shipping back the Colombian immigrants or migrants, remember the president of Colombia said hey you can't land here and then it turned into well how about we send the presidential airplane to pick them up because really what we care about is the repatriation is dignified. So it's not about whether they come back, it's about whether it's a dignified return. So he's taken it to the next level and he's offered to pay for all the Colombians coming home. So I guess he doesn't want to use the presidential jet for every flight of course. But Colombia, I think without being prompted because there's nothing here about negotiating, I think he just said how about we'll pay to bring them home and I'll make sure that it's a dignified return home. To which I say yeah, it's saving face, right? So he's doing a clever little move to save face. So now we can say well no, it was always just about dignity. Okay, I'll let him have that if he's going to pay some of our bills, because do you know how much it costs for a flight to ship anybody back to their native country? It's like an amazing amount of money to ship people back. So if Colombia wants to pay that amazing amount of money and we're going to get what we want, good. All right, no problem.

Trump signed an executive order to get rid of 10 regulations for every new one that's added. I think that's exactly what it was before, or was it? Give me a fact check. Was in his first term, was it 10 to 1 or was it a different ratio that you had to get rid of 10 regulations to get a new one? It was either 10 to 1 or something in that neighborhood. And I love it. I

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t seems like it worked the first time. Why wouldn't it work again? So good job, Trump. Meanwhile the FCC is demanding that CBS turn over the tape from, I guess it was 60 Minutes, when they interviewed Kamala Harris. Now the FCC would get involved, I guess, to make sure that people got equal time and that an interview was not so biased that maybe it turned into a campaign ad. So the accusation is…

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