had other charges, but I'm also sure that the face tattoo was plenty enough. So did that work? Yes, because the gang members put face tattoos on. I'm exaggerating about the face tattoos to make a point that he just made sure he got everybody. And then he makes an offer to the US through Rubio that if America has a bunch of criminals from other countries that he can take some of the criminals and put them in their prison system and they'll just charge us. So he'll just charge a fee. So we'll have a cheaper solution that keeps them in prison but not in our prisons. And then I suppose when they get out, then it would be El Salvador's problem about what to do with them. I guess they'd repatriate them. I don't know. They would have an option. But that's a hell of a good offer, isn't it?

Yeah, every time you see Bukele's actions, they have a Trump-like quality to them, don't they? Like you don't see it coming, which is wonderful because then you can't stop talking about him and thinking about him because he did something that other people don't do. And you know, he made a big point that El Salvador's most important relationship is the United States, biggest trading partner. They use the US dollar. And he just wants to make it super clear that being friends with him is a good idea and being against him is a really bad idea. Huh, where did you learn that? So being against him means that you're going to be locked up in prison. Being for him means getting some excellent suggestions like, hey, how about we take some of your excess prisoners? You pay us. We've got a prison system. They'll fit right in. That's what you need.

So here's the real deal. Bukele is in terms of persuasion, all right, if there's anything else that goes wrong with him, I don't take responsibility. The only thing I'll take responsibility for is saying, oh, he's got the full game. All right, he has the whole package. So he does that thing where being his friend is a way better deal than not being his friend. He gets all of it right.

Speaking of getting it right, the big story on the DOGE, we'll talk about DOGE, is that there are some young people who have key roles. I don't know how many older people there are who also have key roles, but the ones we're talking about are four 20ish-year-old kids. I'll call them kids because I'm old, who are literally geniuses. And we're not talking about somebody who just did well on their SATs, right? We all know somebody who did well on their SATs. I know people who aced their SATs. I know a guy who got one wrong on his SATs. He was a server at my old restaurant. Young guy. He got one wrong and he retook the SATs. He retook them because he got one wrong. One thing. He retook it, got it all right. Now that's a really smart person. And he's not anywhere in the same category as these four young people that Elon Musk hired. They're the real deal.

It's one thing to be able to ace your SATs. That's very impressive, by the way. I couldn't do it. I couldn't get anywhere near that. But these guys, and they're all guys, they're in a whole different level. I mean, you've heard some stories about what they've done already. And so of course the Democrats who don't know how anything works are all concerned that these young, inexperienced people are looking at some of the most important things in the government and making decisions. Now they're not going to make final decisions, but they're like a super weapon that can drill through any impenetrable topic. They will not be stopped by complexity. They will not be stopped by, oh, this is hard. They will not be stopped by anything. That's what makes them who they are. They just won't be stopped.

Now here's the thing that I don't understand, but neither does anybody else. And that's going to be my point. If I said to you I'm going to take this guy who got 100% of everything right on the SATs and I'm going to hire him as my lawyer, could I predict how well he'll do? Yes, yes you could. You would predict that he's not going to forget anything important. He's going to take the best arguments. He's going to put in the work. Yeah, that'd be quite predictable. But it would be predictable within the ordinary world because there are ordinary lawyers who do good jobs. And you say, yeah, he's going to be one of those. I predict he'll do a good job. And you'd be right.

You know what you can't predict? Geniuses. Geniuses. And you can't predict the rate that they can do anything. If you had somebody, you know, a Rubik's Cube and they're an expert, they don't do it a little bit better than you did. It's like they're a different animal. It's like you're looking at them, you know nothing about. You can't look at these four geniuses and predict anything, anything, except they're going to get to the bottom of it. I don't know how fast. It might be faster and better than anything you've ever seen in your life. They might be already building AI tools that didn't even exist just to solve a problem, right? That's how smart they are. We're talking about Isaac Newton level. Like if he needs some calculus to solve a problem, you invent calculus. Right? That's what we're talking about. These are not normal people. So just the fact that