m. So now introducing a new cast of characters, and I think the Trump administration is the best ever. Maybe that's all it takes. Maybe you just needed smarter people. But we'll find out.

Anyway, you probably all saw video from the big, well-attended and publicized cabinet meeting that Trump had. He had all his cabinet people in one room and Elon Musk was not at the table because he's not a cabinet member, but he was in the outside chairs and he got a chance to speak. And the press was there and they asked a bunch of questions and it was great transparency and it was a great show and it was great TV. It looked like The Apprentice on steroids. Trump knows how to put on a show. So the one thing I always say about him is he understands the value of the show. You know, his critics will say, hey, he's just a TV guy, you know, and all he cares about is how things look and stuff. Well, obviously he's full of substance. So he's got more substance than any president ever had in his second term. It's pretty obvious, especially with the EOs. But he also has that extra skill. You know, his skill stack, Trump's skill stack, includes how to put on a TV show, you know, where to light it, what the room should look like, whether or not the camera should be there. He knows that stuff. And you've seen him direct things when they do the little video before the interview starts. You know, he'll be asking questions like, is that light good? Maybe you should move this over there. And he's usually right. By the way, if you get interviewed a lot, you end up doing that. I've been interviewed I don't know how many hundreds of times and photographed in photo shoots many hundreds of times. And you end up being the director of your own photo shoot. So I can't tell you how many times after I became extremely experienced in the process, the photographer would come in and say something like, all right, let's look at the house and I'll figure out where to photograph you and what positions. And I'll say, all right, here's this big Dilbert cutout. And they'll be, yes, yes, we'll put that big Dilbert cutout in there. And like, yeah, just like every other photographer, just like 100% of the other photographers, they got to put that Dilbert cutout in there. And then I'll say, well, you know, you should probably get some photos of me at my drawing tablet so they can see what it looks like when I'm creating the cartoon. The photographer will be like, yes, yes, that's exactly right. Yeah, put you at the desk. And then I'll arrange the desk and I'll be like, okay, we're going to cheat the monitor in this direction. It'll look good on camera. And if you close those blinds, you'll have the blackout and then I can use the ring light over here. And the photographer will be, yes, yes, that's exactly right. So it's definitely a thing that if you get photographed enough and you're in enough videos and you're in the public enough, you end up being your own director because you know what works. So you just become an active partner with the production crew and they like it. They don't have to do what you say because it's still their production, but they definitely take the good suggestions.

Anyway, so he puts on this great show, which was great TV, great stuff, and it was transparent. It made you think that you could ask any questions and the press could ask any questions. And there's one event where a reporter asked Elon Musk—because Musk got up and spoke a little bit—he asked Elon Musk if anyone in the room, meaning the cabinet members mostly, if anyone in the room wasn't happy about his work on DOGE. Now of course that's a messed-up, stupid, are-you-still-beating-your-spouse kind of question. It's just sort of a troublemaking question, right? It's not even pretending to be useful for the public. Do you think the public really cared about which cabinet members were on board with DOGE? Oh no, what if the head of the Interior is not fully on board? We don't care. It's just a troublemaking question to try to sow some division.

Well, Trump being Trump and knowing everything about public appearances and everything about a show, Trump interrupts and he takes the question. So it wasn't directed to Trump, but he's smart enough and quick enough that he knew where to take this. He's so good at the moment. His understanding of a moment is unparalleled, Trump's. And he goes, basically, I'll take this. He goes to the room. He goes, anybody unhappy with Elon? If you are, we'll throw them out of here. So he turns it into a joke, which is perfect. Do you remember the first debate when he was first running for office, the Rosie O'Donnell question? Did he answer the question? No. It was a troublemaking question. He turned it into a joke and the joke became the viral video. So he did it again and the joke became the viral video and nobody gave a flying fig about the question. All they cared is that he put on a better show than the reporter did. That's it. He just put on a better show and then he got all the attention and the reporter looked like a clown.

But it gets better. So everybody laughs and they clap, so they look like they're agreeing with Trump. And then Musk was still standing for his part because he was the center of attention for just that moment. And he said this. He said, President Trump has put together, I think, the best cabinet ever. Literally. And I do not give false praise. This is an incr