Back to episode — Episode 2763 CWSA 02/27/25
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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 cabin…
← Previous segment →edible group of people. I don't think that such a talented team has actually ever been assembled. I think it's literally the best cabinet the country has ever had. And I think the country should be incredibly appreciative of the people in this room.
Now I agree with that 100%. I've never seen a more—I'm going to say I don't even know if capable is the right word—but people I trust. Let's put it that way. So there's some people who don't have as much experience as you'd expect for that job, but I definitely trust them. And I trust them to be fast learners and I trust them to be on point. I trust them to have their priorities straight. I trust them to root out DEI. I trust them to get rid of the bad eggs. I trust them to cut expenses and I trust them to make adjustments quickly when they make mistakes. So my level of trust is just through the roof. I mean this is a seriously powerful group of people. It's very impressive.
But that's not what I wanted to talk about. There's this one thing that Musk said in that which is this sentence. He said, and I do not give false praise. And you know, then he praised them. Now think about that superpower that he has. Imagine if Trump said, I don't give false praise. You would kind of laugh, wouldn't you? Because Trump basically praises everybody who's on his team and insults everybody who isn't. So most people in the public do give false praise. They just care if you're on their team. That's it. But when I heard this, when Musk said, I do not give false praise, I thought to myself, oh my God, how many people have earned that? That's a superpower. The superpower is that he can say something of this magnitude—that it's the best group of people ever assembled for this sort of thing—and you say to yourself, he actually means that. That's like a legitimate opinion with no hyperbole. And that's what I think. I think that is a no-hyperbole, legitimate, actually his opinion. And that he has the credibility built over a lifetime. You don't get that overnight. Where he can say this sentence, and I do not give false praise, nobody is going to laugh at that. Nobody. The press didn't pick it up, right? The press didn't say, oh yeah, he says he doesn't give false praise but look at this compilation clip of all the false praise he gave before. Nope. There's no compilation clip of that because he doesn't give false praise. It's just literally true. What a superpower. What a superpower to be able to say that in public and have nobody question you about it. That's really remarkable.
I saw a post on X from the Libs of TikTok and it was a summary of all the things that came out of the meeting. I won't read the whole summary because some of them you've heard before, but it was the most useful news that I saw about the meeting because it was just really tight and long. It was a long list but it was a tight bullet point: did this, did this, did this, did this. And I thought to myself, there's something happening in the pro-Trump world that I can't figure
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out what the cause of it is, but it's a really big thing. And what it is is there are a whole bunch of individual or independent superstars who have just entered the fight—not right away, some over time—but really special analysts and voices. The Libs of TikTok started out as just mocking weird liberal stuff on TikTok. That was it. That was the whole game. But now has completely transformed becau…
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