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this involved in the Trump administration. If I can give you any business advice at all, it goes like this: associating yourself with Trump pretty much guarantees you lose half of your market. Nobody who understands anything about business would have said, you know what would be really good for business is if I associate with, you know, half of the country instead of the whole country. There was…

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about business to know that if you're good at business you wouldn't do this for business reasons.

The only way it makes sense for Elon to be so involved for business reasons is because he thinks he needs to save the entire country, which, given that it's America, it would have a big ripple effect on the rest of the world. Elon's trying to save the world now. If you say, oh, I think he's only trying to save the world because he'll make money, I say you're a freaking idiot. Saving the world is good enough. You don't need a reason on top of it.

I'm going to save the world, but I figured out a way to get a grift out of this. I've got a scheme working that once I've saved the world I think I'm going to make revenue with my existing companies. Yes, that's exactly what he's going to do. He's going to make revenue in his existing companies if he can save the whole freaking world, because it is an existential threat. And DOGE is the only thing that has any chance of preserving America. America doesn't have a chance. This is an existential risk, the debt. And there's only one person who has the balls and maybe the capability, we hope, to actually make a difference on the debt. So there's that.

Anyway, Trump gave his big speech, which is not a State of the Union because he's only just got there. So I guess the first one is more just a speech. So he pushed the Golden Age theme, which I love, and he pushed the common sense revolution that he says is now part of a global movement. Now I love that because it's really hard for anybody in any country to be opposed to common sense. In order to be opposed to common sense you'd have to, I don't know, dress all in pink and wear stupid signs. Okay, Democrats can be opposed to common sense because they literally found a way to agree with only the 20% issues where 80% of the country is on one side. But they're like, oh no, we can't be on Trump's side with the 80% of the public. So watch this.

And I guess Trump talked about energy and all the energy stuff he's doing. And something about egg prices. Have you noticed that everybody wants egg prices to go down but nobody has any idea how that would happen? Now I get that energy prices would be good for everything, but is Trump doing anything for egg prices directly? I'm not aware of it. Do the Democrats have an alternative egg plan?

You know what I'd love? I'd love for Trump to say, you know what, it really is hard to get egg prices down. Would any of you Democrats like to work with me to come up with an egg price reduction plan? Because I'd love to see your thinking. What? No? Oh, the pink dresses, is that how you bring the egg prices down? No? Is it the little signs that you hold up? Is it the weird protests? Is it funding charities that we've never heard of in other countries? What is your plan for bringing down the egg prices?

So if I were Trump I would see if he could get the Democrats to commit to an egg price reduction scheme and then he can react to it and say, you know what, it's actually a pretty good idea, let's do it. Or that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life. There's got to be a better way.

So let me put this challenge out to the public and I'd love to see Trump do something like it. Just ask the public, what would you do? Actually ma

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ybe this is even an Elon Musk thing, or maybe it could start with him. How do you reduce egg prices? I mean, have more chickens and you know the obvious stuff. But is there anything the government can do that makes sense that would lower your egg prices? Subsidize them? I don't know. I'd love to hear it. And then the other thing that was a big surprise to me in the speech was Trump's going big on…

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