ladies and gentlemen is all I have today. I guess we'll watch the tariffs. Tariffs will be on. Tariffs will be off. But I'm quite convinced that what Trump is doing with tariffs is looking better and better. And I feel like I also understand it now. And by understanding it, I said this yesterday, I think what he's doing is making sure that other countries treat it like it's their top priority to figure out how to deal with us in terms of trade. And if that's the only thing the tariffs do is scare the bejesus out of other countries and they say all right all right let's talk about our whole tariff situation, that's a big win.

Because the way it looks now, this might be just the American spin on things, but the way it looks is that we have been screwed by other countries for a long time. And if we sat down and said all right look at all the things you're doing to us and look at the few things we're doing to you, this is totally imbalanced. I don't think that any country wanted to have that conversation because it feels like they all thought they were getting away with a little bit of something. And if Trump only just shines this giant light on the imbalance of the tariffs it seems to me there's a good chance that he'll be able to negotiate better deals than we have. And that would be amazing for our economy. Just amazing.

The other thing is you know I mentioned earlier that Lutnick talked about a sort of a fee just to join the club to sell to America. Maybe that's the faster way to do it instead of negotiating every single tariff. Maybe that's just too much work and there's lots of complexity there. You just say here's a deal. If you want to be in our market this is what you're going to pay per year. Maybe. So I like the fact he's putting all those ideas out there. It's all negotiable.

But if the one thing that Trump did was make sure that the other countries dropped their other priorities and said uh oh we can't really go a month with a 50 percent or a 200 percent tariff on a key industry so we're going to need to deal with this right away, that's all he needs. All he needs is I want your complete attention. What is it that I've taught you about persuasion? Do you remember the first rule of persuasion? It's the first rule. It's the big one. You got to get their attention. It's by far the most important one because if you don't get somebody's attention it doesn't matter if you're repeating and doing all the right things. They're just not paying attention.

So Trump took this situation where really nobody was paying attentio