na be hurt by it and it's going to be a lot of pain for the country. So you'd have to ask yourself, is Jerome Powell on the side of the United States or his own side or somebody else's side if he doesn't lower interest rates? So we'll see. That'll be interesting.

So far the number of countries who have decided that they're going to immediately negotiate their tariffs with Trump, it's a small number but it's so far Vietnam, Cambodia, Argentina. Israel's already gone. But it's a start. So Macron in France is saying don't do investments in the United States. China matched our tariffs with their own. So they're looking tough.

So we're going to need to get at least one larger country to negotiate. So it makes me wonder who's going to go first, if anybody. So you can get all the little countries to capitulate, but that's not going to get you what you want. You're going to need to get at least one big one to say, well I'm glad I went first.

Billy John, we got a troll here from YouTube. Billy John, let me explain to you how time works. Yeah, you seem to be confused. You might be an alien from another country. The golden age is something that you build toward. And as I'll explain to you during the show, the temporary pullback in the stock market is not anything you should worry about. And we probably are now poised for the greatest American period of all time. It doesn't mean it's guaranteed, but I do think Trump has largely done all the right stuff and he's got really smart people behind him.

Scott Bessent impresses me every time I see him on camera. I think he's just the best. Have you listened to him at all? He's so good explaining things in simple terms while also sounding like the smartest person in the room that when he's done, you say to yourself, oh I feel a lot better now. You know if you hear Trump say some stuff you think to yourself, I don't know, is he just in salesman mode? You know is that all BS? But when you see Scott Bessent explaining something, he gives you all of his work. He removes all questions. So we'll talk about him a little bit more.

So yes, I think the golden age is looking actually pretty strong. But Trump and everybody's smart warned that there would be a period of turmoil which is the period we're in. Now there's almost nothing I can think of that doesn't require some sacrifice to get there. If you wanted to get in shape at the gym, it's going to be harder when you start. If you wanted to go on a diet, it's going to be kind of painful. If you wanted to improve your job, you're probably gonna have to, I don't know, go to training or school at night or double your efforts. So this is no different.

If the country wants to survive the death spiral it was in, you know the debt death spiral, it's got to DOGE even if it's messy. It's really got to do the tariffs even if it's messy. So the big picture is really good. If you're playing small ball like the troll on YouTube and you don't understand how anything works, it just looks like, oh my stock went down. My stock went down. But we can get you to a smarter place.

There's a video of Kamala Harris acting drunk. She finally appeared. I guess she thought it was a good time to go say something in public. She was at some event and since the stock market was down, she decided that what she would do is it looks like she was