wrong answer that Bill Maher tried to straighten them out on, which is, huh, turns out he's actually a really nice guy and interested in people's opinions and nothing at all like what you see on TV. So Democrats are 0 for three, aren't they?

I don't like to brag, but I'm three for three. I was calling Biden mentally incompetent in 2019. Jeez, I've been calling Kamala a public drinker, meaning that she appears in public after drinking, for years. And of course I'm right about that. And I knew that Trump was not crazy. Indeed, you could argue that I was the OG of explaining Trump starting in 2015. I would be the one who would say, I know it looks crazy. I know what you're saying. I know it looks crazy, but if you look just under the hood, you can see it's all technique. It's what I call the show.

So Trump knows the difference between who Trump is, you know, the private Trump and the show. And when he is in public, he puts on the show. And the show is wild. I mean, you know, I was saying it yesterday when he talked about his medical examination and he said that his soul was healthy. Like they check your soul. It's something that nobody would say. And I don't think he would say that privately because it's just sort of outrageous and crazy sounding, but boy does he know how to put on the show. He doesn't know how to be boring, you know, just talking about normal things when he's in his showman persona, the public persona. He can just make anything sound more interesting than it should have been. I got a checkup and my soul is really good. I'll be laughing about that for years.

Anyway, so the worry from Jasmine Crockett that Trump's mental acuity needs to be tested, I'm going to refer that to the Department of Imaginary Concerns with all the other Democrat problems, imaginary concerns.

You probably heard that Trump created some tariff exemptions. So if you're trading smartphones and computers and routers and semiconductors and some other tech stuff, there will be no extra tariffs on those. So that's good. Every time Trump makes an adjustment, the market should get a little bit happier. So this is exactly the sort of adjustment that you'd want to see. So yeah, good job.

Did you know that what I call the Gulf of America has apparently an insane amount of energy that can be tapped. And now Trump is expanding the oil and natural gas production. So Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has ordered officials to hold an offshore lease sale. So you'll get to bid on that.

You know, I do wonder what is the modern risk of drilling offshore because we had that big spill some years ago. But I wonder if they've figured out how to avoid that now. I mean, I don't know how you could, but it makes me wonder. Time has gone by, so I wonder if it's a lot safer for the environment than it used to be. So that's good.

So now Trump has opened up ANWR and he's opening up the Gulf of America. He's also negotiating with Iran and if that went well, we'll talk about that. It would release Iran's oil and he's negotiating with Russia. And if that goes well, it would presumably release more Russian oil. So Trump's plan of making energy sort of a centerpiece of his presidency is looking really strong. So if he can keep the oil prices down and the price of gas down, everything else is going to cost less. So I really like the direction of that.

Now, apparently his tariffs, I don't know if it's because of the tariffs but probably, a big pharma company, Novartis, just said it's going to put $23 billion into the US. So it's not an American company, but because of tariffs they're going to bring $23 billion investment here. I think Trump's doing a really good job in at least promoting all these big deals that are coming through. Twenty-three billion is some serious money. I mean it's going to be over time, but still a lot of money.

Let's talk about DOGE. So I was confused by DOGE and maybe you had the same thing, which is Elon had said very clearly that he was trying to take a trillion dollars. Instead of a trillion it looks like he's targeting 150 billion. One hundred and fifty billion is not close to a trillion. A trillion is what we needed to survive. Did this really happen where DOGE went in and they had all kinds of cuts and then the bureaucracy came online and the cabinet heads and the department heads said, "Oh, nope. Not so fast. No, we can't cut that. Can't cut that."

So I get that it's 150 billion so far, but I think that's also the final number. So here's the weird thing. I asked Grok how much Elon Musk's personal net worth has decreased because of all the Tesla stuff, and apparently it's the same number. So Elon Musk's personal net worth went down 150 billion while DOGE saved 150 billion. Now one of them is once and the other is every year. But he could have just written a check. Saves a lot of money. Saved a lot of time, not a lot of money.

But we're currently, this is my take, we're currently on a doom loop. Is anybody going to admit it? Is Trump going to tell us that we can't survive in our current plan? Our current plan is not survivable. Let me say that again. Our current explicit plan, our budget is not survivable. It's not just suboptimal. It's not survivable. And I was counting on DOGE to get that trillion dollars. I thought it was a stretch. I didn't think it would happen, but you know, I was like, well, Elon can do things that other people can't do.

Now I get that it's 150 billion a year, but we were looking to save a trillion dollars a year. Both of them were per year. So I don't know, maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but it looks like DOGE didn't work. Am I wrong? It looks like it didn't work because working is not just that you saved 150 billion, although that's great. Working is saving the entire country. So that was the whole point of it. So I guess I'm confused by that. Maybe there's something I'm missing here.

Thomas Massie, of course he's the debt hawk. He's pointing out that the current budget is going to be a 2.5 trillion dollar deficit every year for as far as you can see. We can't do a 2.5 trillion dollar deficit for as far as we can s