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n you go to the Democrats and they're like, "Well, we oppose the oligarchs and we want to make sure that we keep habeas corpus for the MS-13 guys." Well, and everybody else. It's so lame. And then what about the chaos? If you were to ask the person in the street, where's the chaos happening? Now they might say Doge, but have you noticed that Elon Musk has quite cleverly removed himself from all po…

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guess that's per year, but that's not enough for Waymo to make money. I guess they have higher costs. And now if you were to look at Tesla, if they could get up to 100,000 robo taxis based on the likely charge that there would be for a ride, etc., they would make 2.9 billion in pure profit annually. And that's just the start. So the number of billions of dollars that these robo taxis could make, it's a big number because you could easily get to millions. So you're looking at 20 to 50 billion dollars a year just for the robo taxis. Amazing. We'll see if that happens.

Meanwhile, as you know, Trump's going to the Middle East to talk to a bunch of countries. But as the news is reporting, the Trump family has a number of business deals over in the Middle East. Trump thinks he'll come back with a trillion dollars in commitments to invest in the United States from the Middle East. If he does, that's going to be pretty impressive. We'll see. Axios is reporting that. But the Wall Street Journal is talking about the Trump family business connections to the Middle East. And I think this is important because these do feel like it should at least be fully transparent, which I think it is. I think it's fully transparent. So I'd worry more if we didn't know something about it.

But for example in the past year some Trump-branded residential towers have been launched in Dubai and Jeddah and then there's also a Trump luxury golf resort that's being launched in Qatar. Now here's what you need to know. These are Trump-branded properties, meaning that he just licenses his name, but the ownership of the property is whoever built it, I guess. So Trump does two kinds of business. One is he does build his own resorts and stuff, but he also just licenses his name to other people who are going to do it. So are you comfortable with him doing business as the president with these same countries where there are very large investments that benefit the Trump family? I'm not fully comfortable with that. But on the other hand, should they be denied the ability to do what they normally do because this is completely normal business for them? They license their name.

Do you think that there would be this many Trump-branded properties if he were not president of the United States? I kind of doubt it. So you have to worry about that. And there's something about the UAE and the royal family fund and something about Trump-related crypto stable coins that I don't understand, but it looks like something to worry about, something to keep an eye on. And then on top of that, the Qataris have offered a gift to the United States of a plane that would replace Air Force One. Now you might say to yourself, why do you need to do that? Well, the Air Force Ones that we have, I think there might be two of them, but they're like 35 to 40 years old. And Trump has had an order in for a new one for a long time, but it looks like it'll be seven to ten years before the new ones get built. So you'd never

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be able to see the benefits. But the Qataris have a plane that apparently they're willing to part with, a new one. And they said, "Why don't we give it to the Air Force?" So it's not Trump's gift exactly. It'd be given to the Air Force and then somehow later it would be donated to the Trump Library for his use. So that seems a little sketchy. So it feels a little like you'd be getting a free airpl…

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