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d of time, and aim for a market cap for the company. So this would just be the value of Tesla. They want him to hit a market cap of 8.5 trillion. That'd be pretty good. And they want to commit to up to 10 years in the CEO role. I'm guessing he'd be okay with that. I don't know. And he gets 12% of the company stock. I guess somebody estimated that he could make a trillion dollars. A trillion dollar…

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All right. I love this too. President Trump says he's going to make some big announcement at 4:00 p.m. Eastern time today. Now, does anybody else have the same impression I do that he's turned the government into a really good reality show? And when he does this big announcement, you might not think it's a big announcement when it happens. Like it might not be a world-changing announcement. It might be just a thing that he could have put out in a Truth Social post if he wanted to. But don't you love the fact that he teases you that there's something big coming? Because you don't interpret that as something big and bad, right? So you don't assume he's going to start a war or something, but he says it's a big announcement. So it feels like it would be something positive. And then he makes us wait. Best showman ever.

So I guess last night the White House and Trump and Melania hosted a dinner for a whole bunch of tech leaders. So Trump was sitting next to Zuckerberg and if you saw some of the clips, Trump really looked like he was having fun. That is the most sort of laughing and smiling I've seen on Trump maybe ever. He seemed like he just really liked that table full of people who he called the geniuses, and they are all the geniuses now. I guess he had Bill Gates on the other side of Melania and there's some clips of him talking. And so there's this big drama because Trump was too nice to Bill Gates and so many people think Bill Gates is the devil. And I'm going to come down strongly in the, well it's probably a gray area. There are probably some things that Bill Gates has done or will do that you would really, r

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eally not like. I don't know what they would be exactly. And there are probably some things he's going to do that are just flat-out good for the world. And we can argue about which list is bigger and all that. So I would say that Bill Gates is probably a complicated situation because he's definitely got some plans for the world that I know you think you would rather have an option and not have hi…

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