ly fill the jobs. So that's where Trump's common sense take comes in.

You know, you got your ideal. The ideal would be don't hire anybody outside the country. You can train Americans. That's a nice ideal. Trump gets it. He knows that. He would agree with the ideal. So if he's still in favor of doing it, fully understanding that the ideal situation would also be ideal America First MAGA, and he's still not going with the ideal America First MAGA is because he has a common sense view of the world. You can't easily fill these jobs.

Elon Musk will tell you that sometimes you're just going to have to grab a Brit or a Nigerian engineer or something, somebody who's already closer to knowing how to do the job. So I'm no expert. And if you say to me, "Scott, I would rather that we don't even have these industries than we have this big open door where people coming in and taking all our good stuff like our jobs." I could respect that opinion. I would respect that. I would disagree with it. But I think that's an opinion I could respect because it's grounded on something that makes sense. Don't give your stuff away. If you can make it work, you know, if you could find a way to not let in any H-1B visa people and also be dominant in all these high-tech industries, if you can find a way to do that, I'm all in.

But I'm kind of agreeing with Trump. If you're just trying to be practical and you're trying to be common sense and you're getting advice from real people in the real world, you know, like if Elon Musk says, "I can't hire as many Americans as I need to support my high-tech companies," what are you going to say? You're wrong. He's not wrong. He's in the trenches, right? So I think the people in the trenches largely agree that it would make a big difference if at least for some sets of jobs, not everyone. I'm not in favor of H-1B for sort of ordinary jobs where you could clearly find Americans who would love those jobs. We're not talking about that. We're talking about somebody who knows how to make a microchip, right? Real specialized stuff. For that, I would take no chance.

All right. Here's a way for me to say it so that you might agree with me. It's just a better way to say it. I would never take the chance that the USA fell behind in an important technology because of H-1B visas being unavailable. That would be a risk, wouldn't you say? Whenever we allow anybody else to get ahead of us in a technology, if it's one of the critical ones, that becomes their economy, it becomes their military, and then they would dominate us, depending on the industry.

So would you agree that it's super important that we dominate the critical industries if we can? You'd agree with that, right? So what gets you closer to being able to dominate those industries, a controlled economy or a free market? And of course I'm setting you up, right?

How do they know we don't have the talents? You're on the wrong argument. You're on the wrong argument.

Let me also say that the way the H-1B visa stuff has run in the past, I'm not arguing for that because I do think that there were too many abuses. But the question is this. If you allowed these big companies to hire whenever there was a real shortage of a real skill, would America do better or worse industrywide in dominating a technology? If you could say, "Scott, if you just let the big companies hire, but only when it's really critical. We're not talking about ordinary skills, but if you give them the freedom to do that, you're closer to a free market than if you don't give them the freedom to do that."

So what Trump is arguing is you need to give these people like Musk freedom. That if they say the only way I can make this work is with these specialized people, then you let them do that because you're not running their company. You don't want the government to decide who they hire.

Right? Now the exception would be and here's where we all agree. If it was for somebody to work on the assembly line and it was just like a real good union or non-union job, I want that to go to an American. Even if it's say entry level engineering and we don't have that many, still I'd want that to go to the American. So if there's a little bit of friction, I want it to go to the American. But if there's a lot of risk such as we'll fall behind in a critical industry, I want.

So first you want to win if it's a critical industry. And if somebody like a Musk says the only way we can win, I'm sorry. I would love to hire America First, but for some of these jobs, such as building your own microchip fab, which is what Tesla wants to do, for some of these jobs, you're just going to have to hire from other countries. And by the way, every time we hire away one of the top people from another country, that also is good for our situation in the world. So we win by getting the talent, but we also win by denying that same talent to a country that could have used it instead of us.

So if you see it in terms of risk management and you apply it only to those industries that are critical to our future survival, I think we end up on the same page or very close. But yeah, short of national survival, which is tied to dominating certain industries, short of that, there's no reason to consider H-1B when you can train Americans all on the same page.

Here's something that I keep trying to say in different ways until it hits. I don't think it hasn't hit yet, but I was watching a movie that was called something like The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen or something, Warfare of Extraordinary Gentlemen. And I thought that one of the biggest stories that political stories, one of the biggest political stories in the world is completely ignored. It's like an unspoken understanding. And it goes like this, that the GOP has been taken over by unusually intelligent people. Unusually intelligent people.

Let me tell you what I mean by that. In my opinion, one of the things that people get wrong about Trump all the time and then there's surprise is that he likes extraordinary people. He likes extraordinary people. Be they athletes, you know, could be boxers or fighters, could be baseball players. Darryl Strawberry, he likes extraordinary people.

Now some people think, oh he's got such a big ego that he doesn't want to be around people who are actually smart because he wants to be the smartest person in the room. No, that's not him at all. Part of what makes him special is that he recognizes and boosts unusually capable people. You know, why is RFK Jr. part of his administration? Because he's unusually capable, right? Why is David Sacks got an important role? Only one reason. He's unusually capable, right? You know, Jared, why does he have Jared helping? He's unusually capable. He happens to be related, which gives him a little bit of an advantage, but he's unusually capable.

And once you see that and you see that everybody from Elon Musk to you could go down the line from Joe Rogan etc. If you made a list of the people who are supporting him how many of them would you describe as unusually smart like just not normal smart but just unusually smart. And when you see that the unusually smart seem to have found a home, like they found a home because you can't really it's hard to be unusually smart if you're not around other unusually smart people. And so it kind of created a home for the unusually smart.

And we could talk about who's on my list of unusually smart, but I'll bet you would have a very similar list of the unusually smart. And I don't know how you beat that group if they stayed, if they decided to have a coherent after Trump policy, they could put together quite a doozy if they could find the right carrier for the ideas. You might be JD, maybe not. We'll see.

So Trump gave his tour of the White House to Laura Ingraham and took her by the Hall of Presidents that includes now the autopen photo in place of Biden. And Trump said that was his idea. He comes up with all the good ideas he says, which is also funny. And he has no plans to ever change it. He's going to keep the autopen there for four years. I don't know how long it will last after that, but that is a good joke. Like if you can't appreciate the humor of that and you think that's the worst thing that ever happened, you don't really understand Trump at all.

And I would argue that my prior point about the unusually intelligent people who have decided to be on the same side, part of that unusual intelligence is accepting of edgy humor. Would you agree that the smartest people you know are probably the people who can take the hardest joke, right? Am I imagining that or is that just sort of obviously true? It's dumb people who have trouble understanding the joke is a joke. You know, once you get to a certain level of intelligence, you just know a joke's a joke and you get over it pretty quickly.

So I think the base totally understands the autopen and they know that its purpose in large part is to bother the Democrats. And every time it's there and it bothers a Democrat and it gives them something to talk about, I laugh again. So it's like the gift that keeps on giving. It's never not funny. Yeah. But the funny part is not that he's doing it. I'm sorry. The funny part is not just that it's an autopen instead of a photo. That is funny, but you get over that part kind of quickly, but it remains funny because it still bothers them. The fact that it never stops bothering them. That's the joke. That's the joke. And that doesn't get less funny.

All right. Did you know the Washington Times is reporting the number of suspected terrorists coming over the border is way up? Did you know that the number of quote suspected terrorists crossing the border is up by 30-fold? Are you afraid yet? The number of suspected terrorists coming across the border is up 30-fold.

Okay, don't worry. It's not bad news. What it is is once the cartels were designated as terrorist organizations and then we