uch energy and you couldn't you didn't have a way to get it. Now there is a way to get it. You can build your own power plant and you'll find a way to get approval.

And then Jensen Huang of Nvidia had some comments about meeting Trump and how different he is when you actually meet him in person. Now, see if this sounds familiar. Has anybody else said this? That when he met Trump in person, he said he quote, "He surprised me." First of all, he's an incredibly good listener. Have you ever heard that before? That he's an incredibly good listener. That's almost the first thing I said after I met him. So in 2018, I met Trump in the Oval Office and got to chat with him a little bit and I came away with exactly the same impression. I was like, "Oh my god, he's such a good listener." He asks questions, right? So first of all but if somebody asks questions that shows interest and then he really listens and then he interacts with your answer so you know he's engaged and he's totally focused on you when you're giving the answer and you feel it. It's a hell of a superpower but I'm happy to know that it wasn't just my own impression. It seems like everybody who meets him I think Bill Maher said something similar that you don't expect it but he's just a really good listener and that's just a superpower because everybody appreciates it.

Anyway so on another topic Trump says that the big beautiful bill is going to give some tax deductions for the middle class. So if you borrow money to buy a car, now with the new rules, you're allowed to deduct the interest from your income tax. So it's only the interest. And I think you have to have a loan to make this possible. And Trump says that's going to be a big deal. It will be a big deal. Now, the only thing it will make less expensive is the interest on the loan because you get to write it off. You're not going to get a deal on the price of the car, but the interest on it may be a lot less. But the deductions up to 10,000 annually. So and I imagine there's probably an income cap because he mentioned middle class. So I suppose if you earn too much money, you don't get that. But the middle class will love it.

I saw a podcast in which Victor Davis Hanson was talking to Dr. Scott Atlas. I think I don't know which podcast it was, one of their podcasts, but Victor had an interesting summary of Trump and I just I'm just going to repeat it because it's such an interesting way to put it. He said, quote, "At one point, Trump was looking at $500 million in fines. They took his name off the ballot in 25 states, raided his home, debanked his wife and son, they impeached him twice, and tried him as a private citizen. That would have broken any other person." To which I say, we forget how much peril he was in.

Trump was in this situation where you couldn't really go around it. You couldn't avoid it. You couldn't really minimize it. He had one and only one strategy which looked damn near impossible at the time. The one way he could survive is to become president of the United States against all odds with all of that hanging over him. You know, he was a convicted felon and every other accusation and hundreds of millions of fines. The only way he could stay out of jail, the only way he could recover his reputation, the only way was to become president of the United States, really against all odds.

Now, here's the fun part. You know who knew that besides Trump? I did. I knew he had one way out, but so did you. You knew it. You knew that the only way out was directly through it. Right through the middle. He had to carve the intestines out of the whole situation and just walk right through the body of it. Short of that, he didn't have a chance. And I don't know about you, but it felt personal to me. Did you have that feeling? It didn't feel like I was watching a show and oh, there's this person in the news who's got peril. It felt personal. I felt that if he went down, it would be real easy to get to me and other people who talked about the news and not the way that people liked. So that was personal.

And so when I would advocate and use social media and try to play with messaging and try to add to as much as I could add to his odds of getting elected, I was also fighting for my life. Now, that wouldn't be true of everybody, but I'm a public figure and I watched the January 6 people being taken down for practically nothing. I watched all of his lawyers being taken down for practically nothing. I watched the destruction of the reputation of everybody around him. And then I got cancelled. I got cancelled. And do you know what I said when I got cancelled? I can't go around this. I can't avoid it. I've got to go right through the middle of it. That's the only way I'm going to get out. So I went through the middle of it. I doubled down. Here I am.

So I feel that we were in this death match and we were sort of in it together. You were helping me as I was trying to help myself but also help the president and help the country. So I had very high stakes, very high stakes. And it's easy to forget, you know, once things turn your way and hey, you know, golden age is happening and we got I got the president I wanted and he's not going to jail and all that, it's real easy to forget how dangerous that was, you know, the level of peril that we were in. And I definitely shared, you know, a minor, I mean, nothing like what Trump was going through, of course, but I shared that and I'm quite proud of the fact that I doubled down on the fight and that turned out to be the right strategy.

Anyway, believe it or not, the Washington Post had an article today saying that food prices are actually more affordable if you take into account inflation plus the increase in people's pay. So pay is up a little bit. Inflation's a little bit under control. And although food prices might be going up a little bit or flat in some cases, Washington Post wants you to know if you factor everything in, it's a little bit more affordable, relatively speaking. Now, that is a very surprising thing to see in the Washington Post because it's very pro-Trump in its factual basis.

But then even more surprising, ABC kind of went against the Washington Post and their story about the Venezuelan coke boat and what we're calling the double tap hoax. The double tap hoax. So the idea is that the Houthis are being accused of ordering a second missile to kill the two survivors of the first missile attack on the first cocaine boat. Now of course there's a lot of question about the factual situation. We don't know. It sounds like the Houthis weren't even aware that there were any survivors. But according to ABC News, their version of it is that the survivors climbed back into the bo