Brett

We could win this easily.

It's gonna be a piece of cake.

We'll get in, we'll get out, done.

Ben has muted his audio.

you know i think back to uh you know oddly republicans uh phrase from back in the day ronald reagan when he was dealing with the soviet union trying to make agreements with the soviet union he would often say trust but verify that was a big reagan phrase trust but

but verify.

I think we need to update that for the Trump era because you can't trust the guy at all.

So I don't know what the phrase is.

I don't know if it's just don't trust unless it's verified, never trust, only verify.

But you could have a really good track record at predicting what's actually going on by basically never believing anything Donald Trump says.

You know, there are rare circumstances where like, oh, he's obviously telling the truth.

Like, we bombed Iran, right?

Like, you can't lie about that.

Like, we're going to find out very quickly, right, if you lied about that.

But when it comes to this kind of like more, nuance isn't even the right word, but when it comes to all the other stuff around it, right, Donald Trump just lies and lies and lies and lies and lies.

and so you got to watch what he's doing not what he's saying you got to kind of comb through the reporting see where the sourcing is coming from who said this oh they got this from a trump official i might take that with uh you know with with a grain of salt rather than seeing you know what the actual movement of troops looks like right now

or what a neutral mediator in the process says.

And so it requires a new level of media literacy, I think, that has not been even required in the past.

But I think if you don't trust and then verify, you're going to have a much better track record with this administration.

Unfortunately, the markets don't take that approach too often, although, as Ben said, they're starting to because they're