Jonathan Swan

There is a mystical... There's a kind of mystical quality was what our colleagues said. Yeah, that is the word they used. And it's like, this guy must know something that we don't know. And so it's a different element when you have things that in the first term, when Trump was like, let's tariff the world, Gary Cohn or Steve Mnuchin would be like, no, that's insane. Let's not tariff the world.

There is a mystical... There's a kind of mystical quality was what our colleagues said. Yeah, that is the word they used. And it's like, this guy must know something that we don't know. And so it's a different element when you have things that in the first term, when Trump was like, let's tariff the world, Gary Cohn or Steve Mnuchin would be like, no, that's insane. Let's not tariff the world.

You don't have those conversations anymore. You have an argument within narrower margins. Should we give this exemption? Should we give that exemption? So There is a deference to his instincts that is genuine and powerful and not just a bunch of toady sycophants who are submerging their own views to serve Orange God. It's actually something much deeper than that.

You don't have those conversations anymore. You have an argument within narrower margins. Should we give this exemption? Should we give that exemption? So There is a deference to his instincts that is genuine and powerful and not just a bunch of toady sycophants who are submerging their own views to serve Orange God. It's actually something much deeper than that.

Thanks so much. Thank you.

Thanks so much. Thank you.

Last week, President Trump explicitly directed the Justice Department to scrutinize Chris Krebs to see if it can find any evidence of criminal wrongdoing. How is that not an abuse of power to direct the Justice Department to look into an individual, a named individual?

Last week, President Trump explicitly directed the Justice Department to scrutinize Chris Krebs to see if it can find any evidence of criminal wrongdoing. How is that not an abuse of power to direct the Justice Department to look into an individual, a named individual?

Last week, President Trump explicitly directed the Justice Department to scrutinize Chris Krebs to see if it can find any evidence of criminal wrongdoing. How is that not an abuse of power to direct the Justice Department to look into an individual, a named individual?

Well, if you listen to the public explanations from his aides... This negotiation went exactly the way we had hoped it would go.

Well, if you listen to the public explanations from his aides... This negotiation went exactly the way we had hoped it would go.

And then... Can you walk us through what you're thinking about why you decided to put a 90-day pause? Well, I thought that people were jumping a little bit out of line. They were getting yippy, you know? They were getting a little bit yippy, a little bit...

And then... Can you walk us through what you're thinking about why you decided to put a 90-day pause? Well, I thought that people were jumping a little bit out of line. They were getting yippy, you know? They were getting a little bit yippy, a little bit...

The bond market right now is beautiful.

The bond market right now is beautiful.

Checked your 401k today, you know you lost a lot, a lot of money.

Checked your 401k today, you know you lost a lot, a lot of money.

President Trump is doubling down, now threatening even bigger tariffs on imports from China, 50%, if the country does not revoke its retaliatory tariffs on American products sold there.

President Trump is doubling down, now threatening even bigger tariffs on imports from China, 50%, if the country does not revoke its retaliatory tariffs on American products sold there.

There's no escaping the fact that business leaders are really losing confidence.