Jordan Schneider

I think we got like Trump, we got Lutnik, we got Bessence and then, you know, give Jay, give JD like 25%.

I don't know.

We'll see how many group chats he ends up being on, but like there was a mode of policymaking that I think America really recoiled from.

FDR, he was president for three and a half terms.

He basically shot from the hip.

And it was what he said goes and all of his buds just like listen to what he did.

And there was an understanding at the start of the Truman administration that there needed to be institutionalization, that you needed sort of more people thinking about these things, more planning.

The world's a really complicated place.

We got to trade off all these different dynamics and interests and think about the military and the economic and the diplomatic and the social components so that you need bureaucracies.

to like move paper, make sure all these opinions are heard such that when you start making these very consequential decisions, it's not just like, you know, FDR vibing it out.

And we have now returned to a president vibing it out.

with the world immensely more complicated than it even was in 1946.

Right.

So, um, yeah, it's totally incoherent.

It is not just that Trump is a very unique historical figure, which is making it incoherent.

I think you could also look at the Biden administration, which much, which was a lot more process forward as having a sort of Janice faced, like confused version

you know, they literally call it like we're going to compete and collaborate.

It's like talking about AI, like we got to like use the benefits and mitigate the risks.

It's like, OK, well, you know, you got to square that circle somehow.

And if you stop trade with China tomorrow, the U.S.