Michael Scherer

He gets a presentation like, OK, we're going to do that.

He doesn't need to read the source material.

He doesn't need to go back through the history of things.

You know, Bill Pulte, who runs the Federal Housing Finance Organization, I don't know the proper name for it, will come into the Oval Office with like poster boards.

I've been in the Oval Office in the first term and seen briefing documents for Trump about a policy thing that are basically like 100 word on a page bullet point documents.

things that they're not detailed.

It's like, here's like the five sentences you need to know about this thing before you make a decision.

Not here's the 500 pages you need to know.

I mean, it's just not the same kind of policy.

Whereas Obama, if you're comparing him to him, is really in the weeds of, you know, economic theory.

And I mean, you did health care reform.

I mean, there's nothing like Obama understood that bill.

I don't think Trump has the same level of understanding of the big, beautiful bill.

I mean, he knows there's no tax on tips, but he doesn't know exactly what the salt compromise was coming out of that.

Michael?

If I had a fourth, I'd put Bender's book there.

Thank you.

An Image of My Name Enters America, which is a book of essays, sort of personal essays by Lucy Ives.

I read it last year, and I had so much fun.

It's the most fun I've had reading a book in a long time.