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I don't think that's a group chat word.

I don't think that shows up in the record.

I don't think tumescence is part of their go-to.

Well, listen, what Phil Mickelson, apparently what he believes now, as your reporting continued, is that the game is actually still not over.

Correct.

who happens to be in this case pivoting way right, is trying to, it's just hard not to take the layups when they're available.

It's just hard not to just put it in when available.

It's fair.

The plan is U.S.

Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick is going to play golf with Phil Mickelson.

And this, of course, raises the follow-up journalistic question, which is what did Howard Lutnick have to say about that?

Hearing it all spelled out like this in these calls, in that quote, it does kind of feel a bit insulting to the Trump administration that the way everyone's trying to charm them is very predictable and very, like, almost infantilizing to the people they're trying to, like, charm here.

By the way, whatever happened to the group chat?

What happened to the room full of bros that you got to know in the course of your investigations?

Which is to say that Phil Mickelson has more time to play golf on the beautiful coast of Ocean America.

Or, you know, just keep writing.

Keep writing, Phil.

I'm not sure I would deploy it on the platform known as X. But I do think he should deploy it in a genre that might be described as XXX.

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