Tommy Vitor
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You know, because that's the most valuable stuff, right?
And so the reason it's different scale is not just the money involved.
It's that it's like national interest being traded away.
And there's no payment like to the United States.
It's just to Eric Trump and, you know, the Witkoff family, right?
So you're not seeing any benefit from this.
Like, you know, it's just going right to the kitty.
And the other thing I think that, you know, Trump did, the reason this is so much worse in the second term, right?
First term, you had like,
I know Saudi's paying top dollar to stay at Trump hotels, things like that, is I think what Trump did is he studied, insofar as he's a student, but he paid attention.
How does Putin operate?
How does Erdogan operate?
How do other corrupt regimes operate?
And he's like, well, when I get back in there, I'm just going to do that.
And so I think what we're seeing is the United States operating like Malaysia has at times or like Turkey has at times or certainly how Russia has.
But I think what's different, again, is just the scale because what those countries don't have is like thousands of the best chips in the world.
So he can โ it's a bigger scale even than those countries because of what he has to trade away.
Yeah, and the Gulf is a piece of this, right?
Because essentially, we're in a world without a ton of liquidity, right?
Some of these people who are also very rich on screens, they don't have...