Tripp Mickle

President Trump to gear up to sign this executive order.

And that morning, he begins to get skeptical about it and say, what is this on my calendar?

And he calls, he starts calling tech executives and saying, hey, what do you think of this?

And so he speaks to a number of tech executives, including Mark Zuckerberg, Mark Andreessen, the venture capitalist who has a tremendous amount of influence on the White House, and most importantly, David Sachs.

And David Sachs tells him directly, don't sign this.

This is a bad idea.

Wow.

Within a few hours of that, the president's on TV doing another event.

And he says that he's canceling the executive order signing event because he's concerned that it's going to create rules that slow down the industry.

there's persistence from Susie Wiles and Scott Besson that something still needs to happen.

And over...

Roughly the two weeks that follow, they continue to push this notion forward.

And the president convenes a meeting this Monday at the White House with David Sachs, Scott Besant, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and other principals who have a vested interest in this.

And they basically wrestle with how do we get this done?

And in the course of that conversation, there are a few changes made to the executive order.

One is that that 90-day window is reduced to up to 30 days.

So cut down by a third.

That's a lot.

Yeah, that's a lot.

And there's a line added about how nothing in the executive order can be construed to authorize a mandatory government licensing preclearance or permitting process to be put in place.