Episode 5672: Bill Pulte Live In The WarRoom; King Dollar Is Under Assault, But Still King Dollar

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Who is Bill Poulte and what is his role in the Trump administration?

Jonathan Swan 0:00

The the poster that Trump has is holding it it gives you a little window into his information ecosystem. So Bill Poulty, his actual job should be to oversee the safety of the housing market, the mortgage market. What he actually spends a a ton of time doing is creating these foam boards. And he basically so on the weekend AI or what are they they're foam boards with Memes. He's essentially a content generator for Trump's truth social feed. So on the weekends, Trump will be at his golf courses. And he's essentially unstaffed. Most of the senior staff are nowhere near him. It's if only a handful of them. But the person who's almost always with him is Bill Poulty. And Natalie Harper. And Natalie Harper. But so he you talked about his truth social feed.

Jonathan Swan 0:44

On the weekends, you know that the tell for the staff is that font you see at the top. When they see that on a truth So things they say that what was a poulty. You know, if you see one of these memes

Chris Hayes 0:54

He was studying a giant poster board with what appears to be a picture of a construction site beneath a headline in red lettering that appears to read Kennedy Center Demolished. Or maybe Demolition. L-I-S-H-O-N spelled incorrectly. What is this?

Jonathan Swan 1:10

Is this the plan? Is

Chris Hayes 1:12

this a threat?

Jonathan Swan 1:13

It's this very unusual situation where you have the housing the the man who should be running Freddie Ma uh uh Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, very serious job, important job, um, handing him memes for his truth social and reinforcing and and also being a hatchet man.

Unknown 1:28

But you say this as though Susie Wiles doesn't have the agency to fire all of them as the White House Chief of Staff, tell them to get I mean she Well she doesn't. But the White House Chief of Staff can decide who staffs the president. No, she can't. What are you talking about? Well th or quit? I mean do none of them care. I mean he's also it it's not like it's working. I guess you could lodge an argument in the first term, like, well, he's you know, his country's fifty fifty. The the country has rejected him. Democrats are about to lose in place places where they haven't Republicans are about to lose in places they haven't lost since the nineteen thirties. I mean it is a normal White House chief of staff's job to put people in place to prevent those things from happening.

Jonathan Swan 2:03

But the the role of Chief of Staff doesn't actually exist for Donald Trump. He's never like in the ways that we understand. You could have James Baker in that role. It will end up the same way. You've had like five different models of it now. John Kelly. But what do they do then, I guess? What do they do all day? They're a staffer, they can manage what they can manage, but Donald Trump himself is going to run this the way he wants. And no, they absolutely don't have the power to fire people like Bill Poulty or Natalie Harper because if Trump wants them there, he's the President of the United States.

Chris Hayes 2:33

Now you may have noticed that there's one other person captured clearly in that image. Uh, according to the New York Times, that is Bill Poulti, a Trump loyalist who's the nation's top housing official, uh, at least overseeing mortgages. He also did a stunt this year as the acting director of national intelligence. Remember that for about two weeks, fired a bunch of people. Poulte, like Trump, is a terrible speller infamously, and according to Times reporter Jonathan, regularly insert. inserts himself into Trump's inner circle and indulges his weird fantasies like this.

Jonathan Swan 3:03

He goes to Trump's golf clubs and he brings these foam boards and tr it's like they often end up being Trump will truth a lot of the stuff you see on his truth social on the weekends that's right in particular i is is sort of Bill Poulty's uh often his his handiwork.

Chris Hayes 3:23

Now, that looks like a classic Pulti foam board, and Pulti may not be doing anything about oh, I don't know, housing affordability, which again is supposedly his actual job, like mortgage rates are just hit near term records. But he knows what Donald Trump wants. What Donald Trump wants, uh apparently more than almost anything, is to basically steal a memorial to our assassinated president.