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Ben Shapiro (0:00)
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Bottom line is I'm a little optimistic because President Trump keeps making good decisions. It's almost as though all the myths that we were told about how Donald Trump was gonna come into office and then immediately staff up complete idiots around himself. It's almost as though those were untrue. And we were told that by the most intelligent people. After all, Donald Trump had fired people like General James Mattis. After all, Donald Trump had been at odds with so many members of his prior administration, there would be no one left. He would be forced to dip into the bottom of the barrel. And thus far, I see precisely zero evidence that that is indeed the case. The people who are apparently doing the staffing on a wide variety of issues include people like the Vice President of the United States, elect J.D. vance. Don Jr. Is on that team. Eric is on that. Eric Trump is on that team. You also have a bunch of Trump world insiders like Susie Wiles like people like Brian Hook is involved in the foreign policy team. In other words, the people who are gonna go into the Trump administration are not going to be jokers. They're going to be very serious people with a very serious portfolio. As mentioned, Donald Trump late yesterday announced that he would be tamping the campaign Co manager. Susie Wiles is the White House Chief of Staff. Susie Wiles, a very serious person. She's well respected on all sides of the political spectrum. Inside the Republican Party, Jeb Bush has endorsed. Everyone from Jeb Bush all the way to Donald Trump has endorsed Susie Wiles, the Chief of staff. She's a very serious politico. She obviously worked not only with Trump, but with Rick Scott down here when he was governor of Florida, with Governor DeSantis when he was running for governor of Florida. Then she went back into the Trump campaign. She is wily, she is savvy, and she is knife sharp. I mean, she is really a solid political fighter. According to the Wall Street Journal, Susie Wiles, who led President Trump's presidential run, will become his White House Chief of Staff when he retakes the presidency next year, the campaign said on Thursday, making her the first woman to hold that role in American history. Remember that time when he wouldn't surround himself with strong women, according to Mark Cuban? Yeah, I feel like he's. I feel like she's a woman. I don't know. Just gonna put that out there. Trump said in a statement. Susie wow's just helped me achieve one of the greatest political victories in American history and was an integral part of both my 2016 and 2020 successful campaigns. Suzy is tough, smart, innovative and universally admired and respected. Susie will continue to work tirelessly to make America great again. It is a well deserved honor to have Susie as the first ever female chief of staff in US History. I have no doubt she will make our country proud. Now, again, she keeps her cars real close to the vest. She's incredibly savvy, and she is not the type of person who is going to take kindly to people who do not have Team Trump's best interests at heart. So that is an excellent pick by President Trump. Again, she's well respected on pretty much every side of the Republican political spectrum. Now, the question as to how she negotiates in Congress, that one is still open. Usually the Chief of staff has a lot of congressional negotiations. The good news for her is that while she doesn't have tons of experience at doing that because again, she was campaign manager in 2016 and 2020, in part, and she didn't really involve herself in legislative affairs. She will be negotiating with Mike Johnson in the House. In the Senate, the Senate leadership battle is still wide open at this point. There's a lot of speculation about who is going to take over as the Senate Majority Leader because Mitch McConnell has announced he's going to step down. There's some rumors that Rick Scott, for example, is trying to run for it. There's more than rumors. He does want the Senate majority leadership position. There are some members of the base who are very hot on Rick Scott. So he's a possibility. John Thune is a very solid possibility. Most of the more established members of the US Senate are probably going to back Thune or John Cornyn. Honestly, any of those people will be perfectly capable of negotiating with President Trump and we'll do a fine job in that role. Okay. Meanwhile, President Elect Trump and his senior advisors are privately assembling short lists of candidates for top jobs in the incoming administration. Apparently, Trump's transition team, according to the Wall Street Journal, is being led by co chair Howard Lutnick, who is of course involved in the campaign. He's overseeing personnel. He's put together spreadsheets with names for the former President to consider. Among the people who are being considered National Security Advisor, the names that are coming up are Richard Grinnell, Rick Grinnell, we all know him, obviously. He was Trump's former Ambassador to Germany and acting Director of National Intelligence. Rick would do an amazing job in that role. Other potential candidates include Keith Kellogg, an octogenarian, retired three star army general and former NSA to Vice President Mike Pence, former Defense Department official Elbridge COLBY, and Robert O'Brien, who is the last NSA under Donald Trump. Some of the people mentioned for Treasury Secretary include Scott Besant, keyscore Group founder, as well as billionaire investor John Paulson, Secretary of State. A few of the possibilities mentioned are Senator Bill Haggerty of Tennessee as well as Senator Marco Rubio of Florida. Both of those would be excellent picks. Other potential candidates include O'Brien, Grinnell and former senior State Department official Brian Hook, who is largely seen as the person compiling lists on who precisely should go into the foreign policy establishment. We'll get to Brian Hook in just a moment because he's been speaking publicly about what the administration's Iran policy is and it is already bearing fruit. They haven't even taken office yet and action is already happening to bring down conflict in the Middle East. As far as Secretary of Defense, some names that have been thrown out, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Trump did Give him a shout out. As you'll recall Wednesday morning in his victory speech in Florida, also, Republican Representative John Ratcliffe, who has served as Trump's DNI, is being put forward as a possible DoD head or CIA head. Mike Walz, a congressman from Florida. He also is being considered as a possible DOD leader. Homeland Security. We're hearing Chad Wolf, who'd be great. We're hearing Tom Homan, who would be great. The bottom line is all of these names are good, legitimately. All of these names would be not just acceptable, but excellent. And the markets are picking up on this. Washington is open for business, as Axios puts it. Marc Andreessen, an investor who backed President Trump in this race, he tweeted out this morning that he believes that we are going to be seeing unprecedented economic growth. He says, quote, america is in an economic coiled spring. We should be growing at least 4% annually, ideally 6 to 8%. Growth has been brutally suppressed since before I was born there. There's so much to build. The payoff for all Americans will be incredible. That is the mood in the business community as the Axios reports. Buckle up. President elect Trump plans fast action on a business friendly agenda of tax cuts, deregulation and expanded energy production. His advisors tell us, by the way, all of this stuff does have a downward effect on inflation because when you have more productivity, that means more supply and that then keeps up with demand and then the prices drop. Deregulation means more investment, it means economic growth, it means more innovation. According to Axios, Trump plans to load his White House and Cabinet with business and tech friendly executives and stretch the powers of the presidency to force quick changes behind the scenes. Trump advisers believe they wasted early opportunities to grow the economy in his first term because they didn't know how to staff. See, this is the nice thing, Trump term two. They know exactly who they have to fire. Trump is going to take office with a triumvirate. He'll have the House, he'll have the Senate. He's going to fill his top ranks with actual business leaders. The courts are largely going to support him. The people picking staff include Elon Musk, Mark Andreessen, David Sachs and Joe Lonsdale. My goodness, what a team that's going to be. You want to talk about growing the economy, you want to talk about a productivity explosion, you want to talk about people who know how to build businesses and how markets work, you're not going to do better than that group of people. Honestly, they're all great. Meanwhile, the other power players are Howard Lutnick, chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald and Linda McMahon, who headed the Small Business Administration during Trump's first term. You're watching a bunch of CEOs come out basically celebrating Trump's win. Jeff Bezos congratulated him. Obviously, he wasn't the only one. You're starting to see business people get real enthusiastic about what is coming down the pike and they should be. Meanwhile, some of the supposed regulators, the more extreme regulators, they're going to be gone. So, for example, Gary Gensler, who's been awful, he's the head of the securities and Exchanges Commission. He's been focused largely on preventing business from making investment. Wall street executives are happy to see him go. He is going to be tossed out immediately. Some of the possibilities to replace him would be Dan Gallagher, chief legal officer at Robinhood and previous SEC commissioner. Meanwhile, over at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which is Elizabeth Warren's Orwellian institution, to crack down on the markets, Trump is going to install a new leader at the cfpb. One name that has been floated is Todd Zwicky, a law professor at George Mason University. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation fdic. The chairman resigned in May. Now the Trump administration is poised to loosen the reins somewhat at the FDIC to allow banks to actually do their business. And it is going to be a boom time in American life. Everybody who's in business knows it. Meanwhile, Elon Musk is going to go in there and he's going to start cutting. According to the Wall Street Journal, lessons from the Elon Musk School of Management shed light on how the billionaire will go about slashing government spending in a new Trump White House. We know, for example, that when Elon Musk took over x, he fired 80% of the workforce. Increasing efficiency is something that Elon Musk is very much familiar with. Now, again, he's not going to be able to cut trillions of dollars from the budget, but there will be a rare window of opportunity to pursue spending cuts for sure. And Musk is going to go through. And a lot of these government contracts were done on a no bid basis. You could see him reopen all of that and bring down costs solely on that basis as well. Meanwhile, federal workers are preparing for cuts and they're preparing for the possibility of forced relocation. Because Donald Trump is talking about taking many of these departments and moving them outside of Washington, D.C. which is great, gets rid of the entire swamp entirely. So what you would see, presumably is like the Department of Agriculture would move out. You would see other departments moved out of Washington D.C. schedule F would strip job protections from many career federal employees in policy roles. So get ready. Trump's a coming and the boom is coming as well as the Wall Street Journal says Wall street has rarely been more excited by an election. US stocks as capitalization rose by $1.62 trillion on Wednesday, their fifth best one day showing ever following Donald Trump's decisive election victory. Investors are celebrating, said Jack Ablin, the chief investment officer at Crescent Capital in Chicago. The enthusiasm is especially heated in a few areas. Banks and other financial companies climbed. Investors expect regulatory scrutiny will ease. 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They're going to throttle its oil sales as part of an aggressive strategy to undercut Tehran's support of violent Mideast proxies and its nuclear program, according to people briefed on President Trump's early plans when he takes office on January 20th. Trump's approach to Iran is likely to be colored by the knowledge that its agents tried to assassinate him and former top national security aides after they left office. Plus, Iran is believing to be seeking revenge for the 2020 Trump drone strike that killed Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran's covert paramilitary operations. People tend to take that tough. People tend to take that stuff personally, said Mick Mulroy, a top Pentagon official for the Mideast in Trump's first term. If he's going to be hawkish on any particular country designated major adversaries, it is in fact, Iran. They're gonna choke off Iran's oil income. They're going to diplomatically isolate Iran. Brian Hook, who oversaw Iran policy at the State Department in Trump's first term, is now in charge of the Trump transition. For the State Department said Thursday the president elect had no interest in seeking to overthrow Iran's rulers. But of course, what he means by that is that the conditions are going to made ripe for the Iranian people to do what they should do and overthrow Iran's rulers. Here is Brian Hook again, former top State Department official. He's going to be in charge, apparently, of not just Iran policy, but staffing of the State Department. That place needs to be cleaned out stem to stern. It is rife with the foreign policy dolt, and Brian Hook needs to go in there with a chainsaw and just start cutting people. Here's Brian Hook explaining about foreign policy.
