Gary Cohn

In his first term, the Trump White House put out proclamations celebrating the contributions of people with dyslexia.

Gary Cohn, who was one of his top economic advisors, has talked openly about growing up dyslexic.

And if my old theory is even half right, Trump might have some of these traits himself.

I'm not saying that to have a go at him.

Which brings us to our last video of the day.

Gary Cohen, the average citizen today, is unhappy with their financial position.

And I would ask all of you that question now, rhetorically, but feel free to answer to yourself while you're doing whatever it is that you're doing.

Do you really feel good about the economy? Do you really feel good about, excuse me, the politics? Do you really feel like the things that are happening are gonna benefit you, benefit me, benefit our families? Because I don't feel that way.

Yeah.

That's the real world economics of what the government's doing.

Let's get over here and finish this up with Gary Cohen's statement, which is actually a very prudent statement for a talking head on CNBC.

And he is an outlier here.

With new leadership incoming, the market has already expressed their view of shifting the past concerns and making change.

Gary Cohn, IBM vice chair and former NEC director, when breaking down the economy, described why the people's concerns broke out.

it's not affecting a big enough percentage of the population so the economy can grow and the economy can get bigger and the big companies are spending money they're spending capex and it's driving economic growth but it's not working its way down into the system and the financial position of people is unsatisfying to them and look it's been this way for a while

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but somehow figured it out and made his way to Jay Aaron.

And when he was there, he was clever enough to say, okay, that guy, Gary Cohn, and that guy, Lloyd Blankfein, those are the people that I want to sort of attach my wagon to because they're going to be successful and they're going to drag me along with them.

And obviously I'm going to have to work hard to do it.

And he navigated that place as well as anybody I've ever seen.

It's not even like the first term where there was still, I think, a balance of different ideas.

You had Mattis and Tillerson and you had Gary Cohn.

Right.

Exactly.

Right.

Gary Cohn, the Goldman Sachs head who is the NEC director, National Economics Council and Trump's first term, would not have presided over this tariffs regime.

He just would not have.

Right.

But in Trump II, there was much less resistance.

In Trump I, there were people on the business side like Gary Cohen, a former head of Goldman Sachs, who famously stole papers off the president's desk and hid them so he wouldn't see them.

They used a variety of... a variety of techniques.

But I think the second term began with this sort of epidemic of capitulation to the president.

Your agentic AI does it in a heartbeat.

Gary Cohn's daughter, he told me, used to get a million dollars to crush code.

I don't know.

100,000 pieces down to whatever the number

You remember when he came down from Mount Evil like Orange Moses with the tariffs and the big tablet? They would have never let him do that in Trump 1.

Those economists, Gary Cohen, Steven Mnuchin, they were tough guys, really cared about the country.

They would have stopped that nonsense.

He's got a group of willing sycophants and loyalists Where, you know, even Peter Thiel, who's an ardent right winger, he has said that the loyalty versus the brain chemistry, the comprehensive nature of how these guys think, you know, their competency is at a zero.