Happy Friday, really happy to have you here. There is a pattern in the news cycle when Donald

Trump is president. It was true in the first term. Apparently, it's going to be true in the

second term, too. And I don't want to read too much into what we know about him, like, as a human,

but it would appear that he is a guy who stays up late and sleeps late.

You'll notice there aren't a lot of morning events that happened at the White House that happened at the White House while he's president.

Given that as far as he's concerned, the government is basically just him, the fact that he's a late night late sleeper guy in the first term, and it appears now in the

second term again, creates a news cadence in which often there isn't really anything new

in national politics or in national news coming out of Washington in the morning papers.

That wasn't there from the night before,

because in the morning, the king is snoozing. So nothing happens early in the day. But then

he ultimately, you know, wakes up and starts lumbering around and wrecking stuff. And so we

have this news cadence when when Trump is president, where the news starts to pick up each day just in the mid-afternoon.

And then by nighttime, it's going fully nuts.

That was what was true in the first term.

It seems to be following that same cadence in the second term.

And just as the news follows those rhythms over the course of the day while Trump is

president, and also sort of holds as well for the week. In general, what we experienced in Trump's

first term was that stuff goes more nuts on Fridays than it does on Mondays, because I guess he like gets momentum or whatever,

that appears to be happening in this second term as well. All that said, um, it means it's

particularly good to have you hear this Friday night and every Friday night because by Friday

night stuff is generally going great guns.

And tonight is no exception.

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