Happy Friday. There is so much to talk about tonight.

There is so much to cover. When we had our news meeting this afternoon, we had enough news in the, like, things we could put on the show column to do 17 shows.

But naturally, because it's me, I've got to start with something weird.

All right. When the new president decided to hand over a big part of running the government to his largest campaign donor,

that meant inevitably that the United States government would soon start doing lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of favors for that campaign donor and his businesses and taking government action

against his business rivals, etc. It was very easy to predict. It is a dynamic that is as old

as time and so we're going to talk about some of that tonight. But in addition to that donor being invited into the government, and then the government

starting to do things for the donor and his businesses, turns out it also cuts in the opposite

direction as well in terms of what the public gets to say about this arrangement.

Because if you think about it, what we've got now,

thanks to Donald Trump essentially ceding his presidency

to his top campaign donor, what we've got now

is somebody who really does appear to be mostly running the government,

somebody who's definitely destroying big parts of the government,

but he's doing those things.

He's taking that incredibly, incredibly parts of the government, but he's doing those things. He's taking that incredibly,

incredibly controversial, destructive government role, while he simultaneously is also running a bunch of companies,

including the big one that accounts for most of his fortune, a company that is very much a public-facing

company, not just in the stock market, but also in terms of storefronts and the nation's roads.

That dynamic, the fact that he is taking this government role, this incredibly controversial and destructive

government role, while he is also the CEO and largest shareholder of Tesla, the car company,

that has turned out to provide a quite unique opportunity for public feedback on his actions in the government.

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