you're on X and you're seeing the comments from people who have worked with her for a long time, I've never seen anything like it. I've never seen such a complete endorsement of anybody politically or for anything. So whoever Susie Wiles is is apparently very well regarded and I guess it's a good pick. Everybody who knows her says it's like a home run.

Now here's what's fascinating about it. Do you remember me saying for the past at least six months that the Trump campaign — which is what she was doing, she was running his campaign — that the Trump campaign was just so obviously well-run? Do you remember that? And I kept commenting how sometimes if things are going well you don't notice because usually you notice mistakes. But the lack of mistakes that Trump made was indicative that there was some kind of very powerful and effective force that he was working with that was balancing him just right. So there was something that was really, really working about the campaign. And now I think we know what it was. It was somebody who already had a great reputation and took that into the campaign. I mean look at the campaign. It wasn't just good. It was maybe as good as anything could be. I mean it would be hard to imagine doing better than he did. So boy is that a positive thing for your Golden Age. So to get a great chief of staff that everybody respects and is a real powerhouse is amazing.

Now what did I not mention? What's the dog not barking thing I didn't mention about that story at all? First female chief of staff. Do you know why I didn't mention it? Because I'm going to call it. I'm just going to call it we're done saying that. All right, how about we're all adults and we know that a woman can do a job. How about we stop saying the first Black this or that? Because again this comes as a shock to some of you: Black people have jobs, right? Gay people have jobs. It doesn't have to be the first gay one. It doesn't have to be the first woman one.

So at the same time that Trump is being accused by the crazy left that maybe sexism is the reason that Kamala Harris didn't become president because they say she was discriminated against, all right keep that in your mind. And then look at the comments about Susie Wiles from the people who know her and you tell me if any Republicans are showing some kind of sexism. Nope. Capability, capability, capability. That's all they're talking about. Just totally capable. And the whole woman, you know, first woman thing — I was waiting to see if somebody would do it because I thought in my mind, I'm no historian but I thought I can't remember a woman being in that job. I wonder if that's the first. And I was happy to say that it wasn't the lead headline on every single comment. But somebody brought it up and I thought that was worth noting. So I'm going to note it as putting a period in it.

How about we just say everybody who's capable and good and smart can have any kind of job that a capable, good, smart person can have. And every time we say "but she's also a woman" is not helping women. It's really not. So stop doing it. And the way the Trump campaign handled that as well as the way it handled the campaign was by staying away from all that identity stuff. And what happened by staying away from the identity stuff? Trump won a surprising number of people who were nonwhite men just by not being one of those people who had to talk about identity all day long. So he's definitely found the right, let's say, the feel of the room.

You got Zuby saying that identity politics is dead. I don't know if it's dead dead but it's never going to work again. Maybe that's the same thing anyway.

I saw Jason from the All-In Pod — Jason, I never know how to pronounce his name so Jason if you're watching I apologize — Calacanis. He's famous enough that people use his first name. You know, Jason from the All-In Pod. So he's got that Madonna thing going on. Calacanis. I can never remember. Oh anyway it's one of those. But he was on the Trigonometry podcast and he said somewhat cheekily, I would say with a twinkle in his eye, that Trump won because he's incredible at manipulating weak dumb people. And now you could tell by the look on his face when he said it that he was being intentionally provocative. But here's the thing. He's not wrong. He's not wrong. The public is not filled with geniuses and they're not filled with Atlas strong people. The public needs leaders. It needs people who are stronger than they are and in the opinion of the people being led somebody who's got a better idea.

So yes, I mean those are the insulting words to use for it, that he's good at manipulating weak dumb people. But let me give you another word for it: leadership. Do you know who doesn't need leadership? Brilliant strong people. But how many are there? There aren't that many brilliant strong people. You know we notice them whenever we see th