Cracking the Trump Code: Our Next Big Bet

**Dave** (0:03)
Donald Trump is the master of chaos. He seems to constantly be doing or saying something that pulls the headlines away from something else. Think about the Gulf of America, or accepting a luxury 747 airplane with no strings attached. That stuff keeps the media talking in circles. Even this morning, in just the first 10 minutes of the Today Show, they covered Trump's new push to make Canada the 51st state, the big beautiful Trump spending bill, Trump's ongoing fight with Harvard, Trump pardoning some reality TV stars who were convicted of tax evasion and bank fraud. Meanwhile, no mention of something else that he's been chipping away at that actually could be the thing that solves the huge government debt problem. And no, we're not talking about tariffs. That's another distraction. There's something else that you, if you haven't been paying attention, you might have missed. Today on Dumb Money, we are cracking the code and revealing our next big investment. This is Dumb Money Live.
Hey there, Dave here, along with Chris and Jordan. We are Dumb Money. Welcome to Dumb Money Live. We are still waiting for Trump to sign an executive order about the almighty algorithm to stop YouTubers from having to beg for smashes to that like button. But for now, that's all we've got. So take a second. Go ahead. Apparently, it still helps us out. Chris, Jordan, good morning. While we're waiting for everyone to find the like button, it's great to be back with you. Chris, it looks like you are in a hotel room that could only be Vegas, right? What are you doing right now?

**Chris** (1:29)
Yeah, I'm looking at the sphere right now out of my window, and I'm wrapping up my trip for Bitcoin Vegas. I had some investor meetings out here. But by the way, Dave, listening to you talk about the Today show, the only time I ever, ever listen to that show is when I'm like randomly in a hotel room. And I watched the whole thing. And it's like, this is your life. Like it just, I was watching it thinking, Dave is watching this right now. And there is something, I have to say, there is something communal about knowing that everybody's kind of watching the same soft programming. It just took me back. But it's not a terrible way to wake up in the morning. I have to admit, it's not a terrible way to start your day.

**Dave** (2:18)
If you actually listen to just that from the cold open through like the little, like they loop through all the stories that they're going to cover in the first hour, or really like the whole show, they loop through it in about like 90 seconds. And that is like, it's just like reading all the headlines. And it kind of gets you going on what's going on in the world. If there was something big that happened overnight, you could turn it off after the first 90 seconds. I mean, I just leave it on as I'm getting ready or whatever, but.

**Chris** (2:45)
And everything is delivered in the same way. It reminds me of like when, you know, watching those kids Disney shows, like it's just nothing of it. It's not real. So it doesn't matter what they're saying, it's all delivered. It's just, it's an odd thing. I know you're not, you see it every day, so you don't get what I'm saying, but the whole thing is just odd.

**Dave** (3:07)
No, I see it every day, but I've been traveling for the last two weeks. So I haven't been on my normal schedule. So it was like refreshing to be back to the Today Show this morning. It was the first time that I, my TV comes on automatically at 7 a.m. right in time for the cold, for the, you know, that cold open. It really just sets the tone. And Hoda was back today. Hoda is promoting some new app that she has.

**Chris** (3:29)
So it was breathing, breathing app. And I don't know. Yeah, just health app or something. It was weird. That was a little...

**Jordan** (3:38)
It's like a custom.

**Dave** (3:40)
You, apparently, you like put your info in. I haven't downloaded it, but yeah, she's, it's called Joy 101, I think. And that's what she's doing now.

**Chris** (3:52)
Only on the Today Show. Well, I usually start my mornings off on X, and it's a way more of a brutal entry to the day.

**Dave** (4:02)
That's a hard way to wake up. I can't handle X first thing.
I usually, you know, at 7 a.m. it goes off. For the first 90 seconds, I'm paying attention. Then I might like doze off again, or, you know, if the first story is interesting. But literally the first 10 minutes was nothing but multiple reporters having to cover the Trump shenanigans. So let's talk about that. And specifically, I want to start with an executive order that he signed five days ago. Actually, it's a series of executive orders that he says is going to usher in an American nuclear renaissance. So I want to like dig between the lines and what that could mean for the economy and which stocks might be the winners out of what to me is way bigger. Because it's the kind of correlation and causation between energy consumption and production and the GDP.