VCs Sacks, Palihapitiya Land Trump as All-In Podcast Guest
Hosts had been teasing former president’s interview for months
Donald Trump
Photographer: Nathan Howard/BloombergAfter months of saying former US President Donald Trump would appear on the All-In podcast, the hosts finally landed their man.
Trump is the official guest on this week’s show, released Thursday. The booking confirms the show’s status as an emerging voice in politics with Silicon Valley flavor. All-In’s hosts — venture capitalists David Sacks, Chamath Palihapitiya and Jason Calacanis, and entrepreneur David Friedberg — mostly discuss technology trends, but also give their takes on regulation, policy and elections with some chatter about poker in between.
The podcast covered topics ranging from a joke about the price of real estate in Palm Beach, Florida, to shoplifting and the war in Ukraine.
Trump defended his tariff proposals from criticism that they would hike inflation, saying he believed the policy was crucial to keeping the dollar as the world's principal reserve currency. Trump said he would punish countries that abandoned their peg to the dollar by putting “tariffs on your product coming into the United States.”
“With tariffs, it gives you a tremendous power,” he said.
Trump also cast his energy policy, which would pivot away from renewable energy sources toward fossil fuels, as necessary to keep the US a leader in artificial intelligence.
“To be a leader in AI, the amount of electricity that is like double what we have right now and even triple what we have right now,” Trump said, adding that “a windmill turning with its blade knocking out the birds and everything else is not going to be able to make us competitive.”