Speaker 3
have to think, again, my opinion is the president is keenly aware of the importance of names like General Motors and Ford, to a lesser extent, which if you walked into, again, the middle of any city and asked them, most people don't know what that is. They all know what GM and Ford are. So I think he wants to be respectful of any damage he could potentially do to those names. So I think he's going to sort of dance around a little bit. And when you see significant sell-offs in the automakers, specifically those two names, you have to say to yourself, at some point, they're going to come out and say something that alleviates some of the concern around the names, and you're going to get a bounce. We've seen it a couple times since this administration started, and I think we're going to start to see it again over the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 2
All right, last one here before we get to Ben Callow. Meta, this was of the fateful eight. I think it was probably. Whoever came up with that name should really win an award. It's pretty good. So when you think about Meta, it was kind of like, you know, one of these blowout stars, you know, after the election, it just kept on going and going. Mark Zuckerberg had this bit of a turn. He kind of aligned himself, you know, behind the Trump administration. He's got a lot of motivations there. I think TikTok is one of them. This has been the on again, off again situation where, you know, does it get banned? Does it get sold here in the U.S.? How do the Chinese react to it? And then today there were headlines out that, you know, Zuckerberg has been lobbying the Trump administration to kind of, you know, kind of push back at the EU for some of the fines and some of the kind of concessions they want meta. This is non-competitive sort of stuff here. So when you think about that, that latter part fits exactly into the Trump administration's view as it think about the EU with tariffs. The TikTok thing, though, it seems to be at odds with what Zuckerberg wants. Kind of break that down because this is on a day where we're getting up until that deadline that Trump himself had set by the time that they would turn TikTok off if it wasn't sold. Amazon has kind of appeared as a bidder. They were talking about AppLovin today. I mean, that's one. So there's a whole host of competitive bids. I'll just mention Oracle, where Larry Ellison, who's the chairman of that company, has cozied up for eight years. He's one of the early tech executives who's been behind the Trump administration. So thoughts here, because this is kind of important. Trump has said that there might be a tit for tat for tick tock as it relates to tariffs.