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🗓️ 21 March 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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0:00.0 | Every day is an adventure. |
0:01.8 | Working for a president who doesn't sleep is a lot like being a parent with young kids. |
0:06.4 | Forget those zees. |
0:10.7 | Early mornings and late nights for sure. |
0:14.0 | Frankly, he worked all the time on the campaign trail, too. |
0:16.7 | When we're flying somewhere and most people would go to sleep, he keeps working. |
0:20.9 | And as a parent of young kids and a member of President Donald Trump's inner circle, James Blair would know. |
0:26.5 | My son asked me all the time, Daddy, why do you have to work so much? |
0:29.2 | Because we're making the world good for you and all your friends in the future. |
0:33.1 | He's only four and a half, so that's about as deep as we can get about it philosophically. Blair is one of the most important people in the White House that you've probably never heard |
0:40.9 | of, at least not yet. |
0:43.6 | As White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Legislative Political and Public Affairs, he's got a rather |
0:48.3 | expansive portfolio. |
0:50.1 | In a nutshell, he oversees the White House's messaging to Americans. |
0:53.5 | He obsesses over politics and public opinion. |
0:56.1 | He even helps corral lawmakers to get Trump's agenda through Congress, |
0:59.4 | even if it means asserting just a little pressure on his own party. |
1:03.4 | As one of Susie Wiles' deputies, Blair, aka The Oracle, |
1:07.6 | is at the helm of a Trump administration that so far is operating a lot more efficiently |
1:11.7 | than the first time around. When I sat down with him in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building |
1:16.2 | on Wednesday, Blair pulled back the curtain on how Trump 2.0 has managed to do so much in just |
1:21.1 | two months. He opened up about Susie Wiles' style as chief of staff, the White House's reaction |
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