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Donald Trump is personally genial, curious, and pleasant — completely at odds with how the media portrays him as angry or moody.
David Sacks describes his White House meeting with Trump, contrasting the media's portrayal of Trump as angry and moody with his own experience of Trump as charming, curious, and engaged. ✦ AI generated
David Sacks · All-In Podcast · 2026-04-24 · original ↗
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One thing I just want to say is just what a pleasure he has to deal with. when I read in the media, they're always describing him in a certain way that, he's yelling at people or he's moody or something like that. And that's never, ever been my experience with him. He's always pleasant to be with. He's always genial. He asks questions. He's interested in the subject matter. It's just a completely different portrayal. I don't get where the media is coming from at all on this. He's charming AF. Let's just call it what it is. I mean, maybe if you double-crossed him, maybe, I don't know, but I've just never seen any evidence of how they describe him at all.
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