The Dream Team was not a campaign promise to be ignored after the election. 

I was pretty sure it wasn't, but there are lots of reassuring signals that Tulsi Gabbard, RFK Jr., Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and all the members of the so-called "Dream Team" really are going to have a huge influence on the Trump administration. 

Good. Staffing was one of Trump's great weaknesses in his first term. Keenly aware that he was not connected in Washington and wise to the ways of the swamp, Trump relied too much on insiders to staff up his administration. 

Scoop: Elon Musk joined Trump's call with Zelensky https://t.co/lrrykcK8Eu

— Axios (@axios) November 8, 2024

It is impossible to overstate the importance of Trump having extraordinarily competent, hardworking, and trusted advisors to do much of the heavy lifting in his administration. 

Washington is not called The Swamp for no reason; it is filled with alligators just waiting to take a chunk out of the president and his administration, but people like Elon Musk can give much better than he gets. He knows how to get things done, is unafraid to fire low producers, and takes no bulls**t from anybody. He put it all on the line in this election and the years before it, fighting for a vision of the future in which humanity flourishes. 

Trump is smart, but in the way that a dealmaker is smart, not in the way an entrepreneur and change agent is. Trump is a people person; Elon is an engineer of extraordinary talent and an empire builder who gets things done. Vivek is an ideas guy of extraordinary talent and a communicator only matched by J.D. Vance, who will play a huge role in this administration. Tulsi and RFK Jr. have extraordinary moral clarity and suasion. 

Working together, they can accomplish great things. 

That Elon Musk was on the call with Zelensky would shock Washington types, but that is the point. The ways of Washington not only don't work, they make things much, much worse. 

The world is healing already. The Houthis have declared their war over, opening the Red Sea to commerce again. 

It hasn’t even been 24 hours and wars are already ending. The Houthi’s have just ended all war efforts. pic.twitter.com/YWI37zL733

— Jacob King (@JacobKinge) November 6, 2024

The Iranians are running scared. China is making positive noises. Hamas is getting kicked out of Qatar. Russia is open to negotiations with Ukraine, and Zelensky is indicating for the first time he is open to it. 

Qatar is kicking out Hamas. Pressure has started in "recent days." Wonder if anything important happened in recent days that might be related. pic.twitter.com/BjE1JtES97

— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) November 8, 2024

Expect the European Union to quiet down and pull back on its censorship efforts. There is no doubt that with Elon on his side, the fight for free speech will suddenly have a larger opportunity of success. US funding of censorship organizations will dry up. 

Of all the areas in which Trump's policies made a big difference, the biggest by far was his push for world peace. For all the talk about his causing chaos and distrust, especially with our allies, the practical effect of his policies was vastly more peace and reconciliation. The Abraham Accords alone were extraordinary. 

Trump will take the leash off Israel, and the Arab states will quietly applaud. They see the Palestinians as the problem, not the victim, and want the problem dealt with. Iran is the common enemy, and Israel is the tip of the spear in that fight. 

The transnational elite has enormous resources at its disposal, but they are not invincible. The EU has been a tool it has used to reshape not just that continent, but as a useful way to do a runaround the U.S. Constitution. Expect the EU and the UN to be weakened under Trump. 

Goodbye UNRWA. Screw you, World Health Organization. Shape up or ship out, NATO. 

The Obama order is dead. Good riddance to bad rubbish.