I am William Pulte, and as of this morning the President Trump appointed me acting Director of National Intelligence of the United States.
I am thirty-eight. I have never held a security clearance, never served in uniform, never sat through a briefing that wasn't about interest rates. The President says I have deep experience in the safety and soundness of ten trillion dollars. He is right. I have spent two years deciding which Americans are sound and which are not, and now I get to do it with satellites.
You know me from Twitter. I invented Twitter philanthropy. I picked strangers at random and sent them thirty thousand dollars over Cash App, winners announced in the thread, and three and a half million people followed me to watch it happen. Is that a fanbase? It is a voluntary intelligence database, self-enrolled, fully consented, sorted by who needed the cash most. The desperate identify themselves, like fish swimming up to the boat. I only read the replies.
Before this I ran housing finance. I want to be clear about my method, because people call it political and it is not. It is real estate.
I noticed Lisa Cook had listed two homes as primary residences. Mortgage fraud. I referred her. Then I turned to Letitia James. Adam Schiff. Eric Swalwell. Fani Willis. One after another, the way you'd pull comps on a block before you buy it. I am a homebuilder. My grandfather was also named William Pulte, and he laid the foundations, the literal ones, poured concrete, raised the largest homebuilder in America. I inherited the name and the trade. I know what a house is for, and it is not for shaving a point off your rate, and it is certainly not for sitting in judgment of the President after I have your closing documents open on my desk.
The President removed Cook in August. A judge blocked it in September. The Supreme Court let her keep the seat in October. One of my deputies went on television and promised she will be charged no matter how the Court rules. I did not correct him. I never interrupt a man who is describing the future.
They have a phrase for what I do. Safety and soundness. I applied it to Jerome Powell, who refuses to cut rates and refuses to quit, which renders him, by my own definition, unsound. So I post at him. From my personal account, the same handle where I gave away the thirty thousand dollars, which has lately become the handle where I issue agency directives, because nobody instructed me to stop and I have never once stopped of my own accord.
I still run the FHFA. I chair Fannie Mae. I chair Freddie Mac. Nobody asked me to surrender any of it, so I kept all three, the way a careful man keeps the gas masks. I am the only person in this city who can pull your mortgage, your followers, and the President's Daily Brief from a single chair, and wire you a Cash App payment before I stand up.
The transition team asked for my hundred-day plan. I sent them a screenshot of my following list.
Here is how it works now. The tip line is a giveaway. Report a neighbor, get entered to win, winners announced in the thread. Americans will watch each other for far less than thirty thousand dollars, I have run the numbers, and the ones who do it for nothing are the ones I keep.
Everyone begins sound. Soundness can be lost. This is no longer a watchlist, you understand, because a watchlist names suspects and mine names all of you, which is broader, which is more fair.
I do not declassify documents. I retweet them. The President's Daily Brief drops at nine eastern, peak engagement, and the version with the names goes only to close friends.
Foreign intelligence is the identical trade on a wider street. Ask me which countries claimed two capitals as a primary residence. I have already referred three.
The GAO opened an inquiry into me. Into whether I abused my authority, as though authority came with some gentler setting. I welcomed it warmly. A federal probe is just the government admitting you matter, and I read their letter the way I read all correspondence now, as a roster of names bolted to addresses. They are still awaiting my response. It will come. The GAO leases its office, and I have studied the lease.
Tulsi stepped aside at the end of May. They wanted somebody quickly, somebody confirmed for something, anything at all, and I had been confirmed for housing back when the Senate still confirmed people. So I serve in an acting capacity. It happens to be my specialty. I have spent my whole life qualifying for posts the morning after I already occupied them, and the paperwork has always wandered around to my side eventually, the way a jury softens once it remembers where it parks.
My confirmation hearing arrives in the fall. Am I nervous? I have already read the file of every senator who will sit in that room. I have read the file of every reporter who will describe it. Two of them took my money in 2021, and neither gave it back.
The eighteen agencies no longer need to speak to one another. They need to speak to me. You can reach the entire intelligence community by tagging me, and most of you already have.
Like and retweet for national security. Winners announced in the thread.
Teamwork challenge in 2nd grade! We learned SO much about each other through this experience. We read a book called "Up the Creek" & then challenged ourselves to see if we could communicate better. It was GREAT!
@MountainViewJCS@jcityTNschools#teamwork#GoMustangs
One of my very favorite times of the school year is our annual art showcase of our students. Everything they learn about art is amazing from our AMAZING Art Teacher @MountainViewJCS !!! Enjoy a quick peek!! @jcityTNschools
Did I fool them? YES! They absolutely fell for the flood drill today in 2nd grade - all four steps including sitting on their desks & paddling to safety w their Chromebook! #AprilFoolDay@MountainViewJCS@jcityTNschools
Second graders worked hard on their Spring opinion writing today. They did watercolor, layering, and then a masterpiece of writing. Super proud of them all. @MountainViewJCS@jcityTNschools#GoMustangs
Second graders wrote opinion pieces on why they love the spring. It was so fun watching them put this together this week. I have a whole class full of writers! @MountainViewJCS@jcityTNschools#GoMustangs
Every student @MountainViewJCS received their OWN UNO game today! We were so thankful to have that given to our students from a generous donor. They came back and played this afternoon and had a blast! THANK YOU! π€π
@jcityTNschools
What a great World Read Aloud day at @MountainViewJCS in @jcityTNschools ! 2nd graders enjoyed reading from author David Shannon & his book , "No, David" and listening to his childhood stories.Then they got a lesson on how to draw the character! Such fun!
We're kicking off World Read Aloud Day in partnership with LitWorld on Wednesday at 10am ET with a special free read-aloud of "No, David" by author David Shannon! Here's a fun moment from the last time he was a guest at one of our read-alouds.
Second grade enjoyed their visit today from a local meteorologist. Some even got to try their hand at telling us the upcoming weather. @MountainViewJCS@jcityTNschools#Weather
Here at Mountain View, we do a big Christmas tree with a class made ornament made by EACH child. It's truly my favorite piece of the holidays to watch the students find their ornaments & look at everyone's masterpieces π
@MountainViewJCS@jcityTNschools
One of my favorite days - reading Owl Babies by Martin Waddell & making our own snow owl baby ornaments to hang on the large community tree in our foyer at school. They enjoyed making their very own from pinecones! @MountainViewJCS@jcityTNschools
What a feeling for my 2nd grade writers to be successful at organizing their ideas into a final draft!! This one struggled at the beginning of the year to write words & now look! We use our school-wide graphic organizer which is used from K-5! @MountainViewJCS@jcityTNschools
My second graders made cards for other students in neighboring districts who are impacted by the hurricane. They were really sweet. This week has definitely been one for gratitude talks & service talks. @MountainViewJCS@jcityTNschools#AppalachiaStrong