Matt Waldrip

Romney lifer. Thumbs up: Wife, kids, Willard Mitt, Lakers, Angels, Freedom, Reality TV, Circus Peanuts. Thumbs down: Forest fires & ransom notes. Tweets= my own

[McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins]

Mitt Romney to Harvard Business School graduates: "There's more to a country than its economy. To be a great nation, it must also be a good nation. The world needs good men. It needs good women. Good leaders. Good parents raising good children. There is no national success that could compensate for failure to be a good and noble people."

[Matt Waldrip @mattwaldrip]

Huge thank you to @RyanQualtrics and @MikeMaughan

[Governor Cox @GovCox]

Salt Lake City just made the biggest leap in the nation’s “Best Sports Cities” rankings — climbing from No. 44 to No. 12. The future of sports is happening here.

More here: https://t.co/kp8FbYyGC2

[Kyle Treasure @KyleTreasure]

The latest in the ongoing saga: State legislator thinks they're well-known and then gets immediately humbled when they run for any other office.

[Matt Waldrip @mattwaldrip]

Just gotta be so boring and intellectually dulling to have what you are passionate about be fully dictated by someone else. A political leader nonetheless. Ballrooms. Super Bowl halftime shows. How about education? Spending? Health care?

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 NO WAYYY:

At a federally-funded prayer event on the National Mall today, MAGA radio host Eric Metaxas told thousands of Christians that God spent two centuries waiting to raise up Donald Trump — to build a ballroom.

His verbatim words:

“It’s hard to believe that it would take two centuries for the Lord to raise up a great man to bring that ballroom finally to stand where it needs to stand. It’s extraordinary. We only had to wait two hundred years.”

The crowd cheered.

[Matt Waldrip @mattwaldrip]

This and everything he is officially and unofficially putting out is a fundamental shift in political campaigns.

And it will lead to his inclusion in 2028 POTUS polls if he wins this race.

[Adam Scheidler @Scheidsa]

This may be the song of the summer.

[Matt Waldrip @mattwaldrip]

What do we need to do to get the Tea Party movement resurrected?

[David Fahrenthold @Fahrenthold]

NEW: The cost of President Trump's plan to repair the Reflecting Pool has jumped by 88 percent, to $13.1M, gov't records show.

The price appears to include a 20 percent profit margin for Trump's handpicked contractor, who got the job in a no-bid contract.

https://t.co/r17oy8J5eX

[Unrig LA @UnrigLA]

The LA County Federation of Labor has a new committee lined up to go after Spencer Pratt, and they are dropping an initial $221k on this video & an additional digital ad.

[Matt Waldrip @mattwaldrip]

@murphymike And yet we will be talking about this guy as a presidential candidate once he becomes mayor of LA. Welcome to our New World. 🙃

[Matt Waldrip @mattwaldrip]

Dems take the bait every. single. time. Why? Why? Why? Of all the actual problems with this administration, the ballroom doesn’t even come close to the top of the list. Voters are not going to actually care about the ballroom. Yet we are going to endlessly hear about the ballroom

[Dan Pfeiffer @danpfeiffer]

This is one of the most insane political decisions I have ever seen.

It almost makes me think that the GOP leadership bet on the Dems winning the House and Senate on Polymarket

[Matt Waldrip @mattwaldrip]

A great refresher on a completely warped situation.

I have friends who lost big bucks in this.

Trump reasoning: “he did nothing wrong. The thing that he did wrong was he was one of the first people to support a gentleman named Donald J. Trump.”
(Clip)

https://t.co/wxhxSOGa6H

[Jeremy @Jeremybtc]

A man with no working truck convinced Wall Street he had built the next Tesla. His company hit $30 BILLION. All he did was push it down a hill with no engine.

> Trevor Milton founded Nikola in 2014, named after the same inventor as Tesla.

> The goal was to build hydrogen powered trucks that would make diesel obsolete. He had no trucks.

> In 2018 he released a promotional video called Nikola One In Motion. It showed a sleek semi truck accelerating smoothly down an open highway.
Investors went wild.

> What nobody knew was that the truck had no engine, no fuel cell, and no propulsion system of any kind.

> Milton's team towed it to the top of a hill, tilted the camera to hide the slope, and let it roll.

> He spent the next four years doing the same thing with words. On podcasts, television and social media.

> Investors were told Nikola could produce its own hydrogen. It could not. They were told the trucks were ready for production. They were not. They were told orders were flooding in. They weren't.

> In June 2020 Nikola went public. Within days the company was worth $30 BILLION, more than Ford.

> Milton's personal stake hit $7.3 BILLION overnight.

> A $32.5 MILLION ranch in Utah followed. A record for the state at the time.

> In September 2020 Hindenburg Research published a report calling Nikola "an intricate fraud" built on "an ocean of lies." Milton resigned within ten days.

> A federal jury convicted him of securities fraud and wire fraud in 2022. Sentenced to four years in prison the following year.

> He never went. He was free on $100 MILLION bail pending appeal.

> He and his wife donated $3.2 MILLION to Donald Trump's 2024 campaign.

> In March 2025 Trump gave him a full pardon. The pardon erased $168 MILLION in restitution to defrauded shareholders.

> Nikola filed for bankruptcy the following month, leaving thousands of investors with nothing.

The company never had a product. The only thing that was real was the $30 BILLION valuation, the $7 BILLION that landed in his pocket and the pardon that made sure none of it had to be returned.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

I've warned for months that a @JetBlue-@SpiritAirlines merger would have led to fewer flights and higher fares.

@JusticeATR and @USDOT were right to stand up for consumers and fight against runaway airline consolidation.

This is a Biden win for flyers! https://t.co/lJFGS3ucv3

[greg @greg16676935420]

President Trump posting a picture of himself in the operating room is a major HIPPA violation

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

With Shohei Ohtani getting on base and throwing six scoreless innings today, MLB’s longest active on-base streak is now up to 43 games.

MLB’s longest active scoreless innings streak among starting pitchers, is now 28.2 innings pitch.

Shohei Ohtani is the leader of both categories.

[Matt Waldrip @mattwaldrip]

The number of times I have thought about how amazing this would be is wild! I cannot believe an airline did it. This is like Dominos’ new sauce recipe x 4000

[United Airlines @united]

The entire row is alllllll yours.

Welcome to United Relax Row, three adjacent United Economy seats with adjustable leg rests that can each be raised or lowered to create a cozy lie-flat space for stretching out...

You'll also get a mattress pad, blanket and two pillows. If you’re traveling with kids, a plushie too! United Relax Row will be available starting next year on more than 200 of our 787s and 777s, each with up to 12 of these brand-new rows.

https://t.co/bzHodhQ5Y8

[Matt Waldrip @mattwaldrip]

@mstefanoudakis1 @HeightsSports Can you explain to me why Steve Scalzi (top assistant with the best team in the NBA East—Pistons) isn’t the obvious choice here? BC grad, basketball freak. Coached some of the best players of our generation in the NBA.

[Matt Waldrip @mattwaldrip]

How dare you!
This was either:

A) Pure coincidence

Or

B) Something learned in coach @3YearLetterman investment seminars.

[Nancy Pelosi Stock Tracker ♟ @pelositracker]

Breaking: The President's son is on a heater

Donald Trump Jr's fund invested in one of the only U.S. rare earth magnet startups at a $200M valuation

Three months later, the Pentagon awarded Vulcan a $620M loan and the Commerce Dept took a $50M equity stake

In February, Trump announced a $12B rare earth strategic reserve

Today, the company is now valued at $2 billion. That's a 10x for Trump Jr in under a year

Vulcan is building the largest rare earth magnet factory outside of China. The U.S. says it needs to stop relying on China, which controls 90% of global rare earth processing

The timing is either the greatest coincidence in investing history, or it isn't

[ClutchPoints @ClutchPoints]

The courtside angle of Anthony Edwards' poster dunk on John Collins 😯

(via gavmastagram/IG)

[Matt Waldrip @mattwaldrip]

A great tragedy further exposed by the conflict in Iran is that we have a President (+enablers) who lies daily and exaggerates everything. Most other countries (save failing states and dictatorships) don’t deal with this (we didn’t used to either).

[Barak Ravid @BarakRavid]

Contrary to Trump’s statements, senior Israeli and U.S. officials said that the United States had prior knowledge of the Israeli strike and even approved it in an attempt to pressure Iran. After the Iranians retaliated against Qatar’s gas fields, Trump is now changing course

[Matt Waldrip @mattwaldrip]

@DavidAFrench “He just shoves your moral compromise in your face every day.”

[Alexandra DeSanctis Marr @xan_desanctis]

Important to note that Trump-Vance made it very clear in 2024 that they intended to protect chemical abortion if elected. The GOP weakened the pro-life planks of its platform because of Trump. And the ticket got pro-life support anyway. Now here we are.

[USAFacts @USAFacts]

The US closed out 2025 with $38.5T in national debt. Swipe to see the key data points.

🔹 80% is owned by the public. The rest is intragovernmental debt.

🔹 Shakes out to about $112,700 per person — increasing at an average rate of 5% per year since 2021.

🔹 As a percent of GDP, it’s 121% — it first surpassed 100% in Q4 of 2012.

🔹13.6% of federal spending is spent on interest on the debt.