Executive Office Budget Manager, Benjamin Ellisten, said, "We have to get rid of Trump. He's [Trump] f**king it up for everybody….We've got to get rid of him." He insisted that Trump is a madman.

Ellisten said that he suspects  that the war in Iran is being used to manipulate oil prices for insider trading and personal gain!

He estimated that the war in Iran costs $1 billion per day.

Maxim Lott, a Special Assistant to President Trump on the White House Domestic Policy Council, was captured on undercover camera admitting that key domestic policy decisions are often made without formal analysis and based on assumptions about what President Trump "would want."

"In theory, everything should sort of come from the president…But it might come from the level below him [Trump] where they're like, 'I think I know the president well enough to say what he would say on this,'" Lott said.

Lott's comments point to a deeper concern: that policy decisions are not driven by efforts to save American taxpayers money. He told the undercover journalist that proposals move forward because officials believe "the base supports it," with no serious financial review: "There's no cost-benefit analysis… no, like, 'oh, well, this will cost $10 million, but save people $20.'"

"There's nothing like that, it's just like 'this feels like a good idea' or 'the base supports this', alright just sign!"

Lott has been working in the White House since February 2025 on high-level domestic policy. Maxim gave an example of his team pursuing action on spam phone calls based on the assumption that "Trump would wanna do that. That would be popular," even though Trump was not aware of the effort.