Kesh Tyagi

Billionaire investor Chamath cuts straight through CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin with a raw reality check he doesn't see coming on live TV. Sorkin was pressing the panel on the "empirical math," arguing the economy looks worse since Biden left office. Chamath told him straight up to "thank the lucky stars" that under Trump, we have the luxury to debate economic numbers at all, instead of the "19 pronouns" we used to state before our name. CHAMATH: "I think it's important to take a step back and realize you're making a very specific, numerically grounded comparison about what your opinion of President Trump is." SORKIN: [Defensive] "It's not my opinion." CHAMATH: "I'm just saying you can make a numerical comparison. Imagine if we were sitting here and we'd have to first declare 19 pronouns, and we'd have to talk about the DEI. I'm here because I'm a Sri Lankan immigrant that grew up on welfare. I have to tell you my whole sob story. Where we were going was not a place that was oriented around productivity. It was around THEATER!" SORKIN: "I'm not disagreeing with that." CHAMATH: "I'm saying you have some valid points about where GDP could be or could not be. You should thank the lucky stars that [numbers] are what we're debating right now." SORKIN: "And that's a fair argument on that side, too!"