Discussion on Career and Identity

He'll occasionally tell you, tell me, he goes, "You know,

you're breaking Melania's

friend's hearts. They see you on TV and they want an intro,

and we have to break

the news to them."

You modestly said you wanted to go to the Naval Academy.

You actually got an appointment.

Yep.

One of the reasons you've talked about the fact that one of the reasons you didn't

go was because you're gay.

Mm-hmm.

And did that hold you back earlier in your career?

I, I, I don't think it did at, did at all.

And, um, uh, I--

you, you, you... It's very difficult to talk about the

counterfactual

that--

But, like, I don't think going to Yale held me,

held me back.

Maybe some people who went to other Ivy League schools would think it might.

Uh, but, um,

I, I think that it, it makes you aware, and, you know,

I've openly spoken about it before too, is I think

maybe some of my career choices. Great thing about money management

is there's a

scorecard.

It's not the, you know, maybe in sales, maybe in

trading, maybe in relationship management,

um,

you, you know, there, there's a lot of subjectivity that

money management, there's a scorecard.

And, uh, you said President Trump chose me because

he believes I'm the

best candidate, not because of my sexual preference

or your green

eyes.

Exactly. So I, um... And I think that's one of the reasons we

have

such a, a great team, that, you know, the, the, the president makes

his decisions all the time. You know, he'll occasionally tell you, tell me, he

goes, "You know, you're breaking Melania's friend's hearts.

They see you on TV and they want an intro, and we have to break the news to them."