With Tesla stock spiking to over $300 and Elon Musk being tapped for a role driving government efficiency in the Trump administration, it seems that Musk made a good bet going all-in on Donald Trump. Most CEOs, however, did not make that same bet, and are now wondering what they can do to deal with the incoming Trump administration.

Fortunately for them, there is already a playbook showing what works — and what doesn't — in dealing with Trump. That playbook is the previous Trump administration.

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When he turned 10 years old, little Mitchie McConnell received a radio for his birthday. But unlike other children in Georgia, he used it to tune in to politics. Soon, McConnell knew where he stood: On school picture day, he wore an "I Like Ike" button so that he could be photographed supporting Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower for president. By 1960, Mitch, no longer Mitchie, could vote himself, and he cast his ballot for Eisenhower's vice president: "I voted for Richard Nixon, proudly, and remember being deeply disappointed in the outcome."

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Los Angeles is a remarkable Jewish city. I recently spent a week there while my son was playing in the Steven Glouberman z'l Basketball Tournament for Jewish high schools. Although I live in the very Jewish neighborhood of Kemp Mill, Maryland, I was amazed at the cornucopia of Jewish resources available in Los Angeles.

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Love him or hate him, the second election of Donald Trump as president of the United States establishes him as one of the most significant and astounding figures in American history. With this second win, Trump has also done more to change the conventional wisdom than any American political figure in nearly a century.

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CBS News is in turmoil following an appearance by Ta-Nehisi Coates that actually included probing questions about his new book on Israel. All it took was one interview during which Coates received some pushback for the legacy media to lose its mind and denounce the CBS anchor, and for the network to quickly rebuke him. Top CBS newsroom brass—i.e., woke PR types with zero actual newsroom experience who now run the network—apparently believed Coates should be coated in bubble wrap and only given friendly questions, preferably fed to him in advance.

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