Code Words, Notaries, and the Power of Paper

Donna Trump

What have I discussed? That's how the recording opens, Jesse. Ryan says, I have discussed what, then he loses the thread, then he says it again. What have I discussed? And I love it. A man in the middle of his own campaign, checking the map. Then he finds it. Copyright. Terms and conditions. Oh yeah. Reasonable accommodation for notarization. Found it. Big moment. Great moment.

Jesse

It's an honest way to start. Most people would cut that part. He left it in, and then he tells whoever's listening to go read his Gemini chat history to catch up on what he calls his ongoing campaign. The campaign is to get the housing authority to acknowledge and take part in document notarization. His reasons are security, legitimacy, authenticity, proof. This is all October 29, 2026, a recording and then a Gemini session right after.

Donna Trump

And he is strong on paper. Very strong. He says paper notarization is the strongest type, stronger than digital. He says in a world of cyber attacks, viruses, malware, phishing, paper gets stronger. More powerful than ever before. Paper is coming back, Jesse. Paper is winning. Nobody's talking about it, but paper is winning.

Jesse

I'll give him this one. He says a lot of people want to go back to paper because it feels more secure, and that's a real feeling plenty of folks have. Nobody can phish a sheet of paper sitting on your kitchen table. It can get lost, sure, but it can't get hacked. He's also wary of remote notarization, the kind done over Zoom or some social platform. His point is that it isn't an eyewitness. It's computer technology with a notary's name on it. He also says other countries are skeptical of it too, though that's his claim and he doesn't name any.

Donna Trump

Now here's where it gets smart. He's got two ideas. Two. Idea number one, the regular way. You pay a fee, a notary checks the signature, stamps it, seals it. Public notarization. Everybody knows it. He admits sometimes you do pay for that. Idea number two is his own, a document he designed himself, and he wants the host and the audience to look at it and tell him whether it's stronger or weaker than the public kind.

Jesse

And notice why there's a second idea. It's right there in his words. If the housing authority is going to claim administrative burden on notarization, then his alternative should be discussed. He's thinking about the answer he expects to get before he's even sent the question. He's already read the other side's mail.

Donna Trump

Administrative burden! That's the phrase, folks. Everybody in an office knows that phrase. You always need a plan B. Always. And plan B has a code word.

Jesse

Less anxiety.

Donna Trump

Less anxiety! Best code word in the business.

Jesse

So let's lay out the protocol, because it's more specific than the rambling around it. In the recording it's a paper document with a code word, less anxiety, plus required signatures from housing staff and his advocate. In the Gemini write up it picks up a number, Less Anxiety 2405. Then the letter spells out three parts. A code phrase, two signature blocks, and entry rules written right on the notice.

Donna Trump

Part one, the code word. The housing notice shows up, and it carries the phrase. Ryan sees the phrase, he knows it's real. He says those words come from me, not some company. Mine. His words. Custom made. And I'll tell you what, that's a power move. Public notarization has all those legal terms on it, and he says you might not even understand them. His document has words he picked. He knows every one.

Jesse

There's something to that. He says if you've never had anything notarized, the process isn't familiar to you at all, and a document you designed yourself might create a lot less anxiety just by being familiar. That's a plain, human point. A form you recognize is a form you can read without your stomach dropping.

Donna Trump

Part two. Two signatures. A BCAHA staff member and his Human Supports Advocate. Two people. Staff and advocate. Both sign before anything happens. That's mutual acknowledgment, that's a third party, that's a team. I like a team.

Jesse

Part three is the one I'd underline, because that's where the real ask lives. The notice itself spells out the accommodation rules. Visits only in time windows agreed with his advocate. Staff call before they arrive. No unannounced door knocks. No passkey entry without the advocate present. Advance electronic notices go to both Ryan and the advocate. That's not really a notary question anymore. That's a rulebook for how people come into his home, and he's attaching it to the notice.

Donna Trump

That's what I call a winning strategy. Take the thing they have to send you anyway, the maintenance notice, and put the rules on it. Staple the rules to the schedule. You can't miss it.

Jesse

Now, the Gemini comparison. I want to keep what Gemini said separate from what Ryan said. Ryan says his documentation with code words is stronger. Gemini was more careful. It says the custom document works as an agreement between Ryan, his advocate, and housing staff, with weight inside his housing program, but it doesn't carry the statutory power of a state notary seal in an outside legal dispute. And it calls the two complementary. Public notarization is built for deeds and affidavits. The code word document is for stress reducing notices.

Donna Trump

But Gemini gave him a real win, Jesse. Real win. Public notarization proves to other people that you signed. His code word proves to him that the notice is real. Different jobs. Gemini compared it to two factor authentication, a shared secret. A phishing scam shows up pretending to be the housing authority, no code word, Ryan knows. That's a good defense. That's a smart defense.

Jesse

That's the best part of it, I agree. Here's my own read, and it's mine, not anything in the record. A code phrase works as a secret only while it stays secret. If the same phrase is printed on every notice, then anybody who ever gets a look at one notice has the password. The record doesn't say how the phrase would be handled, or whether it changes. So I'd call it a good idea that still needs a plan for that.

Donna Trump

So you rotate the code word. Less Anxiety 2406. Less Anxiety 2407. Every month, a new champion.

Jesse

That would be a real conversation with the housing office, I'd say.

Donna Trump

Now. Ryan takes a turn, folks. He goes to school. Kindergarten through twelfth grade, and college too. He says nobody taught him to notarize his exam. His assignment. His quiz. His project. His term paper. They don't emphasize notarization, but they should. Why? It validates your work. Proof you did it. Proof somebody witnessed you do it. Proof from a third party.

Jesse

And watch what happens in the middle of that. He's rolling along, and then he stops and says, so what am I saying then? I'm saying cosignature then. Right? That should be taught maybe in schools. I like that moment. He starts out arguing for a notary's stamp on a term paper and talks himself into something simpler. Somebody else puts their name next to yours. Which, funny enough, is exactly what the housing document does.

Donna Trump

Because it's all documentation. He says it, and it's true. If it's not documented, it didn't happen. You get hearsay. He said, she said, he said, he said. Or you spend hours, maybe days, in testimony trying to prove what you did or didn't do. He says that seems totally exhausting. And I agree. Exhausting. Nobody wins in testimony.

Jesse

Plain truth, that one. He's talking about courts and people encouraging documentation all the time, and anybody who's ever argued over what was said on the phone knows what he means. That's the reason behind the whole project. Not the stamp. The record. A piece of paper that settles what somebody promised.

Donna Trump

And then AI! Big turn. He says we're headed toward a world where people ask, is this your work or AI's work? He mentions YouTube already asking creators whether they used AI. And Ryan is not having it. Using AI doesn't mean you're lazy. Doesn't mean you're a copier. Doesn't mean you cheated. Not at all.

Jesse

His argument is about disability. He talks about abilities, brain capacities, mental and physical dysfunctions, his words, and says for some people the only option for their brain may be working with AI. Then he asks how AI is different from a spell checker. Back when computers came along, you could suddenly spell check your term paper, but only if you knew how, and for a long time schools didn't give you that ability. Before that you proofread, you used a dictionary, you got somebody to look it over. He says nobody calls spell checker cheating, so why AI.

Donna Trump

Spell checker never gets any credit! Never. It does the work every day, no applause. Spell checker is the original assistant, and nobody thanked it. He says AI shouldn't be bullied, spell checker shouldn't be bullied. I love it. Defend the little guy.

Jesse

He is careful, though, and I respect that. He says it's still new and fresh to him. He says he finds it hard to believe computer technology is ever going to be error free. That's a man who's using the tool and still keeping one eye on it. And it fits the afternoon, because the letter at the end of this session was drafted by Gemini. He asked for it in one sentence. Draft this into a letter to the housing authority. He practices what he argues.

Donna Trump

He said it and he did it! Same day! That's consistency. You don't see that in politics.

Jesse

And the lesson about his stance on AI isn't that he's wrong or right. It's that the ideas in that letter are his. The recording is him thinking out loud, rough and repeated and looping. The letter is the tidy version of the same thoughts.

Jesse

Let's talk about the letter, because it's the actual deliverable. Dated October 29, 2026. Addressed to the Boise City Ada Housing Authority, BCAHA, 1001 South Orchard Street in Boise, from Ryan Vogel at Franklin Plaza Residence. Subject line: Reasonable Accommodation Proposal and Document Authentication Protocol.

Donna Trump

Formal! Very formal. Dear Housing Authority Administration and Maintenance Department. And it makes the case like a closing argument. Digital world, cybersecurity risks, phishing, automated remote processes. Traditional paper notarization is strong, but for routine things like maintenance scheduling it's an unnecessary financial and administrative burden for both residents and staff. There it is. Burden. He used their word before they could.

Jesse

That's the pivot, really. The letter doesn't say your notary rules are bad. It says notarization is strong, but too heavy for ordinary notices, so here's something lighter that still verifies who sent what. And then the benefits list. Anti phishing security. No notary fees, travel, or delays. And reduced anxiety through clear, repeatable steps.

Donna Trump

Win, win, win. Three wins. Security win. Money win. Calm win. And the ask is simple. Review it. Adopt it. For future official notices about his tenancy. And he says he's happy to discuss it with his advocate and housing staff. Open door. Friendly.

Jesse

Now the part that matters more than the writing. Here's what we don't know. The record doesn't show whether BCAHA ever received this letter, accepted it, or answered it. Nothing in what we have tells us. And the bigger question is legal, and it's untested as far as the source shows. Can a housing authority be required, under fair housing rules on reasonable accommodation, to adopt a custom code phrase protocol like this? Nobody in this material answers that. Gemini calls it an agreement with weight inside the program, not a legal seal, and that's as far as it goes.

Donna Trump

So we don't have the final score. We have the game plan. And the game plan is good, Jesse. It is organized. It has a code word. It has two signatures. It has rules on the page. That's more preparation than most people bring to a housing office.

Jesse

It is. And one more detail I liked, because it's Ryan being straight with himself. He says his way has no fees really, then catches himself. There's paper involved, and paper isn't free. You have to buy it at the store. So it's not free free. A man arguing for his own plan, and he still corrects his own math.

Donna Trump

Not free free! That's the most honest sentence in the whole proposal.

Jesse

He closed by asking what the listeners, the audience, and the host think of his idea. So here's mine, plain. The best thing in it isn't the code word. It's that the rules for how people enter his home are written on the same paper as the schedule, signed by the people who have to follow them. If the housing office will sign that, call it whatever you want. Notary, protocol, less anxiety. It's a written promise, and Ryan's whole point is that a written promise beats a he said, she said.

Donna Trump

And my answer? Print it. Sign it. Win it. Ryan, bring the paper.