Does the Ballroom Benefit the American People?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Six one seven two six x sixty eight sixty eight
is the number. Okay, let me ask all of you.
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I gotta tell you this one is going to have
the Liberals their heads exploding. Which of the following White
House renovations benefit the American people the most? A Truman's
bowling alley, B FDR swimming pool, C Trump's ballroom and

(00:50):
the Libs and the media never complained about the bowling
alley or the swimming pool. Just so that you know, so,
which of the following major White House renovations benefited and
benefit the American people the most? Because the ballroom is
still under construction obviously. A Truman's bowling alley and it

(01:14):
was a big bowling alley. B Trump's sorry FDR swimming pool,
and it's a nice swimming pool. I mean, nobody's complained
about the swimming pool, believe me. Yeah Nixon, Yeah, yeah, Nixon,
And you're right. Sandy Nixon enlarged the bowling alley, and
he made an outdoor swimming pool, not just an indoor

(01:37):
swimming pool, but an outdoor swimming pool. So basically Nixon
kind of expanded or built upon what Truman did and
what FDR did. Okay, but anyway, a Truman's bowling alley
b FDR swimming pool see Trump's ballroom. Now to me,

(01:57):
with all due respect to the swimming pool and the
bowl bowling alley at the ballroom, I mean, how do
you compete with the ballroom. But that's me I want
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bowling alley by Truman taxpayer funded, the swimming pool by
FDR taxpayer funded. Yeah, they gave him a gift. You Oh,
that part of the construction was private, right, yeah? Okay, okay, yeah,
the right House renovation was tax funded, but the bowling

(03:01):
alley was private. Okay, my bad. So you're right, Sandy, Okay,
so the bowling alley, to be fair, that part was
privately funded. The swimming pool that was taxpayer and the
ballroom will that's Trump and and privately funded. Yeah, yeah,
what's the problem. No, you're right, the bowling alley was
privately funded. Nobody cared. In fact, they it was a

(03:23):
gift for trumanough for his birthday, and he had a blast.
He loved the bowl. Nobody complained Trump. I don't even
think he's even going to use the ballroom. I think
by the time this whole thing is said and done,
they put you know, they put all the finishing touches
on it and all the final construction. It may even
be into the after twenty twenty eight.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah, he's doing it just for the American people. So
you know, the the initials, you know, the the the
demolition and everything could be done, and it will be
completed in a couple of weeks, the destroying that part
of the wing, but then the reconstruction and the expansion
that's going to take a while. So he's not even

(04:06):
going to use the ballroom, you know, unless jd. Vance
wins and invites him back to the White House. But
outside of that, it's a pure gift to the American people.
Skippy in South Boston. Thanks for holding Skippy.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
Hello, Jeff, is a improvement. I'm going to wait for
the news impact if you don't mind, like you say,
little that bro, Jeff, you mentioned Scarborough using the term
of filement when Trump with his initiative there, you don't
call it the firement when that less lunatic Madonna said
you want to blow up the White House, will be
a ulytic clet like trained seals. And then you mentioned

(04:47):
the Clinton's boy boy. They are the epitome. They were
the epidomy of the filement. They defile women. There's a
baby in the womb the constitution toward that, Jeff. You
know me, for years I've been called in the Democrat
Party the three D party, which means demented, demonic, degenerates,
and they are walking and talking examples of defilement every

(05:09):
day in the news. It's just that you just reinforce
that evidence. They act going to be the demise of themselves.
That's why they go into a lunatic over every little things.
They're like the witches, the wisard of os. They through
the bucket of water, run it. She's melting into beaming, hideous,
doing themselves in and at the end of the day, Jeff,
it really all comes down to one ding tormented, demonic degenerates.

(05:32):
And you know, you mentioned you're a historian. Eighteen twelve,
the brothers who made another whack app this country, they
burnt down the White House. So you could say, ever
since I tasted onwards, there's been a constant renovation or
an improvement, which, when you think about it in a way,
that's how we street. We should be as a people,
ever evolving as a united people, but we're not thanks

(05:56):
to the demented, demonic degenerates. And Trump wants to do
something good, but we should be following that lead as
people try to make things better again. The hinduance is
that Democrat party. That's all I have to say.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
Oh, Skippy, you know that you really did. And again
I don't want to repeat myself, but you know, the
British they burned down the White House in the you know,
in the War of eighteen twelve, and the White House
was rebuilt, not by slaves, and so it was reconstructed.
And then after that they kept making renovations and then
that one of the biggest ones was Lincoln and he

(06:30):
had it almost like a separate wing, the Lincoln Bedroom,
and it continued and then under Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, that's
where the West Wing was constructed. And Skippy's right. Almost
every president, almost not every, but almost has added or
expanded upon the White House. Six one seven two six,
six sixty eight sixty eight is the number. Okay, Doctor

(06:53):
Grace is warming up in the bullpen. She'll be on
in about twenty eight minutes. And the reason why I'm
mentioning this now just super quick as I want. The
lines are blazing. I want to go to the phone
lines Hillary Clinton. So she's going on now about this,
you know, this expansion, and Trump is demolishing the East
Wing and the construction crewise and this is not his house.

(07:15):
This is your house and he's destroying it. And this
is you know, the filing sacred ground. Blah blah blah.
Grace when she comes on, can tell all of you
this story where when she was at the Washington Times
as an editorial writer, she interviewed Kathleen Willie. If that

(07:35):
name rings a bell, it's because this was one of
the victims of Bill Clinton. While he, well, Bubba was
President of the United States. Now you want to talk
about defiling the White House. Everybody knows about Monica Lewinsky
and how you know, he was a quote unquote getting serviced,

(07:56):
let's put it this way in the Oval Office. But
Kathleen Willie's story, she came to see him needing help
regarding her husband. Her husband was in serious trouble. And
what Buba did is he grabbed Kathleen Willie. This was

(08:17):
in the Oval Office while he's President of the United States,
and he grabbed Kathleen Willie by the throat and slammed
her head against the wall and then proceeded to rape her.
And the whole time that he was raping her, there

(08:40):
was a delegation from the Palestinians. This was later on
in Clinton's term, and he was trying to make a
deal between Israel and Palestinians, and the Palestinians were literally
in the next room waiting for him. In fact, his
people were knocking on the door saying, mister President, come on,
they're waiting for you. You're late. And so Kathleen Willie

(09:01):
describes all this to Grace, saying, he's raping me in
the Oval Office and there's literally a diplomatic, a Palestinian delegation.
And he's so reckless and so arrogant that he's not
even afraid that maybe he could be caught, that maybe

(09:26):
he could be overheard, that someone will just open the
door and come in. Mister President's you're late, come on,
and there he is, you know, you know, raping her. Now,
this this is bubba, This is Bill Clinton. He turned
the Oval Office, he turned the West Wing, He turned

(09:47):
the White House into a moral sewre. Like I said,
a bordello, a brothel. Okay, even not even a brothel,
because when you visit the hoares and at a in
a whorehouse, you pay the horse, you don't rape the horse.
Not that Kathy wille was a whore. My point is
he was raping women. He wasn't even paying for consensual sex.

(10:14):
And she's gonna let and all Trump is doing is
building a gorgeous ballroom on his dine. But she's lecturing
us about defiling the White House. I'm sorry, blank off,
really blank off, Lisa in Bellmont, Thanks for holding Lisa,
and welcome.

Speaker 4 (10:36):
This is the calling up I decided to call up
to nothing Clinton does surprises me. But this is the
point I want to make. I think the problem is
that I'm hearing it from Democrats and Republicans. The resentment
is the timing this is going on. We're in a
government shutdown. They said the SNAP program will be ending

(10:58):
in a week if they run out of money. Believe
it or not, the grocery stores depend on SNAP forty
eight percent of their income. If this happens, you're going
to see a ripple effect in the economy. I'm already
seeing it with restaurants. They're empty, food prices have gone
so high. And I think with the turmoil that's going

(11:19):
on right now, I think the resentment is, hey, why
are you doing this now. They're not resenting the fact
that he's paying for it. I think they resent the
fact that they're saying, well, people are losing their jobs.
If people go hungry, they're going to be desperate. Why
is he doing this now? And I think this is

(11:41):
what I'm hearing.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
What's the you, Jeff Well on the government shut down?
If they're complaining about food stamps and people losing their
jobs and you know, and the government being shut down.
The Republicans have passed what is it now twelve continuing resolutions.
Voted forgive me. They voted for twelve continuing resolutions that

(12:04):
would pay every federal employee, the food stamps would be
paid for, Everything would be paid for. And if the
Democrats want to negotiate an extension of the Obamacare subsidies,
they would still have what is it, six seven weeks
to do so, which is how you normally conduct the government.
You have a negotiation between the majority party and the

(12:24):
opposition party, and you hammer out a you hammer out
a compromise. But no, they wanted the shutdown. The Democrats
forced the shutdown. Remember the continuing resolution funds spending at
current levels. These are Biden spending levels. So nobody would

(12:46):
lose their job, Nobody would be out on the streets,
nobody would be in a food line, nobody would not
be getting food stamps. So what I'm saying is this
is completely a Democrat shutdown. This can end, and now
all they have to do is vote for a continuing
resolution and then if they want to negotiate Obamacare subsidies,

(13:07):
you do it in a civilized way, not under the
barrel of a gun. That's number one. Number two, Look,
this is gonna be a long construction project. I can
always tell you, well, now it's not the right time
for whatever reason. Well, it's a natural disaster. Can't do
it now? Oh well, you know, I don't know. We're

(13:29):
in the middle of peace negotiations now between Ukraine and Russia.
You're gonna build it now, Well, hold on, the ceasefire
may be unraveling. We're gonna build it now. So what
I'm saying is it's a construction project. Trump is paying
for it. It's not impacting the way the government functions
at all, the executive branch. I'm talking about the White House.

(13:52):
So what's the problem? No, and by and this is
by the way. You know, they didn't build a West
wing overnight when Theodore Rosa did it, or when Taft,
how we're Taft President Taft built the Oval Office, or
when FDR built not just a swimming pool, but more
importantly the East Wing. Those were long construction projects. The

(14:12):
government went on. Nobody said, oh my god, there's a
war here, or there's the recession, or I mean, they
had recessions under Roosevelt, they had recessions under Taft. Hell
under FDR was a great depression. I mean it was
one of the worst unemployment we ever had in our country.
People were literally going hungry. I mean they were starving.

(14:34):
And not to belabor the point, Lisa, but just look
at the pictures of the nineteen thirties, how thin and
gaunt so many Americans were. Look at us today. We're
an obese, overweight nation. The problem in our country is
no longer hunger, it's obesity. Literally, that's our problem. We're

(14:55):
overweight as a nation and as a people. By the way,
that's the West, that's not just the America. So all
I'm saying is, in the height of the depression, he
can build a swimming pool, and he can build a
major East wing expansion. FDR and the Liberals say he's
the greatest president we ever had. Really, FDR is the

(15:15):
king of all kings. So if it's okay for FDR,
and it's okay for Truman, and it's okay for Theodore Roosevelt,
and it's okay for Obama, why isn't it okay for Trump?
So they oppose for the sake of opposing, They hate
for the sake of hating because it's Trump. And honestly,

(15:38):
I think on this one, Lisa, they look more ridiculous
and foolish by the second. And when you have people
like Hillary saying you're defiling sacred ground now, I mean
people are literally laughing in their faces. So that would
be my rebuttal, Lisa, final word to you, Well.

Speaker 4 (15:57):
Jeff, I agree with everything you just said. I just
think the people don't understand all this, and they're just
looking at this a whole different realm. The resentment is unbelievable.
It's just, uh, I don't know what's going to happen.
I know if people go hungry, they're eating a lot

(16:19):
of junk food right now. That's why everyone's so heavy.
But hunger is a dangerous thing. And I'm just a
little worried about the economy right now.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
Well, Lisa, look, I can just tell you this, this
is another eighty twenty issue. When you poll Americans, they
love the idea of the ballroom, and especially when they
realize it's privately funded, and many of them are now
as for the government shutdown. The Democrats are the ones
getting blamed, not Trump. They made a big mistake because

(16:51):
remember the hill they're willing to die on now, Lisa,
is to give free health care our money, that's pay
funded money. Hundreds of billions of dollars to be legal aliens.
The American people can't believe it. Six one seven two
six six sixty eight sixty eight. Randy in Quinsy, thanks

(17:12):
for holding Randy, and welcome.

Speaker 5 (17:17):
That's the whole reason why they don't. They don't want
him to build this room because they don't want history
to show that Trump was ever there. And you know what,
if he can't name it Trump rum, I hope he
paints the walls black. Hope he doesn't in late Trump
on the mahogany floor, and I hope he paints the
saling with twenty four carrot golds. You know, even if

(17:39):
it's a hall, even if it's a hallway or a closet,
something has to have Trump's name in there because they
like to change the history and uh oh the past,
and it's it's not going to happen.

Speaker 1 (17:51):
Randy. Let me ask you this because you're making a
really good, interesting point, a really good point, the fact
that he's going to be paying for much of it.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
Now.

Speaker 1 (17:59):
I know there's also on private donors, and it's not
you know, he's not putting up the whole two hundred
and fifty million, but he's a good chunk of it's
coming out of his pocket because he's paying for a
lot of it, and because he's the guy that fundraised
and got all the you know, private donations. Do you
think he's I don't want to say entitled, but do
you think he's earned the right to have the ballroom

(18:22):
named after him?

Speaker 5 (18:25):
I think he does. And all the money that this
country spends and we can't do a little bit for
ourselves and make our White House, you know, yeah, I
think he's doing the right thing and it's going to
look nice. And you know, the liberals, you know, they
can change the names of our state parks, and they
can knock down monuments and move monuments, and that's okay,

(18:46):
you know. And don't forget every first lady that goes
in the White House, they all do millions of dollars
of renovations, curtains, copits, furniture. That's okay. As soon as
Trump wants to do something, you know that's different.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
It's the end of the world. No, you're right, it's again.
It's Hitler fascism, dictatorship. Oh my god, again and again
and again. Randy, you're dead on. You're absolutely spot on, Randy.
Thank you for that call. Look and just very quick
again as to him, you know, defiling the White House,
defiling sacred ground. Do all of you remember under joey okay,

(19:24):
under Joe Biden dementia, Joe missed president auto pen okay,
the auto pen under the autopen. Do you remember when
he had a big LGBTQ event at the White House
and so in honor of the LGBTQ is it Pride
Month or whatever? They you know the pillars that you

(19:45):
know that like around the White House, there's like what
is it five six beautiful pillars in the Greco Roman style,
and they painted them the colors of the rainbow flag.

Speaker 4 (19:57):
You know.

Speaker 1 (19:57):
One pillar was purple, another one was green, and another
one was yellow, another one was orange, another one was red,
and so they painted it. And then they had drag
queens literally drag queens performing, you know, in front of
the White House, at the White House on the White
House lawn. And then you had some of these lgbt

(20:20):
radicals who were invited. You remember how they they took
their shirts off and you had men, forgive me, they
were transgender women, I guess what you call them. You
had men who had like you know, female breasts implanted
on them. And so these men with female breasts literally
took their shirts and their bras off at the White

(20:42):
House and they were flashing everybody, and they were flashing
in front of the cameras, and forgive me, they were like,
you know, the men were grabbing their breasts in a
kind of a sexual way and you know, massaging their
nipples and doing sexual sounds. And then you at other
gay men who then took their shirts off as well

(21:04):
and started like flashing. Do you remember so when Joey
basically had a drag queen show on the White House
lawn with you know, the rainbow flag colored you know,
they painted these pillars temporarily in all these different colors
and then had them, you know, topless, going around topless. No,

(21:28):
that's okay, No, the Left loved it. If you want to,
can read you the end. The press clippings are so inclusive, historic, historic,
what joe Biden did. Oh, diversity, equity, inclusion. Oh, this
will be remembered for the ages. They're flashing fake breasts

(21:55):
on men and doing a drag queen show. And by
the way, there were children there at the White House.
No problema. No, that's not defiling anything. But Trump says, hey,
can we build the most beautiful ballroom in the world
on my you know, from my you know, coming from
my pocket, on my dime, and all of a sudden,

(22:18):
that's just grotesque, just just unspeakable and apple bomb from
the Atlantic. Okay, rabbit Trump hater literally said this was yesterday,
literally said, I think it was on CNN. Don't quote me.
But she went out and said, but she's a big
Ukraine supporter. Okay, she's a huge neo conservative. What Trump

(22:43):
is doing now at the White House with the you know,
demolishing the East Wing and you know, reconstructing a ballroom,
it's worse than not sending Zelensky and Ukraine Tomahawk missiles.
The Ukrainians are begging for our Tomahawk missiles to strike
deep into Russia. Take the fight to the Russians that
this is worse, worse than not sending Ukraine Tomahawk missiles.

(23:10):
You can't make this up. Anne in Hull, thanks for
holding Anne, and welcome.

Speaker 4 (23:19):
Hi.

Speaker 2 (23:20):
Hi Anne, good morning, Hi, good morning. Just a couple
of points, but one of them is missus Hillary Clinton,
like it's okay, yeah, for her husband to do what
he did, and that's not defiling our White House. And also,
how about the last administration illegal imported drugs? You know

(23:40):
they're all over there, you know, no problem.

Speaker 3 (23:42):
We looked into it.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
I believe I believe they looked into it, and it
was like, nah, nothing happened. There's just too many like
And as far as my next point, I'm sorry, I'm rambling,
but no.

Speaker 1 (23:54):
An, by the way, Ann, I got to say this,
and you're on fire. An. I forgot about the cocaine
in the White House. You're completely right, you know everybody
Now people are saying is it Hunter's cocaine or was
it Joe Biden's cocaine because they kept giving him stuff
to keep them awake and functioning. But you're right, they
found they were snorting cocaine in the White House. And

(24:18):
I mean, I don't know what else to say. You know,
Buba is banging in turns and raping women in the
White House in the Oval office, and Joey or his
son or somebody you know, either a Hunter or whoever,
they're doing lines of coke in the White House. But
that's not the filing. But you build a gorgeous, big,

(24:39):
beautiful ballroom in Anne, I mean, it's it's Satanism. You're
thinking Trump is performing a black Mass in there. But please,
you're on a roll, keep going in.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
We know how the Kamis, you know that are just
masquerading as Democrats, how they think, and we don't trust them.
And as far as them passing the big beautiful bill
a few months back, that was all part of their
strategy to do this. That was all part of their

(25:11):
strategy to do this. Now, I'm sorry, I don't want
to say this as a conspiracy, but I'm not really
that type. It's just so easy to see and everything
they do is planned, is you know if you know
you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (25:27):
No, No, you're right. They're obstructing him. They're trying to
disrupt his presidency. They're shutting the government down. Now they're
going on it's around the clock, and they can't. You
go on social media, you watch it doesn't matter what
you watch now, local news, cable news, nightly news. You

(25:51):
pick up any paper and it's the ballroom, the ballroom,
the ballroom, and and it's the failing, you know, the
filing sacred ground, and it's an attack on our history.
And I gotta say and honestly, I'm starting to feel
sorry for Trump. I mean, I know he would smack
me in my face like you know, the back of
my head like my dad and said, you don't feel

(26:12):
sorry for anybody, yourself or me. I'm in the arena.
This is what I you know, this is what I
signed up for. But I do feel sorry for him
because he breaks his back. He works twenty hour days,
seven days a week. He's burning to midnight oil, he's
fighting on every front. And you know, he puts one

(26:36):
hundred million or whatever it is out of his own money,
raises another one hundred and fifty million. By the time
this project is done, he's gone. He won't even be
in the White House. This is a pure gift and
from you look at the just look at the architectural plans.
It's gonna be one of the most beautiful ballrooms in

(26:57):
all honesty, in human history, for in the world. I mean,
it's gonna be something we're gonna look at and go wow,
just wow, like jaw dropping. And this is the thanks
this man gets. It's just it's sick, honestly, and it's sick.
It's sick as you put it, it's demonic it's sick,

(27:21):
and thank you very much. Please don't be a stranger
and call again. Okay, I've been waiting for this because
she knows a lot about real estate. She comes from
a construction family. Her dad was a builder. So if
anybody's got special expertise on this, doctor Grace putting liberals
in their place, Grace vhoto full disclosure. Men, did I

(27:45):
marry up my wonderful wife, Grace. Look, you're a realtor.
You do a lot of real estate. You know real estate,
you know construction. Your dad, as I said, was a builder. Trump,
out of his own pocket and with pride it funding,
not taxpayer money, wants to expand the East Wing, tear

(28:06):
it down, demolish part of it, expand and at the
heart of it a big, beautiful ballroom. The left says,
he's the filing sacred ground. He's taking a literal wrecking
ball to the White House. This is an attack on history,
and as Hillary said, it's an attack on the people's house.

(28:27):
He's destroying the people's house. It's a massive scandal. What
say you.

Speaker 6 (28:35):
So much for having me on? Well, I think I
have a perspective that's going to surprise you today. Jeff,
because I really do not like this project at all,
and I'll tell you why. I know that his intentions
are noble, and I know that he's being maligned at
every turn by the left, and so we feel the
need to come to his defense all the time. But

(28:58):
on this one, I just think that building a ballroom
right now is a huge luxury project. When you think
about this, Who's going to benefit from a ballroom like that?
Foreigners like Emmanuel Macron, I don't know, the leader of
Saudi Arabia, Mark Karney and his wife Zelenski and his wife,

(29:18):
Chancellor Mertz. Who's going to really benefit from a bigger ballroom.
We really don't need this right now. I think a
country has so many big, big problems that to be
doing this luxury project right now it seems to me
just a very, very bad timing. So I'm sorry to

(29:40):
disagree with you, and I know a lot of the
audience is excited about this. I also want to say
that I visited the White House. It was beautiful as
it was now. There's a difference between you want to
keep the carpet updated, you want to make sure that
the leather seating is updated. There's a difference between keep
being a White House updated to a massive renovation, a

(30:05):
massive expansion, those two things are very different. I toured many,
many of the most beautiful places in the world, the
Chateau Versailles, beautiful places in Europe, and yet I found
the austerity and the simplicity of the White House as
it was absolutely stunning and in keeping with our American traditions,

(30:27):
we don't need to show off. And I do not
like what he's done to the Oval Office. All that gold,
I think is tacky. I would take all that down.
And so I'm just not agreeing with his asceticism at
all on this. I'm not agreeing with the timing, and
I think it's a luxury project that is really out
of step with what the people need right now, which

(30:48):
is a laser focus on the economy.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
Jeff, well, let me well, actually he's improving the economy
because he's got construction crews working around the clock. He's
literally creating jobs right there at the White House. That's
number one. But number two, it's not as if he's,
you know, a construction foreman and he's there telling him
tear this down, tear that down, put this up. He's

(31:13):
got you know, a professional with the most professional crew
in the world, and they're working. He's working on other things.
It's not distracting him a single bit. And you know, Grace,
I'm a little surprised at your opinion on this, and
I'll tell you why. Yes, he invites foreign dignitaries, but
the White House holds all kinds of events for Americans.

(31:35):
School children will go visit. You know, you win the
Super Bowl, the teams go visit, members of Congress go visit.
There's all kinds of you know, staffers events for Americans
all the time. There's bill signings. In other words, this
idea that this is all just for Macron or Zelensky

(31:57):
or Mark Karney, the Prime Minister of Canada, it's not true.
And you know Trump's point is they stick them in
this cocktail room and you can barely fit eighty people
in there. It's embarrassing. And let me just add one
other point, and I want to get your rebuttal. Theodore
Roosevelt literally did a massive expansion. He built the West Wing,

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the whole West Wing. President William Howard Taft built the
Oval Office, the actual Oval Office FDR. In the midst
of the Great depression on taxpayer money, built the entire
East wing and a swimming pool. Harry Truman literally gutted
and reconstructed and rebuilt the entire White House, including a

(32:44):
massive bowling alley. I mean, I could go on and on.
Obama a basketball court. Suddenly Trump wants to build the ballroom,
and it's tacky. It's the timing is wrong. We have
to focus on the economy, you know. I mean, the
West Wing. You like the West Wing, the Oval Office,

(33:06):
you like the Oval Office, the East Wing, you like
the East Wing, the modern White House that was Truman.
You like the modern White House. So how come every
other president can add an expansion but Trump can't.

Speaker 6 (33:19):
Well, Jeff Trump campaigned differently. He has a different campaign.
His campaign was a laser focus on the forgotten man
and woman. How many people actually have the chance to
go sit in the new ballroom. It's going to be
a very small portion of the American people that'll ever
go there. And the larger point is this, The White
House is beautiful as it is. Like I said, I've

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toured some of the most beautiful places in the world.
And when I went, and actually I went with my mom,
one of the most memorable moments of my whole life.
I was astonished by the beauty of the White House
as it was, and I even bought a book because
I thought that so much of it was gorgeous. I
wanted to emulate some of its decor. So the idea
that it has to be improved because we're an embarrassment

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to the world is just wrong. And he's imitating the
aesthetic of Europeans and of the Arab world, rather than
the aesthetic of America, which is puritanical, which is austere,
which is simple, which is dignified. And I think a
lot of his tastes in architecture and what he's done
to the White Ass it's just gaudy. Listen, Milanya has

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beautiful taste in her clothes, but her interior decorating tastes
are just deplorable, and I strongly dislike it. I think
he should have just think about that two hundred million.
Had he raised it, say to do something magnificent for
our vets, I would be cheering today. But this is
a luxury project that just rubs me the wrong way.

(34:47):
I'm sorry to disagree with you and many people of
the audience, but that's sincerely, how I feel.

Speaker 1 (34:52):
No, I listen. I appreciate your sincerity and your authenticity. Look,
let me just make two quick points and then you
get your I want to give you a chance to respond.
Every building Trump is built, whether it's in New York,
in New Jersey, in Florida, in Chicago, never mind around
the world, they're beautiful, they're stunning. Yeah, they're a bit

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more on the ostentatious side. That's his style. But when
you say, you know, it's got to be austere and
puritanical and that's your taste. New Yorkers would disagree with you,
Floridians would disagree with you, Midwesterners would disagree with you.
Californians would disagree with you. So what I'm saying is,

(35:37):
we have some very beautiful, big, impressive buildings that Trump
has built, not just him, but others. So you know,
this is not the eighteenth century. With all due respect,
you know, we're not a small, fledgling republic an agrarian
country or the greatest superpower in the history of the world.

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And world comes to us and then you say, well,
it's not going to be used by the American people.
I disagree. We see the white house all the time
you see it from the outside. He's also making it beautiful,
not just on the inside but on the outside. So
you know, I'm sorry. Every other country in the world

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can have a spectacular ballroom. You name your country, Japan,
South Korea, France, Germany, Britain, Canada, Australia. I could go
on and on. Suddenly we have a big, beautiful ballroom,
and Grace Vodo says he's not focused on the on
the little man. He's now forgotten the forgotten man. Yeah,

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we're having state dinners in a tent. That's what it's been,
literally in a tent outside with the rain. State dinners
in a tent.

Speaker 6 (36:51):
For us, No, this is wrong. Having we already have
a ballroom. He just wants a much bigger one and
a much more ostentatious one. We have a place to
greet foreigners. We have a beautiful oval office that has
served this country well. We have a unique aesthetic. We
don't need gold on the walls, because we have bombs
that can blow up an Iranian facility with such precision.

(37:13):
That's what's impressive. It's not gold on the walls that
impresses anybody you know around the world. This is the
mindset of the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, not in
the United States.

Speaker 1 (37:24):
By the way, we don't have a ballroom. What we
have is an East wing and you can barely fit
eighty people in there. And if you have more than
eighty people at a function, they put you in a
tent outside. Now, you're right, that's a bit more on
the Saudi style, you know, like the Middle East Arab
style a tent. All that's missing is the camels. Okay,
so I'm just saying, no, we're a modern Western country

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and I think we should have a nice ballroom and
frankly a modern, upgraded white house. But that's me, and
I respect your opinion. By the way, you know you
tend to like gold. I'm just saying privately, your style
is more in the Trump vein