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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, Larry, hang on, We're coming right back to you,
Larry in Arkansas. But first, well, actually seven to twenty now,
so I always say seven to twenty ish Wednesday. You
know what that means? Truth or troll? Take it away
a mic and now America's favorite.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Game show where you get to decide on the Kooner Report.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
This is truth or Tall.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Today's truth control comes from President Trump speaking at the
White House Rose Garden lunch yesterday when he had some
thoughts he had to get off his chest regarding former
Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich's presidential power rankings.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Somebody went up there, they say, you're the third best president.
And then this was on television, third best, and they said,
who are the first?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Who?
Speaker 4 (00:54):
George Washington and Abraham Lincoln? And I got extremely angry
at this man.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
You know, you can't.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
It's gonna be it's gonna be tough to beat mister Senator.
It's gonna be John, It's gonna be very tough to
beat Washington and Lincoln.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
But we're gonna give it a try. Right, Hey, they
didn't put out eight.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Wars nine coming, all right? We put out eight Wars
and the ninth is coming, believe it or not.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
So I think this is an interesting one. Do you
think he's being serious here or is he just trolling?
Because I a part of me thinks he is kind
of po about this.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I gotta tell you, Mike, honestly, you read my mind,
You really read my mind. I'm like, this is I
think maybe the best. I mean, you're the most competitive.
Truth or troll, I guess is the way I would
phrase it. Uh, you could really go either way on this,
because you could, like, you know, new Gingrid says, you
know to me. You know, if someone says, wow, you're
the third greatest president we've ever had, Well, who are
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the first? Two? Well Washington, the father of our country,
and two well Lincoln, you know, the man who kept
the Union, won the Civil War, I'm like, well that's
that's damn good. Like you know, I'd be like, that's
a compliment. He's like, I'm watching this, but I'm teed off.
You know, why am I not number one?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (02:15):
You know?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
So he goes to John Thune said a majority leader says, listen, John,
we got to do something here to make me number one. Okay,
we got three years left to go, and so It's
almost like you could tell half of his brain is joking.
You know, he's just trolling because obviously to be you know,
even considered among you know, Washington and Lincoln and these
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are world historical figures. But you know, Trump with his ego,
his ambition is drive, you know, his competitiveness. I think
you're right, Mike. I think literally the other half of
his brain says, no, why aren't I number one? And
damond if I'm not, I will do everything in my
power to make me number one. So you know it
(03:00):
literally it could be truth. It really could be truth,
or it could be troll. It's like half of his
brain is truth and half of his brain is troll. Oh,
if I had to vote, man, you put a gun
to my head, Mike, I have to go a troll. Yeah,
but you could really go either way on this. I mean,
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who's offended being compared to Washington and Lincoln.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
So I at first I thought he was just trolling,
and then he immediately started giving giving reasons why he's better.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
You gotta love the guy. I find him hilarious. I
just everything. I just he gives press conferences or does
these events, and I just watch him and I just chuckle.
I just find the guy funny. Okay, So let me
ask you the great audience of Kooner Country Nude. Gingrich
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said that Trump was the third greatest president in US history,
just behind Washington and Lincoln. Now Trump says he's upset
by that's that he should be number one. Is he
a telling the truth or b trolling? I you know,
(04:25):
I'm gonna go with trolling, But this is really a
fifty to fifty one I want to hear from you.
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All right, let's go right back to Larry in Arkansas. Larry,
I thought you made a very interesting point. He's done
demolishing the East Wing to build a beautiful ballroom. Is
this an analogy to what he's doing with the deep State?
(05:09):
And I would answer that question by saying yes, I
think that's a very very good point. Larry. Please pick
up where you left off.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Another thing. He's going to be the probably the number
one president in history to spend the most of his
own money and they still hate him for it.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Larry, has it gotten to the point where, really, if
he was for motherhood and apple Pie they're against it.
Is it really gotten to the point and no matter
what he does they oppose. It's just now it's blind hatred.
It really is derangement. It's Trump derangement syndrome.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Have to be sure that that that's all they can
come up with. He's spending his own money on a
project and they have to find something to rage about.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Larry, do you think that this quote unquote scandal, is
it going to have any legs? Will this damage Trump
at all? Or you think the American people are going
to laugh at these democrats.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
In the media.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Overall is not going to affect him at all. You know,
they're all predicting that this government shutdown is going to
be hung around him like a millstone, And it actually
showed that twenty nineteen he was dropping in popularity or
approval during that shutdown. He's steadily climbing and approval in
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this one. So everything they're doing is not working.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Larry, you are one thousand correct six seven two six
sixty eight sixty eight is the number. Okay, is Trump defiling?
Is he violating sacred ground? That's what the left and
the media, I mean, they're not just saying it, They're
yelling it. They're screaming it, they're screeching it. Construction now
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has begun on a massive new expansion project at the
White House, literally at the east east wing of the
White House. So they have a construction crews now if
they can, a wrecking ball, and they have demolished a
good part of the East wing in order to eventually
build a beautiful, glamorous, really world class ballroom. Other things
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as well, but the centerpiece is the ballroom, which many
say is going to rival anything in the world. Trump says,
you got to watch, you gotta wait, he says, trust me,
you will not be disappointed. This is going to be.
This has been put together by the finest architects, using
the finest building materials, with the best construction contractors and workers,
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and it will be a substantial upgrade and renovation and
improvement to the White House overall. Listen now to Joe
and Mika Scarborough on MS LEFTBC. First, they went ballistic
that he's actually taking a physical wrecking ball to the
White House. They're saying, it's an attack on history, an
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attack on our house. It's grotesque, it's repulsive. And now
they're going on about how he thinks it's his house
because he's a dictator. Roll cuts six b a mic.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Destroying like one of the most historic structures on the planet.
And are we saying that whoever we elect present has
the right to destroy just tear things up, tear it
to the ground, turn it into something else.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Kind of crazy.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
I don't think it's not your home that you purchased,
and you know now it's not yours.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
You rent it from the American people for four years.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Well, he's just going to destroy it, that's what he's doing.
He's just hey, he's just taking a wrecking ball and
he just just just destroy it. Level it, just level
the whole damn thing. I mean, these people are insane.
And again, so no West Wing, no good under Theodore Roosevelt,
no Oval Office under Howard William Howard Taft, no good.
(09:22):
No how about the East Wing under FDR No no good?
How about when Truman literally rebuilt the whole freaking thing,
gutted it from the inside, and a brand new bowling alley. No, no,
how about when the dear Leader added that little nice
basketball court. M They came in with some pretty heavy
construction crews. They smashed up a lot of things to
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get that thing built. And by the way, a lot
of your pointing out, Jeff, don't forget the Lincoln bedroom.
Abraham Lincoln had the Lincoln Bedroom added to the White House.
That's very true, and just quickly most you at least
have probably heard of the book. David McCullough a popular historian.
(10:05):
His stuff is you know, I think he's a liberal politically,
but his stuff is quite good, and he's a very
good writer. He wrote a Pulitzer Prize winning biography of
Harry Truman. It's actually very well written. There's a whole
section in the biography that McCullough devotes to Truman's grand
project to I'm talking completely rebuild and renovate the entire
(10:30):
White House. There were construction crews around the clock. Things
were being smashed, destroyed, walls coming down. You wouldn't believe it.
Universal praise. McCullough praises him, the Libs praise Truman, the
media praise Truman. So you see when every other president
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does it on the taxpayer's dying. It's great, it's wonderful
when Trump does it. Fascismo, as the Italians would say,
it's fascism, it's fascism. Six one seven two six six
sixty eight sixty eight. Okay, very very quickly. This is
(11:15):
from Eric on Messenger, and I think he really hit
the nail on the head. Jeff, the ballroom shows progress
for America, that our progress is continuing. The left wants
the destruction of America, and Trump is showing the world
that we are growing bigger and better without the Democrats.
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America is back and it's greater than yesterday. The left
hates progress, and Jeff, the White House is as symbolic
as Mount Rushmore bingo, bingo. The ballroom is the symbol
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of progress in America. A beautiful expansion, the best materials.
We're going to have the finest ballroom, the finest place
to meet foreign leaders and throw wonderful parties and whole events.
It will be unrivaled in the world with the finest
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construction material and it will show this is Trump's America.
America is back. Progress is on the march, and we
are bigger, better, and more beautiful than ever we are
great again, a great white House for a great country.
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And he's done it all without the help of a
single Democrat or a single liberal or a single leftist.
Mel in New York, thanks for holding mail and welcome.
Speaker 7 (13:03):
Yeah man, yes, yes, yes, Good morning, Jeff.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Good morning Mel. What do you make of all this?
Speaker 7 (13:09):
My friend, let me get your office speaker. I was
holding the horse there a second ago. I gott me
get jobsticker. Well, yeah, you know, as I was saying, saying, Sandy,
you know, if there was a Democrat in office and
President Trump wanted to spend his money to renovate that ballroom, oh,
they jump all over that. They'd be on it. They'd
be all over that like a bomb on a sandwich.
But the thing about it, you know, when they're spending
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other people's money, they don't care. But uh, they've had
every opportunit. Well, look at Obama. You know that I'm
about five foot four, and I think he's not too
taller than me. So they say, you know, he's probably
about five seven or something like that. He's not that
very tall. From what I understand. I would like to
go one on one with him on the basketball court.
I think i'd smoke him. You know, he's he ain't
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all that, you know, you know, it's just you know,
but these these they're so hypocritical. I just can't. I
don't do they do they listen to what they say
and how they act and what they say. I don't
know there there they are their own worst enemy when
it comes to critics criticizing other people. They ought to
(14:13):
start with themselves and maybe they get it, but obviously
they don't and they can't. They'll never get it. But
you know, you were talking about the price of fuel
of President's Trump, and I also understand he's going to
get the Keystone XL pipeline back rolling with who's that
uh uh up there in Canada? What's the press? What's
his name? Uh?
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Prime minister?
Speaker 7 (14:33):
Yeah, Carnage, Yeah, Prime Minister Carnage. Right, So he gets
that rolling. Of course, you know, we'll see the fuel
prices come down. But diesel fuel, like you were saying,
is really key. But the thing about you know, Jeff,
have you ever noticed Canada Campbell's sooue who was owned
by who is uh uh what the heck's her name?
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Uh? She?
Speaker 7 (14:52):
I just I was just talking about she owns the
race horses too. She comes around here in the summertime.
Uh anyway, uh uh yes, the size of of what
you pay for you're gonna you pay, you pay more,
get less. And as far as reduction of of inflation,
you know, you may, like you said, you'll get the
fuel prices down, but you got to watch it too,
(15:14):
because they get they get very sneaky these uh uh
these uh in industrial or whatever, you know, these these
uh who's the manufacturer of what we buy in the stores?
Especially food products? You know, the portions come down and
the prices, the portions will get smaller, but the price
you may come down a little bit or stay where
(15:36):
it's eh, or you'll see you'll get a reduct you know,
a little little little re relief from the prices. But
you got to watch those sides too, just start reducing.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
No, that's true. No, look out, you're right. I mean,
look and look I've noticed it. I mean, I've talked
about potato chips in the past, but really I love
potato chips. I shouldn't have it because of my diabetes,
but that's another story. Let that go. As I like
to say, it keeps costing more. It's like basically now
it's five bucks a bag, like a little family size bag.
It's five bucks. Okay, now it's even six bucks if
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you buy Ruffles. I like ruffles six bucks and half
the bag is empty. It's air, you know, So the
packaging is smaller. Is so number one, it's already less
to begin with, and then it's half of it is air.
And the price has gone up like by what two bucks?
Since what is it? Since? You know, whenever when Biden
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was in power. Mel I think one of the problems
is that we're still recovering from the pandemic economically. I
think the pandemic, COVID, the massive spending under Biden. I
think this is still with us, and it's going to
be with us. I think for a while to come.
Seven point fifty one here on the Great wrko Jeff
(16:52):
Kooner Boston's Bulldozer six six one seven sixty eight sixty eight.
You know, Sandy just made a very good point. Is
he taking these slings and arrows over the ballroom where
he's almost challenging the media to take him on, and
(17:13):
you know, giving as good as he gets, and I
know that's his style, but in a way to almost
distract them from everything else that he's doing. Remember, they're
laying people off now during this government shutdown. You know
Russ Vote, who's been overseeing the budget, who by the way,
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he's been nicknamed darth Vader by the media, and Trump
loves that nickname. He goes, you want to call him
darth Vader, I'm going to embrace it, and he's like,
you know, he's literally saying, you know, we're cutting program
after program, We're laying off so many of the you know,
these fat cat bureaucrats getting rid of all this waste,
fraud and abuse. And normally there would be these stories about, oh,
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this person got laid off, this person got fired, this
program got caught, this agency whatever. You know, twenty people
were let go or whatever, and all they can't find
you know, they can't find work. They're waiting in land now,
they're in food banks. You're not seeing any of that
because they're consumed with the ballroom and Trump is just
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standing there and he's just taking blow after blow and
giving it back. And the more he hits them, the
more they want to attack him. Let me just play
the cut again. This is Trump in the rose garden
taking a lot of fire about the ballroom, and he's saying, look,
construction has begun. We're demolishing the east wing, but of
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course we're going to renovate it. We're going to rebuild
it with a big, beautiful ballroom. It's going to be massive.
It's going to seaked about six hundred and fifty guests.
It's going to be one of the most spectacular ballrooms
in the world. Listen to Trump, and Trump says, by
the way, I'm paying for it. This is out of
my pocket, not the taxpayers. Roll cut six, Mike.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
We're building a world class ballroom.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
You know, for one hundred and.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Fifty years they've wanted a ballroom here.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
We don't have a ballroom.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
We have a little cocktail area, but we don't have
a ballroom. The East room it's called, is a very
small cocktail area holds about eighty eight people if it's tight.
And we said, I said, if I do this again,
I'm going to get a ballroom built. And we're putting
up our own money with the government just paying for nothing.
You probably hear the beautiful sound of construction to the back.
(19:40):
You hear that sound, Oh that's music to my ears.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
I love that sound.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Other people don't like it. I love it, Josh.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
I think when I.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Hear that sound, it reminds me of money. In this case,
it reminds me of lack of money because I'm paying
for it.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
So it's the optics. And again, Josh as he's looking
and talking to Senator Josh, now, just I want to
play one other cut, and I want to get all
of your feedback on this. I'd love for you to
weigh in, all of you. Trump's making another argument, and
it's not just about the ballroom. Trump has said this.
(20:15):
He said it in his first term. But the poor
guy was under you know, under siege. He was an
agent of Russia. They kept impeaching him. He had Robert
Muller and the Special Council breathing down his neck. I mean,
he was getting hit from all sides. So he said, look,
I didn't I wanted to do these projects. I just couldn't.
I physically just couldn't. Now I got a second term,
(20:37):
I've put my enemies on the defensive. I've got the
right personnel in the right positions now, so I'm not
as distracted and on the ropes as I was during
most of my second term. Playing defense and The point
that he makes is he goes, the White House needs
to be upgraded. He goes, and I'm not just talking
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about building a big, beautiful ballroom, he says. For example,
he talked about the Rose Garden, which is, you know, beautiful,
don't get me wrong, But he says, Washington, if you
know the weather there, it's almost like a swamp. It's subtropical.
It rains like crazy, the ground gets very wet. He says,
you have no idea how many times we throw events
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at the White House. And women in particular will complain
because they're you know, they're wearing beautiful dresses, they have
high heels on, and their heels literally are sinking in
the grass, and it even gets muddy, and they'll like
take out their shoe and say, look, look, look at
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the mud on my shoe. Look at this, Like is
this appropriate for the you know, the greatest power in
the world. This is the this, you know, the seat
of the President of the United States, And you're throwing
a diplomatic function or whatever, a bill signing event or
whatever it may be, and you know, our shoes are
full of mud or our heels are full of mud.
(22:01):
And Trump said, that's disgraceful. So what did he do.
He built a beautiful patio. In other words, you know,
you put some cement saying, look, i'm sorry, this should
have been upgraded the forty fifty years ago. Like, no,
I'm sorry, you can't. You can't just have it the
way it was, you know, one hundred years ago. You
got to keep updating it. And so he wants to
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renovate much of the White House, and part of it
was the you know, the rose garden the outside. Make
it look beautiful, make it look more modern, make it
look more user friendly, if I can use that term.
In other words, no, you're not going to be walking
in mud. We're gonna have some beautiful patios. So in
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other words, it's such a stick up a tent and
everybody huddles underneath the tent if it rains. Listen now
to President Trump saying, look, I'm making changes to the
White House because the White House is old and outdated,
and these changes and renovations and repairs need to be made.
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It is the people's house and it deserves to look beautiful.
Roll cut five mic.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
So this was going on for many years, but everybody
would just sink into the mud. It was extremely luxurious grass,
especially when it was raining, because you'd go back, you'd
go down about five inches into the mud. And when
we had a press conference here, all the press standing
back there, they'd be cursing me. The women would be
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lifting up the shoes, saying, you've destroyed my shoes.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
This is terrible.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
So we got a stone that's the exact same stone
and color as the White House itself, because we wanted
the friendly feeling of that light color and it reflects
the sun and it keeps you cool even in the summer.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
I'm just saying, he's a builder, and he's got an
eye for things that are beautiful, what looks good, what
doesn't look good, but also quality class. And he's a patriot.
He loves our country, and he's thinking is look, it's
the people's house. It should be a beautiful home. And
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if you're also going to have the commander in chief
work from there as he does in the president and
the president's staff, and you know, have cabinet meetings, etc.
And meet world leaders, come on, you don't want them
coming to some you know, building that's falling apart and
dilapidated and out of date. And he goes, I'm sorry,
you've got to you know, it's the twenty first century.
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We've got to renovate, we've got to upgrade, we've got
to improve. I think he's right to me, it's just
common sense, and it's also self respect as a country,
and Trump has a lot of pride and not just
in himself and his family, but in America and frankly
in the presidency and in the White House. I agree, disagree,
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just very quickly. Okay, here's Fetterman, by the way, He's
the only Democrat that says, what's the problem. He's the
only one like, yeah, he's paying for it, and I'm
sure it's gonna look absolutely beautiful, like really like he's
almost like dumbfounded looking around the room, like what is
the problem? Roll cut seven, Mike.
Speaker 8 (25:30):
I mean, I don't have a strong opinion about expanding
the ballroom, but I'd like to just point out that
the currently Trump won't be in office before that's even
completed anyway, And I think everything that I've seen the
plans are going to be done in a tasteful and
historical kind of a way. I mean, they're not putting
in a David Buster's kind of a situation here. So
(25:52):
I think upgrading some of these facilities seems pretty normal.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
I mean, you know, I'm like, yeah, you know, you
got an upgrade. Hello, he's not putting in a David Busters.
So I mean, it's it's going to be tactful, it's
going to be tasteful, it's it's going to be world class.
Like what's that? And he's paying for it? But what's
the problem. But no, here's the problem. Now here's Danang Dick. Hey,
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mister stolen valor. So here's Senator Richard Blumenthal. I guess
he just came back from what is it now, his
twentieth tour in Vietnam. Rambo. So here's Rambo. Now he's
say all the MIAs, all those missing in action, he
went there, he rescued them. Now he's back. Here's Danang Dick.
(26:41):
So here's Rambo. Rambo Richard Blumenthall roll cut seven A Mike.
Speaker 9 (26:48):
I think this project the White House is a gigantic boondoggle.
And the really important question is not only the damage
that it could.
Speaker 10 (26:58):
Do to the architecture of the White House, but also
what contributors would have over Trump if they are giving
to this project. He's already raised two hundred.
Speaker 9 (27:15):
Million dollars or possibly more for his pack. Now he
is going to be soliciting money from private comrivers for
this boon doggle.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Boon doggle, boon doggle, boon doggle. By the way, usually
when you use the term boon doggle, it's something public.
In other words, it's tax payer money. That's usually when
you know it's a boondoggle. You know, like whatever the
O'Neal tunnel, that was a boonm doggle. You know it
was over budget. Well you know, it was years past
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the due date when the construction was going to be done,
and it was you know, how many how many how
much of our money was thrown down a rattle. That's
a boon doggle. So the donors are front the money.
Trump's paying for most of it now. And by the way,
what influence could they have, Like the money's already been donated,
so like, you know, like it means that much to
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Trump that he's gonna sell America out for the for
the ballroom. You know, let me play six B again.
I agree with you, Sandy, you know. And by the way,
the left is somehow under the delusion that we're paying
for this, Like, you know, it's not his house stock
(28:34):
he's buying a house in New Jersey. Yeah, but he's
paying for most of it, or he's got his donors
paying for it. So what's the problem. Now Trump has
even said I'll disclose all the donors so it'll be
full transparency, so you'll know exactly who donated and what favors.
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Can I put? What for a boom? For a lousy ballroom?
Like what do you think? So what I'm selling?
Speaker 5 (29:00):
What? So?
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Now, what do I get out of this? He probably
won't even have his name attached to the ballroom. They
won't let him. So I'm going to build a ballroom
mostly on my expense, and I get a couple of
other wealthy people and others to chip in, and I'm
selling the country out. How what do I get out
(29:22):
of the ballroom?
Speaker 5 (29:23):
Like?
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Literally, what did I get out of it? Except maybe
a footnote literally a footnote in the history textbooks one
hundred years from now. Yeah you know that beautiful ballroom. Yeah,
that was paid for by Donald Trump and his supporters,
That was privately funded. That's it, That's what he gets
out of it. Listen now, to Mika Brzhinski roll cut
with Scarborough, roll cut six b Mike.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
It destroying like one of those historic structures on the planet,
and the cost. And are we saying that whoever we
elect present has a right to destroy, just tear things up,
tear it to the charted into something else, toind it?
Speaker 6 (30:03):
Crazy?
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Man, I don't think it's not your home that you purchased.
Speaker 6 (30:07):
And you know now it's not yours. You rent it
from the American people for forty years.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Yeah, but he's paying for it. It's not like the
American people are paying for it.
Speaker 11 (30:19):
No.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
No, I'm just say I'm just saying six what seven
two six six sixty eight sixty eight. Lisa in Plymouth.
Thanks for holding Lisa, and welcome.
Speaker 11 (30:31):
Good morning, Jeff. Good to talk to you. Thanks for
the great work that you do for America.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Thank you, Thank you, Lisa, You're welcome.
Speaker 11 (30:38):
I would just like to let everybody know that this
desire of President Trump to build a ballroom goes back
to at least the first quarter of twenty fifteen. I
was looking for candidate to support and went to the
First in the Nation summit up in Nashville and New
Hampshire in the first quarter of twenty fifth. Long story short,
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I chose candidate Trump, or almost candidate Trump at the time,
and was invited on a Friday afternoon by then paid
staff to go to a brunch at a hotel adjacent
to where the time was being held that next morning.
So I show up and this is probably the first
(31:24):
Trump event of the pre campaign. There was about forty
of us that went to this fabulously staffed and catered brunch.
And he comes in with his retinue, gets up at
the podium and starts to talk about what he wants
to accomplish. And he had five or six things on
(31:44):
his list, and he went over securing the border, securing
social security, bringing manufacturing back to America, a couple of
other things, and then there was some Q and A,
and then along in the process he also said, and
I'm going to build a bar ballroom for this country.
I can remember it like it was yesterday. And he
(32:05):
got up there and he said, we don't have a
ballroom to entertain people. He says, you go to other countries,
you see these beautiful ballrooms. They can hold two or
three hundred people. We don't have that. We have a
very small area in which to entertain dignitaries and guests
of our country. I'm going to build a ballroom for
the people of America. So I would say, promises made,
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promises kept.
Speaker 12 (32:31):
Yet again, Lisa, really well said I got to say
really well, very articulate, and just very powerfully said Lisa.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
All I can do is add and just to reinforce
what you're saying. When I was an assistant national editor
at the Washington Times, long story short, I would meet
with foreign journalists. They would come to the newsroom. We'd
talk about what's happening their countries, and they would give
us information. And this would go on for you know whatever,
(33:05):
once or twice a week, and they come in for
an hour or two. And the reason why I'm mentioning this,
and I mean they were journalists who came from Serbia,
from Croatia, from Poland, from the Baltic States, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Georgia,
the Republic of Georgia. And the reason why I'm mentioning
this is every single one of these journalists, these delegations
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that would come to a man and woman would look
around the room, you know, your talk what's happening in
your country? What's happening here? Our press, freedom's there. And
they would say two things over and over and over
and over again, and it really bothered us at the
Washington Times. They would say. Number one, they go, you
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don't understand how we look at America. You led the
fight in the Cold War, you defeated the Soviet Union.
I mean, I could do you the accent, but the
Eastern European accent. But you know, you like a hero
to us. You're a beacon of light and a freedom
for all of us. But I don't understand one thing.
(34:13):
We come to White House to see President of the
United States to cover him for our country and with
our leader, and the White House briefing room, a carpet
is torn up, the chairs, they're thirty years old, Coffee
stains everywhere. I'm literally that's literally, that's what you're saying literally,
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And they're like, it's much nicer even in our country.
And then they say the second thing is they go,
then we give two. They give us two of White
House and a lot of history. We love White House,
but he is sold And how you say decrepit. I
remember the Georgian journalist it was decrepit. I'm sorry how
(34:58):
you say decrepit. And so what I'm saying is foreign
journalists would comment how shabby much of the White House
look like how shabby the White House Press briefing room,
like we're coming here, like you know, eyes wide open,
like this is America, this is a white house. This
is oh my god, like like you understand, this is
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the trip of a lifetime. And you walk in and
like the seats in the White House Briefing Room are
torn there's coffee stains everywhere. The carpet, which is true,
by the way, the carpet is torn up. Everything is old.
They're like, what do you what do you what do
you look Samal Yeah, like what are you some some
(35:40):
third world banana republic? You guys can't afford what to
restitch the chairs and and clean this place up and
get proper new carpeting. And and then they give a
tour of the White House and they oh, yeah, the
portraits are nice and everything is nice. But everything is creaky.
Everything is old. There's mold, the floors are scratchy because
you see, at least said. What Americans don't understand is
(36:02):
the moment a new a president is sworn in, they
move the president in right away and his family, and
it goes for four years straight. And then I'm talking like,
then as they're moving out, the other family's moving in.
There's never any time to renovate the White House. And
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then it's and it's full of people and it's in
and out, in and out. So it's used four years
and then new administration four years, and then a new
administration four years. So, and that's why Trump comes in
and says, oh my god, this this place is horrible.
This is the White House? Are you kidding me? This
is what foreign leaders see when they come and visit
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the president, or when we hold a function, or we
hold a cabinet meeting, or we have a press briefing
or we sign a treaty or whatever it is. He goes,
this is unacceptable.
Speaker 5 (36:59):
Now.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
My point is just the journalists would complain to us,
and it bothered me, It bothered everybody because we're all like,
why is the White House so poorly kept? Like why
is it so shabby? And Trump is like, no, not
under my watch, It's gonna be beautiful. It's gonna be magnificent.
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It's gonna be modern, it's gonna be upgraded. It's gonna
be up to date. In other words, we're gonna make
not just America, but we're physically gonna make the White
House great again.
Okay, Larry, hang on, We're coming right back to you,
Larry in Arkansas. But first, well, actually seven to twenty now,
so I always say seven to twenty ish Wednesday. You
know what that means? Truth or troll? Take it away
a mic and now America's favorite.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Game show where you get to decide on the Kooner Report.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
This is truth or Tall.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Today's truth control comes from President Trump speaking at the
White House Rose Garden lunch yesterday when he had some
thoughts he had to get off his chest regarding former
Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich's presidential power rankings.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Somebody went up there, they say, you're the third best president.
And then this was on television, third best, and they said,
who are the first?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Who?
Speaker 4 (00:54):
George Washington and Abraham Lincoln? And I got extremely angry
at this man.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
You know, you can't.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
It's gonna be it's gonna be tough to beat mister Senator.
It's gonna be John, It's gonna be very tough to
beat Washington and Lincoln.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
But we're gonna give it a try. Right, Hey, they
didn't put out eight.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Wars nine coming, all right? We put out eight Wars
and the ninth is coming, believe it or not.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
So I think this is an interesting one. Do you
think he's being serious here or is he just trolling?
Because I a part of me thinks he is kind
of po about this.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I gotta tell you, Mike, honestly, you read my mind,
You really read my mind. I'm like, this is I
think maybe the best. I mean, you're the most competitive.
Truth or troll, I guess is the way I would
phrase it. Uh, you could really go either way on this,
because you could, like, you know, new Gingrid says, you
know to me. You know, if someone says, wow, you're
the third greatest president we've ever had, Well, who are
(01:54):
the first? Two? Well Washington, the father of our country,
and two well Lincoln, you know, the man who kept
the Union, won the Civil War, I'm like, well that's
that's damn good. Like you know, I'd be like, that's
a compliment. He's like, I'm watching this, but I'm teed off.
You know, why am I not number one?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (02:15):
You know?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
So he goes to John Thune said a majority leader says, listen, John,
we got to do something here to make me number one. Okay,
we got three years left to go, and so It's
almost like you could tell half of his brain is joking.
You know, he's just trolling because obviously to be you know,
even considered among you know, Washington and Lincoln and these
(02:36):
are world historical figures. But you know, Trump with his ego,
his ambition is drive, you know, his competitiveness. I think
you're right, Mike. I think literally the other half of
his brain says, no, why aren't I number one? And
damond if I'm not, I will do everything in my
power to make me number one. So you know it
(03:00):
literally it could be truth. It really could be truth,
or it could be troll. It's like half of his
brain is truth and half of his brain is troll. Oh,
if I had to vote, man, you put a gun
to my head, Mike, I have to go a troll. Yeah,
but you could really go either way on this. I mean,
(03:22):
who's offended being compared to Washington and Lincoln.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
So I at first I thought he was just trolling,
and then he immediately started giving giving reasons why he's better.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
You gotta love the guy. I find him hilarious. I
just everything. I just he gives press conferences or does
these events, and I just watch him and I just chuckle.
I just find the guy funny. Okay, So let me
ask you the great audience of Kooner Country Nude. Gingrich
(03:57):
said that Trump was the third greatest president in US history,
just behind Washington and Lincoln. Now Trump says he's upset
by that's that he should be number one. Is he
a telling the truth or b trolling? I you know,
(04:25):
I'm gonna go with trolling, But this is really a
fifty to fifty one I want to hear from you.
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All right, let's go right back to Larry in Arkansas. Larry,
I thought you made a very interesting point. He's done
demolishing the East Wing to build a beautiful ballroom. Is
this an analogy to what he's doing with the deep State?
(05:09):
And I would answer that question by saying yes, I
think that's a very very good point. Larry. Please pick
up where you left off.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Another thing. He's going to be the probably the number
one president in history to spend the most of his
own money and they still hate him for it.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Larry, has it gotten to the point where, really, if
he was for motherhood and apple Pie they're against it.
Is it really gotten to the point and no matter
what he does they oppose. It's just now it's blind hatred.
It really is derangement. It's Trump derangement syndrome.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Have to be sure that that that's all they can
come up with. He's spending his own money on a
project and they have to find something to rage about.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Larry, do you think that this quote unquote scandal, is
it going to have any legs? Will this damage Trump
at all? Or you think the American people are going
to laugh at these democrats.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
In the media.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Overall is not going to affect him at all. You know,
they're all predicting that this government shutdown is going to
be hung around him like a millstone, And it actually
showed that twenty nineteen he was dropping in popularity or
approval during that shutdown. He's steadily climbing and approval in
(06:38):
this one. So everything they're doing is not working.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Larry, you are one thousand correct six seven two six
sixty eight sixty eight is the number. Okay, is Trump defiling?
Is he violating sacred ground? That's what the left and
the media, I mean, they're not just saying it, They're
yelling it. They're screaming it, they're screeching it. Construction now
(07:06):
has begun on a massive new expansion project at the
White House, literally at the east east wing of the
White House. So they have a construction crews now if
they can, a wrecking ball, and they have demolished a
good part of the East wing in order to eventually
build a beautiful, glamorous, really world class ballroom. Other things
(07:31):
as well, but the centerpiece is the ballroom, which many
say is going to rival anything in the world. Trump says,
you got to watch, you gotta wait, he says, trust me,
you will not be disappointed. This is going to be.
This has been put together by the finest architects, using
the finest building materials, with the best construction contractors and workers,
(07:55):
and it will be a substantial upgrade and renovation and
improvement to the White House overall. Listen now to Joe
and Mika Scarborough on MS LEFTBC. First, they went ballistic
that he's actually taking a physical wrecking ball to the
White House. They're saying, it's an attack on history, an
(08:17):
attack on our house. It's grotesque, it's repulsive. And now
they're going on about how he thinks it's his house
because he's a dictator. Roll cuts six b a mic.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Destroying like one of the most historic structures on the planet.
And are we saying that whoever we elect present has
the right to destroy just tear things up, tear it
to the ground, turn it into something else.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Kind of crazy.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
I don't think it's not your home that you purchased,
and you know now it's not yours.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
You rent it from the American people for four years.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Well, he's just going to destroy it, that's what he's doing.
He's just hey, he's just taking a wrecking ball and
he just just just destroy it. Level it, just level
the whole damn thing. I mean, these people are insane.
And again, so no West Wing, no good under Theodore Roosevelt,
no Oval Office under Howard William Howard Taft, no good.
(09:22):
No how about the East Wing under FDR No no good?
How about when Truman literally rebuilt the whole freaking thing,
gutted it from the inside, and a brand new bowling alley. No, no,
how about when the dear Leader added that little nice
basketball court. M They came in with some pretty heavy
construction crews. They smashed up a lot of things to
(09:44):
get that thing built. And by the way, a lot
of your pointing out, Jeff, don't forget the Lincoln bedroom.
Abraham Lincoln had the Lincoln Bedroom added to the White House.
That's very true, and just quickly most you at least
have probably heard of the book. David McCullough a popular historian.
(10:05):
His stuff is you know, I think he's a liberal politically,
but his stuff is quite good, and he's a very
good writer. He wrote a Pulitzer Prize winning biography of
Harry Truman. It's actually very well written. There's a whole
section in the biography that McCullough devotes to Truman's grand
project to I'm talking completely rebuild and renovate the entire
(10:30):
White House. There were construction crews around the clock. Things
were being smashed, destroyed, walls coming down. You wouldn't believe it.
Universal praise. McCullough praises him, the Libs praise Truman, the
media praise Truman. So you see when every other president
(10:52):
does it on the taxpayer's dying. It's great, it's wonderful
when Trump does it. Fascismo, as the Italians would say,
it's fascism, it's fascism. Six one seven two six six
sixty eight sixty eight. Okay, very very quickly. This is
(11:15):
from Eric on Messenger, and I think he really hit
the nail on the head. Jeff, the ballroom shows progress
for America, that our progress is continuing. The left wants
the destruction of America, and Trump is showing the world
that we are growing bigger and better without the Democrats.
(11:41):
America is back and it's greater than yesterday. The left
hates progress, and Jeff, the White House is as symbolic
as Mount Rushmore bingo, bingo. The ballroom is the symbol
(12:03):
of progress in America. A beautiful expansion, the best materials.
We're going to have the finest ballroom, the finest place
to meet foreign leaders and throw wonderful parties and whole events.
It will be unrivaled in the world with the finest
(12:26):
construction material and it will show this is Trump's America.
America is back. Progress is on the march, and we
are bigger, better, and more beautiful than ever we are
great again, a great white House for a great country.
(12:47):
And he's done it all without the help of a
single Democrat or a single liberal or a single leftist.
Mel in New York, thanks for holding mail and welcome.
Speaker 7 (13:03):
Yeah man, yes, yes, yes, Good morning, Jeff.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Good morning Mel. What do you make of all this?
Speaker 7 (13:09):
My friend, let me get your office speaker. I was
holding the horse there a second ago. I gott me
get jobsticker. Well, yeah, you know, as I was saying, saying, Sandy,
you know, if there was a Democrat in office and
President Trump wanted to spend his money to renovate that ballroom, oh,
they jump all over that. They'd be on it. They'd
be all over that like a bomb on a sandwich.
But the thing about it, you know, when they're spending
(13:32):
other people's money, they don't care. But uh, they've had
every opportunit. Well, look at Obama. You know that I'm
about five foot four, and I think he's not too
taller than me. So they say, you know, he's probably
about five seven or something like that. He's not that
very tall. From what I understand. I would like to
go one on one with him on the basketball court.
I think i'd smoke him. You know, he's he ain't
(13:52):
all that, you know, you know, it's just you know,
but these these they're so hypocritical. I just can't. I
don't do they do they listen to what they say
and how they act and what they say. I don't
know there there they are their own worst enemy when
it comes to critics criticizing other people. They ought to
(14:13):
start with themselves and maybe they get it, but obviously
they don't and they can't. They'll never get it. But
you know, you were talking about the price of fuel
of President's Trump, and I also understand he's going to
get the Keystone XL pipeline back rolling with who's that
uh uh up there in Canada? What's the press? What's
his name? Uh?
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Prime minister?
Speaker 7 (14:33):
Yeah, Carnage, Yeah, Prime Minister Carnage. Right, So he gets
that rolling. Of course, you know, we'll see the fuel
prices come down. But diesel fuel, like you were saying,
is really key. But the thing about you know, Jeff,
have you ever noticed Canada Campbell's sooue who was owned
by who is uh uh what the heck's her name?
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Uh? She?
Speaker 7 (14:52):
I just I was just talking about she owns the
race horses too. She comes around here in the summertime.
Uh anyway, uh uh yes, the size of of what
you pay for you're gonna you pay, you pay more,
get less. And as far as reduction of of inflation,
you know, you may, like you said, you'll get the
fuel prices down, but you got to watch it too,
(15:14):
because they get they get very sneaky these uh uh
these uh in industrial or whatever, you know, these these
uh who's the manufacturer of what we buy in the stores?
Especially food products? You know, the portions come down and
the prices, the portions will get smaller, but the price
you may come down a little bit or stay where
(15:36):
it's eh, or you'll see you'll get a reduct you know,
a little little little re relief from the prices. But
you got to watch those sides too, just start reducing.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
No, that's true. No, look out, you're right. I mean,
look and look I've noticed it. I mean, I've talked
about potato chips in the past, but really I love
potato chips. I shouldn't have it because of my diabetes,
but that's another story. Let that go. As I like
to say, it keeps costing more. It's like basically now
it's five bucks a bag, like a little family size bag.
It's five bucks. Okay, now it's even six bucks if
(16:07):
you buy Ruffles. I like ruffles six bucks and half
the bag is empty. It's air, you know, So the
packaging is smaller. Is so number one, it's already less
to begin with, and then it's half of it is air.
And the price has gone up like by what two bucks?
Since what is it? Since? You know, whenever when Biden
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was in power. Mel I think one of the problems
is that we're still recovering from the pandemic economically. I
think the pandemic, COVID, the massive spending under Biden. I
think this is still with us, and it's going to
be with us. I think for a while to come.
Seven point fifty one here on the Great wrko Jeff
(16:52):
Kooner Boston's Bulldozer six six one seven sixty eight sixty eight.
You know, Sandy just made a very good point. Is
he taking these slings and arrows over the ballroom where
he's almost challenging the media to take him on, and
(17:13):
you know, giving as good as he gets, and I
know that's his style, but in a way to almost
distract them from everything else that he's doing. Remember, they're
laying people off now during this government shutdown. You know
Russ Vote, who's been overseeing the budget, who by the way,
(17:33):
he's been nicknamed darth Vader by the media, and Trump
loves that nickname. He goes, you want to call him
darth Vader, I'm going to embrace it, and he's like,
you know, he's literally saying, you know, we're cutting program
after program, We're laying off so many of the you know,
these fat cat bureaucrats getting rid of all this waste,
fraud and abuse. And normally there would be these stories about, oh,
(17:56):
this person got laid off, this person got fired, this
program got caught, this agency whatever. You know, twenty people
were let go or whatever, and all they can't find
you know, they can't find work. They're waiting in land now,
they're in food banks. You're not seeing any of that
because they're consumed with the ballroom and Trump is just
(18:19):
standing there and he's just taking blow after blow and
giving it back. And the more he hits them, the
more they want to attack him. Let me just play
the cut again. This is Trump in the rose garden
taking a lot of fire about the ballroom, and he's saying, look,
construction has begun. We're demolishing the east wing, but of
(18:43):
course we're going to renovate it. We're going to rebuild
it with a big, beautiful ballroom. It's going to be massive.
It's going to seaked about six hundred and fifty guests.
It's going to be one of the most spectacular ballrooms
in the world. Listen to Trump, and Trump says, by
the way, I'm paying for it. This is out of
my pocket, not the taxpayers. Roll cut six, Mike.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
We're building a world class ballroom.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
You know, for one hundred and.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Fifty years they've wanted a ballroom here.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
We don't have a ballroom.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
We have a little cocktail area, but we don't have
a ballroom. The East room it's called, is a very
small cocktail area holds about eighty eight people if it's tight.
And we said, I said, if I do this again,
I'm going to get a ballroom built. And we're putting
up our own money with the government just paying for nothing.
You probably hear the beautiful sound of construction to the back.
(19:40):
You hear that sound, Oh that's music to my ears.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
I love that sound.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Other people don't like it. I love it, Josh.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
I think when I.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Hear that sound, it reminds me of money. In this case,
it reminds me of lack of money because I'm paying
for it.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
So it's the optics. And again, Josh as he's looking
and talking to Senator Josh, now, just I want to
play one other cut, and I want to get all
of your feedback on this. I'd love for you to
weigh in, all of you. Trump's making another argument, and
it's not just about the ballroom. Trump has said this.
(20:15):
He said it in his first term. But the poor
guy was under you know, under siege. He was an
agent of Russia. They kept impeaching him. He had Robert
Muller and the Special Council breathing down his neck. I mean,
he was getting hit from all sides. So he said, look,
I didn't I wanted to do these projects. I just couldn't.
I physically just couldn't. Now I got a second term,
(20:37):
I've put my enemies on the defensive. I've got the
right personnel in the right positions now, so I'm not
as distracted and on the ropes as I was during
most of my second term. Playing defense and The point
that he makes is he goes, the White House needs
to be upgraded. He goes, and I'm not just talking
(20:58):
about building a big, beautiful ballroom, he says. For example,
he talked about the Rose Garden, which is, you know, beautiful,
don't get me wrong, But he says, Washington, if you
know the weather there, it's almost like a swamp. It's subtropical.
It rains like crazy, the ground gets very wet. He says,
you have no idea how many times we throw events
(21:19):
at the White House. And women in particular will complain
because they're you know, they're wearing beautiful dresses, they have
high heels on, and their heels literally are sinking in
the grass, and it even gets muddy, and they'll like
take out their shoe and say, look, look, look at
(21:39):
the mud on my shoe. Look at this, Like is
this appropriate for the you know, the greatest power in
the world. This is the this, you know, the seat
of the President of the United States, And you're throwing
a diplomatic function or whatever, a bill signing event or
whatever it may be, and you know, our shoes are
full of mud or our heels are full of mud.
(22:01):
And Trump said, that's disgraceful. So what did he do.
He built a beautiful patio. In other words, you know,
you put some cement saying, look, i'm sorry, this should
have been upgraded the forty fifty years ago. Like, no,
I'm sorry, you can't. You can't just have it the
way it was, you know, one hundred years ago. You
got to keep updating it. And so he wants to
(22:24):
renovate much of the White House, and part of it
was the you know, the rose garden the outside. Make
it look beautiful, make it look more modern, make it
look more user friendly, if I can use that term.
In other words, no, you're not going to be walking
in mud. We're gonna have some beautiful patios. So in
(22:46):
other words, it's such a stick up a tent and
everybody huddles underneath the tent if it rains. Listen now
to President Trump saying, look, I'm making changes to the
White House because the White House is old and outdated,
and these changes and renovations and repairs need to be made.
(23:09):
It is the people's house and it deserves to look beautiful.
Roll cut five mic.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
So this was going on for many years, but everybody
would just sink into the mud. It was extremely luxurious grass,
especially when it was raining, because you'd go back, you'd
go down about five inches into the mud. And when
we had a press conference here, all the press standing
back there, they'd be cursing me. The women would be
(23:40):
lifting up the shoes, saying, you've destroyed my shoes.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
This is terrible.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
So we got a stone that's the exact same stone
and color as the White House itself, because we wanted
the friendly feeling of that light color and it reflects
the sun and it keeps you cool even in the summer.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
I'm just saying, he's a builder, and he's got an
eye for things that are beautiful, what looks good, what
doesn't look good, but also quality class. And he's a patriot.
He loves our country, and he's thinking is look, it's
the people's house. It should be a beautiful home. And
(24:21):
if you're also going to have the commander in chief
work from there as he does in the president and
the president's staff, and you know, have cabinet meetings, etc.
And meet world leaders, come on, you don't want them
coming to some you know, building that's falling apart and
dilapidated and out of date. And he goes, I'm sorry,
you've got to you know, it's the twenty first century.
(24:43):
We've got to renovate, we've got to upgrade, we've got
to improve. I think he's right to me, it's just
common sense, and it's also self respect as a country,
and Trump has a lot of pride and not just
in himself and his family, but in America and frankly
in the presidency and in the White House. I agree, disagree,
(25:06):
just very quickly. Okay, here's Fetterman, by the way, He's
the only Democrat that says, what's the problem. He's the
only one like, yeah, he's paying for it, and I'm
sure it's gonna look absolutely beautiful, like really like he's
almost like dumbfounded looking around the room, like what is
the problem? Roll cut seven, Mike.
Speaker 8 (25:30):
I mean, I don't have a strong opinion about expanding
the ballroom, but I'd like to just point out that
the currently Trump won't be in office before that's even
completed anyway, And I think everything that I've seen the
plans are going to be done in a tasteful and
historical kind of a way. I mean, they're not putting
in a David Buster's kind of a situation here. So
(25:52):
I think upgrading some of these facilities seems pretty normal.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
I mean, you know, I'm like, yeah, you know, you
got an upgrade. Hello, he's not putting in a David Busters.
So I mean, it's it's going to be tactful, it's
going to be tasteful, it's it's going to be world class.
Like what's that? And he's paying for it? But what's
the problem. But no, here's the problem. Now here's Danang Dick. Hey,
(26:21):
mister stolen valor. So here's Senator Richard Blumenthal. I guess
he just came back from what is it now, his
twentieth tour in Vietnam. Rambo. So here's Rambo. Now he's
say all the MIAs, all those missing in action, he
went there, he rescued them. Now he's back. Here's Danang Dick.
(26:41):
So here's Rambo. Rambo Richard Blumenthall roll cut seven A Mike.
Speaker 9 (26:48):
I think this project the White House is a gigantic boondoggle.
And the really important question is not only the damage
that it could.
Speaker 10 (26:58):
Do to the architecture of the White House, but also
what contributors would have over Trump if they are giving
to this project. He's already raised two hundred.
Speaker 9 (27:15):
Million dollars or possibly more for his pack. Now he
is going to be soliciting money from private comrivers for
this boon doggle.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Boon doggle, boon doggle, boon doggle. By the way, usually
when you use the term boon doggle, it's something public.
In other words, it's tax payer money. That's usually when
you know it's a boondoggle. You know, like whatever the
O'Neal tunnel, that was a boonm doggle. You know it
was over budget. Well you know, it was years past
(27:49):
the due date when the construction was going to be done,
and it was you know, how many how many how
much of our money was thrown down a rattle. That's
a boon doggle. So the donors are front the money.
Trump's paying for most of it now. And by the way,
what influence could they have, Like the money's already been donated,
so like, you know, like it means that much to
(28:12):
Trump that he's gonna sell America out for the for
the ballroom. You know, let me play six B again.
I agree with you, Sandy, you know. And by the way,
the left is somehow under the delusion that we're paying
for this, Like, you know, it's not his house stock
(28:34):
he's buying a house in New Jersey. Yeah, but he's
paying for most of it, or he's got his donors
paying for it. So what's the problem. Now Trump has
even said I'll disclose all the donors so it'll be
full transparency, so you'll know exactly who donated and what favors.
(28:55):
Can I put? What for a boom? For a lousy ballroom?
Like what do you think? So what I'm selling?
Speaker 5 (29:00):
What? So?
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Now, what do I get out of this? He probably
won't even have his name attached to the ballroom. They
won't let him. So I'm going to build a ballroom
mostly on my expense, and I get a couple of
other wealthy people and others to chip in, and I'm
selling the country out. How what do I get out
(29:22):
of the ballroom?
Speaker 5 (29:23):
Like?
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Literally, what did I get out of it? Except maybe
a footnote literally a footnote in the history textbooks one
hundred years from now. Yeah you know that beautiful ballroom. Yeah,
that was paid for by Donald Trump and his supporters,
That was privately funded. That's it, That's what he gets
out of it. Listen now, to Mika Brzhinski roll cut
with Scarborough, roll cut six b Mike.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
It destroying like one of those historic structures on the planet,
and the cost. And are we saying that whoever we
elect present has a right to destroy, just tear things up,
tear it to the charted into something else, toind it?
Speaker 6 (30:03):
Crazy?
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Man, I don't think it's not your home that you purchased.
Speaker 6 (30:07):
And you know now it's not yours. You rent it
from the American people for forty years.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Yeah, but he's paying for it. It's not like the
American people are paying for it.
Speaker 11 (30:19):
No.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
No, I'm just say I'm just saying six what seven
two six six sixty eight sixty eight. Lisa in Plymouth.
Thanks for holding Lisa, and welcome.
Speaker 11 (30:31):
Good morning, Jeff. Good to talk to you. Thanks for
the great work that you do for America.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Thank you, Thank you, Lisa, You're welcome.
Speaker 11 (30:38):
I would just like to let everybody know that this
desire of President Trump to build a ballroom goes back
to at least the first quarter of twenty fifteen. I
was looking for candidate to support and went to the
First in the Nation summit up in Nashville and New
Hampshire in the first quarter of twenty fifth. Long story short,
(31:02):
I chose candidate Trump, or almost candidate Trump at the time,
and was invited on a Friday afternoon by then paid
staff to go to a brunch at a hotel adjacent
to where the time was being held that next morning.
So I show up and this is probably the first
(31:24):
Trump event of the pre campaign. There was about forty
of us that went to this fabulously staffed and catered brunch.
And he comes in with his retinue, gets up at
the podium and starts to talk about what he wants
to accomplish. And he had five or six things on
(31:44):
his list, and he went over securing the border, securing
social security, bringing manufacturing back to America, a couple of
other things, and then there was some Q and A,
and then along in the process he also said, and
I'm going to build a bar ballroom for this country.
I can remember it like it was yesterday. And he
(32:05):
got up there and he said, we don't have a
ballroom to entertain people. He says, you go to other countries,
you see these beautiful ballrooms. They can hold two or
three hundred people. We don't have that. We have a
very small area in which to entertain dignitaries and guests
of our country. I'm going to build a ballroom for
the people of America. So I would say, promises made,
(32:30):
promises kept.
Speaker 12 (32:31):
Yet again, Lisa, really well said I got to say
really well, very articulate, and just very powerfully said Lisa.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
All I can do is add and just to reinforce
what you're saying. When I was an assistant national editor
at the Washington Times, long story short, I would meet
with foreign journalists. They would come to the newsroom. We'd
talk about what's happening their countries, and they would give
us information. And this would go on for you know whatever,
(33:05):
once or twice a week, and they come in for
an hour or two. And the reason why I'm mentioning this,
and I mean they were journalists who came from Serbia,
from Croatia, from Poland, from the Baltic States, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Georgia,
the Republic of Georgia. And the reason why I'm mentioning
this is every single one of these journalists, these delegations
(33:29):
that would come to a man and woman would look
around the room, you know, your talk what's happening in
your country? What's happening here? Our press, freedom's there. And
they would say two things over and over and over
and over again, and it really bothered us at the
Washington Times. They would say. Number one, they go, you
(33:51):
don't understand how we look at America. You led the
fight in the Cold War, you defeated the Soviet Union.
I mean, I could do you the accent, but the
Eastern European accent. But you know, you like a hero
to us. You're a beacon of light and a freedom
for all of us. But I don't understand one thing.
(34:13):
We come to White House to see President of the
United States to cover him for our country and with
our leader, and the White House briefing room, a carpet
is torn up, the chairs, they're thirty years old, Coffee
stains everywhere. I'm literally that's literally, that's what you're saying literally,
(34:35):
And they're like, it's much nicer even in our country.
And then they say the second thing is they go,
then we give two. They give us two of White
House and a lot of history. We love White House,
but he is sold And how you say decrepit. I
remember the Georgian journalist it was decrepit. I'm sorry how
(34:58):
you say decrepit. And so what I'm saying is foreign
journalists would comment how shabby much of the White House
look like how shabby the White House Press briefing room,
like we're coming here, like you know, eyes wide open,
like this is America, this is a white house. This
is oh my god, like like you understand, this is
(35:20):
the trip of a lifetime. And you walk in and
like the seats in the White House Briefing Room are
torn there's coffee stains everywhere. The carpet, which is true,
by the way, the carpet is torn up. Everything is old.
They're like, what do you what do you what do
you look Samal Yeah, like what are you some some
(35:40):
third world banana republic? You guys can't afford what to
restitch the chairs and and clean this place up and
get proper new carpeting. And and then they give a
tour of the White House and they oh, yeah, the
portraits are nice and everything is nice. But everything is creaky.
Everything is old. There's mold, the floors are scratchy because
you see, at least said. What Americans don't understand is
(36:02):
the moment a new a president is sworn in, they
move the president in right away and his family, and
it goes for four years straight. And then I'm talking like,
then as they're moving out, the other family's moving in.
There's never any time to renovate the White House. And
(36:26):
then it's and it's full of people and it's in
and out, in and out. So it's used four years
and then new administration four years, and then a new
administration four years. So, and that's why Trump comes in
and says, oh my god, this this place is horrible.
This is the White House? Are you kidding me? This
is what foreign leaders see when they come and visit
(36:47):
the president, or when we hold a function, or we
hold a cabinet meeting, or we have a press briefing
or we sign a treaty or whatever it is. He goes,
this is unacceptable.
Speaker 5 (36:59):
Now.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
My point is just the journalists would complain to us,
and it bothered me, It bothered everybody because we're all like,
why is the White House so poorly kept? Like why
is it so shabby? And Trump is like, no, not
under my watch, It's gonna be beautiful. It's gonna be magnificent.
(37:23):
It's gonna be modern, it's gonna be upgraded. It's gonna
be up to date. In other words, we're gonna make
not just America, but we're physically gonna make the White
House great again.
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