10 22 25 A report card on our SC studants and a major announcement from SC Super of ED .... Ellen Weaver!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Jonathan and Kelly Show.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
It's Groundhog Day. I think that's a great movie. But
this is Kelly Nash. Some of your Republican colleagues have
proposed to nuking the Philibus are to force the government
to reopen.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
We ran on that, We ran on killing the Philibus
right now.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
We love it, Kelly Show. Yeah, funny how your perspective
changes when you're on the other side of the power.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Lever Well, you know, the good thing about Fetterman is
he has not changed his perspective, right, I mean, he's
still the same guy.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
He well, after he went through that ugliness with stammering
and stuttering all the way through the primary, which he
was able to overcome and actually went office, which was
incredible feat for the man. Yeah, I don't.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
I mean think about how doctor Oz feels about that.
That's why I lost to But you know, Fetterman has
not changed. Fetterman is, like he said, we as the
Democrats ran on, we're going to kill the filibuster so
that we can keep the government open and the Republicans
won't have the power to shut it down. So he
wants the Republicans to use it against him and his
partner right now, and he's embarrassed at the what have

(01:04):
they had like twelve or thirteen votes in a row
now here with the Senate and they cannot get it
to open.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
The twelve comes down today, they keep running it in
and out, so and we are twenty two days into it.
Now we're starting to feel the pain because in to
day now we're going to run out of Snap money,
Wick money and all the other money that Donald Trump
was able to shuffle around, you know, to pay the
military and those kind of things. But now you're going
to run out of cash as his availability from his
executive authorization allows him to do so. And we got

(01:31):
to you're going to start feeling the pain.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yeah, of course. And that's really has been the goal.
That's you know, I don't even think the Democrats are
hiding that they want America to hurt, because if Americans
are hurt, meaning military people, meaning the poor people who
rely on Snap, those types of folks, if they're in pain,
then they might go back to the Republicans and say,

(01:57):
will you just talk to them just to get the
government open. And so they're intentionally trying to hurt you
and the Republicans have been like, if we were to
give an inch to the Democrats right now, that would
actually hurt Americans more.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Even according to the polling on CNN, Donald Trump's numbers
are going up since the shutdown started.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yeah, so it has not been going the Democrats way.
Donald Trump yesterday made it very clear, I'd love to
talk with Chuck Schumer, be very happy to talk with
the Keem Jefferies. I'm not saying a word to those
two until they open up the government.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
All right, So now we're going to talk more about
what's going on in DC, but first we get a
little bit of breaking news here. I'm thinking at the
end of this interview, hold on a second, let me
go to the double Secret Probationary Jonathan and Kelly hotline.
Kellen Ash welcome back on the phone, our state Superintendent
of Education, Allen Weaver. Good morning, Good morning, Ellen.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
Hey, good morning guys. How are you.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
We're doing great? Hey. I know you got a lot
of things you want to talk about, in particular having
to do with your school initiatives and the light, but
I want you to I want you to know I
feel like a kid again because I've gotten real wrapped
up in SC two fifty and suddenly now I find
myself learning more about our South Carolina history things I
didn't even know. I wasn't taught some of these things
in school. And I'm very excited to know you're working

(03:07):
with the initiative as well.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
Oh, I cannot even tell you how personally excited I am.
History was my favorite subject in school, and so the
chance to talk about it from this office and to
inspire our students and our teachers about the amazing heritage
we have here in South Carolina. Most people don't know
that there were more revolutionary battles fought in South Carolina

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than any other state, and some of the most important
battles from Sullivan's Island at the beginning of the Revolution
to really, you know, the Coup de gras at the
end of the Revolution that ultimately led to the surrender
at York Town happened right here at King's Mountain, Caltons
and so many other battle sites. And so I want

(03:51):
our students to know that they are living inside a
classroom here in South Carolina. They step outside their back
door and they are are walking on historic battlegrounds and
places where men and women patriots fought for our freedom,
and American freedom was one here in South Carolina. Historians

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across the board will tell you that. And so I
just think we have so much to be proud of.
And I'm not going to rest until every student in
South Carolina knows that incredible story.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Oh wow, you are fired up about you?

Speaker 3 (04:23):
Are you ready to go?

Speaker 1 (04:24):
I do tell We're gonna put you up in some
uh you know, we'll get the we get the red
coats again. We'll reenact the whole thing with you.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
Yeah, I love it. We were actually in ninety six,
a couple of weeks ago, rolling out this really exciting
partnership with the American Battlefield Trust, which is a national
organization that preserves our historic battlefields and they've done a
lot of work here in South Carolina, and in fact,
they actually worked with us to create a specific curriculum
for South Carolina for the SC two fifty and so

(04:54):
we were announcing it there and we had had a
Patriot reenactor in full garb from the ninety six battlefield.
So I'm ready to go anytime.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
I love the idea, and we're taking we're speaking with
the Superintendent Ellen Weaver.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
I love the idea.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
That one of the goals right now for our Department
of Education is to instill pride in every South Carolina student,
is to what happened in this state to help launch America.
That's a great goal, it really is.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
And you know, I want every single student to see
themselves in the promise of America's founding ideals. We all
know that we have not exemplified those ideals perfectly throughout
our history. But the whole point is what doctor Martin
Luther King talked about, is that there was a promisory
note in those founding ideals, and we have been working

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throughout our history towards that more perfect union. And every
single student in South Carolina needs to know that, know
the hope of that story, and believe that that story
is theirs.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
We're talking with Ewen Weaver and we're speaking right now
in the middle of I guess this is this is
National School Bus Safety Week. What do people need to
know about it?

Speaker 3 (06:03):
Well, we had a wonderful opportunity yesterday to stand alongside
our law enforcement partners in the Highway Patrol and talk
about some of the really concrete things that people can
do to help make sure that our students get to
and from school safely. Safely, the most important thing that
they can do is to stop for those school buses

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when that arm is out with that stop sign, when
those lights are flashing. You may be in a hurry,
but please stop. Do not pass a stop school bus
because most injuries happen within ten feet around the bus.
And so our highway patrol partners yesterday we're talking about
the fact that unfortunately we've seen an uptick in this

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around the state over this last year. And so my
plea to everyone who's listening to you on the road today,
So when you see that yellow school bus, think of
your own child, think of your grandchild, and slow down
and stop.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
Now. I know you had a big announcement this week,
but before we get to that, I think I would
like to play the part of your pr agent and
allow you to brag about some of the things have
been going on with the South Carolina Department of Education
prior to your radio we're going to claim this is
your official radio announcement. Let's talk about how South Carolina
students have been testing this year, in particularly with the
South Carolina ready scores. How has it been this year

(07:24):
in education? Superintendent of Education LM.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
Weaver, Well, thank you for the opportunity to talk about
my most favorite thing. You might have thought it was history,
but it's actually literacy and reading, and this is something
that we have talked about so many times before. We
saw our test scores on literacy for our third to
eighth graders go up six points this year. That is

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a huge gain. So that puts us now at sixty
percent of our students who are reading at proficiency level.
We were in the low fifties when I took office.
So excited and grateful for the hard work that our
teachers have done to make this possible. We at the
state level have invested in training that puts tools in

(08:10):
our teachers toolboxes to help them teach the science of reading,
which is based in phonics. And so we're starting to
just see the leading edge of those gains and it's
so exciting because, as you know, if our kids can read,
they can do anything. From kindergarten to third grade, you're
learning how to read, and from third grade on you're
reading to learn. So whether that's history, whether that's literature,

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whether that's science and math, all of it hinges on
a strong foundation in reading. And so I am so
excited about that. We know we have more work to do,
but the fact that we are seeing that momentum is
really just such an exciting indication of what's to come.
You know, people have been talking for several years now
about the Mississippi Miracle. I think it's time we start

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talking about the South Carolina surge.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
I love it South Carolina Surge. A memorandum of understanding
has been signed. I understand between the state of South
Carolina and the country of Taiwan.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
What is going on?

Speaker 3 (09:09):
Well, I was privileged just a couple of weeks ago
to actually do a cultural exchange and educational exchange visit
to Taiwan to talk about how our countries can work
together for teacher exchange, to create sister school partnerships with
our students, and to build understanding of the global economy

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and the global world that we live in here today.
Our citizens and students have to be prepared for that
interconnected future. And what I love about working specifically with
a country like Taiwan is that they share our democratic values.
So the opportunity for our students to be exposed to Mandarin,

(09:52):
to be exposed to historic Chinese culture, but to do
it through the lens of a freedom loving people instead
of the of the Communist Party of China. I think
is such a gift to our students, and I was
so impressed by what I saw over there. You know,
we've talked a lot in the past about the need
for learning in our classrooms that is connected to real

(10:14):
world relevance, and that's exactly what they're doing over in Taiwan,
building strong partnerships with industry. Their economy is also very
strongly based in advanced manufacturing, just like our economy here
in South Carolina, and so there's a lot of similarities
between our students, between our economies, and between our people.
The folks in Taiwan were so friendly and welcoming, just

(10:37):
like our folks here in South Carolina. So I think
this partnership is going to pay great dividends down the
road for our students and our teachers.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
All Right, don't burst my bobla by telling me you
made this announcement on another radio show or another podcast.
I don't mind you making the announcement to the print media.
Nobody pays attention to that anymore anyway. But I understand
you have a big announcement this week tell us again.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
Yeah, this is this actually is my official radio announcement.
So I am running for reelection. I am so grateful
for the opportunity that the people of South Carolina have
given me over the last three years to serve as
their voice in Columbia and to represent the interests of
our students to the General Assembly and really to everyone

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that I talk to. And so we have made incredible
progress over the last three years, but there's a lot
more still to do. I've got fire in my belly.
I'm excited for what's happening. I'm so thankful for the
incredible team that we have here at the Department of Education,
and we're ready to take South Carolina education to the
next level.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
Are the Democrats going to make you get another master's degree?

Speaker 3 (11:41):
I sure hope not. That was one of the most
grueling experiences of my entire life. I have never ever
worked harder. But you know, as a person of faith,
I believe that, you know, God's boot camp is always
the right boot camp, and that was a tough boot
camp to be in, but it prepared me for the
rigors of this job. I'm thankful for the experience.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
Well, even Democrat parents would agree. If she's getting results,
leave her alone. Keep the woman. By the way, I
don't even know the answer to this question. Is your
office term limited?

Speaker 3 (12:10):
No, it's not. Actually we're one of the constitutional officers
that are not term limited. So yeah, I agree with
you all. I agree with you all. Education does not
need to be partisan. We all Republican or Democrat crap
want children in South Carolina to succeed. That's a unifying message.
If our kids can read, if our kids are equipped
to take the jobs of the future, that's something we

(12:32):
all can agree.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
On and only get personal for a second. How old
are you?

Speaker 3 (12:36):
I am forty six.

Speaker 2 (12:37):
Okay, forty six years old. If you could continue to
grow South Carolina is very impressionable third to eighth graders
at the rate we're growing it now. If you stayed
in office until your retirement age, can you imagine what
an unbelievable climb that would have been from the similarly
eternally forty ninth rated state in the US where we

(13:00):
could be by the time you totally extend your service
to our community and to our state.

Speaker 3 (13:07):
Well, you know, hope propels action and hard work, and
that's what we're doing. And to your point, I am
so hopeful about the future of education in South Carolina.
It is not going to change itself overnight, but we
are already seeing progress, and I think we're going to
continue to see that progress grow and accelerate. And I
will tell you I believe I have the most important

(13:29):
job in the entire state in terms of elected officials.
And I don't say that with pride. I say that
with humility, because I don't think anything is more important
to the foundational future of our state, whether it's our
economic future, whether it's our civic future, our community's future,
than well educated citizens. And so if we get this right,
there are so many other things that flow out of

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that as a natural consequence that will help our entire
state to flourish. So I am so thankful for the
chance to do this job, and I hope the voters
will see fit to send me back next November.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
Well, I can tell you that if from South Carolinias
like myself who grew up and went to school here,
was ushered out of public school for a number of reasons.
We won't get into all that right now. I do remember,
because I heard my parents talking about it. I remember
the bumper stickers for it where we were stuck at
forty ninth and I remember getting a D on a
math test. I think it was in sixth grade, and

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the teacher looked at me and said, your parents are
not going to be proud of that. And I said, well,
thank god, there's a kid in Mississippi who did worse.
She didn't think that was funny.

Speaker 3 (14:32):
I bet she did it. I bet she did it.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
Well.

Speaker 3 (14:34):
We didn't even say thank goodness for Mississippi anymore because
they're on the move. But my commitment to you and
your listeners is that we're not going to let them
beat us. I truly believe South Carolina can and will
lead the country, and we're going to rewrite We're going
to rewrite the generation, the narrative of an entire generation
because of that.

Speaker 1 (14:53):
Well, and to your point earlier about Taiwan, we're not
just competing with Mississippi and California, New York. We're competing
with every country on the planet these days.

Speaker 3 (15:02):
That's exactly right, and so we can't do too much
to prepare our students for that future. So, you know,
and the beautiful thing is is that you know there
has been so much I think division and politics and
education over the last few years. And it's my assertion
that it is not common sense. God fearing conservatives that
started that controversy. They saw what was happening in public

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schools and said, wait a second, this does not reflect
our values as Americans. And so here in South Carolina,
we're so blessed to have a pretty strong consensus about
what public education should be and we've focused on the fundamentals,
and that's what's happening not just here in South Carolina,
but really in states across the Southeast. And so I

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think you're going to continue to see states that have
been written off for a long time continue to rise
because they're not distracted by political agendas that have no
place in our public schools.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
South Carolina State Superintenative Education, Allen Weaiver, thank you for
you using us as your official radio platform for the
announcement of your reelection.

Speaker 3 (16:04):
Well, Jonathan Kelly, I wouldn't have it any other way.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
You guys are the best I am as a South
Carolinian who went through the process. Until I mentioned, I
was pulled out of public education for a lot of
different reasons, not necessarily the teacher's faults, but I am
encouraged for the first time in my South Carolina life

(16:27):
to hear the news coming out of the South Carolina
education system.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
Well, you know, the one stat that you mentioned there
was third to eighth graders we're now at. We went
from like fifty two percent or whatever it was, we
went up six percent. Yeah, so we went from fifty
four to sixty.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
Two percent in math.

Speaker 1 (16:43):
But think about that, that still means forty percent of
South Carolina students cannot read at their grade level. We
have a ton of work to do forty percent. And
if you look like in certain counties, and I hate
to say that we live in one of them, you
and I we're talking about more than fifty percent of
the kids can't do math at their level.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
And we know this to be true because I saw
it happen. We got South Carolina high school graduates can't
even read their damn graduation certificate.

Speaker 1 (17:14):
And that's not like something from the nineteen seventies and eighties,
that's like twenty twenty five. Yes, we have kids today
that cannot read. They're completely illiterate. They've been pushed through
the system because of the backwards George W.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
Bush Plan.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
I mean quite honestly, they leave no Child Behind was
the original disaster started by the Republicans, but has been
totally mismanaged by our national Department of Education. Another reason
to get rid of that disaster.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
So and the other thing that and I want I
didn't want to bring it up then, but because I
know that we got a lot of things to teach,
in particular having to do with the digital age, but
even celebrating SC two fifty, most of our South Carolina
education students can't read cursive. So they look at the
Constitution and go, can you read this from me? Well?

Speaker 1 (18:06):
You know it's interesting, though, is that that old school cursive?
I can't read it either. Really, Yeah, it's just too
weird looking.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
I mean, well not granted, some of those dudes back
in the day took a lot of penmanship. I mean,
it's calligraphy.

Speaker 1 (18:19):
Yeah, it's calligraphy. That's not like, yeah, it's exactly it
is calligraphy.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
I have trouble with it as well.

Speaker 2 (18:25):
But okay, Now in Washington, d C. The Democrats are
not only up in arms over the Trump administration inside
the Oval Office, but just outside of the Oval Office.
They tore down one wall in the West Wing that
was built and with nineteen forty two.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
And the thing that's funny to me is it's the
it's the east wing because the western the office. Yeah,
the outrage, the clutching of the pearls by all these Democrats,
that's historical. That's that you can't just do that. And yet,
I mean, the White House has been made over and
made over and made over and made over and made over.

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And you know, look, Barack Obama didn't play tennis, didn't
want to play tennis, so we paved over the tennis
courts and turn them into basketball courts. Did you clutch
the pearls? Did you say, oh my gosh, that was
installed in nineteen fifty seven and now you've ruined Eisenhower's legacy.
Did you clutch the pearls when the bowling alleys went away?

(19:28):
Did you clutch the pearls when the actual press room
is on the old swimming pool that JFK used to
get naked in.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
You know, I don't even have I know you have
because y'all text back and forth. You got Joe Wilson's
mobile number, Yeah, if you would relay a message for me.
I don't know why we're not selling fifty pound bags
of dirt from the excavated part of this rebuild for
the ballroom. I would buy a fifty pound bag of

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dirt that came from the White House property. What would
you do with it? Well, I would I tell you
what I would like to in my backyard. I actually
have some of the granite from the refurbish of the
State House in like nineteen fifty seven. Okay, I got
enough thing to make like a garden bench. Nice. I

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mean it would only seat maybe two people, maybe only one.
Maybe it's only seating for one. I don't know. I
have to go back and look at my pieces again.
But nonetheless, I would like to make a little Washington,
d C. State of South Carolina garden a sanctuary garden.
I could have my sanctuary. I could have a sanctuary

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state in my backyard, in my garden a free speed zone.
Maybe I don't know what I would call it the
free speed But I would like to buy a fifty
pounds bag of dirt that came from under the White.

Speaker 1 (20:53):
House, the non safe space.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
Yes, a fifty pound bag of that. I don't know why.
I'm surprised that Trump, the marketer of all things hasn't
already decided we should sell it. Can you imagine the
Democrats found out he was selling fifty pound bags at dirt.
They would go nuts, I want to trump dirt.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
You know, they're trying to make a big deal out
of the because again, the ballroom that they're building is massive.
It's ninety thousand square feet.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
Now it's going to cost a quarter of a billion
dollars to make this thing. Now, Trump has basically implied
that he's paying for it, but the media wants you
to know that that's not legit because we've got, like,
for example, YouTube has pledged to pay twenty five million
dollars towards that as well. They're getting donations from other

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companies like Blackstone, open Ai, Microsoft, Coinbase, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Amazon, Google.
There's a but again, not a nickel of taxpayer money
is being used. So when he says we've I've got
it covered, yeah, he has it covered, meaning you don't pay.

Speaker 2 (22:10):
He actually said yesterday I'm paying for it.

Speaker 1 (22:13):
Well, and they're saying that Donald Trump is probably going
to put something around twenty eight to forty million of
his own dollars into this because he's not going to
be able to get it all just donated. But again,
you know what difference is it to you unless and
I understand how you could jump to this conclusion. If
you're thinking that Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, Open AI, these types

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of companies are going to get some sort of privilege
out of you know, I donated towards this. If you
think that there's a tit for tat going on, great
investigate it. Investigate that. See if Donald Trump and Congress
come up with new laws to help these companies and
not others.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
Elizabeth Warren was very upset. You don't own that house,
was the chant on the view yesterday. So Elizabeth warrens
pointing out, you tore down a wall. You said it
wasn't going to compromise the current structure. You tore down
a wall. And then I quickly reminded myself and I
had to go back and look it up. I forget

(23:15):
what year it was. One of the organizations called her.
I think it was twenty seventeen, and she was Queen
of the Yeah, the foreclosure queen, Queen of the Flip. Now,
I'm sure when she bought those houses she didn't tear
down any of the existing structure. To make it more
valuable in any way, and then put it back on
the market, where she made millions of frigging dollars by

(23:36):
exploiting the unfortunate. The unfortunate financial situation Americans found themselves
in because of partly because of her congressional decisions, but
nonetheless she made a lot of money flipping houses. She
should understand sometimes you get to tear a little bit
of that out.

Speaker 1 (23:54):
I wonder if Elizabeth Warren had been alive in like
nineteen oh eight. Imagine a young Pocahontas. She's out there
at the White House and the President of the United
States decides, I'm going to tear the back wall of
this thing down, and that's what they did. Howard Taft said,
let's tear it down. I'm going to build an office

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fit for a president. So it was he who destroyed
the office that had been used for one hundred years
or so, all the great legacy, all that history, pissed
it away so he could build some little tribute to
himself called the Oval Office.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
What an a hole?

Speaker 1 (24:34):
Now, Howard Taft.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
Was remind me, did Howard Taff leave office or but
he if he hadn't died early because of his rotn structure.
Would he have lived on and been in the authoritarian
because that's what they're saying. You're not going to build
a ballroom that size and then leave No.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
Well, I mean in nineteen twenty seven they had the
audacity to say, it's not the White House.

Speaker 2 (24:54):
Still not big up.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
They built the whole third floor in nineteen twenty seven.
What the roof off the job?

Speaker 2 (25:01):
Who is the president? When they did that? Because he moved.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
Across the streets that would have been Hoover right twenty seven.

Speaker 2 (25:06):
You had to move across the street. It was. It
was a damn construction zone. You couldn't even live in it.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
I mean, look, the thing gets done over and over
and over and over again. And it's just like anybody
else who moves into a new house. If you have
the availability of changing things, you will change things. Donald
Trump is actually trying to give a gift to future presidents.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
Hey, listen, if you're Tim Kaine, who I believe looks
like a predator. If you're Tim Kane and you're concerned
about Donald Trump is wasting money in space, not anything.
You could turn it into a roller rink or some
other type. Kid attraction where you could attract youngsters in
there so you could whack their weepees off, turn them
into girls, or whatever agenda is. I don't even know,

(25:51):
Tim Kane, you look like a freaking bad scientist. What
a bizarre loo could do, especially when he pulls his
glasses up like that.

Speaker 1 (25:58):
Well what about him, you're saying? Other than so he.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
Could you know? You could still you could find another
purpose for it. Democrats to find another purpose for ninety
thousand square feet, Well, you could have drag Queen's story
hour in there. For how many kids will fit in
ninety thousand square feet. You can do all that if
you wanted to. Are you going to do first? Is
win the Oval office back?

Speaker 1 (26:15):
Well, it's ironic that one of the more famous complaints
that of the Biden administration was we don't have enough room. Yes,
they were basically handcuffed as to who they could invite
to state dinners and stuff because of the smallness of
the current quarter. So that's one of the reasons Donald

(26:36):
Trump is actually acquiescing to Joe Biden's request.

Speaker 2 (26:40):
But I liked it.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
Axios has pointed this out. Every president think about this,
Every president since nineteen fifty two has done some sort
of reconstruction of the White House. Everyone realized that every president,
Bob Nixon, Kennedy, LBJ, Carter, Raygan, Bush one, Bush two,

(27:02):
they've all torn that place apart and redone it.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
Now, some of it was just as Kelly mentioned, resurfacing
the tennis courts and turning into a basketball court, or
filling up the FDR pool. It. FDR built the pool
and then they filled it in with concrete so that
they could have a press room. Yes, so some of
them were not as demonstrative as this one, but nonetheless,

(27:30):
every president's done something.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
So it's nineteen fifty two. Every president has had a
major construction. They've had construction crews on the grounds.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
And by the way, the wall that he tore down,
it's not old enough to be on the National Registry
of Historic Places. Now. I know that building itself is,
but that one particular wall we can live without. You're
going to get another wall, trust me, buy a bag
of bricks out of that wall, though, that'd be kind
of cool to have.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
Trust me, you're going to get another wall. If there's
anything Donald Trump loves its walls.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
Yeah. Can you imagine being in that dinner room. You
mentioned all the donors when they had he had a dinner.
It must have been a couple of weeks ago now
where they all came in. I guess to see the
plans maybe and to collect the checks. Oh what, I'm
not talking about line up the electronic fund transfers. But
can you imagine have been in that room. I could.
I couldn't even afford to be like on the wait staff.

(28:25):
If I were seated in that room. When I got
up to walk out, they'd checked me for like utensils.
I might have stolen Who the hell you think I am? Hillary,
I'm not stealing the silver ware around here.