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December 3, 2025 17 mins
Democrats may use President Trump’s ballroom as a talking point to criticize him, claiming he’s out of touch with affordability issues impacting Americans.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Now seor presents.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
No marks, some moon show. Well, hey, we got a
lot to get to. We'll get to the war crimes hoax.
We'll get to Mom Donnie, some interesting developments there. We'll
get to the Russia Ukraine meetings. We'll get to the
Cabinet meeting. We'll get to Oh, yesterday's election, of course,
a couple of the interesting elections. What does it mean

(00:26):
for the mid terms. We'll get to Christmas. Today's one
of those gridlock alert days. This is a regular thing
now we keep hearing the other day was a gridlock
alert day. Today's a gridlock alert day. I thought congestion
pricing was supposed to fix all of that. Apparently it
doesn't do much. We still have gridlock alert days. Christmas

(00:46):
tree lighting is tonight Rockefeller Center. That's where you'll see
some gridlock. That is an absolute snarled up mess around
that tree lighting. So that's tonight at Rockefeller Center. So
just avoid that area completely if you're driving, even if
you're walking, it's tough to walk around there. The sidewalks
is so packed. So has get to the elections. A

(01:08):
special election in Tennessee. This was an interesting election. Nashville
is the district is pretty much covering Nashville, Tennessee. You
know what, they call it, music City, the country music
capital of the world. So they had a Mom Donnie running.
It's a woman, but as we've been telling you, there's
about twenty six other Mom Donni's ready to be launched
by Democrats. And she was just like Mom Donnie on paper,

(01:31):
a total disaster, horrible past, horrible things she said in
her past, I mean, crazy socialist nonsense on paper, no
chance to win anything. But like Mom Donnie in person
and online and social media and on camera, charming, got
a nice smile, got a nice personality, lots of energy, young, energetic, charming,

(01:56):
just like a Mom Donnie. And she did very, very well.
She made it a real race. It was supposed to
be no contest at all, but she made it very close.
Republicans panicked and came in with millions of dollars trying
to save that race. And then the Republican Matt Van
Epps one easily. It turns out by nine points. But

(02:20):
you're going to hear the fake news try to make
it sound like it's a real nightmare. For it's a
warning sign for Republicans. Why Trump won that district by
twenty two points. That's a tremendous loss of points for
the not Really that's Trump and this Republican candidate, Matt
Van Epps, he's good, but he's a boring, drab sort

(02:41):
of a guy. How's he going to get the numbers
Trump gets and no local candidate's gonna get Trump numbers.
Trump gets Trump numbers. So Van Epps did just fine.
But again, you're gonna have a lot more of these candidates.
And it's a strange phenomenon, but these mom types. This
woman in the color the AOC of Tennessee, she's running

(03:08):
for Congress in the district that is Nashville, Tennessee. She
comes right out and says, I hate Nashville. She even
said I hate country music. She hates Nashville. She hates
country music. That's their main industry, country music. That's why
they call it music. City tourism is the number one industry.
But it doesn't matter to Democratic voters. You see the
same thing here with Mamdanni hates capitalism. That's our main

(03:31):
industry in New York, Wall Street, financial world, hedge funds,
that's the main industry of New York. Years ago, it
was other stuff. It was like the garment center, but
that's all gone. So now the main industry of New
York is the financial business. And Mamdannie runs saying he
hates them, he can't stand them. So you're going to
see a lot of this. Now you're going to see
somebody run for mayor of Detroit. He says, I hate cars.

(03:54):
You're going to see this all the time. These Democratic
voters don't care. Show them how bad the candidate is.
Look what they said in the past. Look at this,
Look how they never worked, they never had it. The
Democratic voters don't care. Doesn't matter long as the person
yells the word affordability all the time. That's all you
gotta do. It. Just keep saying affordability, affordability, affordability. Now,

(04:15):
there's nobody on earth less qualified to do something about
affordability than Zoraon Mamdannie or this woman in Tennessee. What's
their name is it Afton Baine. That's another name nobody
can pronounce, like Mam Donnie. So they all got weird names,
no resume. They've said crazy kookie things in the past,

(04:37):
but they look good, they sound good, and they keep
saying affordability. So Democrats vote for them. You got two
things going on. They're voting on just knee jerk emotional voting,
affordability I'll vote for or they just hate Trump so
much they'll vote for anybody who they think hates Trump.
And if you get one of these socialists, one of
these affordability young no resume, they must really hate Trump,

(05:02):
I'll vote for them. So Democrats going crazy to vote
for this stuff. What does it mean for the midterms. Well,
it's going to be a factor in the midterms. If
these kind of voters are going to turn out in
droves to vote for anybody they think hates Trump, that's
a problem for Republicans in the midterms. Now, the good
news is it's a year away. You got plenty of time.

(05:24):
There's a couple of groups that do the research for
the Democratic Party and then it's distributed to everybody and
they all jump on it. One of them came up
with the word affordability a while back, and that's why,
all of a sudden, in every race they're all using
the word affordability. This is very, very coordinated. There's a
couple of these groups, big monstrous organizations that do incredible

(05:47):
intense research focus groups studying that they come up with
the stuff, and then there's other groups K Street that
distribute it. They have these morning conference calls and they
have these things that go on to every Democrat telling
him what words, what phrases, what sentences to say. So
one of them is a navigator. Navigator does incredible research done.

(06:08):
Then the other thing they've come up with a navigator
is not only is affordability working, it's growing. The momentum
behind this affordability affordability they are finding in their studying
studying people the ballroom is a good issue to use
on this people. When when you talk to these people, well,

(06:28):
what do you mean affordability voters? They're terrified of the
prices going up and they can't afford groceries, or they
can't afford their medicine, and really terrified that they won't
be able to afford their healthcare, that they'll lose their healthcare,
this kind of stuff. So they're finding in this latest
round of studying, you can use the ballroom on that

(06:49):
that while you're terrified of being able to buy groceries
and pay your health care, he's building a ballroom and
look at all the gold He's putting up all over
the walls, and this vers sie like ballroom. This is
the last thing in the world you want to see
when it's an affordability crisis. So expect to see a
lot of ballroom stuff coming in the next few weeks,
maybe the next few months. They're going to start using

(07:13):
the ballroom as a major issue. You know, Trump is
like some sort of emperor, some sort of king in
a palace while you can't afford your groceries. The ballroom
it's symbolic, it's not real. I mean, first of all,
the ballroom isn't costing taxpayers anything. It's privately funded, and
it's something they actually do need. They've talked about it
for years. But they're going to start using it against Trump.

(07:37):
Here's the first round, New York Times doing a story
about the ballroom. Every story about the ballroom is negative.
Of course, it's too big. It's to this, it's to that.
It screws up the White House grounds. It's me. He
said he wouldn't tear down anything of the building. Well
I guess he did. But you know it's fine. There
was nothing in what the party tore down had nothing

(07:59):
in it. Lady's office, you can easily move her to
somewhere else. And the main thing in there was the
calligraphy office. They do the the you know, the little
place cards for dinner and sometimes the invitations. It's not
vital government work. But now this New York Times expos
is pretty frightening. It's pretty frightening. It goes on and

(08:19):
on about the terrible problems now with this ballroom. According
to this New York Times article, there have been disagreements
between Trump and the contractor and Trump and the architect. Now,
if you're one of these crazy old ladies who watches
MSNBC and reads The New York Times and hates Trump,
and you run around yelling about this is perfect, We'll

(08:41):
talk about this all this, he's not getting along, even
the architect has arguing with him, even the contractors are.
Of course, you can't ever explain to him reality that
this is perfectly normal. Everybody, when you're doing remodeling, when
you're remodeling your bathroom, your kitchen, building a house, this
is perfectly normal. About eleven times in the process you

(09:04):
fight with the contractor about something, you disagree with the
architect about something, it's perfectly normal. And then it goes
on to say that Trump has. The reason they're going
so crazy is Trump's behavior has been unbelieved. It was
supposed to be a five hundred seat ballroom, then it
grew to six hundred and fifty seats. Next he wanted
a nine hundred and ninety nine seat ballroom. Now he's
talking about room for thirteen hundred. That way they could

(09:27):
host the inaugural. Yeah, it's a pretty good idea. I
like that. So they go on and on the size
of the prods, raising alarms. People working on the ballroom
have been told they don't need to follow permitting, zoning,
or code requirements. Why this is outrageous, Trump pointing out
since it's on the White House grounds, it's not subject

(09:47):
to local Washington DC permit requirement. Well, he's probably right,
that makes perfect sense. So this goes on in a
but they never explained in the article. This is not
like Baraco bomb. I'm trying to tell these guys what
to do. This is one of the greatest builders in
the history of the world, and out of all the
great builders in America right now, nobody has more experience

(10:10):
building ballrooms than this guy. In fact, the architect, who
they think is some god you should bow down to.
Apparently he's never built a ballroom in his life. He's
done cathedrals and he's done with work in Washington, but
he's never actually done it. But Trump is the world
expert on building ballrooms. So they don't point this out

(10:31):
in this article. I would have total confidence in what
he's doing here. But you're gonna hear a lot more
about the ballroom. They're gonna make this a big thing now.
They're going to continue with the war crimes hoax for
a while, hoping that works. If that doesn't work, they'll
go to the ballroom. Here's Trump on the ballroom.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
We're building one of the great I think maybe the
greatest ballroom. We needed it for one hundred and fifty years.
They've been asking. You see that the trucks and cranes
and excavators in the background, and you hear them. And
every time I hear them.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
I love to show he said that once. I heard
him say that once. You know when when when you're
a home and they're doing construction next door, you're in
your apartment, they're doing construction. Oh god, that noise, Oh
my god, when's this gonna you just hate that noise?
He loves that sound. Construction. It's music to him. It's

(11:21):
the thing he loves most in life, construction. So he
enjoys hearing the noise outside of the Oval office. But
so they may use the ballroom. Once the war crimes
hoax will die out. The war crimes hoax, they think
they got them here. These are war crimes. You know.
First of a if you're gonna you decided you're gonna
blow up that boat with drugs on it and drug

(11:43):
cartel members. It's a boat filled with drug cartel and drugs.
You've decided you will blow it up. You will kill
them all and blow it up. So you fire a bomb.
I guess they fire a few bombs and if there's
anything left, you fire another bomber. Well, that sounds perfectly
normal to me. I'm not a military, but I'm not
an expert. But if you talk to the top generals

(12:04):
of the world, the jack Keanes sort of guys, they'll
tell you it's perfectly normal. You hit it with bombs
and you keep hitting it until you're absolutely certain everything
is gone. Like when they went to take out the
Iran nuclear reactors. You don't drop one bomb and that's it.
You keep remember you remember the videos, they just get
bombinan and bombinan and bombited until they were absolutely sure

(12:26):
they got everything. That's the way you do it. So
there's no war crime here. You're going to see all
these fake Newsy it's these Martha raddits as if she
knows what she's talking about. If violates the geneva and
as an enemy combatant and you're not allowed to kill
an enemy combatant. When did this rule happen? Now? You

(12:46):
remember during the Obama administration, he was doing it as
drone strikes. There were drone strikes all the time in Afghanistan,
in Iraq, and very often he killed civilians. We know this.
He killed a lot of civil millions accidentally with the
drone strikes and sometimes on purpose because they were near
what they target was, so they took him out. And

(13:09):
you remember the one time he hit a wedding with
one of the drones, blew up a wedding, killed a
lot of people. But of the millions of times that
killed civilians, and of course the same fake news didn't
care I mention a word about it. There's even a hearing. Actually,
if you go to my Twitter you can see the
video there's a great hearing. This is from the Biden
administration where the drone strike killed a bunch of civilians,

(13:30):
innocent civilians, and Mark Kelly seditious. Mark Kelly is interviewing
the general about it and he explains, yes, we did
kill the civilians. And Mark Kelly said, okay, my next
question is and that just moves right on. He couldn't
care less let it go, turned the other way. But
that's the way they're at it. The hypocrisy Democrats are
famous for. So when the war crimes hoax fizzles out

(13:53):
because people aren't buying it, nobody cares. They'll move on
to the ballroom now right now. They're also trying the
health thing. Trump he didn't doze off, but there were
one time and Pete Hegsath, I think it was Pete
Heggsath's going a little long. Trump closed his eyes, so
they showed the video. Look at this, his eyes are closed.
He fell asleep in the cabin. At mean, this is all,

(14:15):
but watch it carefully. Go watch the video for yourself.
There's a couple of times you see Pete Heggatt made
some kind of joke and you can see Trump's laughing.
His eyes are closed, but he's laughing. He's reacting to
everything he's saying. But they love talking about his health
and how bad he is.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
If I go one day, I had one day where
I didn't do a news conference. There's something wrong with
the president. Few people are crazy. I'll let you know
with there's something wrong. There will be someday that's gonna
happen to all of us. But right now, I think
I'm sharper than I was twenty five years ago. But
who the hell does I took By the way I
took my physical I got all a's everything.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
Yeah, but uh, he's very funny yesterday.

Speaker 1 (14:54):
But you always find something new, like is he in
good health? Biden was great, but he's trumply good health.
I said, here I do for news conferences a day.
I asked questions from very intelligent Luna text. I always give.
I give them the right edges. There's never a scandal, there's

(15:15):
never a problem. I give you engines that solve you
a little problem.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
Now he's in great health, of course, and the cabinet
meeting was pretty interesting. We'll go over that cabinet meeting
a little later. But you know, a lot of people
think Trump has to go back to campaign mode. Like
we were talking about the affordability, even though it's a
fake issue. I mean, you want affordability, it's fake in
that these Democrats couldn't possibly do anything about it. This

(15:43):
guy like Zoron Mamdani or this woman that ran in
Tennessee could never ever ever do anything about affordability. They
wouldn't know how to do. They wouldn't begin to know how
to So they went to Trump before the midterms. Go
back into campaign mode. You know, he was different in
the campaign. Now he's in the oval office and it's
very ornate. It's the other problem. It was nice to

(16:04):
make it all gold and look unbelievably unbelievably luxurious, and
it looks like a palace, but that kind of reinforces
the dictator king kind of thing. He made it look
like a palace, so psychologically it made him look more
like a king. They want him to go back into
campaign mode. Remember when we got in the garbage truck

(16:25):
and he drove the garbage truck. Remember when he worked
in McDonald's. That's where he looked like he was really
in touch. So he's got to do more of that. Also,
people are advising him. You got to do more. Go
back to those podcasts, the Joe Rogan type podcasts, that
kind of stuff, you know, those blue collar, down to
earth kind of podcasts. More of that, more driving the
garbage truck, so you might see more of that coming

(16:47):
at some point to counter all of this stuff. Hey,
we'll take some calls. Next. Eight hundred three to two,
one zero seven ten is the number. Eight hundred three
to two, one zero seven ten
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