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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We got a question for our American mama's. Dear mama's,
how can you be okay with Donald Trump tearing down
the White House?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Well, let's ask our Merrick and mama's Alma Mama, she said.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
And joining us now our American mama, Terry Nederville. So
Donald Trump had theur in the middle of the government shutdowns. Uh,
he had those wrecking balls come in and they destroyed
the east wing to the White House, even where the
apparently the presidential bunker is, and oh my gosh, you
would think that this was the biggest, meanest thing that
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had ever been done in the history of the country.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Yet nobody said a word. During the recession when Obama
was doing the same thing. You heard the jack hammer's
going and it was just a mess because they were building,
they were putting the pipes in and they were in
his basketball court and the.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Wi Fi remember that go through to put all the
Wi Fi.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
And I think that was like four hundred over four
hundred million dollars of tax paying dollars. So they're upset over.
In fact, I wrote this, Do you remember Jim Acosta. Yeah,
Jim acostaed from seeing it.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Well, so he was supposedly a White House correspondent, supposed
to be a journalist. He was never a journalist.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
He was antagonist. He was a left tour Yeah, he's
all that. This is how he he has his new podcast.
This is how he introduced this. Oh okay, so listen,
he said, well, I'm back here at the scene of
the crime. This is where, yeah, this is where Donald Trump.
He don't even say President Trump because it just makes
a point not to be reverent towards our president journalists.
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This is where. This is where Donald Trump is tearing
down part of the East wing of the White House
so he can build a massive, gaudy, gilded ballroom to
the tune of two hundred and fifty million dollars. Okay,
So what I love is then you have people like
Jesse Waters who flashed back to see an end during
the Obama years, and they're so excited. You hear the
jack hammers? Do you hear that? Do you see the rubble?
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This is just a proof that we are moving forward
and we're going to have you know, renovations here. And
it was during the recession. They didn't have a problem
with it, but I saw something there so real quick.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
So when Barack Obama tears up part of the White
House to put it in a basketball court and Wi
Fi and spends four hundred million dollars doing that, that's
a good thing. When Donald Trump tears down the East Wing,
which is not part of the historic residence, but tears
down the East Wing to create a bigger, better ballroom,
and he's using private donations to do it, that's a
bad thing.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
I was terrible. And guess what those same people and
the presidents that come behind him, they able to utilize
that ballroom over and over and over again. The fact
that Hakeem Jeffries wants to now use tax payer money
to open up an investigation to find out who's funding this,
this privately funded thing, is very telling and it's going
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to be interesting to see when he is invited to
the ball roy. I want to know who's going to go,
because they will when the next president and the next
Democrat president that they have elected, they will use it
because it was needed as a venue. It's a place
that they can have there because right now they put
tents out they have Yeah, that's kind of yeah. So
the weather, you know, depending on the whether they said
this is one of those much needed.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
In fact, you get fordn heads of state coming to
the United States of America and in order to have
a gala for the Prime Minister of Italy, yes, right,
we have to put tents out on the White House
Law because we don't have enough room for a head
of state. How does that make the United States look
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when we're propping up polls in the middle of the
White House Law.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
This is how Trump plays chess to their checkers. He
also has said many times that he is going around
the world to palaces, to these rich other nations, and
when he gets there, there's gold, there's palaces, there's when
they come to a mayor, he's presenting something. He wants
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them to see strength, he wants them to see beauty
because that's what they're used to. So when they come
and they see the tents set out so they can
eat under the tents in case it rains or it's
too sunny or whatever, he is he's making it presentable.
And everybody knows I was going to go down the list,
but everybody knows what other presidents have done.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Well, that's true, right, because you have the basketball court
by Barack Obama.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Here's the list. Let me read it us. Teddy Roosevelt
built the West wing. Taft made the Executive Oval office
FDR out of the entire East wing, including an indoor
pool for himself. Truman gutted the entire White House. In fact,
Truman lived in the Blair House while this was being done.
During his administration, Nixon added the bowling alley, Obama added
a basketball court, and you say the WiFi, and Trump's
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building a ballroom. So I don't know. The problem is
what was interesting was listening to Chelsea Clinton. Did y'all
see what she okay? So she says what was dismantled
today isn't just marble or plaster. It is a reflection
of how easily history can be erased when power forgets purpose.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
But that's the purpose of the East Wing is to
us to be a place where the White House can
welcome in foreign heads a state. His building the ballroom
on the east Wing is the right place to do it.
He didn't tear down the West Wing, where the executive
offices are.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
And this is also where she needs to take a seat.
She has forgotten that her parents are the ones that
took two hundred thousand dollars worth of china, flatware, TV,
rug sofas, and then and even more than that when
they left, and they only paid back about eighty six
thousand and gave some of the furnishings back. She needs
to sit this one out. Her mom also oversaw the
restoration of the Blue Room, the East room, the butler's
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pantry that she had converted into the kitchen for family meals.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
And what her father did in the oval office. We
can't talk about it.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
That's I wasn't even going to mention that you like.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
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