Trump launched us into this illegal and stupid and very wasteful war. It has ruined the economy. It's further ruined our reputation abroad. His allies are desperate for him to focus, take some sort of a deal, declare victory, even if you don't really have one and just get us out [00:00:17] of here. But he is not remotely interested in that, okay? He's interested in just a feel good thing. And that of course starts with a B and ends with an all room, he wants ballroom. Here is what he was posting yesterday on true social. Now you can see as we scroll, it is [00:00:37] post after post after post after post. I'm not going to say it eight times. There are eight mashup images of a variety of political hacks and media hacks saying that we need ballroom. And one of two things happen either Donald Trump collected all of these and Photoshop [00:00:58] them together. and spent his time as President United States, that he was willing to do a coup to become, posting those on social media. Or maybe he had his aides who we pay to put together those mashups so that he could then put them out. Because he needs to remind his [00:01:17] true social following that we desperately need ballroom. Now, we were planning on talking about this anyway. there's an update as of this morning, which is that he then put out like five mashups of a bunch of social media comments of people complimenting him on how [00:01:36] good the state of the union was. And no, you're not having a stroke. The state of the union was like four months ago, and he's like, I just want someone to compliment me. And so maybe all of this is copium, maybe the ballroom is copium, maybe the state of the union is [00:01:54] copium. I don't know, but clearly he's not thinking about the war if he's thinking about how he'll feel better when he sees these images scrolling on his true social. Anyway, he cares about this. I just want to reassure you that if you don't care about this, if you don't think this [00:02:09] is a good use of our time or money, you are in very good company. Because in terms of national support for the ballroom project, it is at 28 % support when you ask people. That's when you tell them that private businesses or whatever will be corruptly paying the $400 million for [00:02:29] it. 28%, which is not even the entirety of Donald Trump's hardcore base say that it's a good idea. And by the way, I believe that that poll at least partially comes after the 24th, 28th. Yeah, think some of that might have come after the shooting when they tried to claim that [00:02:46] the shooting would have been stopped if it was in ballroom. It did not go up, there's no more support than there was. By the way, just in general, people hate Donald Trump putting his name on everything, making everything about him. The passports, the money, the buildings, [00:03:01] the pictures, his ugly mug. Should you put your name on government buildings while you're president? 9 % say that you should. 21 % say after. I mean, again, he's not in charge [00:03:18] at that point, but they're like, okay, I guess after your 9%, that is the lowest level of support I think I have ever seen for anything in my life. And that is the number one thing he is doing day after day. Now, I'm glad the American people woken up to all of this, but [00:03:38] it's time for me to feel good, okay? I didn't do a State of the Union, I can't do that copium, but I can do this copium. Because Senate Republicans are now seeking $1 billion for the white House ballroom, one bub-bub-bub-bub-billion, that's with a B. Who told you it would be a billion? [00:03:59] Who told you? They said I was crazy. I don't know if they did, but they probably said I was crazy. It's a conspiracy theory. Yeah, you think it's gonna cost 200 million? Well, you think it's gonna cost 300 million? A day goes by, you think it's gonna cost 400 million? [00:04:15] And it keeps going up and up and up. And I told you we haven't even gotten started yet. It's gonna cost so much more. And now the Senate Republicans are like $1 billion. Although honestly, I think I was even more right than I thought because as was pointed out by producer Mike, [00:04:31] that's $1 billion the Senate wants to pay for it. But I've been told they already got $350 million. So I guess it's actually $1.35 billion for the stupid ballroom. Here's more details. [00:04:47] The use of public funds would be limited to building above ground and below ground security elements only. What does that mean? Above ground and below ground, that is everything. You are either above ground or you are below ground. There's nothing else other than that. You're [00:05:05] not getting any bonus points from me. Security elements. Okay, I'm being charitable by saying they're gonna build the ballroom with that. If they're not even building the ballroom with that, and that's just security, I don't think we have any idea how much this damn thing is [00:05:21] gonna cost. Is it gonna cost $5 billion? At that point, I don't even know what these security elements are, but that's what they're asking for. They're also asking for $30.7 billion for immigration and customs enforcement. And you can understand why they need that money. I mean, they were only given like $100 billion less than a year ago. It's easy to blow through [00:05:40] all of that. $3.5 billion for customs and border protection. And yeah, I just want to remind everyone, there is no money in this budget for health insurance. There is no money in this budget for scientific research, advancements in fighting cancer, dealing with climate change. [00:05:59] There is no money for any of that. And there is no limit on the money that they will burn for ICE and Border Patrol and Christy Noem hype videos and Cash Patel partying with hockey players getting wild and wacky with them getting a little wet and slippery. There is no limit [00:06:17] to the money for their priorities. deal with the most pressing issues that face our nation. Shut the hell up about it, okay? We're not interested and we're not paying for it. Endless money for ballroom though, $1 billion, that's just the down payment for this stupid building [00:06:35] that we're going to make. And that's not even including the arch and that's not including all this other nonsense. This is what they are focused on, not just Trump, but the Senate as well. They should be holding hearings. over this war. They should be invoking the War Powers Act. They should be impeaching and convicting Donald Trump. Instead, they're just helping [00:06:55] him on the path for his stupid, stupid side quest. 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