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Speaker 1: Hey, folks, is Tuesday, December twenty third, were just two

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Speaker 1: days away from Christmas, or as it's going to be

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Speaker 1: known from now on as Trump Christmas, and welcome to Trump,

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Speaker 1: Amy and TJ. This latest episode of our podcast road

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Speaker 1: I say it somewhat facetiously being a little bit silly,

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Speaker 1: but it ain't that far of a freaking stretch right now.

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Speaker 1: This dude is putting his name on every thing. It

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Speaker 1: appears the latest are ships, but we thought we'd hop

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Speaker 1: on there's some stuff he's putting his name on that

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Speaker 1: people does not make it all the headlines.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't realize that he was naming other buildings,

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Speaker 2: throwing banners with his face up everywhere. He's on a

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Speaker 2: one dollar coin next year, which is actually kind of

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Speaker 2: against the law, because don't you have to have been

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Speaker 2: dead for two years before you can be on a

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Speaker 2: US minted coin.

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Speaker 1: Kind of against kind of I don't really understand we're

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Speaker 1: used to in this country, in the United States of

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Speaker 1: America that presidents.

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Speaker 2: Aren't put into their names, aren't put on buildings, their images,

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Speaker 2: aren't put on coins or banners until they're dead.

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Speaker 3: And there's a reason for that.

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Speaker 1: And we're not shrines to these individuals as they're living.

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Speaker 1: They're not gods, they're not kings, they're not dictators.

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Speaker 3: They're presidents.

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Speaker 1: And that is a service. It's considered a service. Right.

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Speaker 3: He's a public servant, correct.

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Speaker 2: He was elected to basically guide the United States of America.

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Speaker 2: He is the people's president. This is a democracy, This

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Speaker 2: isn't a dictatorship. And yet the things we're seeing him

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Speaker 2: do are very much akin to what we're used to

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Speaker 2: seeing with certain types of governments, like oh, I don't know,

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Speaker 2: the Third Reich dictatorships.

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Speaker 3: I mean, really, these are the marking and the.

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Speaker 2: Leanings of tyrannical rulers, not democratically elected presidents.

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Speaker 1: At all under any circumstance. Ever, is this is what's

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Speaker 1: supposed to be happening now, rogues, I am what argument

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Speaker 1: can be made on the other side, you know what,

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to get to that. I will do

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Speaker 1: that after the break because I need some time to

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Speaker 1: come up with something of this. But yeah, all right,

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Speaker 1: we jumped on here because folks, yes, you did her

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Speaker 1: here probably just yesterday the President announced a whole new

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Speaker 1: fleet of battleships going to shore up the navy by

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Speaker 1: having this whole. It's they sound awesome. This new fleet,

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Speaker 1: the Golden Fleet, is that what they call it? The

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Speaker 1: gold fleet?

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Speaker 3: Well, that's how they're described because they're Trump.

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Speaker 1: Class, So the Trump class of ships, battleships, Trump class battleships.

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Speaker 1: So that made us gouid us to thinking, are you

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Speaker 1: kidding because we just what a few days ago, we're

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Speaker 1: talking about the new name of the Performing Arts Center.

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Speaker 2: It's no longer than Kennedy Center. Yes, oh no, no, no,

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Speaker 2: it's not the Kennedy Center. It's the Trump Kennedy Center.

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Speaker 2: And note whose name is first. So yes, these headlines

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Speaker 2: and these questions and these concerns were all actually occurring

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Speaker 2: really starting in September when we saw banners being unveiled

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Speaker 2: with his face over federal buildings. There were things we

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Speaker 2: snowballs we.

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Speaker 1: Won't see again. I don't think we'll see it again.

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Speaker 1: That's fair well in our lifetime certainly, who knows. But again,

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Speaker 1: this is one thing I will say, Robes this country

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Speaker 1: figures it out, you know, it overcomes whatever comes at us.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people say he's moving the country forward.

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Speaker 1: Their supporters of his knock yourself out. But anybody who

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Speaker 1: thinks that this dude is ruining the country as the

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Speaker 3: Believe we're learning lessons apparently.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and we will continue to do so. We've been

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Speaker 1: learning it from our inception. And I really and I'm

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Speaker 1: not making an uh determination or making a statement about

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Speaker 1: him being bad. But for those who might have a

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Speaker 1: problem with him, I am not worried about the country

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Speaker 3: Getting through it.

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Speaker 1: Yes, okay, how long it might take.

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Speaker 2: Fair, it's not getting past it. We will get past it.

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Speaker 2: But how are we going to handle getting through it?

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Speaker 1: Like?

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Speaker 3: Can you imagine though this is?

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Speaker 2: This is actually I think a fair question to ask,

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Speaker 2: ask yourself even what do you think the Founding fathers

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Speaker 2: would think about what is happening right now?

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Speaker 1: Okay, now I have to say, you're asking you're asking me,

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Speaker 2: Okay, that's fair, But I guess just looking at there's

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Speaker 2: a whole other issue.

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Speaker 3: I understand making that point.

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Speaker 2: I understand the point being that we were leaving they

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Speaker 2: establish a democracy by the people for the people. This

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Speaker 2: reeks of days gone by, and not when America was great,

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Speaker 2: but when England was great.

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Speaker 1: But it doesn't. Is it dismantling our way of life

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Speaker 1: or is it just I guess, propping up and giving

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Speaker 1: putting on a display of this country that we don't

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Speaker 2: It's not a well you say, a display of this country.

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Speaker 2: It's a display of one person.

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Speaker 1: Okay, But he's our representative. He's a leader of the

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Speaker 1: free world, not just this country. He is the leader

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Speaker 1: of the free world. And he wants his name on

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Speaker 1: that building, this building, in front of that president, on

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Speaker 1: that banner, and on this ship. So yes, folks, we

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Speaker 1: decided we decided to go take a look. This is

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Speaker 1: just what he's been doing this year.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: This first one was this the first one.

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Speaker 2: This is the.

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Speaker 1: The Preace Institute. We're talking about the US and Steatitute

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Speaker 1: of Peace. Oh, yes, one that's in the headlines a lot.

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Speaker 1: I didn't even know about this. It was the US

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Speaker 2: Yes, it's an independent nonprofit group created by the United

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Speaker 2: States Congress Independent. That is exactly what it is described as.

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Speaker 2: But earlier this month I did not know this. It

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Speaker 2: was renamed it is now. It's not the US Institute

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Speaker 2: of Peace, It's the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace.

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Speaker 1: He settled nine wars. You know this, right, Uh huh,

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Speaker 1: it's nine.

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Speaker 3: According to him.

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Speaker 2: He says nine. But look, there were headlines. This is interesting.

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Speaker 2: There were headlines. I was looking back from last week

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Speaker 2: with the whole Kennedy Center, Snapoo or hubbub whatever. Trump

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Speaker 2: now shares one more thing with history's worst dictators. Another headline,

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Speaker 2: the United States of Donald Trump. Okay, this was before

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Speaker 2: this latest one. This latest headline that Trump is now

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Speaker 2: dedicated an entire new fleet that he's ordered of battleships

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Speaker 2: bearing his name. He calls them the largest, deadliest, and

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Speaker 3: He might be true and all that fine.

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Speaker 2: Yes, twenty to twenty five new battleships have been ordered

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Speaker 2: that he is attaching his name to. They have nuclear capabilities.

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Speaker 2: We should point that out. And this is directly from

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Speaker 2: the mouth of President Trump. These are the best in

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Speaker 2: the world. They will be the fastest, the biggest, and

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Speaker 2: by far one hundred times more powerful than any battleship

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Speaker 1: That's awesome. I think all of that is wonderful. Yes,

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Speaker 1: we should have the most powerful military in the world.

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Speaker 1: The issue not issue, but why does he insist on

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Speaker 1: naming things after him? At the US Institute of Peace

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Speaker 1: is now the Trump Institute of Peace. They defended it

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Speaker 1: at the time, changing of the name by saying, well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it reflects what they say, the greatest negotiator in US history.

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Speaker 1: Like they were saying, yeah, this makes sense. Of course

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Speaker 2: Yes, that is what the people around him have said

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Speaker 2: about all of his choices to name things after himself.

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Speaker 2: In fact, that really reminds me of something our new War.

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Speaker 3: Secretary, Pete Hegseth said yesterday. Can I quote him here?

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Speaker 1: I'd like to all reflect on this moment. Is the

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Speaker 1: first time you've officially called him the War Secretary.

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Speaker 3: I said that with my tongue in my cheek.

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Speaker 2: For decades, for centuries, the American people will look back

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Speaker 2: and thank President Trump for having the vision and the

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Speaker 2: willingness to invest right now in capabilities we need. And

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Speaker 2: that is why the War Secretary Pete Hegseth says, these

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Speaker 2: of President Trump.

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Speaker 1: Of course, it's not just battleships and the Institute of

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Speaker 1: after Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy. We had

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Speaker 1: you remember, folks, the gold cards were called the Trump

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Speaker 1: Gold Cards. That's another one, Trump RX. He's naming all

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Speaker 1: this stuff after him. The gold card was this these.

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Speaker 2: There's also a platinum card coming in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 2: Did you know about It's a Trump Platinum card. We

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Speaker 2: can get into the distinguished between the two. But this

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Speaker 2: is about people paying to be citizens, yes, for a

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Speaker 3: So yeah, the.

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Speaker 1: Idea here, you can have these things. You can have

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Speaker 1: a new fleet, you can have new cards for entry.

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Speaker 1: Why do they all have to say Trump in front

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Speaker 1: of them? You and I were happened to be watching

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Speaker 1: That movie came out in what year, twenty three, twenty

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Speaker 1: walking down the street Will Ferrell and looked behind him said, wow,

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Speaker 1: This isn't new, He's done this. We can't go a neighborhood.

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Speaker 3: But that was.

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Speaker 2: That was. Let me just say this though, I actually

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Speaker 2: think you can. You should be able to separate Donald J.

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Speaker 2: Trump the businessman from Donald J. Trump the president. He

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Speaker 2: clearly he cannot, and clearly no one's stopping him. Clearly

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Speaker 2: he has surrounded himself with people who will just say

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Speaker 2: that sounds like a great idea, and it's happening. The

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Speaker 2: National Park Pass you want to go to a National park,

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Speaker 2: the pass is now going to bear President Trump's image

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Speaker 1: There before. What was on there before not what it

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Speaker 1: was just an image. I don't think it was a

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Speaker 2: But in honor of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary

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Speaker 2: of this country, President Trump has chosen to put his

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Speaker 2: image right next to George Washington's image. And in addition

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Speaker 2: to the National Park past having his image on it,

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Speaker 2: also did you know that Trump's birthday, June fourteenth, is

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Speaker 2: now going to be added to its list of free

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Speaker 2: admission days. It's Flag Day but that's not a national

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Speaker 2: that is not a federal holiday. But notably, at the

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Speaker 2: same time, he made his birthday now a free admission day.

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Speaker 2: He's taken away MLK Junior Day and June tenth as

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Speaker 2: free admission days even though they are actually federal holidays.

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Speaker 2: Is popular, but they will no longer give you free

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Speaker 1: Well, Flag Day was much more popular than MLK Day anyway.

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Speaker 1: Certainly June teenth, I mean, who celebrates June teenth?

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Speaker 2: Tongue in cheek, I know exactly what you're saying. Yes, so, okay,

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Speaker 2: we went over. The Kennedy Center is now obviously Trump's.

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Speaker 2: The US Institution of Peace is now Trump's Institution of Peace.

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Speaker 2: This doesn't happen in this country. It hasn't happened in

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Speaker 2: That's the thing about President Trump. When he says he

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Speaker 3: Believe him. He follows through with what he says. Period.

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Speaker 1: I don't take it away from him as being a

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Speaker 1: good businessman. Branding is good business. It just is. However,

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Speaker 3: All paid for by American taxpayers.

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Speaker 1: You've overcome all these things. You've beaten everybody, chill out,

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Speaker 1: that and and own you're good. Why these other things

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Speaker 1: And it's hard to talk to any American who would say,

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Speaker 2: I'll choose the laughter. I made me robock alongside TJ.

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Speaker 3: Holmes. We will talk to you soon.