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At vrbo, we understand that even the best of plans sometimes need a little support. So we plan for the plot twists. Every booking is automatically backed by our VRBO care guarantee, giving you confidence from the very start. Whenever you need help, it's ready before your stay, through the moments in between, and after your trip. Because a great trip starts with peace of mind and maybe a good playlist, but we've got the peace of mind part covered. All right, everybody knows that Donald Trump really isn't particularly interested in policy as much as he is his interior design and architecture projects. And here to discuss this with me today is my bff, Jack Coccurella. Jack, a federal judge. Kylie, pop this up. A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to halt construction of a 400 million doll house ballroom, ruling the project cannot move forward unless Congress approves it. Needless to say, Trump is dead, devastated, and throwing feces all over Lysocial. Jack.
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He was melting down in the Oval Office yesterday in. In the. In the. One of the funnier ways I've seen in a while, because he was reading the judge's ruling and he was like, live reacting to it, which just kind of goes to show how much she knows about any of what's happening with the project. Besides, you know, well, quite frankly, it's going to be great and we love some marble, and it's going to have my face on it. And I don't think that he knows any of the intricacies, which is weird because it seems to be the only thing that he cares about. But it's funny that Donald Trump moved from complaining about one way that he is trying to physically manifest a legacy for himself, because that is what this is. Sure, Donald Trump likes taking money from billionaires and corporations trying to buy influence, which is partly the reason for the project, but it's also because he wants to leave some lasting legacy that he can see and have people celebrate him for before he dies, because he knows what's going to happen when he dies. Every memorial to Donald Trump will just become a public bathroom. But he traveled from complaining about the ballroom to then deciding he's going to the Trump Kennedy Center. I just. I can't even believe I said that. But last night, did you see that he got booed at the Kennedy Center? Like, the other version of a thing that he's trying to make for himself is also falling apart. There is no. There is no, like, set in stone Trump memorial that he can build that will remove what is actually set in stone, which is how much fucking People hate him and will continue to while he's alive and while he's gone. But you didn't see this. He just got booed. It was, it was pretty good. It was a great close.
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I'll have Kylie. I'll have Kylie find that and we'll play it here in a second. So, speaking of set in stone, the. A lot of architects have been reviewing the plans for the ballroom, and it turns out we've got a lot of problems here. Pop this up. Play the video of Nicole Wallace breaking it down.
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Someone's feeling a little defensive about his not so pretty ballroom. Donald Trump showing reporters some design changes last night and telling the reporters the project is, quote, ahead of schedule and under budget, end quote. Trump also saying, quote, a lot of people are giving it really good reviews, end quote. Trump then revealed to reporters that the United States military is building a, quote, massive complex under the new ballroom. Air Force One display came after an embarrassing bit of reporting in the New York Times that poked some holes in his $400 million project. New York Times analysis flagged a number of issues, including fake windows on the north facing wall to conceal a row of bathroom stalls, an oversized portico and columns that will block views from the inside, and of course, a staircase that leads to nowhere. That's right, a grand staircase to nowhere. New York Times founds that it leads to nothing.
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Symbol. Emblematic. Emblematic of the Trump presidency. The staircase to nothing. Watching him on Air Force One do a, like, a literal Looney Tunes style display of like, images getting bigger and bigger over time. And it really is so representative of his presidency and especially this, like, out of touch current moment where you have reporters trying to interrupt Trump and say, okay, well, we still have questions about the illegal war that you started on behalf of Israel in the Epstein class. And he's like, well, no, real quick, we just, we got to finish talking about the ballroom. And he did seven fucking minutes on it. He did seven minutes of increasingly larger images as the press was just like, can we talk about your war? And he actually said, you know, I just don't get time to talk about this. Like, he was complaining that they haven't given him ample opportunity to rant about the ballroom. I just, I don't know how someone can be so obsessed with the thing, but also it be so shitty and him not know about it. I also find it very strange that Carolyn Levitt wouldn't answer any questions about the military facility underneath. And then this is a supposed project that's being all funded by outside money. And now the military is doing something underneath it. So that can't be outside money. Everything that they've said is obviously always bullshit, but especially in this example, we're seeing more lies pop up and a lot of people thought that it was a conspiracy. Anyone floating that there might be something underneath the ballroom. Now we know what it is. Do you have any guesses what this might be? Is it where they're putting the Epstein files? Like, I don't know.
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I read that he said, because, you know, he's in, he's enter his deathbed confession.
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Yeah, I heard you say that recently. Yeah.
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You know, he's talking about, I like to hang out with losers. I think we're a couple of news cycles away from finding out the true identity of Bubba, whom we know via the Epstein files that he sucked off. But he, he recently revealed that there's going to be like a hospital and all of this stuff under there. I think this guy, you know, the most traumatized, traumatizing life event that he's ever experienced was losing to Joe Biden. He incited an insurrection. So I think in his mind, autocrats, they don't have succession plans. I mean, I just think in his mind it's like, I'm just going to build this ballroom and I'm just going to live there forever.
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Yeah. And clearly everyone in the White House wants to protect Donald Trump's vision of the retirement home ballroom. And by not telling us anything about it. You saw Carolyn Levitt earlier in the week, asked what the fuck is going on with the secret military facility. She didn't want anyone else to know. It's not the only thing that Carolyn Levitt wanted scrubbed from the minds of reporters. Jen, I got really excited when I sent you an image yesterday. It's the reason that we're doing this video. It's an unpleasant, to say the least, shot of Carolyn Levitt. I really just can't wait for your reaction.
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Okay, Kylie, pop this up. Ari Cohn says the picture that press secretary Caroline Levitt does not want you to see. And so there she is with her child and it's, you know, it's a picture taken from below.
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Yeah, never great.
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And she has a stage five meltdown. And Natalie Korak post after the White House complained about an unflattering photo of Caroline Levitt, it was scrubbed from AFP and Giddey's systems. Another episode in image control from the press secretary. Okay. The thin skinned nature of these MAGA people is just something that I cannot even remotely handle. I'm online Every day. I mean, there are some days where I just don't look as great as I have. Other days you just have to accept it. Take. Thank you. Thank you, Jack. But you have to accept it. Take the L and move on down the road. These people are only interested in the very, very thin veneer because behind that veneer is nothing. They are fucking nihilists to their core. They believe in absolutely nothing. I love this image of Caroline and I hope that we can keep it alive. Yeah, you go into it, Jack.
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Well, I, I think that it reminds me of. Was it Vanity Fair that did the, that did the piece when they were taking all the photos that went so viral of like the close ups and they made them look as shitty as they are?
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Yeah, yeah.
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And. And it just kind of like got at like what you're saying, how hollow that these people are, how empty they are. And it's kind of funny, you know, anyone, if you would like to add a little something here or fill something there, maybe do a little flip up there, pop a little, you know, whatever you want to do to live your fullest you and look good. I fuck, I'm fully on board, comma. But if you are a fascist, fuck you. And we're going to make fun of your bad work. If it's bad work. And Carolyn is all focused on the looking, the camera looking face. And so to capture her from underneath and like right next to the, like, obviously a little turkey with the waddle that was on Thanksgiving. It's just pretty funny to be like, Carolyn, you can't hide, like when we get the right angle from you. And that's what it was. Communicating. It's not just a photo. These are photojournalists. They know what they're communicating from underneath. We are seeing a side of you that you hate because you can't hide because you can't add or take away or you can't, you know, mar a lago your face out of this one, which. God, that Mar a Lago face is just bad. I don't know how you can be 28 and trying to be a cougar, I guess if your husband is. What is he, like 68 something?
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Yeah, he's in those Vanity Fair photographs. She had like her lip filler injections. You could see the photographer, I mean, did not. He just. He took the image, hunkered down on it and then popped that up. And it was so humiliating for all of them because, you know, they live in this bubble and in the White House where you have Elon Musk and all of these oligarchs that amplify their messaging. And so they operate on a false premise that they're super popular.
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Yes.
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And the fact of the matter is, they're only popular with the base. And I think that Trump's approval rating now is down to around 31%. So 31% of the electorate is 100% for this. The rest of us fucking hate these people. Like, hate these people with everything in
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us and think they're weird, you know?
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Yeah, they are.
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And you talk about, like, Elon boosting them or, like, them going to socials, but it's like, let's think about what the White House is always posting, like, clips from video games or, you know, clips from TV shows or movies taken out of context. There is nothing more conservative than not understanding art. They'll, like, watch Star wars and be like, oh, you know, Luke Skywalker was a Republican. It's like, fuck you, you idiot. What are you talking about? They're stormtroopers. Are you dumb? Like, are you actually the Republic? What are you talking about? So they don't understand art, and so they're posting all these movie clips, and they're posting all this stuff from TV because they have a television president who is also not in a world of reality. Like, Donald Trump's not a good businessman. He bankrupted a casino. The last time I to the casino, I lost, like, $500 playing blackjack. That's a great business model, okay? But Donald Trump is not a good businessman. He played one on tv. And all of these people love TV or the idea of what they are in TV and how their lives are like tv, because they're not real. And they don't want to think about the real world impact of the actual people they hurt. They just want to present themselves as characters and live a fantasy, because if they were actually in the real world, they'd wake up to, like you said, how everyone hates them. And so they are just so detached. Donald Trump is because he's like. He's got Alzheimer's, but Stephen Miller is because he thinks he's some fucking conquering hero, and he's not. He's just not.
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No, they really suck. Kylie, did you find our video of the Kennedy center last night? Let's play that.
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So you get a. Both. Get a little bit of both. Yeah, you get a little cheer. You get a little boo, But. And that's why I found it so interesting last night, because let's think about all of the public events that Donald Trump could have Gone to in the past, let's call it like month. All right, so there's about two. It was cpac, it was the super bowl, canceled on both. Why booze? Donald Trump didn't go to the super bowl because he knew it was going to happen. He's going to get booed. And he didn't go to cpac, a conservative conference. Right. When we talked about this because he was going to get booed. They asked on stage who's excited for impeachment, hoping that it'd be like, oh, no, the libs, blah. And they were cheering. And that's what Donald Trump's administration is, even to the people going to conservative conferences. And so the fact that they only take him to public settings in which they think that everything will be fine, like he's out at Mar a Lago because you're like scanned for your political identity by the time you show up at the door.
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But.
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And it's also kind of a self selecting group of the worst people in the world. But the fact that they took him there thinking it would all be fine, only to still hear some booze, a lot of cheers from the sycophants because I think it was kind of like a selected group. But even under their perfect conditions, Donald Trump is still getting booed. He talks about how he's got 100% approval in the party. Okay, not true at all. I know they're cultists, but at least some of them are starting to break away in some way. It's not because they're upset about children dying. It's gas. And that's kind of unfortunate for the future of the country. But even in the best location possible, he's still getting booed.
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And I just, before we close out here, I want to say that the person at CPAC who asked who wants Donald Trump to get impeached, and they all started cheering. He was like, no, wrong answer. His name is Matt Schlapp. And Matt Schlapp at a previous CPAC convention was grabbing the genitals of the fellow attendees of cpac, his fellow conservatives, his fellow maga, and very credible allegations of sexual assault. And so the through line here with MAGA is if your husband likes to cross dress, which I don't care if he does, he likes to put on big titties. That's not, I don't give a.
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Be open about it. Love your big titties.
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Right? But the sexual assault, sexual kinks, all of these things happen all of the time. And there's always just pick up the rug Sweep it under and roll it down. These people are nihilists, hypocrites to their core. And I just have to say, the louder the Christian and CPAC was, full blown evangelical megachurch shit show, Erica Kirk style. Just debauchery. And these people the loudest are always the kinkiest. It always turns out that way. All right, Jack, thank you so much for joining me to hit these very hard hitting topics.
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Can I say that I wasn't late this time? Can I bring that up, listener?
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He was like a couple minutes early.
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I was not early. Don't give me credit. I came exactly at the time which you were supposed to record, but last time I did not. So I've become better. I've improved in my skills of showing up on time.
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I know I'm very 23 years old. You've got this. 23 years old and on time for the show. Go follow Jack Coccurella on YouTube and all of the other places.
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Come hang out.
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We're going to start. We're going to keep collabing. We need to take a break from all of the. And just. We need to do. Jack, I think our job is to do reputational damage to these politicians and their brand.
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Yeah, no, and I think we got to do some Democrats next time, too, because some people have pissed me off. Andy Bashir, we'll talk about you next time.
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I agree. I've had it with him. All right, we'll be back later.