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Spot On with Link Lauren
Inside Link's Trip to Texas with Trump, Princess Kate at Wimbledon, and CA Cannabis Farm ICE Raid
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Link Lauren dives into his experience on Air Force One, going to Kerrville, Texas and other presidential stops as part of the press pool over the weekend. Then, he breaks down Trump’s Truth post threatening to take away Rosie O’Donnell’s citizenship, a new New York Times piece alleging that some of Joe Biden’s pardons were signed with the autopen, the cannabis farm ICE raid in California, JD Vance getting heckled at Disneyland with his family, Princess Kate at Wimbledon and more. Paleo Valley: Visit https://paleovalley.com and use code LINK at checkout to get 15% off your first order Ground News: Use the link https://groundnews.com/link to get 40% off the Vantage subscription to see through mainstream media narratives.
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Fuel better without the hassle. Foreign Friends welcome back to Spoton with Link Lauren, a show where we're gonna break down the calamities of Hollywood, the circus of Washington D.C. and everything in between. You guys are probably wondering where I am if you're watching us on YouTube right now. I am on the road this week because this past weekend I was traveling with President Trump's travel White House pool. So this is a group of reporters who go with him. They cover the president, his moves, what he's up to and they report back. And I could not be more grateful to be in the new media spot on the trip. I am incredibly grateful to the folks at the White House for seeing value in new media, for allowing me to come, for including me. It was a once in a lifetime opportunity and hopefully not the last time I get to go and cover the President. But it's something I cherish and I know there are other journalists who get to do things like this all the time. I do not take it for granted or whatsoever. And this trip was also incredibly special to me. Being from Texas, I felt compelled to go and visit my home state. You guys know I've covered for weeks this devastation from the flooding back home in Texas. I know dozens of girls who went to Camp Mystic. I know so many people in that area. There's not a person across the state of Texas who has not been personally affected and impacted by this tragedy. And so to get to travel with President Trump to Texas to witness this, especially with the first lady who you guys know I love and adore and I think has been so unfairly maligned by the media. I talk about that all the time. This was just an incredible opportunity. It was also an incredibly moving day. It was a heavy day. It was a somber day. It's not the typical trip you're going to take with the president, but I felt like the universe, God, the stars aligned for me to be able to go on this trip. And as I said earlier, I'm just so incredibly grateful I got to go because it was so meaningful to everyone I know back home in Texas. And if you guys have been with me on social media, on X, on Instagram, the response to my coverage already has been so incredibly positive. And I think so many people from across the state of Texas appreciate having someone from the state go to the press conference and travel to see the devastation. And so, one thing I can tell you, walking through the day, we met up at Joint Base Andrews. That's where Air Force One takes off. So we go to Joint Base Andrews, and we're gonna skip over a lot of the security stuff. I don't think I should really go into all of that. But we go to Joint Base Andrews, we wait for President Trump. He arrives from the White House on Marine One. So then we board Air Force One, we head to Texas, we land in Texas, you guys, we go from Air Force One, we run to these Osprey helicopters. So I have never been in an Osprey helicopter. I think I've been in a helicopter one time when I went on a family trip to the Grand Canyon. We did one of these tours in a helicopter. Had never been in anything like that. But we run, we get in the Osprey, we. We strap in, we land in a field. We get in the motorcade, we take the motorcade to see the utter devastation from this flooding. And I'm here to tell you, the scale of this tragedy is something that just. The cameras don't even do it justice. You cannot tell when you're watching mainstream media or news exactly what has happened in Texas. When we're driving in the motorcade, first off, people are lining the streets. They have flags and signs. These are people who. Some of them have lost everything. They. They've lost loved ones, but they love this country, and they appreciate the fact that President Trump came and showed up for them. Because if you remember, Joe Biden took him, what, over a year to visit East Palestine, Ohio, Took Pete Buttigieg weeks as Secretary of Transportation. I mean, that administration really did not show up for the people in this country. And what we have on the screen right now is a lot of footage that I took during the trip. A lot of the footage that's rolling this, that's all that I took with my iPhone. You guys know me, I'm committed to always just filming with my iPhone. That's part of being new media. And so for President Trump to show up, the motorcade is rolling, rolling through Texas and Kerrville, and people are lining the streets. And they could not be more happy that he came. There's really nothing you can say, right? You can express condolences. You can say, we see you, we hear you, we feel your pain. But just being there and having the President and the first lady show up meant so much to this community. So we're driving around and we won't show too many clips of this, but the trees are just demolished. Everything. It looks like a war zone when you are driving through Kerrville. And so our first stop of the trip, we go, and that was the clip where you have a fire truck. And President Trump was going to meet with the first responders. And so this was a stage that was set up, I believe, for a Fourth of July parade. The stage was then flipped over. The flooding devastated the area. The trees are all toppled over. President Trump was then going through the line, shaking hands with first responders. He got to meet Scott Ruskin. You guys remember Scott Ruskin. He was the Coast Guard officer whose team rescued hundreds of people. He is a hero. I hope he gets to come to the White House at some point. So he was briefed. He met with Governor Greg Abbott, who was there as well. He shook hands with first responders. They took pictures. The first lady, Melania Trump, was there. It was a beautiful moment for him to show up for, for these folks in Texas. So then we get back in the motorcade and we roll to the next event. So the next event was the roundtable that was all over the news. If you guys were watching the news this past weekend, there was the roundtable, and anybody who's anybody in Texas politics was there. You had John Cornyn, Chip Roy, Pete Sessions, Beth Van Doone, Governor Greg Abbott, Senator Ted Cruz. You had Kristi Noem. You had Brooke Rollins, you had Kelly Loeffler. You also had Dr. Phil, who showed up at the roundtable. So everybody came to this roundtable to rally around this community and say, we're here for you, we support you. We're going to rebuild. We're going to help you find your loved ones. Because for some of these folks, all they want is a body. As sad and as devastating and unconscionable as it is to even say out loud, so many of these families, they are just praying and hoping they can find a body. And so before the roundtable in private, President Trump and the first lady met with some families. She was gifted a beautiful bracelet from the girls at Camp Mystic. These bracelets are very well known throughout Texas. These bracelets just have so much lore and they're very well known. And it was a very somber occasion. There were times where I was moved. It was very emotional, people sharing their stories and seeing this community that's just been ravaged. And all I can keep thinking about is when I went to summer camp, right when I was 8 years old, 9 years old, 10 years old, and you're innocent, you have your whole life in front of you, you're having fun. And then a once in a generation tsunami rolls through that you're not expecting, and these girls are swept away. And that was just what kept coming through my mind when we were down there in Texas. And I'll a little anecdote of just how much this community is holding on and holding out hope and coming together. So there was a woman before the round table who was walking around and she had this big book. It was torn up, it had post it notes in it, pages were ripped, this big book. And I'm like, what is that book? What is she carrying? And she's very emotional. I did not take a picture or video of her, of course, out of respect, but she was emotional. She seemed to really be going through a hard time, clearly has lost a loved one. And, and when she got up closer, she was sitting a few seats in front of me during the roundtable. The book was a Bible. So she was carrying around this Bible, holding out hope, praying to God that she could just find her child and to get a body back. And so that was just really one of the most salient memories that stuck out to me from the trip to Texas and being at the roundtable, of course, going around and hearing from Greg Abbott, President Trump, everybody at the roundtable, Christina, what they're going to do to rebuild. And they have a meeting, I believe in about a week to talk about what we can to mitigate any type of issue like this, any type of tragedy happening in the future like this, what we can do to fortify these communities and what we can do to rebuild. And there's so many businesses, small businesses that were affected. But to see this woman, she's walking around carrying a Bible and the Bible has miles on it. This woman is clearly praying and just holding out hope that she can find her loved one who's still missing. And so this really is search and rescue. This is search. Let's find a body. Their families who refuse to go home until they find their children's bodies. Right. It's really something out of a nightmare and a horror show. But I felt like it was so important to be there, because knowing some of these congressmen, knowing some of these congresswomen, I got to see and speak with them briefly after the roundtable and a little bit before, and then also seeing folks who are part of my state. Right. This is my home state of Texas. Everybody in Texas knows someone who has been affected by this tragedy. And so I felt like I was in the perfect position to go film footage in a way that's respectful, get the details we needed to paint the picture for you guys and to relay exactly what was happening on the ground. But it's also my community, and I don't know a lot of other influencers who have the background and the geographical knowledge, as you guys know. And I've told you before, I've been in contact with some of the families impacted by this tragedy. I have a list of where all these girls went to school. If you're from Dallas, you know, Bradfield, higher up, Armstrong, these are all elementary schools in Dallas. Some of the girls from Camp mystic went to. And so to be there, I think that's why I was so moved. And of course, it's not about me, but why I was so moved is just because these little girls went to camp. Some of them sent letters home that the parents are currently receiving, but the girls will never return home. And that was something that was pointed out to me, that really, really moved me. And so I'm incredibly grateful that I got to travel with President Trump and the first lady, our incredible first Lady, Melania Trump, who pledged to go back down there. She's going to go back down. She says, I promise we will be back. And one thing I know about Texas, and if you guys are watching the roundtable, I asked the President a question. He took a few questions at the roundtable, asked him a question as well as Governor Greg Abbott. And I asked about these folks on the left who continue to politicize this crisis, like Jasmine Crockett and others. They continue to point fingers at the Trump administration and say, it's your fault. You're the reason this natural disaster happened, which is ridiculous, asinine, and counterproductive to search and rescue, counterproductive to Everything going on. But I asked President Trump what he thought about this, folks on the left politicizing the issue. And I said one thing I love about Texas and being from the state is that we really come together and rally around each other in a time of crisis. Right? So we reach across party lines, ideological lines, and really rally together in a crisis. And so what's so disheartening is seeing folks like Jasmine Crockett politicize this issue. And you've got the DNC war room sending out emails. If you actually go down there, if Jasmine Crockett would actually go down there as a congresswoman from Texas and see with her own eyes what's going on. And people, we were in the motorcade and people are holding each other, crying on the side of the streets because there's no good news. There is just not any good news coming out of this tragedy. If Jasmine Crockett and these folks politicizing it would go down there and care about these people, they would have a whole different perspective. And Congressman Brandon Gill was there, who's, of course, a rising star in the party. Everybody who's anybody was at this roundtable because the state was going to come together. It would have been nice to have seen some Democrats there showing support. But of course, TDS is a very, very sick illness. And so I'm praying for the people of Kerrville, of Kerr county, of everybody in Texas who has just been ravaged by this tragedy. We have updated numbers we just got right. So about 161 folks are still missing. The death toll as of now is around 130. And so we pray for these families in their time of grief. It was a privilege to be there. It's a very heavy day, a somber day. But then I also traveled with President Trump the rest of the weekend. We went to a FIFA game on Sunday, which I'll tell you guys about in a few days as we're editing the footage. If you're with me on social media, you've probably already seen it. But the trip, although it was heavy and emotional and not your typical trip, I really feel so blessed that I got to go and cover it in a way that was respectful and with the tone that it needed and to see up close just how devastated this community was. And so we're praying for the people of Texas. We are thinking of you, and I'm so grateful that I got to travel with President Trump. I do not take it for granted whatsoever. And I know many of you, many of you have been asking, what did we Eat on Air Force One. What did we drink on Air Force One? You guys wanna know all the fun stuff and the exciting stuff? I'm just not sure it's appropriate to share at this time, because the point of the trip for me was to go and cover this tragedy and to film it and be there when they're meeting first responders, when they're going to the roundtable, when we're traveling around looking at the devastation with the president and his staff in the motorcades. So I know people wanna know the fun stuff, but it's really not about me being an influencer, saying, look how cool I am. I'm on Air Force One. That's not the point of the trip. The point of the trip was to go back to my home state and cover it in a way that was irreverent and respectful of these folks who have lost everything. Some of them have lost everything. And as Dr. Phil pointed out at the roundtable, the worst tragedy and mental crisis you can suffer is losing a child. And so now you have so many parents who have lost children. And the one last thing I want to say that became evident when we were down there, a lot of these parents are kids themselves. I felt a lot of these parents who've lost their little girls who are 7, 8, 9 years old, these parents are in their 30s, right? They're really young parents, and they're trying to grapple with this and navigate this. And I think because my parents were so old when they had me, it's hard for me to remember that a lot of parents aren't as old. And so just seeing these parents down there, they're kids themselves. They're trying to locate their children, and it's really something out of a nightmare. But what I said about Texas is true. We come together in a crisis, we rally around each other, and so we are praying and thinking of you. And I couldn't be more grateful to travel with President Trump to witness this and see it for myself. Now, Sunday night, when we landed back at Joint Base Andrews on Air Force One, President Trump came off the plane to gaggle. So what it means to gaggle is when the president comes down and he speaks with the press and they throw out questions, they pepper him or with questions. And so last night, Sunday, President Trump came over and took some questions. So I, of course, did not miss an opportunity to ask him about things that I was interested in and issues that I also know you are passionate about. One of the issues we are all passionate about is keeping men out of women's sports. It is insane that we even have to have this conversation in 2025 that grown men are in locker rooms and on sports teams with little girls. But some of these liberal states, these leftists, do not want to comply with the executive order. And of course now going to have to have some funding stripped. There's going to have to be hell to pay if you keep pushing men into women's sports. And so last week, Gavin Newsom said he does not want to comply with the executive order. Right. He does not want to get men out of women's sports. He has flip flopped on this issue. But that's because Gavin Newsom only answers to his donors. Gavin Newsom doesn't stand for anything. Right. I don't know how as a father and a husband, he wants men in girls locker rooms. And I actually asked President Trump about this on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews. We have a clip. Gavin Newsom fighting to keep remaining women's sports. He's fighting with Fonji McMahon as a father. As a husband, does he hate women? Why does he want anyone in sports so badly? I don't know if he hates women. But look, he thinks it's good politically. I guess he's just saying Gavin Newsom wants to keep men in women's courts. Nobody understands it. Very few. I say it's a 3% issue. You know, they say it's 80 20. Not 80 20. I think it's 97 3. So I couldn't be more grateful that President Trump gave us the time that he took some questions. And I just had to ask that because it has just bugged me since last week. I don't know what kind of man Gavin Newsom is that he is now fighting with Attorney General Pam Bondi, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, to keep men in women's sports. This really isn't even an 8020 issue anymore. When I speak to people, I can't find hardly anyone who thinks this is okay. Of course, they're deranged radical leftists who think men should just be able to have carte blanche into any space because they decide to to identify as a woman. So President Trump, I'm glad he pointed out that it's not really 80 20, it's like 97 3. And I don't know what Gavin Newsom is doing. If he wants to run For President in 2028, good luck to you. Because Americans want common sense. The reason President Trump won every single swing state and the popular vote is because he ran on a platform of common sense. And the left has gone way too far left. And they've been co opted by this small radical minority right, this loud but vocal minority in their party is who they've been taken over by. So, Gavin Newsom, Global, good luck to you if you want to run in 2028. And good luck to you in this fight with the DOJ, with McMahon, with Bondi to keep men in women's sports. I think it's absolutely insane, as we saw with Penn recently and Riley Gaines, Paula Scanlon and the entire swim team that had to compete against Leah Thomas. They have now gone back, right? They have now gone back. They have acquiesced and they have given in and folded to the Trump administration as they should have. Right. You should not have men in women's sports teams or in women's locker rooms. And so I'm grateful to President Trump for taking the question. One thing I also had to ask him about was Rosie o'. Don. As you guys know, I do these Rosie o' Donnell updates. She's over in Ireland, but she still likes to opine on American politics. I don't know why, I don't know why she left the country. And she still wants to chime in on everything we have going on here, but she must have a strong WI fi connection over in Ireland. And so I had to ask President Trump about this as well, because when we were on the trip with him over the weekend on Saturday, he did a post on Truth Social about Rosie o'. Donnell. So we have it here. He said, because of the fact that Rosie o' Donnell is not in the best interest of our great country, I'm giving serious consideration to taking away her citizenship. She is a threat to humanity and should remain in the wonderful country of Ireland if they want her. God bless America. And so I had to ask President Trump about this because you know what I'm there to ask the things that I know you guys are interested in. So we got men and women's sports. I asked him a question at the roundtable that was a more moving, deep, thoughtful question. But I had to ask about Rosie. I had to ask about Rosie o'. Donnell. You guys know I've met Rosie o' Donnell before. I met her years ago. We took a picture together. She was perfectly fine. A little weird, a little wonky. But what do you expect? Most celebrities are. But Rosie o' Donnell had to ask President Trump about her. And here's what he had to say. Rosie o', Donnell, even on Chris Cuomo recently, she blames you for the fact that she's overweight, depressed, in drunk. What do you say to that? Do you think CBS is going to ever be a GSM5? I don't know about Rosie. I watch Rosie. Rosie's a mess. She's a mess. But she left our country, which is a good thing, not a bad thing. I'm also grateful that Rosie o' Donnell has left our country. But the point is, when you leave the country, when you flee the country because you don't like the president of the United States, which is a ridiculous reason to flee the country. Also a very elitist thing to do. Most folks can't just leave a country and move to Ireland when they want to. But she's part of the 1% of the 1%. She's a rich, famous celebrity. So she moved to Ireland. I am so happy she's gone. But why do you still want to chime in on everything we have going on here? If you left the country, then leave. It's like you leave the party. It's like you leave a party early and then you come to work on Monday and you want to know everything that happened after you left. What did you guys drink? Did you go to an after party? Did you go to a bar? Why do you care? You left the party. So, Rosie o', Donnell, we wish you well in Ireland and your little Irish village. But we gotta pay some bills. And after we pay some bills, we'll be back with some more hot topics and news items of the day. We need to make America healthy again. And that starts with what we put in our bodies. I'm constantly on the move, working, traveling and I need a snack that fuels my body, not poisons it. Paleo Valley's 100% grass fed beef sticks are clean, high quality and free from the chemical junk so many other brands sell. 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Joe Biden, why could he not do his own signature? And so we have more information. There's an investigation going on and there's a big New York Times piece that they actually interviewed Joe Biden and they spoke with him for 10 minutes a few days ago in this New York Times piece. And he really stands firm and says that he is the one who orally, he orally gave the orders for them to go use the auto pin. So we have some notes here, right? The New York Times reports that many of Biden's pardons, including Fauci's, were signed by the auto pin and approved late at night by a White House aide. Now, it's also worth pointing out that only the Hunter Biden pardon appears to contain Joe Biden's authentic signature. That is really dicey to me. That is dicey to me. And I read more of this article this morning. I will paraphrase it for you from the New York Times. In the article, Joe Biden basically purports that because he was so busy and there were so many pardons and so many documents. That is why they use the auto pin over the course of that year. But as I read the article, it seemed to only be several dozen documents. There are Only a few dozen signatures for commutations and pardons and things of that nature. You couldn't, over the course of a year, sign several dozen documents yourself. That's what really just didn't make sense to me. And so you're giving the orders orally. You're clearly, you know, non compos mentis. You're cognitively impaired, as we can see with our own eyes and ears. And we were gaslit into, told he wasn't. He was the spry whippersnapper. But Joe Biden, why couldn't you sign these documents yourself? That is what's very weird to me. And you pardon the J6 committee, Fauci family members using the auto pin. But Hunter Hunter signature seems to be the only authentic one that Joe Biden signed himself. And then we also have Peter Doocy at the White House who has asked about this issue weeks ago. Let's take a look at that clip. Looks different. It looks authentic. In fact, if you look at the last name, it almost looks like the President was having a hard time spelling his last name. There is this White House of the opinion that the only pardon that would count is one that the President signed himself. Ms. Very interesting. Very interesting. Props. If you want to bring them to my office later so I can take a closer look, I would like to do that. The president is making a good point when he discusses the usage of the auto pen who was running the country for the past four years. I really think if a president cannot sign his own name to documents, he should not be running the country. Especially when he's falling down in public, he's fumbling, he can't form coherent sentences all the time. Joe Biden, what the hell was going on with these unelected bureaucrats who are running the country? So this is a bomb story, right, that Dr. Fauci's pardon was done by the auto pin. These things were done late at night, and now they're going back and playing Monday morning quarterback and going in hindsight and saying, well, Joe Biden orally told us to use the auto pin, so couldn't you just use the auto pin for anything? Because that guy's not going to know. He can't remember what happened yesterday. Okay, so this is really fishy to me. And as taxpayers, we have a right to know what's going on. But I want to move on to another story that's been all over the news, all over the news this past weekend, and it has to do with the cannabis farm in California and the child labor that was going on because Gavin Newsom, I don't know what's happening in his state, but it's an utter calamity. He might have to be utter calamity of the week this week. We'll cross that bridge on Wednesday. But Gavin Newsom in California, the fact that he is now defending children working on a cannabis farm, it just goes to show you that President Trump is a genius at getting Democrats to defend indefinite principal positions, right? They're fighting to keep men and women's sports, they're fighting to keep children on the labor farms in California. And so let me read you exactly what is going on. So federal authorities confirmed that more than 300 illegal aliens were arrested Thursday during an ICE raid at Ventura county at a cannabis farm. Now, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, who I saw on Friday at the roundtable in Texas, she confirmed that 319 unlawful immigrants were apprehended during the raid at Glass House Farms and said that law enforcement was rescued, 14 children from potential forced labor, exploitation and trafficking. Now, Gavin Newsom wants to defend all of this. And then it also erupted into chaos where people started attacking ICE agents, throwing rocks. I believe a gun was pulled and fired on an ICE agent. This is not good, okay? Most people in California that I speak to, they want criminal illegal aliens out of the country. They don't want children being exploited and put to work at a cannabis farm. Call me crazy. And they went to this farm to collect people with long rap sheets, okay? This narrative that they're just rounding up innocent people is anathema to reality. And that's not really what's happening. They knew they were going there because they were criminals. They needed to arrest. People who have raped, maimed, have whole entire rap sheets. So they go there to get these folks, and they find about 14 children. And now the left wants to defend this. The folks on MSNBC and Gavin Newsom, they're like, well, you should let the children stay and work on the cannabis farm. How dare you? That's what's happened, okay? That's what's happened in this country, where the left is now fighting to keep little children exploited, working on a cannabis farm. That is really, I think Republicans have material for the midterms and in 2028. But Gavin Newsom has really lost the plot. As I told you guys a few weeks ago, with the fires and then also with the folks overtaking freeways with the ICE raids and all of that that was going on, people bombing and blowing up cars. Gavin Newsom seems to be spiraling he can't run his state. He doesn't seem to be able to run his own household. His eyes are bulging out. Really just doesn't look well to me. So, Gavin Newsom, I don't know exactly what's going on. I've heard through the grapevine that he really is sort of spiraling and losing it and picking these fights. And I think that's also happened. That's also what happens when you're a serious malignant narcissist, right? You think you can do no wrong and you think you're perfect and you've got all these billionaire Democrat donors and best friends like Alex Soros and Kamala Harris and the Clintons. But Gavin Newsom really seems to have lost the plot, because when you're defending not only illegal alien criminals, but keeping children working and exploited on a cannabis farm, then you're probably in the wrong here. But Gavin Newsom, keep going down this path because I don't see it working out for you in 2028. I know Gavin Newsom wants to run in 2028, and a lot of the folks in the Democrat Party want him to. I don't think it's a surefire thing he makes it out of the primaries. I don't think it's a surefire thing he makes it out of the debates because his record is so terrible. So we wish you well, Gavin Newsom. But let's move on to one last story, and that has to do with J.D. vance taking his family to Disneyland. So J.D. vance took his family to Disneyland. He's got two young kids with his gorgeous wife, Usha Vance, the second lady of the United States. His kids are innocent and sweet and charming. And he takes the kids to Disneyland. And people heckle, they throw things, they are rude, they are nasty, they're yelling, get out of the state. And I have to say this, right, politics is vitriolic. Politics is a blood sport, right? Don't come into the kitchen if you can't handle the heat. But what type of nasty, sick people do you have to be to heckle and jeer and scream and try to pick a fight with a family that's at Disneyland with their children, right? Put partisan politics aside. J.D. vance and his wife are there with their young kids on summer vacation for a few days at Disneyland. And you have to heckle and scream and try and make their lives miserable and chant and form crowds around them. Come on, people, what has happened to the left now where we want kids to work on cannabis farms and be exploited? We want to yell and make kids feel scared and unsafe when they go to Disneyland. Are you kidding me? But that's what's happening in California. And so I feel for the Vance family. I even saw some folks online who were very clearly Democrats and on the left who agreed with my sentiments that when you're out with your kids, your young single digit children, they should be able to enjoy themselves on summer vacation without being heckled and jeered at and made to feel unsafe and uncomfortable. And so I'm thinking about the Vance family. JD Vance is so resilient and funny. He seems to be doing fine. But I do think about these kids who were there. And you just have to be a really sick kind of person to want to do that. Right? If the kids are grown adults, maybe it's a different story. Right? If your kid is in. If it's Chelsea Clinton. Right. Let's say Chelsea Clinton, she's a grown woman. She's been involved in her parents campaigns. If you see Chelsea Clinton out and you want to heckle and jeer at her at Disneyland, go for it. But these little kids, they're trying to make them feel as normal as possible. They're single digits, they're very, very young, and they're trying to make it seem like their lives are perfectly fine. We're at Disneyland. Mommy and daddy aren't internationally known. And now crowds are forming and yelling and jeering and telling them to get out of the state. So shame on you all the folks at Disneyland who are doing this. And the last thing I have to say about this topic to circle back to Gavin Newsom, who's just really a snake oil salesman, disgusting person. He wanted to ramp up the vitriol. This is a father. You would think someone with kids would respect another man with kids, even if they're across the party lines and, you know, have very major ideological differences. But Gavin Newsom put out a post and he said, I hope you enjoy your family time. J.D. vance. The families are tearing apart. Certainly won't. This is what I'm telling you. Gavin Newsom's team and social media is run by a bunch of little bitchy theater queens. And as someone who used to be a theater kid, game knows game. But a lot of these little bitchy gays who work on Gavin Newsom staff, they're the ones who are just firing off these little sassy tweets. You don't have to tweet about everything. Gavin Newsom tweets all day and night. Now. I think he's trying to be the New Kamala where they're doing the brat campaign and social media. You don't have to post all day long on social media. You just don't have to Gavin Newsom. You don't have to pick fights. And so J.D. vance responded and he said had a great time. Thanks. So we love JD Vance. Shame on Gavin Newsom for trying to ramp up the vitriol against him. But maybe you should spend more time working for your constituents and less time on Twitter. When elites tell you what's right and who's wrong, it's rarely about truth. 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I believe she missed it one time, maybe when she was pregnant with George and maybe during the pandemic. But Catherine, the Princess of Wales almost always goes to Wimbledon. But she got a beautiful standing ovation. And you guys know me, I'M the type of person who loves the Royal Family. I'm the type of guy who gets up at 2am to watch the weddings, the funerals, the coronations. I am that person who gets up and follows it. But these clips and these pictures of Catherine at Wimbledon just went so viral over the weekend. And I try to understand these things from a cultural perspective, a sociological, neurological perspective, a psychological perspective. And I think what it is, number one, she's come out on the other side of her cancer diagnosis. She seems to be doing well. Of course, she's missed some public engagements and events because she's raising her family, she's taking care of her health, trying to stay healthy. Also doing a lot for the Royal Family, a lot of public engagements already as it is. I believe they do hundreds, if not thousands a year. But Catherine, because she's real royalty, she shows up at Wimbledon and gets a huge standing ovation. And this clip was just going totally viral. And when I thought to myself, what is this about? I think it's about the fact that Harry and Meghan in California have really tried to diminish the royal brand. That's what they tried to do, right? Meghan Markle, I think she compared the Royal family to medieval times. She said it was like medieval times tournament, when she had to curtsy. She didn't want to do any of it. She didn't respect the traditions or the pomp and the circumstance that we love about the Royal family. But Catherine got a standing ovation because she is real royalty, right? She respects the people of the Commonwealth. She takes her role seriously as someone who will be the queen someday. She's married to someone, Prince William, who will be the King of England, right? And they will rule over, I believe, 2 billion people in the Commonwealth. And so to see Catherine get a standing ovation, I really was trying to break down what it meant. And Harry and Meghan, unfortunately, here in the United States, with the mainstream media the way it is and being beloved by the left, they've so diminished or tried to diminish what the brand of the Royal Family is, because Meghan is walking around in these little booty shorts with her bare feet, pushing her jams, jellies and dog biscuits, and she's an utter calamity. So that's Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, he's allegedly on his psychedelics. He doesn't want to work. He doesn't want to do anything. He wants to blame the royals and everybody for his problems, right? He says he can't even go back to the UK because it's so unsafe for him. And then we find out he's out ringing doorbells and walking around random neighborhoods. So that's who Prince Harry is. So Harry and Meghan have tried with their reality shows, their tell all books, their stupid cooking show, they've tried to diminish the brand of the royal family, and they keep trying to dine out on their titles. They keep calling themselves the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, but they've barely been to Sussex. They've barely been back in Sussex. I have spent more time in Sussex than Harry and Meghan. And so when you see real royalty, when you see a real royal show up to an event, looking beautiful, perfect hair, perfect outfit, she respects the people and the people respect her because she shows up for them. When you see that, it reminds you this is who the hell the royal family is. Not the knockoff Duke and Duchess of White Castle and the Duke and Duchess of Soho House. Over in California, the real royalty, William, Charles, Catherine, everyone over in the uk, George, Charlotte, Louis, all the beautiful children, those are the real royals. And so when she shows up, you know, Meghan Markle is over in the mansion in Montecito smashing plates. You know, Meghan Markle is spiraling, calling her publicist, saying, how can we upstage this? What can we do? She's like, how do I get that same out outfit, but slightly different? So Meghan Markle, she keeps trying to hock her kids to promote her stuff. She puts her kids on social media more. She posted that sick, disgusting video from the hospital that makes me want to vomit and throw up in my mouth. And when you see real royalty, they're not twerking, they're not posting cringe videos, they're not doing reality shows. They show up looking gorgeous and get a standing ovation. It really puts those little hucksters in California in their place, Harry and Meghan. So we wish Harry and Meghan well. But Catherine, the Princess of Wales, we are happy. She is healthy and beautiful and stunning and she's raising her kids and she's at Wimbledon. And it was so incredible to see real royalty. And the last update I have to mention is that President Trump, they've confirmed he is doing a state visit to see the King and Queen in the UK September 17th through 19th. So that'll be an incredible diplomatic trip, a state visit to go over there. And I know President Trump also respects the royal family. He really had love, admiration, and respect for the Queen, may she rest in peace, Queen Elizabeth ii. So it'll be Great to see that trip. And of course, we will be following it in great detail. That will be like, I will study that. Like there's a Pruder film. Like, I will be watching that trip and we'll be following it in great detail. But as for you guys, thank you so much for tuning into Spoton. We are on the road today. We made it work with a laptop and a light. The outlets didn't even work on the side of the hotel room. We've got, like, chargers and power banks. We're making it work. I've, like, MacGyvered this episode. Okay. But I have to say, to wrap it up and bring it back to the beginning, I just was so immensely grateful to go back to Texas with President Trump to see this devastation, to see this tragedy, because the scale of the devastation is not something I would have been able to fathom had I not gone back. And I was actually planning to go back. There were gonna be some vigils and some church services and things going on in my community that I wanted to be there for. And so to get to go back with the president was something that was so meaningful, and I really do feel aligned in a way, and I'm just so grateful, and I don't take it for granted. But we will be back on Wednesday. I will tell you more about my trip with President Trump. Going to the FIFA match and him handing out the trophy and staying on stage and how fun that was. And I'd never been to a soccer match or soccer game in my life. And so to get to go with the president was really funny because, you know, I didn't even make the soccer team in high school, so I seem to be having the last laugh. But you guys stay safe. Have an amazing week. We will see you on the next one. Bye. Get first day ready the right way, whether the waterworks are theirs or yours. From home to school and back, stock up with Kleenex Ultra Soft tissues. Because back to school also means back to sniffles and sneezes. Kleenex Ultra Soft tissues are soft and absorbent to stand up against runny noses to keep you and your family clean and comforted as the school year starts this back to school season, be prepared with Kleenex tissues, the classroom essential that teachers and students can rely on for whatever happens next. Grab kleenex. Visit kleenex.com to learn more. When's the last time you changed your air filter? 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