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Buck Brief - An Ugly Obamination of a Presidential Library
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Buck Sexton
Why is the Obama presidential Library and museum. The ugliest building any of us have seen in a very long time. Why does the Obama Presidential Library already look like a cross between the Death Star and a KGB interrogation center from the 1970s? What the heck is going on? And also, why is it so expensive? These are all fair questions. You would think that Obama, because he's supposed to be the most amazing president of all presidents of all time, you might think to yourself, hold on a second. Isn't he supposed to have the best of the best working on this project? Isn't he supposed to have. Well, here is what President Trump has to say about Obama's library. Pictures of the architecture. Yeah, I did.
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Donald Trump
It's not too pretty. No, but it's closed. It stopped. They ran out of money. Means building a library slash museum. You know, you call it some museum, and usually they call both. They call it library and museum. That's the official name. And they're stuck. And he wanted only women in DEI to build it. Well, that's what they got.
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Buck Sexton
Now, of course, there is a lot of pushback on this because people are saying, well, hold on a second. Look what Trump is doing with the White House. We'll get to that. First of all, the Obama Presidential Library, I think, is very fitting because it is both grandiose, wildly overpriced and depressing all at the same time. So in a sense, it's a bit like the Obama presidency. In fact. Yes, that is the Obama presidency. Really full of itself. Way too much money spent, and at the end of the day, we're all left being sad. So maybe I should just think of this as. It's the perfect way. It's the perfect way to depict his presidency. But you would think it would not be so awful. It's going to cost $700 million. $700 million. That's. Oh, I'm sorry. $850 million total cost. $850 million. Construction alone, $700 million. Initially, it was supposed to be $300 million. This is perfect. It's like the Cylindra. Remember that? It's like the Cylindra of presidential libraries. Just a very big, expensive disaster with a terrible final product. And what are they even. What are they even saying about this? I'm wondering. Here we go. The Barack Obama Presidential Center. This is on Wikipedia, so, you know, communist propaganda. It's in Chicago. Commemorates Barack Obama, yada yada. Center includes the Presidential Library, National Archives and Records Administration. The Obama board includes all these different people. Okay, Director of the museum, who is the. I'M trying to find planning design, University of Chicago proposal Barack Obama Foundation Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced foundation, blah, blah. I'm going through this design committee. Members of the committee included Don Gummer, the husband of actress Meryl Streep Ed Schlossberg, husband of Caroline Kennedy, Chicago radio station owner and Democrat financier, Architectural Digest magazine editor. And yeah, it's horrible. Bottom line, it's the ugliest thing I've ever seen that's supposed to be beautiful and timeless. So for a building at least, I mean, this thing makes the J. Edgar Hoover Building in D.C. look inspirational. Makes it look like a Gothic cathedral in like central France or in like Toulouse or Provence or something. So, yeah, I guess this is what we should expect. Obama a lot of, a lot of people talking about how great everything is and then the actual product, the end result is very lackluster. And Trump knows that this is the case. It also is just trying too hard. Think about this, like, why can't you make a building that people would look at and say, oh wow, that's really, really beautiful or even just really innovative or interesting. Instead they try to just do something that's so different that it just looks really ugly. And I think that it's important to have some kind of aesthetics that we appeal to, aspire to in society. It's not, it's not a total, a total nothing. Right? It's actually meaningful. I believe it's meaningful that we have buildings that are beautiful. Look, Trump agrees with me. So there's that. Our sponsor here is Birch Gold. If you've paid attention to the increasing values of precious metals, gold and silver in particular, you're thinking now is the right time to purchase gold. Smart thinking. Birch Gold Group makes you this offer. Buy gold from this month and get free silver for every $5,000 purchased from Birch Gold Group. In advance of Veterans Day. They will send you a free patriotic silver round that includes the American and Gadsden flags on it. Look, gold is going up 60% up year to date as of this past Friday. Birch Gold can help you own gold by converting an existing IRA or 401k into a tax sheltered IRA in physical gold. Plus they'll send you free silver honoring our veterans on qualifying purchases. And if you're current or former military, Birchgold has a special offer just for you. They're waiving custodial fees for the first year on investments of any amount. A plus rating with a better Business Bureau. Tens of thousands of happy customers. Text my name Buck to 9898 98. Get your free info kit on gold and to claim your free eligibility with qualifying purchase before the end of the month. Again, text my Name Buck to 98. 98. 98 today. All right, now let's talk about the Trump Renault Project. Oh, my gosh. Trump is trying to make White House Ballroom's great again. You know, what is the big deal? Why do they have to freak out so much about everything? That's a very good question, isn't it? Like, why can't they just because they hate Trump so much. That's really it. There's nothing beyond in many of these cases. Nothing beyond, some people are saying nothing beyond the fact that they hate Trump so they have to oppose Trump. And even if that makes them look silly, even if that makes them look foolish, they don't care. But look, the White House Ballroom edition. I've seen what it looks like or what it's going to look like. I think it's gonna be quite nice.
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Donald Trump
An interior shot of the ballroom. I think there'll be nothing like it. And it's being paid for 100% by me and some friends of mine, donors to it. The government is paying absolutely nothing. We're also working with the military on it because they want to make sure everything is perfect and the military is very much involved in this. They want to make sure everything is absolutely beautiful. You can see the kind of interiors that we're talking about. That's an interior of the ballroom and it's the highest level. And you see it goes beautifully with the White House. I mean, the mix is beautiful.
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Buck Sexton
It's going to be quite nice. But the reporters are all over Trump and eventually what you see is Trump has just had enough of this crap. You know, he's just sick of it. The ballroom is going to be really cool. I think it'll be a great think about it. The White House will have, for high level events, a true event space makes a lot of sense, doesn't it? And they'll be able to control security and everything for that space. So it's. I think it's a very good idea. Trump has been talking about it for a long time. And also we can get into some of this. And I will get into this. There have been plenty of adjustments made to White House's past, major adjustments, in fact, over the course of time. So this isn't some entirely new thing. And the White House, of course, is going to evolve. It certainly evolved after 1812 when the British came along. We're very mean to our White House. We had to make a new one. We haven't forgotten about that Britain. You know, we told King George to stuff it and then the British showed up and were bitter and they burned down our White House. It was not nice. Not nice. Some people are saying not nice. But yeah, I think that the Trump addition is going to be great. And it's also something that, yeah, we know future. It's privately funded, as we. He's already talked to this many times. But we know that future White Houses will, all Democrat administrations will be able to use this as well. This is clearly not just for Trump's use. I think that part of their hysteria around this relates to the fact that they have truly convinced themselves that Trump, with their no kings protest, Trump is trying to be in charge. He's trying to be the big boss forever. That's not true. Look, Trump is going to be 80 years old soon. Trump is in his second term. He's going to want to play golf and spend time with his grandchildren starting in 2028 or 2029 rather. So that's where this is all heading. And they just need to calm down. But they can't calm down. I think part of it is also that if they were to calm down, if the anti Trump libs were to calm down, they might have to reckon with the fact that this is a very successful Trump administration, that he's doing a great job, that the country's doing really well, far better than it was under Biden. And all of their rage and fear and anger about Trump and Trumpism is misplaced. I'm really delusional. It's more than misplaced. It's like they're in some other alternate reality. But let's talk a little bit here about White House renovation. I think a little interesting history, deep dive we can do. White House renovations passed. I did some research into this, so I will tell you about it. But our sponsor here is Preborn. Preborn is saving the lives of tiny babies day in and day out. And what they do is they bring pregnant women into their clinics, they invite them into their clinics, and they give them a free ultrasound. 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Well, hold on a second. Let's take a look at what's gone on in the past. Teddy Roosevelt built the West Wing. Yes, indeed, Teddy Roosevelt. In 1902, he commissioned architect Charles McKim to renovate the White House, replace Victorian era conservatories with the West Wing to separate family and staff areas. The cost was $65,000, which is about $2.5 million when adjusted for inflation. So that's one, that's one big thing. Teddy Roosevelt built the West Wing. Look at that. Spent a couple million bucks. Taft. Well, Taft expanded the west wing in 1909, and this included the creation of the first Oval Office. The current Oval Office location and design though were established under Franklin Roosevelt in 1934. So there's a little bit of two things coming together there. Then we have in 1902, Theodore Roosevelt began, like I said, East Wing construction, East Terrace. But it was expanded a lot in 1942 under Franklin D. Roosevelt to house wartime officers and conceal an underground bunker. So there you go, wartime thing. And the indoor pool was added by FDR in 1933, funded by private donations for his polio therapy. But it was a separate project from the East Wing expansion. So there's that. And then President Harry Truman from 1948 to 1952 saw a major renovation. People are saying that this was a gut of the White House. This was true. Actually, he did do this. $5.7 million, $60 million today spent by Congress because the building had become unsafe. So a major, major reno necessary. But $60 million of your tax dollars not privately funded. In 1969, President Richard Nixon had a one lane bowling alley installed. Private donations funded that which replaced a two lane alley that was put in the Truman era. Then everyone's talking about the Obama, the Obama basketball court. That's a little bit of a. They just added lines on the tennis court and a hoop. So it wasn't really. There was already a tennis court there. So it wasn't really a, you know, like a full basketball court edition. But I do remember reading some, I think it was a Vanity Fair piece and was trying to make Obama seem like he was so good at basketball. It's pretty, pretty funny how competitive it was with everybody who would show up. Like, I don't think anyone's going to try to dunk on the president, you know, dunk on the president's head. But stuff like that would happen. And now Trump is building this ballroom. There are these claims about Obama spending, Obama having a project that was like $300 million or something of the White House. Apparently CNN reported on that. I've seen that report. But then I tried to look for an actual record of it, tried to fact check it, and there doesn't seem to be a record of that spending. There was some Obama expenditures for the White House, you know, I think it was like $12 million a year to run it, but nothing in the $300 million range for the White House renovation under Obama. At least that I could find it. By the way, if I'm wrong, send me the, send me the data on, on how that is incorrect because I definitely want to know. But yeah, so there you go. A history of White House renovation. And like I said, the, in a sense, the biggest renovation was free from the British burning down the People's House. It was very mean of them. We did not appreciate that. Great Britain. All right, so I've been doing something really exciting and it's an E. Newsletter, it's a subscription that I really hope you'll check out. I hope you'll join, become a subscriber because I'm doing so much research. This really was the genesis of the Taiwan trip in many respects because I wanted to do field research on the most important issues affecting national security, politics and the markets. And I've teamed up with fantastic stock and market analysts. So I bring some of the political expertise, they bring stock market expertise. 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