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Here's What REALLY Happened During This Weekend's Chaos | Episode 151
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Leftists say the quiet parts out loud; Trump breaks ground on the "big beautiful ballroom"; and new deportation numbers stun.
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Everybody, welcome to Vince on a Tuesday. It is great to have you with us today. We got a big show ahead for you. Miranda Devine stops by the program. Love, Miranda. We've got a lot to discuss. The left, well, they're in their constant state of freakout. And that week, this includes President Trump building a grand, new, beautiful ballroom for the American people at the White House. He's building something so the left hates it. I've got all the details on that and so much more all ahead on this edition of. Vince, great to have you with us. The best audience anywhere. Thank you for that. I gotta tell you about our sponsor, Patriot Mobile. They're the best. They're really great. Every so often something does happen that will remind me and remind you just how fragile our freedoms actually are. You can't afford to take your rights for granted. We've gotta draw a line in the sand. And our friends at Patriot Mobile, they've been doing that for more than 12 years now. The truth is simple. 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I'm watching Democrats responding to the fact that over at the White House right now, the east wing of the White House has the facade being demolitioned, demoed because they're clearing enough space to connect a brand new building. They're building a massive new ballroom at the White House that is going to be 90,000 square feet. It's a quarter billion dollar project. This is a massive, massive thing that it's going to involve a lot of workers, a lot of American workers who are going to be well paid to do this job and are going to build a great new ballroom at the People's White House. It's wonderful stuff. And so normal people look at this and they go, hey, finally something's happening. We're building in this country again. We're building at the seat of power at the White and it's being generously given as a present to the United States by President Trump and a number of other benefactors who he's called around and he said, hey, look, rich people, let's raise some money. Let's do this. Let's gift this to the United States. And now this project is underway. And what you're. So what's happened is for those of you watching on rumble.com, vince, you can see the imagery we were just showing you, but also all across the Internet, libs are pissed off. They're furious about this. Now, I don't even know what you could be angry about, but here's one representative example here is this guy's called Rick Wilson. He's a Democrat with something called the Lincoln Project, where they appropriate Lincoln's legacy and pretend that it belongs to the Democrats. Look at this. Rick Wilson puts the picture up of the demo of the eastern facade of the East Wing of the White House and he writes, I hate him with the fire of a billion's sons. Yes, you heard me correctly. A billion's sons. He's so angry, he can't even get the typos out of his tweet. He's furious. I hate him with the fire of a billion sons. Why? Why do you hate him so much? You're enraged that he's adding a ballroom to the White House. That gets your goat. That's the thing that's ticking you off. And Rick Wilson wasn't alone. There's a bunch of these Democrats. There's like, you know, random United States senators who are rage tweeting last night that President Trump is improving the White House. Here's Democrat Senator Tina Smith. Seeing the White House torn apart is really emblematic of the times we're in, she says, as if the President is seeking to destroy the White House. No, far from it. He's seeking to dramatically improve it right now. In fact, the thing that they're building is the very best of American design. They're going with a very classic American architecture that's going to fit really well. Classical architecture that's going to fit really well with the rest of the White House. This is going to be a massive facility. And listen to the President first. I'll show you some images here for those of you watching on video. But listen to the president first describe why they're building this new glorious ballroom at the White House. Listen, we're building. Right behind us, we're building a ballroom. They've wanted a ballroom for 150 years. And I'm giving that honor to this wonderful place. I think we should do it. This was the ballroom, and this room holds 88 people. And the new one will hold 999 people, which is a difference. I say 999 because I didn't want to crack a thousand. I didn't want people to get concerned because that's getting big. But we're gonna have. We'll have the most beautiful ballroom in the country. We're gonna have the most beautiful ballroom in the whole country. And it is gonna be beautiful. You should see the renderings of this. Rumble.com Vin as you can see on the video. But this is. It's a gorgeous ballroom. The renderings are beautiful on the inside. There are gonna be massive archway windows, just glorious columns all throughout this thing. The ceilings are going to be beautiful. You'll have golden chandeliers coming down. Massive. Audiences will be able to enjoy the splendor of the White House. The ballroom is going to spill out into the South Lawn a bit. So as you look out of these windows, you're going to see the majesty of the South Lawn and Washington D.C. you'll be able to see the Washington Monument just outside of the window. It's gonna be a glorious thing. It's gonna be a wonderful gift to the American people. And it's not gonna be some sort of eyesore. It's gonna fit in. It's gonna blend in really well with the architecture of the White House. And in fact, it's been designed by an architecture group called McCreary Architects. And I didn't realize this, and I was getting kind of gathering all of the string on this story because I am kind of obsessed with it. I love it. And I said, McCreery Architects. McCreary Architects. Why do I know that name? It's because through the years, I've become acquaintances with friends with this gentleman. His name's James McCreary. He is the architect who's behind this project. He's previously worked for the President of the United States in the last administration. And the president has hired him to be the head architect to run this beautiful project. He's got a lot of experience in this kind of classical architecture. He's done a lot of churches throughout his career. He's done Beautiful designs. And now he's being called upon to build something for the American people. How many Americans are gonna be employed by this? This is a great thing, a massive new project, and again, privately funded. Now the raging about it is incomprehensible. It's insane. So as you encounter this in your life, I want you to walk away with a couple of really important details about American history. And some of these you may already know. Forgive me if you do, but I just want to share some of the basics with you about the way this works. And the White House shared this too. First and foremost, there's a lot of fake outrage, the White House said over the construction of this big, beautiful and privately funded White House ballroom. Here's a fact for you. Presidents have been renovating and expanding the White House for more than a century, more than 100 years, in fact. The entire history of the White House includes building and rebuilding and reconstructing and renovating. In 1902, Teddy Roosevelt built the West Wing of the White House. For those of you who haven't been to the White House or haven't looked at it closely, yes, there's the central building. It looks that's the White House. But then there's. It branches off into the West Wing. The West Wing is separate from that classic building that we stare at directly. It's off to the side, down a hallway that you can get to it. In 1909, President William Howard Taft added the first Oval Office during the West Wing expansion. In 1933, FDR Franklin Delano Roosevelt added a second floor to the West Wing. In 1934, he relocated the Oval Office to its current spot, completed the East Wing. Excuse me. And then built an indoor swimming pool. In 1948, Harry Truman completely gutted the White House interior. They dug out the entire interior of the White House. There's an image of it here. For those of you who are watching us on the rumble feed, the hole inside was torn down. It looks like some sort of warehouse in the middle of the White House. While they were rebuilding this thing, President Nixon converted FDR's pool into the press briefing room. That's right, the current Brady press briefing room. You know, where the press stands and they shout all sorts of nonsense at Caroline Levitt. They're standing on top of an old covered up pool that is no longer accessible. Now they just keep junk or something down there. In 1973, he added a bowling alley in the basement. In 2009, President Obama upgraded the tennis court into a full basketball court. And now in 2025. President Trump has broken ground on a brand new grand ballroom, modernizing the East Wing while privately funding the project. So this is a feature in American history, and it's often, it's always been at the discretion of the President of the United States to make these sort of additions. And I will say one thing to think about this time is President Trump clearly wants to use his second and final term well. He wants to come in and leave not just his mark, but he wants to leave the place better than he found it. He's put American flags, huge American flags on both sides of the White House. They're undertaking renovations to the Oval Office to make it more beautiful, more impressive when world leaders and other visitors come to see it. They're renovating inside of the White House. They've made renovations to the White House Rose Garden, and they're now they're building a massive new ballroom. This is all being done at President Trump's personal expense alongside other donors who are giving money to support that. Now, that last piece, that donors are helping with this, well, that's been another point of contention that the left has raised. They're buying access to Trump, they're buying access to the government. Let me run you through just a really basic thing about the existence of donors and the use of their money in American history. Here's one recent example. Not too long ago in Washington, D.C. they built something called the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, the MLK memorial, right there along the Potomac river near the National Mall. Among the funders was the Gates Foundation, Bill gates, Coca Cola, FedEx, General Electric, Hyundai, which is, last I checked, I believe, a Korean company, McDonald's, Pepsi Company, Toyota, Japanese company, Walmart. These are the companies that funded the MLK Memorial. Additionally, every single monument on the National Mall was privately funded. The Washington Monument was funded by private donors. Dolley Madison was involved in raising money for that. The Lincoln Memorial, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the Korean war Memorial, the FDR Memorial, the George Mason Memorial, the World War II Memorial, the Dwight Eisenhower Memorial, and yes, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, all funded by private money, all raised from donors. So the ahistoric freakouts that you're hearing from the left right now, oh, Trump is raising money and he's doing this. And this is awful. It's all horseshit. It's all complete nonsense that they're spewing, as usual. But as usual, it's worth knowing the actual history of our country before you dive in to try and talk about it. President Trump is not only doing something that fits the traditions of our country. He's making our country better. And this is where I want to dwell on something that is really inspiring me about Donald Trump and the people who voted for him. You and is bumming me out about the people who hate him because they live in our country, too, and they're rooting against this. And here's what I mean. The left has cornered the market on destruction. Their whole mission is tearing things down. The underlying worldview of the left is that it's America who is populated with the bad guys, that we're the villains of the story of history, that there's something wrong with the United States of America, that it's a country that's undeserving of good things, that our borders should be wide open, that anyone is entitled to live here. And simultaneously, Americans who were born here are not entitled to live here. That you somehow live on, quote, stolen land, that there's something evil about your presence here. Now, that's all very destructive, cancerous, and a total lie. It rejects the great American story, and it does it willfully and purposefully. It is a Marxist creation meant to diminish your pride in your country and your desire to see it keep getting better. President Trump is building something wonderful. He should be celebrated for it. And by the way, at the end of this, I do think that the ballroom should bear his name. It should be called the Trump Ballroom. He's putting a lot of money and effort into this, and it would be great that the White House has such a colossal legacy to such a great president. I think that'd be wonderful. But we'll see what they do. Name the ballroom in the end. Maybe the Charlie Kirk Ballroom. If you. If the President's in a mood to celebrate Charlie and troll the left even more. But whatever he calls it, in the end, it will be a great testament to our country. It'll uplift the human spirit. It's gonna be a beautiful representation of what you and I love about our country. Architecture has that ability. Meanwhile, what does the left build? Well, very little. The left is very interested in destruction. They pull things down. They tear down statues, anything that represents American history that'll give you a frame of reference. They often tear down statues, especially from the Civil War, where Democrats were the villain of that story. And they will try and erase the existence of their role in the Civil War against our own people. It's pretty disgusting stuff. Simultaneously, they've torn down statues of people like Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. They attempted to tear down a statue in Washington D.C. of a formerly enslaved human being rising from his bondage. That statue was dedicated, by the way, with Frederick Douglass in attendance in Washington, D.C. and the left wants to tear it down. They want to tear it down. They want to destroy. They don't build, they destroy. And that's why we're so different. And to the extent that they do build, what have they built recently? Well, check out what Obama's been building in Chicago right now. The Obama library is going up, and it's a disgrace. Look at this thing. Put this up on screen. This thing looks like something that George Lucas would have devised for the Empire in Star Wars. In other words, the evil, oppressive, tyrannical force that is sapping you of your freedom, that is hanging over you. And a building like this. And for those of you who can't see it, it's just gray stone. It's like a Lego piece jammed into the ground. It looks like. People keep saying it looks like some sort of trash can. It's not designed to uplift the human spirit. It's meant to diminish you, and it's meant to SAP you of the human spirit. You don't look at that and go, man, I really love my country. You look at it and you go, what alien ship landed on my planet? I feel no connection to this. Who would feel a connection to that? Nobody would. It's meant to be a rejection of the United States, and Obama is doing it as his library. As his library, which, by the way, I don't think is going to have any books in it. It's kind of weird to have a presidential library. I don't think they'll have any books in it of any kind. It's just some sort of monument to Obama that's meant to send the message that he's more important than you are. Meanwhile, the President's building something awesome on behalf of the American people, and he's doing it at his own expense. This president is. And it's a beautiful building, and it uplifts the human spirit. And it will be a great, great place for people all around the world to arrive and enjoy just how impressive this country is. This is a very big. This is a tale of two very big differences in our country. And I've been obsessing over it, which is why I wanna tell you about it today. All right, I got a lot more ahead for you. A lot more ahead on the program. You know that government shutdown is continuing, and there's a really clear reason for it. It's becoming clearer by the day. 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And as you know, this is really the Democrats are holding the government hostage in order to benefit themselves or what they think will be of some benefit to themselves. And here's what the Hill is reporting overnight. You ready for this? Democrat senators fear getting hammered after no kings, the stupid protests that they had on Saturday for ending the shutdown. They fear getting hammered. Hammered by whom? Democrats who are skeptical about their leadership's hardline stance against reopening the government are privately acknowledging they fear getting hammered by their liberal base if they vote for a Republican funding bill. In other words, they're scared of the lefties, the weak and vicious minds who they've inflamed. They're scared of them. And honestly, based on the violence of the left, they have every right to be scared of them, but they're intimidated by their own base. And they fear that if they vote to let the troops get paid again, which is obviously on the line, that somehow their base is going to hold it against them. The base is gonna be furious. Oh, so the government stays shut down because the left is insane. Grassroots Democrats, frustrated with the Trump administration, have been demanding a fight. And on Saturday, millions showed up at no Kings demonstrations. Yeah. And they had no idea what they were even protesting. As we discussed in some detail yesterday, Democrats know that they will be hit hard by a number of voices on the left if they do not get something from for opening the government. If they don't get something for opening the government. What do you mean something? What about the troops getting paid? So these guys, they said, these Democrats senators are saying that the centrists are fearful of breaking with the leaders of the party while party activists are planning the anti Trump rallies. Quote, we would have enough votes to reopen the government if people were not terrified of getting the guillotine. This person said, yeah, they're scared that the base is going to give them the guillotine. Yeah. Again, their base is violent. These are not mere metaphors. I wouldn't be shocked to see the lefties wielding a guillotine at this rate. Additionally here they say that some members are fleecing their base. So for instance, in Georgia, Jon Ossoff is raising money right now off of the government shutdown. Democrat strategists say the main driver of the political fear within the caucus is online fundraising, which is largely driven by social media. Sources familiar with the political motivations driving the Senate Democrats shutdown stance point to Senator Jon Ossoff, who is the most vulnerable Senate Democrat up for reelection in 2026. One Democrat insider argued that Ossoff, who represents a swing state that voted for Trump in 2024, needs to raise money from the liberal base to win. His calculus is, do I vote to open the government up and get crushed and can't raise a single dollar of low dollar money, or do I vote to shut the government down and get $3 million dollars from online fundraising? Ossoff has voted every single day of this shutdown to keep the government closed. So understand the math here, guys. What's happening? Jon Ossoff and every other Democrat senator who's like him are more interested in Getting their paycheck cuz they're not giving up their pay and filling their campaign coffers with the sheep of low dollar voters on the left. They're trying to fleece these idiots into donating their last dollars to Jon Ossoff as a way. And they're doing it. They're keeping the government shut down. So Ossoff's campaign gets enriched off of Democrats that they're fleecing and then the troops don't get paid. You've got corporals who have families who are trying to feed them who are not being paid. But Jon Ossoff gets millions of dollars in fundraising money. You got that? You understand what's happening here? That's what's happening here. So the shutdown continues, which is crazy. Now President Trump, for his part, his support's only going up during this shutdown. Have you seen this? Yeah, because the American people are nowhere near as insane as the Democrats who are funding Jon Ossoff's campaign. No, broadly the American people are very happy with President Trump and they know who to blame for the shutdown. Here's CNN's numbers enthusiast, Harry Entin. Cut eight. Marveling at how well Trump is doing in this fight. Shutdowns are different the second time around when it comes to Donald Trump. Take a look here. You know, we speak about Donald Trump shutdowns net approval rate and we're talking 20 days into it, in 2018, 2019, Donald Trump's net approval rating was already falling. The shutdown was eating in and it was popular sport. It was down three points already at this particular point and would fall considerably more. It was very much on the decline. You come over to this side of the screen. This shutdown hasn't eaten into Donald Trump's support at all. His net approval rating is actually up a point in terms of his popular support. So the bottom line is this, the first shutdown during Trump's first term, 2018, 2019 was, was hurting Donald Trump. This one is not hurting him at all. There's no real reason. Donald Trump might say, at least when it comes to popular support, I want to get out of this shutdown. I'm sorry for those of you who listen to me on the radio show too, I can't get enough of Harry Anton segments. He's like an old timey horse race announcer. And there they go around the corner. You can see President Trump is out ahead of the Democrats. He's ahead by 15 lines right now. And at some point maybe the Democrats can catch up. Oh no. The President is gaining. He's, he's getting even further away. Harry Anton is so excited by little movements and numbers. He'll point to one side. Look over here on this screen. You see this number's low. If you look over here on this screen, that number's high. If you go from low to high, it's a massive change. Thank you, Harry. We know you're very excited about these numbers. You are very excited. And that is not, and I tell you who's not excited, CNN viewers. They are not thrilled that President Trump is now coming out ahead in the government shutdown fight. And I'm trying to think who was reminding me of this. Perhaps my friend Larry o'. Connor. I think I was listening to his radio program when he talked about this. But you remember back during the government shutdown when Obama was in office, the one where he roped off the World War II memorial so that veterans couldn't get access to it when Obama was in office, cnn, in an attempt to stick Republicans with the blame, they had a government shutdown counter on the bottom of the screen to tell you what day of the shutdown they were in. And the goal was at the time was like Obama could use the bully pulpit. He could blame Republicans for the shutdown. CNN was all in on Obama's strategy. They put a shutdown counter on the screen. But where's the counter now? Oh, there is no counter. They're not putting a counter up anymore. Why? Because Democrats are owning the burden for the shutdown. Trump's coming out ahead. And if CNN were to remind people about the stakes of this thing and what's actually going on, more people would just support Trump at the end of it. So no counter. In case you're wondering how Orwellian that network continues to be, that's a good example. That's a great example. Amazing. Okay. Coming up, the wonderful Miranda Devine from the New York Post. We will chat with her. There's a lot to get to. And maybe I can also get to the left is still raging about Trump dropping poop on their heads in a meme video. These people are as emotionally incontinent as the incontinence of those memes. More ahead here on this edition of events. Hey, you can buy gold. Did you know that? And you can buy gold. And you could get free silver. That's right. For every $5,000 purchased from Birch Gold Group this month in advance of Veterans Day, they're going to send you a free patriotic silver round that commemorates the Gadsden and American flags. Look Gold is up a ton. It's up over 40% since the beginning of the year and Birch Gold can help you own it by converting an existing IRA or a 401k into a tax sheltered IRA in physical gold. 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That's shop b e a m.comvinShow Use the code VINSHOW for up to 40% off. Thank you to Beam's Dream Powder. So good. Also so good. My next guest Miranda Devine joins us now. She's available on XIRAndAdevine. She's a columnist for the New York Post. She's got a great podcast, it's called Podforce One and she joins us right now. Hello, Miranda, great to have you with us as always.
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Hi, Vince. Great to be with you.
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How's the podcast going, by the way? You have like the biggest guests on the planet. How did you achieve that?
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Yeah, it's doing very well. Look, we have had President Trump on a couple of times and Suzy Wiles and Scott Besant and Howard Lutnick and lots of other people in the administration like Tulsi Gabbard and so on. It's hard to get them because they're incredibly busy people. But, you know, we manage every now and then and they always rate very well.
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How measurably different do you think this crew is from the first Trump administration? Because it does feel like the President is surrounded. They don't. They all come with different perspectives. Like RFK Jr clearly doesn't have the same thought process as everyone else and neither does Tulsi Gabbard. But they very much do feel like they're much more of a part of a coherent mission now in Trump too.
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Yeah, that's a really good way of putting it actually, Vince. They are all rowing in the same direction. And Donald Trump himself is different. You know, he's much more sure footed and confident and he's very ebullient. Susie Wiles, when I interviewed her, his chief of staff ran his very successful campaign. She said to me that she ensures that he doesn't get upset and annoyed because she anticipates. Anything that she anticipates is going to annoy him. She neutralizes before it gets to him. She solves the problems before they blow up and become something that irritates him.
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That's a sign of a good chief of staff. You're supposed to do that. You're supposed to handle every problem problem you can before it gets to the main guy.
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Exactly. And Donald Trump did not have that in his first term. He had people who were actively working against him, who didn't trust him, who were sabotaging him, who boasted afterwards that they removed papers from his desk because they didn't want him to act in a certain way. Susie Wiles, just trust Donald Trump. He's the guy that was elected in a thumping majority on in every metric by the American people. And therefore he's doing the and so she's not arrogant enough to interfere with that.
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So one thing about Susie Wiles that I didn't know for like a long time. And I was shocked that I had no idea. She's Pat Summerall's daughter. So Pat Summerall, for those who remember, like, you know, was play by play alongside John Madden for years and he's got a great voice. She grew up in that world with Pat Summerall. I mean, did you guys talk about that by any chance?
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Yes, we did, very much. Look, she adored her father and in a lot of way was a similar sort of larger than life, powerful personality, similar to Donald Trump. So she understands, you know, how you deal with those very talented, unique people. And I think that she, you know, her father was troublesome because he had fell into alcoholism later in life. But as she said, what great strength of character, someone who was an alcoholic and who overcame it and never had a drink after that. So she admires and is proud of her father for overcome that challenge. And Donald Trump has said often that he's never touched any alcohol or drugs because he saw what it did to his older brother who said to him, never, ever take a drop of alcohol. And he never has. And he has joked himself, imagine me if I drank, you know, he would not be able to do the kind of work that he's doing now. I mean, he sleeps three, four hours a night. He just, you know, he's putting his, as he said, he works his aws and he does. I don't think anyone could ever work harder than he does. And if he drank or took drugs, that would SAP some of his energy. So I think she admires that too, admires that sort of restraint that he has and admires his work ethic.
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Well, I'm impressed, I am very impressed by how much the President is able to get done and has been able to get done this term. I mean, he sealed up the border right away. The White House just put out numbers that well over half a million people have already been deported from the United States this year. They think they'll be well over 600,000 by the end of the year. That's good. That's exactly what people voted for. He's negotiating world peace and all of these various fronts. It does seem like he has a determination and a focus that's even more refined. In term two, he's looking at the clock and going, I've only got a little bit of time to do this. I need to do it as quickly as possible.
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Yeah, I mean, he learned a lot of lessons from that first term and then the four years interim where he had to Watch as Joe Biden unwound every one of his achievements, opened the border, left, you know, billions of dollars worth of military equipment in Afghanistan, that botched withdrawal, the 13 service members killed, all of it. You know, it must have been immensely frustrating, especially when he believed he'd won the election and that it was Democrat dirty trick that had kept him out of the Oval Office. But in a way, I mean, it was terrible that the countries had to go through that. And I guess we wish that that wouldn't have happened at all. But he's a better president, I think, for having sat on the sidelines and suffered through the lawfare that came at him with all the, you know, the dozens of indictments from, you know, whether it be New York, Jack Smith in dc, Georgia, they were all coming for him. And the Democrats really thought that, like Gulliver, they had him strapped down, tied down, that he was never going to be able to even run. They tried to throw him off the ballot and he won. Against all those odds, the mug shot, all that did was raise his voter approval. People saw what was happening. Americans saw the injustice and the dishonesty and the fraud coming from the Biden administration and they saw Joe Biden for who he was, corrupt, with a history of dishonesty and deception and, you know, coming to the end of his term cognitively completely kaput.
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And now, despite all of those efforts to prevent the voters from getting President Trump back in office and failing, and maybe because of that, it seems like what we're witnessing now is this immense impotent rage from the left. Like they don't even know what to do. They just have these so called no kings protests on Saturday. And Miranda, I spent yesterday playing clip after clip of microphones being put in the faces of these people saying, what brings you out here? They don't even have an answer. They just hate Trump and they have no actual answers as to what they're protesting.
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Yeah, that was a great idea to do that because I was also struck by how clueless these protesters were and also how old they were. You know, these are obviously, they look like retirees. Someone described them as Q tips. They all have white hair. They're not your sort of average protester. They're very comfortable. They look like retired public servants, retired teachers, very left, very selfish and incoherent. You know, lazy. I guess they, even in their activism, they can't be bothered figuring out what they're for or what they're against other than the lazy old thing that they've been doing for the past, what, eight years, 12 years anti Donald Trump. And, you know, anybody who, with an ounce of fairness, who looks at what he has achieved so far this term, has to admit that it's been good for the country.
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So why are they so mad about him building a ballroom for the White House? So he's. The big thing in the last 24 hours is they've started some demolition on the eastern side of the White House because anyone who's ever done a renovation project knows that you've gotta destroy, like, a wall or two if you're gonna add an addition to the place. So they're doing that right now. The left is raging about it. They hate this, by the way. There's no taxpayer money going to it. It's all privately funded, which is a great American tradition that's typical in our country, that benefactors will support massive projects for the benefit of the American people. Why are they enraged about this one?
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They're just enraged because it's an excuse to go after Trump and because it's become a sort of a snobby class thing on the left that you say, oh, Donald Trump's a vulgarian, and he likes a lot of bling in the Oval Office and his Trump Towers, you know, full of gold, and they find that tacky. And frankly, I find what he's done with the Oval Office to be beautiful. And he does care about aesthetics, and he has arranged, and he keeps on rearranging all the portraits and with a mind to history. It's great. I think he. He. He loves the White House. He cherishes it, and he wants to make it better. And no one can argue that it doesn't need a ballroom. As he said, during the Obama administration and the Biden administration, too, I presume, they had to have foreign dignitaries have these state dinners on, you know, like, under rented marquees, plastic tents, basically. So that's not in keeping with.
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People don't realize how small the White House is. The White House is suffocatingly small. And in fact, most of the people who work at the White House don't even work in the White House. They have to work at a separate office building across from it because there's just no space for anybody, and that includes for events. So the president is addressing something that presidents, Every president has had problems with. They're like, I don't know how I could host an event, an adequate event here. The president's solving it, and the left is raging about it.
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Yeah. And, I mean, it's not costing the taxpayer A penny. He had a fundraiser the other night, and people put in enough money for that and some, you know, some extra that'll probably go to the Arc de Trump, which is another thing that they're losing their minds over the left. I think it's fabulous. And, and, you know, the East Wing was a late addition. It isn't part of the original historic White House, and it never really fit. It never really looked that beautiful. It obviously was a tack on. And so he's going to make it 10 times better, so much bigger. They're also taking the opportunity to put stuff in the basement that they've been wanting to do for a long time. It's really going to modernize the White House. And, you know, I mean, a dozen presidents have modernized from Jefferson on Taft. Taft changed the Oval Office, put a. Made it oval. They, they've all gone in and they've changed things. The British burned down most of the White House at one point. It got rebuilt. So this ridiculous carry on about, oh, you know, it's historic and it was built by slaves and it was built in 1700, blah, blah, you know, that's not historically accurate, for one thing. And for another, you can't just freeze in place. That's not really what a museum does. And the White House is a museum. What Donald Trump is doing is taking a bit of extra land. He's building where the East Wing is, and he's making it better, and he's giving the people and the next presidents a ballroom that they can be proud of, and that is big enough to accommodate people without sticking them in a tent outside in the swamp. I mean, Washington is a swamp for half the year. It is disgustingly sweaty and swampy. And so no offense to your DC listeners, but it really is not a great place. You don't really want to be in a tent.
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Well, that's the reason. That's the reason the whole August recess came to be. People went home because they couldn't stay in the swamp until the air conditioning arrived. And it's funny that the left is raging about any modifications to the White House. You talk about the Brits burning down the White House. Antifa tried to lay siege to the White House when Trump was in office the first time. They burned St. John's Church across the street. And now the same people are angry that a ballroom's being built.
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It's such a good point. Absolutely spot on, because, I mean, President Trump and his family had to be whisked to an underground bunker in the middle of the night. Because of those antifa protests. And so many Park Police, Secret Service were really badly injured, had to be hospitalized. And it's just gone into the memory hole. Whereas all we hear about is January 6, January 6, January 6, and lies about it saying, our police died. No, they didn't. The only person that died was Ashley Babbitt. She was killed. She was shot by a cop whose name was kept secret. Completely different attitude to what had been happening to cops throughout the Summer of Love when they were doxxed and destroyed. So, yeah, spare me the left's hypocrisy. They will use anything to go after Trump.
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And if my memory serves that correctly, that Guy's name is Lt. Michael Byrd, and he had previously left a gun lying around in the bathroom in the Capitol. And he was never canned or reprimanded for that. It was also crazy. Let me ask you about the accountability mission now. So in addition to all the other stuff that President Trump is doing, he's got a Justice Department that is prosecuting a number of people right now. Among them, Letitia James, the Attorney General of New York. We're seeing prosecutions of her. We see James Comey. We just got John Bolton in the last week. It seems like all of a sudden, nobody's above the law. Miranda.
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Yeah, isn't that funny? And they don't like it when the shoe's on the other foot at all. I mean, look, it seems to me that there is good evidence to justify these indictments. Let's see where the, you know, how the chips fall. We've got where James Comey in Northern Virginia, very much lefty liberal juries. So let's see how that falls out. And then the same in D.C. i think 94% of D.C. juries voted for, or, you know, the D.C. population voted for, Joe Biden voted for Kamala Harris. So it's a pretty stacked deck. But certainly there is very good grounds to make these allegations. And, you know, for Letitia James, for instance, also Adam Schiff, there is good evidence that Bill Pulte from Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae has uncovered of alleged mortgage fraud. And so they just need to answer those allegations. And so far, they haven't really explained anything to the public. Maybe they'll try and do so in court, but it seems pretty hard to understand why they would have done what they did. And so let's see how the court treats that. But I think the American people deserve to hear out and to see how these allegations play out, because nobody is above the law. And if these people Play, you know, basically decided that they were going to stitch up Donald Trump and make up a whole bunch of crazy allegations against him and try and jail him and bankrupt him and knock him off the ballot. They failed. So let's see when the shoe's on the other foot.
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So one of the defining features of all of these people is exactly what you just laid out, which is that they made deceptive projections about Donald Trump. They were claiming things like Letitia James claimed that he was misvaluing real estate in order to pull one over on a lender. It turns out she's the one who was taking advantage of lenders. If you believe the indictment, James Comey was accusing President Trump of abuses of power. And meanwhile, he was lying to the United States Senate, according to the indictment, about his own leaks to the media, or at least how he was managing leaks to the media. And then John Bolton has spent countless hours on television attacking President Trump as somehow being reckless with classified information. And now he stands credibly accused in this indictment of stealing some of the nation's most important secrets and then handing them off to family members who didn't deserve to look at them. So in each one of these cases, Miranda, it almost seems like they came up with these lies about Trump by reflecting on their own crimes in their personal lives.
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Yes, I think it's a symptom of Trump derangement syndrome to project your own faults onto Donald Trump or onto Donald Trump supporters. And projection is just, I think, something that we see all these people have done. You just mentioned Bolton. I mean, there are so many videos showing him saying that Donald Trump, you know, should go to jail, that he's done really bad things by keeping classified information all the time, knowing that he'd allegedly done the same thing himself, maybe because he was wanting to write a book, maybe because he's just so arrogant that he thinks that he would always get away with it. And that's another feature of Trump derangement. It's this arrogance, this feeling that you are untouchable, that you can say anything and do anything to Donald Trump, and nothing will ever happen to you. And that's why I think these charges are really important. And there will be more to come. You know, apparently John Brennan, James Clapper, the other participants and architects of the Russia hoax, they're also under investigation, and there will be many others, and they need to be used as a deterrent so that this doesn't happen again to a future president. And, you know, even for Democrats, they must understand that this is a very ugly third world cycle, and it needs to be nipped in the bud. And that's what Donald Trump is doing. Doing, because, you know, it starts off with a Republican president, it ends up with a Democratic president, and the loser is the American people. So Democrats should just take their medicine and shut up and understand that Donald Trump is cauterizing this terrible wound in American's democracy. And he's doing it by bringing a number of these people to account. Obviously not all of them, because there were so many. I don't think Hillary Clinton or even Barack Obama are going to get their just desserts. I might be wrong. Maybe they will be able to go that far, but certainly their underlings, their lieutenants, are going to feel some heat.
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Yeah. And maybe there's a scenario where President Trump might even feel some sense of, maybe we don't indict Obama because I'm trying to hold this country together. But people do need to be held accountable. And who knows? It's up to the president here. He's the guy who's in the seat now, has to make all the big decisions on that subject. In the end, despite what the left says, oh, the Justice Department doesn't work for him. Yes, they do. They do work for him. Miranda Devine, it is always such a pleasure to talk to you. You know what I love about our conversations? In addition to you being just wonderful, I love that I'm now in the company of people like Donald Trump and Susie Wiles. I got to talk to Miranda Devine. Thank you very much. It's nice to talk to you today.
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Thanks, Sabine.
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There's the great Miranda Devine. Her podcast, Pod Force One, and you can find her at the New York Post. She's. She's great. Okay. Yeah, it's just wild. It's wild. Yeah, we'll see. You know, man, can you imagine if they indict Obama? Boy, we're off to the races at that point. Holy cow. But remember Trump, and maybe he's maybe learned the lessons from his first term. Remember he went easy. He said on Hillary, he's like, you know what? I know all those people were saying, lock her up, but I just thought it's just not good for the country. I can't. Can't do that. We got to hold back on that. And I think his mind has been changed. When he gets shot in the head, I think that has a. That's a mind altering experience. I would say you might take a different position when you return to the White House. So we'll see what he Does. Okay, let's get into some other things. Trump has a tremendous ability to drive the left crazy. You saw that video that Trump posted depicting himself as a fighter jet pilot set to the music Danger Zone and was dropping poop. He was dropping. Somebody told me to say feces. That's the way you should say it. Feces upon no Kings protesters, including a little fella called Harry Sisson. Harry Sisson is really enjoying the attention that artificial poop has given him this week. So here he is commiserating about this with Don Lamon. Take a look. Cut to. I think this is actually bigger than me. You know, I know that this video was attacking me, but there were also millions of Americans that were also displayed in that video, also getting attacked by the President of the United States. So he's attacking me in a petty, gross, disgusting way. But I think the more concerning story here is that, you know, I think this is his genuine feelings toward peaceful protests, that if he could, he would attack in some way, shape or form the people who dissent. So I don't think that this is actually. It's just about me or like the gross attack. I think this is a broader, more concerning story surrounding the Trump admin. So funny. This is not about me. I'm taking the poop so the rest of you don't have to. This is a noble story now about how Harry Sisson has endured this kind of atrocity. It's hilarious. He's like, oh, that's because Trump really wants to attack people. Really? Cuz the left is actually attacking people. The left keeps shooting American citizens, Ice agents, presidents, Charlie Kirk. The left is attacking people. And then Harry Sisson is running his stupid suck about how Trump wants to attack us. Trump wants to attack you. Trump thinks you're a joke, which is why he's posting meme videos of himself dropping poop on you. A Trump dump, as somebody just said in the chat. A Trump dump on top of goofballs like Harry Sisson. That's right. That's right. You understand Don Lamond. You can tell Don's nodding along as I explain all of this. Even Don Lamond can understand what's going on here. It's not stopping other Democrats from raging about this, though. Hakeem Jeffries, you know him by the way. So funny. The left is trying to get rid of Hakeem Jeffries. They think he sucks as a leader, which I guess I share that view. I agree with them, which is really funny. Maybe we should do a show helping them pick a new Democrat leader. But in the meantime, Hakeem Jeffries is raging over Donald Trump's poop video, which, of course, kind of seems like the point. Like we were really trying to troll Hakeem Jeffries into doing the same sort of thing he did when Donald Trump put a sombrero on his head. Here's cut three, Hakeem Jeffries, which showed him with a crown flying in a plane, bombing the no Kings protesters with piles of waste. It's a family program. I'll use that word. House Speaker Mike Johnson says that it's.
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Just Trump using social media and satire.
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Satire is the word that he used.
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To make a point.
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How do you see it? Well, that video is deeply unserious, deeply unpresidential, deeply un American. But unfortunately, it's the type of erratic, extreme behavior that the American people have continued to see from this president and from this administration from the very beginning. And, of course, it's no surprise to us that House Republicans continue to behave as nothing more than reckless rubber stamps for Donald Trump's extreme agenda that's hurting the American people. And of course, of course, for his extreme behavior that they continue to whitewash. I just love it. I don't know if I could enjoy it any more than a CNN segment where a lady with resting Democrat face asks Hakeem Jeffries about a poop video and then the two of them rage together about it that they're actually dropping waste. Look at this. So I asked Grok for a quick rendition of this, and here's. Fellas, pull my screen up, if you don't mind. Here's the Grok rendition of how that segment should have ended. This is outrageous. They're actually dropping waste on us. I'm waiting, Mr. President. Feel free to use that, if you don't mind. Just post that to the Truth Social. That would be great. That would be. That would be a feather. My cap. That would be a poop on my cap. If the president would share that on Truth Social. It's so funny. Anyway, they're raging. Wonderful, wonderful stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let me see. In the limited time we have left here. Let's see. Oh, here's this. Here's something to tell you. This is some good news. I want to end with some good news today. Yesterday, a federal judge ruled that, yes, it's within the president's power to send the National Guard into Portland, Oregon. Thank God. Thank God. A judge. A judge coming. Yeah. No, this is totally within his power to do it. And this is of created great sorrow over at NBC, which had to inform their viewers that, yes, President Trump does have the authority to protect Americans. Take a look. Cut seven. As NBC has to break the bad news, which is actually good news. I want to read, if I can, just from a little bit of the Beginning of this 93 page opinion, it says after considering the record, and by the record, they mean all the factual evidence. At this preliminary stage, we conclude that it is likely that the President lawfully exercised his statutory authority under 10 USC section 12, 4 06. That's the statute we've been referring to as Title 10. When we have conversations about the National Guard deployments, which authorizes the federalization of the National Guard, when the President is unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States. And this is the important part. The evidence the President relied on reflects, quote, a colorable assessment of the facts and law within a range of honest judgment. We thus conclude that defendants are likely to succeed on the merits of their appeal. In other words, you hear that, that this is an honest assessment of the state of affairs, that Portland could use the National Guard, that the President's judgment is sound, that it is entirely his authority about whether or not he does this. Wham, bam, thank you, ma'. Am. President Trump can do the job that you and I elected him to do, which is to safeguard America's cities. How you doing? So that's good. That's good. How you doing? Weapons free, completely unfettered, the President's ability to go in and clean up these cities. And so American citizens everywhere with any sense about them rejoicing over the fact that we have a President who's finally doing something for the first time in a very long time for this country. And not to enrich themselves, not to benefit himself. You think he needs this? He's doing this for us, which is great. That's why I keep voting for him. That's why I keep voting for him. I can't wait to join you today on the national radio show. We got the big national radio show coming up, the Vince Show. You can check out your local listings. The Vince Show.com it's 12 to 3 Eastern time and then you can also watch it live. Rumble.com Vince. We'll do the show on Rumble. We got a video camera, the works. It's great. It's really great. Thanks for being with me today. I'll be back with you tomorrow on another exciting edition of Vince.