Trump drops insane update on ballroom demand - Another Day - Brian Tyler Cohen

BTC: We need Donald Trump's ballroom now more than ever. Or gun control, but I'm guessing we'll just go with the ballroom. This is just another day.

Ever since the assassination attempt on America's president this weekend, there has been one consistent takeaway.

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La. Gov. Jeff Landry: This is why the president should get his ballroom.

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Mike Johnson: The ballroom will will be a solution for this.

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Rep. Pat Fallon: The White House ballroom is a great argument.

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Rep. Laurel Lee: It's absolutely a necessity.

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Rep. Mike Lawler: A ballroom is imperative.

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Karoline Leavitt: It's why um the White House Ballroom Project is not just a fun project uh for President Trump like you will read in the media. It is actually critical for our national security.

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BTC: Sure. Except this wasn't a White House event. I know Trump wants to control every aspect of the media, but Saturday's dinner was put on by the White House Correspondents Association, not the government. Just because you show up doesn't mean you immediately own the place. Who do you think you are? You.

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BTC: But this idea that Trump wants his ballroom because he's focused on security. I'm sorry, but if you have the audacity to say that, maybe you do need an entire room for your balls.

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Trump: 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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There'd be a tent out on the lawn and it would rain and it was a disaster. This is going to be probably the finest ballroom ever built.

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BTC: Trump talks about the security of his ballroom about as much as he talks about Eric. But for some people, this ballroom just makes sense.

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Rep. Laurel Lee: The president, his Cabinet, visiting heads of state all need a place where they can gather that's secure, that's safe, that can be contained. And one of the things we've learned in the wake of these awful assassination attempts against President Trump and the investigation following Butler and the Florida incident is that where events are held is a critical component of maintaining security.

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BTC: That's right. So, as long as the President of the United States never leaves the White House ever again, everything will be just fine. Really looking forward to Trump's political stunts before the midterms at the new White House Oval Office McDonald's drive-thru.

You know, I find it pretty interesting how Republicans are desperately trying to expedite a ballroom that costs hundreds of millions of dollars, all in an effort to prevent one guy from getting shot. Yet, these people won't take any action or provide any money whatsoever to prevent everyone else from getting shot.

And I don't know if there's been some miscommunication or crossed wires, but Americans aren't asking for our schools, our churches, our temples, our concert halls, our universities, our movie theaters, or our grocery stores to have gold leaf molding. We would just like the number of guns in our country to be slightly less or maybe just a bit more challenging to acquire, but I guess that's just crazy talk. So, let's continue with the thoughts and prayers and just stay focused on our more important event spaces.

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Rep. Michael Rulli: I know we're making a pitch for the ballroom at the White House, which I completely back up and will and Congress also back up, but I think some anybody was there, the exterior perimeter was very weak. All you had to show was your phone and a simple invite. You could have forged it. It was almost embarrassing. And then you had people like in flip-flops in the lobby.

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BTC: Okay, easy buddy. That's Ohio Representative Michael Rulli making a pretty big pivot from security advocate to whiner on Tripadvisor. Allowing an armed gunman to get that close to our president is not okay, but neither is running out of bacon bits at your omelet station. Anyone else want to write a nasty review?

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Todd Blanche: We absolutely believe that there is no better example of why this ballroom is necessary. Aside from all the the very positive things the ballroom will bring to this country and to Washington DC than what happened on on Saturday night. You guys, many of you all were there--that's one of the only places in DC that you can hold an event like that due to due to its size and and and the structure of what we need. So, we're basically stuck at this point in this city with having an event like that at a hotel.

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BTC: Bleh. I mean, how much longer do these people have to slum it? Chandelierless lighting, their asses being forced to sit on non gold chairs, not to mention…

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Rep. Michael Rulli: …flip-flops in the lobby.

BTC: It is a fucking travesty. But while our shining ballroom on the hill will clearly fix one of the problems plaguing our country right now, it doesn't get at the source of all this evil.

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Todd Blanche: The political violence and rhetoric has has got to stop.

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Guest: This is all born out of rhetoric from the left.

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Mike Johnson: It's time to turn down the rhetoric.

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Karoline Leavitt: When you read the manifesto of this shooter, ask yourselves, how different is the rhetoric from this almost assassin than what you read on social media and hear in various forums every single day. The answer, if you're being honest with yourself, is that there is no difference at all.

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BTC: And you know what? She's absolutely correct. In fact, I looked at some of that exact rhetoric she's alluding to, and it is disgusting. like this one.

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Unidentified: Posting on Truth Social, Trump suggests Reiner's death was due to "the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as Trump Derangement Syndrome."

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BTC: Oh, sorry, sorry, wrong clip. Here it is.

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Unidentified: President Trump is weighing in on Mueller's death, saying, "Good. I'm glad he's dead."

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BTC: Whoops. Wrong again. Third times a charm.

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Host: His account reposted a video shortly before midnight last night depicting President Obama and the first former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes in a jungle.

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BTC: You know what? Let's just take her word for it. But I'm sorry. You were saying.

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Karoline Leavitt: This hateful and constant and violent rhetoric directed at President Trump day after day after day for 11 years has helped legitimize this violence and bring us to this dark moment. Those who constantly falsely label and slander president as a fascist, as a threat to democracy, and compare him to Hitler to score political points are fueling this kind of violence.

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BTC: Okay, that's over the line. Comparing Trump to Hitler. Name names, Karoline. Who would be violent enough to do such a thing?

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Host: Senator Vance once called himself a never Trump guy, saying on NPR, “I can't stomach Trump” and once comparing him to Hitler.

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BTC: You know, if it wasn't for that attacker's weapon, we might have thought he was simply applying for a job in the White House.

The reality is this past weekend's event has now become merely another moment of justification for the Trump administration to try and silence their critics. And just to reiterate, what this person did was horrible and completely unjustified, trying to physically harm any elected official, any person should be rejected across the board. Period. I mean, at least I think so.

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Nate Burleson: The White House has launched a website that rewrites the history effectively of the January 6th Capitol riot. It alleges the rioters were “unfairly targeted and were quote peaceful protesters treated as insurrectionists.”

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Trump: They were there with love in their heart. That was an unbelievable and it was a beautiful day.

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BTC: It sure was. They had love in their hearts and zip ties in their hands. And look, I get that Republicans want to make it out as if Donald Trump is the victim at the hands of the evil communist Marxists on the left, but do not equate nonviolent criticism of our administration's policies that are unjust, unfair, and even corrupt as somehow being evidence of incitement.

If one day some legitimate political position that I hold gets quoted in some lunatics manifesto, I will not be pleased. Especially if that manifesto gets more eyeballs than my book, The Day After, which is available for pre-order now.

But jealousy aside, I have no control over that type of thing. And trying to police our speech in such a way where any criticism of Trump can be blamed for some nut job with a gun's actions is the most unamerican thing you can do. What makes our country great is the freedom to criticize our government.

That and declaring our sports teams world champions when they've never competed against anyone in the rest of the world.

[video montage of World Series clips]
The Houston Astros are world champions.
The Washington Nationals are world champions.
The Braves, the world champions.

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BTC: America's pastime. How about the world's pastime?

It's also ironic to once again get lectured about our society's lack of patriotism by this White House, an administration whose FCC Chair tries to silence free speech by strongarming networks, whose head of the FBI is seizing ballots all over the country, and whose attorney general is taking orders from the president slash his former client on which political enemies he should target next in his retribution campaign.

American patriotism is about more than flag pins and parades and bragging about our nation's military might. It is also about standing up to people who want to heavily police your language. People who want to recount our nation's history with all the bad parts taken out and people who vilify anyone for daring speak ill of Dear Leader because if we don't, it feels to me like we're really ripping off the vibe of a another country. [inset image of Xi Jinping]

And I don't think any fans of democracy would love to live under those conditions because it's just slightly worse than…

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Rep. Michael Rulli: …flip-flops in the lobby.

BTC: Exactly.