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month in September, on a new ballroom inside the White House,
according to Press Secretary Caroline Levitt. This was announced yesterday.
The two hundred million dollar ballroom will be built adjacent
to the White House where the East Wing sits. Levitt said.
The East Wing will be modernized, with offices in that
area relocated during construction. The cost of the project will
be covered by President Trump and other donors, a two
hundred million dollar project that he is paying for himself
and is donating to future presidents and the American people. Basically,
and so the first thing I thought was what are
you going to name it? Because you know the ballrooms
you go to hotels there's a ballroom there, and they
always have names for the ballrooms, right, so what are
they going to name it? And I suggested, well, I
thought my first thought was obviously the Potent Ballroom. Obviously, No,
he's going to put his own name on it. You know,
he's going to put his own name on it in
a big gold plaque or something. It's and if you're
paying for it, what's the legitimate argument against him naming
it after himself?
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't he the Trump Ballroom?
Speaker 2: Now, I don't know if there's some sort of agreement
that would you know, you've got to put it in
writing that you can never change the name, because as
soon as a Democrat gets in there, they're gonna, you know,
rename the thing. The White House State Ballroom will be
ninety thousand square feet, so a little bit smaller than
my home. It will have a seated capacity of six
hundred and fifty people. It would eliminate the need for
the large, unsightly tents that they usually have to pitch
on the grounds. Whenever they do large state dinners or
other big events, they have to put up these massive tents.
And so you build a banquet hall so you can
host all of the large events there and then you
don't have to be putting up tents taking them down.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's kind of.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not saying you can't ever do a
large tent on the lawn if it's a nice day
or something, you know, if that's the kind of vibe
you're going for. But yeah, I mean, you're doing a
state dinner and now you like you're gonna do it
in the middle of winter time or something, and you
got to bring in space heaters and all that, and
I gotta think it's gonna save money in the long run, right,
rather than having to pay you know, the staff to
constantly put the tent up.
Speaker 1: Is that a rental? I don't think.
Speaker 2: I think at this point you should own the tent.
And it's probably a very fancy tent. Probably looks like
a building on the inside, you know, it doesn't look
like the tent that you probably have been to at
like a graduation ceremony or something like that. But the
idea is to have it completed before the end of
Trump's term. In January twenty twenty nine, and this was interesting.
This is from the Hill. Obama White House officials confirmed
in twenty sixteen that Donald Trump had offered to build
a ballroom. At that time, it was one hundred million
dollar ballroom. Now it's going to be a two hundred
million project. But Trump offered to build a one hundred
million dollar ballroom in the building. But they said they
did not seriously consider the proposal.
Speaker 1: Well, why not, Like it would have been good.
Speaker 2: I think it would have been good to you know,
have said yes to that. That would have been I
don't know. It may have been good for the country
in twenty sixteen to have some sort of a you know,
agreement like that between Obama and Putin's proxy. Right Anyway, now,
I know the Democrats don't want to hear any more
about the Russia collusion hoax. They want to talk about
the Epstein case. And I do have something on yeah,
update on the Epstein two pieces actually on the whole
Epstein saga.
Speaker 1: In North Carolina.
Speaker 2: Apparently the state Senate Democrats have a lot of pull
with the Trump administration. I was not aware of this
until this press release went out from the State Senate
Minority Leader Sidney betch Her office sent out the following
This was.
Speaker 1: Two days ago on Tuesday.
Speaker 2: Members of the North Carolina Senate Democrat Democratic Caucus, under
the leadership of me Senate Democratic Leader Sidney Batch, sent
a formal letter to US Attorney General Pam Bondi and
North Carolina's congressional delegation demanding the immediate release of redacted
records related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. That'll do it,
That will do it. Like up until now they were like,
we're not doing this. No, we got to Trump, right,
that's what Democrats believe. But now now this will do it.
Otherwise what is the point of this, right, I mean,
unless you've got some sort of pull with Pambondi, why
else would you take this sort of an action except
you were, I don't know, Like that would mean you're
just trying to make headlines and use this Epstein story
line to try to damage the president and try to
make them squirm and just posture for your voters or something.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to.
Speaker 2: Accuse anybody of doing that because that would be kind
of slimy, you know. The letter, addressed to Attorney General
Bondi and the state's congressional delegation, calls for the immediate
unsealing of files naming perpetrators and enablers in Epstein's human
trafficking network while protecting the identities of survivors. While sixteen
Senate Democrats signed the letter, not a single Republican joined them.
Senate Democrats are now publicly calling on their GOP colleagues
to explain why there once again letting Donald Trump and
the Mega Movement call the shots instead of their constituents.
All right, take it back. Yeah, this is definitely just
slimy posturing. David, Welcome to the program.
Speaker 1: Hello David, Hello, Hello, Hello.
Speaker 3: Just just a comment about the ballroom. Yeah, in my opinion,
he would probably not name it after himself, but after
after the country. I'm thinking he would say the American Ballroom.
Speaker 2: He well, I mean he could the American Ballroom.
Speaker 3: He could call it that, or if not that, then
he could say the name one it should be. So there.
Speaker 1: You're welcome, your welcome ballroom. There you go, David.
Speaker 2: I appreciate the cam in. Have a great weekend, you too,
all right, take care?
Speaker 1: Yeah, like you got to name it something.
Speaker 2: I mean, maybe maybe they just call it the State
Ballroom or the White House Ballroom.
Speaker 1: I guess they could go with something like that too.
I don't know.
Speaker 2: Here's the other update in the Epstein story. Imprisoned sex
trafficker Gilain Maxwell is demanding full immunity in exchange for
congressional testimony about her activities with her longtime partner, deceased
pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, as furer continues over the Trump administration's
handling of the federal government's files on Epstein. By the way,
is she still alive? They haven't whacked her yet?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I find that a little odd because she would know
everything Epstein knew or a lot of it, right, but nobody,
nobody suicided her, So I don't know what to make
of that. Maxwell's attorneys laid out their demands in a
letter to House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer after the
Congressional panel subpoened her. The disgraced socialite is requesting full
immunity along with an advanced copy of the commit these questions.
She does not want to hold the hearing in the
Federal Correctional facility where she is serving her sentence because
of the possibility of leaks, her lawyer said. The Oversight
Committee will respond to ms Maxwell's attorney soon, spokeswoman said,
but it will not consider granting immunity for her testimony,
So we'll see where that goes. All right, if you're
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Speaker 1: Naming of the new ballroom.
Speaker 2: Um let me see here the big ballroom. That's from Bob.
How about huge y uge, the huge ballroom.
Speaker 1: I don't know who this.
Speaker 2: Is from, but they say Elaine Maxwell got transferred to
a lower security prison in Texas today.
Speaker 1: Oh all right from Chicago. Number.
Speaker 2: Once everything comes out about Epstein and Democrats are heavily named,
what does the media push next as a diversion. Yeah,
I mean that's the thing too. Like I've given my
thoughts on my theory, I should say of what exactly
Epstein was. I think he was a con man, and
I think he was a cutout. I think he was
a financier. Basically, he would he would move money for
off book intel operations or business deals too. I guess
I think that was really what he was about, aside
from the like that's why all of these people would
were in his orbit and he was able to move
with all of these rich and powerful people.
Speaker 1: Now, was there some.
Speaker 2: Sort of a extortion operation connected to the human trafficking stuff?
I mean that's possible, entirely possible, probable even And the
problem though that you're going to run into is that
you've got a lot of people that may have had
completely innocuous dealings with him, and you've got intelligence services
and off book operators that now get named two and
they are not going to be happy about that. It
could actually jeopardize international relations if a nation finds out
that we funded some off book op that they opposed
or in their country something like that. Right, So that's
that could be problematic. But yeah, like figuring out who
all of the clients were, that's important and that should
that should be really the people need to those people
need to be you know, arrested and charged. I don't
see how you can run the thing that Gleane Maxwell
ran and was convicted for running and not have any clients.
It doesn't make any sense. How do you how do
you run a prostitution ring and not have any prostitutes?
How do you run an extortion ring and not have
any victims?
Speaker 1: Like so anyway, So that's yeah, my thoughts on.
Speaker 2: That big beautiful ballroom, the big beautiful ballroom that could
be it Trump ballroom at Freedom Hall, The freedom ballroom.
He could call it that, Yeah, freedom Hall. I mean
he's gonna he's like, he's he's got all the room
to run on this, Like he's going to be able
to name it whatever he wants. And he does have
a way of of naming things. I mean, he also
has a way of naming things after himself a lot.
But he also has a way of like attaching names
to people for example.
Speaker 1: So you know, we'll see, we'll see how it goes.
Speaker 2: Just don't don't make it like a crowdsource thing, Like,
don't open it up for suggestions from the public because
you're just gonna and then like if you want to
do that, that's fine, but don't be bound by whatever
gets like the top votes. Don't do that because if
you do that, you're gonna end up with like ballroom
Mike ballroom face, and you don't want that.
Speaker 1: I don't want that, all right.
Speaker 2: North Carolina lawmakers overrode Governor Josh Stein's veto of House
Pill eightoh five this week. It seeks to prevent the
sexual exploitation of women and minors. It was overridden with
the help of NASIFH. Majid, who is a Democrat from Charlotte,
he broke with his party. He was the decisive vote
to override the veto, and when asked about his vote
after the session, Magid told reporters quote, I had some
moral issues and I had to lean on my values.
And good for him, right if that's where If that's
what he thought was the right way to vote, and
he vot he voted his conscience, his values, then more
power to him. And I don't have to agree with
his vote in this case. I do, but if that's
what is motivating you to do something, then that's fine.
Both the State House and the State Senate voted to
override Stein's veto of the Republican sponsored legislation that would
officially recognize two sexes in all administrative rules, regulations, or
public policies adopted by the state. It'll also prohibit state
funding from going towards trans procedures, and it will require
schools to adopt policies enabling parents and students to opt
out of curriculum based on religious grounds. According to the
North Carolina Family Policy Council, the law will also extend
the statute of limitations to ten years for a malpractice
action arising out of any injury associated with a gender
transition procedure. This is a piece by Abigail Nichols at
the Federalist dot com. The legislation that requires state records
to include oh sorry, the legislation will also require that
state records would have to now include the original birth
certificate and any amended birth certificate if you get a
sex change, if you go the other way and you
get yourself a new birth certificate from another state and
then you move here, you have to provide both of
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publishing Another provision of this, which was the original intent
of the bility, then got broadened with those provisions that
have just ran through. It restricts online entities and users
from publishing porn images without the consent of those depicted,
or without verification that those depicted were at least eighteen
years old when the content was created, So you've got
to have to ensure that there's no child victims in
these things. It also lays out requirements for online entities
regarding the removal of pornographic content upon request, which like, yeah,
people have these videos like you know, stolen from them,
or like an ex boyfriend like revenge porn kind of thing,
and then they upload them onto websites and then the
websites apparently. I was listening to a podcast about this
few months back. Jordan Harbin Journey was talking about this
the system where like these sites like the users post
the videos and then the users can download them and
then re upload them, and so there's this huge like
it's like a churning model. So once something goes in,
trying to get that thing out is virtually impossible unless
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you're gonna make suggestions, right, if you're going to make
suggestions on what they will call the new ballroom at
the White House that Trump is building, it has to
be it's got to be clean enough for radio. Okay,
I'm not going to read these things that you're sending in.
I understand the word ballroom has the word ball in it.
I get the double entendres, I get all the jokes. Yes,
I'm being inundated with all the same with basically the
same joke. Okay, so I appreciate it. But if you
want me to read them, then you know, keep them,
keep them clean. Oh, he could call it the Milania.
That sounds elegant. You know, the Millennia ballroom. You call
it the Millennia. And I was thinking too during the break.
I thought maybe the huge ballroom. But I think it
would actually be better as like the huge room, the
huge or the huge hole, because you could say whole too,
and then that gives you another letter to work with
if you're trying to like do alliteration.
Speaker 1: Kind of a thing.
Speaker 2: So that's a good one. The big beautiful ballroom, that's
a good one. Christina, to see, I can't read that one, can.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to read that one either, Dana, you
little troll.
Speaker 1: You let's see here. Oh, I gotta, I gotta to this.
Speaker 2: Sorry, I was getting distracted with all of the messages.
This is from Paige Maston. She is the opinion editor
and writer for McClatchy and the Charlotte Observer, and she
wrote a virtually identical piece, albeit longer, the same piece
as the state Senator Caleb Tedros, who I had on
yesterday to ask him about the premise of his piece,
which was that they're very upset at Carla Cunningham, Democrat
from Charlotte, for voting for the immigration enforcement bill and
to override the governor's veto. She decided that because and
she made the floor speech and she made comments about
illegal immigration and dissimilation, and she said in that speech,
all cultures are not equal, and that was what ted
Rose said. I want to be clear that kind of
thinking has no place in Carolina, which would indicate that
he believes all cultures are equal. But when I asked
him about that, he said, I'm ignoring the context of
the situation or something. And I would ask the same
of Paige Maston. But she actually lays out an argument
that seems to be that she thinks all cultures are equal.
She says, to say that some cultures are not equal
to others is dangerous and divisive, which is also exactly
what Tedros wrote, he said, it's not just divisive, it's dangerous.
I'm not sure who copied off of who here? But
which cultures exactly are the good ones?
Speaker 1: She asks?
Speaker 2: And should we just close our borders to the others?
I would submit yes. If there is a culture that,
let's say, prioritizes the murder of Jews above their own
lives and the lives of their children, I would not
want any of those people from that culture to come in. Yes,
I can give you that example. And should we just
close our borders? It suggests to people that their neighbors
might be a threat because they come from a culture
that is supposedly inferior. No, it doesn't do that, but
this is the narrative that they are seeking to promulgate,
this idea that anybody worried about what Carla Cunningham was
talking about, which was the failure and refusal of some
immigrant populations to assimilate into the culture. Right, that's what
she said, That's what she talked about. And that is
a point so that Tedros did not address and refuse
to when I raised it with him, and on yesterdays
show was the first hour of yesterday's show, and she
doesn't really address this either, she says. Worst of all, oh,
she says, it treats our differences as a liability rather
than an asset. And worse of all, it seems to
betray a most sacred American ideal that every human being
is created equal and should be treated as such, no
matter where they come from. But they are equal under
the law, our law. That's our cultural norm. See is
this is this Western conceit that somehow or another, all
people are just like us. They all have the same
belief system as us, and so if we think something
is good, then they must think.
Speaker 1: It's good too.
Speaker 2: But they do not. Other cultures do not. Now, some
people in those cultures might, But there are cultures like,
for example, honor killings.
Speaker 1: Right we reject these.
Speaker 2: If your daughter is the victim of a sexual assault,
you don't kill her, you kill the attacker, right like that.
Speaker 1: That's a cultural thing. It really is amazing.
Speaker 2: They are going to run Carla Coneham right out of
the Democrat Party. It seems like it's already building. So
I don't know, maybe she's not running for reelection again
or what, but I appreciate the fact that she's willing to,
you know, to stand up and to vote the way
her conscience dictated good for her. All right, Brett Winnable
is going to be joining me for pregaming in a moment.
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Friday and it's a quarter till and that means it's
time for pregaming with Brett Winterble.
Speaker 4: Hello Brett, good morning, good afternoon.
Speaker 2: Good afternoon, and good evening, Good evening. Brett is on
three to six here on WBT. So I talked about
the White House ballroom project, and we're thinking you got
to name the ballroom. Yes, so we've been kicking around
some names here, so let me get Stan on here.
Stan has an idea for the ballroom. Go ahead, Stan, welcome.
Speaker 5: Hey, this is Bane. Am I on?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Bane? Okay? Bane?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Hey, we need to give it open to corporate sponsorship.
So it could be like the Home Depot ballroom.
Speaker 2: Selling sell the naming rights to the White House Ballroom.
That's an idea, that is all right? Yeah I like it.
Speaker 3: Hey.
Speaker 5: I got one more thing. My dad always had an
idea for advertising to to raise money for the government.
Is sell advertising on money?
Speaker 1: Nice? Oh yeah?
Speaker 3: Or no?
Speaker 2: Because you know, like the advertising on the back of
like your grocery receipt. Nobody ever uses nobody ever looks
at those lowis ROI but nobody carries the cash anymore
except drug dealers. Yeah, that's all right, Ben, have a
great weekend, buddy. I appreciate it. The Swinging Ballroom, Wow,
the Maga b the Magabee Mega Ballroom. Yeah, I'm warming
up to my own idea, which was the Huge Room,
the Huge room.
Speaker 1: Y uge, the Huge Room.
Speaker 4: I like that.
Speaker 2: That's possibility, any ideas. Uh, the Milania was that's that
sounds elegant.
Speaker 1: The Milani the.
Speaker 4: Malani Milannia Ballroom.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I would.
Speaker 4: I would probably just say the Redskins borroom.
Speaker 1: Goodness, you can't say that.
Speaker 6: He's he says doing that. He's talking about it, I know,
but heatedly.
Speaker 2: But he he allowed us to say Mary Christmas again.
I don't think you get multiple bites at that apple.
You can't make us say the team the old team
names again. I think, really, I think there's a certain
amount of political capital expended.
Speaker 4: Well in that category. But I mean, but he was
talking about it, you know, as as.
Speaker 1: Recent as I did.
Speaker 2: Hear that, But I don't know if he can make
that happen.
Speaker 4: That's true.
Speaker 2: The Wrecking Ballroom.
Speaker 4: How about the Brennan Ballroom.
Speaker 2: The Brennan Ballroom, I like it. I like it.
Speaker 4: It's trolling.
Speaker 2: I my initial the very first thing I thought, the
putin room.
Speaker 4: Wow, very good.
Speaker 1: That's yeah, that's a pretty good one hoot.
Speaker 2: And ball room yeah for sure, yeah, you know.
Speaker 1: And he said he's gonna pay for it.
Speaker 6: He yeah, and It'llion didn't say he's gonna pay like
two hundred million and.
Speaker 2: The donors and donors to the project, which and then
at the bottom of the story it said something like
he had offered this to Obama. It was only one
hundred million dollars, right, because you know, but I guess inflation,
sure now it's two hundred million. But they turned him
down because they didn't think it was a serious proposal.
Speaker 4: How long is it going to take for them to
build it?
Speaker 2: They want it done by January twenty twenty nine, because
that's when he's out of office unless he goes full
orange dictator.
Speaker 6: I would like to see him do it, like for
the for twenty twenty six, Like let's do it for
the twenty twenty six, for the for the you know,
the bisentennial thing, right, two hundred fifty two and fifty Yeah,
and have John Jones and those guys fight in that
ballroom to Christen it.
Speaker 2: An MMA fight. Yes, he open the ball room.
Speaker 6: That's what that's that's what they're planning on doing right now. Anyways,
they are John Jones and a whole bunch of people
are going to be fighting.
Speaker 4: That's really true.
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not.
Speaker 4: But they're going to do it on the lawn.
Speaker 2: They're going to do I didn't think you meant at
the White House. You're having an m m A fight
at the White House on July fourth. Well, they want
to try to do it as part of the party, yes, as.
Speaker 6: The as the whole thing, and and you know, you know,
shirts and skins.
Speaker 1: I don't think.
Speaker 2: I don't there's a large population that does not watch
m m A.
Speaker 4: That I suspect the PPV will be un believable.
Speaker 2: I think it's going I think it, and that would.
I think it's gonna upset a lot of people.
Speaker 6: Hell and to cell, you know, I mean all that
sort of stuff that they used to do back in
the day, back in the day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's like we I'm moved past the let's watch people
pummel each other for sport. As I'm saying that that's
not true because there's a whole TikTok channel devoted to
that very thing.
Speaker 6: So the President's fixed your thing. He's got the new
way you got to do the push ups and the
setups and all that. He's we're building in.
Speaker 1: Our residential fitness.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, we're building an army of strength.
Speaker 2: Oh, I would hope all armies would do that.
Speaker 1: Actually we don't. We have an army of strength already.
I don't need. I don't know who this is.
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Speaker 4: Iron sharpens iron.
Speaker 2: It's right, resistance to pressure build strength.
Speaker 4: We have a show, you don't true.
Speaker 2: We have two shows between us. Absolutely, yes, you actually
do more. You just like flit around and just drop
in on random people's shows all around the country and
just take over their shows. Here's one called The Franklin.
Speaker 4: The Franklin. I like the frank that's nice.
Speaker 1: Do they have a Franklin bedroom? I don't know.
Speaker 2: Oh, I've never been to the White House.
Speaker 4: You never even on a tour like to see the No, like.
Speaker 1: We drove past it once.
Speaker 4: Wow, yeah, you should go.
Speaker 1: That's what I've been told.
Speaker 2: In fact, when I when Mark Meadows was Trump's chief
of staff. Yes, he invited me to come up and whoa,
you should have. I should have and I didn't. I
just never got around to doing it. But I'm always
kind of I'm always kind of like arm's length with
like owing somebody in the political arena. You know, I
don't want to ever think that like I owe them something.
Speaker 4: You wouldn't.
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Speaker 4: I don't think you'd owe them anything.
Speaker 6: I think I think he was probably just happy to
maybe show you around.
Speaker 1: Have you met Mark Meadows?
Speaker 4: I have twenty sixteen in Cleveland.
Speaker 2: Now, Okay, Yeah, I'm not so sure he doesn't. Like
he didn't return my calls anymore because.
Speaker 6: Like he's he's he's doing other things.
Speaker 1: Yeah he's Yeah, he's done other things.
Speaker 2: But I do know so like I've never been to
Congress again into Congress itself.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Now, I never went to the Statue of Liberty when
I grew up in New York.
Speaker 4: Have you done it now?
Speaker 2: Since one year Christy and I went up there and
we were like, let's go to the city and be tourists.
And so we did go. We went to Ellis Island,
but we did not go up the line was so long.
We did not go up the into the Statue of Liberty,
but we were we rode past it obviously on the
on the boat. And that was our school would always
the high school I went.
Speaker 1: To a long Island.
Speaker 2: We would always go into the city every year for
the one of the trips or whatever, and we were
never allowed. Our school got the rumor. The legend was
that our school got banned from the Statue of Liberty.
Whoa because the class that was before my brother's class, Yeah,
he's older. Some a bunch of the high schoolers got
drunk and oh my gosh, one of them like passed
out or have alcohol poisoning at the Statue of Living
and then they had to like fly a chopper in
to airlift them out. And it was like, so that's
the story. I don't know if that was true, but
that's the legend. We told ourselves like that in the school.
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't like that, but it's that I'm
sure there was a reason for it.
Speaker 2: Here's one How about the Anthony Scaramucci ballroom, but just
name it that for about fifteen minutes and then change
the name.
Speaker 4: Nice, just fantastic.
Speaker 2: That is that is the winners. I think that would
be well, I mean because then you could name it
something after that. I just said, they better not open
it up for voting. Don't don't let oh, don't like
let the people let us choose it. We are not
considering what I'm reading on the text line and the
body mcbothface fiasco like that's.
Speaker 4: Uh, I'm with you on that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't let us we will disappoint you.
Speaker 1: So all right, Well that's pregaming. There you go.
Speaker 2: I'm sticking around with Winterable. By the way, did you
hear that the banana got eaten again?
Speaker 1: The art piece?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll say on Monday, y'all, don't break anything while
I'm gone, Winnables next. All right, that'll do it for
this episode.
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