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Speaker 1: So you sat down last night ready to watch the

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Survivor finale, excited, literally excited to unplug from the craziness

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of our country, and an hour in. An hour into

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the show, the show gets interrupted by none other than

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the one man that we're all trying to forget about.

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Trump interrupted usual programming to give an eighteen minute nonsensical

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speech blaming Democrats for all of his failures, lying literally

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lying about economic numbers, and attacking, of course, immigrants. Well,

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welcome back to The Michael Cone Show on our continued

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Let's keep it up, hit, subscribe, watch, comment, and share

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because the stupidity that we have to deal with it's endless.

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So last night Trump gave this presidential address that could

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literally have been a three AM all caps truth social rant.

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Trump finally got both parties to agree at least on something.

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Let me show you what I'm talking about. Total shit.

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Liberals and conservatives yawned together over Trump's pointless prime time speech. Yeah,

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there's no other way to describe it. In fact, I'm

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going to talk about it my substack of this morning,

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which I entitled stop Yelling at Us. It was like

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a child temper tantrum, right that we all become hostage.

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This is like a hostage video where there's no place

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to go, because every single news station was carrying this nonsense. Now,

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I do want to show you a few reactions to

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his speech, and then I want to show you the

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actual insanity that he spewed. And in Navarro Well, she said,

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it sounded like an angry old man shouting from the hills.

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Play the clips.

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Speaker 2: You did not want speech. How I blame you for

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not watching the speech, because unless you're getting paid to

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watch it like we are, there is no reason why

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anybody should have wasted eighteen minutes of their lives that

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they're not going to get back. It was an angry

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old man shouting from the hills, shouting at the kids

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to get off their lawn. It felt like when you're

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watching that Charlie Brown cartoon and the speeches.

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Speaker 1: No, no, it wasn't wlah blah blah. As I wrote

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in my sub stacks, stop yelling at us, because that's

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what I felt like when I was watching it. I've

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seen Trump lie in private, I've seen him lie in public.

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I've seen him lie under oath, and I've seen him

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lie with such confidence that he almost convinces himself. But

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last night's eighteen minute White House address, it wasn't just

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a lie. It was a tantrum with a teleprompter, a

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grievance sermon delivered at warp speed, yelled, yelled at the

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American people as if your bank account personally insulted him.

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My friends, this was not a presidential address. It was

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a hostage video starring facts that were bound, gagged and

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shoved into the trunk of a golf cart. Now, on

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the other hand, folks like Nuke Gingrich. He comes out

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and he says Trump's speech left Democrats unnerved.

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Speaker 3: Play the clip, and I believe President Trump showed tonight

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that he's prepared to focus, to be disciplined, to communicate,

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And if I were a Democrat, tonight would leave me

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very unnerved.

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Speaker 1: Now not unnerved, as I continued to say, my substacked.

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Presidents usually go prime time when something really big happens,

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like war or peace or a dead terrorist. Right, Trump

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literally went primetime yesterday because his poll numbers are underwater

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and sinking. Poll numbers sixty percent of Americans disapprove of

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how he is handling the economy. My friends, that's not

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a rounding era. That is a flashing red siren screaming,

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we don't believe what you're saying. And so he goes

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to Prime Time and he yells at us louder mind you,

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Sean Hannity, He goes on and claims that Joe Biden

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could have never been able to give that speech. Thank god,

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play the clip.

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Speaker 4: I gotta tell you, I don't think Joe Biden would

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be capable of that speech.

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Speaker 1: Your thoughts, Well, it was after his bedtime, so one

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hundred percent he wouldn't have been capable of this speech.

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But meanwhile, in the speech last night, shawing and cackling,

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Joe over there, he rattled off prices went right to eggs, Turkey,

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airline tickets like a man speed reading a grocery receipt

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that he found in the parking lot. He literally went

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out there and claimed that costs are coming down very fast,

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which is a both thing to say when Americans are

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actually still choosing between rent and electricity. Like it's some

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I don't know, freaking game show called Who Wants to

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Stay Housed? You see, here's the thing that Trump never understands.

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You cannot guesslight a debit card. Now, I do want

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to get into Trump's actual speech, because I'm giving you

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reference to it. He started off strong. No, remember it's

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eighteen minutes. Starts off strong, saying that he inherited a mess.

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Speaker 4: Play the clip, Good Evening, American eleven months ago. I

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inherited a mess, and I'm fixing it. When I took office,

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inflation was the worst in forty eight years, and some

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would say in the history of our country.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let me go on to say that number one,

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he did not. But I want to show you a

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post about the mess that he's talking about that he inherited.

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In it shows you Joe Biden had forty eight consecutive

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months of job growth. Let me say that again because

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I think it's gets lost. Biden had forty eight. That's

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four years of consecutive months of job growth. Biden handed

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Trump the strongest economy in the world. Under Trump, we

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have now lost jobs three of the last six months.

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According to sm Trump is incompetent. Mar A Lago Good Wednesday.

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All right, let me be very clear. When he turns

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around and he claims that he inherited a mess. I

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don't know, forty eight straight months of job growth doesn't

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sound like a mess to me. He then, of course

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recited his usual inflated number of investments that he has

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now brought into the country. Played the clip, Eddie.

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Speaker 4: I've secured a record breaking eighteen trillion dollars of investment

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into the United States, which means jobs, wage increases, growth,

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factory openings, and far greater national security.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. He then of course goes on and he can't

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stop because that's his favorite word, talks about his favorite word, tariffs.

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Speaker 4: Much of this success has been accomplished by tariffs, my

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favorite word, tariffs, which for many decades have been used

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successfully by other countries against us, but not anymore.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let me go on to say the following Americans

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aren't stupid. We know whether our lives are more affordable.

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In fact, what prompted this. According to an NPR PBS

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Maris poll, sixty one percent say that the economy it's

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not working for them personally. Seventy percent of all of

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Americans say that the cost of living is flat out unaffordable.

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Seventy percent that's not Biden's mess. My friend, that is

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a Trump reality check. Trump thing goes on and announces

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some facoc the new Warrior dividend check reminder that he's

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actually not the one paying for them. We are, Americans

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are paying for them through the tariffs. I will say

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it as I always do. Tariffs are taxes, and consumers

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pay tariffs, meaning it's our money. Play the clip.

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Speaker 4: Because of tariffs. Along with the just pasted one big

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beautiful bill. Tonight, I am also proud to announce that

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more than one thousand, four hundred fifty thousand, Think of this,

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one million, four hundred and fifty thousand military service members

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will receive a special we call Warrior dividend before Christmas,

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a Warrior dividend in honor of our nations founding in

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seventeen seventy six. We are sending every soldier one thousand

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and seven hundred and seventy six dollars. Think of that,

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and the checks are already on the way. Nobody understood

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that one until about thirty minutes ago. We made a

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lot more money than anybody thought because of tariffs, and

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the bill helped us along. Nobody deserves it more than

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our military, and I say congratulations, everybody.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, yeah, I mean turn around and

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talk about that piece to the resistance. Right, the so

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called seventeen seventy six Warrior dividend checks are already on

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the way right, paid for, of course, by tariffs that

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magically raised a lot of money that anyone that literally

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no one thought right, nobody understood it until what he

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say thirty minutes ago, which by the way, should have

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been the very first red flag for all of us,

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because when Trump says nobody understood, what he really means

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is that nobody asked questions to something that is just

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completely untrue. Trump then, of course, spent of this eighteen

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minute tantrum, he spent too much time attacking Democrats, literally

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lying and saying that we Democrats are the ones who

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want to increase healthcare premiums. Play that clip.

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Speaker 4: And you see that now in the steep increase in

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premiums being demanded by the Democrats, and they are demanding

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those increases and it's their fault. It is not the

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Republican's fault. It's the Democrat's fault.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, No, it's not all right. In fact, it's Mega

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Mike Johnson who actually now turns out he's not taking

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the ACA vote to the floor until they get back

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after New Year's He then went on and claimed that

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our country has been laughed at in the past, but

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not anymore. Not under President Donald J. Trump. There shall

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be no laughing at America. Play the clip.

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Speaker 4: We had the worst trade deals ever made, and our

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country was laughed at from all over the world. But

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they're not laughing anymore.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, of course they're not laughing anymore. He continues by

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saying that next year, it's always someplay in the future.

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Next year, the world will look at America and they

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will respect us. How Come I always thought that Trump said,

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we're the most respected country in the world. Right now,

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play the clip.

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Speaker 4: There could be no more fitting tribute to this epic

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milestone than to complete the comeback of America that began

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just one year ago. When the world looks at us

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next year, let them see a nation that is loyal

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to its citizens, faithful to its work, is confident to

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its identity, certain to its destiny, and the envy of

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the entire globe. We are respected again like we have

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never been respected before. To each and every one of you,

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have a merry Christmas and a happy New year, God

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bless you all.

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Speaker 1: And finally, with all of this talk about the worldview,

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he also went on a rant about immigrants play that

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clip in.

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Speaker 4: Driving up housing costs was the colossal border invasion. We

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have never been invaded. This is the worst thing that Frankly,

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in my opinion, the worst thing that the Biden administration

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did to our country is the invasion at the border.

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The last administration and their allies in Congress brought in

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millions and millions of migrants and gave them taxpayer funded housing.

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While your rent and housing costs kyrocketed. Over sixty percent

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of growth in the rental market came from foreign migrants.

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At the same time, illegal aliens stall American jobs and

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flooded emergency rooms, getting free health care and education paid

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for by you, the American taxpayer. They also increased the

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cost of law enforcement by numbers so high that they

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are not even to be mentioned. For the first time

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in fifty years, we are now seeing reverse migration as

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migrants go back home, leaving more housing and more jobs

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for Americans. In the year before my election, all net

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creation of jobs was going to foreign migrants. Since I

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took office, one hundred percent of all net job creation

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has gone to American born citizens one hundred percent.

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Speaker 1: Yeah again, eighteen minutes, no new ideas, no real solutions,

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just grievance, garbage, and a diet coke chaser. Literally, eighteen

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minutes of our time stolen from us, followed stupidly by

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a full news cycle laundering this bullshit as leadership. Don't

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take Trump's word for any of this. Don't or more importantly,

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for anything that was said during that wasted speech. You

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know what you believe. Believe you because it's you wallet

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that's been fact checking Trump in real time, And as always,

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thanks for listening. Hey everyone, First of all, thanks for watching.

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