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🗓️ 9 July 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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0:00.0 | Have you ever heard the expression rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic? I'm sure you have. |
0:05.7 | I mean, it's supposed to be an unbelievable exaggeration of someone engaging in a trivial task during a crisis. |
0:12.2 | Today, Trump won up did. Today, we all watched in horror as we saw the death toll climb in the flooding in Texas to 109 people. |
0:22.6 | There are at least 161 people still missing and an active search and rescue mission. |
0:28.6 | The situation in Texas is very much an ongoing crisis. |
0:32.6 | It's not just there. That is where it's most serious, of course, |
0:35.6 | but the people of North Carolina and South Carolina are also recovering from storms. And hurricane season is far from over, and the people |
0:44.4 | who are in communities that are continuously hit every year very much know that. And that was all the backdrop |
0:51.0 | of Donald Trump's cabinet meeting today, where he addressed |
0:55.5 | the ongoing federal response near the beginning of the meeting and announced he will be visiting |
0:59.2 | Texas and the area impacted on Friday. |
1:02.9 | But he also had another pressing matter he felt the need to address in that meeting. |
1:08.0 | He spent almost 15 minutes talking about how he redecorated the cabinet room |
1:13.1 | of the White House. |
1:15.7 | I actually spent time in the vaults. The vaults are where we have a lot of great pictures |
1:20.5 | and artwork. And I picked it all myself. That's Andrew Jackson. That's a gentleman named and we call him President Polk. |
1:30.3 | He was sort of a real estate guy. And then you have Dwight Eisenhower who was a very underrated president. |
1:36.3 | And then over there is Honestay of Lincoln. And then over here you have John Adams. |
1:41.3 | We got the drapes and we got the whole thing. We got new drapes, and we got the whole thing, we've got new drapes. |
1:45.0 | Here we put on, you know, these lamps have been very important, actually. |
1:50.8 | We also painted the room a nice color, beige. |
1:54.2 | The only question is, will I gold leaf the corners? |
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