Welcome to The To the Contrary podcast. I'm Charlie Sykes. You know, when we record these podcasts, I'm always tempted to say this was recorded before the latest really, really horrible, terrible thing that just happened. I don't know what it's going to be, but I think you can be pretty confident that between the time that we're talking and the time that you hear this, there will be some hair on fire ridiculous thing. But I mean, we'll be more ridiculous than Donald Trump finally getting his Nobel Peace Prize.

He thinks he did.

We will talk about that.

Look, the news is mostly grim as we're slouching towards the Insurrection Act.

Donald Trump, once again, musing about canceling the elections.

We have a report that a medical

examiner saying that the death of an ICE detainee may have been homicide. We're going to be

watching that particular story. But before we do any of that, I think today's a good day for a

pallet cleanser. A pallet cleanser. Look, now, you know that we've had a couple of

Marie Antoinette moments from the Trump White House when Donald Trump said that, hey, you know,

you kids don't need more than two dolls and you don't need more than two pencils. This is American

greatness. Of course, this is coming from a man who's building himself a $400 million golden ballroom. But ladies and

gentlemen, in case you have not encountered her, let me introduce you to the Secretary of Agriculture

in the Trump administration, Brooke Rollins, who appeared recently to explain how meals are still affordable, even under the new health care rules. If you haven't,

if you didn't catch this particular viral moment, let me share it with you. We've run over

a thousand simulations. It can cost around $3 a meal for a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli,

you know, corn tortilla, and one other thing. And so there is a way to do this that actually will save the average American consumer

money. Wow. Happy days are here again. A piece of chicken. Piece of broccoli. I don't really think

they sell them in pieces of broccoli.

Tortilla and that one other thing to be determined.

This is American greatness.

Now, some of you may listen to this and go, well, what is she actually talking about?

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