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So yesterday President Trump traveled to Texas with Melania. They landed in, I think it was Corpus Christi, where they met with the governor of Texas as well. Greg Abbott, we'll talk about everything that's spraying there from and what the media's narrative has been. Of course, it's been a garbage narrative and we'll talk about what that is. But first, I want to say thank you to our sponsors over at Inzo Chino. So you want to look good. You're a dude and you want to look good. And you don't know the first thing about suits. All you do is you go to your local department store and you pick something off the rack and you think, oh, this is probably fine. No, it looks like you're wearing drapes. That's why you need to go over to my friends at Inzo Chino. Okay, they give you customized suits. They get you customized suits that are tailor-made for you, and they are making it very, very easy. You choose from hundreds of top-quality fabrics. You personalize your suit just the way you want it, whether for work, a wedding, or another special occasion. They've suited up hundreds of thousands of men. My favorite suit is an Inzo Chino suit. It's actually a three-pieceer. I don't wear it that often because, you know, vests, but it's pretty cool. And it fits perfectly because that's what Inzo Chino is in the business of doing.

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that we sent you as well. Okay. So yesterday, President Trump goes to Texas. And the reason that we have politicians

go to these places is because if we don't, then the media suggests that they're bad people.

That's how this game works. When George W. Bush did a flyover of Hurricane Katrina back in 2006, 2007,

then the media went nuts. How dare George W. Bush do such a thing? How could George W. Bush

not actually land in New Orleans and take care of business on the ground? Like, I always thought

this was stupid because I'm not sure exactly why it is, sorry, it was 2005, I'm not sure why it is

that George W. Bush, like, what was he going to do on the ground? Was he going to, out and start bailing? It was he going to go to a homeless shelter and start handing out food in a way that no other two human hands on the planet could do? It seems like a massive distraction to me. Whenever a president does this, it seemed like a distraction. When Obama wanted to do this during Hurricane Sandy, and then Chris Christie hosted him in New Jersey, I'm not a big fan of this whole, the president has to go there, like he's the king, like he's the emperor and he must land, and now he will bring order to a chaotic situation. Like, did anyone feel more secure that Trump went? That's not a rip on Trump. That's a rip on the system. Trump did what he had to do. He went there, because if he hadn't, then the media would have ripped him up and down. So naturally, the media focused on a couple of aspects of this that are completely irrelevant. The federal response to Hurricane Harvey has been quite good so far. There's been no evidence that the feds have been asleep on the job, asleep at the switch. The state response has been quite good. The city response, the local response, has been quite good. Everybody did what they've been doing, which is why you have this historic flooding in Houston, and I believe we're still in single digits as far as the number of people who are dead, which every one of those is a tragedy, but let's be real. If this flood happened in a third world country, we'd be talking about tens of thousands of people dead, not, I think it's now six individuals dead in this flooding, seven individuals dead. By the time it's

over, I'm sure there will be a couple of dozen people who died. But that is a testament to the

emergency services and the capacity of the government to help out in situations like this. But is that

what the media are focused on? No. They're focused on all the optics because whenever Trump

visits any place, it's all about the optics. So Trump arrives and he's wearing his USA hat because that's what he does. And Melania, all of the focus is on Melania in terms of a lot of the optics. So the first focus was on the fact that when she was leaving the White House, she was wearing heels. Okay, so she then changed on the plane and she was wearing sneakers when she got there, which makes some sense.

But why do we care about her shoes again? Just confused as to that. Oh, no, she was wearing heels. Zach Braff of Scrubs fame said that he wanted to dress in Melania's heels for Halloween. You want to do Melania going to a disaster zone for Halloween. And then Melania shows up, and she looks beautiful because she's a beautiful woman. and she's wearing a hat that says on it floatus.

This is First Lady of the United States.

So you've got Trump wearing his... And then Melania shows up and she looks beautiful because she's a beautiful woman. And she's wearing a hat that says on it Flotus.

This is the first lady of the United States. So you've got Trump wearing his USA hat and she's wearing a hat that says who she is, which I got to admit I'm never a huge fan of this particular look. It would be the equivalent of me wearing a Ben Shapiro Thug Life hat around. Like, it's just, like, if you don't know who Melania is, she's the wife of the president.

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