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Letters from an American

July 31, 2025

Letters from an American

Heather Cox Richardson

Politics, News, History

53.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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July 31st, 2025. On Monday, at a meeting with UK Prime Minister Kier Starmar in Scotland,

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President Donald Trump boasted that he was solving all the world's problems. I've stopped six

0:20.2

wars in the last, I'm averaging about a war a month,

0:23.5

but the last three were very close together, India and Pakistan and a lot of them.

0:28.7

Congo was just, and Rwanda was just done, but you probably know I won't go into it very much

0:33.8

because I don't know the final numbers yet. I don't know. Numerous people were killed,

0:38.6

and I was dealing with two countries that we get along with very well, very different countries

0:43.0

from certain standpoints. They've been fighting for 500 years intermittently, and we solved that war.

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You probably saw it just came out over the wire, so we solved it. Yesterday, as Jeff Teedrick noted,

0:56.0

he promised he would fix the United States as well. I think we're going to have the richest

1:01.0

economy you've ever seen. We have money coming in that we've never even thought about, at numbers

1:06.0

that nobody's ever seen before. We have a deal with Japan where they're going to pay us $550 billion. We have a deal with Europe, where they're going to pay us $550 billion.

1:12.6

We have a deal with Europe where they're doing $750 billion plus $400 billion plus $300 billion

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and many other countries. Today the administration announced that Trump is adding a 90,000

1:26.6

square foot event space to the White House.

1:29.6

The White House itself, excluding the East Wing and the West Wing, is about 55,000 square feet.

1:36.9

Groundbreaking for the new ballroom, which will replace the East Wing, is supposed to start in

1:41.9

September, although it is not clear who picked the architects or the

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design. The administration says Trump and private donors will fund the building, which is estimated to

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cost around $200 million. The announcement says that for 150 years, presidents, administrations, and White House staff have longed for a

2:03.5

large event space on the White House complex that can hold substantially more guests than

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currently allowed. Traditionally, the White House has been called the People's House, because it

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