All right. One piece of business to get to before we get started tonight. If you want to come to a live event that I'm doing, there are tickets available right now for an interview I'm going to be doing with Michael McFall on the topic of autocrats versus Democrats. That is the title of his new book, which is out next week. I'm going to be doing a live event with Michael McFall on on that topic, autocracy versus democracy, next Thursday night, October 30th in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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or just go to matoblog.com if you want to get tickets next Thursday, October 30th in Cambridge.

All right, that's it.

Now let's get down to the real business at hand.

You know, you cannot help but wonder if President Donald Trump didn't wait until after

this weekend's massive no-kings protests.

You can't help but wonder if he didn't wait until these protests were already done before

today he started literally physically tearing down the White House.

This is not AI.

That is a real thing.

I mean, the No Kings Day protests saw 7 million Americans turning out

in the streets coast to coast protesting against him this weekend. Imagine how many

millions more there might have been if we had seen these images on Friday instead of him starting to do this today.

Trump literally today sent a, like a rental backhoe to physically rip down the east wing

of the White House.

Okay.

He's already paved the Rose Garden.

Literally, he paved it. That's the Rose Garden, except,

oh no, it's a patio at a Panera in a strip mall. He paved the Rose Garden. He took up parts of the White House lawn to put up huge flagpoles so he could fly novelty-size American flags over the White House

to make it look like it's an RV dealership that's going out of business. He hung cheap gold

decorations all over the Oval Office, just random little gold gugas to make it look like a Hilton

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