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A lot of stuff happened this week.

The Washington Post, you know, this is always the biggest Trump-hating newspaper, Trump

derangement syndrome.

But Jeff Bezos has kind of cleaned it up a

little, gotten it back to more of a normal newspaper, not always bashing Trump. They've defended

him on a couple of things. The shutdown, they've yelled at Democrats to stop being so crazy about

the shutdown. And here's another one. They praised Donald Trump's

aggressive approach to building his new ballroom. Washington Post says in classic Trump fashion,

president pursuing a reasonable idea in the most jarring manner possible, the board wrote.

But they said his plans are great and they said they should

have submitted the plans ahead of time and all of that. But then the Democrats would have gone

crazy and held it up forever. So they actually applaud the aggressive, just get it done.

Don't let it get bogged down in committees and government and Congress.

As the Washington Post point out, the blueprints would have faced death by a thousand cuts.

And he said, Washington Post also points out privately, many people from the Biden and the Obama White Houses acknowledge this is long overdue that they wish they had had this ballroom, that they wish they had an event space like Trump is creating.

It was a big problem for every president.

You know, when these presidents go to other countries, when they go to any world leader, anywhere in the world, you saw the dinner that Prince Charles threw them in the most unbelievable,

ornate, spectacular dining room ever in the world.

You go to France.

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