Thanks to you and home for joining us. This is. I'm really happy to have you here.

You know, I just want to speak a little bit bluntly this evening, and I hope you will understand where this is coming from.

But I think it is worth being blunt about the fact that it would be hard to run a presidential transition.

That could be worse than the last one. The last presidential transition was the worst one in American history by a long mile.

The last one included the outgoing president inciting his followers to riot and storm the capital

to try to keep him in power.

That's a bad transition, right?

I mean, the last inauguration had to have thousands of National Guard

troops on hand to protect the proceedings from the threat of more violence from his followers.

At the last presidential transition, the outgoing president didn't even show up for his successors

swearing in. That's a bad transition. The last transition Donald Trump was part of was the worst presidential transition in the history of the country.

And given how disastrously he performed in that last transition, I mean, you have to just assume that this one inherently will be better. It has to be, right?

But I think it is worth being blunt about the fact that it might be

close. Because this, too, is a terrible, terrible presidential transition. And I think it ought

to be more central to the way that we are talking about what's going on in politics and in our country

and in government at this moment. Because this is the transition where the president-elect,

throughout the presidential transition period,

has continued to sell his junk, right?

His self-branded watches and sneakers and Bibles.

He put out a new inauguration day edition of his special branded Bible.

He's still selling boots.

Now he's selling Trump boots and his new crypto, whatever it is,

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