Okay, so we're going to get to Governor Whitmer in a moment.

I'm really looking forward to talking to her, hearing what she's hearing out in the country as she's visiting red districts across the country. But first, I want to take you back to the 2011 White House Correspondence Dinner. Yes, that one. You know, the correspondence dinner. It's the annual Washington tradition, kind of a weird one where the the president, members of the press get together,

maybe they have a few drinks, they tell a few jokes at each other's expense. But in 2011,

the dinner was especially notable because that was the year that Barack Obama got up and

absolutely roasted Donald Trump. And there was one joke from that night that I think has a certain

resonance today.

Say what you will about

Mr. Trump. He certainly would

bring some change to the White House.

Let's see what we've got up there.

Thank you. He does not look thrilled.

But that was then President Barack Obama, imagining what felt at the time like a completely

crazy bananas universe, an alternate one, where Trump becomes president and renovates the White

House to look like one of his tacky hotels and casinos. Now, this was, of course, before AI.

So someone at the White House had to actually draw up that ridiculous image you see. But now,

of course, we are living in that crazy, wacky, alternate universe that

Obama conjured up that night a long time ago. By now, you've seen the images of Donald

Trump's construction crews tearing down the entire East Wing of the White House to make room

for a gaudy new ballroom Trump plans to build in its place. As of today, the historic

east wing of the White House that stood for a century that has so much history is completely

gone. And it can be frustrating, way more than that, absolutely infuriating to watch Trump

destroy a building that belongs to all of us without approval from Congress, from really anyone, just because he feels like it.

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