Searching Through the Rubble of the White House for One Little Bit of Positive News

DSR's Words Matter

Riley Fessler

News, Government

4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump just tore down the East Wing of the White House. Yup, that’s right - the President of the United States, in the middle of a government shutdown, decides that what America really needs is a new grand ballroom in Washington, DC. Where is the accountability? How is such corrupt politics being normalized? Join David Rothkopf and Norm Ornstein as they search through the rubble and try to find answers. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:58.4	and from other undisclosed locations across America and around the world.
1:04.9	Hello, welcome to DSR's Words Matter. I'm David Rothkopf, and I've joined this week as every week by the
1:12.6	abeliant, optimistic, little merry sunshine, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Far, I don't know,
1:23.9	something like that, Norm, Ornstein. How are you today, Norm?
1:27.6	About the same as usual, David.
1:29.6	About the same.
1:30.3	Have you, do you spend any time today at the White House website looking at their timeline
1:36.7	of major events about renovations?
1:39.8	Did you see what they did?
1:41.6	I have not.
1:42.8	Tell me.
1:43.6	Oh, my God. So what they did? I have not. Tell me. Oh, my God.
1:45.4	So what they did because they're sort of underwater on, you know, because they tore down
1:53.3	the East Wing and they're building this ridiculous thing that nobody wants them to build,
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