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🗓️ 11 November 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, first of all, the East Wing was a beautiful little tiny structure that was built many years ago that was renovated and expanded and disbanded and columns ripped out and it had nothing to do with the original building. |
| 0:14.4 | It was a poor, sad site, and I could have built the ballroom around it, but it would not have been. |
| 0:20.9 | We're building one of the greatest ballrooms in the world. |
| 0:22.7 | By the way, zero money spent by the government, zero. |
| 0:26.9 | The East Wing is being spent by private donors, and it's a $250,000 million building. |
| 0:34.0 | It's going to be the most beautiful anywhere in the world. |
| 0:36.8 | I've got to say, Willie, I've heard the White House, the People's White House called |
| 0:43.2 | many things. I've never heard it described as a sad little house. |
| 0:48.8 | It's called it a dump in the past, too. |
| 0:52.0 | Yeah, yeah. I mean, this remarkable historical place just wiped out without a second thought. |
| 1:00.3 | And, of course, so many people who support him, who will support him no matter what he does, |
| 1:05.7 | don't even stop and think twice about him just completely wiping out American history in that part of the White House. |
| 1:14.6 | But anyway, let's talk about Veterans Day, Willie, which of course, you know, it's today. |
| 1:23.3 | And this is a day where we stop and we pause. |
| 1:26.7 | And we remember all of those who stopped and paused their lives and that of their families |
| 1:32.7 | to give their all for this country. |
| 1:38.2 | And I know, Willie, you've lived it in recognizing those veterans through the years. |
| 1:46.5 | And you understand, and so many people understand, |
| 1:50.0 | that we just know these vets a debt for all they've done for us. |
| 1:55.9 | And it's important that we repay that debt, |
| 1:59.0 | not just in words one day a year, but also in our |
| 2:04.2 | actions day in and day out. As we remember the things, the values that they fought for, and the |
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