Welcome to another episode of Lurie Breaks It Down, a podcast where we dig deeply to connect the dots on the issues that shape our world.

I'm Lurie Daniel Favors, author, activist, attorney, and the host of the Lurie Daniel Favors show on Sirius XM's Urban View, Channel 126. If you like what you're about to hear, go ahead and give us five stars and then tell everybody that you know. And if you don't like it, just, child, keep it to yourself and pray our strength. Okay, thank you so much. Also, don't forget to check out my YouTube page, Lurie Daniel Favor's Media, where you should subscribe, like, and share, because then you'll get notified when I post videos from my show, which I do just about every single day and when I go live with my YouTube audience. Do you guys remember during Donald Trump's first administration when everything was Infrastructure Week? Like every time that man got in trouble, it was like, oh, what could we do

to distract the people from what I just did that I don't want them to pay attention to? And he was like,

oh, I know. We could do an Infrastructure Week. This was literally the concept that Donald Trump

invoked whenever the failures of his leadership

became too glaringly obvious to ignore. In fact, in 2019, there was an article out on CNN called

this phrase has become a running joke on the Trump administration. Y'all want to guess what

the phrase was? You guessed it. Infrastructure Week. Now, it was sort of like the Bermuda

triangle. According to the CNN article,

there were at least seven times that Donald Trump's White House declared that its chosen theme for a

week was going to be infrastructure. And that never actually happened. He never actually got

to doing any infrastructure. In fact, the massive infrastructure legislation that did get

passed recently in Congress was the bill back better bill, not the big bitch-ass bill that came

later, the build-back better bill. This was the infrastructure legislation that basically

invested billions of dollars into repairing bridges and roads and building out libraries

and laying down pipes and all sorts of

things for plumbing and doing what was necessary to bring rural communities and communities

that were not yet connected to broadband fully online. And CNN in this article goes through

all of these moments where Donald Trump was getting into trouble, something bad was happening,

and so he declared another infrastructure

week. And Infrastructure Week was really a running joke in that administration because there were at least

seven times, again, seven times that Donald Trump chose to focus on infrastructure, never actually

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