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🗓️ 24 May 2025
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0:00.0 | Hey, good morning. It's Saturday, May the 24th. I'm Ali Velshi. Within the hour, President |
0:12.2 | Donald Trump is going to give the commencement speech to graduates at the U.S. Military Academy |
0:16.6 | at West Point. Now, sometimes the press gets advanced copies of the speech. We don't have one as |
0:22.0 | of now. If it comes along, I'll let you know, but we don't know as a result what the president |
0:26.7 | plans to discuss. And with Donald Trump, it could be anything really, like this $400 million |
0:30.4 | jet from Qatar, which the Pentagon officially accepted this week as a gift to the president |
0:36.0 | to be used possibly as Air Force One, although he probably |
0:39.2 | couldn't tell the students much else about the jet. The administration is classifying all the |
0:43.5 | details it can about that plane, including what renovations or security additions the plane is going |
0:48.4 | to need to make it more suitable for transporting the president, how much those additions will cost, |
0:53.0 | and to whom the contract |
0:54.4 | to do those renovations and additions will be awarded. Notably, because you may say, we're not |
0:59.6 | supposed to know that information, previous Air Force won renovation contracts, including |
1:03.9 | those under Trump's first term, were unclassified information. So, instead of talking about the |
1:10.0 | plane, maybe Trump's going to tell the grads at West Point about his dinner on Thursday night |
1:14.4 | with 220 of the largest investors in his own personal cryptocurrency. |
1:21.4 | Essentially, the 220 people who put the most money in the president's pocket. |
1:25.3 | On average, attendance spent $1.8 million on the president's meme coin. |
1:32.2 | And for those of you, a certain age, who don't know much about meme coins, this is a cryptocurrency |
1:36.4 | that has no intrinsic or underlying value. Although, again, there's probably not much Donald Trump |
1:42.0 | can say because he was barely there himself. |
1:44.9 | According to attendees, he spoke for about 15 minutes, which is record short for the president, |
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