Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Weekender edition of my great podcast, Majority at Sexton. I'm talking to Nick Halseman, who is in a business center at a hotel.

I am, probably the only person in this room for weeks at a time.

That used to be the lifeline of American commerce, and now it's where political podcasters and pundits go when they're on the road chasing their dreams.

Well, hey, my dad still prints out his boarding pass when he gets on a plane.

I love your dad so much.

I love now.

Now I'm going to be thinking about him printing out his boarding paths every time I get a boarding pass.

I'm very excited about that awesome

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Nick, um, in the absolute chaos that is the Donald Trump political presidential experience,

there are things that happen every now and then

that still surprise you a little bit, even though you're not completely surprised. It's just stuff

that stops you in your tracks. Trump's White House, on top of releasing an ASMR video of

immigrants being thrown out of the country, inviting people to enjoy their pain

and their suffering. One of the most sadistic things I've ever seen. The White House has also

released a meme that pictures Donald Trump wearing a crown along with the words, long live the king.

This type of stuff is what we have talked about in terms of what Trump wants

and what the Republican Party and particularly Maga has wanted from him. But seeing this in such

stark terms, quite frankly, was stunning. It wasn't, I mean, we've seen then share,

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