America is deeply divided. There are only two sides to every issue and there is no interest in finding common ground, not even with members of your own family.

But as the 2024 presidential election looms on the horizon, there has never been a more important time to have the necessary conversation.

Welcome to the necessary conversation. I'm Chad Colchin. With me, as always, is my mom, who is

starting today off by flipping us off in the Zoom meeting that we used to record these podcasts.

Don't quite understand that.

My dad is also here, as is my sister.

And if you're new to the program, how this works is.

Both my parents, Mary Lou and Bob, are staunch conservatives.

They are Trump supporters.

My sister and I, Haley, are not.

And so we have not had conversations about any of this, really since

Trump was elected. It's been kind of a moratorium on political conversation, which has spread into

month-long periods where we don't talk to each other at all. And so this podcast is really designed to

force our family to talk to each other again in one way or another and to talk about politics.

So for the past few weeks, we've been discussing current political events.

But today, I thought we do something a little different.

Like I said, as a family, we really haven't talked to each other in several years because politics

ever divided us. So we never got a chance to discuss some of Donald Trump's more outrageous

moments as president and even on the campaign trail. He obviously said a lot of things that

broke precedent at every turn. He tweeted over 25,000 times during his four years in the White

House. All of these tweets were considered official White House statements.

Many of his public statements were received as inflammatory and offensive, and he has,

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