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Today we speak to Dre, the investigative journalist behind the Drey dossier.

Today, she's going to be talking to us about Trump's alleged ballroom, the ballroom that

he's building at the White House, the one that recently went over budget, and he increased the budget and said that it's now under budget.

Now as stupid as all this is, Drey has some very convincing evidence that he's not building a ballroom at all and something a lot more nefarious.

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Let's talk about Trump's ballroom.

For anybody that has no idea what we mean when we say the ballroom,

they might have seen some of these weird images,

particularly the meme that I thought was AI,

right? It's Trump, like, standing on top of the White House,

like the hat man, staring out across all the construction.

He was doing this, like, yes.

Yeah.

Like, evil, like, kind of, like of swooping kind of stance.

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