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Here's what I've been grappling with.

Donald Trump has just had, I would say, the best two weeks of his presidency,

being hailed around the world as a global peacemaker,

pulling off something that just seemed impossible,

a ceasefire, which hopefully will last, between Israel and Hamas,

the returning of the living hostages, although now we've hit a snag with terrorist group

saying, well, we can only find a few of the hostages that are deceased. I mean, why are they

deceased? You know, for the same reason that they were taken in the first place, which is, by the way, a war crime. These are deceased. I mean, why are they deceased? You know, for the same reason that they were

taken in the first place, which is, by the way, a war crime. These are civilians. So, you know,

there are these underground caverns and network of tunnels. But in any event, you know,

Trump goes to Israel, gives a triumphant speech to the parliament, and then he goes to Egypt

and meets with not just Arab, but European leaders. And he's getting all this praise, well-deserved,

from Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, the media, which he thanked, Jimmy Kimmel, James Carvel, Bill Marr, and then he came home.

And what's the situation here in a rather sharp contrast, government employees, not being

paid under this shutdown that was dragged on for two weeks, and which Trump engineered in

this sense that.

He refused to seriously negotiate with Democrats about the prospect of these soaring Obamacare premiums.

So it's a Republican budget.

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