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Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater

Trump Takeover of Washington, D.J.T.

Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater

The First Digital Inc.

News, Christianity, Politics, Religion & Spirituality

4.9592 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

At the press conference for the Trump takeover, the President spoke about scrubbing sidewalks clean. I didn't expect playing this clip would take us in this direction, but I'm glad it did, and we ended up in Matthew 25. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Politics by Faith.

0:05.6

Thanks for being.

0:06.2

Got an email.

0:07.3

Slater at brightbart.com.

0:09.3

This is from Brent in Texas.

0:11.5

He said today's show reminds me of Matthew 25.

0:14.7

Ooh, love that.

0:16.3

We have squandered.

0:18.5

I always had a little trouble getting my head around this scripture because it

0:22.0

seems to reward the rich person and punish the poor. However, the concept of being given a country of

0:27.9

great wealth, resources, and virtue and letting it get to where we are now helps me understand

0:34.2

it better. Really good. I don't exactly know what we said on this would

0:39.7

have been, say it's Thursday today. So this would have been Wednesday show. I don't exactly know what

0:44.2

we said on Wednesday show that inspired Brent's email. It was probably the conversation we had on

0:50.4

sidewalks. We spent an hour talking about sidewalks. Can I tell you how much I prepared talking about sidewalks? Zero. I didn't prepare at all. I had no intention of talking about sidewalks. We did it for over an hour. And it started because I played this clip of Trump at the press conference talking about the need to take over D.C. and to beautify it. And I played this as just a flippant little thing,

1:12.6

but it turned into much more. But here they're really bad. And we're going to either put new

1:19.2

or fix it. And it's not expensive. It's not really expensive. And we're going to fix our roads

1:23.5

a little bit. We're going to clean up our sidewalks. You have countries where every Saturday,

1:28.5

the people go out and they wash their sidewalks in front of their stores of their houses. They scrub.

1:34.0

They scrub their sidewalks. So we aren't quite at that level yet. I don't think, Gatti, we're not

1:40.9

quite there yet, but maybe we will. They go out and they scrub, I think it's so beautiful to hear that and to see those stories.

1:47.0

But we're going to make it clean.

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