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ybe this is even an Elon Musk thing, or maybe it could start with him. How do you reduce egg prices? I mean, have more chickens and you know the obvious stuff. But is there anything the government can do that makes sense that would lower your egg prices? Subsidize them? I don't know. I'd love to hear it. And then the other thing that was a big surprise to me in the speech was Trump's going big on…

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that says he's part of the Secret Service.

And then there was a moment that was the best moment. So I think the kid's name was DJ, and the kid just looks at it. He's just blown away. It's like the happiest thing. It's just what he loves. And he just goes in for the hug. He just grabs this guy he never met, this white guy who's just the head of the Secret Service I believe, and the 13-year-old just grabs him and hugs him like hugs him cheek to cheek. And then you see the head of the Secret Service, I guess that's who he was. If you know his name give it to me, I'll say it. Curran. He's loving it. Like it's just this moment where there are just two human beings having a genuine hug. And it was great.

So what do you think the Democrats did to that? It was really the ultimate trap. It was the ultimate trap. There was this little moment. First of all it was contrived, contrived in the sense that Trump knew that if you put these elements together it's going to be an emotional impact. So it was contrived in that way. But it was also completely genuine in the sense that the emotions of the kid and the emotions of the gentleman who gave him the little Secret Service ID, those were real emotions. And there was spontaneity to it and it was genuine. It was authentic even given the setup which was artificial.

Curran is that the name of the Secret Service guy? Yeah. So this beautiful moment. So then on MSNBC, yeah, you switch to MSNBC and they're trying to find something wrong with it. And Rachel Maddow, she's got some damn thing. She's acting like Trump's taking credit for curing the kid's brain cancer. So she's all disgusted. 80% of the entire country is like, oh my God that was good. Like that's a moment. That's what I like to see. And they've got to be on the other side of it.

And so what did Nicole Wallace say? I have to find the Nicole Wallace thing. I'm jumping ahead here. It was my favorite moment anyway. She had some complaints about it. We'll get to that, Nicole Wallace.

So now I don't think that this is the most important part of the speech, but it was hilarious how he set the frame and set the trap and then they fell right into it.

Anyway, then Representative Green, who's a Democrat that you might recognize as the one who always wants to impeach Trump on his first day of office. So I think he's put in for a bunch of impeachment acts. But he gets up and I guess he started yelling but he wasn't on the microphone so on video it didn't look like he was making much of a dent. But he refused to sit down. And then I'm watching Speaker of the House Johnson who's sitting behind the president for the speech with JD Vance in the back. And Johnson, you could see him getting ready for action because it would be his job to get order in the house.

And so I see him reach over and he turns his microphone toward himself and I'm like, oh it's on. It's on. This is going to be good. And I was more interested in how he did it. Like, you know, could he pull it off in a dignified way? Could he get Green to sit down? And what I saw was even better than that. Like he waited and then he jumps in and it looked like Trump was sort of expecting it. And so Trump stands back and just lets it happen.

And then Representative Johnson jumps in and then he reads something that he had prepared obviously that said something like, you know, the members will show decorum in the room, blah blah blah. And that didn't make a difference so Green just kept yelling. And then Johnson said essentially if we can't restore order the sergeant at arms will be asked to restore order. Now that kind of means escort him out. But that didn't take, so he had to do it again. And eventually the sergeant at arms I guess came down and just sort of gently guided Representative Green out. And I'm sure Green was expecting it because he was pushing it to try to get the maximum effect.

But here's what I like the best. I figured out who would be the best casting for the next Starship captain for *Star Trek*. You know there's always another *Star Trek* spinoff. But Representative Johnson, he has the perfect Starship captain voice. It's just such a command voice. I just absolutely love to hear him talk. But we usually hear him talk about boring budget things and diplomatic things and stuff. But when he had to talk, I won't say like a tough guy but rather like a captain, he talked like a captain. It was matter of fact but it was powerful. It was forceful. He didn't leave any wiggle room. There was no uptalk in it. He basically just laid it out. This is what's going to happen. If you do it again you'll be removed. It was excellent. It was just great TV.

By the way the whole thing was great TV. I don't think I've ever anticipated one of these types of speeches as much as this. If you were watching from the very beginning there seemed to be almost an electricity in the air. I was watching a little CNN before it went live, before Trump actually showed up, and even CNN seemed to be buzzing with some kind of energy that wasn't typical, certainly wouldn't have had with Biden.

So then Melania does her entry and I'm thinking to myself, when was the last time a first lady did an entry that was that perfect for the show? Just sort of perfect. She just has that elegance and grace kind of thing going on that's unusual. So she's perfect. The setup is perfect. The lighting, the room, the camera work, the anticipation, the buzzing. And then Trump comes in and starts working and there's this protester with a little sign. One of the pink dressed women gets up so that as Trump has to work his way through the aisle to get up to the podium you're forced to see her with her little sign. And her sign says "this is not normal" on this little white sign. But the funny thing is it looked like it could be talking about herself as much as Trump. So that part was funny. Yeah, this is not normal.

I guess some Republican grabbed it out of her hand and just tossed it or something. I don't even know if that's legal, can you grab something out of somebody's hand? But I didn't see it on camera, the grabbing out of the hand part. But that was funny.

And at first I didn't know wh

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y Trump gave the stink eye to somebody because he was sort of glad-handing and saying hi to everybody and then he did this look to the right and just gave this look and then looks away. And I think he was looking at the pink suit lady. Anyway, what else happened? So basically I've been making fun of the Democrats for not being authentic where Trump is completely owning the authentic part of the a…

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