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omething very cool is brewing. And later he said working on a new way to make creative viral videos fast. It's being called Imagine. So maybe Grok will be your solution to meme making. I don't know if it will suggest a meme or if you have to just pick your own image and then add your own text, or will it use AI to suggest viral videos. I don't know if AI is up to that. So I'm going to guess it's…

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traz into a new modern prison.

Do you think that'll actually happen? Why in the world would they think it's a good idea to turn Alcatraz into a prison? There's got to be a cheaper way to do it than putting it on a stupid island. Wouldn't that be the most expensive way you could build a building on an island? I mean, seriously. And so somebody has to ask Trump, if he's an expert on building stuff and construction, but why would he even consider the most expensive building project you could get for something that doesn't need to be a gem? It just needs to be functional if it's a prison.

So I don't know if this is going to go forward, but I would point out that Trump has already monetized a war. I didn't think anybody could do that. But by getting the US out of the business of funding Ukraine and saying that the only thing we're going to do is sell the Europeans weapons that they can give to Ukraine as they want. And so he monetized the Ukraine-Russia war, which I'm legitimately impressed by. If you can't fix it, monetize it.

Likewise, he's added these big tariffs to China because they have not solved the fentanyl problem. Likewise for Mexico and Canada. He doesn't like that they've done enough on fentanyl. So he's tariffing them. So in other words, he couldn't figure out how to solve fentanyl right away. I mean, he's doing all the normal law enforcement things and they're doing well, but it's a really big problem. So instead of solving it, he monetized it. He monetized overdose deaths, which I have no problem with. I mean, if you can't solve it and you're trying as hard as you can, it'd be one thing if he weren't trying to solve it legitimately, but he's also trying to solve it. But until you do, you might as well monetize it. Which is so genius that I don't even have words to describe it. It's like, why didn't anybody else think of that? That you could wait a little bit longer if you're monetizing it.

So when I say that he wants to spend $2 billion on Alcatraz, I wonder, does he have a plan for monetizing that? You know, will he just keep doing tours? Because right now I think you can still do a tour of Alcatraz. You know, it's like a paid tour. Well, maybe he's going to do that but have actual prisoners there to make the tour that much better. So maybe he's figured out a way to monetize that, but I haven't heard it.

Well, in other news, Trump has a medical condition that's not really serious, but he has some leg swelling that's called chronic venous insufficiency. So it's just something that happens to old people. Their veins lose their little valves, according to Dr. Drew, and then you get a little swelling in your legs. So it's common for people who are over 70.

And then allegedly Trump has some kind of hand injury from shaking hands a lot and also being on some kind of aspirin regimen. Do I have that right? That they're genuinely saying he has a hand injury from shaking hands too much while being on an aspirin regimen? Maybe. I suppose t

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hat's entirely possible, but it sounds like such a Trump excuse. Well, I was working so hard, shaking so many hands in disaster zones that, you know, I got injured. So you got that going on. Meanwhile, CNN has some polling information. Gunther Eagleman on X is pointing this out, where even CNN is saying that Trump's approval rating got higher after the Epstein files controversy. Now, are you surp…

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