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y Trump's popularity on the border is going down now? It's a little bit negative. It's because he already solved it. Nobody cares about the border now because he solved it. So now it's like, yeah, who cares? Yeah, now I will only look at the bad parts now because you solved all the other parts. You know, the hordes of people coming across. That's what I was really worried about. But that's solved.…
← Previous segment →ed, it's going to give $10 million. So he's already got almost $200 million that's pledged, which makes me ask the following question. How the hell much does a ballroom cost? You can't get a ballroom built for under $200 million. Really? I mean, it's mostly a big empty room. $200 million. I don't know. Something wrong with that. CBS News is talking about that.
Anyway, how many of you believed that Trump would pay for the ballroom entirely by himself? I mean, seriously, how many of you believed he really was going to pay for that all by himself? Now, I do kind of like the fact that he said it because it put some distance between the story that it was going to get built and then the question of who's paying for it. So time goes by and then the story about who's paying for it obviously. Yeah. Didn't you know it was going to be donations? Even if he didn't ask for donations, you don't think people would have offered if they knew he was going to pay for it? You don't think one of the big companies would say, you know, you don't have to pay for all of it. I mean, we could kick in a few million. Of course they would. It would be the most obvious thing they could ever do because it has a direct benefit to the president because he doesn't have to spend his own money.
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ically, all right, let me just say it. He created a new way to get bribed. It's totally legal. So if you imagine that he would have lost, let's just say, $200 million of his own money if he built it, and you're a company that can say, well, I can't pay for the whole $200 million, but I can take $10 million off your plate so you wouldn't have to pay that personally, is that a bribe? Is it a bribe w…
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