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s or have somebody sitting next to you to wake you up. But it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. But Scott Jennings is pushing back on that. "I saw the man a few days ago in the Oval Office for about an hour. He looked and sounded fine. Wide range of issues. People were coming and going. It was bustling. He was listening attentively and running the entire three-hour marathon cabinet meeting." So maybe that's another fake news. So I don't know.

The video won't be shown on the news stations I watch. What do you mean? I watch both sides of the news. How many of you think I don't watch CNN? I do watch CNN. I don't watch MSNBC so much because that's not even trying to be news. CNN at least is trying to be news most of the time, you know, and they may stray a little bit from perfection. But if you look at them lately, not five years ago, but if you look at them lately, it looks like they're trying to do news. So I always sample CNN and all the regular mainstream news. So no, I would definitely have seen it if it were circulating, but it was a good accusation.

Well, President Trump has called Ilhan Omar garbage. Now compare the outrage or lack of it with what Trump said this week to how much outrage there would have been in his first term. And it's completely different. So this is something Trump actually said. Quote, "Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage. These aren't people that work. These aren't people that say, 'Let's go. Come on. Let's make this place great.' These are people that do nothing but complain. When they come from hell and they complain and do nothing but, we don't want them in our country. Let them go back to where they came from and fix it."

All right. So was that racist? Was it sexist? What was it? Was it racist or sexist? And are you surprised at how little pushback there is on this? There's a little bit, but it doesn't feel like it would have five years ago, does it? Five years ago this would have been the only story and they would have slammed it over and over again and it would all be about he wouldn't call a white person this and if it were a white person he wouldn't do that. If it were a man he wouldn't do that even if he would.

So does it seem to you that Trump has cornered the Democrats because their one play, their go-to all the time was identity politics. So he goes right in the middle of the identity politics and does a tap dance on top of it. It's like watch this. They're garbage when they come from hell and they complain and do nothing but. We don't want you in our country. Yes, you're garbage. All your friends are garbage. And he basically just gets away with it because I think the Democrats have finally caught on that if they take the bait and they go down the identity politics, it doesn't get them to be the next president. People don't care. Most Americans don't really care about whether he's insulting Somalians who are ripping off the country. They're not all ripping off the country. Let me say that because I'm no racist. But there are some prominent stories of Somalian crooks stealing a billion dollars from Minneapolis, Minnesota I should say. So yeah, but it's not every one of them. So don't be like that. There are plenty of good Somalis. I don't know any Somalis, but I'm just assuming. I assume there's some good ones.

Anyway, Ilhan Omar is garbage and all of her friends are garbage. All right. Well, that was fun. They're not all garbage. Come on. They're people. They're human beings. People, stop being that way. But it is pretty funny when Trump is that way.

Well, the Trump administration has officially halted immigration and naturalization from 19 third world countries. So I remember when doing that was a racist act. But now, not so much. Not so much. Doesn't seem so racist now, does it?

And have Democrats learned that pushing back against identity politics or embracing it doesn't work? Have they or do they just not have any leadership? Because it seems to me and see if you agree that Trump is giving them all kinds of red meat. Just all kinds of red meat and they don't seem to be chomping on it. But they're also not doing anything else that's working. Maybe they just think they can wait him out, which they can, by the way. They could wait him out.

Anyway, it does make me wonder if Democrats have literally had a meeting and said, "All right, we can't let him bait us like this. Every time he baits us into this identity politics thing, he wins and we lose. So just don't take the bait." Do you think that's happening or is it just some lack of leadership that they can't organize a counterattack? I don't know. I don't know.

Meanwhile, a town has squashed a plan to build in their town a large Muslim school. And locals say they don't want to become like Dearborn or Great Britain, which I imagine means they don't want to have too many Muslims in their town. But the reason that they gave for turning it down had to do with traffic. Do you believe that? And do you believe that Alabama turned down the Muslim school because of the impact it would have on traffic? Well, maybe. I mean, traffic's real and maybe, but that was kind of convenient because then they didn't have to have a deeper argument about what their concerns were. So we'll see if there's more of that or less of that.

I wonder why you can't just turn it down for being a Muslim school. Like, that's not a good enough reason. Now, I get that we're America, blah blah blah, but wouldn't a Muslim school be sort of at odds with whatever standards there are for American schools? I feel like a Muslim school would have a tough time meeting the requirements of a regular school. So I got questions.

Anyway, so Secretary Sean Duffy, Transportation Secretary, he warned Governor Walz of Minnesota to revoke illegally issued driver's licenses from non-citizens or lose 30 million in highway funding, according to Just the News. So Minnesota failed to follow the law says Duffy and ill

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egally doled out lots of trucking licenses that would be unsafe because the people are not qualified. So that's happening. 30 million in federal highway funding. Huh. So I have a question for Governor Walz of Minnesota. I mean, I'm just reading the news and there are a variety of things in the news about Minnesota. And the overarching question that it makes me wonder about is did Governor Walz do…

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