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Chapter 1: What are the major controversies discussed in this episode?
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So the fallout continues from President Trump's address to a joint session of Congress the other night. Again, I was there and it was an amazing experience. The enthusiasm in the room from the Republicans was off the charts and the radical depression into which Democrats have sunk is quite real.
They are so disorganized, so unable to come to any sort of answer for President Trump's steamroller and juggernaut of an early administration that it felt disorganized. It felt ridiculous. It felt as though a bunch of spoiled college students couldn't get it together. And instead, they decided to sit on their hands.
And so it was a big optic win for President Trump, which he is going to need because we are now about to enter the most tumultuous period of President Trump's presidency. I say most tumultuous because the first month, the president has a lot of political capital to spend. This is true for every president.
When a president is first elected, that president usually has a pretty high popularity rating. They have a bit of a halo effect from winning. And they spend the first month putting forward most of their sort of big agenda items. But then the rubber meets the road. Things start to get a lot tougher, ranging from how to fund the government to how to solve war. New crises emerge.
The sort of act two of any presidency doesn't begin a year in. Act two of any presidency begins about a month in, and that is where we currently are. So the sort of optic capital that President Trump earned from this joint address to Congress – I think was really, really strong. Yesterday, that continued at the White House.
DJ Daniels, of course, very cute 13 year old kid who's suffering from brain cancer. And he visited the White House. And then he went on Fox News and said thank you to President Trump.
I'd like to say thank you to him. And I hope he got his cowboy hat because I bought him a brown one from Texas. But I'm not sure if they got it out the thing that where they check it because the dog had to sniff it and stuff like that.
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Chapter 2: How did President Trump's joint session address affect political optics?
Mary Margaret, you were on Air Force One last week with the President of the United States flying back down to Palm Beach. How did that go?
Well, that was really cool. I was able to travel on Air Force One last weekend as part of the travel pool. And what that means is I was part of a group of reporters who went on Air Force One and kind of tracked the president's movements over the weekend. Now, he went golfing at Trump International Golf Course in Palm Beach on both Saturday and Sunday.
He was meeting with prominent people, including Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and his wife. He had lunch with them and golfed with them. And I'm told he was actually doing some speech prep for the joint address. So we weren't able to ask him questions, but that proximity is still really important.
And one thing that I thought was super interesting was that when we got on the plane, we saw all these massive boxes being loaded onto Air Force One. And it was later revealed to us by Stephen Chung, who's one of Trump's advisers, that those boxes were full of the president's personal property that had been taken from him by the FBI during the Mar-a-Lago raid.
So they were loaded onto Air Force One and they traveled with us back to Palm Beach. And we were told that these were personal items. They were not significant items. They could have been as mundane as clothing and diaries and things like that. So that was really interesting and great to be there and get to experience Air Force One. They have really good food, which I was surprised by.
That was Mary Margaret Olihan at the White House every day as our Daily Wire White House correspondent. Congrats on, again, being in the new media seat yesterday and I look forward to checking in with you soon.
Thanks, Ben.
Again, gigantic failure by Democrats. And President Trump did something quite brilliant in the speech. I talked to many people in the White House yesterday and they said that the most brilliant thing in the speech, which was President Trump deliberately calling out the Democrats and saying they won't clap for anything I'm about to say.
It put them in such a difficult position because then if they clap for what he was saying, they might prove him wrong. But they'd be clapping for what he said. And if they didn't clap for what he was saying, then they look like Jackie. because many of the things that he was saying were totally unifying and apolitical.
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Chapter 3: What role does Mary Margaret Olihan play at The Daily Wire?
French President Emmanuel Macron says, I want to believe the US will stand by our side. We have to be ready for that not to be the case. The future of Europe must not be decided in Washington or Moscow, which, okay, fine. That's great. I mean, again, I think that President Trump is very much on board with the Europeans taking the lead on this sort of stuff.
Apparently, Germany is about to blow out its debt ceiling in an attempt to radically increase their defense spending, which, of course, is necessary in the face of Russian predation. None of that is particularly bad. And I think all the pyrotechnics aside, we could end up with a salutary end to this war because of what President Trump is doing.
He's putting pressure on the Ukrainians to come to the table. They're ready. Now the pressure needs to be on Vladimir Putin to come to the table. And the pressure that he's put on the Ukrainians has been accompanied by a radical revision upward of European security spending, which is good. And the end of this could be quite salutary from President Trump.
And if so, he deserves an enormous amount of credit. It's a little early to say that. Let's get there first. If it does end the way that it could, that would be a very, very good thing. And meanwhile, speaking of foreign policy and the President of the United States' peace through strength. So the President of the United States yesterday
put out an ultimatum to Hamas because Hamas is still holding American hostages and indeed holding probably 35 live hostages somewhere in that neighborhood. The president of the United States put out an ultimatum to Hamas in some of the strongest language he has yet issued. Quote, "'Shalom, Hamas' means hello and goodbye. You can choose."
Release all of the hostages now, not later, and immediately return all of the dead bodies of the people you murdered or it is over for you. Only sick and twisted people keep bodies and you are sick and twisted. I am sending Israel everything it needs to finish the job. Not a single Hamas member will be safe if you don't do as I say.
I've just met with your former hostages whose lives you have destroyed. This is your last warning for the leadership. Now is the time to leave Gaza while you still have a chance. Also to the people of Gaza, a beautiful future awaits, but not if you hold hostages. If you do, you are dead. Make a smart decision. Release the hostages now or there will be hell to pay later.
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States. Love it. Love it. Couldn't possibly love that more. Imagine if this had been the angle of the United States on October 8th, as opposed to Joe Biden being a cowardly fraud. Amazing stuff from President Trump.
The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, explained in more detail President Trump's language here, although it didn't really require a lot of explication. This is the beautiful thing about President Trump. If you're ever wondering what he's thinking, you shouldn't. He just says it. Here was Marco Rubio yesterday.
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