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Chapter 1: What announcement did Trump make at the press conference?
Horrible stuff coming out of the White House. Donald Trump just held a bizarre and dangerous press conference where he announced he would be eliminating the Department of Education. He signed an executive order that sets in motion a process to get rid of the Department of Education. Here, Donald Trump says that it sounds strange to say this, but the Department of Education will be gone.
Let's play the clip.
But I believe we'll get it done. Today we take a very historic action that was 45 years in the making. In a few moments, I will sign an executive order to begin eliminating the Federal Department of Education once and for all. And it sounds strange, doesn't it? Department of Education, we're going to eliminate it. And everybody knows it's right. And the Democrats know it's right.
And I hope they're going to be voting for it because ultimately it may come before them. But everybody knows it's right.
Now, Donald Trump set up a fake classroom to hold this awful press conference, and he used children as props in this fake classroom where he was gutting the futures of children. Let's play the clip.
Yeah, do it.
I think so.
Maybe I should speak to this question in advance.
Then Donald Trump says that he hopes that Linda McMahon, who was appointed to be the secretary of the Department of Education, will be the last secretary since the department will no longer exist. Let's play the clip.
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Chapter 2: How did Trump justify eliminating the Department of Education?
And the funding, and this will be my last point, the funding is for poor kids. The funding is for kids with disabilities. The funding is for career tech ed pathways. The funding is for kids who are trying to become English proficient. The funding is for rural kids.
The funding is for kids who are going to college as the first one in their families, the first generation to go to college, and they're trying to make it work and have a little scholarship. That's why you saw that kids are basically saying, I'm having none of this because they see their futures being snatched.
More from Donald Trump on shutting down the Department of Education. He goes, we're shutting it down and we're shutting it down as quickly as possible. Let's play it.
Administration will take all lawful steps to shut down the department. We're going to shut it down and shut it down as quickly as possible. It's doing us no good. We want to return. our students to the states where just some of the governors here are so happy about this. They want education to come back to them, to come back to the states, and they're going to do a phenomenal job.
You know, if you look, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, I have to tell you, I give them a lot of credit. China's top 10. And so we can't now say that bigness is making it impossible to educate because China is very big. But you have countries that do a very good job in education.
And I really believe, like some of the governors here today, from states that run very, very well, including a big state like Texas, but states that run very well are going to have education that will be as good as Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and those top Finland, those top.
So while all of this is going on, what are the priorities of the Trump regime? Well, you had Howard Lutnick, Donald Trump's commerce secretary, talking about how Americans need to purchase $30,000 robots from Elon Musk. Let's play it.
Elon Musk is probably the best person to bet on I've ever met. And I think we all know that. I mean, gosh, in the same week that he saves astronauts with his rockets that he invented, imagine that. He's building the coolest robots you've ever seen. Go online and look up Optimus. It is the coolest thing you've ever seen. We're all gonna be buying robots. They're gonna cost about $30,000.
You're gonna be buying a Tesla robot and anybody who doesn't buy a Tesla robot is going to be silly. and anything.
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