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What was your most shocking moment from the Oval Office meeting between Trump and Zelensky on Friday? I think mine might have been when some reporter asked the Ukrainian president why he wasn't wearing a suit. Do you own a suit?
Yes.
That's Brian Glenn from Real America's Voice, a right-wing, conspiracy-loving cable news channel that only recently got access to the White House when the new administration started handpicking who gets to hang out with the president. Real America's Voice is in. The Associated Press is out. You remember the AP, founded in 1846, 59 Pulitzers, king of style.
They're currently suing the Trump administration over being banned from the Oval Office. And why were they banned? because they won't call it the Gulf of America.
We are going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
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