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Destruction of the Kennedy Center, Mitch McConnell's Second Day · Breaking Absurdity — Today's Top Headlines That Can't Be Unheard. Brought to you by @ItsNotSatire.

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  Donald Trump has lost his goddamn mind, there's
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  a forklift taking out pillars of the Kennedy
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  Center, and Mitch McConnell is back and better
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  than ever. Now that's one way to put it. Today
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  in Breaking Absurdity, the Kennedy Center structure
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  is getting rammed with a forklift, Mitch McConnell
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  is really making waves in his first days back
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  in the Senate, and whatever this is, the First
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  Lady has a totally completely normal and unremarkable
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  visit to a classroom, It's breaking absurdity,
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  -free podcast option. The link is in the show
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  notes. Now let's get into the absurdity. Hallelujah,
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  he is risen to the Kennedy Center pillar over
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  and over and over again. And you know who saw
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  it? It was a member of the legal team for Joyce
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  Beatty. You know that women that Trump screamed
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  at because a judge voted to have Donald Trump's
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  name barred from ever being associated with the
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  Kennedy Center again. How did we get here? This
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  has been going on for a very long time, but the
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  recent turn of events includes a judge just ruled
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  again that Trump cannot put his name on the Kennedy
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  Center or any part of it. And Trump threw a temper
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  tantrum. During a Kennedy Center board meeting,
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  he used the opportunity to scream at Joyce Beatty,
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  who is the lone ex officio lawmaker actively
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  leading the legal and public challenge against
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  the Trump administration's actions regarding
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  the facility. Listen to what she said to Caitlin
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  Collins. A source described the call as effing
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  crazy. I mean, maybe you only use that language,
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  but is that essentially how you would describe
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  what happened today? I probably wouldn't use
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  that language, but I understand what the person
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  was saying. I think it would be unthinkable for
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  someone to hear a president using the language
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  that he used. He threw a tantrum. It was like
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  an immature child. I wouldn't even want to put
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  this on a child. And there you have it, the president
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  acting worse than an insolent child in the words
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  of Congresswoman Beatty. But just wait till you
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  hear how Beatty totally reads him. He said, I
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  think you're incompetent. And I said, I know
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  you're incompetent. Wow. Oh, it was. And I looked
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  to the chair who was chairing me, and I said,
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  are we really going to do this? This is unprofessional.
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  And he said he was going to hold me responsible
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  if something fell out of the ceiling and killed
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  someone. And I told him, I said, you're already
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  killing people. We're at war. We also have people
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  who are starving. You're doing this. And then
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  he wanted to talk about how great he was with
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  developing and he didn't know anything about
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  me, but I had never done anything. This was the
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  biggest thing I had done. So I reminded him that
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  he had more bankruptcies than anybody in the
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  room. I mean, it really went there because I
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  was not going to let him, he was there in his
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  role as chairman of the board. I was not going
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  to let him bully me. intimidate me and the facts
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  stand for himself. I don't think I've ever heard
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  about a congressperson yelling at Trump like
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  that so expertly and with such great comebacks
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  about how many bankruptcies he's had, how incompetent
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  he is, how liable he is for deaths bringing us
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  into the Iran war. This woman is amazing and
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  I think we need more people like her. And then
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  today a reporter caught Trump outside Air Force
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  One asking him why he needs his name on the center
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  in the first place. Very easy question to answer
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  because it's a mess. It's lost the Kennedy Center
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  for many years. It's lost tens of millions of
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  dollars, even hundreds of millions of dollars.
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  It's a loser financially and many of the places
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  like that, you know, like Carnegie Hall and the
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  various places throughout the country, they lose
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  a lot of money. For me to go and fix it. I'm
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  the one capable of fixing it. So for the Trump
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  administration, for me to get involved and to
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  take that on long term and to carry it or to
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  raise money to carry it, I think that the Trump
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  administration should certainly have recognition
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  because frankly if we don't do that It's going
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  to close. It'll end up being ripped down. It's
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  in very, very bad shape. His reasoning just doesn't
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  stand up. Before Trump took over the leadership
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  of the Kennedy Center, they were operating at
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  a budget surplus, meaning they had more money
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  coming in than going out. So they weren't in
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  a bad position. And yes, maybe the building needed
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  some renovations, so get the renovations. Putting
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  your name on the building. doesn't fix any of
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  that and furthermore he's saying that it's losing
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  money well guess what it wasn't losing money
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  but even if it was it was a not -for -profit
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  not -for -profit organizations do not work for
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  a profit and neither does Carnegie Hall in New
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  York So these arguments are completely silly.
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  And if you look at what the congresswoman said,
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  he's actually had more bankruptcies than anyone
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  in the room at a Kennedy Center board meeting.
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  So he's not exactly one who should be talking
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  about fiscal responsibility. But no, the news
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  day's not over, because there's a forklift taking
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  out a pillar of the Kennedy Center. Midas Touch
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  posted this real earlier today. A legal observer
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  has just declared to the court under penalty
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  of perjury that she witnessed a forklift, repeatedly
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  crashing into the pillars of the Kennedy Center
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  today. The legal observer is part of Representative
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  Joyce Beatty's legal team. Representative Beatty,
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  of course, is the Democratic congresswoman who
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  brought the lawsuit against Donald Trump to protect
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  the Kennedy Center. She is one of the few remaining
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  non -Trump lackeys on the board for the Kennedy
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  Center still. The observer says that she walked
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  around to both the north and south sides of the
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  building and saw that the gates wrapped all around
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  both sides blocking all staircases leading to
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  the building and that there were four gates blocking
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  the main walkway to the building. The building
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  when she got there was completely closed down.
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  She had seen under the scaffolding on the east
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  side that the building was open but there were
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  workers waiting there for more gates to arrive
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  to close it. She said it basically looked like
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  a full -on construction scene. and then she dropped
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  this bombshell at the end of her declaration
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  saying afterward I saw a forklift carrying what
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  appeared to be a more permanent form of fencing
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  drive over to the north side of the building
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  I saw the forklift run into and hit the pillars
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  of the building several times So after a judge
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  yesterday ruled that Donald Trump cannot have
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  his name on the Kennedy Center and Trump went
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  to his board and had them shut down the Kennedy
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  Center, he seems to want to take his ball and
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  go home, so to speak, and it kind of seems like
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  he is trying to destroy the Kennedy Center because
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  they won't let him put his name on it. So just
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  to summarize, a judge told Trump he can't have
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  his name on the Kennedy Center again. Trump threw
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  a temper tantrum and yelled at a congresswoman.
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  And Trump says if his name doesn't get put on
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  the Kennedy Center, he's going to demolish it.
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  And there's already a forklift trying to take
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  out a pillar at the Kennedy Center. In most administrations,
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  this would be a major scandal. But in the Trump
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  administration, this is just Tuesday. And in
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  other news, Mitch McConnell's really made a big
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  splash with his first couple days back in the
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  Senate. If you want the full update, of what
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  happened on the first day, check out my previous
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  video. But today, Mitch McConnell broke the internet
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  because it came time for him to issue a vote,
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  which is one of the key reasons why he actually
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  showed up. So what happened when they went around
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  the table and actually got to Mitch McConnell
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  to cast his vote? And look, there's an aide whispering
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  in Mitch McConnell's ear. I wonder what he's
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  whispering. Senator McConnell. You have got to
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  be kidding me. He had one job to do. We waited
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  three months for this for him to show up in the
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  Senate. He can't even vote the right way. His
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  first clue should have been looking at the Democrats
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  who are all voting no. So obviously he needs
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  to vote yes like any good Republican. Things
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  have gotten so bad that the former Senate majority
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  leader for the Republicans doesn't know the difference
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  between a Democrat and a Republican. And check
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  out this scene here. You've got Amy Klobuchar
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  chatting with her colleagues, but not Mitch McConnell.
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  Kind of looks like the lights are on, but nobody
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  seems to be home. But that wasn't it for the
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  day. We've got a very awkward interaction with
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  reporters, a whole lot of questions, and a whole
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  lot of nothing back. But they do manage to get
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  a little bit of a reaction out of Mitch this
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  time. Oh yeah, are we voting tonight, Senator?
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  Ah, the peace sign. Well, I guess that's better
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  than a middle finger. And in slightly more interactive
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  opportunities, we've got Melania in North Carolina
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  hanging out with a robotics classroom. I mean,
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  what could possibly go wrong here? Well, for
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  starters, Melania was sitting down with some
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  students and had some questions that were frankly
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  a little concerning. Melania crashed the classroom.
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  She's doing her best. They got started with some
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  basics. It's called an egg, Melania. Yeah, go
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  ahead, Melania. Put it in. You've got this. Oh,
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  I think the vibes are off with this robot. Oh,
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  Melania, put it down. Slovenian education is
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  very different. Great time to pull out, Melania.
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  Lesson completed. Thanks for watching Breaking
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