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A shock resignation has just made the Natalie Harp saga all the much weirder.
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And I think every single day, the Natalie Harp saga is going to get weirder.
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Because Donald Trump and her are just weird.
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Their relationship is strange, it is very public, and we are finally getting media attention on it.
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And I think that is why one of Donald Trump's top female staffers just resigned.
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It also comes amidst reporting about how difficult it is to be a MAGA woman.
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Before we get to this resignation and more news about the Natalie Harp saga, I want to get into that report, which I find ridiculous.
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I will explain why.
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We'll get into this shock resignation and so much more.
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MAGA ladies spill on brutal reality of working for Trump.
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Women working for the president have said it's exhausting to keep up with his constant demands.
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Women working under Donald Trump are speaking out about the toll that the job can take, given the beauty standards and the president's demanding nature.
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Several MAGA women told the Daily Mail that they didn't blame outgoing White House Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt for wanting to leave.
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While also Levitt cited a desire to spend more time with her young children, she was also reportedly fed up with the constant demands from Trump.
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Some women revealed that the constant pressure to keep up with the latest beauty standard,
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which can include daily blowouts and regular Botox treatments, can also grow tiresome.
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It gets to be utterly draining, one MAGA woman said of working for Trump.
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You have to be exceptional at your job.
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That's kind of funny because you actually don't.
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You just have to lie, which is a given.
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But if you're a woman, you have to look a certain way, dress a certain way, and be available 24-7 because this is a president who barely sleeps, she explained.
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Add to that the pressure of a family at home, and it's no wonder so many of us flame out.
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Blanche Sprague, one of Donald Trump's former executives from his days as a New York sociolite,
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told the Daily Mail that it was exhausting working like a nanny to keep up with his demands.
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He used to call me up at night and say, did you know that there's a soda bottle in front of Trump Plaza?
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and I would have to make sure that it was picked up right away
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because he would drive past again to see that it was gone, she recalled.
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Some defenders of the president's demands asserted that it was not Trump's behavior exactly that drives women to focus on the appearance, but female competition amongst his staffers.
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So that sounds healthy.
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He doesn't force these women to have 6 a.m blowouts or get plastic surgery or go on weight loss drugs, one person said.
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They get the Botox and fillers because the White House is a competitive place.
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Everyone is vying for attention.
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But whose attention?
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It seems like Trump's.
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Sources also reveal that for some of the lower-level staffers, the juice just isn't worth the squeeze with high-pressure nature of the work
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and the relatively low salaries compared to other entry-level political gigs in Washington.
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You are expected to look a certain way.
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Most of the women at the White House get their hair blown out at least twice a week before work, and then there is a pressure to go to the gym and dress well.
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A lot of younger aides don't make that much money.
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You're talking maybe $50,000 to $70,000 a year.
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It's not only a stressful business working in Trump's world, it's an expensive one.
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Still, in addition to Levitt, six other women from Trump's inner circle have departed since the start of the year.
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Tulsi Gabbard, Pam Bondi, Kristi Noem, Lori Chavez de Ramire, and of course, Deputy Press Secretary Abigail Jackson,
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as well as Sony Joy Nelson.
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In his post announcing her departure, the president said
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that Levitt will be moving into a new role as an outside advisor to work to defy history
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and conclusively win the midterm elections.
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Sources told the Daily Mail that even though she is leaving the podium, Trump likely still will be frequently calling Levitt.
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I've said this a couple of times over the last few days,
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but the number one identity you claim when you work for the Trump administration is fascist, right?
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I don't care if you're a MAGA lady and Donald Trump objectifies you.
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Yeah, he was always going to.
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He's a sexist fascist.
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Am I supposed to give you sympathy?
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Are you a victim now because you work in the White House hurting people and especially women?
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This is wild.
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The Republican Party has worked for decades to remove autonomy from women's lives.
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They are now pushing and factions
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that are growing to stop women from being able to vote
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and I'm supposed to feel bad
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that you have pressure to get a blowout in Botox because the president is a sexist and a misogynist?
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Miss me with that bullshit.
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Just because he likes Natalie Hart more than you and Carolyn Levitt left because of it doesn't mean you get my sympathy.
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You get none.
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Because if you work for Donald Trump, you are a bad person.
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Even if you quit, which another female staffer just did.
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Trump blow as yet another female staffer quits.
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The top aide to Donald Trump's deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, is the latest in a series of exits.
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A top aide to Stephen Miller, Emily Underwood, is joining the stream of Trump officials exiting the White House.
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Underwood served as the top deputy to the White House deputy chief of staff.
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The aide is the latest in a series of Trump staffers to leave the administration ahead of the midterms.
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The most prominent announced this month was, of course, White House Press Secretary Carolyn Levin.
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There's been a lot of speculation, but no leading contender to replace her when she goes, but maybe that's because so many people have left.
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As we can see here, it's not just Carolyn Levitt.
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It's Emily Underwood, the latest female staffer to leave.
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We also have Sunny Joy Nelson, Lee Barden, Abigail Jackson, and although not a woman, Andy Baker is another prominent official to leave the Trump administration.
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But as we can see, a lot of ladies are leaving Trump.
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Underwood was working in the White House as a deputy assistant to the president and senior policy strategist.
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She previously served as a policy advisor and had been part of the administration since the start of Trump's second term.
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Her departure was first reported by Axios on Tuesday.
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Her role focused on coordinating policy strategy across the federal government,
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and she would be departing to become a partner at the venture capital firm Trust Ventures.
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So yes, this is just another person leaving to make money still with connections to the Trump government.
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Definitely don't feel bad for them.
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Underwood, as I've noted, is one of several women who have exited the administration in recent months.
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Apart from Levitt's looming departure, which Trump announced on Truth Social, as I said, we saw Abigail Jackson and others announced that they were leaving.
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This, of course, also comes as, like I said, a special Deputy National Security Advisor Andy Baker also was leaving the administration.
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Now, although we are seeing resignations across the board, I think it's very important to point out that we are seeing specific,
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specifically MAGA resignations from the MAGA ladies, right?
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They're going, okay, Trump's in love with Natalie.
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Maybe there's a lot of attention if I get too close
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and the only way to stay or to be elevated is to get too close.
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So maybe they want nothing to do with this.
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There is also just the possibility that these people are leaving to make money, which is why no one, and I mean no one,
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is ever going to get me to feel bad for the MAGA ladies.
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There will be no, oh, it's so difficult working in such a sexist White House.
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We know.
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We told you not to vote for him.
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Why are you part of a party that hates you?
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They always will.
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No matter how many times Jesse Waters or anyone on the right demands that they need to protect women's sports, something they fundamentally don't care about,
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they're always making fun of women's sports, just stop with the bullshit.
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This was a party created to hurt people.
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That is the point of the administration.
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Women, immigrants, hell, if you want healthcare, they are going to hurt you, which is why I want to talk about chapter.
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Here's a number I keep coming back to.
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Medicare processes about 35 claims every second, over a billion a year.
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That is an enormous system, and enormous systems are not built to notice you.
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Most of the time, it works fine.
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A claim goes in, it clears in about two weeks, you never think about it.
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But the moment one gets disputed, it drops out of the fast lane and can take 60 days or more.
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And for those 60 days, the person on the phone chasing it is you, which is the part nobody mentions when you're picking a plan. So chapter.
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They're the only Medicare advisors that compare every plan nationwide, independent and honest.
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But here's the piece I'd actually flag.
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Once you're enrolled, you get a dedicated team for the whole year, A surprise bill, a denial, a prescription that suddenly costs more, they take it on.
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You are not the only one sitting on hold.
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And if you're already on the right plan, they'll tell you and leave you alone.
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If you're not, they'll help you switch.
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Both of those are just answers, which is rarer than it should be.
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231-625-5060 or the link in the description.
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Get the personalized Medicare guidance and support that you deserve.
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Republicans are doing everything possible to make life more difficult, and especially that includes health care right now.
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So again, how are you going to get me to feel sympathy for you
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when the people who are working to help strip health care from 25 million people are complaining about,
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like, the elective procedures they're choosing to have to like make themselves more Mar-a-Lago faced for Donald Trump?
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I don't care about your plastic surgery.
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People can't get real surgery.
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It is just wild that these are complaints being offered up by MAGA.
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And whenever you mock this, there's a certain faction of people who still, for whatever reason, kind of want to keep the respect that I really just hate in our politics.
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Because what does respect get you?
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Like, this is what the respect thing is.
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They want you to respect their authority and submit to them.
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If you want to be respected as just like a human being, it's not a respect that goes, that goes both ways, right?
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You have to respect them as an authority that gets to walk all over you.
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If maybe one day down the line, they'll respect your humanity, which they never do.
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So I'm tired of this respect shit.
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But whenever you mock like the MAGA women, it's always, oh, this is sexist or this is, you know, you're not being body positive.
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Stop it.
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The identity that comes first is fascist.
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That's the thing.
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And so if I'm criticizing you, I am criticizing you as a fascist first and foremost, because all MAGA ever sees,
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if you are benefiting our movement.
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Now, if you get power in it, you got to be a white evangelical man, probably with some money.
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You can kind of be a little gay, right?
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Because you can hide it all, you know, Josh Hawley, Mike Johnson, Lindsey Graham, you know, may his soul rest in peace and hell.
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But yeah, I'm gonna continue to make fun of these people because they deserve it, right?
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And what's more important is like this freak out of her making fun of Natalie Harp, Jon Ossoff wasn't doing that,
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or you know, necessarily, because he said this last night with Jen Psaki.
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And the reason I asked about Natalie Harp is because it's kind of raised this question out there, more questions about her.
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He is surrounded by sycophants, no question.
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I just talked about that.
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But you specifically mentioned her and I just wonder why.
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Why?
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Well, I've heard this particular aide referred to as his security blanket.
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And I think we could say that about any number of the senior aides in the White House.
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They're not telling him what he needs to hear.
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They're telling him what he wants to hear.
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And the nation is at war.
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And we cannot afford that.
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We need a team in the White House.
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We need folks at the State Department, at the Defense Department, in the United States Congress who take their jobs seriously.
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sailors out on the Lincoln, they do their jobs with excellence and dedication every single day.
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They didn't sign up for luxury.
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They signed up to defend the country.
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And the president, surrounded by enablers in the West Wing, is playing golf, is trading stock, and is decorating his ballroom.
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It's a disgrace.
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All while American families in Georgia
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and across the country pay more for just about everything as a direct result of his failed economic policy
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and has failed foreign policy.
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John Ossoff was simply pointing out the fact that Donald Trump is
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so distracted and cares so little about the job of the presidency that all he wants to do, and this is well documented and true,
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is build his ballroom and have Natalie Harp show him nice messages.
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That's basic.
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It's true.
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That's right on.
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That is absolutely correct.
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So what are we talking about here?
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Right.
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There is no right wing freak out necessary.
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So much so that Jesse Waters even said it.
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Am I fazed by this comment?
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No. Has Trump said so much worse?
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So much more sleazy things against other people?
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Yes.
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Have I defended those things?
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Absolutely.
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So I'm not going to pretend I'm all hot and bothered about it.
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Jesse Waters is self-aware about how ridiculous the Natalie Harp attack
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that the right is claiming that John Ossoff made is, he didn't.
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He pointed out a very simple truth, which is that Donald Trump is in love with the people who are nice to him and show him nice things.
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He has said this.
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He says it all the time.
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Well, quite frankly, I like the people who are nice to me, and if you're not nice, I don't like you so much.
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That's what Donald Trump says practically every single day.
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It's why dictators love Donald Trump, because they know he is in deep, deep cognitive decline.
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So it's easy to like work that mush brain and just like get him to do what you want.
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That is a threat to our national security.
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It is incredibly terrifying.
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And it is why I continue to bring up the fact
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that I wouldn't be surprised if Natalie Harp was a Russian or Israeli asset, right?
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Would that really be that wild to try to get your way into the presidency?
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But let me close on this, on the Natalie Harp thing.
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Maybe Natalie Harp will get her comeuppance one day.
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I think she should be subpoenaed.
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Because if Donald Trump and Todd Blanch are going to work to hide all their communications, we need to hear it from the human printer herself.
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Maybe she will.
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I don't know.
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But the MAGA ladies will.
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In one way or another, it's happening right now.
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Yes, they're trying to escape to make money in venture capital.
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But you will be held accountable.
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And we are going to continue to call for that to happen on this show every single day.
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And if you want to support that, as always, you can hit that subscribe button leave a like on this video
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if you stuck around at the end drop a blue heart in the comments
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keep on fighting y'all don't let them silence you until next time i'll see you soon
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Furious Female Trump Staffer Just Resigned”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: Trump, Donald, Maga, Natalie. This video has 216 sentences and 2730 words to shadow. The speech runs for 15:22. The speaker talks at a natural 178 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 84% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| staffer noun | A member of a staff; an employee. | |
| aide noun | /eɪd/ | An assistant. |
| resignation noun | /ˌɹɛz.ɪɡˈneɪ.ʃən/ | The act of resigning. |
| sexist adjective | /ˈsɛksɪst/ | Unfairly discriminatory against one sex in favour of the other. |
| fascist noun | /ˈfæʃɪst/ | A proponent of fascism. |
| advisor noun | /ædˈvaɪ.zə(ɹ)/ | One who offers advice. |
| blowout noun | /ˈbloʊaʊt/ | A sudden puncturing of a pneumatic tyre/tire. |
| saga noun | /ˈsɑɡə/ | An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends. |
| sympathy noun | /ˈsɪm.pəθ.i/ | A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another. |
| midterm adjective | /ˈmɪdˌtɚm/ | Halfway through a term, or roughly so. |
| ballroom noun | /ˈbɔːlɹuːm/ | A large room used for dancing and banquets. |
| criticize verb | /ˈkɹɪtɪsaɪz/ | To find fault (with something). |
| depart verb | /dɪˈpɑɹt/ | To leave. |
| surround verb | /səˈɹaʊnd/ | To encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions. |
| faction noun | /ˈfæk.ʃən/ | A group of people, especially within a political organization, which expresses a shared belief or opinion different from people who are not part of the group. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| keep up with verb | To manage to remain beside or just behind someone or something that is moving away from one. |
| point out verb | To identify among a group of similar subjects, or in a scene where the subject might not be readily seen or noticed, with a gesture of the body. |
| bring up verb | To mention. |
| pick up verb | To lift; to grasp and raise. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- That's kind of funny because you actually don't.
- Am I supposed to give you sympathy?
- Because what does respect get you?
- Am I fazed by this comment?
- Have I defended those things?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result | If you're not, they'll help |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | has just made · have said · have departed |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | was picked · are expected · be elevated |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | lie, which is · women who have · money, which is |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 50 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, you're, they're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: resignation /ˌɹɛz.ɪɡˈneɪ.ʃən/, fascist /ˈfæʃɪst/, faction /ˈfæk.ʃən/, dedication /ˌdɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/, speculation /ˌspɛk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: resignation /ˌɹɛz.ɪɡˈneɪ.ʃən/, presidency /ˈpɹɛzɪdənsi/, misogynist /mɪˈsɑd͡ʒ.ən.ɪst/, objectify /əbˈd͡ʒɛktɪˌfaɪ/, personalize /ˈpɜː.sə.nə.laɪz/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like staffer, aide, resignation.
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