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Melania Trump should be deported, not just because of what we are going to talk about in this video
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that is leading to an explosion of calls for just that, but also because why not?
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Why not deport Melania?
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Why not deport Elon Musk?
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Why not take the trillion dollars he made, not made, but was able to hoard by stealing wealth, stealing labor and stealing your tax dollars?
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Why not?
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Why don't we talk like this as Democrats?
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I think today, the day that it happened to Lindsey Graham
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and that it should have happened to Mitch McConnell and it should have happened to many other people,
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it's a good day to reflect on the fact that we need to get a little nasty.
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And we need to fight.
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And we need to do it in ways that are effective.
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And we need to call out the bullshit, shameless hypocrisy of the Republican Party around every single turn.
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And that is why before we get to the story, the admission from Melania, and I don't know why she's still doing podcast tours.
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She already had her failed book and her failed movie.
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But before we get to that admission that led to the calls for her deportation,
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I want to start with the call that is fueling the world this deportation call.
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Integrity is not snatching lawful visa holders off the streets and throwing them into unmarked vans.
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Integrity is not revoking visas based on social media posts that hurt somebody's little feelings.
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Because kids decide that they want to go after Trump or this administration.
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We have a thing called free speech in this country.
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And since we're talking about integrity, I'm confused as to why my Republican colleagues aren't talking about the lack of integrity
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when it comes to the president's family's visas.
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Let me remind y 'all that Melania, the first lady, a model, and when I say model, I'm not talking about Tyra Banks, Cindy Crawford, or Naomi Campbell,
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applied for and was given an EB1 visa.
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that stands for is an Einstein visa now y 'all that don't know
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Let me tell you how you receive an Einstein visa.
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You're supposed to have some sort of significant achievement, like being awarded a Nobel Peace Prize or a Pulitzer,
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being an Olympic medalist, or having other sustained extraordinary abilities and success in sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics.
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Last time I checked, The First Lady had none of those accolades under her belt.
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It doesn't take an Einstein to see that the math ain't math in here.
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Nevertheless, what Republicans are doing with this reconciliation process, the travel bans and revoking visas jeopardizes our national security.
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It threatens our communities, our higher education and our economy.
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medical providers, researchers, and educators that we need to build on American success.
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The fact that Donald Trump, of all people, and Republicans have the gall to say
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that people who come to America to raise families of children who are incredibly successful, and in most cases, in some cases,
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in lots of cases, I could give a statistic.
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I don't have it off the top of my head,
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Like, it's not just an economic thing.
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It's also just, like, about the values of these people who actually love our country and aren't, you know, racist, xenophobic bigots who vote for Trump,
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who are these, you know, evangelical, horrible people these Christian Zionists, these bigots.
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Let's just be honest, they're just bigots, right?
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And so for these people to have the gall to make some judgment...
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on immigrants in this country, and then also to go out and kill them, which is what Donald Trump and his ICE thugs do.
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All the while, will we have the Melania Genius Visa, the Epstein?
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Or the Epstein?
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It is an Epstein Visa.
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Actually, we're going to talk about that in a second.
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The Einstein Visa?
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It's just nonsensical.
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I would just not be putting up with it.
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Full stop.
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I just cannot tolerate the fact that these people...
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think that they have any ground to stand on
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and is why we should be calling them out
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and it's why I think we should sound like this
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and it's why after Melania who doesn't spend any time with her husband
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but has had plenty of time for Fox appearances
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and podcast appearances all the promoted book that nobody wanted to buy
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and a movie
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that nobody wanted to see made a little admission about her immigration status her first time coming to this country
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which is highly in dispute for what that reason was.
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And in fact, we're going to talk about that in a second.
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She made a little slip up and now people are calling for her to be deported.
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Karen Piper, journalist and Twitter user writes, Melania says on this podcast that when she first arrived in the U .S.,
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she went straight from the airport to her modeling agency because she needed to apply for a visa.
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If that's odd, you usually apply for a visa from outside the U .S.
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So Melania makes this It's now coming about again.
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People are now talking about it again because, of course, Donald Trump is killing immigrants in the street.
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He's killing Americans in the street, too.
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ICE is on full raid display all across America, especially in Houston.
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And Rick Wilson responds to this clip that has resurfaced.
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Melania making this admission, just saying, period, end of sentence.
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Rick Wilson is saying, deport Melania.
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Special privileges that the Epstein and Trumpstein and Melaniastein class get.
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down on people.
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You know, it's funny, I saw this clip of this conservative podcaster who I hope you don't know, but his name is Patrick Bet David.
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And Mehdi Hassan went on a show and they did a debate and as always goes with anyone who debates Mehdi Hassan, he got picked apart you know, pretty, pretty, pretty painfully, right?
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And Patrick Bet David is this guy who talks about, we gotta get the illegal immigrants out, it's terrible.
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We gotta stop them from coming to our country.
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Again, this is a man who lives in Florida, by the way.
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this conservative, Florida's hospitality industry completely held up by people coming to this country.
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immigrants all across Florida So a little consideration there.
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But then many asked him about the fact that Donald Trump is not allowed.
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Iranian immigrants, not even immigrants, refugees to come to this country, but only white South African immigrants and Patrick Bet -David
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responding to the claim that and we're going to get back to Melania, I just have to say this responding to the claim from Mehdi
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that Donald Trump would not have let him into this country because he's originally from Iran.
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He says, "I would have figured it out.
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I would have found my way in." And all of these people who
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And I believe in I love America and I love the ideas of America, but all these people who say, that they're the big patriots because they'll they'll never question the system
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and by the way they don't question the system
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because they benefit it from it these these rich guys these scammers this epstein class
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and who say America is for Americans and, you know, all these immigrants,
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especially people who did just immigrate to America in their lifetime or in their parents' lifetime.
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Donald Trump's grandparents were immigrants.
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They always say it was like, well, I would have found a way to get here.
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It's like, yeah, you would have immigrated illegally.
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I just had to say that because these people are just so ridiculous and so shameless, and they don't even seem to understand themselves because they live with this.
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cognitive dissonance And so Melania is like coming illegally, or at least she's getting the special favors, And why might that be?
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Why did Melania get a little support?
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And who was tight with the government, as we know?
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Had a lot of strings that he could pull.
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Back in that time, it was Jeffrey Epstein.
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And that's why Melania really hates this claim that she sued Michael Wolff for repeating.
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A new book was published yesterday in the US
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and UK called entitled "The Rise
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and Fall of the House of York." It's by a British journalist by the name of Andrew Loney.
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And it's about the pathetic life of Prince Andrew but it is also about his connection to Donald Trump,
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Jeffrey Epstein, and Melania Trump.
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And in fact it contains a passage in which Epstein is quoted,
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and this is from an interview apparently in 2007,
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where he says that he had sex with Melania a full year before Donald Trump.
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Donald Trump commenced his relationship with Melania.
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We haven't talked about, and I don't mean on this show because we talk about it on this show all the time, but we haven't talked about the files enough recently,
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and we certainly haven't talked about Melania's involvement in the files enough recently.
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I think that's something that we should change.
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I'd like to talk about the files more.
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We're going to talk about the files more, especially because talking about the files really infuriates these people.
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And so Melania comes here Einstein, Einstein visa.. but didn't get it correctly, and might have something to do with Jeffrey Epstein,
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and then she hangs out with the criminal Epstein class, and then she's married to the worst president we've had in American history,
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one of the most destructive figures globally. In the modern era?
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It doesn't really seem like a good addition to the country.
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What has Melania brought to America?
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Right?
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Like seriously.
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What has Melania brought to America?
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Has it been more than Lorenzo, Salgado, Orojo?
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who was killed in Houston by ice, a man who spent 35 years building homes in his community, raising three kids.
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Has she done more than him?
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She grifted a lot.
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But done more than him?
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I don't think so.
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All Melania has done...
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is much like her husband, is serve herself.
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And she wants us to know that.
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She wants us to know that she also hates him, which I talked about with my friend Jennifer Welch right here.
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Another clip that Melania is not too happy about.
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You have to you have to realize this.
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This is something that's super important.
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Melania got paid 40 million dollars to do a piece of shit documentary.
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Unwatchable, right?
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And in that documentary, nothing is done by accident.
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It's all intentional.
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It's all purposeful.
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This is what I want to to project to the public
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that is my image she went out of her way to let the american public know
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that she does not have sex with her husband they said
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good night he went one way to one bedroom she went one way to another bedroom america 10 years ago
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if michelle got $40 million while she was in office.
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That would be a scandal.
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But of course, nobody does anything with that.
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And then if she said goodnight, Barack, And she turned and she wanted intentionally, that's by design, that's purposeful,
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that was left in, that wasn't edited out, it was staged accordingly.
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She wanted the public to know, I do not have sex with this man.
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And I think that if you look back to Trump's past, if you look to his mentor, Rory Cohn, who was a homosexual,
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closeted for a very long time, very influential on Trump's life.
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The reason that MAGA men are so obsessed with the LGBTQ + community is some of them are bisexual, some of them are closeted,
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because I have
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I can't even begin to tell you how many gay friends I have
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that do not talk about gay stuff like the Republicans do.
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I've never seen a man constantly as Donald Trump, every time he's around somebody attractive, that he seems to have a type.
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You know, think about Zoran, think about that UFC fighter, think about the Saudi print.
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All of them, he seems to have a—and he can't stop himself.
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they get really honest.
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They get in their deathbed confession era.
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And it would be like, "Oh, your grandmother, oh, Jack, you know, I always loved you a lot more than I did your brother.
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You were my favorite." Don't tell Joey that.
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And this is what Trump is doing.
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He can't help himself because he's less inhibited.
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He knows his own mortality is coming into focus.
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And I don't think he and Melania have slept together for years, but she took in $40 million, marriage.
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It wasn't to curate a traditional family.
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It did the exact opposite.
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And this is the kind of stuff and the type of fodder that the MAGA conservatives like, you know, little Moses Mike would have a heyday about.
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Ted Cruz wouldn't go bananas if Barack and Michelle did something like this.
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They don't even sleep.
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What kind of man doesn't sleep with his wife?
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And I don't know if maybe we should just start talking about that all the time.
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Seriously.
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I really think we should.
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together again.
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Why does she need to be here?
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Her, Elon, the whole lot of them.
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They don't.
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These are people who actually hate our country, and they do not believe in its values, and we should call them out.
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We're going to on this show.
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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.
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Don't let them silence you.
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Until next time.
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I'll see you soon.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 192 sentences and 2296 words to shadow. The speech runs for 13:22. The speaker talks at a natural 172 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 82% 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
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| visa noun | /ˈviːzə/ | A permit to enter and leave a country, normally issued by the authorities of the country to be visited. |
| immigrant noun | /ˈɪmɪɡɹənt/ | A non-native person who comes to a country from another country to permanently settle there. |
| integrity noun | /ɪnˈtɛɡɹəti/ | Steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code. |
| admission noun | /ədˈmɪʃən/ | The act or practice of admitting. |
| steal verb | /stiːl/ | To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it. |
| clip noun | /klɪp/ | Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another. |
| podcast noun | /ˈpɑdˌkæst/ | A program, especially an audio program, produced on a regular basis, delivered over the Internet in a compressed digital format and designed for playback on… |
| bedroom noun | /ˈbɛdˌɹum/ | A room in a house, apartment, hotel, or other dwelling where a bed is kept for sleeping. |
| lifetime noun | /ˈlaɪf.taɪm/ | The duration of the life of someone or something. |
| journalist noun | /ˈd͡ʒɝnəlɪst/ | The keeper of a personal journal, who writes in it regularly. |
| documentary noun | /ˌdɒk.jʊˈmɛn.tɹi/ | A film, TV program, publication etc. which presents a social, political, scientific or historical subject in a factual or informative manner. |
| mathematics noun | /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/ | An abstract representational system studying numbers, shapes, structures, quantitative change and relationships between them. |
| closet noun | /ˈklɑzɪt/ | A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies. |
| illegally adverb | /ɪˈliːɡəli/ | In a manner contrary to law. |
| deportation noun | /diːˌpɔːˈteɪʃən/ | The act of deporting or exiling, or the state of being deported; banishment; transportation. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| call out verb | To specify, especially in detail. |
| get back to verb | Return to (an activity) |
| go out verb | To leave, especially a building. |
| hold up verb | To wait or delay. |
| pick apart verb | To review or analyse in great detail |
| put up with verb | To endure, tolerate, suffer through, or allow, especially something annoying. |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 51 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, we're, doesn't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, nevertheless /ˌnɛvɚðəˈlɛs/, grandmother /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌmʌðɚ/, athletic /æθˈlɛt.ɪk/, pathetic /pəˈθɛtɪk/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: admission /ədˈmɪʃən/, deportation /diːˌpɔːˈteɪʃən/, immigration /ˌɪmɪˈɡɹeɪʃən/, consideration /kənˌsɪd.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, explosion /ɛkˈsploʊ.ʒən/
- Long words — get the stress right: integrity /ɪnˈtɛɡɹəti/, documentary /ˌdɒk.jʊˈmɛn.tɹi/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, illegally /ɪˈliːɡəli/, deportation /diːˌpɔːˈteɪʃən/
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 visa, immigrant, integrity.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | has had · has resurfaced · haven't talked |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | should be deported · was given · being awarded |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | people who come · people who actually · them, which is |
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.