Jim Acosta
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And just about every day I walked through those gates, I still was like, holy shit, I'm at the White House.
And of course, this fucking guy had to go and demolish half of it within a year of coming back.
But I remember what it was like the first time around when he came in after Obama, and they were all just traumatized.
I sat down with this deputy White House press secretary, Eric, and it looked like
You know, he had been in a car accident.
I mean, this is how traumatized they were at that time.
And you got the sense that these were people who understood how important this place was, how you had to treat it with reverence.
And when I covered the Trump people, it was just it had turned into a frat party.
I remember over at the EEOB, as they call it, the office building that's next to the White House, the giant.
Yes, where the vice president's office is.
Where the vice president, the Eisenhower executive office, they call it.
And on Friday afternoons, you would see these kids on the balconies with red Solo cups.
They were throwing like keggers on Friday afternoons during the Trump administration.
This is how seriously they treated the fucking place.
And when they all got swept out and Biden came back, and I agree with you, it turned back into like the West Wing TV show, like what you would think, like people who obviously respect the place.
But while Trump was there, there was, I mean, and it's obviously the case once again, where they've turned it into a goddamn shit show.
He's bulldozed half of the, you know, almost half of the White House.