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Chapter 1: What led to Donald Trump's abrupt cancellation of the press conference?
Donald Trump just abruptly canceled a press conference that was going to be held in Congress in order to promote an actual bipartisan piece of legislation referred to as the Road to Housing Act. Donald Trump posted the following message moments ago.
Today's housing news conference and signing is hereby canceled until such time as we pass the desperately needed Save America Act, which I consider to be a national emergency. Thank you for your attention to this matter, DJT. So Donald Trump refused to do this press conference on a bipartisan basis with Republicans and Democrats.
inside of the Capitol building, where there would be the signing of the 21st Century Road to Housing Act, which was actually passed with massive bipartisan support. I'll talk about what's in that. Just even when the political parties come together, Donald Trump wants to make it divisive, make it about himself, make it about voter suppression because he just wants to take away everybody's joy.
Instead, what he wants to do is post about the reflecting pool. This is the hard rubber surface, no paint before the vandals pulled it apart. And then he posts more photos of what he claims to be the reflecting pool. You know, this bipartisan housing bill was co-sponsored by Elizabeth Warren in the United States Senate on the Democratic side and Tim Scott, Republican senator from South Carolina.
So when you have Scott and Warren coming together and then on the House, You had MAGA Republican Congress member French Hill and Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters coming together. This bill passed in the Senate 85 to 5. It passed in the House 358 to 32. So it's veto proof. It's got massive support and it's going to help the American people. And what does Donald Trump do?
He makes posts like this. The Elizabeth Pocahontas Warren centric housing bill. You know, folks, I'll keep on reading this in a moment. It doesn't have to be this way. This isn't. me speaking as a Democrat or independent or speaking about Republicans or politics. It doesn't have to be this mean spirited and evil and divisive and hate filled.
We can actually exist together as a country and do things like housing legislation that benefits the people and do it with grace and do it with dignity and not with the drama. I'm
canceling it i'm canceling it i'm gonna call elizabeth warren pocahontas and i'm gonna be a racist asshole come on man come on this is what donald trump posted the elizabeth pocahontas warren centric housing bill which is of minor importance compared to lower interest rates and even pfizer pales in comparison to the passing of the save america act that's his voter suppression act
which would also make women have to go back, find their birth certificates, present that when they vote if they have a different last name as their maiden name. That is what Americans, both Democrats, Republicans, and everyone else care about. Get the bad Republicans to approve it, or better yet, terminate the filibuster, everything else Republicans have ever dreamed of.
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Chapter 2: What is the significance of the 21st Century Road to Housing Act?
I mean, I think it should be more aggressive, but that's at least a step in the right direction. And then has other reforms to rural housing, manufacturing, modular housing. When it comes to financing and home ownership, it has provisions for small dollar mortgages, community banking support, pathways to home ownership. And so it actually is a bipartisan piece of legislation.
And then Donald Trump wanted to, again, turn a day, which could have been about actually bringing the country together into this. We had Scott McFarland, the Midas Touch head of our Washington, D.C. bureau. He was there when this all went down. Here's what he describes just took place.
Welcome to Statuary Hall where they have removed the presidential seal from the bill signing desk. They have removed the presidential seal from the podium where Trump was to sign a housing bill, a bipartisan housing bill today. One that members of his party really wanted to campaign on to say they're doing something about housing.
Trump blew up the event, blew up the bill signing, has not made clear if and when he's going to sign this bill. arguing that he wants them to pass the SAVE Act first, the federal elections bill. Members of Congress have shown up to kind of do their own videos dunking on this. Yes, that's Maxwell Frost of Florida. Suhas Subramayam of Virginia is here.
This is an episode they're trying to amplify as a sign of dysfunction in the administration. Dysfunction at the White House, with Trump putting his own personal interests ahead of the country's interests. We have a lot of empty seats. There will be no ceremony, but there is the grandeur of Statuary Hall for you and me to enjoy.
You can see some photos of what the press conference looked like, where it was gonna take place before Donald Trump canceled it. Elizabeth Warren, one of the co-sponsors of this piece of legislation, along with MAGA Republican Senator Scott, she was asked on CNBC, why do you think Donald Trump did this? And she's like, I'm not gonna get into the guy's head. Like the guy's a psycho.
Here, play this clip.
Senator, I'm curious why you think then that the president canceled the signing at the 11th hour. And I ask that because the House voted on Tuesday at 358 to 32. So it was largely bipartisan here. I'm just curious what you think actually changed.
Look, I'm sorry. If you're asking me to get into Donald Trump's head, and figure out what's going on there. You need somebody else. I just, I don't have any idea. This just doesn't make any sense. Other than whatever it is he wants to do, it's a complete indifference to the cost squeeze on American families and to genuine efforts to do something about it.
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Chapter 3: How did bipartisan support manifest for the housing bill?
And while Donald Trump announced that he was canceling this press conference, you had the House lead co-sponsor, MAGA Republican Congress member, French Hill, saying how much Donald Trump supported it, although Donald Trump refused to be there to sign it and Trump was attacking it. This is what the Republican was doing at the same time it was announced that Trump was canceling things.
Let's play it.
Off in New York or somewhere. It's a legitimate issue. And Tim Scott and I found a way to put that into law that in our view meets the president's test, but absolutely will not reduce capital flowing into housing. which has been my top goal.
Lower the cost of housing, make it more affordable, more accessible, encourage the banks to lend more that have been shut down since the global financial crisis in 2008. And this bill does that. And so I'm proud of the work that both chambers struggled through. For those of you who cover this every day, you know the back and forth between the House and Senate.
But it's a successful today, and I'm proud of the work of the House and Senate to get people to yes. And so I yield back.
And then you had Treasury Secretary Scott Besant doing the next hit on CNBC saying, I think we were a little too successful in Iran. Things went way too good, actually. Like, we were so good.
Here, play this clip. Again, you've been generous with your time. We appreciate it. And making the effort, I like all that. Can you leave the Secret Service? You need those guys, I guess. What's that? Can you leave the Secret Service guy? You need all these? I think we've been a little too successful with the Iranians. We're in the middle of Times Square.
I mean, every time you see training tapes, it's like filmed out here. So anyway, it's great to have you on. Good, appreciate it.
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Chapter 4: What were Donald Trump's criticisms regarding the housing bill?
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You had MAGA Republican Congress member, MAGA Mike Johnson, MAGA Speaker of the House. He goes, I'm gonna walk through the details with Donald Trump. We'll just go through it bit by bit. And Aaron Rupert says he talks about Donald Trump, MAGA Mike does, as though he needs to like be explaining things to a toddler.
Let's play this clip. Families, critical to do, great policy. The president, when we go through the details of the bill, he's gonna understand that it's a good product. And certainly something that fulfills his promises to bring down the cost. Interest rates is another big priority of his and all of ours. And I think the new Fed chair will do that. We get the economy humming again.
We keep the Strait of Hormuz open. We keep gas prices down to earth. This economy is gonna take off like a rocket, y'all.
And then you had MAGA Republican Congress member Mauser. He went on State Regime Media, which calls itself Fox. And he said, I know that everybody's a little bit worried about the economy right now and affordability. He's like, but we'll deal with affordability. And then after the election, we'll get Iran. Just you wait. That's when we'll do it, after the election and the midterms.
That's what he and Brian Kilmeade say. Let's play this clip.
And yes, the affordability question is there, but they realize it's over Iran and the president's winding that down. The terrorist state of Iran is going to be in the history books in a matter of days.
Well, yeah, if not after the election, I'm sure they're gonna get it. Let's actually talk about what's happening while Donald Trump is creating this unnecessary and vile drama here in the United States. You have Marco Rubio, as I did a video on this earlier, in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.
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Chapter 5: What are the main provisions of the Road to Housing Act?
Lots of people believed he should have been the chairman of the Joint Chiefs and certainly a future army chief of staff. But the other army chief of staff, Randy George, was fired as well or forced to resign by the Trump regime. I'll note this at the end as well, just to show you what the MAGAs are now talking about as well.
You have MAGA Republican Congress member Burchett talking about turning the reflecting pool into its own ecosystem. Let's play this clip.
Any reaction to this reflecting pool controversy? Yeah, it's algae and science. It's just gonna happen. I don't... It'll be darker, of course. You've got a filtration system and you're going to have to hit it with the chlorine or it's just bleach or whatever. I know they did peroxide. There's other methods too, but I would
You know, honestly, I think it'd be cool if they just just let it go and and create an ecosystem, have fish in there and everything and just let it go. I think that'd be a really that would be a cool way to go. But paintings are out. You can re plaster. You can do a lot of things.
And then you had J.D. Vance being Let's just say he showed a lot more affection to Erica Kirk than his wife. Did you see when he greeted his wife for some weird podcast they were doing? He like patted her leg. I mean, did you see this here? I'll play us out with J.D. Vance right now. One of the strangest individuals around here playing.
That's right. Today's special reader is my husband, Vice President of the United States, J.D. Vance. Thanks for joining us today, honey.
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