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Trump 2025 is all about unpaid debts

Trump 2025 is all about unpaid debts

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Half the nation watched horrified as Donald Trump and Grover Dill (aka "Woim") performed the grand opening of a well-rehearsed show on Saturday afternoon in the Oval Office, attacking Volodymyr Zelenskyy as he whispered, "Please sir, I want some more." (If you understand any of these references, we are bosom friends.) Unfortunately, the half who watched, studied, and understood, is the half that always watches, studies, and understands. The other half survives on Jesse Watters sound bites and whatever is left of Breitbart, and calls it a day.

Watch: Trump-Zelenskyy Oval Office meeting explodes into shouting match
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It struck me, as I asked myself for 597th time how we got here, how exactly did we get here? Two things stuck out.

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