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El-Sayed: Trump tore down the East Wing for a ballroom while your gas and groceries cost more.

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Now playing on All Clips El-Sayed: Trump tore down the East Wing for a ballroom while your gas and groceries cost more. Abdul El-Sayed10 plays Watch on Instagram · Transcript & source

Abdul El-Sayed, speaking in an interview on The Moment Podcast, says Donald Trump demolished the White House East Wing to build himself a ballroom and built himself a helipad. He adds that Trump took the country into "a war we have no business fighting" that he says is raising gas prices and, through diesel, the price of groceries.

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Who
Abdul El-Sayed
Where
interview - The Moment Podcast, recorded live in Holland, Michigan
Original footage
The Moment Podcast with Jorge and Paola Ramos · watch the full video from this moment
Length
34 seconds, unedited within the cut
Plays
10 on Instagram
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Thousands of factories. So let's just actually be clear about what Donald Trump has done. Over the course of the last two years as President of the United States, he has demolished the East Wing of the White House to build himself a ballroom with, I'm sure, very nice drapes. He built himself a helipad. Oh, and then he took us to a war we have no business fighting that every single president in recent memory understood would have been a quagmire that you can't get out of, that is raising our gas prices and raising the price of groceries because of diesel.

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