The Keith Edwards Show - Oh my god

Episode Date: December 7, 2025

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All right, we have some news that's going to piss off Donald Trump. Donald Trump's ballroom just had a snag. He has fired the people who were building it and he has hired a new agency. And I have that agency's name and their contact information in case you want to tell them, I don't know, stop desecrating the White House. Perhaps there can be consequences. Maybe we can't get Donald Trump out of office, but maybe we can impact his ability to change it. Gavin Newsom's also in the news for actually standing up to billionaires and corporations and event that hosts them. Baller stuff. First, let's just get to Gavin Newsom. I love this. I just love

this clip. I just think this is absolutely great energy. And Gavin News is a fighter. I believe this in my core of my heart. You will not have a free and fair election as we know them today in the United States of America if Speaker Jeffries has not sworn in a year plus from now. I really believe that. Sure, there will be elections. Competitive authoritarian's love elections. Putin, I think, got 87.3 percent. The runner-up was 4.3. That's what I mean by competitive authoritarianism. Ask folks in Hungary and Orban what's going on in Turkey.

That's the model for Trump. I don't think that. I know that on the basis of a lot of evidence, in fact. I saw, in fact, examples of that, the day of our election, just a few weeks ago, where Donald Trump set out Bortak teams, border patrol tactical units to Dodger Stadium, to chill free expression, to chill election turnout. He said the day of the election before one vote was cast, he said this was a rigged election, sent out his DOJ with no basis, no business to being there for a state ballot. He sent Greg Bovino in his secret police that seemed to have taken

an oath in office to him, not the Constitution of the United States, to our campaign kickoff at the Democracy Center to chill participation in our rally. And he federalized four thousand National Guard and send 700 active duty Marines not overseas but to the second largest city in America and there's still our federalized guard still there Wake up to what is going on in this country. It is code red and I'm sure a lot of you are fine with it Because a lot of people have figured it out. They know the game state capitalism crony capitalism the great grift a lot of you doing extraordinarily well But one of the things I'm trying to do better is express my concern,

highlight that with more conviction and clarity, and also reinforce that we're about to walk into the 250th anniversary of the best of Greek democracy in the Roman Republic. This is historic values of our founding fathers in 2026, and it's all on the line. And so I like that. I like that. God damn it. It feels good for someone to actually be saying what we all know is happening.

I feel like everyone else is sleepwalking. When I watch CNN, MSNBC, when I hear that Hakeem Jeffries is okay with Donald Trump's pardon of someone who is indicted for bribery because they're a Democrat, CNN, MSNBC, just covering the news of the day as if this is all normal. It's not. It's not. And it feels really good. that at least one person is saying, hey, hey, this could all just stop happening. Wake up. I needed that. It's nice to know that the things we're seeing and we talk about here,

there's at least some people in power who understand the gravity of it. I feel like sometimes I'm just shouting, I'm shouting fire, and everyone is just concerned with the fact that the walls are the wrong paint color. All right, let's move on to less serious stuff, but I still think important. Donald Trump has hired a new White House ballroom architect. President Donald Trump has replaced the architect. He handpicked design his White House ballroom, according to three people familiar with the project, ending the involvement of a boutique firm whose selection raised questions from the start

about whether it had the capacity to complete the massive high-profile endeavor. For more than three months, James McCrary, the second, and his architecture, firm led the effort to design Trump's $300 million desecration of the White House until late October when he stopped working on the project. Now, they're saying it's voluntarily that he stopped. Who's to say? Everyone's a liar from the White House. They did clash over the president's desire to keep increasing the size of the building, but it was McCrary's firm, small workforce, and inability to hit deadlines that became a decisive factor in him leaving, one of the people said. Now, Trump has chosen a new architect called Shalom Barron's, who's been designing and renovating government buildings in Washington for decades.

To pick up the mantle, according to people who are familiar, Barron's firm has handled a number of large Washington projects dating back decades, including projects involving the main treasury building near the White House and the headquarters of the General Services Administration. Now, in the weeks since the switch from McCrary to Barron's, crews of dozens of workers have continued to prep the site for construction driving piles, stockpiling materials such as reinforced concrete pipes and amassing an array of cranes, drills, and other heavy machinery. Phototame of the Post show. On Wednesday, they erected a towering crane anchored into a concrete paddock, and you can see this here. This is nuts.

This is nuts. I know it's like so not important, but I think. think it's like emblematic of the problem, that he gets just to do whatever he wants, just violate laws and regulations. But here's what I will say to you. I looked up, they have a website. Here they are. Shalom Barron's Associates. They're in Washington, D.C., an architectural firm that a claim reputation for its expertise in residential, commercial, institutional, on governmental design. Okay.

Well, I guess what I would like to say to you is if this bothers you like it does me, you can contact them. Their contact information is right here. Have an inquiry? That's so easy. Just call 202-342-22-2-2-2-2-200. And let them know how you feel about them working on the White House, desecrating a landmark, breaking laws, taking money from Donald Trump in order to erect a building that has no

business being there. Or you can email them at Inquiries at S-B-A-R-A-N-E-S.com. I bet it'll feel good to let them know how you feel. My hope is maybe we can get them off the project. Because if there's no one building the ballroom, there's going to be no ballroom. So perhaps that is how we can stop it. It's by letting these folks know that we see them and we don't like it. And maybe we can just ask them, hey, are you really comfortable with creating a historical landmark that represents the lawlessness happening in Washington, D.C.? Because that's what you're doing. Well, let them know, 202-342-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-0 or Inquiries at S-B-A-R-A-N-E-S.com. And let me know if you do in the comments below. Thanks. Bye.