Trump's Reflecting Pool Renovation Keeps Getting Worse

**SPEAKER_1** (0:01)
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**Deven** (0:34)
Welcome back to The TMZ Podcast. Deven here with Branson.

**Branson** (0:38)
Hey.

**Deven** (0:39)
How's it going, bro? You have a good weekend?

**Branson** (0:42)
Yeah, great weekend. I'm on day 27 of no sugar.

**Deven** (0:47)
Really? Interesting.
What was the decision behind that?

**Branson** (0:52)
I need to lose weight.

**Deven** (0:53)
Oh, okay. How's it going?

**Branson** (0:55)
It's good. I'm down.

**Deven** (0:55)
Yeah, you look good, man.

**Branson** (0:56)
13 pounds.

**Deven** (0:56)
Wow, good for you, bro.

**Branson** (0:57)
Thank you, man. How about you? Good?

**Deven** (1:00)
Are you saying am I overweight?

**Branson** (1:02)
No, no, no, no, no.

**Deven** (1:04)
My weekend was good. I'm exhausted. I am almost 34 years old, and I went to a bachelor party in Santa Barbara. So I'm struggling, but we're going to get through this.

**Branson** (1:14)
We're going to talk about another bachelor party.

**Deven** (1:16)
Exactly. I was not at that one. I wish I was.
So a lot going on in Washington, DC with this reflecting pool and all the money Trump is spending on it and a dead duckling was found. And then so there's just a lot to talk about.

**Branson** (1:34)
A lot going on in Capitol Hill with the president.

**Deven** (1:36)
Also, a very mysterious post on Truth Social from Donald J. Trump over the weekend. So we will dive into that. And also, like we just teased, we'll also talk about Travis Kelsey's big bachelor party, which went down in California. Alleged bachelor party because seems like a bachelor party, but it probably is.
So that was going down in California. So we'll talk to you about all the stops that they had. And then we'll hopefully get to Britney Spears explaining why she's so crazy on social media.

**Branson** (2:09)
Yeah, why she's so rebellious, she says. So yeah, Trump was actually having some meetings this weekend amid this Iran peace treaty deal.
And it's not going that well, this Iran peace deal. The straight of her moves, I don't want to say it incorrectly, was closed again because there were some problems and now there's some talks, technical talks going on with Iran. So during all of this, he posted mysteriously on Truth Social, like you said, this picture of this blonde woman, and the caption is, great daughter, my honor, President Donald J. Trump, which he usually signs his tweets with President DJT at the end of it. But people-

**Deven** (2:51)
Was everyone just like, what the hell is this?

**Branson** (2:53)
It's just random, but it's not-

**Deven** (2:55)
First of all, it's not his daughter.

**Branson** (2:57)
It's not his daughter.

**Deven** (2:57)
No one knew who it was at first.

**Branson** (3:00)
It's an older woman.

**Deven** (3:01)
So they found out it's, who is it?

**Branson** (3:05)
It's found out to be Margot, I don't want to say it incorrectly.

**Deven** (3:09)
Natsumatides.

**Branson** (3:10)
Yeah, so she is the mother of Andrea Castamada, I can't say it incorrectly, the chairwoman of the Manhattan Republican Party. Many observers believe that the photo may have been taken at Camp David, which is where Trump was spending the weekend, like I said, meeting with senior staff regarding the peace situation involving Iran.
This photo is an old photo.

**Deven** (3:31)
Why? Why?
Why did he post this? I don't know. It's so fricking random.

**Branson** (3:37)
But why did he say great daughter? People thought that he was having like some type of dementia moment, thinking like, this is my daughter or something.

**Deven** (3:46)
Did he leave this up too? So this wasn't like an accident, sometimes you'll post something accidentally and then you'll be like, oh, this is embarrassing and then you delete it. But he just, he's just rolling with it.

**Branson** (3:58)
Yeah. Well, there's a lot of speculation over the post until he cleared it up or until it was cleared up.
Yeah, that's basically it on the first. I don't even know why that's a story.

**Deven** (4:08)
I think it's just people are just like, this is so random and like you said, I think everyone wants to be like, oh, see that his mental is declining and he doesn't even know who his own daughter is, which I don't know why. I would need more explanation.