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Panel Questions

PETER SAGAL, HOST:

And now, panelists, it is time for the game we like to call...

BILL KURTIS: The Trump Dump.

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SAGAL: As you all know...

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SAGAL: ...Some weeks, the news comes so fast you wish you could just stick a cork in the Trump hole.

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SAGAL: When that happens, we like to cover all of it that we can in a rapid-fire fashion. We're going ask you true-or-false questions. Get it right - you get a point. Are you ready to go? Roxanne, true or false - in a statement, the Trump administration said fuel-efficient cars are dangerous because people drive more and can get into more accidents.

ROXANNE ROBERTS: True.

SAGAL: Yes.

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SAGAL: Don't worry - they're going to protect us from that. Alonzo, true or false - over the last two weeks, Donald Trump repeatedly told crowds that the U.S. Air Force has an invisible airplane.

ALONZO BODDEN: True.

SAGAL: Yes.

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SAGAL: He said of the...

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SAGAL: ...F-35, quote, "you can't see it."

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BODDEN: Can I comment on that, Peter?

SAGAL: You may, Alonzo.

BODDEN: In that, when I worked for Lockheed...

SAGAL: Yeah.

BODDEN: I built the F-117...

SAGAL: Yeah.

BODDEN: ...The original stealth fighter.

SAGAL: Yeah.

BODDEN: And the biggest problem we had was finding the invisible parts.

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BODDEN: You're trying to put it together...

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BODDEN: And then you're, like, oh, man. I've got to attach it to the wing. Where'd the wing go? Where'd the wing...

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BODDEN: ...Go?

ADAM BURKE: Alonzo, but surely that's a great way to lie about how much work you've done that day.

BODDEN: Oh, absolutely.

BURKE: Oh, I've made 14 of them. They're right back there.

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BODDEN: It's - when you think about it, it's the most brilliant government contract ever.

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BODDEN: Yes. Give me $100 billion, and I will give you 50 invisible planes.

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SAGAL: Adam, true or false - at a summit last week, European Commission Chief Jean-Claude Juncker spent three hours discussing the intricacies of global economics with President Trump.

BURKE: True.

SAGAL: No, it's false. He used, quote, "brightly colored flashcards" to try to explain how trade works to Trump.

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SAGAL: Alonzo, true or false - a commentator on Fox News disputed claims that Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, quote, "knows where all the bodies are buried" - unquote.

BODDEN: That's false.

SAGAL: Right, false.

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SAGAL: He said he only knows where, quote, "like, 20 of the bodies are buried."

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SAGAL: That's it for this week's Trump Dump. We'll have another for you soon, presumably including the four or five things he did while we were playing this game.

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GNARLS BARKLEY: (Singing) I remember when, I remember, I remember when I lost my mind. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.