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🗓️ 17 March 2025
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0:00.0 | Thanks to at home for joining this. I'm really happy to have you here this Monday night. |
0:03.8 | They said that by nightfall, the turnout was somewhere north of 325,000 people. Look at the size of this. |
0:12.6 | We knew in advance that this is going to be a big demonstration. The government knew it was coming. |
0:18.1 | The government had parked a whole bunch of tractors around their capital building in anticipation |
0:23.3 | that there were going to be a lot of people there, and they thought the wall of tractors |
0:26.5 | might put people off, I guess. |
0:29.3 | All through that afternoon, Saturday afternoon, you could see the crowd starting to build |
0:32.9 | up in the capital city. |
0:33.9 | But when they ended up at night at something like 300, look at that, 325,000 people |
0:41.1 | in the streets, I think pretty much everybody was surprised. This happened Saturday in Serbia, |
0:48.9 | in a country that's only got about 6.6 million people. They got a third of a million people to show up at a single |
0:56.1 | demonstration when they don't even have 7 million people in the entire country for their |
1:00.4 | population. If you want to compare that to us, if we got a similar proportion of our country's |
1:06.5 | population to all show up for the same demonstration, that would be a demonstration of about 17 million people. |
1:14.5 | Yeah. This is just massive. This is Belgrade this weekend. Serbia's president is pro-Putton and pro-Trump. |
1:23.6 | The people of Serbia are not. And they are mobilizing in almost unbelievable numbers now to try to get rid of their president. |
1:33.3 | These are the biggest protests that have happened in that country in a generation. |
1:37.3 | Absolutely massive. |
1:39.3 | President Donald Trump's son, Don Jr., the brunette. |
1:45.0 | He visited Serbia last week and said that he thought the protests there were artificial, that they weren't real. |
1:52.0 | The real Serbian people certainly wouldn't be protesting against their leadership. |
1:57.0 | The Serbian president posted photos of himself with Don Jr. |
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