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Ben Ferguson: “In the first Trump administration, when I was in the Oval…”

Featuring: Ben Ferguson, Conservative | Talk Show Host | National

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Published | Video Starts at 07:02

But that is not my thumbs up. But. But I will tell you an interesting story, by the way. Do you want to know how strong I feel about this? Not really. In the first Trump administration, when I was in the Oval, somebody said, are you gonna do the thumbs up? I was like, I will not. I will not do the thumbs up. And if you look at the picture that they sent, I did not do a thumbs up. I smiled. I did not do this. I do the thumbs up very rarely. (07:02–07:12)

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Asserts that he refused to do a thumbs up gesture in the Oval Office during the first Trump administration.

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