100 days of payback

Today, Explained

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🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Vox's Andrew Prokop says retribution was one of the major themes of the first 100 days of Trump's second term. John Bolton, who had his security detail yanked, explains why he's not worried about fascism. This episode was produced by Devan Schwartz and Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Gabrielle Berbey, engineered by Andrea Kristinsdottir and Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram and Noel King. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Noelle King, host of today explained, we're here at 100 Days of Trump Part 2.
0:06.0	They say they like to flood the zone, and boy, did the zone feel flooded.
0:15.0	Can you remember everything?
0:16.5	Oh my gosh. Liberation Day. Backing off Liberation Day. Greenland. Canada. Canada. Ukraine, the Oval Office
0:22.7	meeting with the yelling. Thank you. The penny. They were going to get rid of the penny. I think I still
0:26.2	see pennies. Showerheads. Showerheads. Immigration. Daylight savings. I think we still have that too.
0:31.1	Deporting some people who are citizens. Fighting with the courts. Withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accords. Doge. Aid.
0:37.9	Project Esther in anti-Semitism.
0:39.9	Everything is computer.
0:41.3	Going after Harvard?
0:42.3	Rewriting history, you did a show on that?
0:44.1	Donald Trump said there are two genders.
0:45.6	The Pope's funeral.
0:46.4	Yep, the eggs are still pricey.
0:47.8	A weird number of Sig Hiles.
0:49.4	Today I think we focus on one main theme.
0:53.0	How about that?
0:53.5	Yeah, which one? Revenge, Sean.
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