100 Days Of Squalitude

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🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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On Donald Trump’s hundredth day in office—the day we taped this podcast—he was historically unpopular, driving the country into recession, and responding to the loss of confidence in his administration by escalating his authoritarian threats against the public.

In this special episode, Paul Krugman joins Brian to discuss:

* What Trump has done to the U.S. economy in just the past 100 days.

* Why it’s too late for him to fix some of the mistakes he made without subjecting Americans to real economic hardships in the coming weeks.

* How his own faithless, erratic conduct will make recovery difficult (for the economy and his polling) even if he ends his trade war.

Then, behind the paywall, how can future leaders attempt to undo the damage Trump has done? What will the country look like after 1300ish more days of this? Are economic forecasters underrating the risk of recession to hedge their bets? Would further inroads toward dictatorship deepen the economic crisis as well as the crisis of democracy and human rights? And what does it say about the direness of our circumstances that major upheaval, like impeachment and removal, would likely help restore global economic confidence in the U.S.

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0:00.0	I think usually bad Democratic strategist advice, which is to focus only on kitchen table issues.
0:07.2	And it's like Trump went in and decided to turn the kitchen table over and spill all the food on the floor.
0:18.0	Hey, everyone.
0:19.0	You're listening to a free preview of the politics podcast. Matt is traveling,
0:23.3	so he couldn't be here. But I went and scrounged up a great guest for this week's episode,
0:28.5	which coincides with the end of Donald Trump's first 100 days in office. I'll be speaking with
0:33.3	Nobel laureate, former New York Times columnist, and runaway substack sensation, Paul Krugman.
0:39.5	We'll talk about Trump's trade war, looming product shortages and price increases,
0:44.4	and how the growing turmoil might, as a silver lining, save American democracy.
0:49.8	If you want to hear the whole conversation, you can upgrade your subscription to paid at
0:52.9	politics.fm.
0:58.8	Hey, everyone.
0:59.7	You're listening to the politics podcast with me, Brian Boilert, your solo flying host for this
1:04.3	week.
1:04.7	I'll be here for the most part in listen and learn mode because my guest for this special
1:10.6	Trump at 100 Days episode is Paul
1:13.5	Krugman. Paul probably needs no introduction, but in case you're just tuning into American politics,
1:20.0	he's a storied economist, a Nobel laureate. Until recently, he was a long-running economics and
1:26.1	politics columnist at the New York Times. And now he's here
1:29.5	on Substack, lapping the field. More than just about anyone with the big public profile, he's
1:34.5	ideally situated to help walk us through the Trump economy from January 20th to today.
1:41.1	What has he done to the place? What can he undo? What can Democrats undo in the future?
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