113. How Far Will Trump Go to Control the Narrative?

The Rest Is Politics: US

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🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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1:20.8	Welcome to The Rest is Politics US with me, Cathy Kaye in Washington.
1:25.0	And I'm Anthony Scaramucci back in New York, Cathy, struggling with the United Nations traffic in this beautiful island of Manhattan. Ooh, I feel bad for you. I always try and avoid that week because it's a nightmare to get around. There has obviously been an awful lot in the news just over the last few days over the weekend, which is why I'm so glad we're doing this extra episode now on the Mondays. We're going to talk about Trump's kind of broad crackdown on political rhetoric
1:50.2	and how he's using various bits of the government to reshape the country in an image that he
1:57.0	thinks is more favorableable to himself.
2:00.9	He's promising vengeance, targeting his political opponents, going after the media with a crackdown
2:06.6	that's already pulled a comedian from the air.
2:09.6	At the Pentagon, reporters are being told that they have to get sort of approval on what they report,
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