12 days to Trump
The News Agents - USA
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4.3 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Why does it already feel as if Trump is President? Last night, he gave an hour long press conference at Mar-a-Lago and we suddenly remembered what it's going to be like. On the bingo card: Greenland, Canada, Panama Canal, and the January 6th protesters. Little mention of either the cost of living or immigration but hey, early days.
On today's episode we hear from two sides of the Republican party - the MAGA wing and the WTF wing - and we try once again to figure out what Donald Trump actually means versus what he just says.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.2 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.7 | Can you assure the world that as you try to get control of these areas, you are not going to use military or economic coercion? |
| 0:22.6 | No. |
| 0:23.6 | And can you tell us a little bit about what your plan is? |
| 0:26.6 | You're talking about Panama and Greenland? |
| 0:28.6 | No, I can't assure you on either of those two. |
| 0:31.6 | But I can say this, we need them for economic security. |
| 0:35.6 | The Panama Canal is vital to our country. It's being operated by China. China. And we gave the Panama Canal to Panama. We didn't give it to China because Canada and the United States, that would really be something. You get rid of that artificially drawn line and you take a look at |
| 0:56.0 | what that looks like and it would also be much better for national security. Don't forget, |
| 1:00.1 | we basically protect Canada. But here's the problem with Canada. So, good news for Canada. You're |
| 1:05.5 | not going to be invaded. Bad news, Greenland and indeed, Panama, you might be. It is 12 days to go until inauguration. |
| 1:15.1 | It already feels as if Trump is president. And today, we're going to take you through |
| 1:20.3 | some of the key moments of that press conference, and we're going to be hearing from two sides |
| 1:25.9 | of the Republican Party, Maga and Traditional, |
| 1:30.9 | and decipher what Trump is really going to get up to as things kick off. |
| 1:36.1 | Welcome to the Newsagents USA. |
| 1:39.0 | The Newsagents USA with Emily Maitliss and John Sopo. |
| 1:43.3 | It's Emily and, well, our favourite marsupil is still bouncing around down under, |
| 1:48.6 | but sending thoughtful notes each day, so that's nice. |
| 1:52.0 | And here we are less than two weeks out from inauguration day, the 20th of January. |
| 2:00.0 | It already feels, as I was saying, as if Trump is |
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