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On the Media

12 Months Later: Brooke and Bob on Covering Trump

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🗓️ 8 November 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

On the anniversary of the 2016 election, we revisit the fraught next day editorial meeting we recorded and the epiphany that Bob told Brooke about this summer.

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0:00.0

Alongside the breathless coverage of Democratic Party wins in Virginia and New Jersey this week,

0:06.5

the media, who just cannot resist an anniversary, are reliving the first week of November 2016.

0:14.0

Well, it's been one year to the day since Donald Trump won the presidential election in the biggest upset in decades.

0:20.5

It's been one year since the Trump's shock.

0:22.8

Is the world still in a state of shock?

0:25.1

Well, it's time to wake up now.

0:26.5

I think I mean.

0:27.0

It's been one year since President Trump's historic victory, which shocked many.

0:29.9

And one year later, our panel is here to examine the Trump administration.

0:32.6

This has to tweet from the president's account it has to do on Twitter with winning. Congratulations to all

0:38.4

of the deplorables and the millions of people who gave us a massive 304 to 227 electoral college

0:43.6

landslide victory. You're not going to cry again, are you, Michael?

0:49.0

Anniversary pieces help us compare how we feel now to how we felt then. And this year in particular, it seems

0:55.9

important to remind ourselves that the new normal started on November 7, 2016. In July of this year,

1:03.9

eight months into the Donald Trump presidency, I walked into the OTP offices having had an epiphany

1:10.6

of sorts.

1:11.9

Executive producer Kat Rogers and Brooke insisted that we go into the studio to talk it through,

1:17.0

and we will now flash back.

1:19.1

But before that, let's flash back back to our original post-election encounter session,

1:26.2

which we first aired on November 9th, 2016.

1:30.6

Hi, everyone. This is Katia, executive producer of OTP. So, as you can imagine,

1:36.2

lots of feelings being felt here in the office Wednesday morning, feelings we didn't quite know

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