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🗓️ 4 February 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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In the first two weeks, the new administration has taken a perfectly normal course of action, such as new appointments, new executive orders, and executed it very quickly. However, they have combined this expected action with an unprecedented level of cost-cutting. Billions of dollars of grants, contracts, programs, and other spending have already been canceled, leaving entrenched bureaucrats scrambling to find an effective response.
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0:00.0 | In today's podcast, there's three topics. |
0:02.7 | We're going to talk about change that has happened in the last, well, I mean, we're already a whole month into 2025. |
0:10.4 | But most of them have happened very recently as Trump has taken office. |
0:13.4 | We're going to talk about changes in social media. |
0:15.4 | We're going to talk about changes in political appointments. |
0:17.9 | And we're going to talk about changes in and amongst programs, grants, |
0:23.4 | subsidies, stuff like that. |
0:30.7 | Welcome back to TREX Talk. We haven't done any original content on the T-Rex Talk YouTube channel for a while. We've been |
0:39.1 | posting the ATF series on the Spotify channel, as many of you have requested, because it's |
0:46.0 | an easy way to consume that type of content, but we need to get back into the podcast. And |
0:53.0 | it's been a while since we've done kind of a state of the union. |
0:55.6 | We've done a lot of interviews recently. We've got a bunch of interviews scheduled or |
0:59.8 | semi-scheduled. They just need to be actually organized. But I wanted to talk about some of |
1:04.6 | the stuff that has been happening recently because it's been happening very fast. |
1:10.4 | We'll get into why it's happening very fast in a little bit. |
1:13.2 | But, yeah, since we've been doing ATF content, going to Shot Show, doing a whole bunch of end of year stuff, beginning of year stuff, |
1:22.1 | Donald Trump is in office. |
1:24.1 | President Trump is back. |
1:25.8 | Many people have assured us that this was impossible. It wasn't |
1:29.2 | going to happen. It wasn't even possible that it could happen. Well, it's happened and it's been |
1:36.8 | happening for days. And a lot of stuff has happened in that amount of time. Let's talk about social |
1:42.3 | media changes first. As we talk about TREX YouTube content, TREX podcast content, we also have been doing a number of experiments on X, Twitter, currently known as X, is kind of a hopping, happening place. |
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