#442 – Donald Trump Interview
Lex Fridman Podcast
Lex Fridman
4.7 • 13K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2024
⏱️ 73 minutes
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(09:19) - Psychology of winning and losing
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(18:03) - Kamala Harris interview on CNN
(18:46) - Trump-Harris debate
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(23:57) - 2020 election
(32:13) - Project 2025
(33:03) - Marijuana
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a conversation with Donald Trump on this, the Lex Friedman podcast. |
| 0:06.1 | And now a quick few second mention of its sponsor. |
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| 0:47.9 | This episode is brought to you by one of my favorite websites, Ground News, a nonpartisan news aggregator I use to compare |
| 0:57.1 | media coverage from across the political spectrum. The point is to see every side of the story, especially political stories, and come to your own conclusion. |
| 1:06.0 | We've been talking about it on this podcast, on many podcasts, just how biased specific media sources are. |
| 1:16.0 | Like most problems in the world, this can be explained by incentives. |
| 1:20.8 | The funding is drying out for news organizations so they more and more rely on |
| 1:26.8 | click-bate journalism and click-bate journalism requires extreme polarization. |
| 1:36.0 | So just like in the Soviet Union, |
| 1:38.5 | when everyone knew the official sources was propaganda, you have to arrive at the truth by getting a lot of sources |
| 1:47.0 | and integrating them yourself and understanding where exactly the truth lies because it often lies in the nuance in the details, in the middle. |
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