#52: Donald Trump: Resist or Cooperate?
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2017
⏱️ 26 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Last year, he called Donald Trump a “buffoon" on cable news. Now, he’s working with him. Is Javier Palomarez trying to change the Trump Administration from the inside? And if so, when does resistance from the inside become cooperation?
Maria Hinojosa and Julio Ricardo Varela discuss this and more with Javier Palomarez, President of the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and advisor to the National Diversity Coalition For Trump.
For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Want to support our independent journalism? Join Futuro+ for exclusive episodes, sneak peaks and behind-the-scenes chisme on all our podcasts futuromediagroup.org/joinplus.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | I remain committed to the notion that you can't change the game from the sidelines. |
| 0:06.6 | You have to be in the game to change The Think. This is a podcast about politics, race and culture from a POC perspective. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Maria Ino Hosa. And I'm Julio Riccalo Barella. |
| 0:21.0 | And today we are joined by Hadier Palomares. He's the president of the US Hispanic |
| 0:25.9 | Chamber of Commerce and an advisor to President Trump's National Diversity |
| 0:29.6 | Coalition. Welcome to the show, Javier. Thank you both for having me. |
| 0:33.0 | Good to be with you. |
| 0:34.0 | We've been waiting to have you on Javier. |
| 0:35.0 | Did you know that? |
| 0:37.0 | Well, I'm always ready to sit down with you, Maria, you Julio, |
| 0:40.0 | you Julio, Julio, Javier, and I, we kind of go back |
| 0:45.4 | away as we have a kind of professional respect and friendship amista. So that's kind of the tone of |
| 0:51.5 | the conversation. |
| 0:53.0 | So listen, Javier, we are taping this on Monday evening. |
| 0:57.0 | This is after President Trump has just signed a revised version of his ban |
| 1:01.6 | after the previous one was ruled unconstitutional and now it's called |
| 1:05.9 | quote executive order protecting the nation from foreign terrorist entry into the United States |
| 1:11.1 | period this ban does remove Iraq from the into the United States, period. |
| 1:12.6 | This ban does remove Iraq from the list of countries, but it apparently is not going |
| 1:18.1 | to affect immigrants who are legal permanent residents with green cards, but it's still going to ban refugees |
| 1:25.0 | from these six countries for the next 120 days. And you know a lot of people are |
| 1:28.5 | talking about the moral argument but what about an economic one right? You're president of the US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Futuro Media, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Futuro Media and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.