A Conversation on Free Speech, The Media and the Regime: with Brian Karem (Sep 2025)
The Mary Trump Podcast
Mary Trump Media
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🗓️ 11 January 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In a conversation from September 2025 Mary Trump is joined by journalist Brian Karam to discuss the escalating threats to free speech and a free press, including the confrontation involving Donald Trump, the FCC, and Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Mary breaks down Trump’s strongman strategy, keeping the public angry, anxious, and divided as a means of holding onto power, and explains why unity among voters is essential to protecting democratic institutions and ensuring free and fair elections in 2026.
The episode closes with Mary’s pointed reflection on Donald’s own words about why he does not believe he’s going to heaven.
This is a candid, urgent conversation on media freedom, authoritarianism, and what comes next.
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| 0:00.0 | Moments after we taped our show last night, |
| 0:02.5 | the Mad Red Hatter wrote, |
| 0:03.9 | I can't believe ABC fake news gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back. |
| 0:11.6 | You can't believe they gave me my job back. |
| 0:16.1 | I can't believe we gave you your job back. |
| 0:19.9 | Thank you. we gave you your job back. |
| 0:27.1 | Welcome to the Mary Trump podcast. |
| 0:28.8 | Let's dive it. |
| 0:35.2 | Today I have, as my guest, my friend and fellow nerd avenger, journalist and political analyst Brian Karam. |
| 0:36.7 | He's also a podcast host of Just Asked |
| 0:39.5 | the Question, now celebrating its seventh year on air. And he's the bestselling author, most |
| 0:44.8 | recently of Free the Press, The Death of American Journalism and How to Revive it. Brian, you were the |
| 0:50.7 | first person I thought of in the wake of what happened to Jimmy Kimmel. |
| 0:56.5 | You've been on the front lines of the fight against Donald Trump's White House. |
| 1:01.9 | And it is alarming to see how much more quickly our descent down the slippery slope has accelerated in the last eight months. So I wanted to get your |
| 1:12.8 | take on all of it. First of all, how are you? I can imagine how unbearably frustrating and enraging |
| 1:20.7 | all of this must be. Boy, that's about the use. That sums it up pretty damn good. It's frightening. |
| 1:26.5 | It's more than anything else that angers me. |
| 1:30.1 | And in the last two days, I've had two good friends of mine who are reporters at the White |
| 1:35.0 | O's to say, you know, Donald Trump is one. |
| 1:37.0 | They're going to quit. |
| 1:38.1 | There's no point anymore. |
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