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The Big Ben Show

A New Era In The Nation's Capitol

The Big Ben Show

Fox News Radio

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.5576 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Days into the second Trump Administration and the President is hitting the ground running. Ben gives his thoughts on a memorable inaugural weekend, highlighting the remarkable odds President Trump overcame to return to the Oval Office.  He also looks ahead to the 2026 midterms, forecasting what the slim Republican majority will be able to accomplish in Congress. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:41.2

You're listening to Fox News Radio.

0:42.4

I'm Ben Dominic.

0:46.6

We are witnessing something truly unprecedented in Washington this week,

0:49.8

the return triumphantly of Donald Trump,

0:59.0

a president who had everything thrown at him on leaving office and fought back through it to regain the White House. It's something that we should pause and appreciate because of how incredible the storyline truly is.

1:05.0

And from my perspective, it's not just a story about politics, but one about American culture

1:11.9

as well, and an interesting one when you think of all the lessons that people gained

1:17.3

from the experience, first of having Donald Trump win in a chaotic and surprising fashion

1:22.8

over the forces of the American political establishment, both in Republican and Democratic politics,

1:30.5

followed by the reinstitution of that same establishment,

1:35.0

albeit through a weakened figurehead in the form of Joe Biden,

1:39.5

one who seriously was not capable of fulfilling the job

1:43.5

at this point in his career. The way that you saw

1:47.0

this play out over the course of the past four years was in the form of a staff-led and driven

1:54.1

policy agenda on the part of Joe Biden that really had nothing in common with his prior political

1:59.8

career. He had always been a partisan, but his status as a moderate or centrist on most issues

2:06.6

was pretty well cemented in the minds of the American people prior to his rising to the presidency.

2:12.6

He was viewed as an asset for Barack Obama for exactly those reasons.

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