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🗓️ 24 January 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Donald Trump has been sworn in as the 47th president of the United States, signing sweeping executive orders targeting climate, trans rights and immigrants. We hear reactions from a diverse range of those affected, including a Venezuelan migrant at the border, a trans activist in Arizona, and an undocumented domestic worker in New Jersey.
Then, host Maria Hinojosa sits down with Princeton Professor of African American Studies and author Dr. Eddie Glaude and Senior Political Reporter for Vox Nicole Narea to break down what it all means and where we go from here.
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0:00.0 | The moment, dear listener, has come. |
0:12.4 | Donald Trump is president of the United States once again. |
0:16.7 | He started by unleashing a flurry of executive orders, trying to end things that are in the Constitution, like birthright citizenship, |
0:26.1 | while also boosting the oil industry that's causing climate change and targeting immigrants and trans people. |
0:33.5 | As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female. |
0:46.1 | Today, we're going to analyze Trump's actions in his first week in office, and we're going to start here with Trump signing an executive order instructing the federal |
0:56.4 | government to issue passports and other federal documents that reflect only two sexes. |
1:04.7 | My friends, my community, my family are angry and scared. |
1:10.0 | That's Daniel Trujillo, a 17-year-old trans student from Arizona. |
1:15.6 | As I get older, I'm going to have to apply to schools, get a house, get a job. |
1:20.6 | And a lot of those things require documents. |
1:23.6 | If those documents aren't correct, it opens the door to discrimination and violence |
1:30.3 | and places that trans people shouldn't have to fear violence from. |
1:34.3 | You know, no one should have to fear being discriminated against at a job interview |
1:39.3 | or by their employer or their landlord. |
1:43.3 | And then there's climate. We will be a real thing. employer or their landlord. |
1:46.9 | And then there's climate. |
1:55.2 | We will be a rich nation again, and it is that liquid gold under our feet that will help to do it. |
2:01.8 | As Californians continue to deal with the devastation of wildfires, and New Orleans is blanketed in a record-breaking snowfall. Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris Agreement |
2:08.0 | at a time when scientists have said humanity has about four years before climate change becomes |
2:14.8 | catastrophic. And in another national emergency declaration, Trump greenlit a massive expansion of the |
2:23.6 | fossil fuel industry. |
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