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Americano: should Twitter pay Trump to tweet?

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4.4785 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Freddy Gray talks to the comedian and media and culture editor of American Greatness Tim Young, about Twitter, Donald Trump and the Republican race for president in 2024.

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Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American politics and life.

0:37.0

My name is Freddie Gray. I'm the deputy editor of the

0:39.8

spectator. I am delighted to be joined here at the Spectators' offices by Tim Young, who is a

0:45.3

comedian and the media and culture editor at American Greatness. Tim, welcome to London,

0:51.4

first of all. You're a Texan in London. Do you have any publications here, like London greatness or Britain greatness? Or is that like an American thing? We're like, we're

0:57.8

awesome. Our publications are like, we kick everyone's butt. We are so full of self-loving that we struggle.

1:04.6

We struggle with such things. But maybe that's coming. Maybe we're behind the curve on that.

1:08.4

Yeah. I'm not sure. But Tim, I thought I'd start by asking you about the story of the weekend,

1:12.1

or at least the social media story of the weekend,

1:14.6

for those of us that spend far too much time on our phones,

1:17.7

which was Elon Musk doing a Twitter poll,

1:20.4

in which millions, I think it was 15, 20 million people voted in the end,

1:24.1

as to whether Donald Trump should be allowed back onto Twitter.

1:26.9

The answer was 52-48.

1:29.1

Yes, he should be allowed back, which was very amusing for all the Brits, because that's the Brexit ratio, 52% to 48%.

1:36.3

And Trump has said he probably won't come back because he loves true social, which is his new media platform.

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