Americanswers! The ‘special relationship’ and running for a third term?
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Justin gets grilled by the Americasters on why he didn’t correct an interviewee who referred to Donald Trump as “President”... And why he refers to the world wide HQ of Americast as being in “London, England”.
He and Sarah also tackle precinct issues like how Trump and Keir Starmer would interact if elected this year, and whether he could run for a third term, and how a President builds his cabinet. We also hear from a caller who wants to know what happened to the political centre ground in the United States.
HOSTS: Sarah Smith, North America editor Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter
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This episode was made by Rufus Gray. The technical producers were Mike Regaard and Hannah Montgomery. The series producer is Purvee Pattni. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | It's Justin in the worldwide headquarters of Ameriacast and AmeriCans in London, England. |
| 0:10.3 | And Sarah Smith here, I'm in the Washington Bureau of the BBC here in the District of Columbia. |
| 0:16.0 | And we have a range of questions as ever, including, I'm pleased to say, some trench and criticism of me from someone who's spotted me with my dog. |
| 0:27.7 | More of that later. |
| 0:29.2 | Yeah, well I think there's some implied criticism of you in the very first questions as well actually. |
| 0:33.3 | All right, the whole thing is a criticism later. |
| 0:37.3 | Because it turns out that there have been quite a few comments have come in |
| 0:41.6 | about the interview that you and Anthony did last week |
| 0:44.6 | with Meheke one of Donald Trump's legal spokespeople. Gillian emailed us and |
| 0:49.6 | she said you're always admirably careful to call him Donald Trump or Mr Trump. |
| 0:54.0 | Your American guest earlier this week repeatedly called him President Trump. |
| 0:57.5 | And I feel strongly you should have corrected her each and every time, |
| 1:01.3 | Jillian says, and before you answer that, |
| 1:03.2 | Justin, there's more. |
| 1:04.4 | David in Scotland said, |
| 1:05.9 | hi there, love the podcast but couldn't finish the episode with Trump's |
| 1:08.8 | spokesperson, as she constantly referred to him as |
| 1:11.0 | President Trump and Joe Biden as Biden when it's clearly |
| 1:13.9 | the opposite. Why didn't you pick her up on that? We got a text from someone who didn't |
| 1:18.4 | leave their name. Hi America I'm wondering why in Justin's interview with Mehekook of the Trump team there was no challenge to In a recent interview with the enthusiastic Trump advocate, she constantly referred to him as president, |
| 1:34.9 | no one picked her up on it, so I assume there's some protocol whereby a former president can be referred to as |
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