Andrew Sullivan on What He Got Wrong About Trump

Honestly with Bari Weiss

The Free Press

Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 7.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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For this week’s Honestly, we’re sharing a favorite episode from a favorite podcast, one you may not have heard of: UnHerd with Freddie Sayers. UnHerd’s mission is similar to ours: to push back against the herd mentality, and to provide a platform for otherwise unheard ideas, people, and places. On this episode, host Freddie Sayers talks to Andrew Sullivan, one of America's best known political observers and writers, about something very few public intellectuals are willing to talk about: what he got wrong about Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	BAM, picture this! You're watching your favorite artist play. Not that artist!
0:05.0	Ha ha, yeah, that's you! You look down at the red can in your hand, or is it?
0:11.0	No, it's a Pepsi Max.
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0:16.0	You props prefer it too. Go on, try it.
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0:27.6	For verification go to Pepsi.
0:28.9	code at UK slash FAQ.
0:31.6	I'm Barry Weiss and this is honestly. This week New York Mag published a little story about the free press.
0:38.0	Maybe you saw it and it was all over your Twitter feed or maybe you don't even know what New York magazine is.
0:42.9	The title was catchy.
0:43.9	It was, we need a free press.
0:46.2	Do we need the free press?
0:48.5	In any event, I took it as a compliment.
0:50.1	I read it just as I landed at JFK, so it felt like a kind of welcome to New York.
0:54.8	The piece was kind of lightly critical,
0:56.6	but one of the criticisms I thought was fair in the piece
0:59.3	is that we don't criticize Trump enough as a publication. Now partially that's because everyone else
1:04.2	does obsessively and why try and do something that other people do well. But I took it to
1:09.2	heart and today we decided to bring you, well, Trump.
1:13.0	Well, don't get too excited.
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