April 30, 2025: Trump returns to the trail

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🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

In marking his 100th day in office yesterday at a rally in Michigan, President Donald Trump wasn’t just looking backwards — he was projecting forward a vision for how he plans to sell his message to the public and what exactly his case to the American people will look like in 2026 and beyond. During a 90-minute speech, Trump flaunted his successes and downplayed his shortcomings — and the MAGA faithful lapped it up. But what about the rest of America? How will they respond to his message over these next 100 days? Playbook managing editor and author Jack Blanchard and POLITICO White House bureau chief Dasha Burns discuss.

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0:00.0	presented by BP.
0:05.5	Hello, good morning, everyone.
0:07.0	This is Playbooks Managing Editor and author Jack Blanchard, and this is Wednesday, April the 30th.
0:12.4	The month is pretty much done.
0:14.3	It is day 101 of Donald Trump's second term in office, and I am here once again with Politico's White House Bureau Chief Dasha Burns to talk about everything that is driving the day. Good morning,
0:24.3	Dasha. How are you? Good morning. I'm still standing. Day 101. And here we go. There were
0:31.5	so many hours of Donald Trump on TV last night that I feel like that is probably the thing that
0:36.1	we need to talk about today.
0:39.5	Normally we do this as a forward-looking podcast.
0:41.4	It's like back to campaign mode.
0:42.1	Oh my gosh.
0:44.3	I had PTSD from 2024.
0:48.4	People who haven't followed Dash's career as close as they should have done.
0:52.7	Dash has spent most of 2024 and probably more than that out on the road following Donald Trump all around the country, right, on the campaign trail.
0:55.8	So you've seen some of this stuff before.
0:58.2	Many, many, many hours spent at campaign rallies.
1:02.9	There you go.
1:03.6	Well, the campaign rally last night was up in Michigan, and that's a hometown of our very own Zach Stanton who works on the playbook team with us.
1:12.8	He was there last night watching the rally.
1:15.4	And he was saying, you know, he's seen a few Trump rallies in his time as well, of course,
1:19.3	as we all have now.
1:20.4	And in many ways that the rally in Michigan followed the Trump playbook that you'll know
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