Byron York On Trump's 100 Days
The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan
Andrew Sullivan
4.6 • 836 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Byron is a political journalist. He was a news producer for CNN in the early years, a reporter for The American Spectator, and the White House correspondent for National Review. He’s currently the chief political correspondent for Washington Examiner and a contributor to Fox News. His most recent book is the 2020 bestseller, Obsession: Inside the Washington Establishment’s Never-Ending War on Trump. We chewed over the recent political past and then got on to Trump, where things got stickier but still friendly.
For two clips of our convo — on Clinton Derangement Syndrome in the ‘90s, and Trump bungling his gains on immigration — pop over to our YouTube page.
Other topics: raised in Alabama; his dad a pioneer star in local TV news; the GOP takeover of the South; George Wallace; the Nation of Islam and AIDS; GOP fusionism in the Cold War; Mickey Kaus’ courage; David Brock’s war on the Clintons; Bill’s triangulation and the DLC; Vince Foster; Lewinsky and impeachment; Ken Starr; Iraq and WMD; covering Dubya for National Review; that mag marginalized since Trump; Birtherism and demonizing Obama; McCain and the market crash; Obamacare; the Santorum candidacy; Pat Buchanan; Trump vs Jeb on 9/11; Trump blowing up GOP orthodoxies; Hillary in 2016; Russiagate; pardoning all January 6-ers; Trump’s impeachments and McConnell; open borders under Biden; CHIPS and IRA; Trump hypocrisy on E-Verify; authoritarianism and self-deportation; Tom Homan; Bukele; the Alien Enemies Act; the SCOTUS standoff; judge shopping; DEI; Musk and DOGE; USAID and PEPFAR; Zelensky in the Oval; NATO; Chris Krebs; the tariff war; Trump’s yips; and the looming empty shelves.
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| 0:00.0 | The Hello, welcome to another dishcast. |
| 0:31.9 | Here we are in Washington now. |
| 0:33.6 | I'm still here. |
| 0:35.0 | I haven't gone up to the homosexual migration lands of the province. |
| 0:40.2 | There's the end of Cape Cod yet. That is yet to happen. But it's beautiful here. |
| 0:44.8 | Apart from the fact that we are enduring the usual arboreal buccarchy, as it were. |
| 0:52.3 | The pollen is just everywhere. And it's beginning to affect my lungs, as usual. |
| 0:57.6 | But I'm okay. |
| 0:58.5 | I'm doing fine. |
| 0:59.5 | We are doing fine, as a general. |
| 1:00.9 | Let me just check for a second, see what our numbers are. |
| 1:03.6 | We are, you guys are edging us, really, with this data. |
| 1:07.9 | We are now at 20,919, as of now, paid subscribers, 99, 850 total subscribers. |
| 1:18.2 | So we're just about 21k and 200K, which would be quite lovely on our five-year anniversary. |
| 1:24.4 | And coming up, we have a really interesting crew of people. We have Claire |
| 1:29.0 | Lehman of Quillette is coming on to talk about the work right. Robert Mary, the historian, |
| 1:35.0 | is coming on. We're going to talk about President McKinley, somebody who's a role model for |
| 1:39.2 | some of the people in the Comerent Administration. We're going to talk to David Graham, who wrote about Project 2025. |
| 1:46.4 | I think of all the things when I look back on the campaign, I think the things I got wrong, |
| 1:51.7 | one of the things I got wrong was I didn't take 2025 that seriously. I thought that I kind |
| 1:59.0 | of believe Trump, a big mistake, that it wasn't that important |
| 2:01.8 | to him. Sam Tannenhouse is going to come on to talk about Bill Buckley. Jake Tapper and |
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