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🗓️ 5 February 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You can't impeach somebody for doing the best job of any president in the history of our country for the first two years. |
| 0:05.6 | And people have seen and people have watched what we've done, whether it's tax cuts, no. |
| 0:11.3 | You're prepared for it. |
| 0:12.1 | It's political, but you know, it's supposed to be high crimes and misdemeanors. |
| 0:15.4 | Well, there was no high crime, there was no misdemeanor, there was no problem whatsoever. |
| 0:20.4 | The only thing I've done is created maybe the best economy we've had in the history of our country. |
| 0:25.1 | And let's say the slow economic erosion of the shutdown could collapse into a fast moving landslide of problems. |
| 0:34.5 | Those tax cuts, sure. |
| 0:36.1 | They helped out big corporations by fueling higher deficits, and they basically haven't done anything to increase wages. |
| 0:43.7 | Trump has spent roughly 60% of his working hours in unstructured executive time. |
| 0:50.6 | Hello, and welcome to Trumpcast. |
| 0:54.1 | I'm Virginia Heffernan. |
| 0:55.2 | Well, today the nation has come together at last for a tender moment of shared emotion across the board. |
| 1:02.5 | Starbucks CEO in 2020 presidential candidate Howard Schultz has a 4% approval rating among Democrats, Republicans, and his very own independence. |
| 1:13.6 | It's moving that we can all finally agree on 4%, namely that we now know the definition of unlikeable, and his name is Howard Schultz. |
| 1:22.9 | Schultz has billionaire proposals for less taxes for him and less healthcare for us, was briefly charming, but ultimately, |
| 1:31.6 | Schultz getting richer while we get sicker didn't seem like quite the deal it initially did. |
| 1:37.5 | I mean, I hate making the baristas do this, and I promise after this no try hard Starbucks jokes again, |
| 1:43.0 | but we're going to have to have them pour out that frappuccino. |
| 1:46.6 | It was all foam, vanity, and hazelnut flavored splendor. |
| 1:51.4 | We're not talking 2020 much today because the question is still open. Who's going to be president in 2019? |
| 1:57.8 | We still have a venti, I mean, bullshoy collaborator in the White House, and indictments and arrests being made on the reg of all his butlers and valets and courteers. |
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