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The Daily Beast Podcast

Did Trump and Biden Swap Bodies???

The Daily Beast Podcast

The Daily Beast

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4.68.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

If you don’t understand the title of this episode, which suggests some Freaky Friday voodoo between President Biden and ex-President Donald Trump, congratulations, you have logic. Unfortunately, there are many people who don’t, like the QAnon believers who are still clinging to their conspiracy theories the same way that Donald Trump attempted to cling to the presidency: with nonsensical BS. But seriously, one of the latest QAnon theories that hasn’t yet been proved false, is that Trump is still somehow president...in Biden’s body. In this episode of The New Abnormal, Rick Wilson, Molly Jong-Fast and guest George Conway unpack that and a whole lot more. “It's really the only answer that makes sense,” Molly jokes. “It’s just so simple and obvious.” What isn’t obvious, however, is how the non-QAnon Republicans will move forward with Biden as president, especially Mitch McConnell. (“They have the problem of the distortive, gravitational field that Donald Trump casts over some element of the Republican party and they need to stamp it out. And you know that in his heart of hearts Mitch McConnell wants to do that. He just doesn't want to leave any fingerprints,” says Conway.) Then, the three pivot Trump. It’s a new era, but it’s impossible to not talk about him. In fact, Molly says Biden has 99 problems, and, yes, Trump is still very much one of them. To start, he left no federal vaccine roll-out plan, and also, to quote Conway, “he's basically a criminal.” Not even a Nixon-style criminal, either. Worse. (“I mean, [Trump] was like a one man show there and people were trying to get out of the way or avoid doing what he asked them to do," says Conway.) Plus! Daily Beast Washington Bureau Chief Jackie Kucinich tells Molly what to expect from Chuck and Mitch in the next week or so, but also the next two years with a Senate that’s split down the middle: “It's still gonna be really hard to govern. This is razor-thin, as thin as it gets.” If you haven't heard, every single week The New Abnormal does a special bonus episode for Beast Inside, the Daily Beast’s membership program. where Sometimes we interview Senators like Cory Booker or the folks who explain our world in media like Jim Acosta or Soledad O’Brien. Sometimes we just have fun and talk to our favorite comedians and actors like Busy Phillips or Billy Eichner and sometimes its just Rick & Molly discussing the fuckery. You can get all of our episodes in your favorite podcast app of choice by becoming a Beast Inside member where you’ll support The Beast’s fearless journalism. Plus! You’ll also get full access to podcasts and articles. To become a member head to newabnormal.thedailybeast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi folks, this is Rick Wilson and welcome to the Daily Beasts, the new abnormal.

0:05.2

Hi, I'm Molly John Fast, a left-wing pundit and an editor at large at the Daily Beast.

0:11.3

I'm also an editor at large at the Daily Beast, a former Republican political strategist,

0:16.2

best-selling author and full-time troublemaker.

0:18.8

We're here to have fun, sharp conversations with some of the smartest people in media,

0:22.8

politics and science that help make what's happening in the country and the world clearer.

0:27.3

We take the issues seriously, ourselves, not so much.

0:31.4

Our world has been turned upside down.

0:34.1

On the new abnormal, we'll talk about the people who got us into this mess and how we

0:38.5

get ourselves out of it.

0:40.1

Well folks, welcome to the very first day of the new abnormal in a more abnormal era.

0:44.6

We are happy to report to you that yesterday there was no last-minute QAnon trusting of

0:49.8

the plan, enjoying the show.

0:52.4

It all went as smoothly as possible and with the only deviation from a fairly normal inaugural

0:59.8

being the fact that we're in the middle of a pandemic and required a lot of social distancing

1:03.1

and we couldn't have crowds of people there.

1:05.6

Of course that the former president and I love saying former president, ex president,

1:13.5

disgraced former ex president, Donald John Trump.

1:17.5

I like to call him President Nongrada.

1:21.3

I love George Conway joining us today folks, our all-time favorite guest.

1:25.4

The only other thing that was a deviation from the COVID era inaugural ceremony was that

1:32.3

Stompy-foot Von Schitt-Stain had to run away and couldn't like a man take the fact that

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