Donald Trump: Dictator in Chief?
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
The shadow looming over the fourth Republican debate was the party’s most recent president, Donald Trump.
But while the other candidates traded blows at one another, Trump was conspicuously absent, instead taking part in a town hall event on Tuesday evening.
He raised eyebrows when saying he would only be a dictator on ‘day one’ if elected president.
The Americast team chew over Trump’s comments – and the Republican debate – before speaking to GOP candidate Asa Hutchinson, the former governor of Arkansas who’s still in the race for the White House.
And, a clip of American university leaders has gone viral after they failed to say explicitly to Congress that calling for the genocide of Jewish people violated their schools code of conduct. The team assesses how we’ve reached this point.
HOSTS: • Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter • Marianna Spring, disinformation and social media correspondent • Anthony Zurcher, North America correspondent
GUEST: • Asa Hutchinson, Republican presidential candidate
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This episode was made by George Dabby with Alix Pickles, Catherine Fusillo, Claire Betzer and Maia Davies. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The series producer is George Dabby. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hey baby, I hear the blues, a call in, tossed salads and scrambled eggs. |
| 0:10.0 | Mercy. |
| 0:12.0 | And maybe I seem a bit confused. Yeah, maybe, but I got you pegged. |
| 0:17.0 | Ha ha ha ha! |
| 0:19.0 | But I don't know what to do with those tossed salads and scrambled eggs. |
| 0:25.1 | Justin, I have a question to ask you, are you a fan of Frazier? |
| 0:29.2 | Huge fan. |
| 0:30.2 | Always love the series, love Cheers before Kelsey grammar who is Frazier love the gentleness |
| 0:37.0 | Love the humor love everything about it reminds me of everything I love about America actually |
| 0:42.1 | But the real real question the important |
| 0:44.9 | question is is Frazier a fan of you Justin. Look I interviewed him |
| 0:49.4 | recently because they bring out Frazier again I interviewed Kelsey Grammar and we got on really well. |
| 0:54.4 | It was a great interview as you'd expect it to be from him. He feels like a really lovely man. |
| 1:00.1 | He's a Trump supporter. He's a Republican, always has been. |
| 1:03.0 | And at the end of it, I asked him a bit about being a Trump supporter, |
| 1:06.0 | and the PR people cut it down, basically. |
| 1:10.0 | He would have been perfectly happy to talk on the PR people weren't. I got to ask |
| 1:15.9 | you about politics before we finish you mentioned Rosanne early on who had a great |
| 1:21.4 | comeback but also was a Trump supporter. |
| 1:24.0 | You were, at least you were a Trump supporter. |
| 1:26.0 | I'm fascinated in there if you still are. |
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