Donald Trump Is Sports-Fan-In-Chief
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.5 • 24.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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This episode: senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith, White House correspondent Franco Ordoñez, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.
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| 1:39.5 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Tamara Keith. I cover the White House. |
| 1:43.7 | I'm Frank O'Donio as I cover the White House as well. And I'm Domenico Montanaro, senior political editor and correspondent. And we are recording this at 109 p.m. on Monday, December 15th, 2025. And today on the show, |
| 1:52.5 | we are taking a step back to talk about President Trump as the sports fan in chief. We'll look at the |
| 1:59.1 | president's relationship with professional men's sports |
| 2:01.8 | and how it has become part of his political brand. So Franco, we know that President Trump is a |
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