Episode 1008: Trump's Superpower The Founders Return
Newt's World
Gingrich 360
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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What would the Founding Fathers think of America today? That question sparked historian and novelist Johanna Neuman's new book, Trump's Superpower, in which George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and other founders — plus revolutionary-era writer Mercy Otis Warren — are summoned back to earth for America's 250th birthday and dropped into today's culture wars. Neuman joins Newt Gingrich to discuss the novel's premise, her argument that reclaiming the founders is President Trump's greatest political strength, and why she believes the Founding Fathers are trending again in American culture. The conversation also covers Neuman's remarkable journalism career — from covering the Reagan White House and Jim Baker's State Department to writing Gilded Suffragists, her award-winning history of the fashionable New York socialites who helped push women's suffrage over the finish line.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:08.1 | Welcome to Nutes World Podcast on the IHeart Podcast Network. |
| 0:12.5 | This past week, something happened that I've been thinking about since I was a young man studying history. |
| 0:18.3 | We crossed a threshold that no other nation on earth has crossed in quite the |
| 0:22.4 | same way. 250 years since a room of merchants, farmers, lawyers, and revolutionaries in Philadelphia, |
| 0:30.1 | signed their names to a document that said in effect that people don't need a king to tell them |
| 0:35.4 | who they are. I watched the coverage of the ceremony at Independence National Historic Park, |
| 0:41.0 | the bearing of the new time capsule alongside relics from 1976, |
| 0:45.5 | and I found myself asking a question, |
| 0:47.6 | I think every American should be asking this week. |
| 0:50.2 | What would we put in a time castle today that tells the truth about who we are right now? |
| 0:56.3 | Because here's the thing about this particular Fourth of July. |
| 0:59.5 | It didn't unfold the way anyone planted. |
| 1:01.9 | A heat dome settled over more than half the country. |
| 1:04.7 | 185 million Americans under heat alerts, |
| 1:08.5 | fireworks shows canceled from Alabama to Connecticut, and tragically, at least |
| 1:13.3 | 25 of our fellow citizens lost their lives to the heat. Meanwhile, halfway around the world, |
| 1:19.8 | our fellow Americans in the Northern Marion Islands were digging out from a super typhoon. |
| 1:25.3 | The 250 birthday of America arrived in the middle of a genuine national stress |
| 1:30.0 | test. Now, I want to be careful here because there's a tendency in our politics to turn every week |
| 1:35.6 | into either a five-alarm ideological argument or a greeting card. I don't want to do either. I want to do |
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