Executive disorder: Trump’s first 100 days
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The Economist
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🗓️ 30 April 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Since Donald Trump took office, there has been a deluge of news. Our correspondent considers what might happen next. Fifty years on from the fall of Saigon, we meet the Vietnamese who fled the country (10:47). And our obituaries editor celebrates the life of busker and star Alice Tan Ridley (18:06). Music credit: Seikilos Epitaph with the Lyre of Apollo by Lina Palera
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| 0:00.0 | The Economist. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm your host, Rosie Bloor. |
| 0:16.0 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:31.0 | 50 years ago today, Saigon fell. That iconic moment heralded the end of the Vietnam War, |
| 0:36.6 | and thousands of people fled the country. So what happened to that Vietnamese diaspora? |
| 0:38.6 | Our correspondent finds out. |
| 0:46.3 | And for decades, Alice Tan Ridley sang gospel, Motown and blues in the New York subway. |
| 0:53.1 | Later she went on tour, but she'd go back to busking because she loved the intimacy of being close to her audience. |
| 0:55.7 | Our obituries editor remembers her. |
| 1:02.8 | First up, though. |
| 1:16.6 | After 100 days back in the White House, America is a free, proud and sovereign nation once more, |
| 1:20.8 | and our magnificent destiny is closer than ever before. |
| 1:25.1 | Three months of Trump 2.0 have been tempestuous, to say the least. |
| 1:28.9 | Remember the plane crash, he suggested, could have been caused by diversity and inclusion policies? We do not know what led to this crash, but we have some very |
| 1:34.9 | strong opinions. And the plan for America to assume control of Gaza? The US will take over the |
| 1:40.9 | Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it, too. |
| 1:45.3 | We'll own it. |
| 1:51.0 | And then there was the time Donald Trump and J.D. Vance teamed up on Ukraine's president, Volodymy Zelensky. |
| 1:53.3 | You should be thanking the president for private. |
| 1:56.6 | In the Oval Office, live on TV. |
| 1:58.4 | You're not in a good position. |
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