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FTA: Can it Get Any Crazier Than This?

The DSR Network

Chris Cotnoir

Government

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Original air date: November 14, 2024 Trump’s cabinet picks reach new heights of awfulness. From Matt Gaetz to Elise Stefanik, it’s a veritable who’s who of MAGA sycophants. In a special episode, Rosa Brooks, David Sanger, and EJ Dionne join David Rothkopf to break down these awful choices and what they tell us about the upcoming Trump administration. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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from the archive was originally released on november 14th 2024. We hope you enjoy. This is 9, 12, 10, 28, 2, 23.

1:06.2

This is Deep State Radio, coming to you direct from our super secret studio in the third sub-basement of the Ministry of Snark in Washington, D.C., and from other undisclosed locations across America and around the world.

1:12.6

Hello and welcome to the podcast. It's a week after the election. I'm David Rothka. I'm your

1:18.9

host and we're going to do something a little unusual here. We've got some of the folks that we

1:23.1

usually have on our foreign policy and national security podcast, and one of the guys we usually have

1:28.1

on our political podcast, because those two things have intersected this week. So joining us,

1:35.4

as always, we have the wonderful Rosa Brooks, who is at an undisclosed location. How are you doing,

1:42.9

Rosa? Oh, the apocalypse is going very well so far,

1:46.8

finding it quite bracing.

1:48.4

Yeah, it's bracing.

1:49.5

It's unfortunately precisely, as you predicted it.

1:53.5

And, of course, we have our old friend David Sanger

1:56.4

of the New York Times.

1:57.3

How are you doing, David?

1:58.3

Good, good, good.

1:59.5

It's just been a joyous week of news to write.

2:04.1

Yeah, fantastic week of news to write. And writing commentary on that news is our friend E.J. Dion of the

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