Have Trump's critics lost their voice?
The News Agents - USA
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4.3 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
The Bishop of Washington is one of the few voices this week to have pushed back against Donald Trump's policies as he swept into office. She did so publicly, in strong terms, and in a church. The Trump family were not impressed - and spewed vitriol at her online. Will she pay a price for standing up? We speak to Mark Landler, London bureau chief at the New York Times, about what is different this time around. Plus, Jon has caught up with Helle Thorning-Schmidt, co-chair of Meta's oversight board and former PM of Denmark, in the week that Mark Zuckerberg sat in prime position at the inauguration, and Trump continued to fixate on Greenland.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA Podcast is brought to you by HSBC, UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.7 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.3 | In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country. |
| 0:21.6 | We're scared now. |
| 0:23.6 | There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children |
| 0:28.6 | in democratic, Republican, and independent families, |
| 0:33.6 | some who fear for their lives. |
| 0:45.6 | And the people, the people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry farms and meatpacking plants, who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants |
| 0:51.0 | and work the night shifts in hospitals, They may not be citizens or have the |
| 0:57.5 | proper documentation. But the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. They pay taxes. |
| 1:05.5 | That's Marian Edgar Buddy. She's the Bishop of Washington and she's walking into the lion's mouth. She's making |
| 1:13.0 | her speech about the rights of immigrants, the rights of LGBTQ and gay people right in front |
| 1:20.4 | of Trump and his entire family who are staring at her, open-mouthed with disgust. |
| 1:26.7 | And you will not be surprised that Donald Trump has not just internalized the sermon. |
| 1:33.0 | To reflect on it, he has spoken out against it. |
| 1:36.5 | When he returned to the White House, he had this to say. |
| 1:38.9 | What did you think of the service? |
| 1:40.8 | What did you think? |
| 1:42.6 | Did you like it? |
| 1:43.6 | If you find it exciting? Not too exciting, |
| 1:46.8 | was it? I didn't think it was a good service. Thank you very much. Thank you, Press. Thank you, |
| 1:53.0 | they can do much better. And on truth social, Donald Trump has gone even further calling Bishop Buddy |
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