History (and Trump) Repeats with Jon Meacham

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

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Politics, News, News Commentary, Comedy

4.5 • 7.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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As America braces for a second Trump administration, we're joined by historian Jon Meacham to place our current moment within the broader sweep of U.S. history. Together, we examine whether Trump's explicit rhetoric about territorial expansion and open billionaire support truly represents something unprecedented, reflect on how the Biden administration might be remembered, and consider what patterns from our past tell us about America's future. Follow The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart on social media for more: > YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@weeklyshowpodcast > Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weeklyshowpodcast > TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@weeklyshowpodcast > X: https://x.com/weeklyshowpod > BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/theweeklyshowpodcast.com Host/Executive Producer – Jon Stewart Executive Producer – James Dixon Executive Producer – Chris McShane Executive Producer – Caity Gray Lead Producer – Lauren Walker Producer – Brittany Mehmedovic Video Editor & Engineer – Rob Vitolo Audio Editor & Engineer – Nicole Boyce Researcher & Associate Producer – Gillian Spear Music by Hansdle Hsu — This podcast is brought to you by: ZipRecruiter Try it for free at this exclusive web address: ziprecruiter.com/ZipWeekly Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Come out!
0:01.0	The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Los Angeles Times, and critics everywhere agree.
0:05.0	Better Man is utterly transformative.
0:06.0	That is massive.
0:08.0	Now with a 92% critic score and 98% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.
0:11.0	You might want to frame that.
0:13.0	Better Man, rated art.
0:14.0	Now playing.
0:19.0	Well, hello, everybody.
0:23.3	How have you been?
0:24.1	It's John Stewart.
0:25.5	It's the weekly show pod.
0:27.1	We are back after a three-year absence, or what it feels like, a three-year absence in that, boy, an awful lot of ups and downs and living has been put into those
0:39.3	three years. This is being taped midweek of before the inauguration, which will take place,
0:47.4	I believe, I believe. Although everything seems to be, for some reason, everything with this
0:53.6	transfer of power seems to be going
0:55.1	very smoothly as i had posited earlier uh it is amazing how the peaceful transfer of power can occur
1:04.1	when you don't act like a little bitch when you lose but uh so so that is occurring as of this
1:09.9	recording uh there is still some Los Angeles left.
1:14.8	Please, God, let this nightmare for those folks be done and let the healing and rebuilding
1:23.8	of that area, which is going to be a Herculean and emotional task.
1:30.1	Please let that start in this moment.
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