Hot take on the Trump inauguration - buckle up
The Two Matts
The New World
4.2 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
The Matts watch the Trump inauguration in real time and give their snap verdict at the beginning of four years of the new world order under President Donald Trump. Is there anything to suggest things won’t be the catastrophe they have feared? Tune in, find out. They also discuss reaction to Peter Hyman’s brilliant essay in The New European on a way forward for progressives versus populists. In the battleground for ideas, the Matts face into some cold, hard home truths. Enjoy.
Further Reading: Dave Chapelle on SNL this weekend
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| 0:56.5 | journalism. Matt Dancona, it is 1743. Three minutes ago, Donald Trump said, thank you, God bless America. |
| 1:05.6 | He did. At the end of a quite extraordinary inauguration speech. Shall we tee things up by sort of playing a passage from the end of the speech? |
| 1:15.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:16.6 | That will give a flavor of what it was like for those who didn't hear it. |
| 1:20.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:21.6 | The golden age of America begins right now. |
| 1:24.6 | From this day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again all over |
| 1:30.3 | the world. We will be the envy of every nation and we will not allow ourselves to be taken |
| 1:37.3 | advantage of any longer. During every single day of the Trump administration, I will very simply put America first. |
| 1:52.0 | I guess the headline is, for me, because we're in the realms of hot take instinct now. We've Just heard it. And this was a speech quite different, |
| 2:03.6 | although very similar in a way, to his first speech. And the sentiment was the same. But the delivery, |
| 2:09.8 | there was a lot more conviction. And he means. And confidence as well. He means it now, |
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