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Hello and welcome to Trumpcast. I'm Virginia Heffernan.

Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na... hey Jude.

Hmm? What's that? Oh, I'm just singing a coda in celebration of the fact that it's coda time here at Trumpcast.

That's right. We got about nine shows left to get a rap about what happened with Trump's gruesome presidency,

what's happening with his current janky coup and what the future holds for our soon-to-be jailbird pauper when he loses access to money, power, and bronzer,

when his face turns pallid and its jumpsuit turns orange. Okay, I'm getting ahead of myself.

But we do have all that ahead on Trumpcast with a slate of magnificent guests.

But we also have some wine downtime because I promised at Trumpcast not to leave you till this is over,

and I even promised to leave you better than I found you. That is, at some kind of equilibrium.

Sadder, but wiser, hopeful, enjoying glimmers of faith that the future might be better than the past.

Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na.

I also hope your vital signs will be looking up or down if it's blood pressure we're talking about, and when Joe is sworn in and Trumpcast folds its tents,

we hope you'll have a soft landing and good new prospects on the horizon.

Trumpcast does. After the Kamala Joe inauguration, a sequel show will roll into this feed, and it's a good one,

that extends the themes and subjects of this show to talk about all the American institutions that failed us,

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