I Know the Secret of How to Cripple Trump

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🗓️ 12 February 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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The Daily Beast’s Executive Editor Hugh Dougherty speaks with Professor Scott Galloway about his provocative new campaign, “Resist and Unsubscribe,” a call for consumers to hit what he calls the “soft tissue” of the Trump era—Big Tech’s revenue growth. Galloway argues that the only force Trump truly listens to is the market, and that even small acts—canceling Amazon Prime, downgrading ChatGPT, ditching Uber—can send outsized signals to CEOs and shareholders if done collectively. In a wide-ranging, fiery conversation, he explains why he’s selling his Apple stock, confronting corporate leaders he says privately agree with him, and betting that 10 companies controlling 40 percent of the S&P represent an Achilles’ heel for political power. From ICE protests to crypto grift, AI-fueled layoffs to the “manosphere” wobbling on Trump, Galloway lays out a theory of economic activism designed to rattle boardrooms before it rattles Washington—so can unsubscribing from a few tech platforms really shake the most powerful men in America? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you want to protest, more power to you. If you want to, you know, register people to vote,
0:05.4	I salute you. But the easiest way to maybe save some money and have a really big impact
0:10.1	and send a message to the markets to Trump is to resist and unsubscribe. This is a coin-operated
0:15.4	president, and these individuals have decided that they're one and only job as shareholder value.
0:22.0	There's a ton of pressure.
0:23.2	Nobody wants to go first.
0:24.4	But there needs to be collective action from 10, 50, 100 to the Fortune 500 to say, this has just gone too far.
0:33.8	Welcome to The Daily Beast podcast.
0:35.6	I'm Hugh Doherty.
0:36.4	I'm executive editor of The Daily Beast. I'm filling in for Joanna Coles. And I am delighted to be here, especially because we have an amazing guest. Scott Galloway. He is, of course, host of the Proff G podcast. He's co-host of Pivot. He is an expert in business. And now he is moving in a very big way to directly take on Donald Trump.
0:59.0	He has come up with a call to resist and unsubscribe.
1:03.0	And we're going to talk about what he says are the ways we can all make Trump give up his worst policies.
1:10.0	It is so simple, you would surprise nobody's thought of at first. we can all make Trump give up his worst policies.
1:11.9	It is so simple.
1:14.3	You would be surprised nobody has thought of at first.
1:17.5	It is already spreading shockwaves among the powerful.
1:22.0	And Professor Galloway is also going to tell us the secrets of what all those emotional support CEOs who are constantly hanging around Trump
1:26.7	are really texting him in private.
1:29.5	So let's get right into it. Welcome, Professor Scott Galloway.
1:36.5	You are asking people to resist and unsubscribe. And I just want to take the opportunity to
1:43.4	just give us a very basic explanation because there are so many questions that this raises.
1:49.1	But what is resist and unsubscribe?
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