Inauguration 2025: The Trump world order
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
From declaring an emergency on the US-Mexico border to announcing that the US will retake the Panama Canal, Donald Trump introduced several bold proposals in his inaugural address. Now, as he enters his second term, what might the Trump world order look like?
In this episode:
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Trita Parsi (@tparsi), Executive Vice President, The Quincy Institute
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Ashish Malhotra, Sonia Bhagat, Amy Walters, Chloe K. Li and Khaled Soltan with Phillip Lanos, Spencer Cline, Hagir Saleh, Melanie Marich, Hanah Shokeir and our host Kevin Hirten. It was edited by Noor Wazwaz.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editors are Hisham Abu Salah and Mohannad Al-Melhem. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:08.0 | Hey, Kevin Horton here. |
| 0:10.2 | Malika Bilal is on parental leave, and I will be filling in for a while. |
| 0:14.2 | So here's the show. |
| 0:19.1 | Today, the Trump World Order. |
| 0:22.2 | The golden age of America begins right now. |
| 0:26.7 | What is the world he's inheriting, and where could he take it? |
| 0:32.1 | I'm Kevin Horton, and this is the take. |
| 0:44.9 | He was talking about how the United States is going to be number one. |
| 0:49.6 | He didn't necessarily use the word dominant, but if you read between the lines, it's very much sounded as if he wanted to make the United States the very dominant global power again, essentially |
| 0:56.5 | reestablishing American unipolarity, rather than adjusting to the world becoming increasingly |
| 1:03.2 | multipolar. |
| 1:06.5 | I am Trita Parsi. |
| 1:08.4 | I'm the executive vice president of the Quincy Institute, a think tank in Washington, focus on foreign policy. And I am right outside of Washington in northern Virginia. |
| 1:18.7 | Well, Trita, welcome to the take. Trita, you're in the D.C. area where it snowed overnight. I think it's currently below zero Celsius. |
| 1:26.9 | That's why Donald Trump's inauguration today was indoors, rather than on the steps of the capital as it normally is. |
| 1:32.2 | So what was the vibe like around D.C. today as the city prepares for another four years of Donald Trump? |
| 1:38.8 | I have to say it's really stunningly different from what it was in 2016 when Trump won the first time. |
| 1:47.6 | And the country, and particularly Washington, D.C., as you know, it's a very democratic city, |
| 1:52.2 | was utterly stunned. |
| 1:54.1 | There was organizing of the resistance immediately after his victory, with a million women's |
| 2:00.5 | march, etc. |
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