Is Musk Sucking Up All the Trump Oxygen?
The Commentary Magazine Podcast
Commentary Magazine
4.6 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Today's podcast points out that Donald Trump's bizarre announcement that he's selling NFT images of himself was completely overshadowed later in the day by Elon Musk banning some journalists on Twitter. Does this mean Trump is now, literally, yesterday morning's news and will remain so? Give a listen.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast. |
| 0:26.8 | Today is Beethoven's birthday as fans of peanuts remember with great nostalgia. |
| 0:37.1 | December 16th, 2022. |
| 0:40.7 | Linus, of course, having the annual Beethoven's birthday parties and celebrations and all of that. |
| 0:50.8 | With John Baudhor, it's the editor of commentary. |
| 0:53.6 | With me is always executive editor Abe Greenwald. |
| 0:56.6 | Hi, Abe. |
| 0:57.4 | Hi, John. |
| 0:58.7 | Media commentary columnist and American Enterprise Institute fellow Christine Rosen. |
| 1:03.4 | Hi, Christine. |
| 1:04.4 | Hi, John. |
| 1:05.2 | An associate editor and author of the Rise of the New Puritans. |
| 1:08.3 | Noah Rothman. |
| 1:09.1 | Hi, Noah. |
| 1:09.8 | Hi, John. |
| 1:11.8 | So two unrelated incidents yesterday or unrelated matters yesterday that nonetheless are related |
| 1:19.2 | culturally, politically and sociologically in the morning after teasing a major announcement |
| 1:29.1 | for 24 hours with a bizarre meme cartoon photograph of himself with glowing red eyes standing |
| 1:41.3 | in front of Trump Tower as Abe said. |
| 1:44.1 | I think Abe said like homeland or on the show of the boys, which by the way is on Amazon is an |
| 1:54.2 | ultraviolet and incredibly dirty superhero satire series that if you can take the ultraviolence |
| 2:02.6 | and the filthiness is fantastic viewing recommendation for you. |
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