Is Trump just winging it, or is there a strategy?
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🗓️ 15 April 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, The Washington Post's Rhonda Colvin, James Hohmann and JM Rieger break down whether President Trump has a plan to enact his biggest policy priorities – or if major changes to government and policy are being undertaken without detailed objectives. And is there anyone in the White House who Trump truly listens to?
Plus, Trump has targeted another University – this time going after Harvard.
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| 0:00.0 | Look what happened is this crazy? We stand on the verge of the four greatest years in the history. |
| 0:08.5 | Make America great a game. How can you be against it? |
| 0:18.1 | We're almost three months into President Trump's second term. And have you been following along |
| 0:23.2 | with us here on our show? Also with all the other coverage at the Washington Post, you know |
| 0:27.8 | it's been almost three months of very loud in-your-face policy implementation. Welcome to |
| 0:33.7 | Saibar from the Washington Post. I'm Rhonda Colvin here with my colleagues, James Holman and J.M. Rieger. Thanks guys for joining us. |
| 0:41.2 | Today we're looking at the strategy. And if there is one out of the White House, I know that's a question that I've gotten a lot from friends, other journalists, like, what's the end game here? |
| 0:50.5 | We'll be talking about some of the behind the scenes of some of the more chaotic moments in Trump's first 80, 85 days. |
| 0:58.4 | I believe today is day 85 of the Trump administration. |
| 1:01.6 | And we're going to try to figure out, is this the administration's approach to policy? |
| 1:07.4 | Is this it? |
| 1:08.2 | Or is there really a game plan? |
| 1:10.6 | So let's start from this weekend. There was |
| 1:14.0 | an article in the post and the headline was, Trump is pursuing a radical agenda. Does he have a |
| 1:21.2 | strategy or is he just winging it? I thought this was a very compelling question. What do you guys think? |
| 1:26.4 | Let's discuss this. And this was a story written question. What do you guys think? Discuss. Yes. |
| 1:28.7 | Let's discuss this. |
| 1:33.6 | And this was a story written by Dan Bals, one of our, you know, esteemed colleagues here at the Washington Post. |
| 1:35.1 | What do you guys think? |
| 1:36.4 | Is Trump pursuing this radical agenda in a way that suggests there is a strategy or is he |
| 1:42.6 | just winging it? |
| 1:44.5 | I think that the administration, above all else, wants to give the appearance of action |
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