It IS As Bad As We Thought. With Susan Glasser of The New Yorker
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🗓️ 21 January 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Susan Glasser, is a staff writer at The New Yorker based in Washington, D.C., writes a weekly column on life in Washington and is a host of the Political Scene podcast. She is the co-author of “The Divider,” a best-selling history of Donald Trump in the White House, which she co-wrote with her husband, Peter Baker. She and Bill talk about the Trump's Inaugural Address and his "Niagara" of Executive Orders. And if there are any guardrails still in place. Spoiler Alert: No.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends and neighbors, and welcome back to the Bill Press pod. |
| 0:11.0 | Well, Trump too is no longer a dark cloud on the horizon. |
| 0:15.0 | It's here, and it began yesterday in full force with an inaugural address |
| 0:20.0 | that repudiated everything President Biden |
| 0:22.8 | accomplished over the last four years and painted America as a failed third world country. |
| 0:29.2 | Followed by a slew of executive orders that overturned 78 of Biden's policies across the board |
| 0:35.8 | declared a federal emergency so that Trump could send troops to the southern border and into American cities and |
| 0:42.3 | rewarded those convicted of assaulting police officers on January 6th with a presidential pardon. |
| 0:50.3 | It's an understatement to say this is an ominous beginning. |
| 0:55.0 | Trump clearly sees the next four years as an unlimited opportunity for revenge and vindication. |
| 1:01.5 | The big question today is, are there any safeguards left to save us and to save our democracy? |
| 1:08.3 | The Congress, the courts, the people? |
| 1:13.3 | For insights and answers today. |
| 1:19.2 | We turn to Susan Glasser, who writes a weekly column on Washington Politics for the New Yorker magazine and as co-hosts of the podcast Political Scene. |
| 1:24.4 | Susan Glasser, it's always a great pleasure to welcome you to the Bill Press pod. |
| 1:28.5 | Thank you for joining us and welcome back. Oh, thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:33.2 | So, Susan, inaugural address yesterday, you've written about it. You know, Donald Trump |
| 1:38.8 | did not use the phrase American carnage, but he kind of didn't have to, right? He painted a picture of |
| 1:47.0 | America in ruins, basically. Well, essentially, I mean, you know, this is the man who brought us |
| 1:53.4 | in the first term, the very un-American concept of, I alone can fix it. And I think this was very much a reprise of what we heard from Donald |
| 2:05.5 | Trump eight years ago in that famous American Carnage Beach. He did speak explicitly of America's |
| 2:11.6 | decline under Joe Biden. He said there had been a, series of horrible betrayals. And he outlined a |
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