It Took Trump One Week to Turn on U.S. Allies

The New Abnormal

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🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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The New Abnormal hosts Andy Levy and Danielle Moodie are not surprised at Trump’s war of words with an American ally just one week into his presidency. Then, Trevor Timm, co-founder and the executive director of Freedom of the Press Foundation, joins the show to talk about Joe Biden's press freedom legacy and the threats to those freedoms we face under a second Trump administration. Plus! Journalist and author Jacob Silverman explores the growing influence of Saudi investments in U.S. tech and their ties to the likes of Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Andy Levy, former Fox News and CNN-HLN guy and current cable news conscientious objector.
0:06.1	I'm a former libertarian who now sits pretty comfortably on the left.
0:09.6	Hi, I'm Danielle Moody, former educator and recovering lobbyist.
0:13.4	But today, I'm an unapologetic, woke commentator on America's threats to democracy.
0:18.5	And I'm producer Jesse Cannon, and I'm here to make sure things don't go too far off the rails.
0:23.0	We're here to have fun, smart conversations with some of the most knowledgeable and entertaining people
0:27.5	in politics, media, and beyond.
0:29.6	Our goal is to try and make sense of our current crazy world, our new abnormal, and hopefully
0:35.2	even make you laugh through the tears.
0:37.4	One excellent show we have today.
0:39.1	Trevor Trim, executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, is here to talk to us
0:43.0	about Joe Biden's press freedom legacy and the threats to those freedoms we face under
0:46.8	a second Trump administration.
0:48.4	Then we'll talk to journalist and author Jacob Silverman to explore the growing influence of
0:52.5	Saudi investments in U.S. tech and their ties to the likes of Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
0:57.7	But first, let's have some fun.
1:00.5	All right. So we are officially one weekish into the Trump 2.0 regime.
1:09.0	And it seems that Donald Trump has wasted absolutely no time in turning on our
1:14.6	allies, turning on the American people, but nothing is wilder than watching full countries do
1:23.1	an about face to Donald Trump's deportation war that he has started. So first off, we watched as
1:31.0	Mexico denied the U.S. landing capability to bring in their planes that are filled with quote
1:38.7	unquote undocumented immigrants. President Claudia Shinenbaum said, nah, you can't land here. Then Donald Trump
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