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The Daily Beast Podcast

Ivanka Is an Idiot but Unequivocally the Smartest Trump

The Daily Beast Podcast

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4.68.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

It’s the last night of the Republican National Convention and former GOP operative Tim Miller joins Rick Wilson and Molly Jong-Fast to break down what Rick calls “four hours of sweaty Castro-esque speechmaking.” The most surreal speechmaker of all may have been Ivanka Trump. “There were a lot of lies,” says Miller. “But I thought the lie that really stood out to me was when she talked about how much he loves his grandchildren.”Molly was impressed, sort of. “I did think tonight, Ivanka is an idiot, and she is absolutely unequivocally the smartest of all of the kids.” Aside from Trump, himself, the gang agrees that Rudy Giuliani gave the most despicable speech of the night. Former Giuliani staffer, Rick, says the former Mayor of New York was kickstarting a Republican race war that will run until the election. “There's never been a more perfect exemplar of ‘everything Trump touches dies,’ because that speech tonight; it was, at one point, everything but the n-word… They're coming for you, they're coming for you to your suburbs. These black lives matter…” And when it came to Trump himself, Molly says he was totally off-form: “He finds reading very boring. So, I mean, every speech where he's not saying crazy shit is him being totally bored by whatever they're making him read."Rick agrees “it was very low energy speech,” but predicts the calm—maybe even electable—Trump will not last long. “We all know something about Donald Trump. After he’s been disciplined and held down by his staff for a couple of days, he has an equal and opposite reaction and goes fucking nuts.” Want more? Become a Beast Inside member to enjoy a limited-run series of bonus interviews from The New Abnormal. Guests include Cory Booker, Jim Acosta, and more. Head to newabnormal.thedailybeast.com to join now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi folks, it's Rick Wilson and welcome to the Daily Beasts, the new abnormal.

0:04.6

Hi, I'm Molly Zhangfast, a left-wing pundit and editor at large at the Daily Beast.

0:09.7

I'm also an editor at the Daily Beast, a former Republican political strategist, best-selling

0:14.1

author and full-time troublemaker.

0:16.2

We're here to have fun, sharp conversations with some of the smartest people in media,

0:19.9

politics, business and science that help make what's happening in the country and the world

0:24.9

clear.

0:25.9

Try to keep Rick to the minimum number of F-bombs and try to keep our kids, pets and other

0:32.0

wildlife sounds from invading a respawn.

0:35.6

Good evening America, it's 12.25 a.m. on Friday morning and I'm joined tonight by Tim Miller

0:42.0

and Molly Zhangfast and we have just seen four hours of sweaty, castrowesque speechmaking

0:47.7

that will not soon forget.

0:49.5

It's a night that has left us all with the conclusion that the only thing this show

0:52.8

can be is one long fuck that guy.

0:55.9

And somehow I don't think America will object.

0:58.3

So welcoming Tim Miller to the show tonight about Dan Time.

1:02.9

Tonight we'll be posing our questions in the form of a fuck that guy.

1:07.7

Let's lead off with America's sweetheart, shall we?

1:09.9

What did you guys think of Ivanka?

1:11.7

First off, I'm just going to make a bitchy fashion remark, Leggings at the White House?

1:15.8

Hello?

1:16.8

The fuck?

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