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Our esteemed host, Glenn Greenwald, is out today, so I'll be guiding you through the show.

My name is Lee Fong. I'm an independent journalist based in San Francisco.

Yesterday marked the 100th day of President Donald Trump's second term in office. Like many Americans, I tried to keep an open mind. For all his very well-established faults, Trump has forged a very new political identity

for the Republican Party, one that has drifted away from deference to the business elite and more

towards populist economics. On the campaign trail, Trump promised to protect entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security.

Trump in Vance declared last summer at the RNC that multinational corporations would no longer take precedence

over the interests of average Americans.

On foreign policy, Trump bristled at the established order and signaled a strong interest in ending America's forever wars, especially the

conflict, the bloody conflict between Ukraine and Russia.

Trump promised peace on day one of his administration in Europe.

For a moment after the election, he also seemed

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