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The Hartmann Report

MAD KING DONALD

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

Climate Change, Congress, News, The Hartmann Report, Democracy, Debate, Economics, America, Thom Hartmann

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

As a virus- which he not so long ago called 'a democrat hoax'- stills the business of mankind across the planet, has Trump moved his insane and lying ego-boosting rhetoric from his rallies to his press conferences? As sycophantic Republican governors are slow to take safety orders, is Trump favoring red states with federal support? And can we all possibly come to admit the madness of neo-liberalism in the face of its absolute failure in the United States to respond to this crisis?

Thom's brilliant callers digest the historic implications of the pandemic- and the threat to American democracy it may represent.

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0:00.0

This is the Tom Hartman program.

0:15.0

Well, greetings from shelter and a place at home, Portland.

0:20.0

Tom Hartman here with you.

0:21.0

It's our quote for the day from Franklin Roosevelt,

0:24.4

courage is not the absence of fear,

0:28.6

but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear,

0:33.2

FDR.

0:35.1

We've got a lot to talk about today.

0:36.4

First of all, the Mad King Donald,

0:39.4

who thinks that if only 100,000 Americans die, he's done a great job. I mean, I'm just

0:47.1

bottled that the media is not dealing with this like, say what? The numbers are completely different all around the world.

0:54.8

I mean you've got 3,000 people dead in China.

0:57.8

You've got 300 people, fewer than 300 people dead in South Korea.

1:03.0

They've got this thing under control.

1:05.4

In Italy, now it's over 10,000 in Spain.

1:08.8

You know, they're having a crisis, but it's not 100 hundred thousand dead people.

1:14.7

Some of the estimates are that, you know, because Trump did nothing

1:17.3

for two months or longer when he knew what was coming

1:21.0

and he knew what was going to happen, and he still hasn't shut down the red states.

1:26.2

He's diverting ventilators away from blue states down to Florida.

1:29.5

Ron DeSannis gets all he wants.

1:31.0

He still hasn't shut down his state to the best of my knowledge.

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