The following podcast contains explicit language.

Lots of, you know, divisive comments, especially and unfortunately about the press.

We found out via tweet early this morning that Mr. Trump was, had decided to cancel.

When I first heard that he was tweeting about something that was on this broadcast, a

number of tweets last night, I kept thinking, doesn't he have like a briefing book on

ISIS to be reading at 10 o'clock?

Yeah.

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast.

I'm Virginia Heffernan at Trumpcast.

We begin with a moment of silence because Donald Trump is still our president-elect, Jason.

We are having a moment of silence.

You are supposed to respect that.

So, you know those fairy tales where sweet, innocent little millers' daughters have to

be married off to horrible ogres?

Well, I think we've been feeling and acting that way since the election.

Like we're about to be slammed into some blue-beard closet by our horrible husband and there's

nothing we can do about it.

Well, Will Salatin has some good news.

Will writes about politics, science, technology and I don't know the meaning of life for slate,

which means I guess he doesn't write about needle point, but almost everything else.

His good news is that ogre we're married to might just be a baby.

Donald Trump, he says, is a pushover, an emotional softy who's easily won over with the right

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