Marco Rubio Needs Body Language Work to Stay in Trumpworld

The New Abnormal

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🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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The New Abnormal hosts Andy Levy and Danielle Moodie tear into President Donald Trump’s “toddler tantrum” in the Oval Office. Then, journalist Erin Reed talks about the Trump administration’s attacks on trans rights from federal erasure to military purges and immigration bans. Plus, Brooke Shuman and Eric Vasquez dive into a video they co produced for More Perfect Union detailing how Elon Musk’s Texas playbook explains the moves of the Department of Government Efficiency.

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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. We're here to have fun, smart conversations with some of
0:25.6	the most knowledgeable and entertaining people in politics, media, and beyond. Our goal is to try and
0:30.9	make sense of our current crazy world, our new abnormal, and hopefully even make you laugh through
0:36.6	the tears. What an excellent show we have for you today.
0:39.0	Aaron Reed, journalist and publisher of Aaron in the morning,
0:41.3	joins us to discuss the Trump administration's escalating attacks on trans rights,
0:45.0	from federal or atasure to military purges and immigration bans.
0:47.9	Then, video producer Brooke Schumann and freelance journalist Eric Vasquez are here to tell us
0:51.6	all about their video they co-produced for more perfect union how Elon Musk's Texas playbook explains Doge. All about Elon taking over a small
0:58.6	Texas town, seizing land, not delivering on jobs he promised him why this all sounds so familiar.
1:04.1	But first, let's have some fun. So I don't know if anyone's heard. Any of the things that have
1:10.7	happened. But apparently we are now, any of the things that have happened.
1:11.4	But apparently we are now, America, the most hated country.
1:15.9	And that's saying a lot because they're still Putin in Russia, but being as how Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, Marco Rubio, Lindsay Graham, and the rest have decided that Putin is now our father. To watch this all happen in
1:32.4	real time, Andy, the crumbling, the toddler tantrum, you know, people saying that Zelensky was
1:39.8	humiliated in the Oval Office coup that we all watched in real time. I don't think that Zelensky
1:45.9	was humiliated. I think that America was humiliated. I think that the world has finally seen and the
1:54.1	mask has slipped who America is under Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and J.D. Vance. And it is disgusting. It is abusive. It is toxic.
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