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Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

Meredith Shiner & Michael Calderone

Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

iHeartPodcasts

Politics, News

4.72.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The New Republic’s Meredith Shiner stops by to talk about the enormous vibe shift in Congress.
The Wrap’s Michael Calderone joins us to discuss the upcoming White House Correspondents’ Dinner and the drama we may see there.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.3

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.5

Hi, I'm Molly JongFast, and this is Fast Politics, where we discussed the top political headlines with some of today's best minds.

0:12.9

And Trump Media CEO, former Congressman Devin Nunes, has stepped down after the company lost $712 million last year.

0:22.9

We have such a great show for you today.

0:25.1

The New Republic's Meredith Shiner stops by to talk to us about the enormous vibe shift,

0:32.2

changes in Congress.

0:33.5

Then we'll talk to the Rapp's own Michael Calderon about the upcoming White House correspondence dinner and the immense drama we may see.

0:42.6

But first, the news.

0:43.8

Somali, you know, you and I live in Mamdani Stan, the Social Estate, and, you know, we're always hearing about these giveaways.

0:50.8

But it's funny, the place where all the corporations get the giveaways is really

0:54.5

from the Trump administration. And we're seeing this with half a billion dollars going to

0:59.3

Spirit Airlines to bail them out now. You can argue this is an essential way people get around

1:03.7

this country, especially people. No, you can't. No, poorer people use Spirit Airlines. But Trump doesn't

1:09.3

give them fuck. No, he doesn't care.

1:11.2

And also, this is socialism.

1:13.5

But the thing is, because it's the Trump administration, the question is, why?

1:18.5

Is the spirit CEO making a donation to, like, if we look at Trump world and we look at MAGA, we know that there's something rotten in the state of Denmark.

1:29.1

So what is it? Is it that the Trump administration has some kind of relationship with spirit?

1:34.9

Why is Donald Trump using our tax dollars to bail out Spirit Airlines?

1:40.0

Earlier in this season of Donald Trump destroys America, we saw him use some of that money

1:46.3

to bail out Latin American countries.

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