Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, a special series of discussions about US politics

and the Trump presidency, or as we journalists call it, the gift that keeps on giving.

I'm Freddie Gray, I'm deputy editor of the spectator.

I'm joined today by DeRoy Murdoch, who is in London from New York, and he is a contributing editor for National Review and a contributor for Fox News.

Dorot, welcome to London.

Freddie, great to be here. Thanks for the invitation to be here.

Well, I didn't invite you, did I?

Well, I just walked through the front door and you were kind enough to let me in and

now sit me down and begin to ask me probing questions.

You are very welcome here.

Thank you.

I feel very welcome.

Thank you very much.

Let's talk a little bit about Donald Trump to begin with.

It's been quite a week for him.

We had the career summit. We had the, I thought, extraordinary media hostility to

the career summit. Do you agree with me that a lot of the commentariat, should we call them,

showed just how ridiculous they are about Donald Trump and in doing so only really help him.

Do you think that's right? I think that's absolutely correct. I think if they want to hurt

Donald Trump, what these people should do probably is just be quiet because the level of

pickyune comments and attacks on Trump all the time on every subject, just help to underlie the

notion that he's being attacked by what he calls the fake news. I think he referred to the fake news

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