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4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2016

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Jacob Weisberg talks to Paul Waldman of The Washington Post about how Donald Trump will use his presidency enrich himself and his family. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:04.6

He really has a deep animosity to the press.

0:08.6

So keep reminding yourself, this is not normal.

0:11.6

And we've normalized it already.

0:13.6

Less than a week after the election is over,

0:16.2

suddenly Washington is going about its business,

0:18.4

talking about who's going to get what jobs,

0:20.2

and you would think that Mitt Romney had won.

0:22.4

It's a hallucination.

0:31.0

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast,

0:33.4

the show about the man who says his transition is going

0:37.0

so smoothly, Donald Trump.

0:40.0

I'm Jacob Weisberg.

0:42.0

How smoothly?

0:43.6

So smoothly that world leaders don't know how to get him on the phone.

0:48.0

So smoothly that the Prime Minister of Japan

0:50.6

didn't know where or when they were supposed to meet today in New York.

0:54.6

So smoothly that he fired the guy who was supposed to be running his transition,

0:59.0

Chris Christie, and put his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, in charge.

1:03.4

So smoothly that the son-in-law,

1:05.4

who by most accounts is not the sharpest tool in the shed,

1:08.4

just purged the whole foreign policy team.

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