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The Playbook Podcast

One year of Trump 2.0

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

News, Daily News, Politics, Government

3.9699 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Today marks one year since President Donald Trump returned to office. In his first year back in the White House, Trump has wielded the power of the presidency in unprecedented ways. But despite many of the achievements that the White House points to from 2025, there are a number of fronts with uncertain horizons in 2026. Trump has spent the first part of the year focused on various foreign affairs — despite voters’ consistent cost-of-living concerns, which are set to dominate the midterm messaging battle. Playbook’s Jack Blanchard and Adam Wren take stock of Trump’s return to power and where the president and his team turn now.

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0:00.0

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0:04.1

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0:07.9

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0:13.9

and free skills training, helping employees learn more and earn more.

0:17.7

Learn more at Aboutamazon.com.

0:30.7

Today on the Playbook podcast, happy anniversary. It's one year of Donald Trump.

0:35.1

The president flies off to Davos, Switzerland, tonight, where everyone wants to talk to him about Greenland. But of course, back here in the US,

0:38.8

there's still lots of attention on ISIS activities in Minnesota. Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard.

0:44.4

And I'm Adam Wren, and it's Tuesday, January the 20th.

0:49.1

We are a year into the Trump 2.0 project. Doesn't time fly when you're having fun, hey?

0:54.7

It does. It just seems like maybe a few months ago, we were writing about Doge and the Vake Ramoswamy

1:01.2

having a divorce with Elon Musk. And yet, here we are. I mean, it's been a wild ride.

1:08.4

It's been a wild ride to say the least.

1:14.9

I mean, our listeners hardly need reminding of what happened over the last year,

1:18.7

but I think we should definitely just take the opportunity this morning just to pick through a little bit, try and distill a little bit what's actually been significant because there's

1:22.6

so much noise around Donald Trump as a politician, as a president, so much stuff that gets forgotten very quickly.

1:29.3

There are so much bigger themes about the way that he has approached this second term in office

1:34.3

that I think will be much more long lasting than some of the smaller bits and pieces.

1:39.9

I feel like overall, the way he's stretched presidential powers over the past year is something

1:44.7

that maybe hadn't quite been anticipated or the extent to which he would do it hadn't

1:48.9

quite been anticipated before he came back to office.

1:51.3

We've never seen a president act like this before in 250 years of American history.

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