Philip Rucker on Trump's Testing of America

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🗓️ 10 February 2020

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The Washington Post's DC bureau chief Philip Rucker discusses his new book A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America. He shares stories from White House insiders about the time President Trump tried to overturn the Foreign Corrupt Practices act so American businesses could bribe foreign governments, the time Trump wanted to turn a profit on the US military by turning our troops into a mercenary force, and the Pentagon meeting when Trump called his decorated generals a bunch of "babies and losers." Phil discusses the falling out between the President and his former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, how some world leaders have tried to turn Trump against his own advisors, and how the most powerful leader in the world solicited other heads of state for the Nobel Prize. Plus we talk about Impeachment, Trump tweets, Bolton, Mueller, and more. Order A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America on Amazon, Audible or wherever books are sold. You can read more by Philip Rucker in The Washington Post and follow him on twitter at @philliprucker. Today's episode was sponsored by Online Trading Academy and Native deodorant and toothpaste. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:44.1	where you'll be tweeting differently once you board the Air Force One.
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0:48.9	No, that's other people that do that. I don't. I'm very consistent. I'm a very stable genius.
0:55.9	That was President Donald Trump reiterating one of his most famous self-assessments during a press
1:01.6	conference at the 2018 NATO Summit. It's worth noting that Albert Einstein never called himself a genius.
1:08.5	Stephen Hawking never called himself a genius. Isaac Newton never called himself a genius.
1:14.6	Nor did Galileo Da Vinci Mozart or Pablo Picasso. George Washington, Abraham Lincoln,
1:20.6	Winston Churchill also never used the term genius in reference to themselves.
1:25.9	But yes, Donald Trump, the man who won't allow any school he ever attended to release his grades
1:31.9	and brags about his IQ, but refuses to reveal his IQ score, assuming he ever took the test,
1:37.9	this man is a genius. Aside from what that preposterously over-the-top statement,
1:43.2	very stable genius says about the psyche of the man in the White House,
1:47.2	it's also the title of a new book by Washington Post reporters Philip Rucker and Carol Lennig.
1:52.8	And today Phil Rucker, who also serves as Washington Bureau Chief for the Post, joins me on the
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