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The Gist

Plus Jamais Le Fake News

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

With elections coming up in France and Germany, Facebook is working with media organizations across Europe to avoid the fake news pox that struck the United States last year. Slate's senior technology writer Will Ormeus joins us to discuss the strides being made against political hoaxes online.  Also, we answer the question: Does office coffee make us more productive? What does it accomplish as a work perk? Does it taste any better because it's free? The Sporkful's Dan Pashman investigates as his employer, WNYC, looks for a new workplace brew. For the Spiel, on the silencing of Sen. Elizabeth Warren.  Today's sponsors: Policy Genius. Shop and compare all the top-rated life insurance companies in one place. Go to PolicyGenius.com today to save over 70 percent off other prices for life insurance. And Green Mountain Coffee. Green Mountain Coffee is passionate about making a smoother-tasting cup. And now, as a special listener promotion, get $4 off when you buy two boxes of most Green Mountain Coffee K-Cup pods at keurig.com with the code TRYGMC.  Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at slate.com/gistplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:08.2

It's Wednesday, February 8th, 2017 from Slate. It's the gist I'm Mike Pesca.

0:13.2

Today Donald Trump, well, he did a lot of things. Sometimes he does that.

0:16.6

He ripped into a company that was losing money on the Ivanka Trump brand.

0:21.5

Said there were terrible company. Here's what he wrote.

0:24.4

Some day I hope to meet you. When that happens, you'll need a new nose,

0:28.2

a lot of beef steak for black eyes and perhaps a supporter below.

0:32.4

Actually, that wasn't Trump. Different president.

0:36.0

That was Harry Truman lashing out at a critic of his daughter, Margaret, after a recital that was subpar.

0:44.8

Some say it was subpar. I'm just going by the reporting at the time.

0:48.3

What Trump did was a little different. A business made a business decision. He's the president.

0:53.6

He called him out on Twitter. But then Trump paused from putting Nordstrom on the rack

0:58.5

with his speech to the major city's chief's police association. There, he expressed

1:03.7

disdain that anyone, including a judge, would find fault with his really simple to understand

1:09.6

executive order, barring immigration from seven countries.

1:13.0

If you were a good student in high school or a bad student in high school, you can understand this.

1:18.9

Again, a bad high school student would understand this.

1:23.3

Anybody would understand. Wait, perhaps that bad student he was talking about was Tim Scott,

1:28.4

Republican of South Carolina. Yesterday, we found out that he admitted on the Senate floor that

1:33.5

he was a bad student. I felt world geography. I may be the first senator to fail civics.

1:40.2

I even failed Spanish and English. When you fail Spanish and English, no one,

1:46.7

Mr. President considers you bilingual. No one. They did call me by the way, by

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