Political Gabfest | Is This the End of the Trump Era?

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🗓️ 27 November 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss what happens when the government is untrustworthy as a strong pattern of DOJ lying under oath emerges, why the NYC mayor-elect and the president were so cordial with each other in the Oval Office, and how MAGA world continues to fracture as Marjorie Taylor Greene announces her resignation and the Fuentes/Carlson controversy continues. For this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode, Emily, John, and David discuss the new campaign from the Department of Transportation to bring “civility” back to air travel by asking Thanksgiving travelers to dress up to fly. In the latest Gabfest Reads, John talks with journalist and author Andrew Ross Sorkin about his new book, 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History and How It Shattered a Nation — the story of speculation, debt, and the human drives that fueled the Wall Street crash that changed everything. Email your chatters, questions, and comments to [email protected]. (Messages may be referenced by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Nina Porzucki Research by Emily Ditto You can find the full Political Gabfest show pages here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We gather together.
0:02.3	To ask the Lord's blessing.
0:04.1	That's a good song.
0:05.2	Good Thanksgiving song.
0:06.5	Yeah, there we go.
0:07.5	See, we're starting in a moment of gratitude and grace making.
0:12.7	All right.
0:17.1	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Cab Fest.
0:29.4	Okay. Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GabFest. November 27th, 2025.
0:32.0	Is this the end of the Trump era edition?
0:35.3	I'm David Pleads of CityCast.
0:36.5	Happy Thanksgiving, dear Badfest listeners,
0:39.4	we are taping on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, but you're probably hearing this on Thanksgiving.
0:44.3	I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. And I hope Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine
0:48.9	and Yale University Law School has a wonderful Thanksgiving. Hello, Emily.
0:53.0	Hello, David. Hey, John. And I hope he also has a wonderful Thanksgiving. Hello, Emily. Hello, David. Hey, John. And I hope he also has a
0:57.4	wonderful Thanksgiving. He always has Thanksgiving stories to tell. John Dickerson, co-anchor of the CBS
1:02.6	evening news. Hello, John. Hello, David. Hello, Emily. I tell you, I feel that tension when
1:07.9	Emily says hello to me. I don't know whether to say hello to Emily before I've been introduced or allow the pause
1:14.6	and wait for my introduction.
1:16.6	This is the kind of thing we're going to be discussing at the Thanksgiving Day table.
1:20.2	All right.
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