Political Gabfest - Trump Backlash, Australian-Style
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss anti-Trump sentiment in foreign elections with former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, why the Trump administration has done relatively little about medication abortion so far and whether it will last, and how looming Medicaid cuts will hurt millions of Americans.
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode, Emily, John, and David discuss whether and how to pay attention and respond when Trump “jokes” about the possibility of serving a third term as president.
In the latest Gabfest Reads, John talks with author Maggie Smith about her new book, Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest. |
| 0:07.0 | May 8th, 2025, Trump Backlash, Australian-style edition. |
| 0:21.5 | I am David Flots of Citycast in Washington, D.C., from New York City, John Dickerson, |
| 0:28.2 | co-anchor of the CBS Evening News, and the anchor of CBS Evening News Plus. |
| 0:32.8 | Hello, John. |
| 0:33.8 | Hi. |
| 0:35.1 | And from New Haven, Connecticut, the New York Times Magazine, Yale University Law School, Emily Bazelon, with whom I will be having dinner somehow magically even though she's in New Haven. |
| 0:44.1 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:45.3 | Hi. |
| 0:46.5 | But I'll see you later today, I hope. |
| 0:48.8 | It's true. |
| 0:49.5 | I won't be in New Haven anymore when that happens. |
| 0:51.9 | This week on the Gab Fest, Australia, Canada, Singapore, |
| 0:56.0 | all voted against Trump this week. We will talk to former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull |
| 1:01.6 | about why that's happening, what it might mean. Then why isn't the Trump administration cracking |
| 1:09.1 | down on medication abortion? |
| 1:17.7 | Then can the Republicans pass their budget without doing serious damage to Medicaid? |
| 1:19.5 | We'll find out. |
| 1:21.2 | Plus, we will have cocktail chatter. |
| 1:28.9 | We are joined by beloved GabFest occasional guest Malcolm Turnbull, who was prime minister of Australia during the first Trump administration. We've asked Malcolm here today to discuss kind of what |
| 1:33.7 | recently happened in the Australian election, how it also connects to what's happened in Canada |
| 1:38.6 | and Singapore, where Trump has clearly affected how people are voting. Why is this happening? What's happening? |
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