President Trump said many wild things this year, but one of the wildest was on Pod Force One,

where he talked about this multi-day aptitude test. He took at the age of like 11 or 12.

They said, your son is brilliant at music. He'd be an incredible musician.

Alas.

This is not what my father wanted to hear.

Right out of college, Trump tried producing Broadway shows.

And he has taste.

You can argue about whether it's good taste.

But Trump loves music and movies and architecture, L.O.L.

And he's been using his time in office to shape popular culture.

The culture was already moving right. It was embracing the trads and

the chads. And so in the waning days of 2025, we're looking at how the counterculture,

long the province of lefties and hippies, moved swiftly and sharply right. And we're going to

ask if it'll ever move back. That's coming up on Today Explained.

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