President Trump Is Back
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Today, Donald Trump has been sworn in as the 47th US president.
He promised to unleash a blitz of executive orders, after calling for a "revolution of common sense" in Monday's inaugural address.
James Cook and Chris Mason were joined by Anthony Zurcher and Marianna Spring from Americast, Victoria Derbyshire from Ukrainecast and Jonny Dymond from The Global Story to assess Trump’s first act as he became President again.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Just a few months ago in a beautiful Pennsylvania field, an assassin's bullet ripped through my ear. |
| 0:11.8 | But I felt then and believe even more so now that my life was saved for a reason. |
| 0:18.6 | I was saved by God to make America great again. |
| 0:23.7 | Buckle up, he is back. |
| 0:26.3 | Today's episode of Newscast is something a bit different for a big day. |
| 0:31.5 | We are bringing together lots of our podcasting brothers and sisters, as Adam would say, |
| 0:36.2 | and I'll be joined by Mariana and Anthony |
| 0:38.3 | from Americast, Victoria from Ukrainecast, Johnny from Global Story, and of course, newscasts |
| 0:44.7 | Chris Mason to try to work out what we learnt from President Trump's return today. That is this episode |
| 0:52.5 | of Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. I like landscapes. I don't think |
| 0:57.9 | I'm being rude. Japping, unemployed people who are overweight. That is not the agenda. It's the fun |
| 1:03.0 | police working overtime. The star is born. Elon. It's all hurt that a miracle with us happen. |
| 1:08.7 | Frankly, I think we need a British Trump. Take me down to Downing Street. Let's go have a tour. |
| 1:13.8 | Blimey. |
| 1:15.0 | Hello, it's James in the studio. |
| 1:17.2 | Hello, it's Victoria in the studio from Ukrainecast. |
| 1:20.0 | And Johnny in the studio from The Global Story. |
| 1:23.1 | And it's Mariana in Washington, D.C. from Ameriast. |
| 1:26.3 | And it's Anthony also from Ameriacast.C. from Ameriast. And it's Anthony, also from Ameriast, here next to Mariana. |
| 1:30.3 | And Chris Mason will be here. |
| 1:32.9 | Hopefully, he's late. |
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