President Trump's first days in office.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
President Donald Trump began his second term on Monday with a series of executive actions, memos and announcements, signing 26 executive orders, 12 memoranda, and four proclamations on his first day alone. Broadly, these actions focused onrestricting immigration and asylum, redirecting the nation’s energy policies, changing and curtailing federal employment practices, issuing high-profile pardons, reversing Biden-era executive orders and policies, and more.
Ad-free podcasts are here!
Many listeners have been asking for an ad-free version of this podcast that they could subscribe to — and we finally launched it. You can go to tanglemedia.supercast.com to sign up!
You can read today's podcast here, our “Under the Radar” story here and today’s “Have a nice day” story here.
Take the survey: What do you think of President Trump’s executive orders? Let us know!
You can subscribe to Tangle by clicking here or drop something in our tip jar by clicking here.
Our podcast is written by Isaac Saul and edited and engineered by Dewey Thomas. Music for the podcast was produced by Diet 75.
Our newsletter is edited by Managing Editor Ari Weitzman, Will Kaback, Bailey Saul, Sean Brady, and produced in conjunction with Tangle’s social media manager Magdalena Bokowa, who also created our logo.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | For over a decade, Arlo technology has focused solely on home security, detecting strangers, ignoring neighbours and delivering alerts with crystal clear footage to your phone. |
| 0:11.0 | From 4K cameras to award-winning doorbells, Arlo captures everything through one powerful AI system, Arlo Secure, because a watched over space is a safer space. |
| 0:21.3 | Arlo, 10 years of innovation in one powerful security system. |
| 0:26.4 | Find out more and get conditions at arlo.com. |
| 0:30.9 | Imagine a world without borders, where money moves between countries fast and securely, |
| 0:37.4 | all without having to build or manage a complex infrastructure. |
| 0:42.3 | Introducing Visa Direct. |
| 0:44.6 | With Visa Direct, you can move money securely to and from 195 countries in 160 currencies. |
| 0:52.9 | Move money your way. |
| 0:55.6 | Learn more at visa.com slash visa direct. |
| 1:02.5 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, |
| 1:08.8 | this is Tangle. This is Tangle. |
| 1:19.6 | Good morning. |
| 1:22.0 | Good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place where you get views from across the political |
| 1:28.6 | spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of our take. I'm your host, Will Kayback. I'm one of |
| 1:34.9 | Tangle's editors. And today we're going to be talking about President Trump's first few days in office, |
| 1:41.2 | what he's been up to, the executive orders he's issued, the actions he's taken. |
| 1:45.9 | It's a big topic. We honestly could only scrape the surface of some of the actions he's taken, |
| 1:51.1 | but it's going to spark, I'm sure, a substantive debate and something that we'll be writing a lot about in the future. |
| 1:57.4 | Before we get into that, I want to flag that tomorrow we have a members-only Friday edition coming, |
| 2:03.4 | both in newsletter and podcast forum, where we're going to be putting Joe Biden's presidency under a microscope. |
| 2:09.1 | So we're going to be reviewing how he delivered on his core promises, applying the metrics we'll be using for Trump to Biden's term, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Isaac Saul, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Isaac Saul and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.