Profile: Who is Donald Trump? (Part 2… The Politician)
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
We look back at how Trump ran the United States during his 2016 presidency. In an administration defined by “building the wall”, North Korea, COVID, and an attempted insurrection. Anthony is joined by two journalists who were in the room with Trump while he was changing American politics one decision at a time.
This episode was first aired during the election campaign, as Americast profiled all the presidential and vice presidential candidates.
Look out for Part 1: Trump the Brand, which looks at his rise as a politician and celebrity.
HOST: • Anthony Zurcher, North America correspondent
GUESTS: • Meredith McGraw is a national political correspondent at Politico • Jonathan Karl is the Chief Washington Correspondent for ABC News
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, this is our profile series where we're taking a look at the presidential candidates |
| 0:08.9 | and vice presidential candidates running in the 2024 American presidential election. |
| 0:13.3 | Today we're talking about Donald Trump and in particular Trump the politician. |
| 0:18.2 | We've already discussed his upbringing and career before politics in part one of the series and if you haven't |
| 0:23.8 | listened to it I do encourage you to go back and catch up and if this is the first |
| 0:27.7 | episode of a Maricast you've heard where you been but welcome and listen anytime on BBC sounds or wherever you get |
| 0:35.0 | your podcast from. Welcome to America cast Trump the politician. |
| 0:41.0 | America cast from BBC news. America. at all. I didn't have sex with the pornster. We're going to build the wall. We have no choice. |
| 0:54.7 | We have no choice. It's not racist at all. No, not at all. It comes from China. There was blood pouring everywhere and |
| 1:01.5 | yet I had God on my side. |
| 1:04.6 | There's no crime. |
| 1:05.9 | I have a crooked judge. |
| 1:06.9 | He's a totally conflicted judge. |
| 1:08.5 | I am not going to give you a question. |
| 1:10.1 | You are fake news. |
| 1:11.4 | I'm sorry, you're fired. |
| 1:13.4 | Get out of here! |
| 1:15.0 | Hello, it's |
| 1:18.0 | Hello, it's Anthony at the Americas headquarters in Port Angeles in |
| 1:25.3 | Washington State. One of the biggest questions for the US and for the world right |
| 1:29.2 | now is what would another Trump presidency look like? |
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