Profile: Who is Donald Trump? (Part 2… The Politician)
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Inside Trump’s White House
LONG After one of the greatest political surprises in American political history, Donald Trump’s 2016 victory gave way to a controversial and consequential presidency.
We look back on the four years that were defined by staff fallouts, 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.
Americast is profiling the four candidates in the race to become the next President and Vice President of the United States.
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
GET IN TOUCH: * Join our online community: https://discord.gg/qSrxqNcmRB * Send us a message or voice note via WhatsApp to +44 330 123 9480 * Email Americast@bbc.co.uk * Or use #Americast
This episode was made by Chris Flynn, George Dabby, Purvee Pattni, Catherine Fusillo, Claire Betzer and Rufus Gray. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The series producer is Purvee Pattni. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
US Election Unspun: Sign up for Anthony’s new BBC newsletter: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68093155
If you want to be notified every time we publish a new episode, please subscribe to us on BBC Sounds by hitting the subscribe button on the app.
You can now listen to Americast on a smart speaker. If you want to listen, just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Americast”. It works on most smart speakers.
Americast is part of the BBC News Podcasts family of podcasts. The team that makes Americast also makes lots of other podcasts, including The Global Story, The Today Podcast, and of course Newscast and Ukrainecast. If you enjoy Americast (and if you're reading this then you hopefully do), then we think that you will enjoy some of our other pods too. See links below.
The Global Story: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/w13xtvsd The Today Podcast: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p0gg4k6r Newscast: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/p05299nl Ukrainecast: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p0bqztzm
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. Hello, this is our profile series where we're taking a look at |
| 0:07.8 | the presidential candidates and vice presidential candidates running in the 2024 American |
| 0:12.2 | presidential election. Today we're talking about Donald Trump and in particular Trump, |
| 0:17.2 | the politician. We've already discussed his upbringing and career before politics in part one |
| 0:22.6 | of the series, and if you haven't listened to it, I do encourage you to go back and catch up. And if this |
| 0:27.1 | is the first episode of AmeriCast, you've heard, where you've been. But welcome and listen anytime on BBC |
| 0:33.3 | sounds or wherever you get your podcast from. Welcome to AmeriCast, Trump, the politician. |
| 0:42.2 | AmeriCast. Americaast from BBC News. Well, I think if they win, I should get all the credit, |
| 0:48.1 | and if they lose, I should not be blamed at all. I didn't have sex with the porn star. |
| 0:52.3 | We're going to build the war. We have no choice. We have no choice. It's not a racist at all, no. Not at all. It didn't have sex with a porn star. We're going to build the war. We have no choice. We have no |
| 0:55.1 | choice. It's not racist at all, no, not at all. It comes from China. There was blood pouring everywhere, |
| 1:01.5 | and yet I had God on my side. There's no crime. I have a crooked judge. He's a totally |
| 1:07.5 | conflicted judge. I'm not going to give you a question. You are fake news. |
| 1:11.4 | I'm sorry. You're fired. Get out of here. |
| 1:21.2 | Hello, it's Anthony at the Americas headquarters in Port Angeles in Washington State. |
| 1:26.7 | One of the biggest questions for the U.S. and for the |
| 1:28.8 | world right now is what would another Trump presidency look like? For his supporters, he's a savior. |
| 1:35.2 | For his opponents, he's a threat, maybe even an existential threat to American democracy. |
| 1:40.6 | What's the truth? Well, fortunately, we have his record to look at over four years in office. And thankfully, we have two people who have spent a lot of time looking at that record, as well as at the man himself. Jonathan Carl is the chief Washington correspondent for ABC News, and Meredith McGrath is a national political correspondent at Politico. Welcome. |
| 2:01.9 | Hello. |
| 2:02.7 | Hi. |
| 2:03.7 | All right. Well, let's start because you spent so much time covering Donald Trump the Trump presidency. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.