Q&A: Can Trump run again as president? Can he pardon who likes? Will the Musk bromance last?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 24 January 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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As Donald Trump's first week in office comes to an end, we answer your most pressing questions.
Who will be the first casualty of President Trump's cabinet? Will his bromance with Elon Musk last the full term? And has news evolved to be entertainment?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:11.7 | This is what has been missing from your 2025 so far, a special edition of question and answer from the newsagents. |
| 0:19.5 | Right. The first question is from Mark Williams. |
| 0:22.2 | Are there any reasons to be optimistic about Trump's presidency |
| 0:25.8 | and believe it may not be incredibly damaging to the US and the wide world |
| 0:30.5 | in the same way as he probably learned lessons from round one? |
| 0:33.9 | Could the same be said of those who work in opposition to him thank you mark are |
| 0:39.9 | there any reasons to be optimistic um not especially no i think america's going to grow i think |
| 0:47.0 | america's economy is going to grow i think it's going to be a sort of Saudi of the west |
| 0:52.6 | it's going to be somewhere that is yeah moral free zone, but plenty of cash knocking around. |
| 0:57.7 | And if that makes you happy and it will make a lot of people very happy, I think that is a |
| 1:01.8 | reason to be optimistic. |
| 1:02.3 | But that's just for shits and giggles, though, I'm going to be the optimistic one and say, |
| 1:06.5 | we've already seen his impact in Gaza. |
| 1:08.9 | He wants to achieve things. |
| 1:10.2 | He wants to get credit for them. |
| 1:12.8 | I think that Ukraine might work out better than people had originally anticipated. And I think |
| 1:18.1 | that the deregulation taking place in America will make Europe look at itself and think, |
| 1:22.3 | how can we be more competitive to face the threat from America? And I think that's probably |
| 1:26.1 | not a bad thing. And I think that to be completely opposite, |
| 1:29.4 | I think the first few days have been darker, |
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