S8 Ep200: Elizabeth Peek discusses lessons for 2025, praising President Trump's showmanship at the Army-Navy game and anticipating his presence at the 2026 World Cup. She argues tariffs are generating significant revenue and predicts Democrats will eventually relax
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 17 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Batchel with my good colleague Elizabeth P. |
| 0:07.9 | And we've decided, I think we have, that we're going to have a lesson learned, |
| 0:13.4 | especially about the Trump administration in 2025. |
| 0:15.9 | And I want to go first. |
| 0:17.7 | Watching the president take the field for the Army Navy game was a thrill. |
| 0:23.6 | He is very good, very, very good before huge cheering crowds of midshipmen and cadets and their families. |
| 0:33.1 | The Army Navy game is ceremonial enough. |
| 0:36.1 | That flowing blue cashmere coat that he wears like a cape, |
| 0:40.2 | that small grin on his face when he's being |
| 0:43.2 | cheered, but not waving his hands |
| 0:45.7 | back, just walking very between these two |
| 0:47.8 | mastive giant men in uniforms. |
| 0:51.7 | Liz, nobody has done that as well |
| 0:54.0 | since Augustus of the Romans. |
| 0:57.7 | Which is, of course, a comparison that the Democrats would jump on in a heartbeat because they |
| 1:03.2 | liken him to a king and an emperor and so forth. |
| 1:06.5 | Look, he's a showman. |
| 1:08.3 | Part of the reason that he got elected in the first round was that Americans knew him. |
| 1:13.0 | Why did they know him? Because he had a TV show and it was very successful. |
| 1:18.7 | He also presided over at the Kennedy Center the other night and even critics of the president had to agree did a pretty darn good job. |
| 1:26.1 | He's very good at these moments. And I think one of the president had to agree, did a pretty darn good job. He's very good at these moments. |
| 1:27.6 | And I think one of the things that will happen in 2026 is to have the World Cup coming |
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