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The Brian Lehrer Show

Saturday's Mass Protests Against Trump's Second Administration

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

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4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The Atlantic's Elaine Godfrey talks about this weekend's protests against the Trump administration and listeners who took part share their experiences.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Brian Laird on WNYC.

0:12.2

So we heard from Corey Booker.

0:13.7

Now we'll open up the phones and hear from you as the Trump second term resistance movement spreads.

0:19.6

I was thinking you might say it's now a strange

0:22.5

bedfellows resistance of a spreading range from the socialists to the capitalists. What do I mean?

0:29.2

Of course, the Democratic Socialist Movement always opposed Trump with his tax cuts for the rich

0:33.0

while cutting services for everyone else and his IED, as I called it in our newsletter last week,

0:39.7

the opposite of DEI, Trump's inequality, exclusion, and discrimination policies, IED policies,

0:48.3

as certainly the socialist left would characterize it.

0:51.6

But last week we saw deterioration of the Republican vote in the elections

0:56.4

in Wisconsin, in Florida. Senator Booker referred to those. And you could say Wall Street is now

1:03.5

helping lead the resistance. Is that too far-fetched? But they're removing trillions of dollars

1:09.4

from the economy to protest Trump's

1:11.8

tariffs policies if you look at it that way. So it's a strange bedfellows resistance coalition

1:17.6

if you want to look at it that way from the socialists to the capitalists at the moment.

1:23.2

And by the way, the Dow was down another thousand points so far this morning. And on Saturday,

1:27.3

there were protests around the country and some internationally as well

1:31.2

in the biggest day of demonstrations yet with the theme of hands off.

1:36.2

So call in, people are already calling in, our lines are already full.

1:39.8

You can keep texting.

1:41.2

Hands off, what?

1:42.9

212-433. WNYC, 212, 433-9-6-92. Elaine Godfrey, staff writer for the Atlantic,

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