Surveying the Devastation of the Past Week of Business as Usual Under Trump

DSR's Words Matter

Riley Fessler

News, Government

4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to another week in Trump’s America. The President is “renovating” the Kennedy Center a la the East Wing of the White House, the Washington Post continues it’s descent into darkness, and MAGA cronies are looking for any way to undermine democratic elections this November. What is going on in America? David Rothkopf and Norm Ornstein discuss all this and more. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.6	Nine, 12, 10, 28, 2, 23.
0:45.2	This is Deep State Radio, coming to you direct from our super secret studio in the third
0:52.3	sub-basement of the Ministry of Snark in Washington, D.C.,
0:56.4	and from other undisclosed locations across America and around the world.
1:02.5	Hello and welcome again to DSR's Words Matter. I'm David Rothkoff, your host, and also known as,
1:09.1	you know, the trigger around here, because my job is triggering
1:11.8	Norm Ornstein. How are you, Norm? On a hair trigger. On a hair trigger. That's usually,
1:19.0	usually all I have to do is say, how are you, Norm? And you go, I think life, it's horrible.
1:25.0	Okay. I'm going to try an experiment here.
1:28.6	I'm going to talk about some things.
1:30.4	I'm just going to say one word,
1:32.4	and then you can respond to the word or phrase.
1:36.2	And then you can respond to that.
1:37.7	We'll move on to the next one, okay?
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