The Art of Dealing With Donald Trump
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Today, Paddy and Laura discuss Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday and what we can learn from those who have been, and those who haven’t been, invited.
And Paddy’s been speaking to former Prime Minister Gordon Brown who gives his verdict on the state of the UK economy and tells him about the value of 'multibanks'.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Paddy, you've been to Fife. |
| 0:06.6 | I have. I went to Fife. |
| 0:08.9 | And I went to interview Gordon Brown, who has always lived there and still does. |
| 0:12.8 | It's a very good reason to go to Fife. |
| 0:14.4 | Well, it's a part of Scotland, which is sort of overlooked, I think you could say. |
| 0:19.2 | Apart from its famous son, Gordon Brown. |
| 0:22.5 | I mean, this is me Scotland-splaining, |
| 0:24.5 | but it's so near to... |
| 0:25.8 | I was nodding politely, though. |
| 0:27.6 | It's so near to places we know better. |
| 0:29.5 | Ah, well, speak for yourself. |
| 0:31.5 | Well, I am speaking for myself. |
| 0:33.1 | And I'd never heard of his multi-banks scheme. |
| 0:36.3 | Really? |
| 0:36.6 | No, I hadn't. I know that's big ignoramus of me. So that's up to 90 firms |
| 0:41.6 | from Amazon to Unilever, Pallet Line and Poundland, send unused new goods to be recirculated, |
| 0:49.8 | redistributed to poorer families. So it's like a goods bank, not a food bank, and they have actually |
| 0:55.4 | become an incredible phenomenon, which is what one previous Prime Minister is doing with his time, |
| 1:00.1 | and we'll hear more of that shortly. But there's another previous Prime Minister who's doing |
| 1:03.5 | something very different with her time, isn't there? Yes, you've given a clue by saying her. So it's |
| 1:08.7 | either Liz Truss or Theresa May pictured in a MAGA hat in D.C.C. |
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