Hello and welcome to Remaniacs, the politics podcast that likes to call a SPAD a SPAD.

I am Alex Andréu on my Remaniacs presenting Debue, so be nice.

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Yes, means Sir Han is a staff writer for the Atlantic and a resident what has Trump done now, correspondent.

Yes, mean hello, what has Trump done now?

Gosh, it might be easier to say what he hasn't done to be honest.

I mean, just looking at the past couple of days, I mean, he hasn't condemned the recent police shooting of Jacob Blake, 29-year-old,

black man in Kenosha, Wisconsin, a shooting which prompted protests, which further prompted the killing of two protesters by,

and allegedly, I should say, by a 17-year-old vigilante.

What he did do was appear to defend the gunman, and on the flip side his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden,

has condemned the violence both in Kenosha as well as in Portland, Oregon,

where over the weekend there were further clashes between a pro-Trump caravan and counter protesters,

which resulted in one of the pro-Trump demonstrators being killed.

So effectively what the president has done or appears to be doing anyway is kind of stoking sort of the division in the country as a means of furthering his bid,

he's kind of set his stall as the law and order president, who at the moment is presiding over much disorder in violence.

And as pitched voters, it seems is if you don't want what's currently happening undermate, you should vote for me again.

It's not great is it?

No, it feels like the east bit of the country is underwater, the west bit is on fire, and the middle bit is in civil war.

Is that a fair summary?

There's a lot going on at the moment, none of it good.

I watching it from afar is a bit concerning, and weirdly enough, and suddenly, I mean, at first it was the pandemic,

but then as you say, you add all those things, and now I got, I don't know what concerns me more,

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