The Response: America's Story - President Trump

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🗓️ 16 July 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Americans used smartphones to record their stories from the start of Donald Trump's presidency. A simple conversation in a bar triggers an attack which leads to a prison sentence. This is the first of four podcasts about the real lives of Americans and what they want from their president. The Response: America’s Story is from The BBC World Service with American Public Media. This episode was compiled and recorded in Charleston West Virginia, with insights from Roxy Todd of West Virginia Public Broadcasting.

Presenter: Shaimaa Khalil Producers: Kevin Core for the BBC World Service with APM’s Laurie Stern

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0:00.0	This is a podcast from the BBC World Service with American Public Media.
0:11.6	When Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States,
0:15.4	the countdown of his first 100 days in office began.
0:19.0	It's a milestone applied to every modern president in the BBC World Service and American public media
0:25.9	decided to market with a unique project.
0:28.9	As political experts and media commentators came up with their assessment, we handed it over to you.
0:35.0	All you had to do was use a smartphone with a voice recorder and email us a sound file telling us your story of the first 100 days of the Trump presidency.
0:48.0	Working with public radio stations from West Virginia to Kansas City to San Antonio and Boise, Idaho, the four programs
0:55.2	took a ground-level view of what matters to Americans during a time of unprecedented change.
1:01.4	You're about to hear the results. I'm Shei Maqalil and this is the response, America's
1:07.0	story. We began the 100 days in January in Charleston at West Virginia Public Broadcasting to hear what you wanted from the new man in the White House.
1:16.0	In this episode you'll hear from teachers, restaurant workers, and spacecraft engineers,
1:21.0	but we'll begin with a guy who calls himself the average Joe.
1:24.8	All right, my name is Dave Mertz and I'm 35 years old from Fargo, North Dakota.
1:32.1	Well, I wanted to pursue college, but my parents never had any money saved up, so it was never an option.
1:42.0	So, yeah, that's pretty much yet I guess.
1:48.5	Money was tight in my family I don't think there was a lot of it around but we weren't poor by any means but I did have several jobs just to save a little money to support myself to go to school.
2:07.0	I did look at people that went to college as better people than I am.
2:17.0	Donald Trump is trying to appeal to the typical average Joe in America.
2:21.0	I consider myself an average Joe. I certainly see the appeal and it's
2:28.0	funny that people bought into it. He certainly knew how to market to poor working people in America.
2:37.0	Dave tried lots of jobs, from sales to service industries, but he ended up working in underground construction.
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