The sore winner
Sidebar
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 8 January 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
This week, The Washington Post's Libby Casey, Rhonda Colvin and James Hohmann break down president-elect Trump's angry, grievance-filled news conference – and why Trump is so focused on those grievances despite winning the election, with Republicans winning both houses of Congress.
Then, the crew recaps the latest on Trump's New York hush money case, and whether the Supreme Court might intervene before the sentencing hearing scheduled for Jan. 10.
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| 0:00.0 | I feel like I'm not wearing enough layers for how cold it is in Washington right now. |
| 0:04.0 | Where's your cardigan? |
| 0:05.0 | Oh, like the Jimmy Carter cardigan. |
| 0:07.0 | A few weeks after his inauguration, he did a fireside chat. |
| 0:11.0 | He had asked people to bring their thermostats down to 65 degrees. |
| 0:15.0 | But did you practice what he preached? |
| 0:17.0 | He did. |
| 0:18.0 | In fact, he ordered all White House thermostats to be lowered to 65 during the day, |
| 0:23.2 | but at nighttime, he said that they had to be lowered to 55 degrees. In Rosalind Carter's memoir, |
| 0:29.2 | she actually writes about watching her secretary, like, shivering and wearing gloves. She's typing |
| 0:36.3 | on the typewriter. Look what happened. |
| 0:38.5 | Is this crazy? |
| 0:40.3 | We stand on the verge of the four greatest years in the history. |
| 0:45.1 | Make America great a kid. |
| 0:48.1 | How can you be against them? |
| 0:53.7 | It's the week of former President Jimmy Carter's funeral, a time for the coming together of national leaders, including former presidents and the current one. |
| 1:00.8 | And yet what we heard from President-elect Donald Trump in a press conference on Tuesday was angry and filled with grievances and served as a reminder that Trump is on a revenge mission. |
| 1:12.4 | Welcome to this episode of Sidebar from The Washington Post. |
| 1:15.1 | I'm Libby Casey and I'm here with Rhonda Colvin, senior political correspondent and James |
| 1:20.4 | Homan, editorial writer and columnist. |
| 1:22.8 | And this is this remarkable moment. |
| 1:24.7 | Rhonda, you've covered a handful of the funerals of dignitaries, |
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