The Super Bowl of Politics: Trump's 1st SOTU (Bonus)
In The Thick
Futuro Media
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🗓️ 31 January 2018
⏱️ 11 minutes
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President Trump gave his first State of the Union speech Tuesday night, and between bringing up MS-13 and statements like "Americans are dreamers too," immigration was a major underlying theme. Join Maria and Julio as they share their thoughts. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to In The Thick, a podcast about politics, race and culture from a POC perspective. |
| 0:04.8 | I'm Maria Inahosa trying to sound really a beep. |
| 0:08.0 | And I'm Julio Riccalo Barela. |
| 0:12.0 | And I'm trying to stay a beat with you, Maria, because we have to really talk about President |
| 0:17.4 | Trump's first State of the Union before it gets away from the news cycle because Maria, it's already been a crazy news day. |
| 0:25.5 | The train crash with the Republican members of Congress which led to one death. |
| 0:30.8 | The FBI all of a sudden now saying, oh, there's missing facts from the memo, and then it just happened that FEMA was going to stop distributing food for Puerto Rico, but now it's restoring that food delivery like the new cycle is crazy but |
| 0:45.5 | we still have to talk about the state of the Union so upbeat Maria Nahosa how are you |
| 0:50.4 | feeling about the state of the Union I have I have a real problem with the state of the union because as we know, it becomes just a litany and its applause and there's just a lot of pomp and circumstance. |
| 1:01.3 | This is like the Super Bowl of politics and I will say I knew |
| 1:05.7 | exactly what he was going to do Maria. He started it with this optimism and common |
| 1:11.2 | ground and we're all Americans and I want to help people and look at the economy and look at the |
| 1:17.4 | jobs and then I tweeted out I said he's teeing up for like a really harsh section about immigration. |
| 1:26.0 | Immigration he talked about it for a long time. |
| 1:30.0 | I don't remember any recent president talking about immigration for more than about five seconds, |
| 1:36.3 | ten seconds maybe and it turned on people like me. |
| 1:40.1 | It turned ugly. |
| 1:41.3 | Here's the thing but that was a setup setup and all of a sudden it went from American optimism and at least in his eyes to American xenophobia and the second part of that speech |
| 1:53.6 | Maria I don't know how you felt but I couldn't I mean I was like whoa it was |
| 1:58.4 | distressing to hear this president to hear this president to hear this president yet again |
| 2:03.8 | essentially mischaracterize the laws of this country |
| 2:07.9 | Given that both you and I who you understand that the immigration system as it stands is |
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