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The Trump Admin. Is Exploiting The Shutdown

Velshi

MS NOW, Ali Velshi

Government, News, Versant Media, Weekend News, Ali Velshi, News Commentary, Versant, Politics, Ms Now

4.7793 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Ali Velshi is joined by Russian chess grandmaster and Renew Democracy Initiative chairman Garry Kasparov, Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign head William Browder, Distinguished Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University Eddie Glaude

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0:00.0

We know Donald Trump enjoys drawing a big crowd, and now he's got one for the history books.

0:12.0

Organizers estimate October 18th's No King's protests held in more than 2,700 locations across the country,

0:18.2

drew more than 7 million people, making them the largest

0:22.4

single-day demonstrations ever mounted against a sitting president. From major cities to small towns,

0:28.6

Americans with complaints that span the political spectrum showed up united by a single message.

0:34.3

This country belongs to the people, not to one man's ambition or to his bank accounts.

0:40.6

Trump knew this was coming. He's been embarrassed by the low kitten last No King's protest, which

0:45.2

took place on his birthday in the day of his now infamous poorly attended army parade. And yet,

0:50.0

in the days leading up to October 18, Trump and his allies tried everything they could to

0:55.3

de-legitimize the protest, to dehumanize the protesters, and discourage others from joining them,

1:00.1

branding them Marxists and Antifa, calling it the hate America rally, dismissing millions of

1:05.8

ordinary citizens as radical leftists.

1:09.9

Imagine that. The very people taking a wrecking ball to American democracy and our shared

1:13.8

history are calling the American people unpatriotic for rejecting a would-be king.

1:18.5

It makes you wonder if they've even read the very history they want potential citizens to know.

1:23.4

Because in case you haven't heard, the administration this week announced that it's making the U.S.

1:28.5

citizenship test longer and harder, doubling the number of questions that green card holders

1:33.9

must answer correctly.

1:36.3

Perhaps Trump and his allies should be taking that exam themselves, because if they did, they

1:40.2

would be reminded that this nation was founded quite specifically and for no greater reason

1:45.9

than resistance to tyranny. When Stephen Miller took to the podium a few weeks ago at Charlie

1:51.6

Kirk's funeral, he used a moment that was meant for mourning, and he turned it into something else

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