From WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Monday, August 18th.

Now the longtime finance journalist William D. Cohen, you may know him from his deeply reported

books like House of Cards

after the 2008 financial crisis or more recently power failure, the rise and fall of an American

icon about GE. Now he's got a column and newsletter for Puck News called Wall Street

braces for CEO Trump. He writes, the latest shots fired against

J.P. Morgan, Bank of America, and especially the zinger aimed at David Solomon, CEO of Goldman Sachs,

have sent a chill of many a spine in finance. When will Trump come for Wall Street, as he has for

universities and law firms?

That's all a quote from the article.

He also references Trump's takeover of the D.C. police and the Kennedy Center, and he could

have added the portrayal of history at the Smithsonian after last week's news on that.

So Bill Cohen asks, among other things, is Trump turning into a socialist

or just another strongman authoritarian? On the comparison to socialists, he's comparing

Trump's government takeover a business to socialist ones from elsewhere. The point being,

it's still government control of the market. So we'll get Bill Cohen's reporting and his take.

The David Solomon story is pretty remarkable, and you may not have heard it yet.

And we'll discuss Trump's nominee to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

E.J. Antony from the Project 2025 Producing Heritage Foundation said after Trump was elected last year that he thinks

the U.S. should sunset, his word, the Social Security program. Sunset Social Security

will play a clip of Antony where he says that and inadvertently suggests that one of Trump's

core policies is making Social Security's financial

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