Trump 2.0: A Year of Unconstrained Power

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 20 January 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In the 365 days since Donald J. Trump was sworn into his second term as president, he has fired, pardoned, prosecuted, tariffed, deployed, deposed, dismantled and deported his way to a new kind of American government, one designed almost entirely in his image. In the process, he has not only transformed the federal government, he has also changed, possibly forever, the very nature of the American presidency. On today’s episode, Michael Barbaro speaks with three longtime chroniclers of Trump’s presidency about how to make sense of what Trump has done over the past year and what his next three years in office might bring.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bobarrow.
0:05.6	This is a special episode of The Daily.
0:08.9	The golden age of America begins right now.
0:12.8	It's been exactly one year since President Trump was sworn into office for a second term.
0:18.8	The fraudsters, liars, cheers, globalists, and deep state bureaucrats are being sent packing.
0:26.1	A year in which he fired...
0:28.3	Well, President Trump says he is firing Fed Governor Lisa Cook over...
0:31.6	Millions of federal workers are being offered buyouts.
0:34.9	Prosecuted.
0:35.5	Secured the indictments of James Comey and Letitia James.
0:38.3	And I think she's a total crook.
0:39.6	There's no question about it.
0:40.6	Pardoned.
0:41.1	Pardened.
0:41.1	1,500 pardons for the January 6th defendants.
0:44.8	These were people that actually love our country, so.
0:47.4	Tariffed.
0:48.0	It's going to be Liberation Day in America.
0:50.6	Brokered.
0:51.2	President Trump's ceasefire and hostage release deal. Pressured.
0:55.0	Not in a good position.
0:56.0	You don't have the cards right now.
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