Trump 2.0: Fear and Loathing in DC

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🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

A trigger warning for progressives: this episode contains explicit Trump content.

Nish and Coco’s nightmare begins with inauguration Trump meme coins, grinning tech bros and disputed Nazi salutes. Then comes the blizzard of executive orders targeting migrants and freeing rioters. But this is not just a bad dream for our liberal hosts. This is the reality of Trump world. The groundwork of MAGA 2.0 has been laid.

How should Britain react? The UK’s very own “basket of deplorables” including Farage, Truss and Braverman donned their MAGA caps and descended on the US. But they didn’t even scrape an invitation to the main event. Back home Keir Starmer and David Lammy opted for love-bombing the new President. But there is an alternative to a sucking up strategy. Pod Save the UK has spotted some green shoots of resistance.

While Trump has thrown the Paris Climate Agreement out the window - again - the UK has an opportunity to lead the way on the environment. Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer joins the pod to explain how clever cross party collaboration and campaigning could push through the new Climate and Nature Bill.

And Jon Favreau, host of ‘Pod Save America’ and ‘Offline’, joins Nish and Coco from across the pond to find out what’s in store for the US, UK and the world.

Useful Links

Write to your MP about the Climate and Nature Bill

https://action.zerohour.uk/

https://www.parliament.uk/get-involved/contact-an-mp-or-lord/contact-your-mp/

Guests

Jon Favreau

Carla Denyer MP

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Pod Save the UK. I'm Coco Khan. And I'm Nish Kumar and Trump is back in the White House and the next four years are going to be a nightmare.
0:11.0	Oh my God. Did you watch the inauguration? Yes, I did. But I don't know why I did. What possible benefit could that have had?
0:17.5	It was, I'm going to use the word nightmareish, and I mean that genuinely, literally.
0:21.2	As someone who's a vivid dreamer myself, it felt like figures from my subconscious coming back.
0:26.6	You had all the thin-skinned, bully boys who were now the most powerful men in the world.
0:31.4	The hand burglar was there, Melania Trump.
0:33.6	You have to have these, like, strange cartoon characters from your past. I just needed someone to have, I don't know, an extra large foot or like very long nipples.
0:40.6	And that would have been a 100% Cocoa Khan nightmare.
0:44.8	Too early in the show for nipples.
0:46.6	It's too early in the show for nipple chat.
0:48.8	But anyway, to find out what it all means, we'll be joined by Pod Save America's John Favro.
0:53.2	And later we'll be speaking to Green Party America's John Favro. And later, we'll be
0:54.2	speaking to Green Party leader Carla Denier about what the new Trump presidency might mean for the
0:59.4	climate emergency. We will be strong and we will win like never before. We will not be conquered.
1:11.9	We will not be intimidated.
1:14.4	We will not be broken.
1:16.7	And we will not fail.
1:18.2	From this day on, the United States of America will be a free, sovereign, and independent
1:23.4	nation.
1:24.6	We will stand bravely.
1:26.4	We will live proudly. We will dream boldly. And nothing will stand in
1:32.7	our way because we are Americans. The future is ours. And our golden age has just begun.
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