Trump Embraces Autocratic Language

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🗓️ 21 December 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

The former president continues to recite his greatest hits on the campaign trail, along with adding some new autocratic language. His words are drawing criticism from many, but on his social media platform, Truth Social, he has the base to support it.

This episode: White House correspondents Asma Khalid & Franco Ordoñez, and extremism correspondent Odette Yousef.

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0:17.0	Hey there it's the NPR Politics Podcast I I'm Asma Khalid, I cover the White House.
0:24.6	I'm Frank O'Adunyez. I cover the Trump campaign.
0:27.3	And I'm Odette Youssef. I cover domestic extremism.
0:29.8	Former President Donald Trump is the frontrunner runner to be the 2024 GOP presidential
0:35.2	nominee.
0:36.2	He has not participated in any of the Republican primary debates and his rallies are not
0:41.0	yet a mainstay of cable news.
0:43.3	But if you've heard his speeches lately,
0:45.5	you have probably noticed he's been using increasingly
0:48.5	autocratic language.
0:50.1	Today on the show, Trump's dark rhetoric on the campaign trail keeps getting seemingly darker.
0:56.2	Franco, you have covered Donald Trump when he was in the White House and also now
1:01.2	as he kicks off this re-election campaign.
1:03.8	And he has made his stance on immigration very clear.
1:07.6	He wants to finish building the wall.
1:10.1	He wants to have what I would say is like a version 2.0 of the so-called Muslim travel ban.
1:16.5	He wants to expand that and you know some of what we're hearing does remind me of echoes of his 2016 campaign.
1:24.0	I remember back in 2016, he used to tell the story of a snake.
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