Trump Fights ABC Interviewer Over Photoshopped Image | Presidential Biographer Jon Meacham

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4.4 • 13.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Desi Lydic covers Trump’s 100th day celebrations: inviting ABC News into the White House to misunderstand the Declaration of Independence, grooving to his famous “YMCA” dance, and putting the economy on financial Ozempic.

From the dark halls of Santa Monica to the caves of the Trump administration, Stephen Miller has been working in the shadows as the White House Chief of Staff. From influencing election denial to mass deportations, can Stephen Miller’s vampiric bite kill American democracy?

Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential biographer Jon Meacham joins to discuss the impact of Trump’s presidency on democracy. They talk about biographing imperfect presidents who bent history, the origins of the first 100 days under the Roosevelt administration, Trump’s unprecedented destruction of democratic institutions, and how the partisanship of facts has transformed reality into a reality show.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Comedy Central.
0:06.7	From the most trusted journalists at Comedy Central,
0:10.7	it's America's only source for new.
0:14.0	This is The Daily Show with your host, Desi Linens.
0:18.5	Thank you. Desi Leiden. Welcome to the Desi Leiter.
0:21.6	I'm Dez Debbie Lighter.
0:38.3	We have got so much to talk about tonight.
0:42.3	Trump's first 100 days gets certified, rotten and fresh.
0:47.3	The Declaration of Independence dies of embarrassment,
0:50.3	and we'll find out why America's GDP is shrinking.
0:53.3	O-Sampic.
0:55.1	So let's get right into it.
1:02.2	There'll be a little disturbance.
1:07.0	Trump's been in office for 100 days,
1:09.5	whereas he likes to call it longer than any president in the history of the world.
1:13.6	It should be a week of celebration, but tell that to the economy.
1:18.6	Economic alarm bells. The U.S. economy contracting by 0.3%.
1:23.6	The contraction in the economy first that we have seen in years, in fact.
1:27.6	America's economy is shrinking.
1:30.0	Yes, the U.S. economy is undergoing what economists refer to as a George Costanza.
1:35.5	Now, obviously, the economy is a complex interaction of multiple markets, so it's difficult
1:42.8	to point to any one factor, but it's
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