meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
What A Day

Trump: Here We Go Again

What A Day

What A Day

News, Daily News

4.8166 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Donald Trump is President of the United States. Again. His inaugural address Tuesday wasn’t quite as dark as the ‘American carnage’ speech he gave eight years ago. This time around, Trump promised the beginning of a “golden age of America” before reading off a laundry list of policies he plans to pursue during his presidency that will, almost certainly, not usher in a golden age. Standing behind Trump were some of the richest men in the world: Tech CEOs Sundar Pichai of Google, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, and X’s Elon Musk. Longtime D.C. reporter and friend of the pod Todd Zwillich helps us break down Trump’s inauguration speech. 

Later in the show, Eugene Daniels, White House correspondent for Politico, walks us through the many executive orders Trump signed Tuesday.

And in headlines: Joe Biden spent his final hours as president issuing a bunch of preemptive pardons for members of his family and Trump’s political enemies, Vivek Ramaswamy may leave DOGE, and China said it’s open to selling TikTok.

Show Notes:

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

It's Tuesday, January 21st. I'm Jane Koston, and this is What Today? The show that's

0:06.6

very interested in obtaining Melania Trump's inauguration hat, it appears to create a powerful

0:12.0

force field that keeps Donald Trump at arm's length. Where can I get one?

0:33.9

Yeah. On today's show, President Biden says peace out, but not before signing a bunch of preemptive pardons for Trump's political enemies.

0:38.9

And Vivek Ramoswamy flames out at Doge to maybe run for governor of Ohio.

0:45.3

Oh, right. And we have a new president, who's also an old president, both in the literal meaning of the word old, and in the way that this is, unfortunately, not the country's first rodeo with this guy.

0:51.1

The golden age of America begins right now.

1:00.7

From this day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world.

1:07.3

He doesn't sound very excited about it.

1:09.7

Donald Trump delivered his inaugural address at the Capitol Rotunda, and was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States.

1:16.3

At 78, he is the oldest man to be sworn in as president in U.S. history.

1:20.8

His inauguration speech wasn't quite the American carnage of his first address eight years ago,

1:25.2

but he did spend a lot of time talking about how

1:27.8

everything sucked before Monday because previous administrations had run the country into the

1:31.7

ground, you know, minus the four years he was running the country.

1:35.6

My recent election is a mandate to completely and totally reverse a horrible betrayal

1:42.3

and all of these many betrayals that have taken place and to give the people

1:49.5

back their faith, their wealth, their democracy, and indeed their freedom. From this moment on,

1:58.8

America's decline is over. That's right. As Trump would have us all believe,

2:04.5

everything magically changed at noon Eastern time and sunlight poured over the entire world or something.

2:10.3

And now he'll get to work fixing all the country's problems, except there are no more problems

2:14.0

because he's president again. So to talk more about President Donald Trump's second

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from What A Day, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of What A Day and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.