TRUMP IS FIDDLING WHILE AMERICA BURNS
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 10 March 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Trump retweeted a picture of himself playing a violin. Seriously. It's like he's trying to tell us in the most obvious way possible that he doesn't give a damn. America is on fire and our leader is fiddling. What could possibly go wrong?
Progressive Congressman Ro Khanna joins Thom to field listener questions on the Trump administration's failure to contend with the Covid-19 virus and the impact on our community.
For the book club, Thom reads from "Drugs, Money, and Secret Handshakes: The Unstoppable Growth of Prescription Drug Prices" by Robin Feldman.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Yeah, what a day. |
| 0:18.0 | Social distancing is the hot new phrase. |
| 0:21.0 | We'll get to that in just a second. |
| 0:22.0 | Trump just held a, you know, sort of a |
| 0:24.9 | presser I suppose. He and Pence had a meeting with a bunch of executives from |
| 0:29.7 | the health insurance industry who told us these predatory |
| 0:33.2 | banksers who, through Mike Pence, said that don't worry your insurance will |
| 0:38.6 | pay for coronavirus testing and there won't be any surprise billing and everything's going to |
| 0:44.3 | be good. I will believe it when I see it. I'll believe it when I see it in legislation |
| 0:50.6 | actually and but you know the open the market opened up seven |
| 0:55.8 | eight hundred points then it went negative and then after trumps it went |
| 0:59.6 | back positive people don't know what to think Are we on the tip of another great recession |
| 1:04.0 | with or without the coronavirus, with or without you know all this stuff that's |
| 1:08.2 | going on. But back to the coronavirus as said, social distancing is the hot new phrase. |
| 1:15.6 | The CDC and health associations around the world are encouraging people to avoid crowds |
| 1:20.3 | and big social events. |
| 1:22.3 | One of our kids and her husband had a trip, |
| 1:25.0 | and this was planned like a year ago, |
| 1:27.0 | to go to Europe this summer in June or July. |
| 1:30.0 | And they were both. |
| 1:31.0 | She's a nurse at a big hospital here in town, |
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