Trump politicises a national tragedy
The News Agents
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🗓️ 31 January 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
The Washington plane collision is a moment of national mourning for America, but not for Donald Trump. With over 60 dead and bodies still being recovered from the frozen Potomac river, Trump decided to politicise the disaster within seconds of speaking: blaming DEI policies, before any investigation has started, much less concluded. Why does he act this way? And will he pay a political cost? Lewis and Jon discuss.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.9 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.5 | Every US president has had to deal with some kind of tragedy. |
| 0:17.8 | Every US president has had to find those words that will speak to a nation in shock |
| 0:25.0 | and in grief. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them as they prepared for |
| 0:31.3 | their journey and waved goodbye and slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God. |
| 0:39.3 | America was targeted for attack because we're the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world. |
| 0:45.3 | And no one will keep that light from shining. |
| 0:49.3 | All of us can extend a hand to those in need, to remind them that we are there for them, that we are |
| 0:57.2 | praying for them, that the love they felt for those they lost in doors, not just in their |
| 1:04.3 | memories, but also in ours. |
| 1:07.3 | I ask the nation to pray for them and give the parents and siblings the strength in the darkness they feel right now. |
| 1:16.6 | And this was Donald Trump yesterday. |
| 1:18.6 | Do you have a plan to go visit the site or meet with any of the first responders? |
| 1:21.6 | I have a plan to visit not the site because what you tell me what's the site, the water? |
| 1:26.6 | Or to meet with the first responders down there? |
| 1:29.4 | I don't have a plan to do that, but I will be meeting with some people that were very badly hurt |
| 1:34.6 | with their family. |
| 1:35.3 | What do you want me to do, go swimming? |
| 1:37.9 | That was the 47th president's response to the first national tragedy of his administration, not even a fortnight old. |
| 1:46.8 | But that wasn't all either, because Trump decided to use this moment of mourning to go on the |
| 1:53.6 | offensive to prosecute his own politics to politicise a tragedy. |
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