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The Owen Jones Podcast

Trump Promises Rule By Billionaires In Gruesome Inauguration

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Government, News, News & Politics, Politics

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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0:00.0

Well, to quote the great philosopher, Eminem, guess he's back, back again.

0:05.1

The office of President of the United States.

0:07.8

The Office of President of the United States.

0:10.8

Donald Trump, man of the people, courageous fire against the elites.

0:14.2

That's why he presents himself, of course, and his followers.

0:17.1

Pesky facts like him being a billionaire, the son of a millionaire.

0:23.0

Alas has not managed to sink that narrative.

0:29.3

Today was his big day, the inauguration, attending with pride of place, of course, the richest men on earth.

0:34.4

Not just the richest men on earth now, but the richest men in the history of our species.

0:42.3

Elon Musk worth $434 billion. Jeff Bezos worth nearly $240 billion.

0:50.5

Mark Zuckerberg worth $212 billion. So now, Pichai, the Google CEO, is only just a billionaire.

0:56.2

So he was the relative pauper on show, just to show, you know, he wasn't just in the pockets of the very rich, got ordinary folk, like only just billionaires.

1:02.6

There was also Miriam Adelson, an Israeli-American billionaire who donated $100 million to Donald

1:08.5

Trump's campaign, described by Itai Abstein, an Israeli expert in

1:12.8

international humanitarian law, as follows. Widow of gambling profiteer, Sheldon Adelson,

1:18.0

a key donor to the Trump campaign and rabid supporter of Israel's annexation of occupied

1:23.3

Palestinian territory and the subjugation of Palestinians. Very little else needs to be said.

1:29.6

Their presence, of course, matters because it's these billionaires Trump will fight for.

1:33.4

They expose what so-called right-wing populism is about, pretending to fight for the little guy,

1:38.5

but instead standing for plutocrats who want to crush the little guy.

1:42.7

It's a US rigged in favor of plutocrats like this,

1:45.4

which of course has plunged the country into crisis,

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