Trump’s 2024 Announcement Speech Debunked — His Real Record Against Workers
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
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🗓️ 17 November 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he’s running for president again, despite only delivering a “red trickle” in the midterm elections and losing the presidency by seven million votes in 2020. What was his real record in office?
Brian is joined by Eugene Puryear, an author, activist, and co-host with Rania Khalek of The Freedom Side LIVE, a live video show every Thursday from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. ET on BreakThrough.
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| 0:00.0 | On Tuesday night, Donald Trump announced that he's running for President of the United States for a third time. |
| 0:08.7 | We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome to the Socialist Program. I'm your host, Brian Becker. |
| 0:47.4 | Today we're talking once again with Eugene Per Year from Breakthrough News about the development, |
| 0:53.7 | Donald Trump running for president. Once again, |
| 0:57.2 | Eugene, welcome. Thanks so much for having me, Brian. Really happy that you're here, Eugene, |
| 1:01.7 | because you've been following Donald Trump for a long time. One of the things that stood out, |
| 1:06.7 | I think, in Trump's announcement, we're going to talk a little bit about what he said and what he |
| 1:10.0 | didn't say. He didn't talk about 2020 as a stolen election, for instance. I mean, we'll talk about |
| 1:15.5 | why he sort of avoided that topic, which has been his predominant theme in the last couple years. |
| 1:21.5 | But the thing that jumped out at me, and I know you've paid a lot of attention to this, |
| 1:26.1 | is that Trump was presenting himself as the |
| 1:28.7 | friend of the working man, the friend of the U.S. working class, that he is representative of the |
| 1:34.8 | broad masses of people who go to work every day. But if one thinks about Donald Trump's legacy, |
| 1:40.3 | either as a capitalist real estate developer, a mogul, a so-called billionaire, maybe he is, |
| 1:46.7 | maybe he's not. And his time in the White House, his record shows that he's anything but a friend |
| 1:53.0 | of the working class. So I think it's important because this is Trump's message to talk about |
| 1:57.9 | the real record of Donald Trump. No, and I think it's critically important |
| 2:02.1 | because the mainstream media, I mean, there's so many things we could say that could indict the |
| 2:06.3 | mainstream media in the United States. And I think that from my point of view, this is one of the |
| 2:11.3 | most unbelievable fallacies that the media has allowed to, in fact, you know, grow and in fact |
| 2:16.9 | promoted themselves, |
| 2:17.7 | the idea of Donald Trump is the pro-working-class guy, the Republicans is the working-class party. |
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