Trump's Cultural Revolution: the dismantling of truth
The News Agents - USA
Global
4.3 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Why is a Texas politician camped out in an undisclosed location, hiding from the FBI, and fearing that democracy is on the line? Jolanda Jones tells us about the extraordinary standoff taking place in her state.
But first - what is Trump doing to crime figures, jobs numbers, museum archives and the Ivy League universities? A common theme is emerging - the President rewriting history like an authoritarian bored and irritated by fact. He’s been firing officials and replacing them with others who’ll massage the numbers in his favouring. He’s been threatening institutions and pressuring them to stump up cash. Is anyone confused by what the goal is here? Is Trump having to resort to make believe in his attempt to Make America Great Again?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA Podcast is brought to you by HSBC, UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.6 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:15.7 | We turn now to a, frankly, jaw-dropping story. |
| 0:18.9 | New reporting on the Smithsonian's National Museum of American |
| 0:22.3 | history. The Trump administration is now taking a look at everything, it appears. He exhibits themselves, |
| 0:28.4 | the text on museum walls, the latest move by the White House to impose the president's view on |
| 0:33.7 | American culture. And some breaking news this afternoon, the White House now confirming the commissioner of the |
| 0:40.6 | Bureau of Labor Statistics has been fired. |
| 0:45.0 | E.J. Anthony's nomination already had critics concerned. The administration might manipulate |
| 0:49.7 | critical economic data to fit the president's agenda. And now he's talking about getting rid of the Bureau's flagship report altogether. |
| 0:57.0 | The DC National Guard have started showing up on city streets here in Washington. |
| 1:03.0 | Trump also took over DC the police department, doing so for 30 days. |
| 1:07.0 | President Trump claims the district is one of the most dangerous cities anywhere in the |
| 1:13.1 | world, despite the fact that police data shows violent crime is actually down. Those are clips |
| 1:18.7 | about the Smithsonian Museum, about the Bureau for Labor Statistics and policing in the capital, |
| 1:26.7 | Washington, D.C. They may seem like disparate stories, |
| 1:30.3 | but they have a common thread running through them. The actions Trump has taken, with all of them |
| 1:36.0 | this week, begs one big question. Is he dismantling truth to make himself the only trustworthy |
| 1:43.9 | narrator of America's history? Welcome to the Newsagents USA. |
| 1:54.5 | It's John in London. And it's Emily. And you are, I think, in France, and you've been attacked. I've been attacked by a rabid dog. No, luckily not by a rabid dog, by a dog. And I have to say, thank you for everyone who has reached out to ask how the leg is doing. The leg is doing as well as I could possibly hope, but there has been no running for a week or so. It was very traumatic. You |
| 2:17.5 | haven't been bitten by a dog? I'm relieved to say. Why did the dog bite you? I just, I mean, |
| 2:23.8 | the question is, do you, if a dog is coming after you, do you stop and talk to it? Or do you |
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