I'm Alex Marlow, editor-in-chief of Brightport News, and this is the Brightport News Daily podcast.

First of all, I hope everyone had a terrific Thanksgiving and got to enjoy family and good food

and a little time, perhaps, away from the news.

But we jump right back into it first with some inflation and Black Friday news and data

before we get into Trump's dinner with the anti-Semite Kanye West and other assorted trolls,

including one of the Internet's most prominent purveyors of racism and Holocaust denial.

Yes, that really happened.

And will Trump fire anyone from his staff for allowing this to happen?

Who knows?

But I will say that if he had dinner with David Duke, let's say, I think it would be pretty outrageous

or let's say Joe Biden had dinner with Louis Farrakhan. That would be seen as outrageous too.

So this really is a big deal. And I share some of my takes and more importantly, the facts

and the news around the story. The big question I asked, though, will this make it more or less likely he's

able to get to 270 electoral votes? And that's the thing that we should all be contemplating.

We also get into riots in China over the draconian coronavirus lockdowns as the virus is spiking.

The authoritarianism is wearing thin in the Chinese people. It's terrific news,

although also somewhat disturbing in some other ways. And we get into Balenciaga, which is a big

fashion designer, and Disney continuing to groom children and much more in the opening.

We speak to Dan Gainer today as our guest. He's a media expert, and he offers commentary on

Trump's Dinner with trolls and he offers commentary on Trump's

dinner with trolls and the advertising Exodus that's taking place from Twitter, and much more

in that interview. Dan's always a very sharp person with great nuance on my favorite topic,

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