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The ReidOut with Joy Reid

Trump's embarrassing Cabinet picks pile up

The ReidOut with Joy Reid

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🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The ReidOut, Pete Hegseth and his mother continue their apparent PR campaign while Donald Trump fills his administration with billionaires, celebrities, and loyalists, raising questions about their qualifications. Meanwhile, Trump's Cabinet picks are making Vladimir Putin very happy, reflecting the alignment of their interests. Additionally, the conservative Supreme Court justices are echoing right-wing talking points in a major trans rights case, leaving little doubt about the direction of their upcoming decision. Listen now to this edition of The ReidOut with Joy Reid.

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0:00.0

Tonight on the readout.

0:05.0

We really believe that he is not that man he was seven years ago.

0:10.0

Let's go back seven years, which if we all went back seven years, we would see that maybe

0:16.0

we were not the people we are today.

0:18.0

I mean, and that was seven years ago. He's redeemed, forgiven, changed.

0:24.2

I think we all are after seven years.

0:26.9

Get to know him, not the Pete from seven years ago.

0:30.7

How many years we're talking about, ma'am?

0:32.4

You know, I mean, who is the same person they were way, way, way back in 2018.

0:38.0

But as Pete Hankseth and his mom keep up their PR campaign,

0:41.9

Trump continues to fill his administration with billionaires, celebrities, and loyalists.

0:46.9

Also tonight, if Putin's happy, Trump's happy.

0:49.8

And Trump's cabinet choices have made Vladimir Putin very, very happy.

0:56.1

Plus, the conservative Supreme Court justices at the right-wing talking points

0:59.8

in a major trans rights case with little doubt as to how that decision will go.

1:08.9

But we begin tonight with The Apprentice, White House Edition.

1:13.1

Now, people who watched the show The Apprentice and became enamored by Donald Trump because of it

1:18.1

just assumed that he was the one in charge.

1:21.4

But that is not actually how it worked.

1:24.6

The professionals, producers behind the scenes, called the shots, and Trump had just

1:29.4

one job to strut into that conference room set built by the apprentice team in Trump Tower

1:35.0

and say this. Tammy, you got in the way of your team and your disloyalty has been just terrible

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