Trump's First Week Featuring Journalist Abigail Tracy

The Home Front

Reed Galen

News, Government, Politics, News Commentary

5 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Today, host Reed Galen is joined by journalist Abigail Tracy. They discuss Donald Trump's first week in office, why Democrats need to win races anywhere and everywhere they can, a reminder that Jesse Ventura was our first reality-tv politician, and why some people have no business being elected to represent other human beings. Go to Sez.us and join the social media network for sanity. Now in the iOS and Google Play Stores. Go to JoinTheUnion.us and get involved in the work of rebuilding American democracy. Follow Reed on Linktree. Follow Abby on Twitter and Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	Welcome back to the home front.
0:32.0	I'm your host, Reid Galen.
0:33.8	Today, I'm once again joined by Abigail Tracy, journalist, lady about town, and all around red-blooded and proud American.
0:42.6	Abby, welcome back.
0:44.3	Thank you for having me.
0:45.5	Now, I say that last piece, both seriously and a bit tongue-in-cheek, because we are now, as people are listening to this, we will be just about a week into the new era of American
0:56.4	politics, Trump 2.0. And it has been quite a ride so far. I'm not sure as someone who lists
1:04.5	their occupation on various social handles as friendly neighborhood Cassandra, I'm surprised, but I'm always surprised
1:12.4	by the reaction of people who should not be surprised, whether or not that's our friends in the
1:17.9	pro-democracy movement, senior Democrats, members of the media, you know, any authoritarian
1:24.8	activists or commentators, it always seems that no matter what happens, no matter what he promises to do,
1:31.9	everybody seems surprised by it.
1:37.0	Yeah, I'm a little confused by the fact that there's still this sort of shock and awe
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