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That Trippi Show

"TRUMP'S NUMBERS ARE TANKING. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER."

That Trippi Show

Joe Trippi

News, Government, Politics, News Commentary

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Gavin Newsom is taking the fight to Trump - by being Trumpy on social media. Why Joe thinks it can be really effective - and why Democrats shouldn't get bent out of shape about it. Also: You've probably heard about record numbers of Americans "ashamed" Trump is president - but why is it so much worse for Trump under the hood? Just how bad is the economic situation for Trump and MAGA? Plus, a listener question we've been excited to get to for a while...Track Trump's approval and look at some of the numbers Joe and Alex use every week here: https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:08.4

Hey, everybody, it's Joe Trippy, and welcome back to that Trippy show with my co-host, Alex Sashlo.

1:15.0

This week, and incidentally, Alex wrote this introduction in all caps.

1:21.5

Why?

1:22.3

Because Gavin Newsom would like to thank you for your attention to this matter.

1:26.5

To be fair, I write them always in all caps,

1:28.5

but yeah. Yeah. Okay. Plus, remember that remember that remember that number about how many

1:36.5

Americans are ashamed I've been talking about. It's even worse for Trump than that. And what's

1:41.8

going on with the media landscape these days? I'm excited to get to

1:45.6

this listener question. Alex, where should we get started? Well, I'm going to stay in all caps.

1:50.8

I'm not going to yell the whole episode. But, Joe, it is another week of Gavin Newsom taking on Trump

1:57.0

very visibly. And this time, he's been tweeting in all caps. He's been posting just like Trump. He's been parodying him on Twitter a lot. The thing I want to get to two things, but first, it's weird. A lot of Democrats are like really upset about this. And I don't get it. And like, I know I think Jamie Raskins is now tweeting it, tweeting like this too, which, but like, why is everyone so bent?

2:20.7

Isn't it a good thing?

2:22.0

Yeah, I don't get why anybody's bent about it.

2:24.8

You know, remember how you take on autocrats.

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