Trump’s ‘Populism’ Fraud: Cabinet Stacked for Ultra-Right, Billionaire Agenda
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
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🗓️ 14 November 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Trump is filling key cabinet positions with a range of MAGA diehards. Some are Christian fundamentalists, some are fascistic, some are neocons, but nearly all are ultra-right extremists who want to implement his agenda for the billionaires. Brian and Walter Smolarek analyze his picks to enable us to defend our rights and fight for a better system. This was recorded hours before the announcement of Matt Gaetz and Tulsi Gabbard for Attorney General and National Director of Intelligence.
Brian is joined by Walter Smolarek, editor of Liberation News and a producer of The Socialist Program.
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| 0:00.0 | Donald Trump is filling key cabinet positions. |
| 0:04.0 | He's announced his selection for Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State, for the CIA, |
| 0:10.0 | for the U.S. ambassador to the UN and other positions. |
| 0:14.0 | Today we're going to talk about what to expect from the next Trump White House. |
| 0:19.0 | We need a new system. We need a new system. |
| 0:21.6 | We need a new society. |
| 0:23.6 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only |
| 0:29.6 | realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome to the Socialist Program. I'm your host, Brian Becker. Today we're talking with Walter Smolerick. |
| 1:01.3 | Walter is the editor of LiberationNews.org. Walter, welcome back. |
| 1:06.2 | Thanks very much for having me on the show. Big picture, Walter, how would you characterize the Trump White House? |
| 1:13.2 | Of course, it's not a Trump White House yet. It's still the Biden White House. Biden, by the way, |
| 1:18.9 | met with Trump earlier today. Very cordial meeting. Unlike when Trump was leaving and refused to |
| 1:25.1 | have anything to do with the incoming Biden administration. |
| 1:28.5 | There's Biden and Trump, you know, Biden saying, yeah, we, we want you to succeed. |
| 1:32.6 | Just like Obama said to Trump in 2017, we want you to succeed. |
| 1:37.4 | Very interesting because just weeks ago, the Democrats were saying, if Trump is elected, |
| 1:42.1 | this is an ultimate threat to democracy itself. |
| 1:45.1 | But when you look at the cabinet picks, Walter, one cannot but come to the conclusion that this is a |
| 1:51.3 | very far-right government coming into shape. Perhaps the furthest right government in a hundred years, |
| 1:58.1 | and that would be after the labor movement of the 1930s and the great |
| 2:02.2 | civil rights revolution of the 1950s and 60s, the women's movement, the LGBTQ movement, |
| 2:09.3 | the disabled movement. Anyway, there's a lot at stake right now. How would you characterize |
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