Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal-Chapter 11: Hurricane Trump
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
In Chapter 11, set in November in Tallahassee, fictional Florida, Governor Buck Bryce confidently addresses the press regarding Hurricane Timothy, initially predicted to be a manageable Category 1 storm. However, the hurricane unexpectedly strengthens to a devastating Category 4 upon landfall, causing widespread destruction and significant loss of life. The governor, previously assured by Washington that all preparations were sufficient, is confronted with the reality of inadequate storm forecasting due to recent cuts to federal meteorological services as proposed by Project 2025.
As emergency response efforts falter, Bryce grapples with the new federal policies under Trump that make it difficult to declare emergencies and provide immediate assistance to affected businesses and citizens. The narrative highlights the consequences of disregarding climate science and federal data, resulting in death and destruction
As always, the series author, David Pepper ties the fiction to the facts in Project 2025 and Trump’s own words.
We'd like to thank all the artists who volunteered their time to make this episode:
Mark Ruffalo who read the chapter and others who contributed character voices.
Sound design by Jonathan Moser.
Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal is written by David Pepper and produced by Pepper, Melissa Jo Peltier and Jay Feldman and is a production of Ovington Avenue Productions and The Bill Press Pod.
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| 1:04.7 | Hello, good friends, and welcome back to the Bill Press Pied. As you surely know by now, |
| 1:12.9 | I've been off on a research and writing sabbatical in Europe for the past few weeks, |
| 1:17.2 | and though I'm back next week, we still have two more chapters of our updated Trump's Project |
| 1:22.9 | 2025 up close and personal to go. Today, Chapter 11, Hurricane Trump, our Project |
| 1:30.8 | 2025 plan to gut extreme weather prediction and response programs. That's right. Their |
| 1:37.6 | plan was to break up and privatize those government agencies that track the climate |
| 1:43.3 | and the weather. |
| 1:45.7 | Yeah, what could go wrong? |
| 1:47.2 | Well, they're not completely destroyed yet. |
| 1:50.9 | The day's episode mirrors the recent extreme weather events we saw in California and the Carolinas, |
| 1:56.1 | and imagines what might happen in a world where the science of weather prediction has been replaced by the politics of weather. |
| 2:05.2 | We meet the fictional governor of Florida, Buck Bryce, as he confronts Hurricane Timothy. |
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