Hello and welcome to The Spectator podcast. I'm Lara Prendergast and on this week's episode

we'll be discussing President Trump's arrival on the world stage. We'll also be looking at the

problem of medicating adult ADHD sufferers and finally we'll be speaking about virtual reality

headsets and whether they're about to change the way we think and work.

In this week's cover story, Professor Andrew Basevic looks ahead to Trump's presidency and suggests that we are in for a very wild ride.

On foreign policy, Trump will either win big or destroy decades of American doctrine.

He joins me now, along with our deputy editor, Freddie Gray,

to discuss what will happen when Trump takes charge. So, Andy, you mentioned that Trump's uniquely

unpredictable. Is there anything we can predict at this stage? Well, I think that he'll probably

use the first person singular pronoun more frequently than any president that we've had in the last century or so.

Presidents tend to speak in the first person plural, you know, we, but not Trump.

It's all about him.

And Freddie, in Andrew's piece, he suggests that Trump isn't really committed to globalism.

How is that going to pan out?

Well, I think it'd be very interesting to see.

I think that in a sense he's a continuation of Obama, as Andy says in his excellent piece,

in that the sort of idea of American leadership in the world is on the retreat in America.

But in other ways, he's obviously very different.

I mean, he's a sort of negative Obama, and I don't necessarily mean negative in a negative way.

Whereas Obama was about sort of global healing and and I don't necessarily mean negative in a negative way. Whereas Obama was

about sort of global healing and bringing the world together, Trump is purely, is a businessman first

and foremost, and he'll just look at America's national interests, much as a businessman would

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