This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.

I'm your host, Greg Sargent.

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump offered some of his widest ranging remarks to reporters yet, and the proceedings really went off the rails. He raged at one journalist for

questioning his corrupt acceptance of a luxury jet from Qatar. He raged at one journalist for questioning his corrupt acceptance of a

luxury jet from Qatar. He lost his temper when asked why his administration is resettling white

Afrikaners but no other refugees. And he tried to humiliate the president of South Africa by

thumbing through printouts of news articles of deaths of white South Africans,

but couldn't even defend his lie that there's a white genocide happening there.

We think the scene captured something essential about this moment.

The corruption and the white nationalism.

Those are two things Trump openly promised he would do during the campaign, and he's now doing both of them.

The longtime labor strategist Michael Podhorzer has a good new piece on his substack, weekend reading, arguing that the polling evidence is now clear.

Trump won in 2024 because voters either didn't know what he was promising to do or didn't

believe those promises.

So we're talking about all this today.

Good to have you on, Michael.

It's great to see you again.

So Trump met with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House Wednesday

and journalists were in attendance.

Let's start here.

Trump was asked about the news that the

administration will accept a $400 million luxury jet from Qatar, but Trump wanted to talk about the

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