Trump Wants To Be King

What A Day

Crooked Media

News, Daily News

4.6 • 12K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In just about two months, President Donald Trump has managed to thoroughly shake U.S. democratic structures to the core. From firing thousands of federal workers and plunging the U.S. into a trade war, to testing the limits of our three supposedly coequal branches of government, it's been a lot to process. And the constant chaos makes it hard to grasp what's actually happening, big picture: Are we watching a wannabe strongman fumble through enacting a policy agenda that will likely prove to be deeply unpopular, or are we actually watching the end of American Democracy as we've known it for roughly the last century. Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a professor at New York University and author of the book 'Strongmen,' explains what history can tell us about our current moment and what we can do about it. And in headlines: Venezuela said it would start accepting deportation flights from the U.S. again, Palestinian health officials said the death toll in Gaza has topped 50,000, and the White House said Second Lady Usha Vance is heading to Greenland… just for fun… scout's honor.

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0:00.0	It's Monday, March 24 it will accept deportees.
0:32.9	And second lady, Usha Vance, is going to Greenland to watch some dog sled.
0:36.5	That's definitely the only reason she's going.
0:38.7	Just for a visit.
0:40.1	For dogs.
0:41.3	But let's start with perhaps the biggest question you might be asking yourself right now.
0:46.1	How bad is all this going to get?
0:48.9	And how scared should I be?
0:51.6	Let's just set the stage here.
0:53.4	Right now, the president of the United States is
0:55.6	screaming on his personal social media website about impeaching judges who rule against him,
1:00.2	while the government is disappearing migrants who may or may not be gang members to a nightmare
1:04.9	prison in El Salvador, and then posting about how funny it is on social media. And the people
1:10.4	closest to this administration all sound like Trump assistant
1:13.4	Sebastian Gorka speaking to Newsmax on Friday.
1:16.5	And there is one person, according to the Constitution,
1:19.7	according to the statutes of the nation,
1:21.3	who has the right to decide who can be in America,
1:25.3	who are the aliens, who are the foreigners who are allowed into the nation
1:28.9	and who we keep out, that individual is the commander-in-chief.
1:33.7	That is both untrue and extremely creepy.
1:37.4	But this is all very, very bad.
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