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Trumpcast: Biden, Hope, and Vaccines

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🗓️ 25 November 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Virginia Heffernan talks to Andy Slavitt, former Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, about public health and how Joe Biden will handle the pandemic once he’s in office. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

While this team has unmatched experience and accomplishments, they also reflect the idea that we cannot meet these challenges with old thinking and unchanged habits.

0:11.8

For example, we're going to have the first woman lead the

0:15.0

intelligence community, the first Latino, an immigrant, to lead the Department of

0:19.4

Homeland Security and a groundbreaking diplomat at the United Nations.

0:25.0

The Department of Homeland Security has a noble mission to help keep us safe

0:30.0

and to advance our proud history as a country of welcome.

0:34.0

I think it's going to be important to recognize that the confidence that our allies

0:41.1

had and the world had in American leadership is not going to be restored overnight.

0:47.0

Hello and welcome to Trump cast. I'm Virginia Heffernan. Joe Biden has won the election and

0:55.9

Trump has lost both for the 142nd time in a week and this time for first time, Trump well and truly knows that even if he can only talk

1:06.5

in strange tweets about protocols and nevertheless, yes I'm referring to Trump's two tweets on Monday, and I want to focus on that word,

1:16.7

nevertheless.

1:18.7

Trump begins his two-tweet thread by thanking Emily Murphy, the enigmatic Bartleby the Scrivener of the General Services

1:26.0

Administration who you'll remember when confronted with doing her job, that's ascertaining

1:30.9

who the next president will be, be said I'd prefer not to. Well finally on

1:36.2

Monday she said in a sulky letter that she'd petulently push the paper

1:40.4

forward and Biden and Harris could begin their transition and start

1:44.3

getting us out of the dire straits Trump got us in. Anyway, Trump thanked Murphy for

1:49.7

her loyalty to him, I mean our country, and then complained about how besieged she'd been by people

1:56.1

asking her to do her job.

1:58.1

I know I personally got a bounce back when I emailed Emily the Grvener at her government email address,

2:03.8

asking that she sign, so I guess I'm not one of the harassers.

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