Waltz bounced, Trump’s 100 days, Dems eye 2028
Post Reports
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🗓️ 1 May 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
President Donald Trump’s second term started with a record-breaking pace of executive actions. Today, senior political reporter Aaron Blake talks with White House reporter Natalie Allison and national reporter Maeve Reston about Trump’s 100-day record and how the American public feels about some of his signature actions so far. They also discuss Trump’s decision to switch out national security adviser Michael Waltz, and some early and very different recent maneuvers from some ambitious Democrats who could lead the party into the 2028 election – including Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Today’s show was produced and mixed by Ted Muldoon. It was edited by Laura Benshoff.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, we're starting the show today with some news that broke after we recorded our show on Thursday morning. |
| 0:09.1 | The Washington Post has confirmed that President Donald Trump plans to replace his national security |
| 0:13.9 | advisor, Michael Waltz. It's the first high-profile departure of a top Trump appointee, and it comes |
| 0:19.8 | just after Trump's 100th day in office. |
| 0:23.0 | Trump then announced on social media that he plans to nominate Waltz as the next ambassador |
| 0:27.4 | to the United Nations. Secretary of State Marco Rubio would serve as National Security Advisor |
| 0:32.6 | in Waltz's place. You might recall that Waltz was the official who in March added the Atlantic's editor-in-chief |
| 0:38.8 | Jeffrey Goldberg to an unclassified group chat that contained attack plans in Yemen, the scandal that |
| 0:44.5 | became known as Signalgate. More revelations about the administration's casual approach to |
| 0:49.8 | information security soon followed. Waltz has also been at the center of disagreements in the MAGA |
| 0:55.3 | movement, given his hawkish politics don't neatly align with MAGA's isolationist elements. So becoming |
| 1:01.3 | UN ambassador would mean he would still play a significant role in Trump's foreign policy. |
| 1:06.5 | It would also mean that Waltz would face a Senate confirmation hearing where he could be questioned under oath about the signal controversy. |
| 1:13.5 | All right, with that news out of the way, let's get to the show. |
| 1:19.7 | From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports. |
| 1:27.7 | I'm Aaron Blake, senior politics reporter and host of our weekly politics roundtables. |
| 1:33.0 | It's Thursday, May 1st. |
| 1:35.4 | I'm joined this week by White House reporter Natalie Allison. |
| 1:38.3 | Hey, Natalie. |
| 1:39.1 | Hi, Erin. |
| 1:40.1 | And also joining us all the way from the West Coast is national political reporter, Maeve Reston. |
| 1:45.2 | Hey, Maeve. |
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