Watching for a Backtrack

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

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🗓️ 2 March 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Today on The Gist, a unified theory of Donald Trump. Plus, Trump dragged his fellow Republicans and made his Democrats grin like Cheshire cats at the televised meeting on gun control. What are the chances that the White House lets Trump's comments stand? Mike talks to Slate politics writer Jim Newell. In the Spiel, the president has a lot of retrograde ideas that suit him. Here's one that doesn't: steel tariffs. One more thing: Please fill out the Slate podcast survey at slate.com/podcastsurvey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit materials.
0:07.3	It's Thursday March 1st, 2018 from Slate.
0:10.0	It's the gist, I'm Mike Pesca.
0:12.7	Back once more to the organizing principle of the Trump White House.
0:17.9	So much confusion.
0:19.3	Why does Trump do what he does?
0:21.4	Lots of theories.
0:22.7	Is it ego?
0:23.9	Is it anger?
0:25.1	Is it self-aggrandizement?
0:27.0	Yes, yes, it is.
0:27.7	But I have a unified theory.
0:29.4	Trump is not a complex man.
0:31.4	So let us look at the through line.
0:33.8	Let us look at all of Trump's actions
0:36.1	and see how they adhere to this explanation.
0:38.3	You ready?
0:39.2	He's there to make money.
0:40.8	Yeah, sure, the ego, sure, the vanquishing, the enemies.
0:44.2	But to me, the consistent aspect of Trump's life,
0:47.2	how he operates, how the White House staff around him operates,
0:51.5	is not of a dictator or a strong man or a populist or a blowhard or a conservative
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