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We have accomplished more in 43 days than most administrations accomplished in four years or eight years.

And we are just getting started.

It is hard to escape the feeling, Nick, is it not, that Donald Trump's second term, he's, I mean, this is a guy nearly 80 years old, he feels like a man in a hurry, and he wants his second term to be more consequential than his first.

What we heard there was the speech he gave the longest ever given by a president to Congress, nearly an hour and 40 minutes,

and it followed a dizzying first few weeks, which has seen him completely rewrite US foreign policy

and crucially, which we're going to focus on today, rewrite US domestic policy too.

That's right. He's talking about a golden age of America. It doesn't really do modesty, does he?

It's not a big part of his feature.

But to be fair to Donald Trump, love him or loathe him, he has done an enormous amount in the

United States for good or ill that we want to analyze today. Because while the world's eyes are

particularly on what he's been saying about the world, about Gaza, about Ukraine.

Back at home, people are looking to what he's doing to federal government,

to the system of democracy in the United States,

with his cheerleaders, and you heard them cheer there, didn't you?

Think he's transforming their nation.

And with the critics who you hear rather more softly muttering that this isn't democracy as they knew it certainly and

we're going to be speaking to a man who's written a wonderful and important book about Donald Trump

in his first term Brian class who writes for the Atlantic,

professor in global politics at University College London, and I've got a feeling

Nick, we're going to leave this episode

with a sense that, again, we are living through

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