Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American politics and now the Joe Biden presidency.

We will be looking at how a 78-year-old president will change America, and we'll be asking if normalcy,

which is what he promised to bring, has returned to American politics. The answer, of course,

is no. I'm joined today by Kate Andrews, who is economics correspondent here at the spectator.

And we're going to be asking, what was the point in impeaching Donald Trump once again?

Now, Kate, Donald Trump's having a bad week.

He's been impeached again.

And I've just read that McCauley Culkin now wants him to be removed from Home Alone too.

Wow.

That is an escalation of the bad way.

I think actually might be a bigger blow to Trump's ego.

I don't think I'm exaggerating.

That might be a bigger blow to Trump's ego than a second impeachment,

which he might sort of almost wear as a badge of pride.

I don't think you're exaggerating either in the sense that Donald Trump has spent a career trying to propel himself into the media.

And he used his success as a businessman and his real estate to get himself into Home Alone to, into sex in the city.

It's incredible the references to Donald Trump in pop culture if you go back a few decades.

So I don't think you're wrong, Freddie, to say that that will actually upset him quite a lot.

Of course, what's deeply upset the American people is how he acted at a rally last week,

which many believe was an incitement of violence on the Capitol.

Brilliant pivot.

Thank you, Freddie.

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