I covered Brexit before I covered Trump.

I know it's kind of weird.

I was living in Brussels, but I was around sort of real courts and real, like,

I gone to the actual Versailles and I had seen places that had this opulence of like the old world.

And I felt, I never felt more culture shock when I showed up at Mar-a-Lago after he won.

And I was like, oh my God, what is this tacky place I'm in right now?

Welcome to this edition of The Warning Podcast.

Very happy to be joined by Tara Palmieri, the political reporter at Puck News, which is the first

thing I read every day.

I think it's a great publication.

Everybody who hears my voice ought to subscribe to it.

Probably the most insightful thing that you can read about the nexus of all of the points of influence that

direct America's culture.

And from America's culture downriver of that is where our politics can be found out.

And I think one of the most astute and very best chroniclers of it in this very tumultuous era

is the person that I'm very privileged to have with me today, Tara Palmeri.

Great to have you. Thanks, Steve.

It's very high praise coming from you, so I'm really happy to be on your show.

You bet.

So listen, you wrote an amazing account of life in the nation's capital in Washington, D.C.

And I want to talk about that, but before I do, I just want to contextualize something that I

think you get and you're able to bring to life better than almost anyone out there writing.

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