Whose Kansas Is it Anyway?
Notes from America with Kai Wright
WNYC Studios
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2017
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We left you on November 10th, 2016 what feels like eons ago. |
| 0:08.0 | I Donald John Trump do solemnly swear. |
| 0:11.6 | He won all of it. This is not a Muslim band, it's not a travel band. |
| 0:17.4 | Our press secretary gave alternative facts to that. |
| 0:21.2 | For the first time ever, the Dow Jones closed above 20,000 |
| 0:24.9 | points. Donald Trump has now been president for 100 nerve-wracking days so we |
| 0:30.4 | are back to take stock. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm Kywright and from WNYC Studios this is round two of the United States of Anxiety. |
| 0:42.0 | The Culture Wars. |
| 0:43.0 | Wars. For the next several weeks, we're not going to talk at all here about the |
| 1:06.9 | grind of daily controversies that have filled the past four months. If you're |
| 1:10.9 | like me, you're already reaching exhaustion on that front. We actually |
| 1:14.3 | won't even talk much about Donald Trump. Rather, we want to discuss something Trump |
| 1:18.4 | seems to understand about American politics. Or maybe it's even broader than American politics. Maybe it's even broader than |
| 1:22.8 | American politics. Maybe it's humanity overall. He gets this one |
| 1:27.3 | important thing about us. And the best way I can explain that thing is |
| 1:31.8 | this iconic scene from the Devil Wears Prada. |
| 1:35.0 | Oh, okay, I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. |
| 1:40.0 | It's the one where Miranda Priestley, Merrill Streep's character of course, is annoyed with her new assistant, |
| 1:45.8 | Andy, who thinks she's too good for fashion. Miranda schools her. |
| 1:50.4 | You go to your closet and you select, I don't know that. her. |
| 1:55.0 | She tells Andy the story behind the sweater, |
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