Why Is Trump Fed Up?

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News, Politics, News Commentary

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🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Chris Stirewalt joins us to today to discuss how good economic numbers suggest the Fed's behavior over the past year has been pretty effective—so why is Trump so obsessed with turning it upside down. And we take note of the horrifying op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on how "American studies" is really "anti-American studies." Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:42.3	Some die of first.
0:44.3	The way of knowing which way it's going.
0:48.3	Hope for the best.
0:50.3	Expect the worst.
0:52.3	Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast. Today is Friday, January 3rd, 26. I'm John Podhor. It's the editor of Commentary Magazine. With me, as always, senior editor Seth Mandel. Hi, Seth. Hi, John. Washington Free Beacon Editor Eliana Johnson. Hi, Eliana.
1:09.4	Hi, John. And joining us today, Eliana's old podcast co-host. And when I say old, I don't
1:15.1	I mean, oh, I mean a former. Both can be true. Although you are not old. You are a young man
1:21.5	and the host of the Hill on Sunday and a columnist for the Hill and a columnist for the dispatch, it is Chris Starwalt.
1:30.3	Chris, welcome back to the commentary podcast.
1:33.3	Happy Snowmageddon Eve.
1:35.3	Yes.
1:35.8	Brother and sister.
1:37.0	The amount of conversation that one is now obliged to have about the weather before weather happens,
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