Why Is Trump Trashing The World Order That The U.S. Created? [Preview]
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
The Trump White House has issued another executive order announcing their intention to deploy the U.S. military against the people of the United States. Donald Trump is hell bent on building a new political system inside the United States and across the world.
Brian Becker is joined by Layan Sima Fuleihan, a Palestinian organizer with the Shut It Down for Palestine coalition, a popular educator, the Education Director at The People’s Forum, and an editor at 1804 Books.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Socialist Program. |
| 0:04.0 | This is John Prysner, a producer of this show. |
| 0:07.0 | This is a preview of a patrons-only episode. |
| 0:10.0 | Subscribe at patreon.com slash the Socialist Program to hear the full episode |
| 0:16.0 | to access to all our patrons-only content, including live Q&A seminars with Brian Becker, |
| 0:21.8 | and help keep this show on the air. |
| 0:26.8 | The Trump White House has issued another executive order announcing their intention to deploy |
| 0:32.5 | the U.S. military inside of the United States. Their target, the people of the United States. |
| 0:39.9 | Tom Holman, the head of ICE, implied that the Trump administration intends to follow through |
| 0:44.8 | with the possible arrest of local mayors who provide sanctuary for immigrant families. |
| 0:50.9 | It should be clear to all that Donald Trump is hell-bent on building a new political system inside the United States. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm Leanne Seema Fullahan here with Brian Becker, and this is in the news, a segment of the Socialist Program, a patron's only show. |
| 1:06.7 | Brian, not only is Trump threatening to basically implement martial law, he's already moving to completely ignore the courts who have ruled against him. |
| 1:15.6 | He is at the same time shredding the existing global order that the United States itself had built after World War II. |
| 1:23.5 | Now, on Thursday, people were in the streets all over the country for May Day or International Workers' Day. |
| 1:31.4 | They were protesting in large numbers, the policies of the Trump administration, and as we've talked about before, it's not just the Trump administration's policies. |
| 1:40.3 | Many of these policies were clearly evident during the Democratic Party-held administrations. |
| 1:46.4 | But we have to recognize that Trump is bringing something new, a very extreme element to the table. |
| 1:53.6 | What was noteworthy on Thursday, Brian, was that many of these May Day actions were led by organized labor, |
| 2:00.0 | and they had the character of mass worker protests. |
| 2:03.6 | The working class is starting to stir. |
| 2:06.7 | In Philadelphia, many labor leaders and organizers and community leaders were actually arrested in what was a very significant mass action. |
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