WTH: Megyn Kelly On Trump 2.0 and Our New Political Era
What the Hell Is Going On
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4.4 • 633 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump’s first weeks in office have been beyond busy. With a flurry of executive orders and other actions, he is remaking the federal government and American society writ large at lightning speed. In this special WTH episode, Megyn Kelly shares her feelings about Trump 2.0, the direction of the country under his leadership, and how his approach the second time around differs from the first. How is Trump remaking the country in his own image? And how durable will his legacy be once he leaves office?
Megyn Kelly is the founder of Devil May Care Media and hosts The Megyn Kelly Show. She was a journalist at Fox News from 2004 to 2017 and moderated five presidential debates, including the 2015 Republican primary debate. From 2017 to 2018, she worked at NBC News. Kelly has been named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People, and her memoir Settle for More became a #1 New York Times bestseller. Before her media career, she practiced law for nine years.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute. |
| 0:03.0 | If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, review, and share. |
| 0:07.0 | Thanks for listening. Here's our show. |
| 0:08.7 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:10.4 | What's really going on? |
| 0:12.0 | We said, what the hell happened? |
| 0:13.5 | You don't have to know what the hell is on it. |
| 0:15.6 | They see what's going on. |
| 0:16.7 | I don't know what's going on. |
| 0:18.2 | What is going on? |
| 0:19.6 | We must find out what's going on. What is going on? We must find out what is going on. |
| 0:28.8 | Hi, I'm Danielle Pletka. |
| 0:30.4 | I'm Mark Tiesin. |
| 0:31.2 | Welcome to our podcast. |
| 0:32.7 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:35.0 | Mark, what the hell is actually going on today? |
| 0:58.8 | What the hell is going on is we're doing a little bit of a different pod today because, as you've said, normally the premise of this pod is that we figure out an issue where everybody's asking what the hell is going on, and then we go out and found the world's expert on it, and we find out what the hell is going on, and then we argue about it, right? But today we're doing something different. We have Megan Kelly on the pod, and we're talking about Trump 2.0 and Megan Kelly 2.0 because she's got this great podcast. And Megan Kelly made my career. She plucked me out |
| 1:06.5 | of obscurity when I was a young writer at the Washington Post just coming out of the Bush administration |
| 1:10.8 | and put me on her daytime show on Fox News. And then when she got in her prime time show, |
| 1:15.8 | the Kelly File, she pulled me up with her. And I'm just, I owe a lot of my career to her. And as |
| 1:22.2 | you point, I owe a lot of my career to you, too. There you go. So this is really a podcast about gratitude. Exactly. And so I'm, |
| 1:30.7 | and this is the first time I get to interview her. And so I'm just thrilled to have her on the pod. |
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