Gary O'Donoghue

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1,144 appearances 20 recordings 4 series first heard Jan 2025 last heard 7 Sep

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Newscast · The King Arrives In The US, But Can He Mend The Special Relationship? · 27 Apr 2026 podcast

I mean, I felt depressed after Butler.

I feel depressed after this.

And I don't, you know, I don't much like kind of going over it as a person, if you know what I mean.

I mean, in the 24 hours after it, we were in complete reporter mode.

And indeed, immediately after it happened, when I was under the table, I was trying to get through to our news desk, which is surprisingly hard, even given that we're a broadcasting organisation, but trying to get through to our news desk to get on air.

So you go into that kind of mode because you don't really want to give yourself the time and space to think about how blooming awful and how depressing it is.

You know, this country tearing itself apart politically.

But yeah, so I don't experience the kind of euphoria that some people feel after being president of these sorts of things.

And some people are kind of euphoric about it, especially if they survive, obviously.

Yeah, we saw a bit of this actually after Butler as well.

People sort of blame trying to turn this around into a kind of Republican Democrat thing.

I mean, interestingly, on the night, on Saturday night, when the president went back to the White House, he said, you know, it's time to resolve our differences.

Well, that's not really what the press secretary has done today.

In fact, the press secretary is meant to be on maternity leave.

She told us on Friday, you know, this is it, I'm done.

But now she's back saying it's too important not to address this and does seem to be kind of politicising it in that way, which I think is a pity.

I think it's a real pity because

You know, there are people on all wings of politics in this country who are prepared to do crazy things.

And given the confluence of those crazy things and the polarization and the fact you can readily lay your hands on high caliber weapons, you know, has turned into a sort of a real kind of horrendous cocktail that means political violence in this country is becoming normalized again.

Yes.

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