Episode 4821: Trump Flooding The Zone And Breaking The Media

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How is the Trump administration controlling the media narrative?

Unknown 0:00

Are they controlling the message, though?

Steve Bannon 0:01

So far, they have been.

Unknown 0:02

They've used the bully pulpit of the White House, the president himself. I was told by White House advisors yesterday that a clue as to how they're feeling about things, they feel like they're winning the messaging argument, is the fact that J.D. Vance showed up in the White House briefing room yesterday, the first time he's done that, sort of a swaggering appearance suggesting Democrats, Democrats, Democrats are the ones to blame. He didn't stick to the facts all the time in that appearance, but that's the messaging. And Democrats are still trying to they're on their back heels. The White House feels Donald Trump is governing like the dictator of America. Right. He promised to be a dictator on day one.

What implications does Trump's governance style have for democracy?

Unknown 0:39

His words, he's compared himself to America's king, even to the pope. The goal of the second term, quite clearly, is not hiding. This is to assert complete control over every aspect of the federal government. He wants to directly control who gets fired and hired across the entire government and even civil society from Fed directors to talk show hosts. He wants to directly control who gets indicted, most recently with the ridiculous prosecution of James Comey. He says right now the position of the Trump administration and Donald Trump is that he by himself unilaterally can raise taxes on the American people by a trillion dollars. entirely by executive fiat just by being like yeah yeah taxes up he says he can rescind or reallocate any congressionally appropriate funds basically at any time entirely by executive fiat oh there's a bill to spend stuff there no we're not going to do it okay but think about that but now it's the democrats who are in the driver's seat when it comes to shutting down the government that is a pretty tough sell

Unknown 1:44

especially considering Trump is using the shutdown to, drumroll, govern like a king. In the first Trump term, you know, I think Donald Trump's been unstable and, Maya's right, unhinged for a long time. But in the first Trump term, there were people who, and we heard reports of this, people who kind of made a pact to say, look, none of us are going to let this guy go unsupervised.

How are Democrats responding to Trump's messaging strategies?

Unknown 2:09

It's a dangerous world. We can't, you know, afford... The kind of thing that could happen if he flies off the handle and there's nobody there to stop him. The people around him now don't care. They're either true believers who think that Donald Trump is, you know, on some kind of mission to save America from its own citizens or they're opportunists. You know, just soulless opportunists who just don't care. And that is really the scariest part of all of it, because, you know, the two things when I as I watch that meeting, I had to think that there were people sitting there saying at this moment. And by the way, right now, at this moment, Nicole, as we speak, if the president is doing what he's supposed to be doing, he's carrying a little card about the size of a playing card.

Unknown 2:56

that carries the codes to 1600 strategic nuclear weapons. The president in the next 20 minutes could kill hundreds of millions of people if he if nobody could stop him.

What are the risks of Trump's control over federal appointments?

Unknown 3:07

And we never had to worry much about that until, you know, he started talking about the N-word and moving submarines around and things that I don't think he really understands. But the other is that when he says to these generals and admirals, the enemy from within He may think that's a great rally speech at some MAGA gathering, but to those generals and admirals, what he's saying is your fellow citizens, the people you are sworn to defend and protect. And I think he just doesn't understand that. We're also seeing here Russ Vogt and others in the West Wing potentially seizing this opportunity to finish the mission that Doge began to really clear out what they perceive to be these Democrat deep state loyalists.

Unknown 3:53

This is the moment to gut the government and to keep putting their people in there. Right. And I think that there's no question that health care is a powerful Democratic argument.