Rep. Sarah McBride: Our President's Drunk History Take
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hey, everybody. We have a good one for you today. I was delighted to welcome Sarah McBride to the show for the first time. I got to meet her last year at the Bulwark live event. And she's just so good and thoughtful and do stick around for, I think, a pretty stirring and important event. rant that she gives at the very end of the show. I do want to note one technical thing. We had some gremlins, some internet gremlins this morning that made our fancy audio system that producer Jason navigates to make Everything sounds beautiful and chocolatey in your ears every day. That broke down. So we're using, you know, basement podcast audio equipment today. As such, you know, there are going to be some crackles.
And I apologize for that. And hopefully we'll get that fixed for tomorrow's show. As we were sitting down for the show, Trump was giving an insane speech at Davos. We get into that a little bit. At the top, JBL Sam and Andrew did a full breakdown of that over on the Bulwark Takes feed if you want to check out that as well. Before we get to Sarah, I want to talk about one thing. And – So I feel a little bit like emotional manipulation. And in some ways, I'm kind of – I'm emotionally manipulating myself a little bit because I do think it's important to make sure we are feeling the reality of what is happening in the country right now. And I think back to – At a moment of late in the 2016 campaign, when a friend of mine who was a Republican strategist talked about how he was with me on Trump because his daughters, he's Hispanic, his daughters were getting bullied at school and like called a bunch of names and being like, Trump's going to deport you and blah, blah, blah.
And that really got me at the time. It stuck with me in a lot of ways. One, I got very mad on his behalf. And then later, kind of mad that I was more mad than he was, maybe. But that's for another day. And through the first term, through the first year or two, it was something that I talked about a lot. I felt like I'd make fun of myself and be like, I'm like Maude Flanders over here going, won't somebody think of the children? But it was legit, though, also. This has real ramifications, right? Like, some people just don't believe that politics matters and the president matters. And, okay, that's a point of view. That's not mine. Like, I believe that what the president says matters, that his words matter, and that there is a trickle-down effect through society.
And maybe it doesn't affect everybody, but there are, you know, people out there, young people that are getting radicalized. There are young people out there that are getting bullied. And maybe that radicalizes them in a different way. And there are people that are going to grow up thinking that they don't have opportunity in this world. And, you know, like there will be ripple effects. You know, there'll be a butterfly effect that, you know, that will... impact us years into the future because these kids that are getting picked on and bullied are going to have lower self-esteem or they're going to get angry or they're going to feel like America's out to get them. And who knows what that ends up looking like.
And also, even if it doesn't have a ripple effect, It's just wrong. It's just wrong. Like our kids shouldn't be crying and afraid because of what the president is saying and doing.
What are the key points from Trump's speech at Davos?
So I want to play this clip. I was going around yesterday of a kid coming out of a soccer game. Well, let's just listen to it.
Tell me again what the other player told you during games. So the goalkeeper in futsal, he said some really bad stuff to me and it just made me get really emotional. I barely get emotional in soccer. And this guy told me I'm an illegal immigrant even though I was born in America. He said Trump is going to get me and send me back to where I used to live. I was born in America. I don't live anywhere else. He called me an effing B-word. I just don't get why kids like to say those stuff. It makes me really sad how they just control their power like that.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–3:35
2
What are the key points from Trump's speech at Davos?
3:35–15:41
3
How does Sarah McBride describe the impact of Trump's words on children?
15:41–41:07
4
What insights does Sarah McBride share from her recent CODEL?
41:07–46:08
5
What are the implications of Trump's desire for Greenland?
46:08–50:48
Speakers
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