SNARK & AWE | MAGA is Cringe Again!
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Who are the hosts and guest, and what is this episode about?
Welcome to the second episode of Snark and Awe, a Lemon Media Network original. Longtime Lemonheads know I'm Peter Rothpletz, Don Lemon's head writer. And today we're going to be breaking down Donald Trump's wonderful, beautiful, bigly first 100 days and why the period has Gen Z souring on the president. Joining me today is a very special guest, my good friend, Andrew Zucker. Andrew is a journalist who's written for outlets like The New York Times, Vanity Fair and The Washington Post. He's a contributing editor at Town & Country and the host of the new podcast, The Golden Age. It's great to be here, Peter. Thanks for having me. Of course. Of course. How are you doing, dude?
I'm doing great. I'm so happy that you have this show. It's been a long time coming.
It's been fun. It's quite the experience. Before we get started, I think I want you to talk a little bit about your beat, your specialty as a writer, because it's interesting. Can you introduce yourself to the audience?
Totally. So I am a contributing editor at Town & Country. I host the Golden Age podcast for Politicon. I focus a lot of my reporting on the lifestyles of the rich and famous, wealth porn, succession core.
Now, what is wealth porn?
Wealth porn is what Robin Leach— Is it R-rated?
Is it X-rated?
No, it's a little different than wealth porn without the wealth in front of it. It's about excess, and it's about how the world's most powerful people live and what they use with their power and the people who service their power. And so I've written about everything from how people name their yachts to real estate deals for canceled men like Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein, and the discounts that you can achieve on properties if they're owned by them. I have a really fun beat. I'm really lucky. And I get to write at these amazing places. And increasingly, as we'll talk about, as wealth and wealth culture has intersected with this presidency, a lot of my reporting has focused on politics. And this is an administration unlike any other.
It kind of feels like the cabinet is almost like a C-suite just with the number of billionaires and business executives in there. And there are no shortage of stories.
Well, I'm desperate to know how rich people name their yachts, but we'll have to save that for another day, another conversation. I'll fill you in later. Yeah. Please, please. But to start us off, let's listen to our attorney general earlier this morning at a cabinet meeting.
President, your first 100 days has far exceeded that of any other presidency in this country ever, ever. Never seen anything like it. Thank you.
Never seen anything like it. Pam Bondi, one of a kind.
It's been an eventful 100 days. I don't know where you want to take the conversation.
I just want to start by saying the concept of the 100th day irritates me a bit because it's meaningless. The president has no more or less power on the 101st day than he has on the 100th. But nonetheless, it's entered the media parlance and we have to deal with it. So what do you make of Trump's first 100 days?
Well, I do think the first 100 days are important as a construct because I think there is pressure on presidents to accomplish a lot in the first 100 days. And I think one of the interesting parts of this presidency that hasn't really been talked about a lot is that he's jammed a lot into those 100 days. And I wonder how many issues that have broad support he has left in these next three and a half years. He's focused a lot on 80-20 issues as well as a lot of – that would be policies that 80% of the country loves and 20% absolutely hates as well as a lot of policies that the country absolutely hates just plainly. I think that the first 100 days have been marked by this global trade war that he's introduced.
I think it's been marked by his immigration policies, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and sending people to the gulags in El Salvador. I think a lot of young Americans voted for him for various reasons. Some of them were upset that their language was being policed.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
Who are the hosts and guest, and what is this episode about?
0:13–4:45
2
How does Andrew Zucker describe his journalism beat and wealth porn reporting?
4:45–13:43
3
What happened during Trump's first 100 days and why does Peter call the milestone meaningless?
13:43–28:52
4
What do recent polls reveal about Gen Z's favorability toward Trump?
28:52–34:11
Speakers
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