The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
Raging Moderates: Trump’s 100 Days of Power Grabs
Tue, 29 Apr 2025 11:16:00 -0000
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Scott and Jessica break down the first 100 days of Trump’s second term — from mass deportations and trade wars to the arrest of judges and shaky Ukraine peace talks. Plus, they dig into the state of the press after a tense White House Correspondents’ Dinner and the rise of MAGA media. Follow Jessica Tarlov, @JessicaTarlov. Follow Prof G, @profgalloway. Follow Raging Moderates, @RagingModeratesPod. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What are the key highlights of Trump's first 100 days?
But she should be, if she's, and you're right about ICE, whether we like it or not, ICE is a federal agency. when they're commanded to uphold the law, vote for a new president. But you have to comply with ICE. At the same time, I also think history is filled with a certain level of civil disobedience. And civil disobedience has played a key role in progress in America.
Now, having said that, if the judge decided to engage in civil disobedience and history might judge her well, she will pay the price. And quite frankly, that's part of the heroism of civil disobedience is I'm going to protest and I'm going to refuse to leave or whatever it is.
I'm going to join hands in front of, you know, I'm going to refuse to whatever it is, not comply with the government's order or to leave my seat that's for whites only. A certain amount of civil disobedience, I think, as long as it's nonviolent, I think people can engage in that.
I don't know if this even qualifies as civil disobedience because I'm not entirely sure she thought she was doing anything that was illegal. But there is something chilling. And again, it goes back to how they're going about this. So speaking of defrocking or someone, and by the way, I keep getting emails from friends of mine who just love this guy. The Pope? Yeah, just love him.
He's pretty inspirational. I'm seeing all these wonderful quotes from him. So overseas, just moments before Pope Francis's funeral at the Vatican, Trump and Zelensky had their first face-to-face since that disastrous White House meeting back in February. Afterward, Trump questioned whether Putin actually wants a peace deal. Zelensky called it a good meeting on social media.
We talked about this a bit last week, but what do you think things are now? And do you think this meeting changed anything?
I think that Trump is such a classic love the one you're with person that it's a good thing that he was with Zelensky, especially because the last time they were together, it went so poorly. Most of that because of the other people in the room and the cameras and everything. The stress of that for Trump and J.D. Vance was obviously poking the bear with the lecture that he was giving him.
But I was genuinely relieved to see the still shot of Trump and Zelensky sitting in those chairs talking to each other. And it feels like good progress from last week where Rubio... And J.D. Vance had a positive comment as well.
But Rubio is meeting with Ukrainian officials and our European allies versus meeting with Russian officials and Mideast partners who are not nearly as invested in a free Ukraine and ending this war without us having to tell the Ukrainians, oh, sorry, no big deal. Did you need 30 percent of your country, 40 percent of your country, whatever it is that Putin's asking for it?
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Chapter 2: How is Trump's approval rating affecting his presidency?
Yeah, and just a quick shout out to all the incredible leadership from our Fortune 500 CEOs, everyone ranging from nobody to absolutely fucking nobody has spoken up against this madness. And you know all these guys wake up and look in the mirror and say, hello, Mr. President. Most of them think they should be in the cabinet. or president themselves.
And leadership is the primary characteristic of who needs to be or who should be president. And leadership is doing the right thing when it's really hard, and none of them are doing anything. They're all doing these backchannel, these conversations, because they're so worried about shareholder value. None of them have stood up.
This is the biggest commercial opportunity in decades would be for someone to stand up and say, this is wrong. Our immigrants are an incredibly important part of our world. Declaring war on our trade allies is just stupid. The way we're going about this is not in line with our American values. And we at Nike or Walmart or Apple,
stand by American values, we're an American company and what's going on here is wrong. You would see a flood of business into that brand because here's the bottom line. The people who are hardcore MAGA don't have a lot of disposable income. When Nike supported Colin Kaepernick, it was genius because two-thirds of their business comes from outside of the US, you don't care about race relations.
And two-thirds of their revenues within the US come from people under the age of 30 who are very progressive. And this is the same opportunity. The first company that comes out against these reckless, cruel actions is going to get a flood. of capital, because the bottom line is the people who are against these policies and this overreach are one thing.
They're consumers, meaning they have extra money to spend. And he has declared war on so many people all at once, he might get angry and threaten to sue Tim Cook or get mad. At the CEO of Nike, he's running out of ammunition to fire in a million different directions. He's literally declared war on every front. On islands made up of penguins.
Biggest consumer brand opportunity in a decade will be for a CEO to come out against all this bullshit. In the positive category, I just want to say, and as evidence of this working, the Marriott CEO who defended DEI got 40,000 emails from associates in support of it. Well, and the Costco CEO. I didn't know about Costco. So there you go. All right. We'll take one quick break and we'll be back.
Donald Trump's been back in office long enough to shock or surprise just about anyone who voted for him at this point, be it the signal scandal or the tariff turnarounds, the Jeanine Pirro of it all, the way he talks about Ozempic. And he takes the fat, the fat shot drug. So rude. I'm in London and I just paid for this damn fat drug I take. I said, it's not working.
On Today Explained, we're asking if any of his voters are experiencing voters remorse, especially those ones who are newer to his winning coalition. Younger voters, black voters, Latin voters. We're heading to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to ask them if regrets. Do they have a few? And just by way of spoiler to get this out of the way, the answer is yes, they do.
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