2/21/25: Pence turns on Trump as simpler explanation surfaces

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🗓️ 21 February 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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-- On the Show:

-- Amy Klobuchar, Democratic US Senator from Minnesota, joins David to discuss the early days of the Trump administration

-- Donald Trump's approval in February of the first year of his term is worse than any other President, other than his own during his first term

-- Finnish writer Mikko Marttinen has a simpler explanation for what is happening with Donald Trump, arguing he's simply not intelligence and declining quickly

-- Former Vice President Mike Pence publicly turns on Donald Trump, attacking him over his claim that Ukraine started the war with Russia

-- Donald Trump signs a terrifying order expanding presidential power

-- What happens when red states, disproportionately the takers of federal funds, run out of money?

-- Piers Morgan links antidepressant SSRI medications to mass shootings in his latest tirade

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the show, everybody.
0:08.5	Probably on Monday, we are going to be looking into an unavoidably obvious trend that is happening,
0:16.0	which is that more Americans are leaving the country and at a faster rate than we have
0:20.5	seen in a really
0:21.3	long time.
0:22.1	And the reason for this is not some vague amorphous or unknowable reason.
0:28.3	It's because of Donald Trump.
0:29.7	And it's because of record low support already for what Donald Trump is doing.
0:35.1	And the reality that's hitting home for many Americans about what a
0:38.2	fiasco this is and is going to continue being.
0:40.9	Now, we've all heard, oh, I'm moving to Canada if X.
0:45.7	Very few people do it, especially because it's hard to move to Canada.
0:50.1	But that doesn't mean you can't go anywhere.
0:52.3	And many Americans can and we're going to talk about that.
0:54.6	But underlying that is new polling, which finds that Americans really do not approve of the job
1:01.4	that Trump is doing.
1:02.5	And they really don't like the initiatives that he is focusing in on so far.
1:07.4	So we're going to link to the poll and you can look through it in detail. But some of the
1:12.5	highlights. First and foremost, Trump approval currently 47%. This is below the February approval
1:22.6	for any other presidency for which we have data other than Trump's own first presidency.
1:30.0	You might recall that in February of the first year of Trump's first term, he had an approval
1:35.2	of 44%.
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