Americano: how will Trump change the world? With the FT's Gideon Rachman
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🗓️ 10 January 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Freddy Gray is joined by Gideon Rachman of the Financial Times to discuss what Donald Trump’s revisionist America could mean for the world order. Trump is a sworn enemy of what he calls ‘globalism’, which raises questions about whether America will remain the world’s most powerful country in 2025 and beyond. Gideon has described five ways in which Trump's America First strategy would play out, from a great new power bargain, to war by accident and anarchy in a leaderless world. On the podcast Freddy and Gideon discuss the five possible scenarios, how the Russia-Ukraine war could be resolved, whether Trump’s tariffs are such and bad thing, and if China is the real antagonist.
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| 0:24.1 | Hello. forward slash voucher. Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American politics, |
| 0:31.2 | power and prejudices. It is 2025 and Donald Trump is president once again of the United States. We will, of course, |
| 0:41.3 | be following the moves of the Donald and his second administration very closely. However, |
| 0:47.2 | it won't just be politics for us this year. We'll also talk a lot and cover American culture, |
| 0:53.1 | life and the arts. |
| 0:55.3 | I should also remind you, because my producer Natasha will not let me hear the end of it, |
| 1:00.1 | that we are on Spectator TV. |
| 1:02.9 | So head to our YouTube channel to watch that. |
| 1:07.5 | Today we are going to be talking about how Trump 2.0 might change the world in 2025 and beyond. |
| 1:16.6 | Because on Tuesday, I'm sure many of you will have noticed, Donald Trump gave an extraordinary press conference at Mar-a-Lago, yet another extraordinary press conference at Mar-aa Lago, where he talked, or he reiterated |
| 1:29.3 | his desire to annex Greenland, Canada, to take back control of the Panama Canal, and also threatened |
| 1:39.2 | Hamas that all hell will break loose if its Israeli hostages are not returned before his inauguration. |
| 1:47.8 | All hell must be paid if they don't release the hostages, don't you? |
| 1:51.3 | Do I have to define it for you? |
| 1:52.9 | All hell will break out. |
| 1:54.6 | If those hostages aren't back, I don't want to hurt your negotiation. |
| 1:59.2 | If they're not back by the time I get into office, |
| 2:01.9 | all hell will break out in the Middle East. |
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