Can America Recover From The Trump Presidency?

Inside the Hive

Vanity Fair

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4.2 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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This week, Hive special correspondent Gabe Sherman, who has covered Donald Trump since 2015, joins cohost Joe Hagan for an in-depth discussion of the final days of the 2020 election and - possibly - the Trump era. Sherman and Hagan look past the polls to discern the narrative logic of Trump’s reality-TV presidency: As he runs out of storylines and ideas, the President of “scandal, chaos and conflict" has been bested by his biggest political competitor of the 2020 campaign: the coronavirus. Desperate to distract the public from the reality of mass death and joblessness, Trump has failed to live up to his own entertainment credo: “He’s become boring,” says Sherman. Carefully peeking past November 3rd, the two Hive reporters consider what comes next for Trump, for the media, and, more importantly, for an exhausted nation — is it possible to return to political normalcy, even under Joe Biden? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0	Welcome to Inside the Hive. This is Joe Hagen. We have a little plot to us this week.
0:38.8	Emily Jane Fox is not with us this week. in her stead we have
0:43.6	Gabe Sherman special correspondent for Vanity Fair. Hi,
0:47.3	Hi, Gabe. Hi Joe.
0:48.3	I'm glad to have you here. I just want to, you know, sing your praises off the bat that you are
0:55.0	are really, you know, the essential reporter at Vanity Fair's the Hive because you have been on the White House beat
1:06.2	really since Trump entered office and have followed it more closely and are more well sourced than many reporters in America, frankly,
1:16.0	and you're really wired into what's going on and that's why I wanted to have you this week.
1:20.0	So, you know, I both admire and feel sorry for you.
1:27.8	Having had to, you know, be strapped in to this kind of toxic sludge of a presidency. But here we are two weeks,
1:41.3	less than two weeks until the election.
1:44.0	And it feels like we've been living this presidency
1:50.0	and the news of this presidency, really for maybe 10 years.
1:55.0	Well I was just going to say Joe, you know, we, you and I go way back, you know,
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