Lost in the sauce: Stories Trump probably hoped you wouldn't notice while he 'flooded the zone'

The Rachel Maddow Show

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🗓️ 19 April 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Did you know Donald Trump plans to eliminate Head Start the preschool program? Did you know he gutted Americorps? Have you heard what he did to the National Weather Service? Rachel Maddow rounds up stories that would be huge news in normal times but may have slipped by unnoticed by many Americans in the shadow of Trump's daily wrecking ball spectacle.

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0:00.0	Happy Friday. It is Friday, at least. Tonight it is April 18th, and that means tonight is the 250-year
0:08.2	anniversary of Paul Revere's famous Midnight Ride to warn that the British troops were coming.
0:16.4	The secret signal went up in the steeple of Old North Church in Boston. The code was planned in advance.
0:22.6	They would hang one lantern in the steeple if the troops were coming by land. They would hang
0:26.6	two lanterns in the steeple if the troops were coming by sea. The signal that Paul Revere saw
0:32.5	was two lanterns. They were coming by sea. They were coming across the Charles River. And
0:37.3	Paul Revere set off on horseback a race to Lexington and Concord to warn everyone, to rouse the militia.
0:47.3	And it was a successful warning. The colonists were ready the next morning at dawn for what became the first battle of the Revolutionary War
0:55.9	to free ourselves from British rule, to free ourselves from a king.
1:02.4	Tonight, Old North Church in Boston, which still stands, they rang their bells at 6 p.m.
1:09.4	Tonight, and churches all over the country rang their bells to
1:12.9	commemorate the start of our revolution. It happened everywhere all over the country tonight at 6.
1:17.7	I was working, prepping the show, and I heard the church down the block from me ringing its
1:23.5	bells. I ran outside and instantly burst into tears because I'm a complete sap. But if you
1:29.3	heard your local church, you heard anybody on street corners, anybody out ringing bells today,
1:35.6	that was why. It's to commemorate the start of the American Revolution, 250 years ago.
1:41.3	When I mentioned this anniversary on last night's show, you might remember we showed
1:46.7	pictures of Old North Church in Boston. What we showed last night, though, when we had those
1:51.7	images of Old North Church, those weren't live shots. We were just showing you the file photos
1:55.7	that we had on hand. I found out after we got off the air last night that while we were doing that segment on the show,
2:02.6	this is actually what at that moment the steeple of Old North Church looked like.
2:08.4	Something was being projected on it as I spoke those words last night on this show about this church.
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