Not a Great Couple of Days for Trump

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

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🗓️ 25 February 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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The courts are balking, Macron is correcting, the vote on Ukraine was shameful, and appointing a podcaster to be #2 at the FBI is dumb. It's 35 days in; maybe the president needs to start focusing on doing things well? Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.8	Hope for the best.
0:38.3	Expect the worst.
0:41.1	Some drink champagne.
0:43.1	Some die of thirst.
0:45.2	The way of knowing which way it's going.
0:49.2	Hope for the best.
0:50.7	Expect the worst.
0:52.6	Hope for the best. Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast. Today is Tuesday, February 25th, 20205. I'm John Podhor. It's the editor of Commentary Magazine. With me, as always, Executive Editor, Abe Greenwald. Hi, Abe. Hi, John. Social commentary columnist Christine Rosen. Hi, Christine. Hi, Christine. Hi, John. And senior editor Seth Mandel. Hi, Seth. Hi, Seth. Hi, John. Social commentary columnist Christine Rosen. Hi, Christine.
1:11.5	Hi, John.
1:13.2	And senior editor Seth Mandel.
1:13.8	Hi, Seth.
1:14.6	Hi, John.
1:20.3	So I don't think that Donald Trump and Elon Musk had good days yesterday.
1:31.5	Sorry to report that Trump, I think for the first time in ever, was corrected in the Oval Office.
1:34.6	He was corrected by French President Emmanuel Macron.
1:40.1	He said, look, Ukraine is getting all this money from Europe in the form of loans. And Macron said, no, no, it's not.
1:43.6	We're paying.
1:45.7	So it makes you then wonder if people are pouring nonsense into Trump's ear, like, no, no, no, Europe's not giving them any money.
1:54.5	They're just loaning the money.
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