S2 Ep1022: Stephanie Ruhle: Only Trump Is Happy

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 8.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Manufacturing orders are down, stocks are down, and mortgage rates are up. But Trump and his family are wealthier than they've ever been. He's got his Ponzi-like crypto scheme, his meme coin, and a boatload of big money types showing up at Mar-a-Lago trying to curry favors from him for some cold, hard cash. Meanwhile, Trump is play-acting like he has a strong hand, but he's begging China to make a deal. Plus, the administration is defunding science and our world-renowned medical centers to buy crypto. And the Abrego Garcia kidnapping and imprisonment has touched a nerve in surprising ways.

Stephanie Ruhle joins Tim Miller.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Bullwark podcast.
0:10.2	I'm your host Tim Miller.
0:11.4	Quick scheduling note.
0:12.7	We're digging in again on the economy and wall streets.
0:15.2	Fuck around and find out moment on this pod today.
0:17.8	Tomorrow we're pivoting to legal issues in Ukraine.
0:20.8	If you're looking for fascism, watch,
0:22.9	a little politics talk, it's Wednesday. So Sarah JVL and I break that threat assessment down on the
0:30.1	next level podcast. Go subscribe to that. But on today's show, she's already making me giggle.
0:34.7	She's the host of the 11th hour on MSNBC.
0:40.2	She also is a senior business correspondent for NBC News.
0:45.9	She was formerly managing director at Deutsche Bank, and she's doing I Dream of Jeannie dance moves right now.
0:47.1	It's Stephanie Ruhl.
0:47.9	What is up, girl?
0:49.0	Is that right? Hey, hi, hey.
0:49.8	Yeah, all of those things are right, but today I'm just psyched to be here with you. Mia Wallace, Pulp Fiction, or I Dream of Jeannie? What was the dance move there?
0:58.4	Just a little bit of me this morning. Just find and enjoy wherever we can. p.m. to midnight, which is a struggle for me. It's on central time, but she's doing it on Eastern
1:11.3	time. And then she was on the Today Show. What were you doing, giving people,
1:15.1	I was talking about summer ahead, summer travel tips. And, you know, it's so funny, even in sort of
1:20.0	like the most basic safe place that you're talking, people are looking at the tariff situation.
1:24.6	They're looking at the international situation and they're worried
1:27.9	and they should be. I saw an article right now that 900,000 fewer Canadians came across the border
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