The Self-Inflicted White House Wounds

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🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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COMMENTARY contributing editor Bret Stephens joins us to discuss his New York Times column, "The Face-Plant President," as we consider Donald Trump's decline in the polls and the significant fact that it all seems to come from his own actions on matters no one seemed to have been looking for—like the tariffs. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome for the best.
0:09.0	Expect the worst.
0:11.0	Some drink and pain, some die of thirst, the way of knowing which way it's going,
0:19.0	hope for the best, expect the worst.
0:22.4	Oh, for the best.
0:24.5	Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast.
0:27.2	Today is Thursday, April 24th, 2025.
0:30.8	I'm John Podhortz, the editor of Commentary Magazine.
0:33.2	With me, as always, Executive Editor Ape Greenwald.
0:35.5	Hi, Ape.
0:36.2	Hi, John.
0:36.9	Senior editor Seth Vandelle. Hi,pe. Hi, John. Senior editor Seth
0:37.8	Mandel. Hi, Seth. Hi, John. And joining us today, man of many titles, most importantly,
0:44.6	Commentary Magazine, uh, contributing editor, a columnist for the New York Times and the editor
0:50.6	of Sapir and the host of the upcoming Sapir debates at the 92nd Street.
0:58.3	Why, Brett Stevens.
0:59.7	Good to see, John.
1:01.0	Nice to be here.
1:02.2	So, Brett, you have a very provocative column and a very amusing column came at yesterday in the paper in the New York Times called the faceplant presidency.
1:15.7	And I think as we are here on day 94 of the Trump presidency, we have seen this remarkable
1:25.9	combination of an administration coming out of the block, like Secretariat,
1:34.2	charging ahead, getting 31 lengths ahead of every other horse in the Belmont Stakes,
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