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The Rachel Maddow Show

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🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Plus, House Republicans literally alter time to avoid responsibility for Trump wrecking the economy

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0:00.0	Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour.
0:02.2	Really, really happy to have you here.
0:03.9	Man, there is so much to get to today.
0:07.9	It has been such an incredible news day.
0:09.8	There's so much to get to, and a lot of it is really terrible.
0:14.2	To buoy ourselves for that, to get ourselves ready for that, you want to start with something funny?
0:19.0	Let's just do it.
0:19.6	Let's start with something funny.
0:21.6	Okay. I know there's a lot of terrible things to talk about.
0:23.6	I want to start with something funny from the 80s.
0:26.6	So it's 1987, a real estate developer in New York City named Donald Trump
0:30.6	takes his first trip to Moscow in what is then the Soviet Union.
0:34.6	By all accounts, he kind of falls in love with the place.
0:36.6	He decides he wants to build a love with the place. He decides he
0:37.9	wants to build a hotel there or something. Who knows? Following year, 1988, Donald Trump is back in New York,
0:45.7	and the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, is going to come to New York. He's
0:50.8	coming to New York to participate in the United Nations General Assembly.
0:55.6	And on the occasion of that visit, Mikhail Gorbachev coming to New York City, Donald Trump
0:59.8	decides to invite him over because he's going to be in town.
1:04.2	You know, even though Mikhail Gorbachev is the leader of the Soviet Union and Donald
1:08.6	Trump is real estate guy in New York City, Donald Trump
1:12.0	apparently convinces himself that Mikhail Gorbachev is going to do this. They're going to hang out.
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