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An Irishman Abroad

Trump's Week 1 Rampage - Irishman In America

An Irishman Abroad

Jarlath Regan

Society & Culture, News, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture:personal Journals, Personal Journals, Politics

4.8834 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Are you struggling to understand what is happening in America this week? Washington Correspondent Marion McKeone breaks down the executive orders, pardons, name changes and salutes with the help of comedian Jarlath Regan. For a further, deeper look at how Elon Musk’s first week in the White House went, pop over to www.patreon.com/irishmanabroad - Email the show [email protected] or come see Jarlath’s new standup show live and in person www.jigser.com/gigs

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0:00.0

I see Irishman in America with me, Jarleth Regan over here and Marion McKeown over there.

0:07.3

Is it the end of the world as we know it?

0:09.1

Are people overreacting?

0:10.9

There's certainly a lot to get through.

0:12.4

This is an emergency pot.

0:14.1

I'm calling at that anyway because I don't think anybody, Marion, predicted the first 48 hours, 72 hours to be like this, it's almost as if

0:25.9

he thinks he's the emperor now. And the declarations and the things that he's going through

0:33.1

are these are the moves of somebody who thinks, now I'm the boss of absolutely everything and I can

0:38.9

rename and shut down anything I want now. My first question is did you see it being like this?

0:47.4

Yeah, absolutely. And I think anyone who paid attention for 30 seconds to the last clown car of a year, would not be even slightly surprised.

0:58.4

They might be surprised by the incompetence of somebody.

1:02.4

They might be surprised to see him standing at a press conference and saying, how much money

1:07.2

did I make on my latest scam as president, you know, like two days in.

1:12.1

But he's doing what it said on the tin.

1:14.9

He said repeatedly before, when he became president, he would start deportations.

1:19.8

He'd start immigration crackdowns on day one.

1:23.1

He has certainly done that.

1:24.8

He said that he'd start all, you know, like pretty well the stuff about

1:28.4

the, you know, the tariffs, all the crazy stuff. He said he'd do all this. He said that he would

1:32.8

slash remove all diversity, equality and inclusion, every shred of it from the government. He said

1:38.6

he'd fire federal employees. He said he'd go after his enemies. He has done all of these things.

1:43.7

And he said he'd pardon most egregious.

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