What’s Wrong With Donald Trump?

The Ezra Klein Show

New York Times Opinion

Society & Culture, Government, News

4.6 • 11K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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I think there’s an answer. But it’s not age — or, at least, it’s not just age. Mentioned: “White House aides lean on delays and distraction to manage Trump” by Josh Dawsey “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration” by Miles Taylor “What JD Vance Believes” by Ross Douthat Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at [email protected]. You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs. This audio essay for “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by our supervising editor, Claire Gordon. Fact-checking by Jack McCordick. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld, with additional mixing by Aman Sahota. Our supervising editor is Claire Gordon. The show’s production team also includes Annie Galvin, Michelle Harris, Rollin Hu, Elias Isquith and Kristin Lin. Original music by Isaac Jones. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The executive producer of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser.

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0:00.0	From New York Times opinion, this is the Ezra Klein Show. You've probably seen the clip by now.
0:27.0	Donald Trump is holding a town hall.
0:29.4	It's Monday, October 14th in Pennsylvania.
0:32.4	He's being asked softball questions by Christy Nome, the
0:36.0	Republican governor of South Dakota, and there's a medical emergency in the crowd.
0:40.8	The rally stops for a while, they play Ave Maria while the medics respond. Then Trump and Nome begin again.
0:55.0	Then someone else in the crowd needs medical help.
1:00.0	The rally stops again, begins again.
1:03.0	Nome is settling back in to ask questions when Trump announces he's had enough.
1:08.0	Let's not do any more questions.
1:10.0	Let's just listen to music. Let's make it into our music.
1:13.2	Who the hell wants to hear questions, right?
1:18.0	What comes next is something I've never seen before.
1:21.9	Trump swing dreamily to his playlist
1:24.2	in front of a rally full of people.
1:32.2	For nearly 40 minutes.
1:34.0	Memory all alone in the moonlight.
1:42.0	It was like he was DJing his own bar mitzvah.
1:45.0	You can look in these clips at the YMCA
1:51.0	You can look in these clips at the faces of the people around him like Nome.
1:57.0	They really have no idea what to do.
1:59.0	There are suddenly backup dancers in a concert that shouldn't exist. Now part of me finds
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