Trump Is More Like a Court Jester Than a King

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President Donald Trump’s attempts to stylize himself as America’s king fell flat for host Danielle Moodie on the latest episode of The New Abnormal, after the president dropped a New York City law that saw the White House post a fake Time magazine in his honor.

“CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING!” wrote the White House on X.

Trump, however, is “more like a court jester than anything else,” according to Moodie. “It’s as if this president, this man, Donald Trump just stays up at night trying to figure out ways to piss people off.”

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Plus! Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Spencer Ackerman discusses how Elon Musk could harness his access to government databases to establish undue influence over the Department of Defense.

“It’s one thing to be as wealthy as this man is right now, but what this database basically paves the way to do, were you to nefariously get your hands on it, is expand this even beyond like the pharaonic wealth that he’s already possessing,” Ackerman said.. “Because inside this database is anything he could possibly want to know about his competitors that he would be unable to learn otherwise.”

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Then, MacArcthur Genius Cristina Jiménez Moreta of United We Dream, the largest immigrant youth-led organization in the U.S, unpacks the escalating attacks on immigrants under Trump’s second term.

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