Ep. 15 - Trump Real Estate w/ Justin Robert Young
Justin Robert Young of The Politics, Politics, Politics, Pod digs into the psychology of Trump and more in this latest episode of The Ground Game
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Inside Trumpworld
has a keen eye for political trends and his finger on the pulse of the electorate. (If you’re already subscribed to his Politics, Politics, Politics Pod, you know this. If not, go sign up!)So we brought him on to talk real estate, global real estate. What to make of all this Trump imperialism talk of late? Canada, Greenland, the Panama Canal? As Justin notes, Trump is post-ideology and all transaction.
(Mexico’s president floated annexing the U.S. after we taped this episode, so we didn’t get to that here.)
We go inside the incoming Trump White House, dissect the power relationships of Trumplandia and expose the pressure points in this latest iteration of America’s dominant political force.
Show notes
Four Downs:
Trump’s distractions - Trump plays legacy media like a fiddle, nobody wants Quebec, the coverage of Trump will be change
Dems dropping their resistance? - Democrats have to change with the playing field, the center and center left are adapting to the second Trump
Zuckerberg’s Truth - Will Lewis of The Washington Post trying to win over Trump diehards, Trump people are not going to read The Washington Post. Some grounded optimism in the journalism industry as Big Tech platforms realize that bots don’t make purchases off ads.
Mike Johnson - Not long for the speakership? He probably lasts at least a year. Johnson is not Kevin McCarthy.
Huddle Up:
What of these Trump distractions? Trump comments should not be breathlessly covered with clickbait hysteria
Trump is a man who made his name by licensing his name and staying in the media
“They are there to set the table for other things that he wants to do … when he talks about Panama, about Greenland, about Canada.”
“I don’t think that we need to fall for the okey-doke … On Px3 I don’t cover the Greenland stuff as though it’s in his Amazon cart”
“We should have been covering the Biden administration as though there were seven different warlords.”
“Trump was free of the ideological underpinnings of the Republican Party”
What do normies who still give a crap about politics actually care about?
The relationship between Elon Musk and Donald Trump
“Bannon needed Trump, Bannon still needs Trump. … Musk in a lot of ways doesn’t. But they have found themselves in a coalition, of which Musk is very important.”
Musk versus Reid Hoffman on the tactics of mega-donors and billionaires
“Of course we’re heading to break-up, the question is when and whether it will be amicable”
“People should open up your mind to the idea that this Trump administration, instead of the 45th is competent”
Why we’re not seeing big behind-the-scenes coverage of Trump anymore
On how much the Susie Wiles control of the Trump campaign translates to the second Trump White House
And more.
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