Desi Lydic covers Trump’s 100th day celebrations: inviting ABC News into the White House to misunderstand the Declaration of Independence, grooving to his famous “YMCA” dance, and putting the economy on financial Ozempic.
From the dark halls of Santa Monica to the caves of the Trump administration, Stephen Miller has been working in the shadows as the White House Chief of Staff. From influencing election denial to mass deportations, can Stephen Miller’s vampiric bite kill American democracy?
Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential biographer Jon Meacham joins to discuss the impact of Trump’s presidency on democracy. They talk about biographing imperfect presidents who bent history, the origins of the first 100 days under the Roosevelt administration, Trump’s unprecedented destruction of democratic institutions, and how the partisanship of facts has transformed reality into a reality show.
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