The four-year tenure of Donald Trump as president has been good for podcasting, whether it continues until 2024 or ends in January 2021. Trump's words and actions have prompted the development of hundreds of podcasts that, in many cases, expose the disparity between Trump's rhetoric and his actual policies.
With its expanding podcast network, Vox has leveraged its popular and critically acclaimed Today Explained podcast brand to release Today Explained: The Trump Years, a special five-part podcast series.
“Today, Explained: The Trump Years” — is a rearview-mirror look on what Donald Trump did during his four years as President of the United States, and what it means for the future of the American political experiment.
“The Trump Years,” hosted by Sean Rameswaram, explores various aspects of the President’s legacy — from healthcare, the coronavirus pandemic, the economy, and immigration to Special counsel Robert Mueller and impeachment — with reporters from across Vox’s network, including Matthew Yglesias and Ezra Klein, as well as New York Magazine’s Rebecca Traister.
The first episode, “Deregulating America,” features senior correspondent Matthew Yglesias is available now.
In the first episode, Yglesias, senior correspondent and author of One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger explains that, "When President Trump entered the White House his administration had a clear goal: erase the last eight years of the Obama administration. Much of the deregulating that has happened in the last four years has not dominated the headlines but it will have a huge impact on the environment and financial systems in this country for years to come.
In the second episode “America First?” Nicole Narea, immigration reporter, and Jenn Williams, senior foreign editor and co-host of Worldly discusses immigration and foreign policy and asks whether the President has indeed kept a lot of his promises. Moreover, the reporters ask if a more broken immigration system and shaken alliances really put “America First?”
In the third episode “Impeached” with Andrew Prokop, senior politics correspondent tries to parse what we've really learned from the Mueller investigation and President’s impeachment trial.
Health care is the topic of the fourth episode “Health of Our Nation” with Dylan Scott, policy reporter and host of Future Perfect. Although President Trump failed to overturn the Affordable Care Act in his first days in office, but what has his administration done to change the health care system in the U.S. and what state is that system in, seven months into a global pandemic?
In the fifth and final episode, “What’s Next?” with Rebecca Traister, writer-at-large for New York and Ezra Klein, Vox founder and editor-at-large, and author of Why We’re Polarized translate the dark forces unleashed by the Trump presidency.
The episode ranges from the Women’s March to the Black Lives Matter movement, economic inequalities to a fractured health care system, a shift in the balance of the U.S.’ judicial branch, policies that separated families and deepening political divide. The episode concludes that the issues illuminated in the last four years didn’t begin when President Trump entered the White House and will continue long after he’s gone. So how does the country move forward?
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