The Trump Effect
Last Week on The Michele Tafoya Podcast...
Are You Ready For Some Football?!
As I write this week’s newsletter I am watching the Divisional Playoffs. This is my favorite weekend of the NFL season.
Anticipation is also building for the dawn of a new era: a return to the White House by Donald J. Trump. And, for the first time in years, I am honestly excited and optimistic about our country’s fortunes.
We can already see evidence that people are responding to Trump in a way that is different from his first term.
For example:
Charlamagne Tha God, a “friend” to Kamala Harris, said this week that he "never called Donald Trump a fascist based off anything I heard from Democrats. I said that because of the things I heard come out of Donald Trump's mouth. Right. But guess what? I don't even know if I believe it anymore," adding, "But only because of how they're, only because of how they're acting. I'm like, well, God, maybe it ain't that much of a threat."
When asked if he was surprised that Trump won the November election, J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon told 60 Minutes, "No… People wanted kind of more pro-growth and pro-business policies; they didn't want to be lectured to on social policies continuously. I think it's the lecturing part of it—the social superiority, it's the 'My way or the highway.' I traveled around the country. I felt it wherever I went."
DEI departments are dropping like flies. Tech titans who once banned Trump from their platforms are donating to the inauguration. Even Democrat Senator John Fetterman made a trip to Mar A Lago.
Trump has assembled a star-studded cabinet. And Republicans hold the House and Senate. The next one hundred days are going to be a whirlwind.
Meanwhile, we had a star-studded week on the podcast.
Will China Eat Trump’s Lunch?
TikTok, Taiwan, and Trump. Michael Sobolik, Senior Fellow at The Hudson Institute and author of “Countering China’s Great Game,” discusses how the new Trump administration will deal with the escalating threat that is China.
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The Los Angeles Fires: Are Smelt More Important than Humans?
If California Governor Gavin Newsom sincerely believes climate change is an existential threat, why wasn’t his state better prepared to combat a fire he claims was started by climate change? Daniel Turner of PowerTheFuture.com joins Michele to talk about where green initiatives have undermined public safety. We ask the question, “Is smelt more important than human lives?”
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A Red Wave… in California?
Can California Governor Gavin Newsom be successfully recalled? What about Los Angeles Mayor, Karen Bass? Ask the residents of Huntington Beach, who recently voted in an entirely Republican City Council. How did that happen? What does that development suggest about one of the most liberal (illiberal) states in America? Huntington Beach Mayor Pat Burns and Mayor Pro Tem Casey McKeon are not afraid of Governor Newsom. And they are fighting to “get California back.”
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