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Rhiannon12866

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Tue Apr 22, 2025, 07:32 PM Apr 2025

Derek Thompson: 'They voted to make America 2019 again, Trump has made America 2020 again' - Deadline - MSNBC



Steve Liesman, Senior Economics Reporter for CNBC, Derek Thompson, Staff Writer at The Atlantic, and David Jolly, former Republican Congressman from Florida, join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline: White House with reaction to the latest fluctuations in the stock market, and the uncertainty and chaos that Donald Trump has injected into the American economy. - Aired on 04/22/2025.
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Derek Thompson: 'They voted to make America 2019 again, Trump has made America 2020 again' - Deadline - MSNBC (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Apr 2025 OP
That's a priceless clip, he actually called Trump a "megalomaniac" bucolic_frolic Apr 2025 #1

bucolic_frolic

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1. That's a priceless clip, he actually called Trump a "megalomaniac"
Tue Apr 22, 2025, 08:02 PM
Apr 2025

and Professor Steve had this Mona Lisa like smirk of agreement the whole time.

The wheels are coming off everything right now. People are beginning to see how the political, economic, and financial underpinnings of their lives - stable currency, predictable future, safety net, affordable insurance and food, belief in the future, government services - weather forecasts, disaster relief - are all melting down, an amorphous dissolution of their very existence. I assess risk, from socks to finances, locale to food quality, and it's difficult to tease out the path forward.

Bookmarked, these guys are real wordsmiths and the pace was 4-4 tempo or better.

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