Bill Kristol: What a Bunch of Jackasses
5/11/202655 min
While the American people have been paying Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to do his job—like alleviating the high price of gas and air travel—lobbyists have been buying him off with a seven-month-long family road trip. But of course, Trump is also being looked after: His ghastly, 22-foot golden sculpture was unveiled, and Republicans promised a billion taxpayer dollars for what was supposed to be a donor-funded ballroom. Trump needs a little bit of a psychological boost after his apparent defeat in Iran. Plus, Ukraine is gaining ground and Putin sounds like he's winding his war down, Trump has basically ended the post-WWII order, and Tennessee's redistricting was pure racial gerrymandering.
Bill Kristol joins Tim Miller.
show notes
- Monday's "Morning Shots"
- Bill's "Bulwark on Sunday"
- Cathy on Putin's pathetic parade
- Politico's Jonathan Martin on Trump's redistricting
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Tim Miller· Host0:58
[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to the Bulwark Podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller. It is Monday, so we're here with editor-at-large Bill Kristol. And, uh, you know, last week was pretty heavy. Uh, it's pretty heavy. A lot of serious topics, a lot of serious guests. We appreciated all of them. And so I, I have saved a section at the end of the