Trump’s Online Meltdown: Method or Madness?
6/1/202644 min
Is there more to Trump’s recent online posting spree than meets the eye? Should he be worried about the rise of the ‘YOLO Republican’? And, who will come out on top in California’s jungle primary?
Join Katty Kay and Anthony Scaramucci as they answer all these questions and more.
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First 90 secondsKatty Kay· Host0:01
[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to The Rest is Politics US with me, Katie Kay, in a beautifully sunny Washington in which anyone living here, Anthony, ought to be calm and zen and in control because the city looks so lovely at the moment, and we haven't hit the horrible humidity of summer. Just like President Trump is right now. Calm and zen, Anthony.
Anthony Scaramucci· Host0:32
I mean, this is probably as calm and as zen as he gets, like, 100 tweets a night from, you know, [laughs] 11:00 PM to 3 o'clock in the morning.
Katty Kay· Host0:40
I was sleeping then.
Anthony Scaramucci· Host0:42
On one Monday, and this is a few weeks back, he posted 160 times between 7:00 PM and midnight.
Katty Kay· Host0:50
Yeah.
Anthony Scaramucci· Host0:51
I don't know what we're gonna talk about, but I do wanna talk, I do wanna talk about that, and the fact that he's getting snubbed around by the- Yes ... judges, and he's a big crybaby.
Katty Kay· Host1:01
Well.
Anthony Scaramucci· Host1:01
Wah, wah, I'll, I'm, I'm giving up on the Kennedy Center, wah, wah. Tell us what we're talking about, girl.
Katty Kay· Host1:07
You've hit the nail on the head. We're gonna talk about that, uh, the crazy tweeting over the weekend, and this idea that, you know, he's getting nos from a lot of people at the moment. Uh, and as he does so, he clearly is not very happy about it, and he takes it all out on Truth Social, which does not make for a very calm and zen weekend emanating from the White House. In the second half of the show, we're gonna talk about, uh,