A Trump Show - with Dennis Trainor Jr

By Dennis Trainor Jr

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A Trump Show is a podcast exploring justice in the Trump era. Critically acclaimed documentary filmmaker Dennis Trainor Jr offers analysis, commentary, and hosts in-depth interviews with activists, scholars, journalists, artists and others working towards justice either in response to or in the shadow of, the 45th President of the United States—Donald J. Trump—and his administration. New episodes every Wednesday.
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Mr. White Supremacy Goes To...

07.12.2018

The White Supremacists who rampaged through Charlottesville last August are taking their show on the road are coming to Washington DC August 11, to rally outside the White House. No word yet if Donald Trump will come out to spend ...

A Trump Show - with Dennis Trainor Jr episodes:

07.12.2018 Mr. White Supremacy Goes To Washington The White Supremacists who rampaged through Charlottesville last August are taking their show on the road are coming to Washington DC August 11, to rally outside the White House. No word yet if Donald Trump will come out to spend ...
06.27.2018 #Civility for Team Trump? Why Activists Are Telling the Establishment to Shove it Covered on the podcast: How US Foreign Policy helped Create the Immigration Crisis * Arundhati Roy on the “Shelf Life of Power” * That time I was told to prepare to turn my email over to the Senate Foreign Intelligence ...
04.05.2017 Trump-Russia Obsession is Holding Back the Resistance NPR recently ran a story entitled “Trump Embraces One Of Russia's Favorite Propaganda Tactics — Whataboutism” that—even in the eyes of this anti-Trump agitator—reads as is maddeningly simplistic at best and distractingly harmful at worst. The article argues that “this ...
03.29.2017 Donald Trump’s Dead Planet Plan Donald Trump escalates his war on the planet with his “Energy Independence” Executive Order. Trump’s order rolls back President Obama’s Clean Power Plan. Let’s call it the Donald Trump Dead Planet Plan. Diana Best, a Greenpeace energy campaigner who is ...
03.22.2017 Ex-CIA Analyst: I Was Wrong on Russia. FBI Director Comey’s Testimony is Game Changer FBI Director James Comey dropped not one but two bombshells into the public record in his sworn testimony before the House Intelligence Committee on Monday. Specifically, that the FBI has been investigating the Russia attempt to influence the 2016 US ...
03.10.2017 021 EPA Chief Scott Pruitt: Carbon Dioxide Isn’t Contributing To Global Warming In remarks would be stunning coming from the mouth of anyone with a middle school science education—to say nothing of the current head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Pruitt continued his long history of flouting the facts in an interview ...
03.09.2017 020 A Day Without A Woman + TrumpCare Trainwreck A Day Without A Woman introduces “new tactics of activism” for the Resistance. As Linda Sarsour, a co-chairwoman of the event, told the New York Times that the objective was not a full scale general strike. [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/us/a-day-without-a-woman.html ] “The object ...
03.06.2017 019 The Trump-Russia Connection The Trump-Russia Connection Jeff Sessions lies about his meeting with Russians, and Trump’s rage takes him to twitter. Trolling President Obama, Trump claims, with no evidence, that the former President “had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the ...
03.03.2017 018 Will Jeff Sessions Be the 2nd Trump Appointee Forced To Walk the Plank? Jeff Sessions recused himself from investigating any campaign related issues on Thursday. The question remains: Will he survive this scandal of his own making, or will he join Mike Flynn and become the 2nd crackpot appointed by Trump forced to ...
03.01.2017 017 Trump Renews ‘American Spirit’ with Assist from Navy Seal’s Widow Was Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress a tale told by an idiot—full of sound and fury—signifying nothing? Or rather, is it possible that it did signify quite a bit. This is not a dream, or a Shakespearean metaphor, we ...
02.27.2017 016 How Long Before Trump’s Lies Are Accepted as Truth? How Long Before Trump’s Lies Are Accepted as Truth? After White House Bars NYT, CNN & BBC from Press Gaggle, Trump Carpet Bombs Media Speaking at CPAC this weekend, Trump continued to carpet bomb the media, stating “A few days ...
02.24.2017 015 Bannon and Trump’s Plan to Make America White Again episode rundown 1. Trump on deportations: 'It's a military operation' President Donald Trump, meeting with business leaders at the White House on Thursday, described his administration's moves to deport undocumented immigrants as a "military operation," a label that runs counter ...
02.22.2017 014 Chase Iron Eyes on Standing Rock’s Last Stand Chase Iron Eyes on Standing Rock’s Last Stand Wednesday, February 22 2017— Today in North Dakota the last remaining water protectors at Standing Rock face a 2pm deadline to vacate the camp. In a moment, I’ll speak with Standing Rock ...
02.20.2017 013 Sweden Terror Attack, Resistance Recess, and Repeal and Replace—with what? 013 Sweden Terror Attack, Resistance Recess, and Repeal and Replace—with what? Today on a Trump Show: >Sweden Terror! Who is programming Donald Trump’s teleprompter, the ONION? Beyond the invented Sweden Terror attack, Trump continued his commitment to alternative facts at ...
02.17.2017 012 Donald Trump’s First Solo Press Conference: How He Won the Day Donald Trump’s First Solo Press Conference: How He Won the Day Donald Trump was on the ropes. For the first 4-weeks of his Presidency, Trump—and his administration—have been on the receiving end of a barrage of well-deserved body blows from ...
02.15.2017 011 Trump vs. The Intelligence Community—an enemy of Trump is Not Always Our Friend On Tuesday, we learned that the White House has known for weeks that Mike Flynn, former National Security Advisor, had discussed sanctions with Russia on December 29. While White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer characterized the Flynn, resignation stemming from ...
02.14.2017 010 Mike Flynn Fired—What Did Trump Know, and When Did He Know It? Mike Flynn Fired—What Did Trump Know, and When Did He Know It? * episode notes for February 14, 2017 * “Our opponents, the media, and the whole world will soon see—as we begin to take further actions—the powers of the ...
02.13.2017 009 STEVE BANNON IS WORKING FOR AN ALL OUT RELIGIOUS WAR The Intercept’s Murtaza Hussain is joins Dennis Trainor Jr to discuss his recent article AS TENSIONS RISE, STEVE BANNON AND ISIS GET CLOSER TO THEIR COMMON GOAL: CIVILIZATIONAL WAR. Hussain outlines Steve Bannon’s history of espousing apocalyptic theories of history ...
02.10.2017 008 Nevertheless, She Persisted A Trumps Show—Justice in the Trump Era February 10, 2017 Jeff Sessions is your New Attorney General, and the brouhaha leading up to that confirmation gave us what will be Elizabeth Warrens Campaign slogan when she runs for President in ...
02.08.2017 007 Donald Trump Escalates the War on Native Americans and the Climate Donald Trump escalated America’s Longest War on Tuesday —its war against the Indigenous people of Turtle Island— by giving the go ahead to the Dakota Access Pipeline. He did so in truly Trump fashion: by gloating that this was not ...
02.07.2017 006 Betsy DeVos is Education Secretary: All Child's Left Behind Betsy DeVos is Education Secretary: All Child's Left Behind Betsy DeVos is likely to win a highly contested nomination and become the next Secretary of Education, despite a 24-hour marathon hail mary effort by Democrats to stop the nomination. The ...
02.06.2017 005 Lady Gaga’s Super Bowl Performance v. Trumpland Lady Gaga performed at halftime of Super Bowl LI last night in a performance that some hailed as a missed opportunity—while others point out the political fervor thrumming beneath the surface. Compared to Beyonce's 2016 halftime performance (perhaps the most ...
01.31.2017 004 #OscarsSoWhite creator April Reign on the 2017 Oscars, Race, and Trump #OscarsSoWhite creator April Reign joins me to take an advance look at one event where the culture wars (Hollywood v. Trump) and the debate about racial justice in the Trump Era are sure to escalate the 89th Academy Awards. For ...
01.30.2017 003 First, They Came for the Muslims + Safety Pin Box Co-Creator Leslie Mac Leslie Mac, is the founder of the Ferguson Response Network and co-creator of the Safety Pin Box—a monthly subscription box for white people striving to be allies in the fight for Black Liberation— joins Dennis for a discussion about what ...
01.19.2017 000 Trump Show Teaser A Trump Show podcast is a daily exploration of justice in the Trump era. Donald J. Trump was the most hated Presidential candidate in modern American history—with myriad good reasons. To cover the 45th President of the United States, Dennis ...