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Trump Has Redefined Presidential Scandal

Trump Has Redefined Presidential Scandal

The David Frum Show vor 9 Monaten

The historian Timothy Naftali on Donald Trump’s presidential-library scam, comparing the many scandals of the Trump presidency to those of Richard Nixon’s, and Trump’s foreign policy of American weakness. Plus: a head-spinning week of terrifying crises, a

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On this week’s episode of “The David Frum Show,” The Atlantic’s
David Frum discusses the menacing crises the Trump presidency is
inflicting on the United States and its own movement to start 2026.
David speculates that the recent lethal ICE incident in
Minneapolis, Trump’s increasingly unhinged rhetoric, and the
targeting of Jerome Powell indicate that the MAGA world is
cracking. He argues that Trump’s increasingly unpredictable and
escalating actions are taking the MAGA movement, the Trump
presidency, the U.S., and the rest of the world down a path of
doom. Then, David is joined by Timothy Naftali, the founding
director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, to
discuss perhaps Trump’s most brazen grift: his proposed
presidential library in Miami. Frum and Naftali also discuss why
comparisons of Trump to Nixon fall flat and how Trump’s actions in
Venezuela reflect a policy of weakness. Finally, David ends the
episode with a discussion of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.
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