Second inauguration of Donald Trump
Event in Politics
Second inauguration of Donald Trump has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Pod Save America. 2 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Ben RhodesFormer Obama speechwriter and deputy national security adviser, Crooked Media co-host and author of "All We Say"
Rhodes argued Trump's radicalism lies in rejecting the constitutional framework rather than in his xenophobia or populism.
“The radicalism of Trump is not in the underlying xenophobia or populism. It's in putting that in service of someone who believes not in the constitutional framework”
Pod Save America: What Does it Mean to Be an American? (May 31, 2026) · Listen from 1:14:02
Jon FavreauCo-host of Pod Save America and former speechwriter for President Barack Obama
Favreau said Trump's dictatorial rhetoric and actions stand out even compared with the reactionaries featured in the book.
“It is the dictatorial quality of Trump's rhetoric and the actions really stand out even from all the other reactionaries in the book”
Pod Save America: What Does it Mean to Be an American? (May 31, 2026) · Listen from 1:10:58
Podcasts
- Pod Save America · 1 episode
Episodes
What Does it Mean to Be an American?Pod Save America · May 31, 2026 · 1 h 20 min
Jon Favreau talks with Ben Rhodes about his book "All We Say," tracing the 250-year argument over American identity through fifteen consequential speeches.
Related topics
- All We Say (Ben Rhodes book)
- American national identity
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- Benjamin Franklin's closing speech at the Constitutional Convention
- Cornerstone Speech
- Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address
- A More Perfect Union (speech)
- I Have a Dream
- Immigration to the United States
- Frederick Douglass's Composite Nation speech