Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Trump’s 100 Days of Power Grabs
Tue, 29 Apr 2025
Scott and Jessica break down the first 100 days of Trump’s second term — from mass deportations and trade wars to the arrest of judges and shaky Ukraine peace talks. Plus, they dig into the state of the press after a tense White House Correspondents’ Dinner and the rise of MAGA media. Follow Jessica Tarlov, @JessicaTarlov. Follow Prof G, @profgalloway. Follow Raging Moderates, @RagingModeratesPod. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is Trump's second term about?
And the case study, you say, Austin, this is what they did. This is how we will replicate it where you live.
Exactly. YIMBY, National YIMBY Program.
Right. Totally. Like you could even just pull sections out of abundance, frankly, and post them.
We don't bring prices down. We're going to break up these four companies, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google. We're turning into 11 companies and the rents on third party marketers trying to sell their products on Amazon. for advertisers. These are the biggest toll booths, the biggest tariffs or taxes in history is the concentration of big tech.
And the moment we break these guys up, the economic rents and the rents, the extraordinary rents that parents are paying to Meta because they have no other choice as a platform and their kids feel ostracized if they're not on these platforms such that they start self-harming. It's like everyone, people have been calling me about Tesla, can Tesla come back? I'm like, yeah, how do they come back?
Easy, great fucking products. The Democrats can come back if they come up with a series of visionary programs and they outline them. This is how much it would cost. This is how we would get the tax revenue. This would be the economic growth that it would inspire.
If young people can afford to find somebody, mate and have children and have a home, they won't be as anxious and depressed and likely less obese, which will create less of a tax on our healthcare system. They'll be more prosperous. We won't have 3 million able-bodied men exiting the workforce. We just need a fucking argument other than,
We're not Trump, and every American should have the right to the American dream. Well, okay, so what, boss? We're done with the flowery language. There are so many interesting programs that different people have promoted and are available to us from around the country, a hotbed. The great thing about having 50 individual states has been a hothouse of innovation.
In all of these cases, everyone just wants to talk about what we might or might do with a strongly worded letter. There needs to be, and I'm hoping that it's Governor Newsom or Mayor Pete or Senator soon to be Governor Michael Bennett, who I'm a big fan of because I like wonks, who's probably never going to be president because he's not good on TikTok.
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Chapter 2: How is Trump's approval rating affecting his policies?
And when you think about just how fucking stupid that is, that's like saying to the entire world and every autocrat, every murderous expansionary autocrat, you gain something when you invade another country. You get collateral, you get something to leverage and trade if you go in and start killing people and taking over land. That, according to Trump, is what Russia's bringing to the table.
Is they're willing to stop the illegal invasion of a democratically elected or a country with a democratically elected leader. It's just so strange at such strange times. And I've said this and I have no evidence in this, but if we found out that Putin was buying a ton of Trump coin and propping it up such that the president would now be worth another $3 billion.
He's basically $3 billion wealthier since he took office. And let's look at the timing. The Friday before the inauguration, when there was just a ton of noise at night, He said, oh, announce the Trump coin. 33 people, likely insiders who know him, who got a tip off, made $800 million.
And since then, a ton of people, about 80,000 smaller investors, have lost several billion because it spiked up, the insider sold, went way down. He then decided, I know I'm going to neuter and close down the unit of the Department of Justice that is investigating crypto scams. I'll just get rid of the whole department. Oh, I know. The lockup is about to expire, which is when insiders can sell.
And a lot of insiders probably go, this is a fucking pyramid scheme I'm going to sell. So he announces this meeting with the biggest owners of Trump coin around that time. I mean, this is such we've never seen grift on this level. And wouldn't Putin be stupid not to buy all these coins and then say, you know, Donald Trump?
FYI, I'm gonna make you the wealthiest man in the world because I just love the Trump coin and nobody needs to know I bought and you don't need to tell anybody that I bought. And by the way, can you help us out with Ukraine? Wouldn't this all make sense? Because everything it appears that Trump and Vance are advocating for, is literally a talking point of Lavrov.
He's even said, he's even intimated that somehow Ukraine started this war. So it's not, and when I see them, I think Zelensky has put on a masterclass here and that despite, can you imagine this guy every day, people are trying to kill him. Every day, he's getting notes from comrades and people he knows about how their sons and daughters are being killed.
And under constant threat of death, his nation is being literally torn apart. And then the nation that was supposedly gonna be, you know, was the biggest backer of democracy and had the back of any freedom-loving nation is all of a sudden turned on him, embarrassed him at the White House. And he has had the discipline not to be insulting, not to be snarky.
He realizes the best thing for his people is he can do is just trying to remain calm and establish some sense of a normalcy in the relationship because if Trump just likes the guy, distinct of the political ramifications, maybe he won't cut off aid as fast, or maybe he'll start sharing intelligence again such that maternity wards aren't shelled by the Russians.
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