Once upon a time, presidents used to take tough questions from the press, but the current White House occupant can't handle any scrutiny from cantankerous reporters. And on his sad and sulking days, he needs warm and fuzzy Newsmax in the press pool to envelop him with flattery. Meanwhile, the joint session of Congress address has become basically pointless, SCOTUS blocks Trump's usurpation of power by one single vote, and at Trump's behest, the CIA is punishing Zelensky because he won't cooperate with the administration's disinfo campaign. Plus, Democrats need to show voters they are genuinely furious. And if you've thought about running for office, now is the time to jump in—particularly in districts the Dems have tended to ignore. Amanda Litman and Jim Acosta join Tim Miller. show notes The Jim Acosta Show Amanda's 'Run for Something' When reporters rallied around Fox after Obama White House tried to shut it out
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Hello and welcome to the Bulwark Podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller. Many of you have been asking, what can I do? What can I do? All right. In segment two, we're going to talk about a tangible thing I think people should be looking at doing to combat Trump's threats to our Democratic Republic. But up first, former chief White House correspondent for CNN.
He's now an independent journalist and host of the Jim Acosta show on Substack. It's Jim Acosta. How you doing, bro?
Hey, Tim. Good to see you again.
I am kind of of the view that these things, even when it's not Trump, are basically pointless in the modern era and they have very little impact. So I'm wondering what your assessment is of that and if there's anything you saw last night that you think might matter, even on the margins.
Yeah, I did a Substack right after the speech was over with Michael Fanone. And Mike says to me, he goes, Jim, I love you, but fuck you for making me watch that. And I said, that's fair. I said, honestly, that's fair. I mean, it was a bullshit-a-palooza. I mean, this is what we expect from Trump now. And I kind of agree with you, Tim. I think this thing has just turned into, you know, hee-haw.
I mean, I think the next president would be well-served to just do it from the Oval Office or like, what did they say in the olden days? You would just like send a letter down on a horse down Pennsylvania Avenue.
Yeah, just send the letter. That's where I'm at. It kind of annoys me. I don't know. This is maybe a meta commentary about the media, but just like the pomp and circumstance of it all. I mean, we're here in Trump 2.0. I mean, he didn't obviously respect any of the traditions, right? You know, at any point, it's like, why should we continue to have respect for it?
It's like, oh, and they're kind of there's the first lady and she looks beautiful today. And here comes the cabinet. I don't know. The whole thing is just kind of like to me, it's like this is from another era and it's a fake. It feels fake, I guess.
It is. And I loved hearing from the people last night who were saying, can you believe Congressman Green and what he did? And, you know, after Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert and their antics from whatever last year or the year before, every year for that matter. And Joe Wilson, you lie from when Obama was president.
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